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[madupont]

This one is for you, maddy,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J5CFiv-bvQ

Thanks, but I just stopped by to drop this off.
http://www.thegrio.com/entertainment/stars-cover-we-are-the-world-for-haiti.php

(and I have my doubts)

You know, syncretic music is like syncretic religion, it exists.  But, I would have gone so far as to say Aerosmith's sound as represented here would not have seemed to have matched Slim Galliard's guitar, until the very last licks on that cut.

I can say that by virtue of observing,possibly mid-Sixties, the funniest in person concert of the Rolling Stones totally incongruous to the venue's entire front row section made up of the American Roman Catholic  Private-School girl equivalent of British Trinitarians, by some mistake.
                                                                        I expect they and their instructors may have expected the Stones to be something more cottage-cozy well-brought-up, hair well-trimmed school boys, like the Beatles.

Watching from box seats, when stoned was rather like watching a movie. Thanks James Barker, where ever you are.

Fenestration as a movement has its points but let's admit Tyler is a lot cuter than Mick Jagger.

I suspect the movie that I had in mind was Luc Goddard's, Sympathy for the Devil*

       *checking to see if everybody was in place for that one, and they were, it seems that Johnny Depp has decided to direct a biopic on Keith Richards. Which makes perfect sense to me.

[kidcarter8]

Condolences to his family.  Doug - the 18-year old me thanks you:

http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/02/14/r-i-p-doug-fiegler-lead-singer-knack/?hpt=C2

[harrie]

Condolences, indeed -- and to my youth, while we're at it.  The Knack only had two songs that charted (I think), but My Sharona was/is freakin' iconic and genius in its simplicity.  Catchy hook, good baseline, and away you go.

[bosox18d]

One of the first albums my buddy worked on after he joined Capitol Records in the art dept.I called him today in New York and he hadn't heard about Doug's passing yet.As I recall My Sharona had a bit of a comeback some years ago when it popped up again in a popular movie  but I can't recall the flick.It has held up well after all these years.

[barton]

One of the first albums my buddy worked on after he joined Capitol Records in the art dept.I called him today in New York and he hadn't heard about Doug's passing yet.As I recall My Sharona had a bit of a comeback some years ago when it popped up again in a popular movie  but I can't recall the flick.It has held up well after all these years.

You are maybe thinking of this....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110950/

A classic.  (the song, I mean)

[bosox18d]

Barton,That's it though it is "some years" farther back than I thought.

[madupont]

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I will say that QT introduced me to Kar Wai Wong.  It was his release of Chungking Express on Rolling Thunder Pictures, a subsidiary of Miramax, that gave me a first look at this Hong Kong director.  The company didn't last long and only released a relative handful of movies under its label but this movie stands out.  I wonder if they ran into copyright problems with Bob Dylan?
 
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THANKS! to you, when I went to the Rolling Thunder Pictures link, from Movies post, I found my Rolling Stone concert!

It was the 2nd Rolling Stones U.S. Tour  25/11/1965 Milwaukee,Wisconsin, Arena Auditorium.

They generally did tours on a three year circuit that returned to the same geographic region for bookings.

[Yankguy1]

Been listening to "vintage" Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes.

Nobody could sing like a young Teddy Pendergrass.

[Gintaras]

Listening to Zappa and the Mothers at Fillmore 1971, with reference to the infamous mudshark incident.  I had forgotten how raunchy these guys could be on stage.  Not exactly what you would want to have for a "ringtone."

[harrie]

Thank you Alex Chilton, I loved the Box Tops (and the Placemats song about you, too)  - http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/alex-chilton-musician-dies/

[Yankguy1]

Sad day.  Big Star should have been bigger. Two major talents in that band.

[madupont]

In the midst of finding some women's day history for weezo, I found this illuminating post:
                                     BIOGRAPHY
 
By Roger Nupie, President "International Dr. Nina Simone Fan Club"

Eunice Waymon was born in Tryon, North Carolina as the sixth of seven children in a poor family. The child prodigy played piano at the age of four. With the help of her music teacher, who set up the "Eunice Waymon Fund", she could continue her general and musical education. She studied at the Julliard School of Music in New York.
To support her family financially, she started working as an accompanist. In the summer of 1954 she took a job in an Irish bar in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The bar owner told her she had to sing as well. Without having time to realize what was happening, Eunice Waymon, who was trained to become a classical pianist, stepped into show business. She changed her name into Nina ("little one") Simone ("from the French actress Simone Signoret").
In the late 50's Nina Simone recorded her first tracks for the Bethlehem label. These are still remarkable displays of her talents as a pianist, singer, arranger and composer. Songs as Plain Gold Ring, Don't Smoke In Bed and Little Girl Blue soon became standards in her repertoire.
One song, I Loves You, Porgy, from the opera "Porgy and Bess", became a hit and the nightclub singer became a star, performing at Town Hall, Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival. Even from the beginning of her career on, her repertoire included jazz standards, gospel and spirituals, classical music, folk songs of diverse origin, blues, pop, songs from musicals and opera, African chants as well as her own compositions.
Combining Bachian counterpoint, the improvisational approach of jazz and the modulations of the blues, her talent could no longer be ignored. Other characteristics of the Simone art are: her original timing, the way she uses silence as a musical element and her often understated live act, sitting at the piano and advancing the mood and climate of her songs by a few chords.
Sometimes her voice changes from dark and raw to soft and sweet. She pauses, shouts, repeats, whispers and moans. Sometimes piano, voice and gestures seem to be separate elements, then, at once, they meet. Add to this all the way she puts her spell on an audience, and you have some of the elements that make Nina Simone into a unique artist.
When four black children were killed in the bombing of a church in Birmingham in 1963, Nina wrote Mississippi Goddam, a bitter and furious accusation of the situation of her people in the USA. The strong emotional approach of this song and the others on her first Philips record ("Nina Simone In Concert"), would become another characteristic in her art. She uses her voice with its remarkable timbre and her careful piano playing as means to achieve her artistic aim: to express love, hate, sorrow, joy, loneliness - the whole range of human emotions - through music, in a direct way.

[Gintaras]

Always been a big fan of Nina Simone.  One of my many favorites is Mississippi Goddam.

[jbottle]

In "Thunder Cock," an AC/DC-style band sings of the illicit sport of cock-fighting, and then adding the word "thunder" to the word "cock."

I'm just a rooster
in a parade
we might meet between
your everglades

the state of Florida
should send police
today the rooster
gets released

don't need no ring
it's pre-arranged
I hear the lightning
I need the strange

[jbottle]

So pass the roofies
and pass the crack
send in the smack
the coke and the jack

Thunder Cock
Thunder Cock

turn over stoned
and hit the rock
the feathers flying
and I can't stop

Do as you like
do as I please
feed the fire
get the disease

Poultry pumping
without a care
put down your money
on a fraternity dare

Thunder Cock
I can get really low
Thuder Cock
this Popsicle Stand is

Ready to Blow
Ooooooh-yeah.