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Post by cripes on Jan 28, 2014 12:12:28 GMT -5
R. Crumb on Pete Seeger:
Seeger… he's a saint. Pete Seeger's a fucking saint, but I never found his music very interesting. You know, musically he can play the banjo, but he's so political, so deeply, vehemently political — and I agree with his politics completely — but it made his music political; the message was more important than the quality of the music to him. He's a literary musician, you know? But he dedicated himself to getting out there an playing these left-wing, rousing songs to labor unions and strikers, it's amazing they never put him in jail. Well, actually, I think he was in trouble for a while but he never went to jail. Is he still alive? I think he is. I think he's still going! I know someone who recently talked to him and I guess Seeger is very inspirational. He's still very lucid and he talked about the old days. You know, he started all that political campaigning in the '30s, and he started very young with that. He's from an upper-class family with money. I think it was the Seeger family whose maid was Elizabeth Cotton, and one day they found her playing guitar and singing and they went, "Oh my God! This woman is a talented singer/musician!" Somebody, years ago, gave me, as a gift, a huge box set of ten LPs of all of that left-wing folk music done by the folknics, not by the real folk, but the folknics of the '50s and early '60s: the Almanac Singers; Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. It's just totally uninteresting. Real country hillbilly music by deeply ignorant, racist people is much more interesting than that stuff. As I said, I agree totally with their politics, but musically it's really uninteresting. The whole folknic scene, even when it was happening in the late '50s and early '60s, I was never moved by it. I preferred rockabilly. [laughs]
Thanks for bringing the wimoweh, Petey.
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Post by Poke on Jan 28, 2014 20:39:32 GMT -5
Cool pic of your comic book guy. He and his store look (rather alarmingly) like slightly cleaned-up versions of my first bootleg "guy" (this was the '90s, before all the technology and stuff) and his "store". All I can find online are exterior shots of the place: www.flickr.com/photos/27032111@N00/1795755902As far as I know, the guy is still there (about 45 years or so by now). Hyde Park Blvd. in Niagara Falls. But he looks like your comic book guy's disheveled, long greasy gray hair/pot belly hangin' outta stained t-shirt type brother. And he smells awful. |
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Post by manho on Feb 12, 2014 8:30:30 GMT -5
river phoenix: great genius dies of drug induced heart failure
heath ledger: great genius dies from abuse of prescription medicines
philip seymour hoffman: great genius overdoses on heroin
all these actors who kill themselves with drugs seem to become great geniuses overnight for some reason.
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Post by cripes on Feb 12, 2014 14:42:29 GMT -5
What they don't tell you about drugs is, is that they're so damn delicious!
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Post by digit on Feb 13, 2014 9:46:34 GMT -5
R. Crumb on Pete Seeger: Seeger… he's a saint. Pete Seeger's a fucking saint, but I never found his music very interesting. You know, musically he can play the banjo, but he's so political, so deeply, vehemently political — and I agree with his politics completely — but it made his music political; the message was more important than the quality of the music to him. He's a literary musician, you know? But he dedicated himself to getting out there an playing these left-wing, rousing songs to labor unions and strikers, it's amazing they never put him in jail. Well, actually, I think he was in trouble for a while but he never went to jail. Is he still alive? I think he is. I think he's still going! I know someone who recently talked to him and I guess Seeger is very inspirational. He's still very lucid and he talked about the old days. You know, he started all that political campaigning in the '30s, and he started very young with that. He's from an upper-class family with money. I think it was the Seeger family whose maid was Elizabeth Cotton, and one day they found her playing guitar and singing and they went, "Oh my God! This woman is a talented singer/musician!" Somebody, years ago, gave me, as a gift, a huge box set of ten LPs of all of that left-wing folk music done by the folknics, not by the real folk, but the folknics of the '50s and early '60s: the Almanac Singers; Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. It's just totally uninteresting. Real country hillbilly music by deeply ignorant, racist people is much more interesting than that stuff. As I said, I agree totally with their politics, but musically it's really uninteresting. The whole folknic scene, even when it was happening in the late '50s and early '60s, I was never moved by it. I preferred rockabilly. [laughs]Thanks for bringing the wimoweh, Petey. in that case, him discovering cotton was the biggest musical thing he did. she was an absolute gem. i often wondered how all these 90 year old communists felt when they looked around and the world had gotten even more capitalist than when they fist started their political activities. |
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Post by cripes on Feb 13, 2014 13:54:58 GMT -5
Bill Maher tweets:
'Shirley Temple, now Sid Ceasar - damn you heroin!'
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Post by manho on Mar 10, 2014 12:21:56 GMT -5
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Post by Cat Stevens on May 1, 2014 7:38:47 GMT -5
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Post by Cat Stevens on May 13, 2014 9:59:28 GMT -5
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Post by manho on May 21, 2014 5:57:12 GMT -5
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Post by Cat Stevens on Jul 17, 2014 12:10:53 GMT -5
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Post by cripes on Jul 17, 2014 23:13:05 GMT -5
Saw him twice, in 2008 & 2009, few meters in front of me...
I heard if he looked right at you, your intestines would burst.
Nice touch with the last footage thing.
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Post by Cat Stevens on Jul 18, 2014 9:26:27 GMT -5
Right at me, heh heh, sure he did, cross eyed and almost completely blind by then... did ya catch him in his prime? I love this clip from Roskilde '84; someone threw a bottle at him during the third song of the set and he left, never returned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pMwfoEX7wMSimilar thing happened to Lemmy when he played in Belgrade '02 (I was there), but he changed his mind and returned to finish the set: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeetj2QqvMA |
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Post by Cat Stevens on Oct 25, 2014 11:08:27 GMT -5
"It is with great sadness that we, Jack’s family, announce the passing of our beloved Jack: husband, father, granddad, and all round legend. The world of music will be a poorer place without him, but he lives on in his music and forever in our hearts." www.jackbruce.com/ |
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Post by cripes on Oct 25, 2014 11:30:48 GMT -5
OK, so all the major sixties bands have at least one dead member now.
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Post by manho on Oct 25, 2014 16:12:53 GMT -5
the hollies are still alive
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Post by cripes on Oct 25, 2014 17:33:41 GMT -5
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Post by Cat Stevens on Oct 25, 2014 21:37:20 GMT -5
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Post by manho on Oct 26, 2014 4:17:17 GMT -5
the guy who wrote politician with jack bruce was the unsung hero behind cream. pete brown. if he hadn't been there cream would have been just another blues covers group. all the great "songs" and riffs were written by bruce and pete brown: politician, white room, swalabr, deserted cities of the heart, sunshine of your love... the rest is just noise. bruce went on to make a couple of nice solo albums with songs by him and brown. the first album, songs for a tailor is still listenable today. check out theme from an imaginary western: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YguY_jUDXRsabout the first groups leaving london in their little white vans for gigs in the small provincial towns. brown was a real poet and bruce had more than one great melody in him. and a great voice. and he could play the bass quite well too. |
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Post by Cat Stevens on Dec 4, 2014 15:05:12 GMT -5
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