tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89404042024-03-20T20:56:56.790-04:00The Clock"At some point, you’re just an elitist fuck."rocky dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08909656359227321903noreply@blogger.comBlogger1104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-74481838658659615042014-03-17T02:44:00.000-04:002014-03-17T02:44:11.840-04:00Daily Double: Exorcism and Afterlife<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/eNH982g9xR0?rel=0" width="640"></iframe>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/r75BFcH4u2k?rel=0" width="640"></iframe>rocky dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08909656359227321903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-14318783586331470872014-02-09T10:18:00.000-05:002014-02-09T10:18:31.771-05:002014 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in SochiScenes (courtesy of <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2014/02/2014_winter_olympics_opening_ceremony_in_soch.html">The Big Picture</a>) from the Putin-approved, totally-not-gay Olympic ceremony <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2014/02/2014_winter_olympics_opening_ceremony_in_soch.html"></a>:
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(Sometimes a gently arching phallic tower, straining skyward, surrounded by fuzzy balls and spewing hot fluid,
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<br />Bob Kemphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03297963830639456824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-25359118977433381262014-01-24T01:50:00.000-05:002014-01-24T02:04:02.787-05:00Let's Get PhysicalFor you fans of Tift Merritt, this is a good reason to get a turntable:<br />
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I couldn't resist the combination of the beautiful packaging, book, postcards, vinyl records, and Tift Merritt. I just ordered this from the Amoeba Records website for the measly price of $31 (15% off sale through this Sunday with free shipping). Go for it!<br />
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* * *rocky dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08909656359227321903noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-79643770582290219642014-01-14T16:15:00.000-05:002014-01-14T16:15:00.990-05:00Happy 50th Birthday, Rex!<br />
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<br />rocky dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08909656359227321903noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-89411378100869574952013-12-04T20:26:00.000-05:002013-12-04T20:26:11.942-05:00If you see Feral Boy today...Be sure to congratulate him on reaching his half-century milestone! (I don't know who the guy below is, but I think we can agree there is a resemblance.)<br />
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<br />Lady Magnoliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912179327101455647noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-7282343174806815182013-11-30T11:04:00.000-05:002013-11-30T11:04:07.806-05:00Substitute TeacherThis is a pretty high standard for FB to aspire to:<br />
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<br />Bob Kemphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03297963830639456824noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-31006523857663836342013-11-19T08:06:00.000-05:002013-11-19T08:10:26.391-05:00House of Soul, in Better DaysAn addendum to the previous post. This is a photo of the "House of Soul" I captured in August.
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<br />Bob Kemphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03297963830639456824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-69307302997685956172013-11-17T10:06:00.002-05:002013-11-17T10:06:38.027-05:00Heidelberg Project Burns<br />
Thought some members of The Clock would be interested in this news. I had not heard about the fire in October.<br />
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<a href="http://Another Heidelberg Project building destroyed by fire, arson suspected">Another Heidelberg Project building destroyed by fire, arson suspected</a>Lady Magnoliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912179327101455647noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-81677586502082355252013-11-07T00:48:00.000-05:002013-11-07T02:18:17.909-05:00Nick Drake Daily Double + Two Bonus CoversSmall compensation for Feral Boy missing seeing the Northern Lights last year:<br />
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Not for the faint of heart:<br />
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A couple of interesting covers by lovely women who introduce the spirit of dance to songs that don't seem danceable at all.<br />
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Irish siren Lisa Hannigan:<br />
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Swedish pop chanteuse El Perro del Mar:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/U99OuREkHVQ?rel=0" width="480"></iframe>rocky dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08909656359227321903noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-87011292950582990212013-10-31T00:08:00.001-04:002013-10-31T00:11:18.931-04:00My Letter to the Editor of The New YorkerI came across this sentence in the review of Lucie Brock-Broido's book of poems, "Stay, Illusion", by Dan Chiasson in the October 28, 2013, issue:<br />
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Brock-Broido's poems can be baffling, but because of their stylish spookiness (some combination of Poe and Stevie Nicks) they are never boring.</blockquote>
And I thought how ridiculous to spoon a mere poet and a demigod in the same parenthetical comparison. Poe gave the world the hackneyed work "The Raven", which has been the cause of suffering for countless teenagers forced to memorize it in school. Stevie Nicks gave the world the transcendent work "Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove)", which has lifted the spirits of so many teenagers, including many, I would guess, depressed from the experience of memorizing Poe's poem. I believe you owe Ms. Nicks an apology.<br />
<i>rocky dennis</i><br />
<i>Livermore, Calif.</i><br />
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<i>*</i>rocky dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08909656359227321903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-30868781912900320662013-10-29T03:39:00.000-04:002013-10-29T03:39:06.872-04:00Lou Reed, Rest in Peace<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ntw-uwIdNoY?rel=0" width="480"></iframe>rocky dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08909656359227321903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-31143534114900105222013-10-13T02:44:00.001-04:002013-10-13T02:44:28.479-04:00Finding Utopia Here on EarthOne evening spent with Joe involved serial watching Anthony Bourdain's show. I think he would've enjoyed this one:<br />
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<br />Lady Magnoliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912179327101455647noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-66755161574585016082013-10-01T23:46:00.000-04:002013-10-01T23:47:53.340-04:00Alice Cooper ReduxFeral Boy, do you remember the billion dollar bill that came with the album?<br />
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I came late to AC's music, like in the last 5 years. Killer is one of the greatest albums ever. I was too obsessed with Springsteen to take AC seriously back then. I missed the boat, like so many other boats in my youth.<br />
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Speaking of Springsteen, here's a Louis C.K. video that's gone viral in case you've missed it.<br />
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There's something about listening to Springsteen in the car as a man in the midst of middle age that brings on uncontrollable tears. I know, I know...rocky dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08909656359227321903noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-83385936382962005262013-09-28T19:42:00.000-04:002013-09-28T19:42:57.465-04:00Andrew Solomon: Love, no matter what<iframe src="http://embed.ted.com/talks/andrew_solomon_love_no_matter_what.html" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>Bob Kemphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03297963830639456824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-80906484107491803182013-09-28T17:03:00.000-04:002013-09-28T17:03:23.752-04:00Alice Cooper, Reminiscing About the Early '70s<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Circa 1979, <i>Billion Dollar Babies</i> was Feral Boy's favorite album. Alice Cooper (née Vincent Furnier - a son of Detroit) sang songs that I could understand (in both senses of the word) - they were clearly enunciated, and offered coherent story-telling, with tangible imagery my adolescent brain could embrace. (<i>Mush-mouthed Bob Dylan? Hippy-dippy Neil Young?</i> "No, thank you," my 16-year-old self would reply. "I'll take the Alice Cooper combo, please, with a side of the Steve Miller Band.") And Glen Buxton's lead guitar on those songs still blows me away, rivaling Mick Ronson's work with David Bowie for the most tasteful noodling to emerge from that period.<br />
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So, you'll understand why I was so pleased to stumble upon a piece at <b><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/alice-coopers-dead-drunk-friends">vice.com</a></b>, wherein Alice Cooper waxes nostalgic about that era. Even if you don't care for his brand of shock-rock, you may enjoy his gossip about other rock luminaries. Here are some choice quotes from an otherwise incoherent article:<br />
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When we put the Hollywood Vampires together, it was sort of a tribute
to the old Hollywood drinking clubs, like when John Barrymore, Errol
Flynn, and W.C. Fields would drink every night... We would
go up to the top of the Rainbow... Every night it
was Harry Nilsson, Bernie Taupin, Micky Dolenz, myself, and whoever else
would show up. Ringo was there once in awhile. Keith Moon came when he
was in town.
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John Lennon would come too. He and Harry Nilsson were the best of
friends, ya know? So if Harry was in town, he was always with John, and
they’d come over...
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But the really fun thing to do was to see what Keith Moon was gonna
wear that night. One night he’d be in an Adolf Hitler outfit and the
next he’d be the Queen of England... Keith was everybody’s best friend. When he was in town, he would stay
at my house for a week, then go to Harry Nilsson’s for a week, and then
stay at Ringo’s for a week. There was nobody like him. I always tell
people, 30% of what you’ve heard about me is true, 30% of what you hear
about Iggy is true, 30% of Prince is true, whatever… but <i>everything</i> you’ve heard about Keith Moon is true...
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I got to meet Jim [Morrison] way back when we first moved to Los Angeles. The
first people I ran into were Robby Krieger and the other guys from the
Doors. They invited my band to come down to Sunset Sound and watch them
record, which was great for a bunch of nobodies from Arizona. We were just out of our first year of college, so we had to be 19 or 20
years old when we came to LA. We were the biggest band in Phoenix, but
we didn’t realize was there were 15,000 other bands in LA from Utah,
Oregon, everywhere. They were the best bands from their cities too, and
we were all trying to get gigs in the same clubs. There were maybe
twenty clubs to play in and 20,000 bands—so the Doors took us under
their wing. Those guys became our best friends, ya know?
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Jim was just as self-destructive as you can imagine. He would go to a party—and in those days at a party,
instead of jellybeans there'd be bowls of pills—and take a handful of
pills and wash it down with Jack Daniel's. And who knew what those pills
were?
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...the version you hear of "The End" was the version they took from the session I watched them
record. There were 26 other versions of the song, with different story
lines, and every time they did it, Jim changed it. He never did it the
same way twice... I mean, when Jim did "When the Music’s Over" and all those other songs—he was just improvising as he
went. Which was pretty amazing, cause you were only gonna hear them once
that way. The Doors were very jazz-oriented, so they played off each
other well.
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"Roadhouse Blues" that goes, “I woke up this morning, got myself a
beer?” That’s my line. I was sitting there talking to him and Jim says, “What did you do today?” I said, “I woke up this morning, got myself a beer, duh, duh, duh…” Next thing I know, I hear it in that song.
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...[the] harmonica on “Roadhouse Blues”... was John Sebastian, he just didn’t want his name
on a Doors album because of the thing with Jim Morrison in Miami where
he allegedly pulled his pants down and exposed himself. It wasn’t good
for the Lovin’ Spoonful’s image to be attached to a Doors record.
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...on “Under My Wheels,” it’s Rick Derringer playing lead guitar, not Glen
Buxton.
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We had a session one night in Morgan Studios in London when we were
doing "Billion Dollar Babies." So Harry Nilsson walks in, and he’s got
Marc Bolan, Ringo, Keith Moon, and Ric Grech from Blind Faith with him... To this day, I can't remember
who played what on what. I know that Marc Bolan plays somewhere on that
album. Harry plays something on the album. Keith is on the album.
Ringo’s on the album. It was one of those nights that’s just a blackout.
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So Donovan was in the next studio recording with Mickey Most. He had a
bunch of kids in there, ya know, that were singing on something. I can’t
remember what song it was, but I came in and said, “I need a guy with a
real British accent to do a voice over. Donovan, it’s time that you did
some real rock ‘n’ roll.” So Donovan says, “Come into my studio, I’ve got all these kids that I’m conducting for this one vocal part.” I said, “I’ll conduct ‘em for ya!”
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He said OK. I had the make-up on and everything and the kids were terrified, but we got it all done and it was great. So then I pulled Donovan into my studio, and he just <i>nailed</i> the duet on “Billion Dollar Babies.” He just killed it.
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What a tasteful [get it?] way to honor our fallen brethren. Get down to the lobby before the supply of Bunn® coffee in the twin urns collapses, the muffins crumble under assault from patrons, or the 30-minute window of remembrance expires!<br />
... Bob Kemphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03297963830639456824noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-29435242552115417122013-09-14T01:51:00.000-04:002013-09-14T01:53:19.270-04:00Can Things Get Any Kookier in Minneapolis?I know who Rex will be voting for in the mayoral race.<br />
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(Tipped off by the Daily Dish)rocky dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08909656359227321903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-34324009778726278852013-09-11T20:05:00.002-04:002013-09-12T14:00:44.892-04:00Happy Birthday, Marquis!It's a belated wish - by now it is tomorrow in the Land of the Rising Sun - due to Feral Boy's current employment unexpectedly lasting the whole day. (How do you domesticated humans do it?) The Kid Rock concert T-shirt and matching fedora, however, are already on their way.<br />
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<br />rocky dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08909656359227321903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-12317609551153893952013-09-02T08:04:00.000-04:002013-09-02T08:04:07.940-04:00Happy (Be)Labor Day!<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VbnUcPdSR48" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Bob Kemphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03297963830639456824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-61208613324377113862013-09-02T01:03:00.000-04:002013-09-02T01:39:20.541-04:00Wandering Earl<b><a href="http://www.wanderingearl.com/how-i-make-money-online-to-support-my-travels/">Here's</a><a href="http://www.wanderingearl.com/how-i-make-money-online-to-support-my-travels/"></a></b> a lesson on the doggedness of a person bent on staying on the road for life.<br />
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...rocky dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08909656359227321903noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940404.post-58600571414655936682013-08-26T12:14:00.001-04:002013-08-26T12:17:28.802-04:00The Decoliner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">From a <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://makezine.com/2012/08/10/motor-mashup-master-2/">Make</a></span> article about Randy Grubb, custom car creator: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"His latest creation, the Decoliner, mashes up a 1973 GMC motorhome and a 1955 White Motor Company cabover truck with Buck Rogers styling cues. With its polished aluminum finish, nautical portholes, and rooftop fly bridge for land-yachting, the Decoliner is a truly unique ride."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rex, this would be perfect for your trips to <span style="line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;">Betty Danger's Country Club.</span></span></span><br />
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