Late night music club with Joan Armatrading

Down to Zero - One of my all-time favorite songs, by one of my all-time favorite singer-songwriters. Wow - it just hit me that I bought her self-titled album over 30 years ago. Wow. Cool. I still enjoy it as much as I ever did.

Rock on.



Now you realize why 4 Non Blondes sounded so damned deja vu the first time you heard them, don't you?

~~BG

Bo Diddley dead at 79

Another of the founding fathers of rock-n-roll has shuffled off this mortal coil. Legendary guitarist and showman Bo Diddley died of heart failure earlier today. He suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring. He never recovered from that one-two punch.

He left his mark on American culture with hot licks on a homemade guitar, and a stage show that never disappointed, and later in his carer inspired crowd antics that were almost as entertaining as the show on the stage...not quite, but sometimes they came close.

Enjoy a little Road Runner and see what I mean about the crowds...





And what the hell? Here's some more...



Mumblin' Guitar



The cool kids have always known who put the "rock" in rock-n-roll...



Rock on, Bo. And be sure to find all those white boys who beat you to the auditions in rock-n-roll heaven. Most of 'em have been waiting a long, long time to ask you about some of those licks.

Happy Birthday, Chev!

In about six and a half hours it will officially be my oldest daughters birthday.

As I am one of those lefties who considers family values through the "I value my family" lens, I'll be busy the rest of today and most of tomorrow. I will make sure the roundup and the quick hits get done, but it might be Monday or Tuesday before I get to one of the five (or is it six?) GAO reports that are sitting in my in-box.

Thanks for being patient. We are no longer a workstation down, now we are just busy.

Have a good weekend and our regular blogging schedule will resume on Monday.

In the meantime, you can enjoy some of her favorite music after the jump...


Rock on!

Led Zepelin - Goin' the California



Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better



Ghosty - I Won't Be Stopped



--BG

Wednesday Night Music Club with Jimmy Thackery

Because his nephew is my daughters best friend and former roommate and calls me "Mom" and just left a few minutes ago.

It's a short guitar solo, but it's the best sound quality I could find. Ah well - it's quality so the quantity isn't such a big deal...

Enjoy...

Saturday Night Music Club

Enjoy the only band that has ever mattered...or ever will...

Late Night Music Club

With the best fucking band ever...

Have a couple of songs that are prominent on the soundtrack of my misspent youth...






Rock on...

Saturday Night Music Club with Tracy Chapman

I am pretty fuckin' close to done with talkin'...how 'bout you?



Or do a hell of a lot more people have to end up here first?



And in comments Thersites suggested this one, to which I just have one thing to say...Fuckin' A!



And what the hell? Let's just get this one out of the way right fuckin' now...

Friday Night Music Club...

...with the Crash Test Dummies -



Afternoons and Coffeespoons...

'K Little Brother - top a tune that references T.S. Elliot...I mean, I have no doubt you will, I'm just curious to see what it will be...;)

The Arch Drude will suffice...

Thursday Night Music Club

...with the Guess Who



This one just seems fitting after a day like today, simply dripping in deja vu of the most surreal sort.

Little brother hijacks the blog...

The Jesus & Mary Chain



I meant to post this in the thread where we were trying to offend Catholics...it's the tolerance, stupid.

THIS will knock you on your ass and get you ready for another day...

Tuesday Night Music Club & Delegate Watch open thread

Roy Orbison & Jeff Lynne - Heartbreak Radio



Rock on.

I'm following election returns at MSNBC, and will update periodically. Polls just closed but they were calling the Republican race for McCain before a single vote was counted.

UPDATE I 8:50 p.m.

With 14% of precincts reporting, Obama leads 56% to 43%, and MSNBC is calling it for him. I dunno - Super Tuesday and the Missouri fiasco is still fresh in my memory, so it just seems silly to call it with 85% of the vote uncounted...But that's just me...

UPDATE II - 10:45 p.m.

Two hours and a bubble bath later, and the percentages didn't change and Clinton's campaign is in trouble. It looks like Obama is likely to be our nominee. He absolutely crushed Hillary tonight in Wisconsin.

But once again, the story is in the overwhelming numbers of Democrats voting. Again, Hillary came in a lagging second, and still ran circles around the entire republican slate. As of this update, Hillary is closing in on 400,000 votes, while all the republicans together are struggling toward 350,000.

I'm going to wait until after March 5th, but if it goes the way it looks like it will, I will consider it time to get behind the presumptive nominee and get busy getting him elected and exposing McCain's many faults.

Sunday Night Music Club

...with X -



The first minute or so is tuning between takes. The music starts at about 1:20.

Wednesday Night Music Club

Jeebus. I am just so sick of the horserace and the infighting and the perfidy and the selling out of the Constitution, and the broken Army and the lying and the fearmongering and, and, and...well, just about every damned thing.

Fuck it.

Have some Siberian surf-punk from the Red Elvises...

Rock on, Comrades...



I Wanna See You Belly Dance



Rocketman / Cosmonaut Petrov

I need a distraction...

BR 549 usually fills the bill nicely...



I wanted the song they played on Prairie Home Companion this week - "Little Regina's gone Hillbilly Nuts" or something like that...

Anyway, the title character, like me, will only show her tattoos one at a time... (Well look! There's one now!)



If anyone knows the song I'm talking about, send me a link?

Anyway...I'll post up later - I have three drafts saved that I'm working on right now, but I just feel like fucking around for a bit...

So turn it up and...

Rock on!

So I had a flashback...

...to the Coyote Club. It was the mid-eighties, some of my very best ass-years. Back when 501's on chicks with clean faces who smelled like soap were sexy. Remember?

These guys rocked the joint to the rafters and the party in the parking lot lasted 'til almost dawn.

Doc S - were you there?







Rock the fuck on!

So, we can leave now?

This is the Decider. He isn't a very good Decider, but he is the Decider none the less.


One of the things he decided to do was really, really stupid.

But he's the Decider and he Decided and it was Done. :



Soon after that was done, a lot of people looked around and said "Oh, Shit" because they started to realize that what the Decider had decided to do was really dumb; and soon, they were all asking the same question:



And the Decider kept deciding, and insisting that too-cute-by-half sound bites like "when they stand up, we'll stand down" were policy and strategy rolled into one three second clip.

(I told you that he is a really, really stupid Decider.)

But he did say that we would leave when the Iraqis could secure their country, and apparently that is a fait accompli, because the Decider; Baghdad Edition decided that they are ready and we can go.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that the Iraqi army and police are capable of keeping security in the country when American troops leave "any time they want," though he acknowledged the forces need further weapons and training.

Well, you heard the Desert Decider.

We have been excused from the table.

So make with the bugging out already.

Whadya say?

I need a diversion

Elvis will do nicely. Have a hat-trick.

So I have this song stuck in my head...

...and I am passing it on.

I was working on a post that will be coming along momentarily, and the neuron that stores the memory of this song fired. So I went to YouTube and hooked it up.

Rock on.

Sunday Morning Spiritual: On Your Feet Edition

If Robert Randolph & the Family band aren't a religious experience for you...well...what can I say except Deliver Me.

While I wait for ATC to come on...

Quite possibly best song ever (at least if you ask someone my age!) , set to clips from America's favorite cartoon family...



Rock On!

Sunday Morning Spiritual: Sunday Afternoon Edition

You thought I forgot, didn't you?

Honestly, I was going to skip it today since I am using dial-up this weekend - but then this morning the sun rose red in the east from where I was watching, and I thought of this song immediately. It is short enough to download even on dial-up, so now it can be stuck in your head, too.




I'm staying up north an extra day - last week was a hell of a week and I am still processing it all. Snarky blogging to return say - late tomorrow, perhaps Tuesday? (Although I am working on a post for WTWC that should be up later today.)

In the interim, you know what to do...Rock on!!!