Blast IT

[caseyjo]

Whats the last song, Tv Vid, or on-line tune you listened to?..If you cant remember, what do you feel like listening to & if you dont feel like listening to anything, what is one of your all time favorite tunes?..Take your pic.....It's Blast it  time in the old TBd music room tonight.... So hit it peeps This is what I just listened to......It's actually on my profile right now.

[Angharad]

Yikes! Parker was even more of a sleazebag lowlife than I realized.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, June 27th:

1925: Jerome Solon Felder, AKA Doc Pomus, b. Brooklyn, NY. Doc was a songwriter and lyricist;with pal Mort Shuman, a short list of their contributions to the American songbook include "This Magic Moment", "Young Blood", "Viva Las Vegas", "Can't Get Used To Losing You", "Save The Last Dance For Me", "Little Sister", "You Just Keep Holding On", "Lonely Avenue", "There Must Be A Better World" - and that's just some of the HITS.

But, every now and then, Doc managed to actually record a song or two himself....

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, June 28th:

1966: Pink Floyd release their second album, "A Saucerful Of Secrets"; This is the album where David Gilmour was brought on board, as Syd Barrett's disintegrating mental health allowed him to contribute only one song, and his missing whimsy led to a darker, spacier direction for the band.

[Snagg]

The Ike Reilly Assassination -

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, June 29th:

1967: Keith Richards, on trial for drug possession after the infamous Redlands bust, tells the court, "I am not an old man. I am not concerned with your petty morals." - Which instantly endears him to rebels all around the world, but helps get him convicted. He only spent one night in prison, though, for what was supposed to be a one-year sentence, where he was hailed with joy and admiration; And then made bail the next day, pending appeal, and stayed out long enough for his conviction to be overturned - In no small part because the sneering insinuations and irrelevant moral posturing by his prosecuters, instead of presenting actual EVIDENCE concerning the crime of which he'd been accused, were precisely what got his conviction thrown out. 

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, June 30th:

1908: Something - a meteor, an asteroid or something else, but something big, at least 350 feet across, explodes somewhere between six to nine miles over an uninhabited are of Siberia. Now known as the "Tunguska Event", the blast incinerated everything within a nine-mile radius, knocked down 80 million trees within an area of 830 square miles, and caused a shockwave roughly equivalent to a 5.0 earthquake. (It knocked down horses and people 35 miles away.) The blast has been estimated at somewhere between 20 to 30 megatons; the Hiroshima atomic bomb was only 15 kilotons - 1,000 times less powerful than 15 megatons. It remains the biggest natural-event explosion in human history, easily eclipsing such catastrophes as the Santorini Cataclysm or the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa. And not one known fatality, owing to the remoteness of the blast's epicenter.  

 

1975: Cher marries Gregg Allman. Unlike the Tunguska event, millions perish in flames and carnage.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, July 1st:

1915: William James "Willie" Dixon, songwriter, arranger, singer, bassist, producer, and possibly THE most crucial figure in all of the post-war Chicago blues scene, b. Vicksburg, MS.

Calling Mr. Dixon a mere "songwriter" just doesn't cut it - The man wrote (among others): "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Spoonful", "Little Red Rooster", "I Just Want To Make Love To You", "My Babe", "Back Door Man", "You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover" and literally hundreds of others. The blues as we know them, without Willie Dixon, would be a very different thing... 

[Snagg]