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.

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:

"Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler)", #1 R&B, 11/6/1971, Marvin Gaye

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band's version comes from their 2006 Marvin Gaye tribute album, "What's Going On":

[Angharad]

Noice.

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History:

November7th, 1994: The student radio station at the University of Southy Carolina at Chapel Hill (WXYC) makes the first internet radio broadcast; i wonder if they still would have done it, if they'd known that they'd be opening a door for weirdos like me ?



'Course they would have. This sounds pretty similar to WQNA. It's the attitude as much as it's the content: fearless, playful curiosity is something people should never lose if they have it, and they should get some if they don't. 

[Angharad]

100% agree with your last sentence. 

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:

"Quarter To Twelve", B of "Blues With A Feeling" (#6 R&B, 11/7/1953), Little Walter and his Jukes

Cover by the Red Devils, who launched the brief, intense career of hard-core blues revivalist Lester Butler, from their 1992 debut album, "King King".

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History:

November 8th, 1895: While experimenting with electricity, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the x-ray. Not only was it Nobel Prize time for Dr. Röntgen, but it leads to what (I think) is one of the great rock 'n' roll stories:

"Roentgenzidat" - "Bone Music" - Bootleg records pressed onto discarded x-ray sheets, as a way of sneaking decadent Western rock music into Soviet Russia, past the state censors who stopped all records at the border.

In the 1950's, after hearing Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" and the Andrews Sisters' "Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy", engineering student Rudi Fuchs literally sold his own blood to earn enough money to buy a recording lathe, so that he could make copies of records that had already been smuggled into the USSR. They sounded like shit, but they were cheap - Usually only a single ruble, which was about 30 cents in American money. He was finally arrested and spent three years in prison - But never revealed any of his sources. The day he was released, he went straight back to bootlegging. Now that's a FAN, kids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribs_(recordings)

[Angharad]

I did not know the story of Rudi Fuchs and Roentgenzidat. The irresistible power of music.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:

"Journey In Satchidananda", recorded 11/8/1970, Alice Coltrane, w/ Pharoah Sanders, the title track of her 1971 album.

Cover by The Third Mind, from their 2020 debut album, "The Third Mind"

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History:

November 9th, 1960: Paul Robeson gives the first performance at the revolutionary Sydney Opera House - 

By giving a brief performance in the middle of the unfinished building, singing to the construction workers. 

[Angharad]

Such an amazing presence and voice.