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]

Today, in Musical History, December 4th, 1971: The Montreaux Casino, in Montreaux, Switzerland, burns to the ground, after a member of the audience for a concert by Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention fires a flare gun into the theater's rattan ceiling.

Deep Purple, watching from their hotel room, take note; They had been scheduled to begin recording their sixth album, "Machine Head", at the theater the next day. Their recollections of the event become "Smoke On The Water".

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[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"Love", by John Lennon, which was never released as a single, went to #41 in the UK, 12/4/1982 - 12 years after Lennon released it on "John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band", and 2 years after his murder in NYC.

Cover by Robert Wyatt, from an Uncut magazine various-artist tribute to JL, "Instant Karma 2002". (The "karma", 12, 2, and 32 years after the fact, escapes me.)

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[Angharad]

My new Christmas anthem.

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, December 5th, 1912: Alex or Aleck Ford (later Miller), AKA Rice Miller, AKA Little Boy Blue, AKA Little Willie, AKA Sonny Boy Williamson II, b. Greenwood (or Money), MS



(It ain't quite 9 below here right now, but it's close.)

[Angharad]

Hot tune for a cold day.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"Everybody's Been Burned" (David Crosby), released 12/5/1966 by Buffalo Springfield, on their eponymous debut album; Cover by Thin White Rope, from their "Squatter's Rights" EP

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[Angharad]

Loved this. I have a couple of people to whom I'd like to gift a cursed gris-gris. Merry Christmas, f*ckers! ;)

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, December 6th, 1877: Thomas Edison's "phonograph" records him reciting "Mary Had A Little Lamb".

Long believed to be the first sound recording (and heavily pimped as such by Edison), that was overturned in 2008 when an 1860 recording of "Clair de Lune" was discovered in the archives of the French Academy of Sciences.



Fortunately, Edison had passed on well before that, so we were spared the spectacle of the thoroughly-dishonest, credit-stealing, glory-hounding bastard making a huge public scene about it, whining and trying to re-write the facts to suit himself.