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, August 30th, 1939: John Peter Ravenscroft, AKA John Peel, THE DJ's DJ, b. Heswall, England.

There is just no way to overestimate the importance of John Peel to the music of the second half of the 20th century; a man who made it clear, just by his own taste, that curiosity and being both eclectic and open-minded are good things, in all of life itself, but especially in the arts - and especially in music. His reign as the most popular disc jockey in British history helped usher in the wave of rock n' roll, soul, reggae, psychedelia, blues, R&B, punk & new wave, and folk music that rolled over popular culture in the UK, and then the world. We would all have been musically poorer without him.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Peel

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Cover Of The Day:



"Highway 61 Revisited", released 8/30/1965, the title track of Dylan's sixth album

Los Angeles punk legends X storm through it on a 1987 demo, which was revealed on the expanded re-release of "See How We Are", from 2002 

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Today, in Musical History, August 31st, 1955: A London court fines rock n' roll fan Sidney Turner three pounds and ten shillings for "creating an abominable noise" and "threatening his neighbors", after he played Bill Haley's "Shake, Rattle And Roll" at top volume - Just to piss off his neighbors.

The "threatening his neighbors" charge came after ol' Sid told them "I will drive you mad", and played Haley over and over, from 2:30 pm to 4:00pm. (Sounds like a future Top 20 DJ to me.)

Anyway, that worked. Quite well, apparently. (£3/10/- equaled $9.80 USD, at the time - $116.00 today, so it was substantial back then; There are cheaper ways to get into the history books, but few that sound like they were that much fun. I'd say it was worth it.) 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone_loudspeakers

(Personally, I would find playing any K-Pop at all to be a war crime, but that's just me.)

There are, not-really-surprisingly, a lot of folks out there posting their playlists, specifically engineered to drive the folks next door boop-shooby; I prided myself that almost any of my WQNA sets could have the same effect. (Lester Bangs claimed that every rental tenent in America should have a copy of Lou Reed's ""Metal Machine Music" at hand, as a guaranteed lease-breaker, if nothing else. "Forewarned is forearmed", as the great man said.)  

The Brits, bless 'em, do seem to have a beautifully perverse understanding of this concept; The Guardian, always a classy rag, published this a few years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2015/jun/22/ultimate-sp...

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