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, June 16th:

1965: "Like A Rolling Stone" has a difficult birth; Dylan spent several days tearing his hair out, grinding out over 30 takes while trying to bring the song together during unusually chaotic sessions at Columbia Studios -

Until Al Kooper came up with the organ riff, the song went from 3/4 time to 4/4 time, and BOOM - "The Greatest Song Of All Time", according to Rolling Stone magazine, and quite a few people who supposedly know about such things.

[Angharad]

Classic. Love the backstory.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, June 17th:

1805: Christian Friederich Ludwig Buschmann, b. Friederichroda, Thuringia. Buschmann is credited with - or blamed - for inventing the accordion, sometime in 1822.

There does not appear to be any scholarly research into why the accordion is so polarizing; So many people hate it, while a much fewer percentage are okay with it, or actually enjoy it, Personally, I suspect that it has something to do with accordion music's long association with countries and cultures that seem to lean towards fascism - the Germanic / Prussian regions, Russia, and 1950's America, as well as countries with occasionally unsavory reputations to the American ear: France, Ireland, the Scandinavian countries; countries seen as snooty, fusty, backwards, hidebound, and generally Not Cool.

I myself was no fan of the accordion, until I discovered the musics of Mexico, Louisiana and others who recognized the instruments' value as an ingredient, a seasoning, and not as the main meal itself.

[Angharad]

LOVE this! Spicy Zydeco at its best. (RIP Stanley Dural Jr.)

Yeah, I generally agree about the accordion. (I do love me some Irish & Ruska Roma accordion, though.) The earliest I remember it being used in pop/rock was in '67 by the Stones and The Young Rascals, but just as "seasoning" as you said.

Here's one of my punk rock favorites (Yuri Lemeshev on accordion).

[Snagg]

[Angharad]

I love that Chuck is a Whittier, CA, boy.

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, June 18th:

1938: Don Francis Bowman "Sugarcane" Harris, b. Pasadena, CA; Half of Don & Dewey ("Farmer John"), a solo performer, and a side man to John Mayall and Frank Zappa & the Mothers on Invention - That's him on violin and lead vocal, covering Little Richard's "Directly From My Heart To You" :

 

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, June 19th:

1945: Greil Marcus, "the Dean of American Rock Critics", author, music journalist and cultural critic, b. San Francisco, CA 

"We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective state of safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But, when we find it and jam to hear it again, it isn't just ours - it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song, this might mean very little; as a culture, as a way of life - You can't beat it."

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, June 20th:

1942: Brian Douglas Wilson, b. Inglewood, CA