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]

Classic. Love the backstory.

[Snagg]

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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).

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[Angharad]

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

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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" :

 

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