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In the decades since we discovered (and learned to revere) Sir Lord Baltimore’s proto-Speed Metal debut LP, 1970’s peerless KINGDOM COME, I don’t recall encountering anything quite THIS enticingly-described within the realm of Classic Hard Rock Collector Scum Aesthetics! Description: Rare 1969 Deep Groove Stereo Original. Cut Corner. . . . → Read More: New Heavy Holy Grail?! By Tom Kipp From: Marc Marshall To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: Davie Allan Hi Tom! Did I forward this to you already? My new musical friend at Noblis I told you about, Frank Lawrence, turned me on to Davie Allan recently. Thanks Marc! What a fabulous summary of both . . . → Read More: “Fuzztone Biker Rock” from Davie Allan and Mike Curb, two ol’ pals from Grant High School in Van Nuys, CA! Plus: The Mike Curb Congregation & MGM’s “Golden Archive Series”! By Tom Kipp and Marc Marshall
Many years ago at the EMP Pop Conference I heard a scholar and avant-garde musician named Ned Sublette deliver perhaps the greatest impromptu speaking performance I’ve ever experienced in that setting, or possibly anywhere at all! He was then about to publish his landmark study of the Cuban influence on global music, and . . . → Read More: Ned Sublette and His Dazzling Array of Talents, By Tom Kipp
Thanks to my friend Patty Dean of Helena, I came across this extraordinary short film about Lee Metcalf, who served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate from 1953 to 1978, and who was, along with Mike Mansfield (who still holds the record for longest reign as U.S. Senate Majority Leader–1961 . . . → Read More: A Salute to Former Montana Senators Lee Metcalf and Mike Mansfield! By Tom Kipp Thought you’d get a kick outta this mild Montana media outrage, which befell station KRTV from Great Falls, one of the two local stations I grew up watching, whether from the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation (1968-71) or Havre (1972-83). My ol’ pal . . . → Read More: Montana TV Station’s Zombie Attack Emergency Hoax, By Tom Kipp and Jay Schuschke From: cory davis To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: Curious what you think of this, TK?!? Kevin Durant sometimes doesn’t want to chuck heaves at the buzzer to protect his percentages, despite his coach’s wishes. HI . . . → Read More: Kevin Durant Too Basketball “Sabermetric” for His Own Good, By Cory Davis and Tom Kipp
In case you missed it: Richard Marx hates my guts I made a snarky comment about the 1980s soft-rock balladeer on my blog. And now he won’t leave me alone. Really. BY EDWARD . . . → Read More: Richard Marx Hates My Guts, By Tom Kipp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObJbi4mK35k I’ve been outta the loop re: many of my favorite magazines for a spell, especially those I normally buy at the newsstand. So I missed several iterations of Greil Marcus’ “Real Life Rock Top Ten” (A MONTHLY COLUMN OF EVERYDAY CULTURE AND FOUND OBJECTS) in THE BELIEVER, which ranks 10 . . . → Read More: “We just had ourselves a little Journey moment…”! By Tom Kipp I must admit, this is my current idea of “The horror….the HORROR!” (per J. Conrad, via F.F. Coppola) Courtesy of my weekly EMP member e-mail alert— TEATRO ZINZANNI DISCOUNT RETURN TO PARADISE See Jimi Hendrix come to life in Return . . . → Read More: Teatro Zinzanni goes “Hendrix”! (avec “talk-box stylings”) By Tom Kipp
I have a bit of history wit’ CHARLIE IS MY DARLING, which is a great fave, especially in the phenomenally cleaned up & recently completed version now finally available! I first read about it in 1981, when Dave Marsh published the first edition of THE BOOK OF ROCK . . . → Read More: Rolling Stones – Charlie is My Darling – Recommended With Greatest Enthusiasm, By Tom Kipp “Rescue Me” is certainly the equal of Peak Aretha on Atlantic, but arrived a full 18 months IN ADVANCE of Miz Franklin’s first venture into the Top 10! It also boasts one of the great bass lines in the history of pop music, from R&B to Postpunk! – Tom Kipp RIP Fontella Bass . . . → Read More: Fontella Bass – Rescue Me, By Tom Kipp This horror just in from the Burning Shed prog reissue site—
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe ABWH/An Evening Of Yes Music Plus (double cd/dvd) Released in 1989, ABWH’s debut studio album was considered a return to the . . . → Read More: Prog Horror Strikes Again! Plus: The Ultimate Sludge Law Firm?! By Tom Kipp As fine a Byrds rip as “American Girl“, sans doubt! – Tom Kipp TK, I ran across this piece by Sean Beaudoin at Salon.com. It’s a list of the bands he will be forced to listen to in hell: http://www.salon.com/2012/07/11/the_ten_bands_i_will_be_forced_to_listen_to_in_hell_salpart/ Top ten lists are nothing new—but there was something a little different about this one. Beaudoin just seems to center on the bands/artists he despises the . . . → Read More: “Ten Bands/Musical Artistes Whom I Will be Forced to Listen to in HELL!” By Tom Kipp and Jay Schuschke
Brian Wilson with Johnny Rotten, 2012 In an always-bizarre and forever-endearing bit o’ serendipity, the last great Beach Boys LP, in fact the best one since either WILD HONEY or SUNFLOWER to this very day, and the 70s album most dominated by Brian Wilson, was THE BEACH BOYS LOVE YOU, released in April 1977, . . . → Read More: Brian Wilson with Johnny Rotten – 1977 – THE BEACH BOYS LOVE YOU, By Tom Kipp Now, howzabout this—a FIFTEEN cd box set (14 cds plus one Blu-ray disc, actually) exhaustively documenting a single, 40-minute original album! Never thought I’d see the day….though I’m not exactly surprised that Mr. Robert Fripp is at the bottom of it! LOL King Crimson - Larks’ Tongues In Aspic – 40th . . . → Read More: King Crimson Sets a New World Record for Exhaustively-Documented Musical Indulgence! By Tom Kipp [Gillian Gaar will read from her new book on 9/15 at Orca Books in Olympia at 3 pm and on 9/18 at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle at 7 pm.]
As someone who makes it a point to attend every Gillian Gaar-related event I can, I was delighted to find her guesting on . . . → Read More: Top 20 Nirvana songs OF ALL TIME – Marco Collins, Gillian Gaar, Gary Wilson, By Tom Kipp [Gillian Gaar will read from her new book on 9/15 at Orca Books in Olympia at 3 pm and on 9/18 at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle at 7 pm.] My friend Gillian Gaar loved this story when I shared it with her many years ago, and asked me to write it up while . . . → Read More: Tom Kipp Encounters Dave Grohl and Gwar… Deep in the Woods Past Fairfax, VA! (A 20th Anniversary Reminiscence) |
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