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The very DEFINITION of my very favorite Sludge Rudiment, “The Bryan Adams Part”, from a concert for Amnesty Int’l, no less! LOL And at Giants Stadium in ’86, the mullets, they ABOUND! 23428One comment
I wrote a rather lengthy comment tonight for a friend’s largely critical thread re: the departed Whitney Houston, but, just as I was about to post it, it FUCKIN’ DISAPPEARED and I was far too pissed to attempt to re-create it from scratch. Anyhow, one aspect I’d included was the . . . → Read More: A Little-Known, Spare, Very Beautiful, and Extraordinarily Unlikely Example of the Artist Whitney Houston Might Easily Have Become, If Not For Clive Davis’ Greedy Intervention In Her Career, By Tom Kipp Glorious fragment o’ PiL’s “Chant”, with definitive Postpunk guitar from Keith Levene in Part I. Then a typically poisonous confrontation and walk-off during hapless intvw segment in Part II… – Tom Kipp Big Steve‘s definitely gettin’ it done! I enjoyed a wonderful steak dinner he and Tim Midgett prepared during my last Chicago visit in October 2009… – Tom Kipp Here’s, Mario Batali Voice, and here’s some commentary in the LA . . . → Read More: Steve Albini Starts Food Blog Called Mario Batali Voice, By Tom Kipp Surely yer ol’ Stereophile pal Ted would disagree, no?! LOL And c’mon, Marc, just look at that BASE! And that BELT! Plus, their tonearm and spindle are "stiffer than carbon fiber"! (As am I, just reading that…) As you well know, I simply adore the "pervy horniness" of this type of advertising . . . → Read More: Best Audiophile Porn in a While! By Tom Kipp and Marc Marshall All-Time Funk Classic, sans doubt! – Tom Kipp ALMOST as interesting as ’80s & ’90s Pink Floyd! – Tom Kipp
How WILL we resist the lure of the fabled….STYX?! LOL In their way they remain “The Definitive Havre Sludge Band”, if only because they actually (and somewhat disastrously) played Havre during The Golden Age (@ Northern Montana College’s Armory Gymnasium, March 1976!).
A performance which . . . → Read More: Styx at Emerald Queen Casino 2/3/2012, By Tom Kipp Here’s another ring to climb in, if you choose… the Rock Critic Roundtable. – Andrew Hamlin * * * Thanks Andy. I think you’re better suited to said realm than I, so DO IT!
21740Leave a comment Famed British record producer Steve Lillywhite was named a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) today by the Queen of England in her annual New Year’s list of honorees. A Knighthood is one step ABOVE the estimable CBE designation, with OBE & MBE below CBE. I could be wrong, but that’s my recollection… The . . . → Read More: Steve Lillywhite is Almost Knighted – Marshall Crenshaw – Whenever You’re on My Mind – Monday Morning Rock, By Tom Kipp
I had a fine time watching last weekend’s Montana-related playoff games, though the Sam Houston State/MSU blowout was rather painful at times, due to the Bobcats tossing away several good opportunities to at least keep the game close. Perhaps the Griz will fare quite a bit better tonight…. Hi y’all: What is UP wit’ our ol’ friends at Rhino, anyway? Just seeing the be-candy caned logo below (still avec restricted trademark, natch) unleashed a rather severe Tremor in The Force, at least where I live and breathe. Can you IMAGINE—“An Evening with….”, playing in multiplexes nationwide for two . . . → Read More: Tremor in the Force – Chicago Presents an Evening of Holiday Music and Greatest Hits! By Tom Kipp Today is the 40th Anniversary of the release of Led Zeppelin IV, the high water mark of the rock era. Thanks to Sir Tom Kipp for notifying me of this momentous release date anniversary. By “high water mark,” I mean the point where the wave crested and broke. It’s not that there would be . . . → Read More: Led Zeppelin IV – The High Water Mark of the Rock Era [Re: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Immersion Box Set - Price $118.33] Love the idea, hate the price, and yet I do feel just the slightest tingle of temptation! LOL
Will NOT be making said purchase, but would love to see/hear its contents at some point, . . . → Read More: Pink Floyd Immersion Extortion! – Wish You Were Here Box Set – By Tom Kipp Earlier Big Audio Dynamite tracks, "E = MC2" for example, are quite nice. But nothing really KICKS it like "The Globe" later did, for whatever reason. I suspect that Simonon, Headon and Strummer would’ve kicked a lotta that early-B.A.D. stuff into a higher gear, much as Jones might . . . → Read More: B.A.D. vs. Joe Strummer and the Tragedy of Early Clash Death, By Tom Kipp This question comes from an unnamed source via Daniel Housman – Just how many brilliant obscure singer-songwriters were there in the early Seventies? I’m still getting over rediscovering Emmitt Rhodes — and now here’s David Ackles. Nobody was listening to this stuff, yet “Gimme Dat Ding” went Top 40? Tom Kipp – Let us . . . → Read More: Just how many brilliant obscure singer-songwriters were there in the early Seventies? I’m still getting over rediscovering Emmitt Rhodes — and now here’s David Ackles. Nobody was listening to this stuff, yet “Gimme Dat Ding” went Top 40?
I don’t know whether or to what degree y’all may be fans of Holmes & Watson, or intrigued by Conan Doyle’s forays into the Occult, but this Michael Dirda piece showed up on Facebook today, from the current issue of THE PARIS REVIEW, and I thought I’d pass it along. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/09/21/a-doyle-man/ . . . → Read More: Michael Dirda’s Fine Conan Doyle Piece, By Tom Kipp [Ed. Note - On May 11, 2012 goth-inspired, iconoclastic film director Tim Burton is set to release a movie version of the beloved television series DARK SHADOWS which will star Johnny Depp, Chloë Grace Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Lee and many others. While longtime fans of the show are . . . → Read More: A Brief Appreciation of Dark Shadows, as We Await the Johnny Depp/Tim Burton “Hollywood-ization”! By Tom Kipp “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our . . . → Read More: REM Breaks Up After 31 Years as a Band – Reactions Pour in From Around the World B’shoot was exhausting, not to mention rather slight in the big names/next big things department. At this point I shouldn’t need to rely on Old Soul Artists (Mavis Staples, Dennis Coffey, Charles Bradley, hell, even Hall & Oates!) to provide my hardcore jollies at a big Seattle music festival, but I guess it’s come . . . → Read More: Bumbershoot Was Exhausting, Not to Mention Rather Slight in the Big Names/Next Big Things Department, By Tom Kipp and Cory Davis |
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