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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 4, 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 I’ve been listening to Tommy Keene and in particular last year’s “Tommy Keene You Hear Me, Retrospective 1983-2009.” I have always leaned toward [1989 album] “Based on Happy Times” over [1986 album] “Songs From the Film.” The cello (!) riff alone on the title track, as I told said Mr Keene, ought to be . . . → Read More: Tommy Keene – Astronomy – One of the Best Pop-Rock Songs Ever Committed to Vinyl, By JK Manlove and Tom Kipp This poetic little nugget (sent in by Mark Erickson) comparing and contrasting the Burst Beat with the Blast Beat, may be the most expansively cosmic piece of music writing ever. Titled, “Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism,” this ponderous net-ifesto has ignited controversy wherever it has been read. The author, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, . . . → Read More: Hunter Hunt-Hendrix – Liturgy’s Self-Styled Tempest in the Teapot of United States Black Metal, By Eric Buhle In my estimation, Garland Jeffreys is an utterly unique, seriously underappreciated, figure in American Rock, and has been for more than 40 years now! He can sing like Mick Jagger, Arthur Lee and Bob Marley, not to forget Fifties/Sixties/Seventies Soul singers of every stripe, a combo no one else has ever . . . → Read More: Garland Jeffreys is an Utterly Unique, Seriously Underappreciated, Figure in American Rock, By Tom Kipp [Ed. Note: What follows is a work in progress. Tom Kipp is in the process of compiling a list of 1200, or perhaps more, unforgettable songs. Some of these songs will be familiar, others less so. All will be worthy of your attention and Tom will expertly explain why. The presentation below, “What . . . → Read More: Tom Kipp’s 1200 Songs: What Was in the Water at Warner Brothers, ca. 1978-80! |
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