I’ve been nominated by my brilliant pal Chris Estey to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me—just album covers without any explanation—and to nominate a different person each day to do the same. Today I nominate: Charlie Zaillian Day 13: Sonny Sharrock: GUITAR (Enemy Records LP, 1986) …
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I’ve been nominated by my brilliant pal Chris Estey to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me—just album covers without any explanation—and to nominate a different person each day to do the same. Today I nominate: Devin McKinney Day 12: John Cage * Christian Wolff: CARTRIDGE MUSIC …
I’ve been nominated by my brilliant pal Chris Estey to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me—just album covers without any explanation—and to nominate a different person each day to do the same. Today I nominate: Kelli Cline Day 11: The Partridge Family: SOUND MAGAZINE (Bell Records …
I’ve been nominated by my brilliant pal Chris Estey to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me—just album covers without any explanation—and to nominate a different person each day to do the same. Today I nominate: Ray Damulag Day 10: WANNA BUY A BRIDGE? (Rough Trade Records …
I’ve been nominated by my brilliant pal Chris Estey to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me—just album covers without any explanation—and to nominate a different person each day to do the same. Today I nominate: Alyssa LS Day 9: Joy Division: UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Factory Records, UK LP, …
I felt an URGENT pang at bein’ “born too late” (and in the wrong state) after seein’ this battered, ca. 1973 gig flyer on FB earlier today, due to both lineup AND billing order. Especially given the present (sorry) state o’ Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, which is taking place as I type this! By the by, …
I’ve been nominated by my brilliant pal Chris Estey to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me—just album covers without any explanation—and to nominate a different person each day to do the same. Today I nominate: Tracy Wilson Day 8: Ein Heit: THE LIGHTNING AND THE SUN …
I’ve been nominated by my brilliant pal Chris Estey to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me—just album covers without any explanation—and to nominate a different person each day to do the same. Today I nominate: Samantha Lauren Day 7: The Brains: THE BRAINS (Mercury, US, 1980) …
[Ed. Note: What follows is a work in progress. Tom Kipp is in the process of compiling “1500 Completely Unforgettable Songs! (A Musical Cornucopia of Rock, Punk, Soul, Funk, Pop, Postpunk, Grunge, Sludge, Spoken Word, Country, Hardcore, Hip-Hop, Metal, Industrial, and Beyond).” Some of these songs will be familiar, others less so. All will be …
I’ve been nominated by my brilliant pal Chris Estey to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me—just album covers without any explanation—and to nominate a different person each day to do the same. Today I nominate: Jimmy Harrison Day 6: Flipper: Album—Generic Flipper (Subterranean Records, 1982) Flipper: …
I’ve been nominated by my brilliant pal Chris Estey to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me—just album covers without any explanation—and to nominate a different person each day to do the same. Today I nominate: John M. Kappes Day 5: Gang of Four: ENTERTAINMENT! (EMI, original …
I’ve been nominated by my brilliant pal Chris Estey to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me—just album covers without any explanation—and to nominate a different person each day to do the same. Today I nominate: Marc Marshall Day 4: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: TROUT …
I’ve been nominated by my brilliant pal Chris Estey to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me—just album covers without any explanation—and to nominate a different person each day to do the same. Today I nominate: My dear sister, Laurie Kipp Day 3: Sex Pistols: NEVER MIND …
Blowin’ out my voice with Montana Postpunk colossus Ein Heit, at what appears to be our show in the gymnasium of Missoula Loyola High School in mid-March 1986. Likely singing our customary set closer, Husker Du’s “Diane”, which I then considered to be “The Greatest Song Written During The 1980s”, and would likely nominate for …
I’ve been nominated by my brilliant pal Chris Estey to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me—just album covers without any explanation—and to nominate a different person each day to do the same. Today I nominate: Howard Todd Brown Day 2: Iggy and the Stooges: RAW POWER …
I’ve been nominated by my brilliant pal Chris Estey to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me—just album covers without any explanation—and to nominate a different person each day to do the same. Today I nominate: Tim Cook (Not the Apple CEO) Day 1: Pere Ubu: THE …
By the way, earlier I forgot to mention my brand new black suede Pumas, bought on sale last month at Big 5, just prior to my two-week drivin’ trip ’round Oregon, Idaho, and Eastern Washington. During the ’70s, Puma was by far my favorite brand o’ shoe—at one time or another I owned five pair, …
Here’s the Sanyo M9970, my favorite (and by far the best-performing!) of the half-dozen boomboxes I’ve owned since the mid-’70s! It was purchased on 28th August 1980 for $149.00, at the Woolworth’s in my hometown of Havre, Montana, per my mom Elaine’s meticulous notations in the owner’s manual. Such an incredible addition to my senior …
Not to in any way diminish the Weather Horrors currently being visited upon so many parts of Our Great Nation. All atmospheric phenomena are of course relative, and very few towns or cities in America are notably prepared for significantly sub-zero weather conditions. But “facts is facts”, as Will Rogers surely said! And my hometown …
In the early morning hours of January 27, 2019 a series of three emails were sent from East Portland Blog headquarters to Rock’s Premier Autodidact, Tom Kipp. In recent years, increasing numbers of bands from all over the globe have cited Krautrock as an influence, or have described their music as “Krautpop.” EPB needed guidance …
I replied to my old and dear friend Richard Mockler just moments ago, upon encountering in my FB feed this latest evidence of his audacious creativity and legendary Montana charisma. Ahem, “Richard, to describe this exemplary feat of communicative compression as a Masterpiece would be to undersell, I think, its many charms! I for one …
“My Dad and My Dandelions!” A Tribute to Hank Kipp A little over six years ago, on April 29th, 2012 to be precise, I quite spontaneously decided to weed a dense patch of dandelions in front of the townhouse complex where I’d been living for the previous two years. The front of said complex—along the …
The Fall were never quite my favorite band (okay, maybe during the last six months of 1988, in the wake of the glorious one-two LP punch of THE FRENZ EXPERIMENT and I AM KURIOUS ORANJ!), but their obstreperous uniqueness, unfathomable longevity, truly remarkable consistency, and unshakable integrity grew more admirable and undeniable with each passing …
As always, I sleep in on a Saturday morning ’til about 11:30, take a quick shower, then walk up Roy St. from my apartment on Summit Ave. for a leisurely lunch with Tim Cook at Siam on Broadway. Once the customary ten-star Thai cuisine has been consumed, we briefly duck into Orpheum Records to hassle …
Mr. Kipp – Do you have any latter-day thoughts about Guadalcanal Diary? Their music may have aged better than the REM of the same period. Perhaps I’m only enjoying it because I hadn’t heard it in 30 years and wasn’t listening closely the first time. Sincerely, Ricky in Enumclaw I’ve loved their “Always Saturday” from …
One of the more hilarious BBC clips I’ve ever seen, as The Faces thoroughly exploit the fact that TOP OF THE POPS used to insist on canned backing tracks, while ALSO insisting on live vocals (cf. several tracks from The Who’s ca. 2000 BBC cd compilation, which feature live Roger Daltrey vocals atop the familiar …
The Last Waltz-as-an-actual-event was a Requiem for both a Sensibility and an Era (call it Classic Rock, if one must), even if no one present knew it. I’ve also always assumed that–as of this date in 1976 anyway–not a single person on that Winterland stage (Patti Smith’s pal Bob aside, of course, and as usual) …
Occasionally, as I think back on various experiences of trying to CREATE in Havre or Missoula, Montana during the 1980s (and subsequently, as well, in Northern Virginia or Seattle)–whether that involved establishing a “beach head” and persona for radio, learning to write/combine criticism and history (and humor), attempting to make music of widely varying sorts, …
When I compiled a listing of my favorite singles of all-time about eight years ago (a kaleidoscopic endeavor that eventually BALLOONED to 800 entries, even though no artist was permitted more than ONE!), this string-fueled, now-rather-obscure, Family Soul smash from Summer 1972 (#2 in BILLBOARD, but #1 in CASH BOX!) came in at #19, just …
The September 29, 2015 Richard Lloyd Band show at The Columbia City Theater hit top gear about halfway through the main set, and from that point right on through the all-Jimi encore, Richard was on FIRE! Here’s how he brought it all back home on his battered Strat: “Friction”, “Pleading”, “Alchemy”, “Field of Fire”, “Amnesia”, …