“Me & My Dog” by boygenius
we had a great day
even though we forgot to eat
and you had a bad dream
and we got no sleep
‘cause we were kissing
Nice choice (again!) from O My Soul
Wednesday, July 03, 2024
. . . . to a family favourite | boygenius : Me & My Dog | O My Soul
Song of the Day | R.E.M. - Perfect Circle | thanks to O My Soul
to a R.E.M classic from O My Soul!
R.E.M. - Perfect Circle
REGGAE classic cover of a Nawleans RnB Earl King song | THE CLARENDONIANS
The Clarendonians - Walking Up A One Way Street (1972)
"Willie Tee’s original version is one of my all time faves, but it’s such a great song that the Clarendonians do the Earl King penned song justice.” Guess I'm Dumb
Tuesday, July 02, 2024
Cyberpunk source of The ‘Matrix’ - WILLIAM GIBSON
36-year-old William Gibson's debut novel was first published on 1 July 1984.
"Gibson had been publishing short fiction since 1977, and Terry Carr commissioned Gibson to write a novel for Ace Science Fiction Specials. Gibson recalled that he wrote the novel with "blind animal panic" and rewrote the first two-thirds of the novel as many as 12 times and was convinced the novel would be a failure.
Released with little notice, Neuromancer was sold by word-of-mouth and would go on to sell more than 6.5 million copies. It also received the Hugo, the Philip K. Dick, and Nebula awards (the first paperback original to ever achieve the feat).
Neuromancer helped popularize the genre of cyberpunk, as well as the term "cyberspace" (which Gibson had coined in the 1982 short story "Burning Chrome"), and "matrix" as used in The Matrix franchise."
#william gibson
#1984
#neuromancer
#cyberspace
#burning chrome
#the matrix
Jane Asher
This is a lovely, respectful, account and I was always a fan especially of her acting early on and since her marriage to another hero in the legendary cartoonist/artist extraordinaire Gerald Scarfe who she met in 1971 (married in 1981)
Jane playing opposite Michael Caine in ‘Alfie’ 1966 by Lewis Gilbert
Paul’s girlfriend between 1963 and 1968, Jane was a major influence on his lifestyle and songwriting with The Beatles.
For a time Paul lived at the Asher family home in London, and a number of his songs were inspired by their relationship.
“I always feel very wary including Jane in The Beatles’ history,” said Paul.
“She’s never gone into print about our relationship, whilst everyone on Earth has sold their story. So I’d feel weird being the one to kiss and tell.”
Born in London on April 5, 1946, Jane was the second of three children born to Dr Richard Asher and his wife Margaret.
Dr Asher was a consultant in blood and mental disease. Margaret Asher was a professor of the oboe and one of her pupils had been George Martin.
Jane began her acting career at the age of five, playing the role of Nina in the 1952 film Mandy.
She appeared in a number of films, including The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), The Greengage Summer (1961), The Prince And The Pauper (1962) and Alfie (1966).
She also appeared in numerous television programs, including the British series The Adventures Of Robin Hood, and appeared as a panelist on the BBC music show Juke Box Jury.
“I met Jane when she was sent by the Radio Times to cover a concert we were in at the Royal Albert Hall – we had a photo taken with her for the magazine and we all fancied her,” said Paul.
“We’d thought she was blonde, because we had only ever seen her on black-and-white telly doing Juke Box Jury, but she turned out to be a redhead. So it was: ‘Wow, you’re a redhead!’ I tried pulling her, succeeded, and we were boyfriend and girlfriend for quite a long time.”
“Paul fell like a ton of bricks for Jane,” said Cynthia Lennon.
Jane Asher at 20 Forthlin Road in Liverpool | June 1963 © Mike McCartney
“The first time I was introduced to her was at her home and she was sitting on Paul’s knee. My first impression of Jane was how beautiful and finely featured she was. For Paul, Jane Asher was a great prize.”
By ‘63, the Beatles had become household names, and found it difficult staying in hotels and walking around London. Although they often went to plays and clubs, Paul and Asher often stayed in at her parents’ home, a townhouse with six floors. Jane suggested he regard the house as his London home, and her mother agreed to let him move into the attic room.
“There we’re people there and food and a homey atmosphere, and Jane being my girlfriend, it was kind of perfect!” said Paul.
“Really, I suppose what solidified London for me was the house that they lived in at 57 Wimpole Street.
It was really like culture shock in the way they ran their lives, because the doctor obviously had a quite tight diary, but all of them ran it that way. They would do things that I’d never seen before, like at dinner there would be word games. Now I’m bright enough, but mine is an intuitive brightness. I could just about keep up with that and I could always say, ‘I don’t know that word.’ I was always honest. In fact, I was able to enjoy and take part fully in their thing.”
Paul lived at the Asher family house for three years. The change of environment greatly broadened his cultural horizons; not least with the music lessons Margaret Asher informally gave him. She taught him to play the recorder – he later played the instrument on ‘The Fool On The Hill’ – and gave music tuition in a music room in the basement.
Paul and John wrote many songs in the music room.
“We wrote a lot of stuff together, one-on-one, eyeball to eyeball,” said John.
“Like in I Want To Hold Your Hand, I remember when we got the chord that made the song. We were in Jane Asher’s house, downstairs in the cellar playing on the piano at the same time. And we had ‘Oh you-u-u… got that something…’ And Paul hits this chord and I turn to him and say, ‘That’s it!’ I said, ‘Do that again!’ In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that – both playing into each other’s nose.”
“I eventually got a piano of my own up in the top garret,” said Paul.
“Very artistic. That was the piano that I fell out of bed and got the chords to Yesterday on. I dreamed it when I was staying there. I wrote quite a lot of stuff up in that room actually. ‘I’m Looking Through You’ I seem to remember after an argument with Jane. There were a few of those moments.”
Jane’s main passion was for acting. She was independent-minded and wanted to have a profession in her own right, rather than merely be a Beatle’s partner. She was opinionated and refused to sacrifice her career for Paul, which caused friction in their relationship.
“My whole existence for so long centred round a bachelor life,” said Paul.“I didn’t treat women as most people do. I’ve always had a lot around, even when I’ve had a steady girl. My life generally has always been very lax, and not normal. “I knew I was selfish. it caused a few rows. Jane left me once and went off to Bristol to act. I said OK then, leave, I’ll find someone else. It was shattering to be without her.”
Their five-year relationship came to an abrupt end when Jane discovered Paul in bed with Francie Schwartz, an employee at Apple.
Jane walked out and sent her mother to collect her belongings. Although she and Paul subsequently tried to mend their relationship but by July 1968 it was over.
Jane met the political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe in 1971. They married in 1981 and have three children.
Jane’s acting career continues successfully today. She has also written three novels and more than a dozen books on lifestyle, cake decoration and costuming, and has developed the best-selling Jane Asher range of cake mixes.
She is the president of Arthritis Care, the National Autistic Society, the Parkinson’s Disease Society and the West London Family Service Unit, and vice president of the Child Accident Prevention Trust.
She is also a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association, and patron of Bowel Cancer UK, the Scoliosis Association and the Leukaemia and Lymphoma Unit.
Wonderful woman . . . . .
Source : The Legendary Hollywood
Imelda May - Jeff Beck Tribute 22nd May 2023 ‘Remember’ | Top Hat's "Live Music Archives"
How to make an entrance! Yowzers!
Remember (Walking in the Sand) - Ronnie Wood, Johnny Depp, Imelda May - Jeff Beck Tribute
22nd May 2023
Holy Moly this one for the boys over at FBS and VW! Silent Way and Jobe especially but heck I gots High Blood Pressure you know!
Wilhelm Reich and The Orgone Box
Beloved amongst others by W.S.Burroughs and like something out of Nova Express or similar, I used to be fascinated by the idea that these might work and wanted to build my own and one point. Then I sobered up . . . . . . . !
Wilhelm Reich - Orgone Akkumulator No.8
“Orgone accumulator with smaller box for spot work (missing tube to direct the orgone to the area of the body being treated). This Orgone Generator was created by Wilhelm Reich. On the bottom of the smaller box, it is marked "No. 8. Property of the Orgone Institute. [illegible] Laboratories, Inc. Orgonon, Rangeley, Maine. Made in the USA by S.A. Collins & Son, Rangeley ME.”
It was originally owned by Roy Kuhlman, purchased circa 1948, according to witness testimonies. Then it was passed down to Kuhlman’s daughter, Arden.“
here: Kuhlman Archive
TRIBAL GATHERING - psychedelia and beyond . . .LLOYD COLE & The Commotions 1983 -2007 18 CDs | a Butterboy Special
Lloyd Cole - A Box Of Lloyd Cole Part 1 & II - 1983 - 2007
The Collection, + 40 Heartfelt Songs (13 x CDs)
Now I like Loyd Cole and The Commotions but seriously 18 CDS!?EIGHTEEN !?He was gonna occur in the earworm one hit wonders until I found I could count THREE!? (go on I dares ya! = Perfect skin, Rattlesnakes, Are You Ready to be Heart Broken? . . . . . . name more . . . . . Hits? . . . . Tracks? . . . Songs? . . . . nope me neither!)But EIGHTEEN CDS?!
THE SONY WALKMAN!
On July 1, 1979, the first personal stereo cassette player, called the Sony Walkman, went on sale.
When did you get yours!?
Tina Turner | Don's Tunes- FACEBOOK
I know I don’t post enough Tina (any? - ED) but we appreciate her don’t we, standing like a beaming icon in the dark of the abuse against women . . . . . . .success is the best revenge!
Tina Turner’s rock’n’roll identity was ultimately her gateway out of her marriage to Ike and into her solo career. Although the rock circuit (and covering the likes of the Beatles and Creedence Clearwater Revival) would prove a lucrative way for the Ike and Tina Revue to expand their fanbase, it was Tina who, by the time she filed for divorce in 1976, had fully turned to rock as recourse, claiming her entitlement to perform music for which the 1920s blues queens (Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey) paved the way and which the 1940s and 50s path-breakers (Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Big Mama Thornton) had critically helped to invent.
She generated her own rendition of sonic blackness and femininity while gigging in the 70s, finding a new home for her voice as “the acid queen” in the 1975 adaptation of rock opera Tommy. And she turned to a whole new set of covers – Under My Thumb, Let’s Spend the Night Together, I Can See for Miles, Whole Lotta Love – turning those masculine (and often misogynist) narratives of power, desire, independence and sexual prowess into the sound of brave and unbridled, sexually and socially assertive womanhood.
Daphne A Brooks - The Guardian
Photo: Filip Wouters
Don's Tunes
Monday, July 01, 2024
BBC ONE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2024
GLASTONBURY 2024
Personal Choice HIGHLIGHTS!
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Paul Heaton - Happy Hour (feat. Norman Cook)
The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters
Yard Act - THE TRENCH COAT MUSEUM
Yard Act - WE MAKE HITS
Alvvays - Belinda Says
Gossip - feat. the astonishing Beth Ditto : Standing In The Way of Control
Seasick Steve - Internet Cowboys
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
The National - England
Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
Sadly missed Johnny Flynn and couldn’t find any of his set on the acoustic stage late Saturday night . . . . .
David Byrne’s July Playlist | David Byrne Newwsletter
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ROBYN HITCHCOCK | Back-To-Back VOODOO WAGON 1984 -1988: A Draftervoi Double Special
1./Robyn Hitchcock / First Avenue Club, Minneapolis, April 11, 1988
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Vibrating LIVE ON MTV 1988
Robyn Hitchcock
& the Egyptians
with Peter Buck
First Avenue Club
Minneapolis, MN
April 11, 1988
01 Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn talks
02 Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
03 Robyn Hitchcock - The Cars She Used To Drive
04 Robyn Hitchcock - Bass
05 Robyn Hitchcock - Another Bubble
06 Robyn Hitchcock - Unsettled
07 Robyn Hitchcock - I'm Only You
08 Robyn Hitchcock - Tropical Flesh Mandala
09 Robyn Hitchcock - Winchester
10 Robyn Hitchcock - Birdshead
11 Robyn Hitchcock - Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)
12 Robyn Hitchcock - Chinese Bones (tape flip at end)
13 Robyn Hitchcock - Balloon Man
14 Robyn Hitchcock - Queen of Eyes
15 Robyn Hitchcock - A Globe of Frogs
16 Robyn Hitchcock - crowd noise 2 minutes
17 Robyn Hitchcock - I Got A Message To You
18 Robyn Hitchcock - Uncorrected Personality Traits
19 Robyn Hitchcock - Listening To The Higsons
20 Robyn Hitchcock - crowd noise two minutes
21 Robyn Hitchcock - The Man With The Lightbulb Head
22 Robyn Hitchcock - Heaven
23 Robyn Hitchcock - Eight Days A Week
24 Robyn Hitchcock - If You Were A Priest
Robyn Hitchcock
& the Egyptians
with Peter Buck
First Avenue Club
Minneapolis, MN
April 11, 1988
& the Egyptians
with Peter Buck
First Avenue Club
Minneapolis, MN
April 11, 1988
01 Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn talks
02 Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
03 Robyn Hitchcock - The Cars She Used To Drive
04 Robyn Hitchcock - Bass
05 Robyn Hitchcock - Another Bubble
06 Robyn Hitchcock - Unsettled
07 Robyn Hitchcock - I'm Only You
08 Robyn Hitchcock - Tropical Flesh Mandala
09 Robyn Hitchcock - Winchester
10 Robyn Hitchcock - Birdshead
11 Robyn Hitchcock - Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)
12 Robyn Hitchcock - Chinese Bones (tape flip at end)
13 Robyn Hitchcock - Balloon Man
14 Robyn Hitchcock - Queen of Eyes
15 Robyn Hitchcock - A Globe of Frogs
16 Robyn Hitchcock - crowd noise 2 minutes
17 Robyn Hitchcock - I Got A Message To You
18 Robyn Hitchcock - Uncorrected Personality Traits
19 Robyn Hitchcock - Listening To The Higsons
20 Robyn Hitchcock - crowd noise two minutes
21 Robyn Hitchcock - The Man With The Lightbulb Head
22 Robyn Hitchcock - Heaven
23 Robyn Hitchcock - Eight Days A Week
24 Robyn Hitchcock - If You Were A Priest
2./ Robyn Hitchcock / Saturday Live, BBC Radio One September 1984
Robyn Hitchcock
Saturday Live
BBC Radio One
September 15, 1984
(or possibly September 1, 1984)
01 Andy Batten-Foster - Intro
02 Robyn Hitchcock - Sometimes I Wish I Was Pretty Girl
03 Robyn Hitchcock - Flavour Of Night
04 Robyn Hitchcock & Andy Batten-Foster - Talk
05 Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
06 Robyn Hitchcock & Andy Batten-Foster - Interview
07 Robyn Hitchcock - Ye Sleeping Knights Of Jesus
"Okay, Voodoo Gang! Are you still hungry for some more Hitchcock? Well, here's the dessert course. It's short, but sweet.” draftervoi
Robyn Hitchcock (Feat K.T. Tunstall) - There Goes The Ice 1984
Last effort . . . . .
Robyn Hitchcock - The Shuffle Man 2022
Bonnie Raitt - Thank You | Le Ramasseur De Mégots
Le Ramasseur De Mégots
℗ 1971 Warner Records Inc. Tenor Saxophone: A.C. Reed Guitar, Vocals: Bonnie Raitt Trombone: Douglas Spurgeon Saxophone: Eugene Hoffman Bass Guitar: Freebo Piano: John Beach Harp: Junior Wells Flute, Saxophone: Maurice Jacox Electric Guitar: Peter Bell Electric Guitar: Russell Hagan Drums: Steven Bradley Trumpet: Voyle Harris Piano, Producer: Willie Murphy Writer: Bonnie Raitt
TOM WAITS : San Diego Serenade
Tom Waits- San Diego Serenade (live)
I never saw the east coast till I moved to the west—I never saw the moonlight till it shone off your breast—
I never saw your heart till someone tried to steel it away—
I never saw your tears till they rolled down your face.
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