HEY, JACK KEROUAC!

“I would say he [Jack Kerouac]  offered his heart to the United States and the United States rejected his heart. And he realized what suffering the United States was in for, and so the tragedy of America, as (Walt) Whitman had seen the tragedy of the United States. "When the singer of the nation finds that the nation has sickened, what happens to the singer of the nation?” This is Gregory Corso’s question. 

And America, by his day, was sick. Militarily sick. Military-Industrial-Complex had taken over. Hard-heartedness had taken over. Everything that as a Canuck-peasant Kerouac hated had taken over - the mechanization, the impersonality, the homogenization, the money-grabbing, the disrespect for person - that had all taken over. And vast wars - and the attack on the provincial in the wars.  

So I would say America broke his heart.“

THESE ARMS OF MINE

One of the finest songs ever written . . . . . . here by the master Mr Otis Redding, but the only matching version interestingly enough IMHO was by Bill Wyman's band Willlie and The Poor Boys whose album I enjoyed featuring Paul Rogers on vocals. try track it down if you can . . . . . .

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Otis Redding - These Arms Of Mine

 . . . . . . .. oooh look there it is . . . . . . Willie and The Poor Boys

THEA GILMORE

THEA GILMORE

BIG NEWS ON THE WAY.... Hi everyone! Just a heads up to warn you to keep your beautiful eyes peeled for new, exciting Thea Gilmore news on Monday. Keep checking Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to get the gossip before anyone else. SEE YOU MONDAY! Thea's website has just sent out this message . . . Hope it's a tour and that she is coming nearby . . . . . or a new album but that's seems unlikely somehow . . . . . love these tantalisers!

In case you missed it . . . . . . . like I did and  . . . well just because it's JOHN CALE who is always interesting

LOU'S BIRTHDAY! 2nd March 

Born on this day: March 2, 1942 - Singer, songwriter and musician Lou Reed (born Lewis Allan Reed in Brooklyn, NY). Happy Birthday to this visionary rock icon on what would have been his 75th Birthday.

From perhaps my favourite Lou Reed album the official video of Dirty Boulevard off 'New York' . . . . . . .

Just because  . . . . . . . . . .and you may need to TURN this one UP!!!

NY Public Library acquires complete archives of Lou Reed

NEW YORK — The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has acquired the complete archives of Lou Reed .

The library and Reed’s wife, musician Laurie Anderson, made the announcement Thursday, on what would have been his 75th birthday.

The Lou Reed Archive features paper and electronic records, photos, and about 3,600 audio and 1,300 video recordings.

Anderson says the archive couldn’t be in a better place: “in the heart of the city he loved the best.”

Reed, an aspiring poet, rose to prominence after Andy Warhol encountered his experimental rock band, The Velvet Underground. Warhol produced the band’s first studio album.

The library will host free displays and public programs over the next two weeks to celebrate and showcase Reed’s life and work, and his collection’s new home.

The Associated Press

Lou Reed - Laurie Anderson by Guido Harari

Annie Leibovitz, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, Coney Island, New York, 1995

AGAIN FROM " ON THIS DAY . . . . " from the wonderful Behind The Grooves

On this day in music history: March 2, 1964 - The Beatles begin work on their first film “A Hard Day’s Night” with director Richard Lester at Marylebone Station in London (not Paddington Station as it is often misquoted). Produced by Walter Shenson and released through United Artists Pictures, the film is a semi-fictionalized day in the life of the band written by Alun Owen. Budgeted at a modest £200,000 ($500,000 in today’s currency), the film is shot in black & white and will break new ground in film making with its innovative cinematography, editing and use of music. During the six weeks of filming, other location shooting takes place in at the Thornbury Playing Fields in Isleworth, Middlesex (“Can’t Buy Me Love” sequence), Scala Theatre in Camden (theater performance scenes), West Ealing, London (“Ringo dropping his coat on puddles for a lady to step on” sequence") and the interiors are shot at Twickenham Studios in London. The film is a huge success, grossing over $6 million at the box office in its original theatrical run.

Ongoing series of 'On this day in Music History' favourites and in some cases like this, 'bought when they came out'
from the fabulous

BEHIND THE GROOVES: a music blog by Jeff Harris

On this day in music history: March 1, 1993 - “If Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?”, the debut album by The Cranberries is released. Produced by Stephen Street, it is recorded at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland and Surrey Sound Studios in Leatherhead, Surrey, UK from Mid 1992 - Early 1993. Originally formed in 1989 as The Cranberry Saw Us by brothers Noel (guitar) and Mike Hogan (bass) with their friends Fergal Lawler (drums) and Niall Quinn (vocals), the first line up lasts barely a year before Quinn leaves the band. Advertising in a local newspaper for a new singer, the ad is answered by an aspiring eighteen year old singer named Dolores O'Riordan. Immediately impressed with her voice, O'Riordan is asked to join the band. Changing their name to The Cranberries, with the help of Xeric Studios owner Pearse Gilmore, the band record a three track demo EP. Titled “Nothing Left At All” it is released on cassette, selling a mere 300 copies. The band record a second demo which includes early versions of “Linger” and “Dreams” is sent out to various UK record labels. The demo attracts attention from the UK music press and label executives, touching off a bidding war. The Cranberries are signed to Island Records by legendary A&R man and producer Denny Cordell (Joe Cocker, The Move, Procol Harum, Leon Russell, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) in 1992. After an abortive first start at recording their first album with their manager/producer Gilmore, he is fired and they start over again. They are then paired with producer Stephen Street, best known for his work with The Smiths and Blur. The Cranberries unique sound, combining Celtic influenced melodies with pop, modern rock and topped by Dolores O'Riordan’s immediately distinctive voice, is not an immediate hit with the public. With “Dreams” being released as the first single in September of 1992, it nor the album itself when it’s released six months later to minimal response. “Linger” is issued as the follow up, and it flops also. It’s only after touring as the opening act for Britpop band Suede that it gives The Cranberries the wide exposure they need. When their album is released in the US, it also gets off to a slow start with Island initially shipping only 18,000 copies. “Linger” (#8 Pop) is released a second time and takes off on modern rock, then mainstream pop radio. “Dreams” (#14 Pop Airplay, #42 Pop, #15 Modern Rock) is reissued also, helping propel the album to multi-platinum status and turning the shy young Irish band into unlikely pop stars. It is remastered and reissued in 2002 as “Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can’t We? (The Complete Sessions 1991-1993)”, featuring five additional bonus tracks including remixes and non album B-sides. “If Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?” peaks at number eighteen on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified 5x Platinum in the US by the RIAA.

Always post a Talking Heads song if the possibility arises
Wild Wild Life!

And She was . . . . .

(Nothing But) Flowers

indeed . . . . . . . .stick with it

 . . . .sand in the vaseline 

 . . . . . . this used to be Pizza Hut now it's covered in Daisies!

Albert Speer’s Umspannwerk in Nürnberg has been turned into a Burger King!

Somehow I think David would like this . . . . . I found it quite unnecessarily funny

Slippery People (Live)  . . . what's the matter with him? He's alright. How do you know?


This Must Be The Place

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Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup - That’s All Right, Mama

Notes from found photos . . . . an occasional series while wandering around t'internettie thingiemahbob . . . 

The revolutionary world of Katharina Detzel: Detzel was put in a mental institution in 1907 after supposedly sabotaging a railway line as a political protest. Before the Nazis murdered her in their euthanasia program in 1941, she wrote a play, tried to establish a home for babies, protested against the way the inmates were treated, and created miniature figures out of bread dough she probably chewed herself. Katharina also made a life-sized male doll out of the mattress ticking and straw from her bed, which she’d wrestle when she was angry or dance with when she felt happy. 

from the wonderland that is fellow blogger Jonas Liveröd @ Liverodland