I mean how many shows did you see back then that featured a spoons solo!?
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Saturday, July 11, 2026
Split Enz - Sight and Sound Concert - Live 1977 (feat. Spoon Solo!)
Women Bass Players: MOHINI DEY
Do you remember how we were talking about female bass players!? You know after I went banging on about Tal Wilkenfeld with Jeff Beck and we sought out other women bassists?
Well here’s another . . . . . . . . . . she IS Mohini Dey
I like her!
Speaking of the Groobin’ Stooves ( we were honest!)
. . . clippeddy doo-dah!
Ear Worms and One Hit Wonders (revisited) - THE TING TINGS - That's Not My Name (live) x 2
Paramore - Burning Down The House (Talking Heads cover)
Have we had this before? . . . think maybe . . . . . .you know what? It’s Hot and I don’t CARE!
Dr John’s New Orleans Swamp - Soundstage Chicago (Don’s Tunes explores the Voodoo schtick)
Dr. John was session player for Sonny and Cher, Buffalo Springfield, and other pop acts, but he also wanted to make his own music. With other New Orleans transplants, he recorded his first album, Gris-Gris, in 1967. It was named after the term for the charms, amulets, and incantations used by voodoo believers that were meant to fend off evil. As shadowy and murky as the swamps, Gris-Gris — and its centerpiece, eight minutes of eerie, lurking chants called “I Walk on Guilded Splinters” — embodied the way Dr. John took his hometown’s musical heritage to new outer-space dimensions. Dr. John mixed in funk, psychedelia, field hollers, Latin rhythms, and rock & roll, a template that would continue for decades.
While working on the album, Dr. John came up with a plan for his live shows that would transport Mardi Gras to the stage. Working with producer Harold Battiste, he concocted the idea of a “Dr. John,” named after a 19th-century Louisiana voodoo priest and jack-of-all-mystical-trades. “I was just tryin’ to hustle album deals, just tryin’ to hustle money,” he said in 1997. “The Dr. John thing was just a concept, a one-off thing.” Ronnie Barron was supposed to play the character onstage, but when he declined, Rebennack donned the headdresses, feathers, and beads himself. “Nobody else could have done it like he did,” says Aaron Neville. “He brought it to life.”
The persona was even wilder onstage: Someone Dr. John called the Chicken Man would bite off the heads of live poultry while nude dancers paraded around. (In St. Louis, the band was busted and Dr. John, as bandleader, was arrested.) “I was trying not to make him self-conscious by looking at what he was wearing,” says Bonnie Raitt, who saw one of those early shows and later toured with Dr. John. “I hadn’t been exposed to the voodoo side, so I brought a whole lot of ‘whoa’ when I met him.”
Source: David Browne / Rolling Stone

Photo By Barry Feinstein
Friday, July 10, 2026
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
Might sign off the day with this one . . . . a favourite song and I thoroughly enjoyed the cover by the Brothers Comatose. . . . . . see link (below)
"A Thousand Years" Christina Perri featuring a chorus of school children
Black - Wonderful Life
A picture site I visit came up with this blast from the past . . no reason given and frankly I don’t need one either!