Kelly Eldridge Boesch - They Say It’s The Dark

Will sign off with this one from Kelly B

Kelly says: This video and song are about how our society didn’t just drift into cruelty; it made space for it, got comfortable with it, and allowed it to take root. It’s almost the norm now. About how some people have systematically amputated their own empathy. I still have hope that we can drift back into empathy and kindness. I know I am dwelling on this topic but things are feeling scary. The song is called ‘They Say It’s The Dark’

I have used this prompt several times before but have never tried dancing with it. This is one of my favorites. This interesting Picasso feel of these strange masks are so wonderful. So much to see here. VEO3 is so great with animating dancing. It really gets the vibe of the scene. For this video I left in some of the weird ai movements and strange turns as I find they add to the unsettling feeling of the video. How the body sometimes just turns around so smoothly in such an unnatural way. I usually edit these parts out.

Lyrics written by me, Kelly Boesch. Music created under my creative direction with assistance from Suno.

 . . . . . .sweet dreams see you in the morning!

 

Harry Dean Stanton - in a taxi . . .

 . . . . .  Everybody’s Talking  

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/806385264849207296

Nina Hagen - UFO (NUNSEXMONK) | jt1674

  . . . a great album and my favourite of Nina’s (introduced by my brother's and our old friend Jan from Amsterdam! Who ran the Bijenkorf store in their record dept of course - Herman Brood fan! He also played us Uncle Lou's Metal Machine Music when it came out and is a man of discerning taste!!) 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/806444496663543808/nina-hagen-ufo

London Calling A & B . . . . Oi Oi!

 

Jools Holland Suggs - London Calling BBC Two 

{clip featuring Ian Dury}

Someone posted the clip of Ian Diary and Jools and Suggs singing The Guvnor's praises and then I went a’searching on YouTube!

Jools interviews Danny Baker - and including the Ian Dury entry 

OR

London Calling part 1

Ian Dury on ’So It Goes’

Includes 'Bus Driver's Prayer'. Interview by Tony Wilson.

Originally on 'So It Goes'.

Recorded in 1984 from' 'The Way They Were' on Channel 4.

Jools and Suggs Oranges and Lemons again

R.L. Burnside - Jumper on The Line [Mississippi Hill Country Blues] | Herberg De Kelder

Jumper On The Line

r.l burnside “jumper on the line” (mississippi hill country blues)

HERBERG DE KELDER

Jan. 21, 1970 - Timothy Leary Sentenced

 

Jan. 21, 1970 - Timothy Leary Sentenced to 10 Years for Two Roaches

After experimenting with LSD in the early 1960s, Harvard psychology professor Timothy Leary experienced a spiritual awakening and became an unlikely icon of the counterculture. Preaching to the nation's youth to "tune in, turn on, and drop out," the so-called "High Priest of LSD" was the de facto poster boy for the psychedelic revolution—and "the most dangerous man in America" according to President Richard Nixon. But it wasn't LSD that eventually led to the guru's imprisonment—it was actually just a small amount of weed. 

Leary was busted for marijuana possession twice—first in Laredo Texas on December 23, 1965, for five ounces, then again on December 26, 1968, in Laguna Beach, California for just two roaches in the ashtray of his car. He was convicted both times: in the first case, he was sentenced to 30 years, but appealed the conviction and had it overturned by the Supreme Court (only to be retried for it in December 1969 and sentenced to 10 years); for the second case, he was sentenced to another 10 years...on this very day in 1970. 

Leary would likely have had to serve the full 20 years had he not been broken out of prison with the help of his friends in The Brotherhood of Eternal Love.

my guru 

"Consolation" - Rosinha de Valencia - 1966.

After the guitar of Ralph Towner to mark his passing I found this  . . . on Flackennaheck! 

"Consolation" with the incomparable Rosinha de Valencia, live in 1966.

Remembering Garth Hudson (August 2, 1937 – January 21, 2025)

A multi-instrumentalist, a key element in the recordings and arrangements that defined The Band as essential forebears of the Americana genre, and a man with a distinctly large physical presence, he also happened to be the only member of the group who didn’t contribute vocals. Content to reside in the background, he was equally reticent to do interviews.

“It was a job,” Hudson once of his said of his efforts with The Band in a 2002 interview with the Canadian magazine Maclean’s. “Play a stadium, play a theater. My job was to provide arrangements with pads underneath, pads and fills behind good poets. Same poems every night.”

That statement offered yet another example of the understated honesty and humility with which Hudson approached his work. His bandmate Levon Helm once told producer John Simon that “The Band wouldn’t be The Band without him.”

Simon, who produced The Band’s early efforts, once said in an interview with the Toronto Star, that Hudson was the “wild card” that made Music From Big Pink a favorite of such superstars as Eric Clapton and George Harrison.“Garth was essentially a colourist,” he continued. “He had an incredible palette.”

Lee Zimmerman / Rock n Roll Globe 

Photo: The Estate Of David Gahr

Neil Young - Four Strong Winds

 Just because . . . . . . .well Neil

We’re in the business of what . . . . .

Think we need an uplifting message from Snoops!