Lou Reed 1983 - Back To Back - #1: In 1980, Lou reed stopped touring for almost 3 years, spending time instead in the studio working on 2 albums, The Blue Mask and Legendary Hearts. While neither cracked the top 150 on the Billboard charts, both received rave critical reviews, with the Robert Christgau, for example, giving each an ‘A' rating. Reed finally returned to the stage in early 1983, touring in support of both discs. As part of that tour, he played 4 dates at the legendary Bottom Line nightclub in New York in late February/early March 1983, performing 2 shows each night. Tickets were just $12.50. This soundboard recording captures the soundcheck and early show from the opening night of the run, on February 25, 1983,
43 years ago today. Download this one, then for part 2 of this Back To Back set. below
Lou Reed 1983 - Back To Back - #2: As promised earlier today, here's part 2 of our Back to Back set featuring Lou Reed at the Bottom Line in 1983. This one is a soundboard recording of the late show on February 25, 1983, 43 years ago today.
Trad arr is what we are talking . . .did I first hear this by Josh White? Doc Watson?Woody Guthrie maybe? Even the Delmore Brothers possibly? . . . . someone like that but here Billy nails it (minus any yodelling!)
Zero G hat gesacht: Equipped with a band full of instruments operated by various parts of his anatomy, Bay Area legend Jesse Fuller was a folk music favorite in the '50s and '60s. His infectious rhythm and gentle charm graced old folk tunes, spirituals, and blues alike. One of his inventions was a homemade foot-operated instrument called the "footdella" or "fotdella." Naturally, Fuller never needed other accompanists to back his one-man show. His best-known songs include "San Francisco Bay Blues" and "Beat It on Down the Line" (the first one covered by Janis Joplin, the second by The Grateful Dead).
Born and raised in Georgia, Jesse Fuller began playing guitar when he was a child, although he didn't pursue the instrument seriously. In his early twenties, Fuller wandered around the southern and western regions of the United States, eventually settling down in Los Angeles. While he was in Southern California he worked as a film extra, appearing in The Thief of Bagdad, East of Suez, Hearts in Dixie, and End of the World. After spending a few years in Los Angeles, Fuller moved to San Francisco. While he worked various odd jobs around the Bay Area, he played on street corners and parties.
Fuller's musical career didn't properly begin until the early '50s, when he decided to become a professional musician - he was 55 years old at the time. Performing as a one-man band, he began to get spots on local television shows and nightclubs. However, Fuller's career didn't take off until 1954, when he wrote "San Francisco Bay Blues." The song helped him land a record contract with the independent Cavalier label, and in 1955 he recorded his first album, Folk Blues: Working on the Railroad with Jesse Fuller. The album was a success and soon he was making records for a variety of labels, including Good Time Jazz and Prestige. ´
In the late '50s and early '60s Jesse Fuller became one of the key figures of the blues revival, helping bring the music to a new, younger audience. Throughout the '60s and '70s he toured America and Europe, appearing at numerous blues and folk festivals, as well as countless coffeehouse gigs across the U.S. Fuller continued performing and recording until his death in 1976.
Tracklist:
1
Move On Down The Line
2
Stealing
3
Ninety-Nine Years And One Dark Day
4
Animal Fair
5
Sleeping In The Midnight Cold
6
Stagolee
7
Bill Bailey
8
San Francisco Bay Blues
9
Crazy Waltz
10
Railroad Worksong
11
Meet My Loving Mother
12
I Love My Baby
13
Tune (Creole Love Call)
14
Running Wild
15
Stranger Blues
16
Hanging Around A Skin Game
17
The Monkey & The Engineer
18
Buck Dancer's Jump
Another great blues hero in Jesse Fuller and once I’d heard San Francisco Bay Blues I was gone! I think my brother Steve turned me onto him . . . . .love that sound fotdellah and all to boot (sic)
General Nuisance: The comical medal borrowing behind Donald Trump’s year-book photo
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One wonders whether the fresh-faced, slightly gormless-looking young man in the photo taken of Donald Trump for his New York Military Academy yearbook in 1964 could have turned out any differently. It’s a nice fantasy, but probably not.
After all, he was a frighteningly rich person even at such a tender age. He’d been simultaneously coddled and bullied by his family and was, most of all, a white man in the early 1960s. We’d all like to believe that we can rise above our stations and become more than the surroundings we grew up in, but that takes integrity, intelligence and determination. Looking at the school days of the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America, we can see that they never had those attributes to any degree that mattered.
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You might be surprised to hear that, especially due to his being enrolled at the New York Military Academy. Not an institution known for going easy on its pupils, right? Surely there must be something there that speaks to some strength of character? Well, you’d be surprised. After all, the only reason he was there was because his dad got sick of how much he was slacking off at his previous schools and then discovered his collection of switchblades. He wasn’t an actual tough-nut or anything; he just really loved West Side Story.
So, the young Donald was packed off to NYMA and… basically continued dossing about and caring more about baseball than any of his actual classes. If you ask him, he was a prodigy at America’s pastime, impressing all who watched him and being scouted by Major League Teams. I don’t want to blow your mind too much, but there may be reason to believe that Donald Trump may be, perish the thought, telling a few lies here.
I know, an absolutely bananas idea, but hear me out here.
(Credits: NYMA)
Was Donald Trump a nightmare in high school, too?
It makes a lot of analysis of Trump’s school days quite difficult, as the biggest source we have on them is Donald Trump himself. A man who has the same relationship to the truth as a butcher has to a pig. He will take it, kill it, then carve it up into something unrecognisable from its original form, yet a lot more digestible to the rubes willing to give him money for it. One of the few things we do know about his time in NYMA is, as a matter of fact, his baseball records.
It turns out that, far from the generational talent he claimed to be, he was pretty mediocre. This seems to stem from the rest of his time in education. Nothing all that special, nothing all that dire. Probably speaks to a mind that could have been pretty good had he actually tried, but couldn’t be fucked too. Much easier to just try and charm, bribe or in some cases, outright bully his peers or teachers to get where he wanted to be.
There’s a very telling detail of this in that very yearbook photo this article began by discussing. In amongst the ears, the sash and the immaculately coiffed hair, you’ll see a number of medals pinned to his chest. Being a military school, these are medals handed out for academic and sporting excellence, along with excellence in conduct. Donald Trump didn’t earn any of these medals. Instead, he borrowed them from a friend of his.
Then, infamously, the fraud went from military school to draft dodging. He really did start as he meant to go on, didn’t he?
