The Farren send off-affair (affray?), since his death last August from a stroke whilst doing a lead singing gig with his band The Deviants,at a club in London, could last for days,with hundreds of his friends gathering to rejoice in having known him.
If I could buy your love, I’d truly try, my friend, And if I could pray, my prayer would never end, But if you want me to beg, I’ll fall down on my knees, Asking for you to come back, I’d be pleading for you to come back, Begging for you to come back to me
His die was caste. Bar rooms and heartbreak, loneliness and whiskey
There was a musical memorial for Stanley on June 2nd and my friend Richard Davis was among those who paid his respects in a room full of movers and shakers
Not just the essence of rock and roll but the essence of rock and roll as an art form, Marianne released herself and us from these earthly bonds as we all became highway stars shining forever.
“Georgy Girl”, “The Carnival Is Over”, ” There will Never Be Another You”, show me another band with this sort of pedigree, indeed, show me another folk band so effortless great in distilling pop to folk and vice versa and i will show you Peter, Paul And Mary
They got their band sound from the keyboards, it is still their most distinctive element and it is the break on “Fire” that made Morrison a superstar sex symbol. Also, with those sideburns and shades, Ray was an important visual element.
Foley played in small Austin bars, when they weren’t banning him due to drunkenness, and lived in a car. He released a few singles in his life, but album releases were never meant to be – master tapes were continually lost or stolen.
“Are you sure he doesn’t know you are filming him?” asks the C.I.A. man as Davey breaks into the old shoe shuffle and a dynamic version of Stephen Foster’s “Old Folks Home”.
We as a species were robbed of such a bright and beautiful human force of hope and goodness and creative power, I can’t help but be struck by the ultimate tragedy of a man who gave the rest of us so much.
RIP Ravi, a good life, I hope you come back as a musician again.
Just as Bebop and Bird came and never flew the coup, so Dave Brubeck’s take continues to wash down smoothly 50 some odd years afterward; enduring each and every everyman and woman’s jazz cocktail “happy” hour, no worse for the extended play.
There is a reason why Lennon is bigger than the Beatles, bigger than anybody, why he is still adored and the compassion of songs like “Instant Karma”, “Give Peace A Chance” and the Universal good will of the statement. The great secret of live is either everything has a soul and is therefore good enough or nothing has a soul and is therefore good enough.
Look at it this way: 6 million years have gone by without your consciousness, and 6 million more will go by without your consciousness. For fuck’s sake tough it out for the 100 years you are conscious
Get your head out of the marijuana patch and into the bottomless pit of Jack Daniels and find yourself in an airconditioned motel room, your body a shaking wrecked as you tilt the medicine deep inside and sleep thru days after days and you will playing frisbie with “One Of These Nights” and turning to the Raymond Chandler of rock
So while six year old girls die all day long, we don’t know about it. But we know about this one, we got a sense of this lively lovely girl Alanna Routh, and that youngsters loss feels terrible. It sucks.
Previously unheard songs recorded by late rocker Ian Dury are to be released alongside a book filled with the singer/songwriter’s scrawled notes and photographs.
That’s what William achieved in his career. A kid from Iowa, who made a career by being sincere, self-effacing, in himself and in his songs. Williams died last month at the age of 84
Yeah, Salaam [Remi who worked on ‘Back to Black’] worked on her last album, and they were working. We don’t even have an explanation for how it happened. It was just magic. It just happened. It was supposed to happen. She made it happen.
The year was 1985 and I was depressed. Deeply. Due to a combination of a lack of resources and a lack of imagination, I chose a stint in the United States military as my post high school launching point…
He was a professional lyricist and if you want to see how difficult that is, check out Costello laboring on “Toledo”. It isn’t easy and while it is an art it is equally an art and a business.
Jazz was 18, Lola 16 when he died and they were both devastated. It took Jazz years for the loss to sink in, and she reacted with panic attacks, Lola went into an immediate depression. “But you get over it…”
Let’s go back to an English summer 35 years(!) ago. It’s 1977 and the band is on its “Deceptive Bends” tour. During the course of three June dates at the Odeon Theatre Hammersmith in London, and two nights at the Apollo Theatre in Manchester,
Brian Jones remains the tragedy at the center of their history, like a warning beacon of the effects of hardcore drug use. Firstly, he was the Stones leader, second he was the most uniquely gifted of all the musicians (yes, even Watts) and finally he got all the hottest girls. If Brian wasn’t so drugged up, Keith would have never nailed Anita.
Really, of all the slow malingering deaths, this one sucks so bad. All you have is memories, how cruelly indifferent can nature be, to rob them from people. Terribly sad, really. Glen, like so many of us, went through the lot on his road to redemption, and Alzheimer doesn’t take it for us, it takes it from him
the assumption is we would be getting the Buckingham/Nicks Mac to the exclusion of just about everything else but no, even with Best coast doing “Rhiannon”. this bunch of covers digs deeper
As Alyson wrote of yesterrday, Coldplay tributed MCA. The difference here is our opinions of the action. I didn't know if i should laugh or cry when I saw this.
As the Boys once stated, “It’s not how you play the game, it’s how you win it.” The Beastie Boys were pioneers that fearlessly popularized a new style of music and continuously explored new avenues of creative expression
I mean how can Chris Martin play this song this way whereas it was supposed to be a joke filled with rap gimmicks, rowdiness, disrespect and cream pies in everyone’s face? It’s an ode to having fun for the sake of it, it’s a paaaaarty song and Martin wants to make you cry with it?
I remember three things about first show…cindy came back and wore a silver turban. Studying fred playing the glockenspiel and getting goosebumps hearing private idaho live.”
There is a little of what killed Amy in all of us, certainly in Lily. Lily came out the other side, maybe it is safe for her to return to the limelight again.
Where’s parity when common sense lags alongside of disparity?
‘Bono and The Edge came up to bore the shit out of everyone’
Nickelback, Steven Tyler, Wolfmother, Daughtry, Filter and more
for a good cause as the proceeds benefit the Johnny Ramone Research Fund at USC Westside Prostate Cancer Research Center.
I love Armstrong because when I listen to Coltrane and Mingus and Brubeck and Marsalis today and Ellington… they feel so above me. I don’t feel that way about Armstrong. He is me.
