On Nov 1st Zephyr Andre Williams will be 72 years old. Or 74, or 76, or maybe 70.Math isn't Andre's best subject. The first time I heard him was on an R&B station out of Miami when a DJ named Butterball who would come [...]
Andre Williams-- Bacon Fat and other delights....
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Ron Asheton- R.I.P.
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It's Tues. Morning, Jan. 6th, 10 AM NYC time. I just got word from my friend Michelle in Michigan that the great Ron Asheton passed away. Age 60. I'm in total shock. I'm reposting my Oct. Stooges posting because it's got [...]
Halloween part one
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Halloween, like everything else in this city used to be a lot more fun. There were always parties, like the one I saw Steven Kramer (the first artist to show at the Fun Gallery and later a member of the Contortions) fall [...]
TV Movie alert!
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I wanted to mention some stuff I overlooked on my Oct. 1st posting about Turner Classic Movies. Set your timers, tonight TCM is showing a Tod Browning double feature (see older posts: Oct 1st for a nice snapshot of Browning [...]
Hound's Quiz #1
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As an addendum to yesterday's Bill Wyman birthday post, here's the Hound Quiz #1.First correct answer wins my home burned CD: Cocksucker Blues (The Best Of The Un-Issued Rolling Stones 1963-1983) featuring, in my opinion [...]
Bill Wyman- Still Ugly at 72...
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Bill Wyman is 72 years old today. He doesn't look a day over 70. He left the Rolling Stones in 1992, which seems like last week but it was sixteen years ago. Bill Wyman has always fascinated me, like a circus freak or [...]
Rudy Ray Moore 1927-1981
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Rudy Ray Moore died yesterday. He produced and starred in such films as Dolemite, The Human Tornado and Petey Wheatstraw. His entire filmography is here. He also cut dozens of comedy LP's and some great R&B 45's. The [...]
Readin' & Rockin'- Literate Books For Illiterate People
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RETURN TO SENDER With the exceptions of the Fleshtones (1976- present), Wild Jimmy Spruill's Hell Raisers (1955- 1996) and possibly the Jive 5 (1959- 2006) the Senders where the longest running real rock'n'roll band [...]
Nico- Last Of The Ice Cold Inamortas*
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Had she lived, Nico (Christa Pafgen, my typer won't put the umlaut over the a in her last name) would be 70 years old today (Thurs, Oct. 16 no matter what the above post time says). Her history in a coconut shell: She born [...]
All Aboard--- the Night Train!
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The October full moon, some times a "harvest moon" (a full moon right after the fall equinox, we'll see one in 2010) or the "hunter's moon" has always made me a bit nuts. I can feel it pulling on my skull. When I was [...]
What Went Wrong?
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I posted this as a sidebar but here it is again. If you want to pinpoint the moment that caused the collapse of the house of cards that was our banking system (March 28, 2004) check out this video footage courtesy of the New York Times. That's [...]
