I really love these clips of Ike Turner and a few of the Kings Of Rhythm.For more on Ike, I did a post on him last year (her [...]
James Luther Dickinson 2
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A Young Jim Dickinson (is this an Eggelston photo?)Video for Down In MississippiMuscle Shoals, 1969, listening to the playback of Wild Horses, Dickinson is seated to Keith's left on the couch.As an addendum to Aug. 18th's [...]
Gillian's Found Photo #23
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This week the Fang comes up with a photo from a collection of Polaroids taken at Stevensville Prison, which I think is in Maryland. Polaroids are popular in prisons, getting a good photo of yourself with a big time shot [...]
Why Blues Singers Should Be Named After Presidents....
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I don't have anything to say today, except blues singers were better when they named 'em after presidents--- as seen above, we have Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield)and Howlin' Wolf (Chester Arthur Burnett). If you plan on raising a blues singer, [...]
Larry Knechtel Dies
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Larry Knetchal 1940-2009 Kip Tyler- Will His Story Ever Be Told?Studio keyboard player and bassist Larry Knetchal died of a heart attack last week. Knechtel was a member [...]
Bobby Lee Trammell
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How come no one makes a scanner that fits a 12 x 12 LP? Bobby Lee Trammell rocks out. Bobby Lee Trammel, 1958.Bobby Lee Trammell (b. Jan. 31, 1934) was crazy. [...]
James Luther Dickinson
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James Luther ("Jim") Dickinson died last Saturday (Aug. 15) of a heart attack. His loss to the world of rock'n'roll cannot be understated. He was one of a kind. The good kind. He was born in the countryside outside [...]
Les Paul
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Les Paul died yesterday, age 94. It seems for as long as I remember he held down a Monday night gig someplace in NYC, I saw him many times, he was always great. I love his old Capitol records with Mary Ford, they sound [...]
Gillian's Found Photo #22
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It's July '57 and according to the scribble on the back of this photo it's Elvis Presley night at the Variety Show at Kingsway, so says David, whoever that is. Can anyone identify the hot boppin' hepcat in the white bucks? [...]
It's A Nugget If You Dug It....
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I've always loved the Music Machine's Talk Talk, dig those get ups!From the TAMI Show, the Barbarians featuring Moulty.The Count Five's Psychotic Reaction- When this came out we thought it was a new Yardbirds record....The Preachers version of Who Do [...]
David Marks- The Forgotten Beach Boy
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The Beach Boys say goodbye to David Marks, 1963... David Marks: Lost Beach BoyPlaying rhythm guitar is a noble but unglamorous job. But even for such an unheralded job, David Marks, one of rock'n'roll's greatest rhythm [...]
The Yardbirds
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For your, well actually, my viewing pleasure I present Yardbirds footage that either I've never seen before (from European TV) or haven't seen since I was a tyke. I got bored today and put Yardbirds into the YouTube search box and sure enough there's [...]
Gillian's Found Photo #21
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Not exactly a found photo this week, more like a donated pic we just love. The photographer is the famed Kate Simon, and the subject is the spawn of U.K. glam rockAlvin Stardust, about whom I know almost nothing and [...]
Johnnie Ray- The Little White Queer That Cried
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Johnnie Ray in a rather peculiar publicity photo. Detail from 10 Inch LP That Doesn't Quite Fit In My Scanner Early TV Appearence Johnnie Ray and Fats Domino-- What Did They [...]
