I've watched you from deep behind Norman's cowardly eyes, struggling to have everything you want while the world tries to make you choose. Gods don't have to choose. We take.
What acts did The Stones work with or saw perform on the Chitlin Circuit ? Who was there and how did they get on that ?
The Rolling Stones, in the early days, toured with a lot Black acts and musicians, including Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, the Vibrations, Little Richard, the Ronettes, Inez and Charlie Foxx, and so many more! You gotta understand, they were strictly a blues band at that time, they weren’t a rock & roll band. They did covers of various blues/r&b records and they also frequently recorded at Chess Records in Chicago where people like Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry would record their music as well! Keith Richards talked about this a lot in his book, like when the Stones first got to America in the early 1960s, the hostility they faced was all from white people. The only people who ever looked out for them were Black. I guess because they were so different (they’re English, they wore their hair long, they sang r&b, and didn’t understand race relations/segregation laws in America) so, there was that connection to Black people as being outsiders and also why white people would fuck with them a lot. I guess that’s why during their later tours they kind of paid it forward and had up-and-coming Black performers open for them like the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, Prince and others!
As I still have quite a few birds songs on my list and you guys added several more last week, for which I’m very grateful, I thought I’d go round again with this theme. I’m actually playing six songs this week: the first one is a kind of joke, so I’m not counting it towards the weekly quota of five. My blog, my rules, OK? Let’s get started with that laugh, shall we:
Tom Lehrer is now 95, having…
WHY ARE THEY MAKING A SEQUEL TO "HORRIBLE BOSSES"?
For the record, the title of this blog is meant to be a rhetorical question, because I already know the answer of why they’re doing it. They’re doing it because, according to Box Office Mojo, the first film only cost $35 million to make and it earned over $117 million. So, BOOM! There you go. The studio’s thought is: hey it worked once, so let’s do it again!
Now I know this is the part where I’m…