#Mtv's LED ZEPPELIN Weekend

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔏𝔢𝔡 ℨ𝔢𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔫

[anitosoul]

tripreport.008: Pinecore

What’s that coming from the woods? 🪓

Key Pinecore Inspirations:

Frank Ocean – Endless (Visual Album)

David Lynch – Twin Peaks (TV Show) / Fire Walk With Me (Film)

Wim Wenders – Paris, Texas (Film)

Blues, folk, country, classic rock (Music Genre)

Cowpunk (Music Genre)

Nirvana – MTV Unplugged (Album)

Specifically, “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” (Song)

The Last of Us Pt II (Video Game)

Meat Puppets (Music Artist)

Time Crisis (Internet Radio Show)

Kurt Cobain (Music Artist)

Daniel Quinn – Ishmael (Book)

Blackbird Spyplane (Newsletter)

Peter Wohlleben – The Hidden Life of Trees (Book)

DIY Construction (Activity)

Antlers, Oklahoma (Town)

@organiclab.zip (Instagram Account)

Evergreen and brown (Colors)

Pinecore Tracklist A-Side: Fog

Angelo Badalamenti – Twin Peaks Main Theme (1990)

Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine (1971)

Joanne Shaw Taylor – Summertime (2016)

B.B. King – Chains and Things (1970)

Chris Stapleton – Whiskey Sunrise (2020)

Buddy Guy, Mick Jagger – Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) (1973)

Khruangbin – Father Bird, Mother Bird (2020)

Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman (1968)

The Cactus Blossoms – Powder Blue (2016)

Fleetwood Mac – Gold Dust Woman (1977)

The Mamas & The Papas – California Dreamin’ (1966)

Grateful Dead – Me & My Uncle (Live at Fillmore East, New York 1971)

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Mary Jane’s Last Dance (1993)

The Quakes – Paint It Black (1990)

Pinecore Tracklist B-Side: Dusk

Buck Owens – I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail (1964)

The Reverend Horton Heat – Marijuana (1990)

Led Zeppelin – Dazed and Confused (1969)

Meat Puppets – Lake of Fire (1984)

The Meteors – Into the Darkness (1981)

The Gun Club – A Devil in the Woods (1982)

The Cramps – I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1980)

Kurt Cobain – Burn the Rain (some time in the 1990s)

Woody Guthrie – Buffalo Skinners (1945)

Blood on the Saddle – Endless Highway (1987)

Ry Cooder – Paris, Texas (1984)

Nirvana – Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (1994)

Frank Ocean – Higgs (2016)

Gustavo Santaolalla – Longing (from “The Last of Us Pt II”) (2020)

My lifestyle at the beginning of the year was entirely opposite of my lifestyle at the end of year: I ended 2021 living in downtown Manhattan, a city of 8.4 million people, but I began 2021 living at home in Tulsa with my dad, spending every weekend working on an A-frame cabin in Moyers, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community with a population of 451 (453 when my dad and I were there, I guess).

My entire life centered around construction, being in the woods, driving my dad’s truck, listening to guitar music, and solitude. In my downtime I watched the entirety of Twin Peaks, which was a major inspiration for the vibe of Pinecore. My life kind of felt like a combination of Twin Peaks and King of the Hill: the closest real town to the cabin was Antlers, Oklahoma, the “deer capital of the world.” The town coffee shop was called Tipp’s Sacred Grounds, and the rotating cast of visitors (local older Oklahoman couples, jaded teenage employees, the suspiciously overly-friendly owner, random European tourists who decided lockdown was the best time to do a road trip through middle America, etc.) were reminiscent of the bizarre characters and relationships in both of those shows.

Pinecore was inspired by the eerie discomfort I would feel sleeping in the woods at night, the silence highlighting every noise in a mile radius. It wasn’t scary per se, but felt more like a primal fear. It’s a mirror version of the bright, saccharine sounds of indie folk; basically, it’s evil Fleet Foxes. The sound of Pinecore is an amalgamation of country, blues, classic rock, and “cowpunk” (or country punk), which was one of my favorite music genre discoveries of this year. I would listen to these genres all day as I hammered and drilled and lifted and sawed planks of wood. My dad and I had been working for about a month and finally put up the A-frames, sealing the achievement of erecting the structure of the cabin.

The song that best encapsulates the feelings of Pinecore is Nirvana’s cover of “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” from their MTV Unplugged session. Throughout January I was surrounded by tall pine trees in the dead of winter, away from civilization. Given the world events like pandemic and like the storming of the U.S. Capitol, life felt pretty apocalyptic. Spending time in the woods building a home with my dad gave my life a tangible purpose despite its simplicity; it was a reprieve from the chaos of the world. The ominous, deep-seated fear of the woods was more natural and preferable to the disorienting dread of what was happening everywhere else.

[zosociologist]

"Dating Saul Hudson/(Slash⚡) Would be Like..." Headcannon

(a/n: written w/ a black reader in mind; Likes/COMMENTS/reblogs are much obliged)

It is what it is. You both are pretty big shit and very important people.

Aside from Slash being the guitarist of GnR, you aren't just "someone he was seeing".

You are an actor and you've starred in countless award winning movies and tv shows, many of which Slash has seen and very much enjoyed!

He crossed paths with you in the pet store as you were both getting food for your respective pets.

He found it bitchin' that you have a pet tarantula named "Citrus".

You two IMMEDIATELY hit it off like you were highschool friends catching up on life.

Your relationship is filled with playfulness and a sense of long lost friendship AND EVERYONE RAVES ABOUT IT BECAUSE OF HOW FUCKING CUTE YOU BOTH ARE UNINTENTIONALLY!

Slash is all for PDA because "Even the most badass of people, need love too."

He "borrows" your shit A LOT and keeps them for weeks at a time😩

Stole your special Robert Plant signed limited edition Led Zeppelin shirt once and played dumb when you went looking for it. It randomly appeared again in your drawer a month later and you didn't put 2 and 2 together until you saw Slash on tv wearing it during an MTV interview.

Mutual roastings of each other on the daily😂

He has his hat and you have a beret collection and he FLAMES THE FUCK OUT OF YOU FOR IT!!!!

"Saul leave me and my berets alone!" "But they're so flat and like......not cool-" "Bitch YOU'RE not cool. Give me my choker back!😭" *proceeds to move his hand towards your neck* "NOT THAT ONE!!!!"

You LOVE watching films together; on Friday nights when neither of you are busy, you both run over to the Blockbuster close to your house and play around looking for movies to binge all weekend. He picks the action and adventure films and you pick the horror films (you were the one who actually got him into horror and things of that nature😝)

He lets you play with and braid his hair down while you're watching stuff together, he won't admit it but it soothes him and puts him right to sleep.

Which brings us to the BIG EVENT...........WASH DAAAAYYYSSSSS!!!!!✨✨✨

You both actually look forward to doing wash days together! Slash more than anything because he likes to see what techniques and products you use to acquire maximum volume and curls✨

Slash actually has MORE hair products than you do and you more often than not, make off with it, but it's okay because he has enough to go around and he believes in healthy hair😊 (we stan a king that advocates for hair care✨)

Sometimes it takes 12 solid hours for you both to get your shit done but you like to get in the shower together when you wash/rinse your hair to save time.........and for other reasons(; BUT MOSTLY TO SAVE TIME👀👉👈

Most of the day consists of the both of you walking around the house in your underwear and nothing else except for the towel wrapped around y'alls heads but that's about it!

90% of y'alls relationship is based around Slash not wearing a shirt around the house and you've come to terms with that.

Your moral support is OFF THE CHARTS!

Whenever Guns n' Roses performs you always get tickets especially if the tour stop lines up with your schedule for a filming location! Everyone fucks with you, you're down to earth and even kick it with the roadies sometimes (especially if they've got good weed amirite fellas😁)

Out of the boys in GnR you're cool with all of them but closest to Steven because you set him up with one of your co-stars, and Duff because you gave him a bass guitar that he really wanted from a film you were in that the Property Master was just gonna throw away.

Slash enjoys surprising you while you're working as well! He loves to watch you in action, kicking ass at your roles and truly watching you be skilled in something you enjoy💕

It lowkey gets him riled up😏

He begs you to act out your lines at home because he literally enjoys seeing you turn into a whole new person and then shift back to normal, then he fanboys a little😂

"Holy fucking shit Y/N is rehearsing in my fucking bedroom-"

You cut him off with a kiss and then BOOM. Roleplay sex😃!

One thing you love doing is laying in the middle of your living room floor and playing old blues albums with him, y'all are just laid out vibing together.

Sometimes you smoke green for elevated affect, sometimes you don't but either way it's a very intimate experience.

It leads to deep conversations that can span from the night into the early morning, you both talk about success, goals, fears, inspirations, literally any and everything.

When it comes to celebrity couples you two are by far a fan favorite.

The chemistry is undeniable and you both have that sense of solidarity in similarities that keep you both strong whenever it comes to dealing with news from unwanted press or whomever has unintelligible shit to say.

You both just DO NOT give a fuck, and it's one of the most admirable things about the both of you to others💯

And it's fucking WHOLESOME and it's sweet💜

Y'ALL CUTE AS FUCK. PERIOD.

[jswdmb1]

Time

“And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.  No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.”

- Pink Floyd

I still owe you that playlist from 1971 and I promise that it is finally coming later today.  It’s been delayed because, like almost anything that I do, it has turned into a much larger project with questionable value.  Nevertheless, I am going to share the results with you because, after all, this blog is “the biggest waste of time on the internet” and why not keep within the spirit of that slogan?

The project got big because I realized while listing to last week’s Saturday Morning Flashback of 1971 that I had a book on the music of that year.  It goes chronologically through the year by month to build a case that it was the year that defined rock music for the ages.  That statement is certainly debatable, but that is not what got me sidetracked.  Rather, a comment by the author that the start of the decade that we know as the seventies really started in 1971 and not in 1970.  Lots of examples are given, but the one that sticks out is that the Beatles officially broke up on New Year’s Eve 1970 when Paul had his lawyer send a letter to the other three that it was all over.  The argument is that act officially ended the pop era of the sixties and started a new wave of rock with bands such as Led Zeppelin who defined what we call “classic” rock today.  Again, debatable and not my point here, but it did make me curious about when a decade really begins and ends and whether we even have decades anymore after the new millennium began.

As for the first point, logic dictates that a new decade cannot start until the previous one ends.  We have been led to believe that the third number of the year drives a decade (e.g., any year falling within 197x is “the seventies”) but I say that is a fallacy.  Why you ask?  Well, go back to year zero.  The B.C.s ended (wonder if they made a big deal about it like we did for Y2K?) and the A.D.s began.  A decade = ten years, so that first decade of the first millennium didn’t end until the end of year 10 A.D.  Roll that forward a couple thousand years and the math plays out to say that 1970 was the last year of the sixties, 1980 belongs to the seventies, and so on.

Before I go much further, do now you see how I don’t get anything done.  Who sits around and thinks like this?  And this is with me taking all my meds!

Anyway, if we firmly establish 1971 as the start of the seventies, then 1981 would naturally be the start of the eighties.  What evidence, though, supports that beyond just adding 1971 and 10?  Well, WXRT just happened to select 1981 for this week’s flashback this morning and the music made a strong case for a true start to the eighties happening in that year.  Debut albums by the Go-Go’s and Stray Cats went along side early U2 along with Rolling Stones singing “Start Me Up”.  Lots of other iconic eighties music came out that year including albums by the Police, Genesis (and Phil Collins solo), Van Halen, Journey, Foreigner, Hall & Oates...and on and on.  I think that would be enough to back the claim, but I offer two other pieces of evidence.  First, Ronald Reagan took office on January 20, 1981.  With his swearing in, the American hostages in Iran were released and two depressing symbols of the seventies were ushered out (the other being Jimmy Carter).  It’s pretty much a universal truth that Reagan personifies the eighties so this makes a lot of sense (if I say so myself).  Second, 1981 was the birth of MTV.  MTV not only changed music but pop culture.  If Reagan isn’t the best symbol of the eighties, then MTV certainly has to take that spot.  

As I thought about it, 1981 made an even better case than 1971 for getting a new decade rolling musically and otherwise.  That made me decide to go one step further and check out the music of 1991 again.  Now, I have always considered 1990 as part of the eighties since that was the year that I graduated high school.  I never think of any of my time in high school as anything but the eighties and for me that is an absolute truth.  Still, I wanted to test my hypothesis into the third decade for which I have been alive to see if the music also signified a cultural shift into a new decade.  My research netted plenty of evidence that says yes but I’ll give you four albums that leave no doubt.  The first two are without argument the defining records of grunge in a decade that is musically known more for that than anything else.  I am speaking of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Pearl Jam’s “Ten” which both came out that year.  The other two albums were REM’s “Out of Time” and U2′s “Achtung Baby”.  While both of those bands emerged in the 80′s and were plenty big then, these two albums moved them both into superstar status and probably represent their finest work.  Whether you agree with that last part or not, there is no doubt that the impression left by both records on pop music was indelable and shaped the sound of the decade.

While none of this is scientific, I went ahead and created three playlists, one for each year, so that you can judge for yourself.  Actually, mashing the three years together makes for a really great mix of music as each year produced amazing music from some of the best artists of our generation(s).  You may ask where my playlist for 2001 is, and my answer would be that there is no need for one because we stopped living a decade at a time after the nineties were over.  To me, every year since is just part of the new millennium and the eighteen or so years since Y2K have just blended into one weird era.  Part of it is because it’s hard to say (the aughts?  the 00′s?  both sound stupid).  I think the other part though is time moves too fast to get overly nostalgic about a group of 10 years anymore. Think about how long ago it seems that you didn’t have a smart phone, or social media.  Doesn’t it seem like more than a decade ago that people still talked to each other?  Remember when you didn’t wake up to a new scandal every morning?  None of that was very long ago in time and yet it is hard to define when things changed.  Don’t even ask me to figure it out from a musical perspective.  My finger left the pulse of that scene well before the millennium started, but I still cannot define any distinguishing sound between “the aughts” and whatever we are calling this hot mess of a decade (I like the “teen years” since it’s about as disastrous as mine were).  However it adds up, I just don’t care anymore about decades, so my 1991 playlist is the last you’ll get from me.

If you have actually read this whole post through to this point, I really applaud you.  You clearly enjoy wasting time as much as I do and I don’t think you could find a better way to do it.  The next step is for you to listen to the playlists and run off on your own with this goofy tangent of my mind.  I will release them one at a time over the next few days from my sister “Dear Mr. Fantasy” blog.  There will be links through those posts to the actual music that I have created for you on Spotify (I am an avid Apple Music user, but I know how people feel about actually paying for content so enjoy your free music over on Spotify you mooch).  Each list contains 40 songs and i tried not to repeat any artists.  As such, it is not a “best of” list of each year but rather an attempt to be an illustration of how I think the music represented the start of each respective decade.  I have taken the time to order them in a manner that I like, but certainly shuffling through those is fine too.  I would also recommend doing a mash up of all three years at some point.  I am listening to that as I write this and it has produced some real gems (last three songs: “Genius of Love” by Tom Tom Club, “I’ve Been Waiting” by Matthew Sweet, and a cover of “Proud Mary” by Ike & Tina Turner.)

So happy listening everyone.  I would also wish you a happy weekend, but I have another post coming tomorrow.  Whether you asked for it or not, I am feeling quite full of crap lately and have a lot to share.  Until then, let the music play.

Cheers,

Jim

[brn1029]

this date in Music History

August 10th

1959 - The Platters

Four members of The Platters were arrested after a gig in Cincinnati after being found with four 19 year old women, (3 of them white), in various stages of undress. The scandal resulted in radio stations across the US removing Platters records from their playlists.

1961 - Helen Shapiro

Helen Shapiro was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You Don't Know'. Aged 14, Shapiro became the youngest act ever to score a UK No.1.

1963 - Stevie Wonder

13 year-old Little Stevie Wonder started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Fingertips part II', making him the youngest singer to top the charts.

1963 - Richmond Jazz Festival

Acker Bilk, Chris Barber, Ronnie Ross, Cyril Davies, Long John Baldry and The Rolling Stones all appeared at the third Richmond Jazz Festival held over two days in Richmond, England. A weekend ticket cost 20 shillings.

1964 - Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger was fined £32 in Liverpool for driving without insurance and breaking the speed limit. His solicitor explained that Jagger was on 'an errand of mercy', driving to see two fans injured in a car crash.

1968 - Tom Jones

Tom Jones went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Delilah'.

1969 - Led Zeppelin

During a North American tour, Led Zeppelin appeared at the San Diego Sports Arena. Jethro Tull were the support act.

1970 - Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley played the first night of a four-week engagement, playing 2 shows most nights at The International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

1972 - Paul McCartney

During their Wings Over Europe Tour, Paul and Linda McCartney were arrested in Sweden for possession of drugs. McCartney joked the arrest would “make good publicity” for the tour.

1976 - Elton John

Elton John played the first of ten sold out nights at Madison Sq. Gardens in New York City. The $1.25 million generated from the shows broke the record set by The Rolling Stones in 1975.

1985 - Bryan Adams

Canadian singer, guitarist Bryan Adams scored his first US No.1 album with 'Reckless.'

1985 - Dire Straits

'Money for Nothing' by Dire Straits peaked at No.4 on the UK singles chart. Notable for its groundbreaking music video and a cameo appearance by Sting singing the song's falsetto introduction and backing chorus, "I want my MTV" who also co-wrote the song with Mark Knopfler. The video was also the first to be aired on MTV Europe when the network started on 1 August 1987.

1985 - Simon Le Bon

Simon Le Bon from Duran Duran was air lifted to safety when his boat 'Drum' overturned while racing off the English coast. Le Bon was trapped under the hull with five other crew members for twenty minutes, until being rescued by the Royal Navy.

1987 - Wilson Pickett

Wilson Pickett was found guilty by a New Jersey court of possessing a shotgun with intent to endanger life following his involvement in a fist fight in a bar.

2008 - Isaac Hayes

US singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes died at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 65. Police were called to his home after his wife found him unconscious. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. Hayes won an Oscar for the 1971 hit Theme From Shaft as was also known as the voice of Chef from the hit cartoon show, South Park. He was married four times and had 12 children.

[axsmap]

I was inspired today when I found a piece of writing I did when I was 19 years old.  I just had come off of a summer of touring with my band The Malchiks, and before my career as a filmmaker:

The “Everything-You-Need-To-Know” Guide to Rock and Roll Stardom

by Jason DaSilva

You know it right away. Destiny reveals itself the moment you sneak your older brother’s Fender guitar, patchcord dangling all the way out, into the hallway. You are a rock and roll star at merely twelve years old. In this pose, you are Led Zeppelin courting a solo. In this pose, you are Jimi Hendrix forcing sparks and shrieks by plunging your instrument through a Leslie Rotating Speaker. Slide, lemon-faced, and you become the rocker of Kiss, your idol of glam. That is, until your older brother comes home from work, when you get your first lesson on how rock and roll can be hazardous to your health.

In high school, you whittle away time in your biology 101 class by pretending you face a crowd of screaming thousands, your leather pants reflecting the pink-gelled stage lights, your left hand raised in the air triumphantly, posting the universal “thumb-index finer-pinkie’ symbol of rock and roll. In math class, your teacher interrupts your daydreams of MTV interviews and magazine covers by asking what the cubed root of twenty seven is. Lunchtime is spent in your Walkman. Art class is spent transcribing the Dead Kennedys logo into your sketchbook. 

“Sure, I’ll amount to something, Dad…I’m going to be a musician,” you reply as you shut the front door, your poppy-red Vantage guitar in your hand. This is a crucial time to your professional career. Everyday after school, you must religiously attend practice in your drummer’s basement. Here are some key elements to remember when playing in your first rock band: 1. You must never develop a band name, or if you do, it must be changed once every two or three weeks, and most of the practice should be spent arguing over the group’s name. 2. During these first influential years, you must never learn any chords other than C, A, and E. All written songs must be comprised of these three chords. 3. A good portion of the practice should be spent trying to mimic rifts from the leading radio-played rock bands. 4. Most importantly, it is not how you play, it is how you look when you play. This will greatly benefit your future as a successful musician. 

Weekend nights are spent hallucinating melodies in the forested park. Dusk spent in the K-Mart parking lot, high off freshly written lyrics. Mornings in the coffee shop still drunk from acoustic jams on the beach the night before. These experiences are imperative; experimenting with new forms of “music.”

You are no longer innocent. You are confused. You are post-modern. You are affirmed to become a rock and roll star. 

It is a well-known fact that post secondary education does not fit into the life of a rock star. The day you graduate, you grab your guitar, tell your mom and dad to fuck off, and go on tour. It is here that you get your first tastes of stardom. Your head cut by beer bottle shrapnel from some distasteful bar patron, band brawls at 3:30 am at a gas station, sloppy drunken back-of-the-van sex, crooked promoters, inbred fans, sleazy managers, endless highways, developing mental disorders, 7-11 breakfasts, helpless hangovers, broken hearts, hellhole accommodations, and an eternal quest to find an air freshener that will rid the van of that impenetrable stench.

One day, a man with a suitcase will come to one of your shows. Listen and nod politely, more politely than you ever have in your four years of cross-country touring. This man is your ticket to bigger and better things. 

Heroin addictions, group sex, tabloid covers, and five-year major label contracts. You have stumbled upon utopia. On stage in  New York City, you pass out on stage by the third song, inducing a large-scale riot. In front of Cleveland, you urinate on the floor crowd, banning your music from the ears of elementary school children by the mothers. In London, your concert is cancelled; a direct result of your overdose. In Chicago, your band members abandon you. “You’re not the same! It’s not about the music anymore.” Typical. Who needs them, anyways. You’re going solo.

Now is the time where it is best to embrace the changing standards of music. Accept the Digital Era. Your music will venture in uncharted territories, inspired by your new found eccentricities. “Inconceivable colors, daring textures, and naughtily revealed body parts. ” Your fashion becomes influential to the avant-garde youth of the major cities. “That’s bingo. MIlitiasyncric. Discombusting.” Your vocabulary becomes cutting-edge lingo for the trendsetters and prominent in pop culture. Your music videos are experimental, your lyrics are indecipherable, yet your music is profoundly minimalistic. Rolling Stone magazine quotes you are “the musician of the next millennium.”

Stop here.

Traditionally, murder is a time capsule. Yet, recent discoveries show self-induced demise achieves immortality. Overdosing is legendary. For more prolonged legendary coverage, try and portray the cause of death as vague of possible. Remember, save some of your best songs for after. Two or three albums will suffice. In your will, request that your funeral be broadcasted live on television. Millions will see it. Cults will form devoted to you. Mothers will name their babies after you. Your possessions will be auctioned off for a ludicrous amount of money. Four-track songs you wrote when you were sixteen will be retrieved and top the charts instantly. Stories will spawn. People will say you never actually died. Because of this, you never will. Here, you will have achieved rock star status. 

Twenty years later, you are spotted in a Burger King washroom. All the major newspapers display the story in their entertainment section as a humorous anecdote, while the supermarket tabloids exploit the details of the event. Later that same month, you are spotted buying guitar strings at a Guitar Center in Austin.

[deliberatelyinmotion-blog]

The empathy of Springsteen on Broadway

I have never been a big fan of Bruce Springsteen, as a matter of fact I have never been a fan of his until about four years ago when I decided to finally listen to one of his albums entitled “The River”.  As a person who was born in 1980 it seemed nostalgic to listen to that album because of its original release date.

I was born in Poland when it was still under the communist regime, and my exposure to western music was very limited.  However I was lucky enough not to remember much of realities of that time.  I was still very young when it all changed in 1989.  The iron curtain fell, and it was brave new world for all of us.  To make a long story short, my first exposure to Bruce Springsteen and his music was when I’ve heard “Born in the U.S.A” … and it seemed like another propaganda piece, but this time it “freely” came from the west instead of east.  Don’t get me wrong, we kids all loved Rocky IV, and american movies and music.  I guess, when it came to Bruce and his music,  I was too young, and ignorant to understand/relate to the stories and emotions embedded to his art.  

Then the nineties arrived, and grunge swept me off my feet.   As a teenager with all the hormones and anger raging inside, I loved Nirvana, the intensity and fuck you- attitude of their music.  Especially  when it felt real, unlike the pompous, manufactured music of all those hair bands that came before it.   I think that in a way, I’ve put Springsteen in the same compartment as Warrant, Poison or so many similar bands (Bon Jovi? ;)

With “Streets of Philadelphia” he got my attention.  I was thirteen at the time, but I loved the haunting lyrics (translated by a friend who could speak the language), and that background, relentlessly dark synth sound… awesome.  

Bruce Springsteen deserved my attention, and I knew that I had to, at least, listen to one of his albums… but Nirvana, Pearl Jam, STP, Smashing Pumpkins and their music were the masters of my musical life.  Then as time went by, and my musical journey progressed, I went back and surrendered my attention to the likes of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Doors… especially The Doors.  Then even little further in time, listening to B.B King, Buddy Guy, Chuck Berry…

Music is like a big tree with branches sprawling in all directions,  you can listen to a band, but then you find out that they were influenced by someone else’s music… so you follow it down the rabbit hole, further and further.

My father died when I was sixteen years old.  I felt ashamed that when he was still alive I preferred to spend time with my friends, listening to music, or wandering aimlessly for long, long hours throughout my town.  Sleeping at abandoned shed by the river, anywhere and anything but going home.  He was a good father, but with problems that, I’ve stupidly thought, tarnished his superman persona.  My original idol was flawed...and I couldn’t comprehend, I couldn’t realize that it was my way of thinking which was flawed.  

After his death my musical world swirled around Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky… then Marilyn Manson, Korn, System of a Down.  It took a long time until I was ready to listen to any other genre.  

After all this, you might think, where does Springsteen’s music enter?

It does with my first boyish love.   

It was Saturday night.  Me and my friends as always were out on a town.  Hitting all the “cool” spots, and then ending up at this house party where you were “the man” if you showed up with any kind of liquor.   It was mostly vodka… because of Poland :)

So we’re there doing shots without anything to chase it with, the music was swirling in the air, and then she walked in and started a conversation.  It seemed so natural to talk to her, so smooth and easy.   I knew her for some time now, but always treated her as a friend only.  

Later on that night me and two of my cousins have walked her and few other girls home, and the whole world changed.  It pulsated with this new energy.

I came back home, and turned on the radio.  I turned the volume to the lowest setting because it was late at night, and with my ear by the single speaker I’ve heard

“Hey little girl, is your daddy home?”

He sang longingly

“I got a bad desire,

Oh, oh, oh I’m on fire”

I’m thirty four, and my life have changed a lot.  I left Poland when still a teenager.  Living an “undocumented thriller” of a life in the USA.  I made few friends in high school, but couldn’t really socialize, because every weekend or holiday, I’ve spent working construction to earn some money and save it for future college education… One associate degree, one green card, and many years later I still work construction, but over time my whole worldview have changed.  I guess it’s part of growing up, you forget about things that made you happy , make new priorities, change desires, make them more imminent.  The music however is still with me. I still listen to it constantly… but I’ve never truly learned how to play guitar, or any instrument… one of these days...maybe…

One day, driving back home, I’ve started a new playlist on my Pandora app (I think that when it comes to generated playlists, Pandora it’s hands down better than any other streaming service).  I’ve listened to the music of the 80’s… I don’t know why I did it,  I’ve always thought that the 80’s were terrible music wise.  Twenty minutes in, I’ve heard “My hometown”.  It caught me by surprise, I’ve listened to the lyrics, the notes… and it took me back to my youth, to my long forgotten hometown in Poland.  Later on that night I played “The River” in its entirety.  It was so simply powerful.

Thirty eight years old, with wife and three kids.  House, and all that comes with it, established position in the company that I work for, two cars, and zero time for myself.  

I found out that Springsteen will do Broadway show.  The idea of seeing him in such intimate setting of a relatively small venue, was appealing.  I could spend some reasonable amount of money  for tickets, but I was unlucky to get them.  Oh well…

It’s 5:20 in the morning.  Friday.  I get in my car, and pull out of my driveway.  Go to a local coffee place to jump start the morning.  I check the weather on my smartphone while waiting in short line, then see all new music releases available to stream on my drive to work.

Springsteen on Broadway was one of the new albums available.  I’ve paid for my coffee, got in the car, hit play… and couldn’t stop the wave of emotions.  Nostalgia, sadness, regret, happiness, hope, love.  All this while driving south on New Jersey turnpike.  

Until this day I only had two favorite live albums.

First and always is Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York

Second - David Bowie with its live album originally released as part of three disk set - Portland BBC Radio Theatre

Now Bruce Springsteen joins that club.  

It was his music that I have played that same evening to my wife, and Sunday, when we’ve put our kids to sleep, we’ve watched the filmed version of the show.  

At one point Bruce says that he wrote songs about things that he absolutely head zero knowledge about.  Factories, five days a week job, and such, but was it really so?

All great art gets enhanced, and in the process, changed by the audience.  We add our own past experiences to the words, the sounds of the song, even if we’ve never worked in a factory, but we all, most of us were in love, were happy, sad, or desperate.  Nature of our work is just a background of a universal story.  Springsteen’s words and music tapped into, and amplified that.

When he spoke about him climbing that neighborhood tree, I climbed similar one, but not in Jersey, but in Poland.  When he spoke about his father, I thought about and missed mine, regretting moments lost.  When he spoke about dreams of the future, it rushed me back in time to my teenage idealistic self with grand expectations about the world.  When he spoke about him having a moment with his father, their reconciliation, and lesson learned from it, made me think about my own role in my children’s lives.  

Bruce doesn’t write about tangible things, he writes about feelings that we can relate to and compound upon.  The empathy that comes with his music surrounds us, and it’s so intimate that it only can be described as Life… Art…

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I got tagged by @rep-ts fuck you i hate you binch go back to being a fucking dork

RULES: Answer 28 questions and tag blogs you would like to get to know better

probably won’t tag a lot of people??? idk i hardly know anyone so

•Name: sophie

•Nicknames: soap, sofa, dick

•Gender: Female

•Star sign: sagittarius

•Height: 5’3”

•Time: 11:02

•Birthday: December 2Favorite bands: Beetles, p!atd, led zeppelin, the cure, wham!, big time rush, etc

•Favorite solo artists: lil xan, post malone, lil peep (rip i love you), rihanna, khalid, etc

•Song stuck in my head: betrayed by lil xan. i fuckin love this song and lil xan can be my baby daddy like damn

•Last movie I watched: jackass 2, man i fucking love those movies. brings back good childhood memories

•Last show I watched: grey’s anatomy. i just watch it when i’m bored, it’s a good show but not my favorite

•When did i create my blog: i was bored one day a couple years ago and bam this monster spawn was born

•Last thing I googled: bam’s badass game show. so i was watching jackass and got bored and remembered a whole bunch of mtv shows so i looked it up because i wanted to see how many episodes it lasted (spoiler alert: it lasted 6 episodes)

•Do I have any other blogs: @im-extremely-bored i was bored (as you can tell by the name) and i had recently read and watched the new it movie and i got really into it so it’s basically a side account dedicated to it and strangers things 🤷‍♀️

•Do I get asks: nah man i’m not that cool lol

•why i chose my url: it used to be shoopdiewhoop but tumblr changed it for some reason???? i never knew why??? so now it’s just dermberlder

•Following: a lot, way too many to list

•Followers: not a lot and i’m too lazy to check rn lol

•Average hours of sleep: on school nights probably 4-7, on weekends/breaks it can be from 3-12 hours

•Lucky number: 7, 13, 2

•Instruments: used to play cello, wanna play piano

•What am I wearing: purple tie dye sweatshirt and black underwear 👍

•dream job: veterinarian definitely, both of my parents are vet techs and i’ve always loved animals and want to help them, so since i knew what a vet was i’ve always wanted to be one

•dream trip: Finland and a 3-5 week car trip going through every state in the us, getting a “my parents went to (insert state) and all they got me was this lousy shirt”, a shot glass, and a snow globe from every single state (and whatever other souvenir i want)

•Favorite food: idk like steak or fruit salad

•Nationality: American

•Favorite song right now: betrayed by lil xan or i fall apart by post malone

so i’ll tag @spn-blackwidow-cap and yeah idk anyone so that’s probably it lol i don’t wanna burden anyone with a stupid tag

[noplacecalledhome]

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Singer-songwriter and guitarist DUDLEY TAFT is a tour de force in the blues world. His unique sound—Delta riffs and Texas sagebrush served with edgy Seattle rock intensity—reflects the eclectic journey of his 30 plus years in music. Dudley embraces the Blues—the foundation of all the great late ‘60s and early ‘70’s rock he loved as a teen. Local guitar hero Rob Swaynie in Indianapolis taught Dudley the value of music theory interspersed with B.B King, Led Zeppelin and ZZ Top riffs. Taft's background includes study at the renown Berklee College of Music; and years touring with rock bands Sweet Water and Second Coming. He founded the band “Space Antelope” with friend Trey Anastasio (of Phish Fame) in high school. John Kessler is best known for hosting KPLU’s All Blues radio show. Twelve hours of programming each weekend for the last fifteen years has made John an absolute blues expert, but many listeners do not know that he is also an accomplished, innovative bass player. He adds a great improvisational spirit to his mastery of blues grooves. Jason Patterson, hailing from eastern North Carolina was a founding member of the Raleigh based band “Cry of Love”. His drumming combines the finesse of a seasoned blues musician with all-out rock bombast. Dudley Taft https://www.facebook.com/DudleyTaftFanPage/ http://www.dudleytaft.com/

Dudley Taft (USA)

Daze of Dawn is superb, original rock music - funky grooves of rock, grunge, metal, folk-rock, hard rock and blues. It hits you like a raging tsunami, only to soothe you like your mother's milk. Grand Prize Winners of Sona La Dipu Pop-Rock contest 2012. Based in Valencia Spain, this "Canadian", alternative, retro-rock band have been stunning audiences for over a decade with their legendary live shows and breath of originality. The band is now a true ROCK POWER TRIO with a bad-ass keyboard player on the side. Formed on Canadian front-man Klyde’s arrival in Spain in 2001 after some years living and performing in Japan, DOD have toured throughout Spain, and Europe and continue to take over the world one audience at a time. Daze of Dawn´s lively arrangements, subtle details and continued growth on their 4 previous releases - Shinjuku In June (2001), Puppet Heads (2003), Drug Testing (2006) and Yeti Nation (2008) - have won the band continuous accolades from the media and critics alike, including winning them spots in major international festivals (Festimad, Viñarock) and national Spanish radio (RNE3) and television (TVE Los conciertos de Radio 3). Most recently DOD were finalists in MTV Winter Valencia 2011 and grand prize winners of Sona La Dipu 2012, a major Spanish rock contest. The grand prize is a full-length album recording and a festival tour for 2013. The new album SOFA KING COOL, recorded by Pau Chafer at RC Estudios and mixed/mastered by Manu Tomás, contains 14 masterfully written and produced songs of long-awaited new music by this excellent original band.

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De bandleden zullen voor weinigen onder ons nog onbekenden zijn. John, Gerard, Gert-Jan, Hans en Mark hebben inmiddels een muzikale historie om een puntje aan te zuigen. De meesten onder jullie zullen hen kennen onder de bandnaam Parris, de Thin Lizzy Tribute van de Lage Landen. Bestaan die dan niet meer? Tuurlijk wel! Maar de heren zijn nu eenmaal muzikanten van het eerste uur, spelen in taloze andere bands, projecten en het bloed kruipt nu eenmaal waar het niet gaan kan. Een beetje rocker is opgegroeid met Iron Maiden en zo ook de mannen van Parris. En zo geschiedde het tijdens een repetitie dat er just for kicks eens een nummer van Maiden werd ingezet. Er gingen enkele repetities overheen en telkens weer kwam die behoefte om weer eens een nummer van Maiden in te zetten. En dat smaakte naar meer... De beer was los! Dat resulteerde uiteindelijk in Harris. Voor wie de mannen van Parris al eens aan het werk heeft gezien, zal het geen verrassing zijn dat ook bij Harris het dak er af zal gaan. Het is welliswaar een nieuwe weg die de heren bewandelen maar na zoveel jaren met elkaar te spelen kan het niet anders dan dat deze band een statement gaat maken in tributeland. https://www.facebook.com/Harris-326149720795171/ http://www.harris666.nl/

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Popronde: Line-up TBA

Alle oude classics komen langs. Denk aan KC & The Sunshine Band, The Jackson Five, Patrick Hernandez, Donna Summer, Chic, Abba, The Bee Gees, en ga zo maar door... Komt allen in je meest dwaze 70s of 80s outfit!!! We gaan gewoon om 19:00u open en omstreeks 22:00u zal DJ Ruben Skipper het roer overnemen qua muziek.

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