#dave the rock nelson

[podado-t-memes]

I just watched the new Jim Henson documentary…

Overall it was very good, well paced, great visuals and editing. I learned a lot about Jim Henson and the company that I didn’t before and more behind the scenes that I hadn’t seen/heard which is always a treat!

I cried three times. 🫣👌 I had to fight the primal urge to pause the documentary and point out to my family where and what movie/show/episode every clip was from. This was my “did you know Viggo Mortensen actually broke his toe” scene.

I will say, I do think they very QUICKLY went over the disney merger and didn’t even mention the fallout with Disney after Jim’s death.

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The main problem I had was that SOME puppeteers got spot lights, interviews or arrows pointing out the individuals. And while I appreciate that these individuals got some recognition (which they 100% should), I think the documentary should have been consistent and do this with every new important/fundamental puppeteer to the film.

I alreay have!!! I was able to EASILY point out Karen Prell, Louise Gold, Richard Hunt, Jerry Nelson, Kevin Clash, Steve whitmire, etc. But an average viewer wouldn’t know who is who and what they contributed to the company!

I just think it’s intriguing who they chose to highlight and who they left out.

And I’ve noticed this happen in other muppet documentaries, like “Street Gang,” where they barely glossed over Richard Hunt and Jerry Nelson’s contributions to the show. (I’ve mentioned this problem here before. (Queer erasure during pride month? 🙄))

It would be such an easy problem to fix! Just a quick arrow to point out any new puppeteer or cast member to the Jim Henson Company. Maybe list their job/their characters so a main stream audience could identify them.

I can think of several founding members who are still alive today that were not interviewed. Maybe these people were asked to come in, IDK, but I would have loved to hear from more people you don’t hear from often.

I could definitely tell the documentary was really trying to avoid the “Steve Whitmire” sized elephant in the room, even though he was in SO MANY shots. I can guarantee that if he was still with the company he would have been featured heavily in the documentary.

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One last thing…

They interviewed Michael Frith, where was my girl Kathryn Mullen?? (His wife.) She hasn’t done anything in over a decade, are you okay?? Blink if you need help. 👁️👄👁️😐😑😐😑

[spilladabalia]

The Audience - The Ramona Pageant

[talestoshowcase]

Some of my favorite Muppet stuff from the last year!

If interested, maybe check out my website?

[2ndaryprotocol]

Jim Henson’s musical fantasy series ‘Fraggle Rock’ premiered on HBO this week 40 years ago. 🏡🚜🪨

“𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚒𝚝...”

[harrisonarchive]

Backstage at the Liverpool Empire on December 6, 1969. Photo from the Liverpool Echo, © Mirrorpix.

“Saturday 6th December 1969 will stay with me forever. […] [I also wrote] to George addressing a letter to George Harrison c/o Liverpool Empire and included a piece of paper and a stamp addressed envelope. […] [By the stage door] I asked [Eric Clapton] where George was, as I had noticed he definitely wasn’t on the coach and I was praying that the NME hadn’t got it wrong. He replied, ‘He’s making his own way here, ‘cos his mum’s not too well and he’s going to visit her.‘ I felt reassured, and was now getting serious butterflies in my stomach […]. It must have been about half an hour later when a silver Ford Escort pulled up outside the stage door. It was not a flashy car by any means, and this guy with a droopy mustache and very long hair parted in the middle emerged from the car. It was George; he was alone and had driven the car himself! I almost screamed at him to come back, as he opened the stage door holding his bag, but he turned and smiled, and said, ‘I’ve got to come back to lock the car.’ I was terrified that I had just blown it; would he come back out, or would somebody else come out and move it? A moment later, George emerged from the stage door and I tried frantically to think of something sensible to say to him. First, I asked for an autograph… George happily signed it. […] We’d now reached the steps of the Lord Nelson Hotel and my exclusive chat with George had come to an end. […] What a beautiful person George was, he was so attentive and polite. I then went to the show in which George took a low profile as just a member of the band with no fuss. I was in a daze though, after our meeting! And as for my letter I sent to George at the Liverpool Empire? Four days later an envelope came through my door addressed to me in my writing. He’d replied, and inside there was my paper upon which was written: To Dave, Best wishes, keep rocking, George Harrison and Eric Clapton.” - Dave Donnelly (fan), The Beatles and Me (2013)

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday one of Scotland’s most gifted singers Ann “Annie” Lennox, born December 25th 1954.

Born in Summerfield Maternity hospital, Aberdeen, the daughter of Dorothy (née Ferguson) and Thomas Allison Lennox Annie showed talent from an early aged, she won a scholarship at the age of 17 for The Royal Academy of Music in London.

From a fortuitous chance encounter with Dave Stewart in the early seventies, the pair went on to form The Tourists, who ultimately achieved significant success in the UK, Europe and Australia.

It was not until the break up of the band in ’79 however, that Annie and Dave decided to form a duo, calling themselves “Eurythmics”.

They released their first album, “In the Garden” in 1981, but it was not until the worldwide success of their second album, (Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This) in 1983, that Eurythmics became the musical phenomenon we know today.

Eurythmics went on to sell over 75 million albums, and achieved over 20 international hits across the world.

In 1990, Annie released her debut solo album entitled “Diva”. Entering the charts at number 1 in the UK, the album sold around six million copies world wide, (including two and a half million in the USA). Diva included the Top 10 singles Why, Walking On Broken Glass and Little Bird

In 1995, her second album was released, entitled “Medusa”. An album of lovingly crafted reinterpretations of some of Lennox’s favourite songs. It also debuted at number one, and included the massive single No More I Love You’s, Medusa sold around 5 million copies.

Annie is an Ambassador for UNAIDS, Oxfam, Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Campaign, Amnesty International, The British Red Cross, London as well as supporting numerous other organisations.

In September 2008 Annie Lennox hosted the launch of the Amnesty Arts Fund. The Amnesty Arts Fund brings together people who believe passionately in freedom of expression and projects that inspire creative activism around the world. She has won many awards, for her music and for the work she does does for good causes and charity.

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart performed as Eurythmics at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California performing "Would I Lie to You?", "Missionary Man" and "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" as part of the 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. They were inducted by U2's the Edge.

Fans of the Annie will be glad to know that she will be playing a gig in London. Entitled Sisters: Annie Lennox And Friends, the one-off concert will support The Circle, raising funds to help women and girls facing violence and injustice worldwide.

There had been news of a Eurythmics reunion and 40th anniversary tour, but it has failed to materialise. Dave Stewart continues to tour as Dave Stewart Eurythmics.

[one-annon]

hi I'm annon!!

I started tumblr as a artist but I guess I'm moving onto my writing too - I ask you to please be patient because I'm new to writing x readers n such but I will try my best!!

it's been quite a while since I wrote but I can do like 1k to 2k? longer than that might be a little hard for me (｀□´)

i dont have much else to say about myself! uh, ive been writing for a while now. i also do rps! if youd like to do any rps when the listed characters/movies, feel free to let me know! im also happily spoken for by @wrathofthegodsfrontman <3

my current hyperfixation; saw series!

next movie on my list; silence of the lambs!

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sawyer family (including the game characters!) - texas chainsaw massacre

hewitt family - texas chainsaw masscre remake

jason voorhees - friday the 13th series

michael myers (og and rz) - halloween series

laurie strode/angel myers (og and rz) - halloween series

billy lenz - black christmas 1974 (i will do 2006 version but mostly the 1974 version)

brahms heelshire - the boy

carrie white (and friends) - carrie (og and remakes)

scream team (billy, stu, randy, etc) - scream series (ive only seen 1 and 2 but im making my way through)

harry warden - my bloody valentine (og and remake)

sinclair brothers - house of wax

firefly family - house of 1000 corpses trilogy

dbd characters - dead by daylight

saw characters - any movie! this includes the scott tibbs documentary and saw .5!

herbert west and dan cain - reanimator

patrick bateman - american psycho

edgar, miles, and madeline - electric dreams

hal 9000, frank poole, and dave bowman - 2001: a space odyssey

anyone else you can think of! I'll try my best to learn the character :) these are just everyone I can think of at the moment! I'll do killers and survivors but I know people are more obsessive over the killers lmao

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anything really..I don't have too many boundaries. I can do anything from hcs, scenarios (i.e. how would ____ react to ____?), smut, fluff, angst...the whole works

and even if you're willing to rant to me about your ocs I could whip up a oc x canon story! :)

also, depending on the media, im open to non horror writes!

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really not a lot to add here? maybe like...toilet related stuff for nsfw..

just the usuals - no incest (MAYBE for the sawyers since they are canonically inbred but its very situational), p3dophilia, b3astiality, etc etc

MASTERLIST!

GENERAL TAGS; #MANN GEGEN MANN! ➸ OOC/ANNON (also used for my rp blogs!) ↪ mann gegen mann - rammstein

#AND I KNOW WHY YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY MOTH MAN ➸ annons moths ↪ moth man - dirty bynum

#SEARCHIN! SEEK AND DESTROY! ➸ annons art ↪ seek & destroy - metallica

#my face is long forgotten my face is not my own ➸ ask games (again, also in my rp blogs!) ↪ am i evil? - diamond head

FANDOM TAGS;

#game over! ➸ saw writes ↪ jigsaw, apprentices

#i speak for the dead ➸ jigsaw legacy au ↪ logan nelson

#its a scream baby! ➸ scream writes ↪ stu macher

#you fudgepackers'll be the death of me yet! ➸ TCM writes ↪ drayton sawyer

#hey paul! ➸ american psycho writes ↪ patrick bateman

#hes dead?/not anymore... ➸ reanimator writes ↪ dan cain/herbert west

#love is give not take so im giving you madeline and taking myself away ➸ electric dreams writes ↪ edgar

#im afraid i cant do that dave ➸ space odyssey writes ↪ hal 9000

WRITING TAGS;

#HEY HEY HEY HEY! HEY STOOPID! ➸ annon writes ↪ hey stoopid! - alice cooper

#I WASNT EVEN A BILL I WAS JUST AN IDEA ➸ annons hcs ↪ im just a bill - school house rock (cover by deluxx folk implosion) #keeping our eyes close to whats going on on the screen ➸ angst writes ↪ slumber - sløtface

#ive got to have faith faith faith ➸ hurt with comfort writes ↪ faith - george michael (and cover by limp bizkit)

#quit actin like a bitch and makin up excuses ➸ hurt with no comfort ↪ i wish i was a riot grrrl - destructo disk

#call me on the line call me anytime ➸ fluff writes ↪ call me - blondie

#rein raus rein raus ➸ smut writes ↪ rein raus - rammstein

#so much for the golden future i cant even start ➸ annons drabbles ↪ breaking the law - judas priest

yeah! thats kinda it! I'll try to reply and write out requests as fast as I can

credit to; @strangergraphics for the awesome dividers!

ꜰᴏʟʟᴏᴡ ᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴍʏ ꜱᴀᴡ ʀᴘ ʙʟᴏɢꜱ!

@ᴡʀ4ᴛʜ-ᴏꜰ-ᴛʜᴇ-ɢᴏᴅꜱ @ᴛʀᴀᴘᴘᴇᴅ-ᴛᴡɪɴꜱ @zippyzep @jigsaws-disciples

[muppetydyke]

Muppet Mainstage, December 10th, 2024

“Jingle Bell Rock” was written by Joseph Carleton Beal and James Ross Boothe in 1957. The song was performed by Doctor Teeth (Jim Henson) and the Electric Mayhem (Frank Oz as Animal, Richard Hunt as Janice, Dave Goelz as Zoot, Jerry Nelson as Floyd, and Steve Whitmire as Lips) for the 1987 special, A Muppet Family Christmas.

[ourshadowstallerthanoursoul]

An audience with... John Paul Jones

(from Uncut, April 2010 - link)

You’re stuck on a deserted island, you have one instrument you can bring. It is: a) piano, b) bass or c) mandolin? (Gary Attersley, Ontario, Canada)

Oh… that’s horrible! I’ll probably get Hugh Manson – the guy who builds all my bass guitars – to build me some monstrous instrument that encapsulated all three! Hugh and his brother Andy Manson once actually designed me a triple-necked guitar with 12-string guitar, six-string guitar and mandolin on it! Andy also designed a triple-necked mandolin. But I guess if it really came down to it on a desert island, it would have to be the piano, because you can do so much on it. You’re a whole band. The bass is not much fun on your own.

John, it’s so good to see you so engaged with today. Any advice for old farts who can’t move on? (Andrew Loog Oldham)

Who are you calling an old fart? I dunno, Andy, you tell me! Ha ha. He’s done a good job of staying up to date. Andrew, of course, gave me the name John Paul Jones. I was John Baldwin, until Andrew saw a poster for the French film version of John Paul Jones. I thought it ’d look great in CinemaScope, as I wanted to do music for films. I imagined it saying “Music By John Paul Jones”, over the whole screen. I never realised then that he was the Horatio Nelson of America!

I know that you’ve been getting heavily into bluegrass lately – who are some of your favourite bluegrass artists of all time? (Ryan Godek, Wilmington, Delaware)

Apart from Bill Monroe, you mean? Oh, there’s loads. I’m friends with the Del McCoury band, I love that style of classic bluegrass. I love Sam Bush’s Newgrass stuff. And of course there’s Nickel Creek, Chris Feely, Mike Marshall. I love it all, really. One thing I like about bluegrass is that you don’t require amplifiers, drums and trucks. You can pull an instrument out of a box and get on with some instant music making. I carry a mandolin around wherever I go. I also like the fact bluegrass musicians play more than one instrument. There’s a tradition of them swapping instruments. In bluegrass bands I swap between double bass, fiddle and banjo.

One Butthole Surfers anecdote, please? (Dave Grohl)

Ha! I was brought in to produce the Butthole Surfers’ 1993 album, Independent Worm Saloon. I guess it was to give it a heavy rock vibe, but it didn’t work like that. They were actually incredibly hard-working in the studio, but I do recall running up a phenomenal bar-bill at the San Rafael studio. And then there was Gibby [Haynes, Butthole Surfers’ frontman] and his… eccentric studio behaviour. Gibby did one vocal take shouting into his guitar. He held it out in front of his face and screamed at it. Ha! He was trying to find out if it picked up through the pick-ups, which it kind of did. And that was pretty good.

How’s the violin coming along? (Sean, Berkshire)

I started about three years ago. With the guitar, or the piano, you can sound OK quite quickly. With the violin, it takes much longer. Once you get past the first six months of scraping, of muttering to yourself, “What is this fucking horrible noise on my shoulder?” you get the odd musical bit, and you think, ‘Oh, this is starting to get good.’ And you continue with it for a while. I’m getting into country fiddle playing, Celtic folk songs, a bit of swing. Basic stuff, but very satisfying.

Why not record a second ‘Automatic For The People’ with REM? (Franz Greul, Austria)

They haven’t asked me! But doing the string arrangements for that album was a great experience, actually. They sent me the demos of their songs, and we went into a studio in Atlanta, with members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. They were great songs, something you can really get your teeth into as an arranger. And I’ve been good friends with them ever since.

How did you first meet Josh Homme? And is he still a notorious party monster? (Rob Hirst, Kippax, Leeds)

Well, I think we’ve all calmed down rather a lot. Dave introduced me to Josh at his 40th birthday party. It was a ridiculous themed place where they have jousting with knights. As Dave said, it was like somewhere you’d have your 14th birthday party. Or maybe even your 4th. Anyway, Dave sat Josh and I together for a blind date. Which was reasonably embarrassing for both of us, surrounded by people going “prithee this” and challenging each other to duels. But we survived the trauma and went into the studio the next day, and just started jamming. And I knew immediately it was going to be something special.

If Them Crooked Vultures had Spice Girls-like nicknames what would they be? (Paul Jones, Liverpool)

Dave would be Smiley Vulture. He can’t stop grinning. Josh would be Slinky Vulture. He’s a slinky kinda guy. And I’d be Speedy, I guess. Or Jumpy. So there you go. Smiley, Slinky and Speedy. Or does that sound more like the dwarfs?

I remember you being a pretty funky bass genius back in the day! What memories do you have of those sessions? (Donovan)

The sessions with Don and Mickie Most were great, because we were given a free hand. I usually got leeway, because I was the sort of Motown/Stax specialist, so producers in the mid ’60s would get me in for cover versions of American records, and none of them could write bass parts convincingly enough, so I was London’s answer to James Jamerson, I guess! And I was certainly encouraged to get kinda… funky when I worked with Donovan.

How did it feel to see Jimmy Page and Robert Plant venture off in their own project in the ‘90s without mentioning a word of it to you? (Danny Luscombe, Hull)

Oh yeah, I was pissed off about it. The surprise was in not being told. It’s ancient history now, but it was a bit annoying to find out about it while reading the papers. It came just after Robert and I had been discussing the idea of doing an Unplugged project. Then I’m on tour in Germany with Diamanda Galás, I turn on the TV and see Robert and Jimmy doing it, with someone else playing all my parts! I was pissed off at the time. You would be, woudn’t you? But… it’s all in the past, isn’t it?

Did you listen to much work by Josh Homme or Dave Grohl before you were contacted in relation to joining Them Crooked Vultures, and if so, how did you honestly rate it? (Ralph Ryan, Lisronagh, County Tipperary)

I did like the Foo Fighters and Queens Of The Stone Age, before I’d met either of them. There’s a tendency for people – especially musicians from my generation – to say that there has been this terrible decline in musicianship, that today’s bands haven’t got the chops, blah blah blah. But that’s not true at all. There’s always some people for whom technique on an instrument isn’t necessary. They can get their ideas across without being able to have the chops. But Josh really does have the chops, he just doesn’t feel the need to flash them about all the time. In fact, there were a few riffs he gave me that I had to simplify, because they were bloody difficult to play. I really had to work at it, where he could just flick it off. He is an astonishing musician.

Were you serious when you told Peter Grant that you wanted to jack it in to become choirmaster at Winchester Cathedral? (Brian Fisher, Manchester)

Ha! That was a tongue-in-cheek joke, although I was serious about leaving Led Zeppelin in 1973 unless things changed. But Peter did sort things out pretty quickly. What kind of choirmaster would I have made? A bloody good one! Listen, any way that they’ll pay you for making music is just the best situation in the world. I’d do it for nothing. I don’t care what music it is. I just love it all. The rubbing of notes together. I love it all. I would be very passionate about whatever I decided to do.

What was the worst session you ever did as a jobbing session player? (Adam Burns, Castleford, West Yorkshire)

I generally have fun memories of that time. I’d criss-cross London playing two or three sessions a day, going between Trident and Olympic and Abbey Road and Philips in Marble Arch, you know. You’d be backing Shirley Bassey, Cat Stevens, Lulu, whoever was paying you. The worst experience was a Muzak session. With Muzak sessions, the music was deliberately boring. I distinctly remember one session where I embellished the bass part a little bit, just so that it wasn’t so boring for me to play. They said, “No, you can’t do that. Any interest in the music will distract people’s attention from when they’re meant to be eating.” Or standing in a fucking lift. For fuck’s sake! So I was like, “OK, thanks, bye!”

[therecordchanger62279]

THE RECORDCHANGER YEAR-END EDITION 2024

  My annual year-end review of my favorite records and books.

   TOP NEW RELEASES

   1. The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology – Taylor Swift

   2. TexiCali – Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore

   3. The Border – Willie Nelson

   4. Sensual – Rachel Z

   5. Heaven (EP) – Softcult

   6. The Lost Record – Susanna Hoffs

   7. Short N’ Sweet – Sabrina Carpenter

   8. Smoke and Fiction – X

   9. =1 – Deep Purple

 10. MoonDial – Pat Metheny

 11. Memories Have Faces – The Loons

 12. Brasil – Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin

 13. The Vienna Recital – Yuja Wang

 14. Viva – Lone Justice

 15. Hit Me Hard and Soft – Billie Eilish

    REISSUES / ARCHIVE RELEASES

    1. Woodstock 1969 – Ten Years After

    2. The Best of Rory Gallagher at the BBC

    3. Welcome to Shepherd’s Bush – The Rolling Stones

    4. Live at The Wiltern – The Rolling Stones

    5. Live at Fillmore East, 1969 – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

    6. Live Through the Past, Darkly – The Dream Syndicate

    7. Miles ’54 – Miles Davis

    8. Brooklyn, NY 2011 – Sonic Youth

     ARTIST OF THE YEAR

        Taylor Swift

     FINDS OF THE YEAR

        Folklore; Red; Speak Now; Fearless; Evermore; Midnights – Taylor Swift

        Norman Fucking Rockwell; Born to Die: The Paradise Edition; Ultraviolence; Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard – Lana Del Rey

        John Adams: Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? – Yuja Wang with the Los AngelesPhilharmonic

        NVM; Lost Time; This Mess Is a Place – Tacocat

        All Hands on The Bad One – Sleater-Kinney

        Holly & the Italians – Holly Beth Vincent

        Out of the Mist – Illusion

        Back to Black – Amy Winehouse

        Siren – Roxy Music

        Children of the Future; Brave New World; Your Saving Grace; Number 5; Rock Love; Recall the Beginning…Journey to Eden – Steve Miller Band

        Sheet Music – 10cc

        Happy Nightmare Baby – Opal

        Ask the Ages – Sonny Sharrock

        Room of One’s Own; Under the Milky Way Express – Rachel Z

        Bright Lights; The Deep End – Susanna Hoffs

        At Home – Shocking Blue

     BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

       The Penguin Book of Rock & Roll Writing edited by Clinton Heylin (1992)

       Just Backdated by Chris Charlesworth (2024)

       Zip It Up! The Best of Trouser Press by Ira Robbins (2024)

THE YEAR IN REVIEW

     This was the year where I finally accepted the inevitability of listening to music more often on digital files through a computer, rather than through a stereo system with a turntable, CD, and cassette player. My stereo got less use this year than any year since I began listening to music, but I listened to far more music than any year since I left the music retailing business. I made the transition out of convenience, and out of financial necessity. I have been priced out of buying physical media when it comes to music. I bought some things, of course, but very little after July. Prices on records, compact discs, and even cassettes just continued to rise. Delivery got more expensive, and less reliable. And availability fell to an all-time low. Everyone else can do as they please. But I will not overpay for anything. And I will not spend hours or days chasing what I want to buy – new or old. If the musician or the label can’t give me access to the music without hassle, and at a reasonable price, then it’s no sale. Plenty of music can be accessed, and listened to, and even owned digitally without any hassles, and, in some cases, even owned without having to pay. I’ve never been reluctant to buy what I wanted, but I simply refuse to be robbed, and I will not jump through hoops to find what I’m looking for. Looking at titles that were added to my collection this year, I only bought a single vinyl record in 2024, and not one cassette. I bought 29 compact discs, and 5 digital downloads. But I added many more titles to my digital collection this year at no cost. Most of those were titles I could not find a physical copy of anywhere. Some were available at prices that were outrageous. Still others were unavailable to me through regular channels. I was forced to improvise, and that’s what I did.

     I spent a lot of time on You Tube listening to albums, and even more time with what is called The Vinyl Community. That’s a group of music lovers who upload videos to You Tube where they discuss what they own, what they’re buying, what they like and don’t like. That was in Spring, but before Spring turned to Summer, the novelty had worn off for me. There are still a few channels I follow, but I don’t fit in as a part of this “community.” Most of these collectors have a passion for music, but making videos for You Tube is a side business for them, and because they have a following, record labels and musicians often send them free copies of new releases hoping for favorable reviews, and, consequently, free or cheap advertising as a result. That business model calls into question the integrity of their opinions which, to my way of thinking renders them useless.

    In any case, I’d hoped that my involvement as a viewer with that group would fill the gap that’s existed since I left the record business, as I no longer had a way of interacting with people who came into my shops and wanted to talk music, and exchange opinions. And while there are four or five of these people whose work I do enjoy, it’s clear I don’t belong there. They don’t respond to comments or questions you might ask, so it’s not dissimilar to being back on Facebook again where even your friends and family ignore you. I’d rather talk to myself on Tumblr.

     You Tube did give me the opportunity to hear a lot of new releases this year that might otherwise have slipped past me. My lists would look very different, and would be much shorter if not for You Tube. So, the experience with the channel overall was certainly a good one.

     As for the lists above, it turned out to be a pretty good year for music. I’ve already posted pieces about Taylor Swift, and Lana Del Rey, and they were the artists I listened to most in 2024. My choice of Taylor as Artist of the Year was easy. It wasn’t even close. She made the best record by far. She had the year’s biggest tour. She got written about, and photographed more than anyone else. And she deserved every accolade, and award she got. She’s the best, and most talented artist to debut this century, and I will listen to her music until my ears fall off. The Tortured Poets Society: The Anthology already cracked my all-time Top 200 Albums list when I revised it this summer. No album has ever done that in the year of release. And when I revise the list again, I would expect the album to move into the Top 100, and pull three or four of her older albums onto the list, too. Lana Del Rey will probably make the list as well, and maybe more than once.

     Several of the artists who made my Top New Releases list have never made the list before. Rachel Z released her first album, Sensual, in 15 years, and it might be her best. Softcult’s 6 track EP, Heaven was one I listened to again and again. Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet jumped seven places on my list after I saw her Tiny Desk Concert last week for NPR. She’s far more talented than I realized on first listen. Even Billie Eilish slipped onto the list this year. First time I’ve actually taken the time to listen to her, and I was impressed. But the old guard was well-represented by Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore whose TexiCali would’ve been an easy number one had Taylor Swift taken the year off. Willie Nelson released The Border, his best record in decades. X, Deep Purple, The Loons, and Lone Justice surprised with fine new albums. Lee Ritenour (at 72) and Dave Grusin (at 90!) bring decades of experience to their tasty Brasil album. Susanna Hoffs, Pat Metheny, and Yuja Wang have been here many times before, of course.

     The Reissues/Archive Releases list, on the other hand, has many of the usual suspects, but that’s the nature of the beast, so it’s fitting. Seven of the eight releases are live albums while the one studio set is a snapshot of what Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis was up to in the calendar year of 1954. It’s telling, too, that I didn’t buy a single box set this year.

     But the Finds of the Year list is always the one that excites me most because that’s where I get to add great albums to my collection that had previously slipped through the cracks. Half a dozen Taylor Swift albums, and four more by Lana Del Rey led the way, followed by a concerto John Adams wrote specifically for pianist Yuja Wang that is both old world Classical, and thoroughly contemporary. It was recorded in 2019, and is already among my favorite Yuja Wang recordings.

     I also caught up with a Sub Pop band called Tacocat whose first for the label was released in 2014, with a follow-up in 2016, and a third in 2019. The band is still together, and I hope planning a fourth release soon. It’s great Indie Pop that is without pretensions, and fits nicely with the very best bands in that genre. The rest of my “finds” are older than these, and I wrote about them previously in these pages.

     Finally, my three favorite books of the year were all books of music journalism, one a memoir by the Melody Maker’s Chris Charlesworth, and the other two collections of essays, and reviews from Rock’s history, and Trouser Press magazine. I read 44 other books in a variety of genres and categories, but none I enjoyed as much as these.

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Peter Tork and The Peter Tork Project, early 1980s; photos by Michael Ventura/Alamy.

“Eventually, Tork moved to New York City, working odd jobs and performing ‘sporadically.’ In the early ‘80s, after he quit drinking, he started a couple of bands, Peter Tork and the New Monks, and the heavy-metal-leaning Peter Tork Project. But Tork says that heavy drinking had ‘left me with mediocre skills. Until I started working on my skills again, it didn’t matter.’” - Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1992

“In June of 1982, Peter Tork was in my face again. It was at a gritty, downscale, but packed-to-the-gills club in Boston called Bunratty’s. (Long gone.) Tork, then 40, was on a tour he described as the ‘I Have to Laugh to Keep from Crying Tour.’ It was billed as Peter Tork and the New Monks – Tork plus four crack musicians providing a hard-rock ride down memory lane. We talked a bit between sets. Me: ‘What it’s like going through life and to always be viewed as a former Monkee?’ Tork: ‘Compared to what?’ I paused for a moment and thought to myself, ‘Exactly! When this is the life you’ve known, what can you compare it to?’ (This was one of the best answers I’d ever had to one of my queries.) I re-used this anecdote when I talked to Ringo years later – switching up Monkees for Beatles in his case – and he chuckled. ‘Yeah,’ he said. ‘What can you compare it to? This is where I am and this is what I am.’ So, why were we Bostonians packed shoulder-to-shoulder in the post-punk heyday to hear ‘60s pop done live and loud? ‘A lot of people come out and they want to remember the old songs,’ Tork said. ‘They want to drift back to when they were fetuses or however old they were then.’ [...] ‘When I arrive at the gates of St. Peter,’ Tork quipped, ‘he’s going to say First one to go . . . okay, we’ll let you in.’ One Peter to another. ‘When I quit the Monkees,’ Tork continued, ‘the first thing I wanted to do was divorce myself from the whole thing entirely.’ Tork formed a ‘straight- ahead pop rock’ band, Peter Tork and/or Release, but it failed to go anywhere. In late 1971 and early 1972 Tork spent three months in jail for possession of hashish. Tork, who was a folk musician prior to Monkee-dom, resurfaced in 1977 to play an acoustic gig at CBGB’s, at the time New York’s prime punk club. In a sense, punk was responsible for bringing Tork back to work. The Sex Pistols did a vicious sloppy cover of ‘Steppin’ Stone,’ and other punk new wave bands have embraced the Monkees on two levels: 1) damn good pop tunes and, 2) potential kitsch value. Tork, who was married and living in Venice, Calif., was on a tour playing small U.S. clubs. (Dolenz and Jones, incidentally, had also formed Monkees facsimiles at that time and were rumored still to be big stars in Japan.) Tork has been around the area all week – he was playing an even dive-ier club in nearby Somerville the next night – unveiling a repertoire that consisted of some Monkees tunes, some non-Monkees originals, and some early rock ‘n’ roll covers. He wasn’t exactly playing the Monkees’ songs by the (Boyce & Hart) book. I’d venture to say this was almost hard rock/heavy metal Monkees music. ‘The [Monkees] records are a little thin by contemporary standards,’ Tork said. ‘People who are just into rock ‘n’ roll and had a lot of contempt for the Monkees phenomenon as a whole aren’t going to come in the first place. People who are on the borderline – they liked the Monkees and they like rock ‘n’ roll today – are going to come. If I play it like it was off the records, they’re going to say ‘Well, it was nice to see him but so what?’ If I play ’em right and they want to dance, I’ve got good musicians whacking away and they’re going to come back.” Tork’s musicians – Phil Simon and Nelson Bogart, guitars; Vince Barranco, drums; and Paul Ill, bass – have played variously with Little Feat, Dave Brubeck, Joe Beck and Carolyne Mas. [...] Although not signed to a label, Tork said producer Jimmy Miller (Rolling Stones, Traffic) was ready to record an album with them. (Jimmy Miller, who lived in our region, was had made maybe the greatest Stones album ever in Exile on Main St., but was drug-damaged goods by that point, sad to say.) ‘My goals right now are to make a living entertaining,’ Tork said. ‘Put away something for my old age, cookouts on the weekend, no big thing. You never know what’s going to happen. One of these days I might make a mark on my own.’”- Rock and Roll Globe, February 2022

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OM.G.’s: Booker T. is 8-T

HBD to the OG M.G.: Booker T. Jones turns 80 today.

Born Nov. 12, 1944, in Memphis, Jones - sans surname - is the namesake leader of the M.G.’s, best known for their signature instrumental “Green Onions” and as the house band for Stax Records.

With the M.G.’s - guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn and drummer Al Jackson Jr. - Booker T. recorded with Otis Redding, Albert King, Bill Withers, Sam and Dave and others in the 1960s.

The musicians received renewed exposure as the house band in “The Blues Brothers” and the band is enshrined in the Rock and Roll, Musicians, Memphis Music and Blues halls of fame.

In the 21st century, Jones has recorded with Neil Young, Elton John and Leon Russell and others. He still plays occasionally with a different set of M.G.’s and his featured appearances in 2023’s “Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90” were among the film’s highlights.

11/12/24

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in regards to the act iii a lot of the suggestions I’ve seen are pretty much only 2000s rock scene based which I’m still all for but at the end of the day this is Beyoncé we’re talking about so the album is going to be musicology of rock n roll so here are my predictions/hopes of samples/collabs for act iii aka the rock album:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (the mother of rock n roll) (there’s a snippet of ‘Down By The Riverside’ featured on Smoke Hour w/ Willie Nelson already)

Elvis Presley

Tina Turner (devastated we won’t get a collab) probably ‘Proud Mary’

Aerosmith (hopefully a cover of ‘Dream On’)

The Rolling Stones

Little Richard

Prince

Led Zeppelin

Jimi Hendrix

Stevie Nicks

Rage Against The Machine

Lenny Kravitz

Michael Jackson (fingers crossed for ‘Dirty Diana’)

Paramore as an example of more recent rock bands.

Queen

Others I could see maybe as collaborators on the composition could be the rest of Fleetwood Mac, a Slash guitar solo, potentially Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl has played drums for other artists tracks a couple of times), maybe Elton John, etc.

Edit: ok this was in my drafts before she name dropped like a bunch of the people on my list at the iHeart awards last night this album is about to be so good

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Look who's Laughing

Meghan's BFF was spotted laughing backstage at the Chris Rock Live Show: Meghan's BFF, Janina Gavankar, famously told Gail King Meghan had receipts for those RACIST BRF conversations.🤥

Janina Gavankar was also filmed attempting a high five at the wedding, she was spotted in a vehicle with Harry & Meghan outside NOprah's house, and she credited herself with the (Soho House) Sussex trio 2019 Holiday photograph.

Janina heard the jokes a few times prior to the Live Taping so she knew what to expect. I wonder if Harry (or backers) telephoned Chris Rock (like South Park) to ask him not to use Meghan in his show?🤔 I think her influence could explain his use of Megflix talking points: "British Empire, Colonialism, and seems like a nice lady..."

Janina Gavankar, one of Meghan Markle’s longtime best friends, was at the live taping for Chris Rock’s blockbuster Netflix show Saturday night – and watched as the comedian skewered the Duchess of Sussex, Page Six can reveal.

The “Vampire Diaries” actress, who has been a staunch defender of Prince Harry’s wife and a close pal of hers for over 20 years, was at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theater to witness Rock make history for the streaming service’s first live global streaming event. Sources told Page Six that Gavankar, 42, joined her good friend Dave Chapelle backstage to watch the show in the VIP Green Room.

“Janina looked to be enjoying the show very much, she was standing up by the TV screens and laughing,” one eyewitness told us. Rock had finely honed his routine over the past few months at a number of gigs around the country, including at Radio City Music Hall in New York City back in October, where he made the same comments about Markle and the royals.

We’re told that Gavankar had been to previous shows, so she knew what to expect.

Gavankar joined a host of big names at Saturday’s show, including director Spike Lee and wife Tonya Lewis Lee, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, author Nelson George, comics Darnell Rollins, Sam Jay and actor Stephen Hill, alongside Arsenio Hall, David Spade and former “Saturday Night Live” stars Leslie Jones and Dana Carvey.

Gavankar was a guest at the Sussexes wedding in May 2018.

She also went on British TV after the royal family responded to the Oprah interview by saying “recollections may vary” at the couple’s claims of their hellish time behind palace walls.Speaking on “This Morning,” Gavankar hit back at the family’s claims they weren’t aware of the full extent of Meghan’s struggles while she was a working royal family member.

“Though their ‘recollections may vary,’ ours don’t because we lived through it with them,” Gavankar said, quoting directly from the Palace’s statement. “And there are many emails and texts to support that.”

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Kip Tyler - She's My Witch (1958) Kip Tyler from: "She's My Witch" / "Rumble Rock"

Rockabilly | 1st Wave Rock and Roll

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Kip Tyler: Vocals Mike Deasy: Guitar Bruce Johnston: Piano Jim Horn: Saxophone Dave Shostal: Bass Sandy Nelson: Drums

Recorded: @ The Gold Star Studios in Hollywood, California USA during November of 1958

Released: January of 1959

Ebb Records

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Tom Bukovac (born December 20, 1968) is an American session musician and producer. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in nearby Willowick, Ohio. He has been a Nashville-based musician since 1992.[1] He previously owned 2nd Gear, a used music consignment shop in South Nashville.[2]

Tom Bukovac

Tom Bukovac at Wacken Open Air with Ann Wilson 2022Background informationAlso known as

Uncle Larry

Session Man

Starship Trooper

Your Sagittarius Buddy from Cleveland

Little Tommy (6'3")

Larry

Mountain Larry

BornDecember 20, 1968 (age 55) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.Occupation(s)

Musician

producer

Instrument(s)

Guitar

Years active1980s–present

Tom Bukovac (born December 20, 1968) is an American session musician and producer. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in nearby Willowick, Ohio. He has been a Nashville-based musician since 1992.[1] He previously owned 2nd Gear, a used music consignment shop in South Nashville.[2]

Career[edit]

Bukovac began playing guitar at age eight, and performed his first shows at age thirteen at his widowed mother's bar, The Surfside Lounge, in Eastlake, Ohio. He moved to Nashville in 1992 to pursue a career as a guitarist.[1]

Bukovac has played on over 1200 albums,[1] including projects by Dan Auerbach and The Black Keys, Kid Rock, Morgan Wallen, Ann Wilson, The Struts, Steven Tyler, Stevie Nicks, Bob Seger, John Oates, Joan Osborne, Vince Gill, Dave Stewart, Joss Stone, Hank Williams Jr., Sheryl Crow, Don Henley, Carrie Underwood, Richard Marx, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Willie Nelson, Martina McBride, Faith Hill, Kenny Loggins, Reba McEntire, Blake Shelton, LeAnn Rimes, Florida Georgia Line, Lionel Richie, among many others.[3]

Bukovac has toured with Ann Wilson (2022 - Fierce Bliss Tour), Joe Walsh (2017) – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 40th Anniversary Tour[4]); Vince Gill (2016); John Fogerty; Faith Hill; Trigger Hippy; Wynonna Judd; Tanya Tucker, and others.[5] Bukovac is currently a member of The Jim Irsay band.

Bukovac has also won the Academy Of Country Music guitar player of the year award four times – 2008, 2010, 2016, and 2021.

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