#prairieprince

[steveconte]

Found this in a vinyl shop in England - check out my man PP on the bottom right!! I’m so glad I got Prairie to fly to NYC to play & hang w/ me & brother John. He really lights up my new record! 1st single coming this summer… 👊🏼😎🎸🎶🎤💜 #prairieprince #thetubes #xtc #skylarking #whitepunksondope #steveconte #wickedcoolrecords #littlesteven #undergroundgarage (at England, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpgn9BmuHzA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[singeratlarge]

SONG OF THE WEEK— 55 years ago, David Bowie released his first version of “Space Oddity” to celebrate the pending Apollo 11 moon landing. When I was a teenager, the song reached me in the deepest way, and it radically affected how I create music. In recording my cover of it I was blessed to work “a galaxy of talented personnel” (credits):

Uma Robin Mackey: harmony vocals & “Lt. Uhura countdown”

Robert Matthew Powell: Ebow & pedal steel guitar

Prairie Prince: drums & percussion

Chris von Sneidern: electronic percussion & mixing

Me: bass, guitars, Mellotron, percussion, piano, Stylophone, vibraphone, lead & harmony vocals

Some interpret “Space Oddity” as a dystopian story of futility and failure. I beg to differ. If you study the indicators in David Bowie’s music, he enjoyed a spiritual quest, a pursuit of God’s heart in the cosmos, inner and outer. There’s no sign that Bowie killed off Major Tom. Instead, Bowie reprised the Major Tom character as a conflicted man, “…Strung out on heaven’s high, making an all-time low,” seeking redemption from his foibles while expressing awe at the vast potential of creation. 

My goal in covering this song point towards the childlike faith/sci-fi themes of my next full length album (in the works), WE’RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE SUN. 

#davidbowie #spaceoddity #progrock #psychedelicrock #britishrock #apollo11 #moonlanding #astronaut #majortom #umarobinmackey #robertmpowell #prairieprince #chrisvonsneidern #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge #mellotron #stylophone #ebow

[jettajimm]

Happy Birthday @MikeKeneally! 🎂🎈🎁🎉🎊🥳 Have a rockin' one! 🎼🎵🎹🎸🎤 #MikeKeneally #MichaelJosephKeneally #ProgJect #FrankZappa #DweezilZappa

#KeneallyMinnemannBeller #JamesLaBrie #SteveVai #JoeSatriani #WadadaLeoSmith #Ulver #HenryKaiser #PrairiePrince #AndyWest #ChrisOpperman #Detklok #DevinTownsend #PictureWithinAPicture #Inception #JamminJava #RamsHeadOnStage #Lumix #ZS40 #Gx7 #GH3

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📸: @lumberjackshoulders (1 & 2)

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[minstrel75itg]

Outside Inside is a 1983 album by The Tubes. It was the second album by the group to be released by Capitol Records. The album was produced by David Foster. The Tubes had their biggest radio hit with the single from this album, "She's a Beauty". This one is an “earlier release” on Capitol Records - ST-12260. (With the raised lettering, not the colored version) And, with the Martha Davis vocals. Early US copies of the album used embossed lettering for the eye chart on the front cover. This made the lettering hard to read. A later version of the cover had the eye chart along with artist and title information printed in red and blue. There are 2 different versions of the song "The Monkey Time". The original included guest vocals from Martha Davis of The Motels. Other copies used a version with Davis' vocal replaced by Michele Gray. #rockandroll #thetubesband #feewaybilll #vincewelnick #billspooner #prairieprince #capitolrecords #theeighties https://www.instagram.com/p/CIlW5eAr9hG/?igshid=11laqisk0ehx2

[records2]

・THE DAMNED / DAMED JAPAN VICTOR/STIFF LP WITH OBI 1979 ・ ・very rare japanese1979 vinyl issue ・ ・ ・ #damned #punk #ukpunk #punkrock # #prairieprince #hardrock #glamrock #withobi #vinylcollectionpost #vinylporn # #vinyljunkie #japan #japanesevinyl #rarelps #recordcollector #recordcollection #45rpm #fortyfive #7inch #dj #instavinyl #rarerecord #vinyllover #music #Discogs #iloveDiscogs https://www.instagram.com/p/CBN06u_J55F/?igshid=6xw1013ggobv

[ajweiner3]

#ToddRundgren steps in and produces and engineered his first (of 2) LP(s) for The Tubes, forever expanding and changing the sound of the band. This is my OG copy bought with 15 year old allowance money 🤘🏼😎 #nowplaying #TheTubes #RemoteControl #1979 #AandMRecords #vinyl #vinylrules #vinyligclub #vinylcommunity #vinylhoarder #nowspinning #onmyturntable #MichaelCotten #RogerSteen #RickAnderson #ReStyles #PrairiePrince #VinceWelnick #BillSpooner #FeeWaybill

[sinisterginger]

Finally got a copy of an album I've been after on #vinyl for years - a US 1st press of The Tubes classic debut album! Sounds great!! Now just to track down a copy of "Young & Rich"! #thetubes #feewaybill #billspooner #mikecotten #prairieprince #rogersteen #vincewelnick #rickanderson #prog #rock #igvinylclub #recordcollector #recordcollection #cratedigging #quaylude #whitepunksondope #mondobondage

[progenyvision]

If you're going to be in #SanFrancisco on December 27th, go see this #Hendrix #Tribute featuring our good friend Tom Ayres! "Message Of Love" - feat. Tom Ayres & Angelina Moysov, both of Persephone's Bees, & Prairie Prince of The Tubes. #Guitar - #TomAyres, #Drums - #PrairiePrince & #Bass - #AngelinaMoysov #instalike #instadaily #instagram #instagood

[krispyweiss]

Rewind: Todd Rundgren’s Johnson Live (2013)

In 2011 and 2012, Todd Rundgren’s musical journey took another anticipated twist with a tour and studio album - in that order - paying tribute to Robert Johnson.

Two years after the trek, Todd Rundgren’s Johnson - the band, not the organ - came to the marketplace with a live album commemorating the powerful thrust of these shows.

This band - Rundgren, former Utopia bassist Kasim Sulton, guitarist Jesse Gress and former Tubes drummer Prairie Prince - seriously cooked, whether it was tackling the Nazz (“Kiddie Boy”), deep Rundgren cuts (“Bleeding,” “I Went to the Mirror") or Johnson (most of the tracks).

Gress and Rundgren spend the album locked in an ongoing guitar duel, while the rhythm section of Sulton and Prince lays down a royal groove. Rundgren shreds his vocal cords as he belts out these songs with a red-hot passion that’s not always conducive to his mellower solo material and various touring formats.

Johnson’s small - 29 songs - catalog is among the 20th century’s most covered; however, as this document makes abundantly clear, Rundgren manages to bring something new to the table with his interpretations.

Rundgren is usually a love-him or hate-him proposition. But unlike most of his releases, Todd Rundgren’s Johnson Live is one that should appeal to fans and non-fans alike.

Go ahead. Take a taste of Todd Rundgren’s Johnson. You’ll like it.

Grade card: Todd Rundgren’s Johnson Live - A

Track list: Dust My Broom/Stop Breaking Down/Kiddie Boy/Kindhearted Woman Blues/Bleeding/Last Fair Deal Gone Down/Love in Vain/Sweet Home Chicago/Unloved Children/I Went to the Mirror/Come on in My Kitchen/Hellhound on My Trail/Traveling Riverside Blues/Crossroad Blues/I Saw the Light/Boogies (Hamburger Hell)

[steveconte]

I’m thankful for a lot this Holiday Season… #andypartridge #xtc #cowriting #zoom #steveconte #newalbum #wickedcool #records #undergroundgarage #littlesteven #prairieprince #drums #johnconte #bass (at Swindon.) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmm4bKqOx80/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Isaac Albéniz, Per "Howlin' Pelle" Almqvist (The Hives), Mel B, Annette Bening, Johnny Cash’s 1976 single “One Piece at a Time,” Kato Cephus, G.K. Chesterton, Roy Crewdson (Freddie & the Dreamers), Karla DeVito, Danny Elfman, The Everly Brothers 1960 single “Cathy’s Clown,” Noel Gallagher (good to have met you), Mel Gaynor (Simple Minds), Haydn’s 1753 opera “The Limping Devil,” Valy Hedjasi, Bob Hope, LaToya Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Ted Levine, Sylvester Magee, Karl Münchinger, David Palmer (ABC), Adrian Paul, Mike Porcaro, Freddie Redd, Sylvia Robinson, Francis Rossi (Status Quo), Schoenberg’s 1956 “Modern Psalm,” Carl Story, Stravinsky’s riotous 1913 ballet “The Rite of Spring,” Mitch Taylor, Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I A Woman?” speech (1851), The Waitresses 1982 single “I Know What Boys Like,” Randall Woodfin, bassist "The Senator" Eugene Wright, Iannis Xenakis, and one of my heroes, the late, great keyboardist, singer-songwriter, co-founder of Procol Harum and sidearm to Eric Clapton and George Harrison: Gary Brooker. His solo albums + Procol Harum albums have been with me since they were new, and I’ve covered a few of their songs (I love doing “Whiskey Train”). In my orbit, The Davy Jones Band did a share-bill with Procol Harum, and everyone raved about PH’s set. Gary’s 1982 album LEAD ME TO THE WATER partially inspired my first album DOOR IN THE WATER. Here’s a recently-made and marvelous cover of PH’s signature hit, “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” performed by my pals down at the studio, Chris von Sneidern & Friends: https://sircvs.bandcamp.com/track/a-whiter-shade-of-pale

Meanwhile, heavenly HB to GB and thank you for your years of trail-blazing musical excellence.

#garybrooker #procolharum #chrisvonsneidern #prairieprince #tapevaultstudio #sanfrancisco #birthday #pale #classicrock #britishrock #ericclapton #georgeharrison #davyjones #monkees #johnnyjblair #whitershadeofpale #doorinthewater

[jettajimm]

Happy Birthday @MikeKeneally! 🎂🎈🎁🎉🎊🥳 Have a rockin' one! 🎼🎵🎹🎸🎤 #MikeKeneally #MichaelJosephKeneally #ProgJect #FrankZappa #DweezilZappa

#KeneallyMinnemannBeller #JamesLaBrie #SteveVai #JoeSatriani #WadadaLeoSmith #Ulver #HenryKaiser #PrairiePrince #AndyWest #ChrisOpperman #Detklok #DevinTownsend #PictureWithinAPicture #Inception #JamminJava #RamsHeadOnStage #Lumix #ZS40 #Gx7 #GH3

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📸: @lumberjackshoulders (1 & 2)

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[minstrel75itg]

Remote Control is the fifth album released by the Tubes. This was their first to be produced by Todd Rundgren (the other being 1985's Love Bomb). It is a concept album about a television-addicted idiot savant. Originally released in 1979, this is on A&M Records - SP-3242. Producer #toddrundgren suggested that the next work be a concept album. Lead singer #feewaybill sketched out a storyline based on his favorite book, Being There by Jerzy Kosinski. "It wasn't an original concept," he admits, but "I tried to make it more contemporary." Rundgren encouraged the musical adaptation, and thrust himself into the project, as was his style: "Every song has so much of him," marveled #prairieprince #rockandroll #70s #thetubes #aandmrecords #vincewelnick https://www.instagram.com/p/CIdqE3RLa7X/?igshid=wxi08znirkt0

[records2]

・TUBES / YOUNG AND RICH JAPAN A&M LP WITH OBI 1976 ・ ・very rare japanese1976 vinyl issue ・Prairie Prince as #toddrungren band member ・ ・ #tubes #joker #americanrock #punkrock #experimentalrock #prairieprince #hardrock #glamrock #withobi #vinylcollectionpost #vinylporn # #vinyljunkie #japan #japanesevinyl #rarelps #recordcollector #recordcollection #45rpm #fortyfive #7inch #dj #instavinyl #rarerecord #vinyllover #music #Discogs #iloveDiscogs https://www.instagram.com/p/B5mrEvDJOcL/?igshid=blh0u8ml6mcl

[ajweiner3]

Tonight the 14 year old inside me was really happy... #TheTubes open the show with #ChuckBerry's #YouCanNeverTell #CanyonClub #FeeWaybill #RogerSteen #PrairiePrince #RickAnderso #DavidMedd (at The Canyon)

[dwarven-company-blog]

*invites the company to my table at the pub* now! how many pints will all you boys be wanting? I'm buying!

Gloin: “Seven.”

Oin: “Ay, that ought to do it.”

Gloin: “…Those  r’only for me.”