American Bandstand meets Debbie Harry. She goes utterly cool, a McLuhan-like antidote to the hot mainstreaming of the Bandstand. The audience? Watch for the hot-body boytoy in the yellow form-fitting T in the front row. Just to be sure younger readers know, that wasn’t the typical look for the launch of New Wave. But it […]
Do not play what’s there; play what’s not there. Miles Davis
There was a time once when the opening bars of this song — almost any by the Pogues, really — would bring the sense of tears to the corners of my eyes, a tightness across my chest. There was so much Love that had been lost, so much yearning that had been misplaced, too many […]
A performance with John Cale in 1972 and with Pete Townshend in 2007 of Waiting for The Man. Watch both and reflect on what changes with age and what stays the same.
The impulse in song What wants to sing, to thresh the air with sound and watch the chaff rise, lift, grab, elevate, erupt Into a line of song that makes me want to swing my legs to and fro, snap my fingers like this? The ball of my foot pushes on the wood floor so I can see […]
via youtube.com Covering the Plain White T’s. from Dan McCarthy’s Stream
via friends.peoria.lib.il.us Of the musicians, only David Murray is still alive. from Dan McCarthy’s Stream
Have always loved this tune, for its harmonics, its melodics and the way it makes you feel. Great filmed performance.
via amycrehore.blogspot.com Catch this clip using an early sound/video recording process (Vitaphone). Soothing and energizing all at once: a pop music curiosity. Thanks to Amy Crehore at Little Hokum Rag for digging this up. from Dan McCarthy’s Stream
via tsutpen.blogspot.com Such a gifted, balanced singer that she could take treacle and turn it into transcendence. Go listen to her to close out the decade and remember when the big band behind the voice was designed to elevate the voice, provide the harmonies and feature the song. from Dan McCarthy’s Stream