The Rolling Stones not vs Jimi Hendrix but along WITH Jimi Hendrix
providing some of the best "new" music of 2010!
providing some of the best "new" music of 2010!
Interesting that the best music of the past year - in packaging and performance, are the classic hits of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Tommy James. "The original's still the greatest" Dobie Gray prophesied with his immortal The "In" Crowd in 1965, 46 years later the "other guys" no longer imitate us...and that's the problem! As I listen to "Three Times In Love" by Tommy James I'm just amazed at the power of this power pop and how it all got lost in the translation.
http://www.angelair.co.uk/sjpcd350a.htm
Radio stations play "all Christmas" music starting before Thanksgiving...while other stations are rife with sophomoric jokes and tired banter. As poor as hit radio was in the 1960s and 1970s it blows away the absurdity
Original Joe Viglione review of Three Times in Love vinyl LP on
AllMusic.com http://www.allmusic.com/album/3-times-in-love-r41609/review
Classic hits radio in Boston is so blues-based that it ignores true pop music that excites the senses. And the biggest insult, rather than play solid blues like the early Animals ("Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", "It's My Life") these stations don't even play the band's poppier side, "Don't Let Me Down", "Sky Pilot" or "Monterey". Crosby Stills Nash & Young can get Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" some airtime, but the stations are so lacking in style and innovation that you won't hear the rendition on the soundtrack to the Woodstock film, despite all the hoopla over Woodstock...not to mention Jimi Hendrix.
http://www.angelair.co.uk/sjpcd345.htm
Which brings us to the new Hendrix boxed set WEST COAST SEATTLE BOY: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology
ALICE COOPER Theater of Death
My review of Alice's DVD / CD is in TMR Zoo - read it here: Theater of Death
Miscellaneous stuff to cause trouble....
BALIN APOLOGIZES TO WRITER JEFF TAMARKIN
Marty Balin phoned to wish me a Merry Christmas this Dec. 25th afternoon at 3:35 PM for those who want to be precise (or peek onto my cellphone time and date)...I noted to him that Jeff Tamarkin was not pleased about the comments Marty made in the new Crawdaddy Magazine interview. Marty had not read it yet...
Here's the Crawdaddy interview by Andrew Lau:
http://www.crawdaddy.com/index.php/2010/12/16/jefferson-airplanes-marty-balin-gets-out-of-his-own-way/2/
Balin told me that he stopped working with Bob Yehling and had no idea the "interview" turned into a book "Full Flight: A Tale of Airplanes & Starships"
Marty said that Yehling was quoting incorrect information from a variety of sources so he (Marty) didn't feel like continuing the interview.
JEFF TAMARKIN AIN'T THE ONLY ONE WITH SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BALIN CRAWDADDY INTERVIEW:
The Crawdaddy article is called "Marty Balin Gets Out Of His Own Way", but as Lau asks him about "Versace", saying it "has a strange film noir feel to it, even though it’s a true story, and it’s unlike anything you’ve ever written". Marty replies: "... I love Versace, his design, his style… thought he was a great artist. I was just playing these chords and walked into the room and the news was on and they were talking about the Versace murder. ... You ought to hear the dance mix I did for that—different bass line. It’s really funky. This friend of mine in Boston, he’s gay and he said, “Oh, I love that song, man.” And I thought, “Hmm, gay guy, Versace…” Great! work, Marty! You have a Boston and he's "gay" ? How descriptive? Who is it? Ryan Reynolds? Perry Mason? Raymond Burr? Rock Hudson? Jim Naybors? Tony Romo? Phil Rivers? Me? Penn Badgley? Me and Penn Badgley together? Dylan Walsh when he was cute in the movie "Bloodwork?" Tell us, Marty? Who have you outed??? Here's an interesting video of Badgley and Walsh in THE STEPFATHER where you can watch the film condensed!
re-title magazine article: Getting In Your Own Way...and ending up in the Rock Journalist's miscellaneous department...
Is Ryan Reynolds the new Burt Reynolds? Burt took his clothes off and showed his fuzzy-self to the world in Playgirl...Ryan is the well-shaved picture perfect model material GQ type with the obligatory gay rumors swirling around him . "Brokeback Mountain II" could feature a resurrected Jake Gyllenhall with Reynolds Ryan, that's a wrap, and Penn Badgley...
Go to the above link on obligatory gay rumors to read what the comment posters have to say:
(THIS IS FROM A COMMENT SECTION, NOT FROM THE ROCK JOURNALIST!
" also think most male actors are gay. I think it's rare to find a really straight one. I agree. Ryan Reynolds, John Travolta, Michael C. Hall, George Clooney, Daniel Craig, Tom Cruise... etc., etc.
All gay. "
OK, BACK TO ME, THE ROCK JOURNALIST:
Heck, at least they weren't pairing them up with Barbara Stanwyck. Read her Wikipedia to see the blatant comment about arranged marriages in Hollywood, yet still they say she "fell in love" with Robert Taylor. Read The Leading Men of MGM for more info on that!
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Leading-Men-of-MGM/Jane-Ellen-Wayne/e/9780786717682
POP CULTURE STUFF
A Charlie Brown Christmas
http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/interview-with-charlie-brown-christmas-producer-lee-mendelson--2027
Miracle on 34th Street vs. Miracle On 34th Street (remake)
(review pending approval by author as he mulls it over in his own mind...stay tuned, 4:33 pm December 25, 2010...
Thanks to my Visual Radio guests, in no particular order....
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