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WKRP In Cincinnati (Closing Theme). What the words to this? Are there any words? If they aren't words then what the hell are they, exactly? And what exactly is the story behind putting a song like that on a nationally broadcast sitcom? Anybody know the backstory?
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at 5:10 PM on July 13, 2008
(6 comments)
I've been developing a taste for Mexican/border music.
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at 5:00 PM on June 11, 2008
(20 comments)
Coming home with my reel-to-reel.
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at 8:21 PM on May 20, 2008
(13 comments)
Lit-crit/what the hell is the word I'm looking for?
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at 8:54 AM on December 2, 2007
(23 comments)
ItchFilter.
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at 5:36 AM on November 19, 2007
(24 comments)
WFMU's The Hound
has been delighting record geeks for the past few decades with sets of some of the wildest, wooliest rockabilly, R&B, blues, gospel, garage rock, and punk that can be dug out of crates. His site offers
full podcasts, and individual mp3's under the
show links, and organized by
artist, and
title.
Bo Diddley singing to Kruschev! Blues songs about the Kinsey report! The Cashmere's talking about the hop! Brownie McGee singing about baseball's integration! Roughly 4 million variations on 'The Twist!' And that;s just the tip of this glorious iceberg.
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at 8:19 AM on November 18, 2007
(12 comments)
The Iron City Houserockers
were Pittsburgh's entry in the Heartland Rock Sweepstakes that occured after the success of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger. They had literate lyrics, tough rock and roll backing, and clear-eyed vision. Led by
Joe Grushecky, a special ed teacher by day, produced by Miami Steve Van Zandt of the E Street Band, and possessed of tunes like
"Junior's Bar" (youtube), they seemed poised to hit the big time, but it never quite happened, which is the music audience's loss. He is, however the subject of a loving tribute in the form of
"A Good Life: The Joe Grushecky Story" (trailer).
posted to MetaFilter by jonmc
at 2:07 PM on October 15, 2007
(27 comments)
Books About Work.
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at 5:58 PM on September 26, 2007
(44 comments)
Pantsfilter.
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at 5:36 PM on August 9, 2007
(9 comments)
Felix Pappalardi
was a famous arranger and producer for the likes of Cream, the Youngbloods and the Vagrants, where he met
Leslie West with whom he formed the
legendary hard rock band Mountain who had hits with "Mississippi Queen" "For Yasgur's Farm" and a masterful reworking of Jack Bruce's "Theme From An Imaginary Western". In 1983, Pappalardi's
wife shot him, in what she claimed was an accident. She was convicted of criminially negligent homicide and
sentenced to four years.
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at 6:26 AM on May 30, 2007
(40 comments)
Andy Fraser, the man who wrote and played on 'All Right Now,' one of the great swaggering rock songs, talks about his music, sexuality and living with AIDS in
this exhaustive interview
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at 10:44 AM on May 22, 2007
(18 comments)
Sports Bio Recomendations.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc
at 5:49 PM on April 28, 2007
(19 comments)
One Music Geek's Favorite Songs and Why.
As someone who posts at various communities about music a lot at various communities, I decided to create a vox blog where I count down my 300 favorite (note: I'm talking about subjective favorites here,
not objective 'best') songs at the rate of (usually) one a day, accomapnied by an essay. This could either be illuminating and interesting or an exercise in pure narcissism. Due to vox's limitations, the songs are streaming mp3 only.
This entry gives a detailed description on my intents.
posted to Projects by jonmc
at 8:33 AM on December 30, 2006
Larry Harlowe
(born Lawrence Kahn) was a Jewish kid from a racially mixed Brooklyn neigborhood who discovered the
clave rhythm. Encouraged by his musician parents, he pursued his new love and became one of the genre's
most admired players and one of the first artists signed to the legendary
Fania (lovingly annotated reissues are on the street from this label), working with
legends of the form. He also was one of the men behind
'Hommy,' the first 'salsa opera,' about a deaf-dumb-and-blind conga player (gee, that sounds familiar). One of the more interesting and illustrious musical charcters of our time.
posted to MetaFilter by jonmc
at 9:12 AM on October 19, 2006
(13 comments)
Frank Collin.
Just your average everyday half-Jewish Neo-Nazi pederast occult author. Former leader of the Neo-Nazi group that
marched through the predominantly Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie in 1977, triggering protests and court battles. Collin himself was half-Jewish, strangely. He later went to jail for child molestation and seems to have turned to writing books about witchcraft since his release. A truly strange story.
posted to MetaFilter by jonmc
at 6:26 AM on August 24, 2006
(14 comments)
Fashion Question.
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at 4:05 PM on July 31, 2006
(34 comments)
Among Springsteen fans, the song
"Meeting Across The River," has become something of a point of contention and parlor game in terms of what happens to the protagonists afterwards. Many speculated that
"Jungleland," was a continuation of the story. Several authors have taken the enterprise a step further
in a new anthology.
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at 12:08 PM on July 12, 2006
(12 comments)
I'm going to be out of work in two months (happily), and one thing I'm thinking of exploring is radio, both for the sheer fun of it and maybe as a career choice since when I was a kid I desperately wanted to be Johnny Fever. I have a
voice for it, I'm told, and the music knowledge, and the patter. I realize that I'll have to start out doing it for free at a college station or something, but that's cool. So, how does one go about doing this? Be as detailed as possible.
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at 10:43 AM on April 21, 2006
(32 comments)
Al 'Blind Owl' Wilson
was one of the more interesting characters on the 60's music scene. A contemporary (and fellow traveler) of
John Fahey, and student of blues history and with Bob Hite, the founder of seminal 60's blues-rockers
Canned Heat (
youtube video of Wilson and the Heat featuring the Owl on vocals) . A painfully introverted man who suffered from depression and addiction throughout his life, Wilson had a light touch and lack of histrionics uncommon among his blues-revival contemporaries. He died by his own hand at 27.
Blind-owl.net is a loving and comprehensive tribute, featuring many rare
interviews and
photos.
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at 11:51 AM on March 22, 2006
(11 comments)
Wilson Picket passes on.
Pickett, one of
greatest stars in the
Stax stable, the singer of such classics as "In The Midnight Hour," and "Mustang Sally," (the latter a standard for just about every R&B singer and garage band in the world) has died of a heart attack. he was 64.
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at 3:57 PM on January 19, 2006
(62 comments)
FollowUpFilter: A few weeks back, I
mentioned in AskMe that I was diagnosed with a few rather large kidney stones, and many people in the thread gave me some very useful information, and mentioned that the first course of treatment would be
lithotripsy, which it was. From there, the plot thickens. [MI]
posted to MetaTalk by jonmc
at 6:31 PM on October 11, 2005
(61 comments)
I've just returned from a renal ultrasound where I learned that I have a
whopper of a kidney stone (.8 centimeters or something sitting just above my ureter, which explains my oft-complained of back pain (and testiness). I'm seeing my doctor tommorrow about my options, one of which was mentioned was surgery. But I'd like to know some more about what I'm in for and what questions I should ask. Thanks.
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at 1:52 PM on September 27, 2005
(21 comments)
Is someone using Mefi as his own private soapbox?
He has his opinions and that's great (even though I strongly disagree with a lot of them), but I don't think providing a platform for the Gospel According To Cleardawn was what matt had in mind.
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at 8:05 AM on September 5, 2005
(136 comments)
ForMyBetterHalfFilter: Pips is looking for a good women's salon in New York when she can get her hair cut and styled to her liking for under $75. As a guy who gets $12 trims I have no idea. Any suggestions?
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at 6:35 AM on August 25, 2005
(9 comments)
Dad's salary is skyrocketing - on TV.
(list
here all averaged by profession and adjusted for inflation) "Today's TV dads average salaries of $195,000 after adjusting for inflation, according to Salary.com."
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at 7:32 AM on July 26, 2005
(42 comments)
I'm considering getting a tattoo. (yeah, I know I've dissed body art before, sue me). I've got a few questions.
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at 11:57 AM on June 12, 2005
(35 comments)
I have very little interest in classical music, but lately I've found myself intrigued by opera, of all things. It seems very rock and roll in it's inherent drama and showmanship and...humanity for lack of a better word. Or perhaps it's merely my Italian heritage calling me home. Any good ideas on where to start? I'd prefer older recordings because I'm big on starting at the source. I kinda like that "La donna mobile..." thing that you hear on sports shows sometimes. Thanks.
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at 7:38 PM on April 6, 2005
(23 comments)
Jesus Freak Rock of the 60's &
70's.
Rising out of the post-
hippie "
Jesus Freak" culture, many of the adherents were disenchanted counterculturists or just plain casualties of the time. Many of the musicians were already rockers before converting, so they were comfortable with the idiom, and it seemed to be more about sincerity than political propoganda. Compared to today's CCM corporate juggernaut it seems positively guileless.
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at 9:15 AM on March 20, 2005
(20 comments)
I've just recently set up my first wireless home network consisting of a Win XP box on a cable modem hooked up to an AirPort Extreme sending a signal to an iBook. It's working great except for problems with my favorite p2p program (WinMX). I now have to use a "secondary" connection to the network which yeilds less effective search results and performance and I am unable to upload files to the network. My research tells me that I need to do some fiddling with my firewall to make things work better, which is uncharted territory for me. Does anyone know what I need to do, and can you explain it to me in basic, clear terms. Thanks.
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at 10:32 AM on February 27, 2005
(17 comments)
Somebody's cranky. I tried disciplining him myself, but he's made me take the unprecedented step of dragging him to the principal's office.
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at 7:48 PM on January 25, 2005
(63 comments)
The Dictators. Even in this age of crate-digger archaeology, especially when it comes to the roots of punk rock, this band of Bronx miscreants is little known except to cognoscenti. The stream of punk most identified with The Ramones (unapologetically crude three-minute pop singles, pop culture obsessed, based around fun, what Tom Carson called "deadly serious kidding")
began with these guys first three albums and lives on in the work of The Muffs, Nashville Pussy, The Supersuckers and countless others. A rock and roll treasure often overlooked.
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at 5:04 PM on January 25, 2005
(31 comments)
I have a large record collection. For years I've used discount store shelving, DIY CD racks from Record Town and cardboard boxes & milk crates to store them. It always wound up looking sloppy and being kind of ad hoc organizationally. I've looked at the usual furniture outlets, but their either too expensive or not what I'm looking for: a collection of storage units that could stand against one wall in a small room, capable of holding a large quantity of a large variety of media (CD's, LP's 45's cassettes, boxed sets). Does anyone know a place that specializes in large quantity collector shelves at a reasonable price or has anyone come up with a good home-cooked solution?
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at 6:56 AM on January 21, 2005
(21 comments)
Judy Henske. One of
The Great Lost Artists of the early 60's folk/blues revival. An original among hacks and pretenders. Forgotten by most beloved by many, including crime novelist
Andrew Vachss. A torch singer worthy of the name.
posted to MetaFilter by jonmc
at 6:33 PM on January 19, 2005
(26 comments)
