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This is Vegas baby!

P.o.B. — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:42:06 -0800

Lost Vegas is a documentary that follows Laura Ling as she tours the wreckage of Sin City, from unemployed strippers and half-built, abandoned casino projects, to hospitals turning away cancer patients and ambulances, to one of the few remaining boom industries--evicting people. Vanguard is Current TV's documentary series. Other docs include: Somali refugees washing up on Yemen's shores, Narco War Next Door, Japan: Robot Nation.

Jazz bassist who blew them all away

Seekerofsplendor — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:03:15 -0800

In July of 1961, the bass genius Scott LaFaro, perished in a fiery car crash after visiting family and friends in upstate NY, just ten days after doing the last gigs he would ever do with the great Bill Evans's trio (which became the legendary live recordings from the Vanguard) . He was only 24 years old. But he was also developing as a fine writer as well, as this Evans trio track - a mystical ballad in 9/4, shows. LaFaro, one jazz' greatest innovators, blazed a trail in only six short years with Ornette Coleman, Stan Getz, Hampton Hawes, Victor Feldman (once Miles Davis' pianist, and a Steely Dan studio regular), Freddie Hubbard and many others. But he is still best known for his revolutionary contributions to that classic Evans trio. (previously). After this rendering of "Jade Visions", Evans never played it again anywhere. (Though he did do LaFaro's "Gloria's Step" frequently in the 70s.)

What was shakin' in '58.

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:35:27 -0800

The year was 1957: the Soviet Union had launched the cutest little sattelite ever. And it didn't just look good, it sounded good, too! As sweet a sound as any avant garde composer of the 1950's might dream up! Of course, the US would have to get a little metal ball of its own into space, but things didn't go so well. They did manage to get one up there in 1958, but nobody knows if it sounded as good as ol' Sputnik. But anyway, most folks weren't listening to satellites 50 years ago, they were listening to, well, lessee, there was... Pop, Rock, Rockabilly and DooWop: Sweep of US #1 Hits of 1958 Purple People Eater, novelty song #1 hit by Sheb Wooley. Rip It Up by rockabilly mic-stand-stepper-over Gene Vincent. Get Rhythm, that patented Johnny Cash brand of rockabilly! All Over Again, one more from Johnny, from the same gig. Suppertime, one more from Johnny Cash, this one on the country tip. Little Queenie by a knee-knockin' Chuck Berry. "She's too cute to be a minute over seventeen"... Mercy by Lorrie & Larry Collins. Lorrie was one wild chick, and really tears it up on this one. Younger brother Larry, on doubleneck guitar, was a protege of Joe Maphis. Bang Bang by Janis Martin. "So if you feel you'd like to make a deal, cock your pistol and rooty toot toot! Bang bang bang!" Some of the images in this clip maybe a little NSFW. Circle Rock, a little slice of honky-tonk rockin' from Cowboy Copas. Zing Went the Strings, an almost tropical vibe to this Doo-wop number from the Coasters. So Far Away, Doo-wop by the Pastels. Twilight and Vows of Love, Doo-wop by the Paragons. Dream Dream Dream, familiar hit from the Everly Brothers. Jazz: A Night in Tunisia, Dizzy Gillespie Moanin' Low, Billie Holiday Exactly Like You, Big Joe Turner In the Chapel in the Moonlight and I've Found a New Baby, Sonny Rollins Down By the Old Mill Stream, Sidney Bechet A Gal in Gallico, Oscar Peterson Jeepers Creepers, Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden What a Little Moonlight Can Do, Billie Holiday Lullaby of Broadway, by jazz fiddle legend Stuff Smith Classical and Contemporary: Oistrakh and Menhuhin play Bach. Go, Yehudi! Maria Callas does her thing in Gay Paree. Poeme Electronique: Varèse/ Xénakis/Le Corbusier And... 1958 saw Elvis inducted into the Army. And while we're here, let's take a look at some B movie trailers. They're a real scream: Teenage Caveman Dragstrip Riot Juvenile Delinquent And dig this hep clip, daddy-o, from the TV show, 77 Sunset Strip. Plus this, from the Golden Age of air travel: Pan Am Boeing 707 Promo film, 1958 Oh, and getting back to that Stockhausen fellow, here's a Wikipedia page with some background on the piece linked in the FPP: Gesang der Jünglinge. And finally, if you wanna hear more of that cute little Russian satellite, check previously. Beep beep beep, y'all.

PrinceValium — Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:03:24 -0800

Get laid off in public. Vanguard Airlines suspends operations; posts its system-wide pink slip on its HOME PAGE for you all to see. "Wages and salaries owed you as of today are "prepetition wages" and likely will not be paid for a matter of months, if not longer.... Any Vanguard stock you hold (including stock purchased in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan) is almost certainly worthless and it is likely you will be entitled to claim a capital loss on such stock this year." But not all is gloomy: the CEO "wish[es] you the best in your future career. You will be in our prayers." Aww, shucks.