Totally dig Saturday Night Music in The Hole….!!!
While it may not seem like a trying deal to some….I’ve spent the last three days starting to go through somewhere in the neighborhood of 5000 CDs that I still cart around from my radio days here in Santa Fe…I’m going through each and every one of them and rediscovering some real gems…..been thinking a lot about musical moments that changed my life…musically that is…
When I got to West Africa in ’69, I was quite surprised to hear African bands playing pedal steal guitars….even more surprised to hear Jim Reeves on jukeboxes everywhere…but later when King Sunny Ade from Nigeria fully unleashed Juju music onto the Western world in 1982, I wasn’t quite so surprised by the pedal steel guitar. This was his first American release Ja Funmi….it’s sung in Yoruba and means something along the lines of “fight for your life”…yeah, dig it…
some background on this. When I first went to work on the railroad , I worked third shift. now as in all companies each shift thinks they do the most work and are the best. We used to call the first shift the Pajama People. One night i took my daughter to work with me. We were going down in the elevator as the first shift was coming on. My daughter looked at me and said loudly ” mom here come the pajama people” Never tell your kids the things that are said at work,
We were watching History Detectives last night with each segment about a musician. Bob Dylan’s lost electric guitar, possible autographs of a couple Beatles, and a collage believed to made by Frank Zappa. All the segments were interesting but here’s Zappa’s.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.285683874795762.73964.285681181462698&type=1
this place has some of the amazing photos
Totally dig Saturday Night Music in The Hole….!!!
While it may not seem like a trying deal to some….I’ve spent the last three days starting to go through somewhere in the neighborhood of 5000 CDs that I still cart around from my radio days here in Santa Fe…I’m going through each and every one of them and rediscovering some real gems…..been thinking a lot about musical moments that changed my life…musically that is…
When I got to West Africa in ’69, I was quite surprised to hear African bands playing pedal steal guitars….even more surprised to hear Jim Reeves on jukeboxes everywhere…but later when King Sunny Ade from Nigeria fully unleashed Juju music onto the Western world in 1982, I wasn’t quite so surprised by the pedal steel guitar. This was his first American release Ja Funmi….it’s sung in Yoruba and means something along the lines of “fight for your life”…yeah, dig it…
that’s “steel guitars”…although some folks definitely did “steal guitars”….
Very nice
Holy moly, 5000. That will take a while. You need to do a serious best list and review post. Pretty please.
Just finished watching Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter on dvd.
It was fun.
Hey how come the video I tried to post didn’t embed? It’s real cute & I want y’all to see it.
I dunno. Some videos are like that.
Well, I tried again below & it didn’t work — TWICE.
Everybody click on the link — it’s really funny.
sawit, liked it, stole it and pasted on FB for my dog loving family
LOL
Awesome tunes once again!!!
awesome…think she was just touring in this area…but I missed her..
this is really moving…
Catchy tune.
Click on Share, copy and paste
Thank you Denise! You’re a genius.
But I’ve *never* had to do that before this video — cut & paste has always worked. {shrug} Weird.
Another from the same “band” (not as cute as We are Dogs):
*Dogs Like Socks not We are Dogs
Anything with Al Pacino AND Christopher Walken has gotta be worth watching:
I’m going to go stand in line now.
this is one movie I will go see. Each one of these guys is worth going to see. Together they are great
I love the Moody Blues
I miss that whole era of music, can you tell ? LOL.
Nice sequence. Eric Burton of the Animals passed on Justin Hayward during auditions, so Justin ended up with the Moody Blues instead.
Jim Morrison, sigh.
I always had a weakness for Texas blues.
Who doesn’t
now for another era
Damn I love music. OK, time to zonk out.
everybody that thinks the 1950s were so innocent should see someone do the “dirty dig” to this song
some background on this. When I first went to work on the railroad , I worked third shift. now as in all companies each shift thinks they do the most work and are the best. We used to call the first shift the Pajama People. One night i took my daughter to work with me. We were going down in the elevator as the first shift was coming on. My daughter looked at me and said loudly ” mom here come the pajama people” Never tell your kids the things that are said at work,
I saw him live in Maryland ; he loves us so .. he was wonderful , he made up a song about crabcakes just for us !
very talented man
We were watching History Detectives last night with each segment about a musician. Bob Dylan’s lost electric guitar, possible autographs of a couple Beatles, and a collage believed to made by Frank Zappa. All the segments were interesting but here’s Zappa’s.
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/frank-zappa-collage/
You just can’t imagine Zappa drinking the kool-aid with Bush III or pretending that OWS accomplished anything other than urban camping.
more moody blues
ZOMG!ZOMG!
Today is!
National Chocolate Cake Day!!!!!!
Always late to the party.