A cut out newsprint ad reads: Benefit Concert for Switchboard & WGTB-FM "Every night is Halloween" New York Dolls plus Babe 7:30, Fri., Dec. 14th G.W. Lisner Auditorium 21st & H Sts., N.W. 333-5596
Today's completely unexpected find: an ad from the one and only time I saw the New York Dolls, in Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University in Washington, DC, 1973. #NewYorkDolls #DavidJohansen #JohnnyThunders
Ordered!
Four members of the band the Dream Syndicate onstage: two guitars, drums, and bass.
Saw the Dream Syndicate last night, and this was NOT a band of aging rockers on a perfunctory tour behind an archival re-release. These guys were ON FIRE. Two sets: the first of new material they've been recording for the last few years and the second a scorching run through of the Medicine Show LP.
Tommy Keene. Gone eight years now, and WAY too soon. God, I miss this guy. youtu.be/9mYhfKybvys?...
Cool! Recognized this as soon as I scrolled past his face. Was just there a few weeks ago. I hope you’re going to some of the other awesome art environments in Wisconsin!
Really digging the reissue of the Soft Boys' Underwater Moonlight, especially "Queen of Eyes," where they damn near out-Byrds the Byrds. #softboys #robynhitchcock
Trying times, I know, but Happy Dock Ellis Day to all those who celebrate. #DockEllis #LSDNoNo
RIP David Thomas of Pere Ubu. Here's one of my faves performed by a combo of Pere Ubu and the David Letterman house band in 1991. #PereUbu #DavidThomas youtu.be/az5hpBtjEbo?...
BBQ capital? It's in Ayden, NC.
Belated tribute to Clem Burke, one of the coolest drummers ever, from the Plimsouls 1998 comeback album, featuring, as Peter says, "Clem Burke going crazy on drums." #ClemBurke #Plimsouls #PeterCase
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A painting on the side of a brick building of Thelonious Monk, playing his piano, with clouds surrounding his head.
Thelonious Monk mural in Rocky Mount, NC, Monk’s birthplace. Put up in 2020 as part of a continuing series of murals of North Carolina musicians. #TheloniousMonk #NorthCarolina
Damn. I had no idea. The only time I saw Blondie, they opened with the as-yet-unreleased “Dreaming” and I was just floored.
They weren't slouches the other time we saw them, either, when they blew Blondie off the stage at Merriweather Post Pavilion.
I got to see Rockpile twice, I've heard a lot of live tapes, and I've seen a ton of videos, but my god, I don't think I've ever heard them sound this great. Dig especially "Switchboard Susan." Go Terry Williams! #rockpile #nicklowe #daveedmunds www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kSI...
Surprised you haven't gotten any grief from the Peter Green contingent, but hey, you won't hear it from me, either—my favorite Fleetwood Mac album is Kiln House.
Yeah, you're correct. The second one is a former restaurant, part of the Red Barn chain from the 60s and 70s.
The cover of Hitchcock's book is text that reads: Robyn Hitchcock 1967 How I Got There And Why I Never Left A Memoir
Happiest of birthdays to Robyn Hitchcock. I loved his book 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left. Mostly an evocative memoir of his boarding school days and his concurrent discovery of the pop music of the time. The couple of cameos by Brian Eno are particularly amusing.
The cover of Robyn Hitchcock's album Black Snake Diamond Role, which features a black & white photo of Robyn from the waist up, holding what appears to be a pear.
I have one of those annoying car/iPhone combos where every time I reconnect the phone, it reverts my playlist to the first song alphabetically. Super glad I put Robyn Hitchcock's Black Snake Diamond Role on my phone, because now, at least, I get to start each day with the song "Acid Bird."
Black & white photo of David Johansen, vocalist with the New York Dolls, onstage with guitarists Sylvain Sylvain and Johnny Thunders behind him.
So sorry to hear that the last Doll has left the stage. I got to see the New York Dolls exactly once, at Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University in Washington, DC, on Friday, Dec. 14, 1973. Pic below on the cover of Hype fanzine is from that show. RIP David Johansen.
A painting of a musician Elizabeth Cotten from the chest up, holding and playing an acoustic guitar, on a two-story brick wall.
Elizabeth Cotten mural in Durham, NC, Cotten’s birthplace. Part of a series of murals of North Carolina musicians. A left-handed and self-taught guitarist and songwriter, Cotten performed at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival and won a Grammy in 1984 at the age of 91.
#ElizabethCotten #NorthCarolina
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A painting of a headshot of musician Betty Davis mounted on a two-story wall.
Betty Davis mural in Durham, NC, Davis’s birthplace. Put up in 2020 in the UHill Walls project and as part of a continuing series of murals of North Carolina musicians.
#BettyDavis #NorthCarolina
Sage words that I agree with. The 1st 1/3 did a great job of getting around not having any footage. But then wait--they broke up already? The Jerden album sucks? No one outside the PNW ever heard of them? And that Shangri-Las story is pointless filler. Still made me get out their records, though.
A painting of John Coltrane, from the waist up, holding a saxophone, on a four-story-tall brick wall.
John Coltrane mural on the back wall of what was once the Hamlet Theatre in Hamlet, NC, Coltrane’s birthplace. Based on a photograph by Chuck Stewart and completed in 2020. The first of a continuing series of murals of North Carolina musicians.
#JohnColtrane #NorthCarolina
