Sunday, March 30, 2008, posted by tony at Sunday, March 30, 2008
 
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008, posted by tony at Wednesday, March 26, 2008


Oh yes, he referenced an episode right out of the original Star Trek series (ep. 30, "The Squire of Gothos"). Movies seem to have profound effects on Dylan, especially as fodder for his songwriting in the 1980s. He's clearly a fan of Bogey, Brando, and Gregory Peck. With special emphasis on Bogey.If anyone writes poetry these days it's safe to say their imagination must be influenced by the media industry, with movies right at the top. Since Dylan's what these days we might call a poet, ordained by Christopher Ricks, it's fascinating to see where he draws his inspiration.

Imagine if Shakespeare had lived through the 1950s and 60s. He'd have been a screenwriter, no doubt. Or a lyric writer. Or both. Back then the theater was the silver screen, after all. (I like to compare Dylan to Shakespeare despite the obvious disparities--both of them tackle cliches like Grendel at the hands of mighty Beowulf.)
Learn more on the fascinating mind of our modern Shakespeare at the Dylan in Film website.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008, posted by tony at Tuesday, March 25, 2008
 
Monday, March 24, 2008, posted by tony at Monday, March 24, 2008

Eric Andersen has maintained a career as a folk-based singer/songwriter since the 1960s. In contrast to such peers as Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs, Andersen's writing has had a romantic/philosophical/poetic bent for the most part, rather than a socially conscious one, though one of his best-known songs, "Thirsty Boots," has as its background the Freedom Rides of the early '60s. (The song has been recorded by Judy Collins and others.)

Tom Paxton discovered him that late fall of 1963, performing at the Coffee Gallery in North Beach. He heard his songs and invited him to New York City. In 1964, Eric was soon introduced to the Greenwich Village song writing circle of Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan. He played his first gig as an opening act at Gerde's Folk City.

Robert Shelton of the-New York Times wrote a review where he called him "a writer and performer of the first rank…possessing that magical element called star quality."


He was signed to Vanguard Records and began recording his first album, “Today is the Highway”.


Over the next three years he wrote and recorded four albums of his earliest songs, including his early classics "Come To My Bedside", "Thirsty Boots", and "Violets of Dawn", for Vanguard. The Brothers Four recorded a single of "Bedside" for Columbia Records and it was immediately banned from AM radio, on the grounds of obscenity. All were sung in Andersen's flexible tenor (he shaded toward a baritone later), backed by rapid, intricate fingerpicking.


In 1966, he made his Newport Folk Festival debut, and that same summer, he starred in the Andy Warhol film, Space. His second album 'Bout Changes and Things was released. The following year, 1967, he was about to be signed by manager Brian Epstein before he died. He met the Beatles in London and attended some recording sessions. Then Tin Can Alley, his third album, was released and he went on to record two albums, in 1968 and 1969, for Warner Brothers (Avalanche and Eric Andersen) and one more for Vanguard (A Country Dream).


In the late '60s and early '70s, Andersen experimented with country, pop, and rock music, settling on an amalgamation by the time of his masterpiece “Blue River” in 1972. This was also his most commercially successful album, but Andersen, like friends Leonard Cohen and Townes Van Zandt, was always too serious-minded for the mainstream. In the '70s and '80s, he recorded sporadically while playing folk clubs around the U.S. and especially in Europe, where he took up residence.


His later material, including 1989's “Ghosts upon the Road”, recalls his work in the '60s as it ruefully reflects on that decade. The '90s saw Andersen collaborate with friends like Rick Danko and Jonas Fjeld, as well as release a solo album, 1998's “Memory of the Future” ;


His 2004 album “The Street was always there” was a nostalgic look back at the music of the New York Greenwich Village scene of the early to mid-'60s.

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Sunday, March 23, 2008, posted by tony at Sunday, March 23, 2008

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Saturday, March 22, 2008, posted by tony at Saturday, March 22, 2008


I Have Started A Leonard Cohen Blog HERE.We Go See Lenny in June in Manchester!
 
Friday, March 21, 2008, posted by tony at Friday, March 21, 2008

Jesus the weather was so good today
But I believe a change is on the way
And a little electricity won't hurt
And no a little electricity won't hurt
Especially when we're all out of gas
And coal and oil, and steel and cash
But a little electricity wont hurt
And no a little electricity won't hurt
And your politeness it could kill
And it's more than likely that it will
First it was getting better now it's getting worser
And then it's getting wetter, now the ice age is complete
So everybody go...
God help us if the radiation leaks
God help us if nobody knows for weeks
But a little electricity won't hurt
And no a little electricity won't hurt
And your politeness it could kill
And it's more than likely that it will
First it was getting better now it's getting worser
And it's getting wetter better call the hearser
And can we move a little faster and go a little further
Move a little faster
Go and everybody go home
And everybody go that
And everybody go this
And everybody go that
And we go, and we go, and we go...



 
Sunday, March 16, 2008, posted by tony at Sunday, March 16, 2008

An Australian woman stabbed her de facto husband to death after he stopped her playing her favorite Bruce Springsteen CD.

Karen Lee Cooper told arresting police: "I couldn't even play Bruce Springsteen on my stereo -- can you believe that? Can you believe that?"

She later again told police: "I mean, who doesn't like Bruce Springsteen? I'm 49 years old and I want to play my own music."

In the Supreme Courty in Brisbane Thursday, Cooper, 50, was jailed for eight years.

She pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Kevin Lee Watson on July 8, 2006.

She was originally charged with murder but the court accepted a manslaughter plea on the basis she had no intention to kill.

The court heard Cooper stabbed Watson through the aorta after they had been drinking at their Cedar Grove home, south of Brisbane.


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Turgid calls the winter charge
True adventures of awaking hearts
Nights are overwhelmed by gloom
We will see foxes in the moon
Valleys drop, mountains rise
Lift your head, brave the skies
All of the forgotten names
Lakes are forming on the pockets of your brain
And there in the distant glow
A shadow on shadow
At once so strong and weak
In the sunken lines they speak
You think it's gone, my friend
But it comes back again
Senescence or senility
How long until you sleep?
Discarded for all it's worth
Now it's quiet under this fresh earth
Valleys drop, mountains rise
Lift your head, brave the skies
You think it's gone, my friend
But it comes back again
And there is a final cry
A whimper and a sigh
And what was fast is slow
And what was brass is gold
Valleys drop, mountains rise
Lift your head, brave the skies
You think it's gone, my friend
But it comes back again
You think it's gone, my friend
But it comes back again

 
Saturday, March 15, 2008, posted by tony at Saturday, March 15, 2008

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Legendary rocker Bob Dylan twice tried to sneak into tapings of American Idol in disguise, according to the talent show's co-judge Paula Abdul.
The singer donned a fake beard in a bid to try and go unnoticed during the recording of the reality TV hit's fourth season in 2005 - but Abdul spotted him.

Abdul says, "He (Dylan) had a beard and tried to be in disguise. But I knew it was him."

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Margaret,Don,Cathy & Myself go see Leonard Cohen Live in Manchester on Tuesday 17th June! Tickets went onsale at 10 am this morning.He plays Manchester 4 night (+ O2 in London) I never thought i would get the chance to see him Live!2 days later i go to Benidorm for Grants Stag weekend dressed as one of The Village People.It look like being an interesting week!
I am off work today (using up my excess holiday leave before April). I have been camped by the computer waiting for tickets to go onsale........The Joys Of Silver-Surfing!Glad To Be Helping L.C.Claw Back Those Missing Millions!....



For The Record: It's 1130am & I'm feeling a bit Guilty.I know for a fact that Stuart & his lovely French Wife Katherine would love to see Great-Uncle Lenny too.But! They are in France over Easter:I dont have a contact number:I dont know if they would want to buy such expensive tickets (although Katherine has the Hots For Len Big Time!) .or even if they available that day.........Plus maybe they have also booked?
Maybe I should have bought more tickets on speck??('bound to be sold out very quick)Anyway The Deed is Done! Thanks again Don for alerting me!
10pm...I just got home.I read an email from Don.He tells me all 4 Manchester Concerts are already sold out and are being offered on Ebay at inflated prices!
Phil , here &
here are the photos i took of you & Your Range Rover in the car park.See You Sunday.
 
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Monday, March 10, 2008, posted by tony at Monday, March 10, 2008
A gunman in Thailand shot-dead eight neighbours, including his brother-in-law, after tiring of their karaoke versions of popular songs, including John Denver’s Country Roads.
Weenus Chumkamnerd, 52, put his gun to the head of a respected female doctor and seven of her guests as they partied at her home in Songkhla Province, South Thailand.

"When I began shooting nobody pleaded for his life because they were all drunk," he said after his arrest.

He said he was so furious with their awful singing that he did not notice he had murdered his own brother-in-law.
"I warned these people about their noisy karaoke parties. I said if they carried on I would go down and shoot them. I had told them if I couldn’t talk sense into them I would come back and finish them off," he added.

Mr Chumkamnerd, who works as a rubber tapper, was arrested after going on the run after his killing spree in the townn of Hat Yai, near the Malaysian border.

The doctor who was hosting the party, Dr Suthathip Thammachart, 36, was the director of a local hospital who was due this month to get an award for her services to medicine.

One of the revellers survived by playing dead, convincing the gunman that he too had been killed.

When he realised he had shot his brother-in-law, Boontip Desaro, Mr Chumkamnerd said he was filled with remorse.

He got his son to take Boontip to hospital, but he was already dead.

A neighbour said that the karaoke group normally sang Thai pop and southern Thai ballads, but one particular western tune could be heard often - John Denver’s ‘Country Roads’.

Country Roads is a hugely popular song in south east Asia and the neighbour said the revellers had been singing it over and over again.

Daily Telegraph
 
Sunday, March 09, 2008, posted by tony at Sunday, March 09, 2008

Today,I came across this blog.I like it!



from poemsbytom . Thanks............

This is my third composition
Playing guitars on HipHop beat I wasn't sure they would mix but I think they kind of do
The animation purchased from Microsoft (XP Plus) I'd say I do have a permttion since I now own it.
Thank you all for the cool comments and rating I wish I had time to reply to all of them but i have such a busy life i'm so lucky enough to have time to make videos it's a great way to show how I feel about Music but I do read them all some of them i even read over and over again it's so rewarding.
Thanks again to all
PS:Just remember all musician's motivation comes from subscribtions if my music is any good please include me in yours.
 
Saturday, March 08, 2008, posted by tony at Saturday, March 08, 2008
Mucho Thanx To poemsbytom for the Videos! I will share over the next few days.....Just dont want them to cramp my Prose below!!!!!


Did you read The Guardian ? Jonathan Richman's epic hymn to Massachusetts.Brilliant Outline of his song ".Roadrunner".i must have been up&down Route 128 several times on my one & only visit to The States.
A million miles from home,yet i found the good people in Massachusetts wonderful.I felt totally at home.A nice warm feeling in February minus20 degrees.I must go back again soon.
The photo was taken waiting for a bus in Amherst.Me Chris & Ayse must have waited an hour ,late at night in the dark.Freezing weather.February made me shiver,with every paper i deliver..Snow blah-blah-blah.So quiet.we were on our own.in a dark bus shelter..........apart from a young couple who walked nearby.they were shouting &having an arguement.In the end,she threw the shopping she was carrying at him.The bag missed.Hit the ground.They walked on.Left it.
After ten minutes , Ayse went to pick it up.Above is the photo i took of her tidying up some other Souls mess........I,m in Love with the modern World!
"...............................and I sit there with my doughnut and my coffee and my map of Massachusetts, plotting my route out towards Amherst and the University of Massachusetts, and up to Greenfield, about two hours west. I love to think of Richman making this drive, about the "college out there that just rises up in the middle of nuthin'/ You've just got fields of snow and all of a sudden there's these modern buildings/ Right in the middle of nothing/ Under the stars." There is the glorious feeling of driving for driving's sake, away from the draw of Boston, away from the ocean, and delving deep into the heart of Massachusetts......................" {read in full}


And!Yes!! the equally great British/Asian Islamic combo Cornershop did owe a wee debt to Jonothan when they wrote the song "Brimful Of Asha"............

Reprinted From Here/my other blog:july2007.

Oh! By The Way.."Cornershop" is a gentle pisstake of a name.Its a true Cliche that first generation Pakistani's ,when they moved to England in the 60's tended to earn a living by running small local shops."The Cornershop" is British local lingo.a common term for local retail, convienence store.......
 
Monday, March 03, 2008, posted by tony at Monday, March 03, 2008
 
Sunday, March 02, 2008, posted by tony at Sunday, March 02, 2008

As a child, with “Maggies’ Farm” on the record player, I asked an elder sibling why Bob Dylan looked so different on each of his (vinyl) album jackets. She calmly lied through her teeth, and explained that Bob Dylan was a committee, not a single person, and that’s why he looked different on each album — they never got the disguise just right. For about -oh, about an hour - I misinterpreted Bob Dylan’s intent as trying to be sneaky - the committee trying to avoid detection by suddenly changing styles. (Swivelchair won’t fall for that one, again, but still, he does look different. . .) Had either one of us actually thought that a single Bob Dylan was really a committee of badly disguised Bob Dylan imposters, it might have signaled a delusional misidentification syndrome, such as Fregoli delusion or Capgras syndrome.

Both delusional misidentification syndrome, as well as misinterpreting the interpret the intent of others relate to periventricular white matter problems.

For failure to properly interpret the intent of others, Pavlova et al. (below) found that (to oversimplify) the right temporal cortex is a little bit unplugged from the rest of the brain:............................


http://neurologicalcorrelates.com/wordpress/2008/03/01/the-bob-dylan-committee-could-have-been-a-delusion-caused-by-improper-brain-connectivity/
 
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Most famous entertainers play it safe when the visit Mexico City - they’ll leave their hotels to hit up a fancy Mexican fusion restaurant or do some shopping at trendy designer boutiques, but rarely do they get a sense of the real megalopolis. Not so rock icon Bob Dylan, who, while he was in town this week for two shows, did some sightseeing on Mexico City’s notoriously crowded subway system and worked out in a gym in a gritty nook of the historic downtown.

Dylan was spotted on Tuesday wandering through the Bellas Artes Metro stop, checking out some of the Lucha Libre photography on display on the station’s walls. Apparently, he created just a minor stir, with just a few people recognizing him and taking pictures with their cell phones.

Then Dylan did a little boxing at the Nuevo Jordan gym, impressing trainer Rodolfo “Guerco” Rodriguez, who had no idea the man in the ring was perhaps the most famous singer on the planet. “I said…these old guys are going to give each other heart attacks!” Rodriguez told the El Universal newspaper. “They told me that the oldest guy was Bob Dylan, this guy you’re telling me about…He boxed with all his friends and he did well; you can tell he’s practiced for awhile because he landed some good shots and brought his own professional (equipment). He knows what pugilism is and he enjoys it.”

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03/03/08 Portland - Doug Fir

0 04/03/08 Seattle -

Neumo’s 1 05/03/08

Vancouver - Plaza Club 0 08/03/08

Denver - Hi-Dive 2 14/03/08

Austin - The Mohawk 0 15/03/08

Austin - Brush Square Park 0 15/03/08

Austin - Maggie Mae's 0 19/03/08

Omaha - Waiting Room 0 20/03/08

Des Moines - Vaudeville Mews 1 21/03/08

Minneapolis - Triple Rock 1 22/03/08

Urbana - Canopy Club 0 24/03/08

Chicago - Empty Bottle (early) 0 24/03/08

Chicago - Empty Bottle (late) 0 25/03/08

Pontiac - Eagle Theatre 3 26/03/08

Cleveland - Grog Shop 0 27/03/08

Columbus - The Basement 0 28/03/08

Louisville - Phoenix Hill Tavern 4 29/03/08

St. Louis - Billiken Club 0 11/04/08

Dallas - The Loft 0 12/04/08

Austin - Club Deville 0 13/04/08

Houston - Engine Room 0 15/04/08

Baton Rouge - Spanish Moon 0 16/04/08

New Orleans - One Eyed Jack's 0 17/04/08

Tallahassee - Florida State University 0 18/04/08

Orlando - The Social 0 19/04/08

Jacksonville - Jack Rabbit's 0 21/04/08

Atlanta - The Earl 0 22/04/08

Birmingham - Bottletree 0 23/04/08

Memphis - Hi Tone 0 26/04/08

Norman - Norman Music Festival 0 01/05/08

Columbia - Mojo's 0 02/05/08

Oxford - Proud Larry's 0 03/05/08

Nashville - Mercy Lounge 0 04/05/08

Asheville - Grey Eagle 1 06/05/08

Carrboro - Cat's Cradle 0 07/05/08

Charlottesville - Satellite Ballroom 0 08/05/08

Washington, DC - Black Cat 0 09/05/08

Philadelphia - Johnny Brenda's 0 10/05/08

New York - Bowery Ballroom 0 11/05/08

Brooklyn - Music Hall of Williamsburg 0 13/05/08

Boston - Paradise 0 15/05/08

Montreal - La Sala Rossa 0 16/05/08

Toronto - Lee's Palace 4 17/05/08

Buffalo - The Tralf 0 18/05/08

+Pittsburgh /

 
Saturday, March 01, 2008, posted by tony at Saturday, March 01, 2008