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Turning Slowly Vinyl: Some Girls...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011. I played with a fabulous band on New Year's Eve last weekend, and one of the songs we performed was "Miss You" by the Rolling Stones. With that song still fresh in my head, it occurred to me that I haven't spun the album "Some Girls" in quite a while. I love the artwork on vinyl records. The palette - nearly a square foot - is so large, and nearly every band put as much time, thought, and effort into the artwork as they did the music they recorded on it. Just My Imagination (R...
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Turning Slowly Vinyl: We Could Be Heroes
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Thursday, January 6, 2011. We Could Be Heroes. David Bowie's brilliant piece, "Heroes" may have been the song that really got me to sit down and listen to an entire album (and then subsequently buy his entire catalog! There isn't a whole lot of earth-shattering trivia about this song. Although since I'm a huge King Crimson fan, I feel compelled to point out that "Heroes" was co-written by Brian Eno. Eno played synth on the track, and fellow King Crimson-er, Robert Fripp, played the guitar track. When we ...
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Turning Slowly Vinyl: From Carol Brady to Judas Priest
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Saturday, January 8, 2011. From Carol Brady to Judas Priest. A young boy named, Gary Wright began his career in 1954 as a child actor on Broadway. He did 888 performances in the musical, " Fanny. Along with the star, Florence "Carol Brady" Henderson. The two even performed together on the Ed Sullivan Show. But as Gary got older, he moved away from acting and started a song-writing career in the band Spooky Tooth. Wright wrote Spooky Tooth's. Biggest hit " Better by You, Better than Me. And Toy Story 3.
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Turning Slowly Vinyl: Tainted Love and Two Guys Named "Marc"
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Saturday, January 8, 2011. Tainted Love and Two Guys Named "Marc". In 1981, a synth-duo in England had a record contract that was on the ropes. The band, Soft Cell. Had an unsuccessful single (" Memorabilia. And was given an ultimatum by Phonogram Records. To record a hit single—or be dropped from the label. As a touring act, Soft Cell. Was in search of a good cover song to close their set. They decided to work-up a synth version of a popular soul song, Tainted Love. Or a Franki Valli song.". Than her si...
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Turning Slowly Vinyl: Who the hell is Russ Ballard?
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011. Who the hell is Russ Ballard? Russ Ballard. You might recognize his name. You might not. You might only know him as the singer fo the 80s hit "Voices," but you might be surprised at how much stuff he's done that all of us are familiar with. I got curious about what happened to Head East, and started looking for articles about the band. First, I discovered that the lead singer, John Schlitt, was fired due to drug dependency. Bummer, because he had a great voice. Some other song...
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Turning Slowly Vinyl: We Never *Were* in Kansas, You Idiot
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Thursday, January 6, 2011. We Never *Were* in Kansas, You Idiot. Of the many musicians I get to play with, three of us seem to stick together from project to project. Bob, Anders, and myself are the "Blame" part of "Rob Stroup and the Blame." But the three of us have also backed many other acts such as Nick Peets, Naomi Hooley, and countless session gigs as well. That's why I like the story of this next session band (which was on a WAY, WAY larger scale than little old us in Portland). If you ask someone...
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Turning Slowly Vinyl: "We had an affair, and all I got was this lousy Badge"
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Friday, January 7, 2011. We had an affair, and all I got was this lousy Badge". Eric Clapton's second solo release, "461 Ocean Boulevard" is a deeply personal, and seminal album. He had just spent two years wooing George Harrison's wife, getting addicted to—and recovering from—heroin, and collaborating with the man whose wife he was about to "steal" (more on that momentarily). I'm going to start this entry with a bit of music trivia about "461 Ocean Boulevard" that is wrong. First off, it was a collabora...
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Turning Slowly Vinyl: You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Rhinestone Lebowski
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Friday, January 7, 2011. You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Rhinestone Lebowski. Fans of the Coen Brothers movie, The Big Lebowski. Remember a very colorful sequence that featured a psychedelic, salute-to-LSD song " Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In). It's a very trippy song with crazy "oh yeah" harmonies, back-masked tracks, and a raunchy guitar solo. The band that released the song, The First Edition. A young man by the name of Kenny Rogers. Pretty crazy stuff, eh? Hit the num...
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Turning Slowly Vinyl: From Cannibalism to Fancy Island Drinks
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Thursday, January 6, 2011. From Cannibalism to Fancy Island Drinks. Many people haven't had the pleasure to hear the next song I'm going to mention. This could be for several reasons: a) you're too young; b) your name isn't "Timothy" (which is probably the first real reason it stuck with me); or c) it was banned on your local radio station, so it never got played. The song, "Timothy" was by a not-known-at-all band from Pennsylvania called, "The Buoys.". Here's a refresher of the song:. This was an unexpe...
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Turning Slowly Vinyl: Why is Barry Gibb a stud?
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011. Why is Barry Gibb a stud? Barry Gibb, one of the brothers for the super-group "The Bee Gees," is quite a prolific - and immensely successful - song writer. Did you know that in 1978, Barry Gibb became the only person in history to pen 4. To this day, no one has matched that achievement. The songs were "Stayin' Alive," "Love Is Thicker Than Water," "Night Fever," and "If I Can't Have You" (which hit the top with a version sung by Yvonne Elliman). Also, the Fever Soundtrack (its...
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