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Morning Music Funnies # 3 – Frank Zappa on The Steve Allen Show
Steve Allen came to fame as the first host of The Tonight Show. He was a comic to be sure. However, his talent stretched far beyond that of most TV hosts to include jazz pianist, songwriter and dramatic actor. Allen and his restless, manic brand of entertainment soon departed the stuffy confines of network TV for a…
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Top 10 List – Non-Traditional Holiday Songs – “Everybody’s Waiting for The Man with The Bag” (Brini Maxwell)
Authored by Dale Nickey: # 10 Early in the new millennium, New York drag icon Brini Maxwell (aka Ben Sander) lit up the stodgy Style Network with The Brini Maxwell Show; an offbeat home improvement/cooking program that gave helpful tips on how to make stoplight dip, proper escalator etiquette (you stand in front of your date going down),…
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Morning Music Funnies # 2 (Captain Beefheart) TV Commercial – 1970
In 1970, Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band were riding high after releasing their double album “Trout Mask Replica”. Sales were promising, the critics declared it a masterwork for the ages. Frank Zappa was onboard. Obviously the band and Reprise Records thought the follow-up, “Lick My Decals Off Baby” was poised for some sort of breakthrough. Didn’t happen.…
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Morning Music Funnies – Meet Me At Bergner’s (The Shags)
The Shags were a 1960’s band that hailed from Peoria Ill. (Not to be confused with the spectacularly inept female Outsider band The Shaggs). The Shags’ legacy (for better or worse) will be forever defined by this monument to kitsch “Meet Me at Bergner’s”; a TV commercial for a local…….well, we are not completely sure. All we know…
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JACK BRUCE Remembered
Jack Bruce died on October 25, 2014. He was 71 John Symon Asher “Jack” Bruce was born May 14, 1943 in Bishopbriggs Scotland. He trained in his youth to be a classical cellist but soon adapted his skills to bass guitar during the British Blues boom in the early sixties. He referred to himself as a Jazz musician and…
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Big Screen Bjork – “Biophilia Live” (Movie Review)
Authored by Dale Nickey: It’s safe to say that “Biophilia” is Bjork’s most ambitious and labor intensive project to date. The album was released in 2011. It also holds the distinction of being the first album to be released as an APP. Soon to follow was an album of radical remixes, a “Biophilia” music school, an ancillary natural history…
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Glenn Cornick (1947-2014) – Postscript
Author: Dale Nickey Jethro Tull w/Glenn Cornick played The Isle of Wight Festival in August 1970 to an audience of between 600 and 700 hundred thousand people (Guinness book estimate). It was Britain’s answer to Woodstock only bigger; however, feel good vibes were definitely in short supply. A large mob who had not paid for admittance to the…
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Glenn Cornick – Founding Member of Jethro Tull (1947-2014)….
Glenn Cornick (1947-2014) Glenn Cornick was the original bass player in Jethro Tull. All of Tull’s records up until The album “Aqualung” featured Glenn’s bass work. He then formed the band Wild Turkey and later formed the band Paris with Bob Welch. He was a monster musician. Go put on Jethro Tull’s “Stand Up” album. Listen…
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Missed By ‘That’ Much…..Progressive Rock’s Greatest B-Listers PO
Authored by Dale Nickey: The Beatles (among many other things) are the Godfathers of Prog. They dragged Rock and Roll kicking and screaming into its adulthood. They introduced all the basic components of the genre we would later call Progressive Rock: the mellotron, odd time signatures, the symphony orchestra, synthesizers, sampling and looping, cut and paste methodology,…
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Profiles in Outsider Music (Volume 3) UNKNOWN HINSON
Unknown Hinson – (b. 1954 – ) Authored by Dale Nickey: This Outsider is not only the greatest guitar player you never heard of, he’s also the funniest. Unlike many Outsider Music icons, he has no diagnosed mental condition or obvious pathology. There is no artistically transcendent ineptitude. Unknown Hinson (real name Stuart Baker) is…
THE MUSE PATROL 