Woke up this morning with The Boys Are Back In Town in my head. I love Thin Lizzy.
The Boys Are Back In Town | Thin Lizzy | Jailbreak | 1976
Produced by John Alcock
Woke up this morning with The Boys Are Back In Town in my head. I love Thin Lizzy.
The Boys Are Back In Town | Thin Lizzy | Jailbreak | 1976
Produced by John Alcock
Today I woke up with Still of the Night in my head. Usually the song in the morning is a mystery, but I heard this one the other night at a gig we played. When they hit the instrumental section with the bow on the guitar, face + palm.
Still of the Night | Whitesnake | Whitesnake | 1987
Produced by Mike Stone, Keith Olsen
So I woke up this morning with a great song in my head. Like most mornings, I have no clue where it came from.
High Wire | Men at Work | Cargo | 1983
Produced by Peter McIan
Check out this live show from J.G. Thirlwell, a great Venture Bros. medley.
Almost every morning I wake up with a song stuck in my head. I don’t know why the song is there (I never listen to the radio at night). I thought I’d post whatever song is stuck in my head on a daily basis and see what the trend is.
Rock Me Tonite | Billy Squier | Signs of Life | 1984
Produced by Billy Squier and Jim Steinman
Notable Appearances: Brian May on ‘(Another) 1984’
Reached #11 Billboard Hot 200, Certified Gold
Advice for those in business for themselves from Mike Monteiro of Mule Design.
So good, great advice. (via DaringFireball)
I watched a documentary tonight on the Netflix. Don’t remember why I searched, but I came across a couple Zeppelin selections, The Song Remains the Same (which, if you haven’t seen, you should watch) and something called A to Zeppelin.
It was a very interesting look at Led Zeppelin. It started with John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page as studio musicians, how Page joined the Yardbirds and the formation of Led Zeppelin. Then they had anecdotal stories from lots of musicians and people around the band. There were recorded interviews from the band mixed in, but no new interviews. There was also absolutely no Zeppelin songs in the whole documentary. One hour about Led Zeppelin without Led Zeppelin. It was actually pretty cool and I recommend you watch it. And if you don’t have the Netflix, well you probably don’t have the internet and aren’t reading this.
But that’s not the point. What I thought was really cool was one particular story about the Hyatt House (Riot House) in L.A. This is not a story about groupies or drugs, or even sex with groupies on drugs. And no it doesn’t involve seafood.
When the band was paying the bill for all their destruction and partying, the hotel manager told them that he was frustrated with their destruction. When they asked what the problem was, as they were paying for everything, he replied that he worked there and would love to be able to destroy things like the band did. Peter Grant stepped up and told him that the band was there for 15 minutes yet, go pick a room and wreck it all you want. Put it on our bill.
Fuck yeah.
It’s a tragedy that Mick Karn has passed away. If you’re unfamiliar with Mick’s music, I’d highly recommend you look him up; solo, Japan, Dali’s Car, Polytown and many of the other artists he played with. I once heard that Pete Townshend named Mick his favorite bass player. That’s saying a lot from a guy that played with John Entwistle for 30+ years.
Goodnight Mick, you are already missed.
Back in the mid-nineties, I was just out of high school, in my first place of my own, and just out of my first real band. All I did was work and listen to music. I found tons of killer vinyl at record shops like Cheapo, Road Runner and Oarfolkjokapus. Duran, Japan, The Police, mostly early eighties stuff was the norm.
On one shopping trip, the guy in Road Runner suggested a record he said was hard to find by a local group called The Terrorists. I thought it may be a punk record from the cover, all black with “Terrorists” in letters that looked like they were torn out of magazines and pasted on. The record is only 4 songs, and was probably pretty cheap. I got home and put the record on.
Turns out it’s two guys, one on drums, and one on piano and vocals. I was thrown. This was not what I expected. The first song Sandra went by and I was about to pull the record, but then came Lance. The song Lance Romance has a bit of humor to it, and though musically a fairly simple song, I love the changes. It sounds like a piano bass with a piano. The song is acoustic disco, that’s the best way I can think of describing it. Not to mention the vocals are almost spoken word. The record is so much a demo, recorded at Ambient Sound in St. Paul, MN. It’s definitely rough, but that’s the charm of the record. It feels really live, I’ll bet the songs were produced in a single day.
So what brings up this bit on just another Minneapolis band you’ve never heard of? Well, I bought a new turntable that can convert the vinyl to MP3 directly to a flash card. Not the best quality, but you know music today, convenience trumps quality. I converted the record and have been listening to it. I decided to search and see what I could find on the interweb. I found PJ’s web site that mentions the Terrorists (as PJ and the Terrorists/PJ and the Zen Terrorists). From the looks of things he’s still involved in making music as well as branching out into film. Pretty cool. I can’t find any mention of the record I have though, maybe it’s one of the only ones left on the planet. I would love to post the songs, but wouldn’t do that without permission. Maybe we can get PJ for the podcast that’s in the planning stages. I’d read the web site, there’s some great info on PJ’s past groups.
This song also has some sentimental attachment, it was one of my ex-girlfriend’s favorites. We listened to the song one night and afterwards started telling each other stories about weird situations we’d been in involving Lance Romance. I seem to remember this going on for several hours. I can’t seem to remember any of the stories specifically, but I know we laughed a lot and tried to top each other’s stories. She passed away this past year, this song brings back fond memories of her and gives me a bittersweet feeling when I listen to the song.
The studio, Ambient Sound is still around by the way, their website mentions the owner Bob Cain, who is credited as engineer (along with David Rivkin) on this record. Never recorded there, but now I kind of want to try out the room.
