Musicological banter

Interesting

https://www.nme.com/news/music/nick-cave-on-the-new-bad-seeds-album-and-the-chances-of-more-from-grinderman-3449133

Fuck…but sounds like he caught it early


Mike Ness of Social Distortion diagnosed with stage one cancer

never heard this story, but love that Patti Smith punched the Nudge for making a homophobic comment 45 years ago

45 Years Ago: Patti Smith Punches Ted Nugent on Live Radio

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/ted-nugent-patti-smith-fight

Gotta a spare cool million laying about?  then you too could own the RARESET Van Halen CD EVER

Van Halen RAREST CD EVER ONLY KNOWN COPY ONE OF A KIND FACTORY ERROR MISPRINT

"After in-depth Inquiries, research and communication with multiple music collecting sources, it’s been determined that this may indeed be one of the rarest rock collectibles to be made available to the public."

https://www.ebay.com/itm/324938955762?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=vchpmPVxSUi&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

because never in the course of CD manufacturing has a disc not had the label printed on it  ::)

Hilarious. Obviously someone having a laugh

Happy 75th Birthday to the LP, the invention that elevated 33 1/3 to The Pantheon of Famous Numbers That Are Not Integers.

never knew this was Jason's origin story

Then, at the age of 22, his moment arrived. A member of the Drive-By Truckers, a band that had returned to its home in the Shoals to play a breakthrough house concert for Spin magazine, failed to show up for the gig. As a result, Isbell got a rapid field promotion onto the stage. He joined the band for the show and then departed on tour with the band for the next six years.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183194069/jason-isbell-weathervanes-profile

Somehow in 2023 I just learned that Tony Visconti produced TRex's  albums

then (and performed on) the man who sold the world (this I knew)
Oddly though did NOT produce Ziggy and that's the most Bolan record Bowie did

Tony may have had a lot more to do with glam rock fuzz than I'd previously thought.

I guess this goes to show the power of a great pop/rock song…

I own no Elton John albums, never seen him in concert and yet I know far more of his hits then one would expect.  So only exposure would be 70s/80s radio, TV and probably movies. 

It shows the power of a popular song when rock was king. They were in the air back then….

Hutch wrote:
It shows the power of a popular song when rock was young. They were in the air back then….

FTFY

I don’t agree with that….popular music just had a different role in daily life back then….very unifying…now popular music is just not that popular…it’s audience is very fragmented…

Curiously, live music has never been more popular

Heilung4eva wrote:

Hutch wrote:
It shows the power of a popular song when rock was young. They were in the air back then….

FTFY

It was funny because its a reference to an Elton John song.

Oh ok

kosmo wrote:
I own no Elton John albums, never seen him in concert and yet I know far more of his hits then one would expect.  So only exposure would be 70s/80s radio, TV and probably movies.

Grocery stores, man. Elton John is a top-3 grocery store artist all-time. Arguably #2 behind just Mariah Carey.

On the other hand even if Kosmo don’t own his albums wasn’t Elton the top selling act in America during the 1970s?

Currently Justin is scouring the tubes of the internet to gets his mitts on the new Taylor Swift… i mean Cabaret Voltaire/Thuderhead vinyl misprint

Kosmo doesn't own his albums?  Are they on loan or is he just renting them?

Hutch wrote:
On the other hand even if Kosmo don’t own his albums wasn’t Elton the top selling act in America during the 1970s?

kosmo wrote:
Currently Justin is scouring the tubes of the internet to gets his mitts on the new Taylor Swift… i mean Cabaret Voltaire/Thuderhead vinyl misprint

?

Are you referring to my replies to some of the dumber comments on Chris Richards' piece?

I also said that Neil Young's Geffen trouble was a bigger FU than TS's re-recordings.

The plethora of "who cares" responses was really annoying, especially when they're smug about it. So many people think they're above pop culture yet they take lots of their own time responding to it.

Same thing with Ann Hornaday's Tom Cruise article. So many suckers responded the same way.

Now I await Richards and Hornaday swapping subjects (I'd like to see that; could be interesting).

As for hunting, this is my current search. Specifically, what Scarlatti "Toccata per cembelo" is it? And is it Domenico or Alessandro? I just got a CD of this from my library and it's the only piece that I can't fully identify.

A person who ordered the new Taylor Swift album got a misprint with 'cursed' electronic music on it instead.

The cursed' electronic music was identified as a 12 inch released with Cabaret Voltaire/Thuderhead on each side.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66179045

No one knows how this misprint happened except it may because both were pressed in France at the same plant.

And, speaking of misprint I saw the other day that there were copies of Prince's "Lovesexy" that on one side was The Soup Dragons first album also released that week.