I can't handle the truth

So I hope it's not true....I can't be bothered to write a whole post so I'll cut and paste this email

Its nearly quicker to store jottings to gmail than to open word on my pc!
here is something I have just sent to front row on r4 after their piece on a famous Dylan songs
true life subject character. No mention in the piece about any controversy.
Either I am completely wrong and a gullible internet idiot, or possibly the whole of pop culture folklore and so called true stories of injustice is built on sand. What happens when we pull the thread?(what happens when we mix us metaphors?...colemanballs thats what!) So then? what should I be... Idiot? or the bringer of doom? ...no contest I have quite broad shoulders where idiocy is concerned

"I just don't know what to think about rubin carter any more since I stumbled upon this site.
http://www.graphicwitness.com/carter/
I don't just go along with hate campaigns for kicks or something.
But if just some of the stuff on this site is true.... Lots of real documentary evidence. Carter a convicted serial mugger... not a war hero but unfit discharge...probably did those killings...was not exonerated but let go on technicalities..offended after release... etc.
The song and the film ? is it just art for arts sake? I hate the very notion of a possible left wing cover up. mister researcher see what you think. or is it easier to just go along with the romantic dream?
I'd like to feel like an idiot, taken in by a clever malicous lie.Maybe someone could expose this site as full of falsehoods?"

Heres an actual link to the troubling sitehttp://www.graphicwitness.com/carter/
I think I'll put this in the blog also

slits rarities. get em quick

A blog a couple of slits rarites and other versions
here http://threethreefourfive.blogspot.com/2007/04/slits.html
They won't be up long
Looks like they're back treading the boards too. A slits official website
here.http://theslits.co.uk/

test post

its all gone tong!
that'll learn me to mess with html

embed?

man of steel

Some time back I looked for the chameleons on youtube and was disappointed with the results. Now there's loads of vids up. Here is the search page
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+chameleons&search=Search
here is "a person isn't safe anywhere..." at camden palace from a live dvd (see website)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV933OlROQE
"in shreds" live (low vol)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YArmQ9JPeXA
"up the down escalator" video demo in studio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iwxkLByt68
plus lots more!

Great and underrated 80's band. I saw them twice back in the day. Wakefield hellfire club and Leeds poly.
They have a website
http://www.thechameleons.com/

Kurt Vonnegut is in heaven now...

Yes..... Dead now ... been expecting it for years... still saddened tho'...

some short writings herehttp://www.vonnegutweb.com/archives/index.html
Harrison Bergeron herehttp://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html
cold turkey 2004 article herehttp://www.inthesetimes.com/article/cold_turkey/
quotationshttp://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Kurt_Vonnegut/
arena part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5EqOiye7zI
part 2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8e4SjzcoAI
part 3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf6WQs1WnHg
part 4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-dwAwsmQF4
part 5http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nznHJFjfZ74
part 6http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ikvCT3858
part 7http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahOo41WiIeY
part 8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGK26wL3E7s
I don't seem to be able to find a part nine ...so it goes

daft punk deconstruction

A real eyeopener this. I still think Daft punk are amazingley creative people, but this reminds of a time that afriend of mine first played me ( a long time Captain Beefheart fan), some Howling Wolf.
A pile of songs(full mp3's) at this website..... http://palmsout.blogspot.com/2007/02/sample-wednesday-27-daft-punk.html
.....show that daft punk's finest moments are made of unadorned samples (all fully credited I'm sure). I think this kind of thing has been done before to the likes of fat boy slim.
Any way ... curious people might be advised to act fast as these blogs don't always host audio for all that long..
Thanks to musicthing as per usual

thereminist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkx39R9TpzU

stunning

Absolutely stunning, the depths of commercial depravity. With a little forethought those plane bombers could have singled out people who make and try to sell things like this for their attentions, instead of being so ...random
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JHUwCil1Ww

skids

not enough people are checking out the original version of the saints are coming by the skids.
here then is a link to a totp performance on da youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOTR8qZFQjM

dig my toothy screenshot! can y' dig it? huh? can ya?

iggy pops rider

very funny 18 page rider written by one of iggy's road crew
here

via wfmu

album cover wars

First alerted to this animation by waxy
but it would'nt load. Then wfmu
mentioned that someone had youtubed it.
It's quite funny, find it here.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp5mYvOvVrc

astoundy!

I recall seing a video of these two young people some months ago. Indeed they are consumate guitar players. Back then the film was of them playing their version of a metallica song I believe.
I can't remember where I saw it. You know how sometimes you surf and just follow any tangent till you end up god knows where. This film clip is a bit nore traditional in style, but still high energy flamenco type goodness with their trademark guitar percussion.
So watch Rodrigo Y Gabriela play Tamacun now, it really is rather good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU68qT4T1bE&mode=related&search=

And hey look it's from youtube... well I nevvah.

long time no blog

Tut tut I'm a lazy beggar. Anyway, heres a link to an interesting thread concerning musicians taking up day jobs. http://ilx.p3r.net/thread.php?msgid=5444983

bucket news

Amazing what you can do with very limited equipment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsiiPo-D3Ks&NR

UPDATE (18- 10- 06)
A band who have never met, only jammed together on youtube are looking for this guy to complete their lineup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy4nNu_S-nU&mode=related&search=
should be good especially if he sticks to the frenzied bucket approach.



I suspect there may be some changes in the air at youtube. Recent news from Zefrank
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/0721006.html
says youtube lay claim to full content ownership or something extreme like that, when you sign up with them. How this will impact on all the lifted content I don't really know.
Someone told me Myspace are doing the same thing for band pages.
Expect to see a mass exodus of bands from Myspace very soon if this is true.

Update. Billy Bragg has apparently saved the day(via waxy)

polly wanna

Loads of PJ Harvey on youtube

This is ace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4kTMYhY2ds&search=pj%20harvey
Shortest skirt and a gibson firebird
http://www.youtube.com/results?search=pj%20harvey&sort=relevance&page=2
trippy sexy promo for a place called home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRHGufj3A4A&search=pj%20harvey
3 songs from later with JH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67FezLvosBs&search=jools%20holland

and there's tons more on there.
Scuse several "sexy" references but she just is .... while being great raw bluesy rockin' rootsy real fine stufff.
wang dang doodle.


out.

reverbiage

Just discovered this fascinating programme on acoustic design at BBC radio 4's listen again page.
Apparently first broadcast nearly 2 years ago, there's lots of interesting stuff on ancient and modern design techniques, from a wierd Mayan temple witha bizarre reverb meant to emulate a sacred bird, to anechoic chambers, impulse response physical modelling(hello Richard) and the strange goings on at the festival hall.
Eno puts in an appearance too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/acousticshadows.shtml



photo courtesy bbc website

somewhere there's music....

searching around for pictures of the log. I was intigued by Les Paul's story generally, so have some links here to some of the many web pages of interest.
More than just the name associated with arguably the planets most iconic rock guitar,
Les paul has been, over the years, a star ( in the 50's with his then wife Mary ford), a very well respected jazz guitar player, and an inventor.
Not just any old inventor though. As well as pioneering work on the solid body electric guitar, Les invented such trivial things as reverb and multitrack recording.
Something I did'nt know was that after a car crash in 1948 he nearly lost his arm and apparently had to convince doctors to set it in a guitar playing position....permanantly! (see pics) .
LP interview 1, interesting about the 1st tape recorders
http://www.jinxmagazine.com/les_paul.html
LP interview 2, comments after this are also good
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/08/22/194907.php
Somewhere there's music indeed and that place is
http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/les.shtml
in New York, where Les Paul performs to this day on monday nights,
not bad for a bloke who's 91 next month

Still aint found that log pic..........yet

update : here is a page with a pic and tale of "the log"
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/guitars/noframes/eg08.htm
also here is a web jay page with "bye bye blues" by Les Paul and Mary Ford on it.
http://webjay.org/by/bricolage/lounge#536290
the site it links to has a boatload more old songs on it, if that's yer bag

espace temps

most competent jazz blues rock fusion instrumentals from this quebec (I believe) outfit .
live at either soundcheck or very poorly attended gig.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAmjA9Nv06o&search=show%20ze%20frank%20zefrank

punkcast

Lots of videos of punk, reggae and other underground type bands, mainly american.
Vids stream pretty quickly full screen on realplayer.http://www.punkcast.com
ART BRUT are there for you to watch.

nb. more youtube via musicthing (surprised he did'nt rave more about this roxy performance .... ,, they are on their gig man) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Zh-6cPH7I&search=remake%20remodel