Music

Probably my favorite Clash song! This post inspired by the live news stream from Cairo via Al Jazeera.

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You’ve heard of book trailers? Well, that’s coming up. But Taos Soul will do that one better with a book song for the soundtrack, and I’ve got the lyrics for you now. Having great fun with this, incidentally. It’s actually finished, just not recorded. As is, there’s a chance it won’t make the final version [...]

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Late last night as I staggered out of the bathtub, I thought of something I really wanted to write about. Sentences came rolling in, one after the other, despite my advanced state of exhaustion and heat-induced stupor. The latter having been obtained with some effort, I didn’t want to lose it, but the excitement was [...]

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This has seriously weirded me out. While we were walking, my wife happened to mention that 2011 calendars were in the bookstores. That reminded me that I have another old Zoo Pilots demo of relevance, namely “2011” (that’s “twenty-eleven”), which you can find among the others here. Now, how neat is that? Except… I wrote [...]

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Manby’s Head is loud, fast, tight, and means business. I love this band. Best of all, they play chords I know and seem to have telepathically lifted most of their progressions from all the years I spent blowing out my ears jamming solo. That means a lot to me. If I hadn’t been raised by [...]

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I’ve been listening to T-Model Ford’s 1997 CD, “Pee Wee Get My Gun,” which is pretty damn raucous and kinda scary. For a guy who first picked up the guitar at age 58, it sounds like he did all right, and also that if he didn’t, you wouldn’t want to say so to his face. I figured that as a 90-year-old, he’d be a lot more mellow, and he was.

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Woo-hoo, click on this little square for audio! » That’s T-Model Ford (born in 1920), probably my current top fave bluesman, singing “I’m Insane,” and he’s appearing next week here in Taos. RIGHT HERE, just down the road! I’m so happy I could go out and dance in the goddamn snow. I don’t know what [...]

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