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Horsehead Five: Another 5 Must-Watch YT Performances

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Here are 5 songs that were meant to be witnessed.  Something's happening.  Entertaining magic.  Your ears will love it, but your eyes will love it more.  ~Horsehead "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" - Neil Young & Crazy Horse ("Ragged Glory" tour 1991) I get it. A thousand times five you've heard this song.  But this particular performance is a bookmark.  One of those magical spells when the music and the audience become one. Neil Young and Crazy Horse play it crunchy, ...but this time, it is the collective mind of the rock crowd that carries the freight to a whole other level. In this joyful juxtaposition of Rock...in a little over five minutes, the audience becomes the teacher...leaving Neil Young, wearing his Elvis Presley t-shirt, very little doubt the imprint his rock-n-roll stones have cast. "So What" - Miles Davis (The Robert Herridge Theater, NY - April 2, 1959) I'm still amazed how cool early television could actual

Interview: -- Joe Bouchard (Blue Oyster Cult)

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"Screams in the night...  sirens delight." ~ Blue Oyster Cult ~ Like all great bands and big bad wolves, Blue Oyster Cult will come and blow your house right the fawck down.  They can thunder your windows.  Speedmetal your doors.  But just as likely, they will have already slithered inside.  Slipped through the cracks in the wall.  Lying in wait.  Waiting.  Inside your dark closet.  Behind your bathroom curtain.  Underneath your safe cozy bed.  And it's there where Blue Oyster Cult will bleed you.  They didn't sing so much about the pompatus of love.  Or heaven and hell.  But about reapers and vampires.  Monsters, abductors and screamers. That was their job. Sure, the Boys in the BOC... Joe Bouchard, Eric Bloom, Albert Bouchard, Buck Dharma, Allen Lanier ...could always get right smack in your face.  But they also enjoyed the subtle play and plunder before the confrontation.  They had your head-rockin' long before you realised you were partyin'

7 Favorite Books I Read In 2016

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7 Favorite  Books  I  Read  In  2016 Every book is a new book if you haven't read it yet!  And so, let us begin. "Doctor Sleep" - Stephen King (2013) ...I was just sure I knew how "The Redrum Kid" would turn out.  And, honestly, I was expecting King to fuck it up.  I mean, why play Jenga with The Shining anyway.  But I was wrong on both counts.  Now look, I don't know if I'll ever catch-up with the human printing press...but Lordy, ain't it fun trying. "Unbroken" - Laura Hillenbrand (2010) ...Holy Schnikes! How much shit can the human spirit handle?  Page-turning non-fiction about WWII survival and POW brutality.  Truly inspiring and hard to imagine. "Zero Cool" - John Lange (aka Michael Crichton) (1969)...This is pulpish fiction from early Crichton.  A slice of pulp, now and then, is great for occasionally breaking up the more pompous-ass novels that require just a tad more effort...if you get