The College Crowd Digs Me

 (a short jaunt) "When The World Is Running Down, You Make..." - The Police / "Zenyatta Mondatta (1980) Turn on my V.C.R.  Same one I've had for years. James Brown on the T.A.M.I. show.   Same tape I've had for years. I sit in my old car.  Same one I've had for years. Old battery's running down.   It ran for years and years. I never quite picked up on the lyrics.  It was always the new wave groove that killed.   Almost trance.  Copeland snappin' and poppin' the skins.  Summers and Sting workin' it out.  This was a great band.  And this is just a great song to take for a drive.  Or use for the drive-away ending scene in "Good Will Hunting."  This was the trio's third album. (OWN) "Soul Sacrifice" - Santana / "Santana" (1969) (Instrumental) Back-to-back groove jams.  I fell in love with this song after watching "Woodstock."   I had never heard the studio version til now.  It was an amazing jam...

(4 For Friday) *   What a world!  A woman's gym in the 1940s. *   Plain and Fancy takes a look at the 1968 psych band... People .  The band high charted with a killer psych gem... "I Love You."   I'd heard this song before...somewhere...but never knew who did it. *   Take a moment and give these 30 photos a closer look . *   Check out Ask A Mortician as she explains the least expensive death option .  Her channel is to die for. "Funky Pretty" - Beach Boys (1973) Good stuff. Casey Chambers Follow Me On FACEBOOK  

"Coven" - Coven (1971) Not as interesting as the band's satanic-minded debut.  On their sophomore album, Coven leaves behind their evil ways and brings a more West Coast bar band vibe to the wax.  Mostly female lead vocals, but I found the male vocal-fronted songs more interesting.  And it's not bad, just pedestrian.  And but for a stinker throwaway cover of "Jailhouse Rock,"  the album didn't hurt my feelings none.  It just is what it is.   The album is probably best known for its soundtrack hit "One Tin Soldier" from the popular "Billy Jack" movie.  The whited-out faces of the band with a black cat posing on the front cover hint at darker things within.  Two of the band members even throw devil horns into the mix, but it's all charade.  The only evil oozing from this album is the aforementioned Elvis cover. "Coven" (back) Favorites include the Top-40 track "One Tin Soldier" which closes the album.  I al...

"Growers Of Mushroom" - Leaf Hound (1971 - Rei 2015) This is some heavy, hard-candy, UK stoner rock from the early cusp of the 70s.  And what Leaf Hound lacks in originality, the band makes up for with some sincere ass-kickery attitude.  I admit Led Zeppelin influences can be heard, but the band didn't sell their souls.  And this was 1970 after all.  There weren't that many trails to follow. "Growers Of Mushroom" is a lot of fun and just what I'm looking for when I need to shake cobwebs outta my head and house.  Leaf Hound was workin' it out, man, and doing a pretty good job at it.  It's early proto-metal and still holds up better than many albums that have come down the pike.  This square has gotten plenty of respins and has run off all but the very coolest of spiders out of my house. "Growers Of Mushroom" - Leaf Hound (back) Favorites include the one-two punch of... 'Freelance Fiend" ...a stoner gauntlet that dares anyon...

(4 For Friday) *   Not very safe, but definitely a lot more fun than what we have now. *   Reporter  getting all up into John Lennon's shit.    She's definitely not impressed.  You're gonna wanna see this! *   When  "Star Wars" surpassed "Jaws"  in 1977 as the Top Film,  Steven Spielberg congratulated George Lucas with a full-page ad.   Clever and classy. *   Here are 20 illustrations by German artist Steffen Kraft expressing a few of society's issues.  "Art For Art's Sake" - 10cc / "How Dare You!" (1976) Good stuff. Casey Chambers Follow Me On FACEBOOK

"Obscured By Clouds" - Pink Floyd (1972) Pink Floyd's seventh album... "Obscured By Clouds" ...dropped a little less than a year before their iconic monster album "Dark Side Of The Moon" was released.  In fact, the band was already rubbing sticks and stones together for "Dark Side..." before being called away to provide the music for the French film... "The Village."   Yes, this is another Pink Floyd soundtrack, but this one is not so easily dismissed. "Obscured By Clouds" is a pretty solid spin with a little bit friendlier vibe.  All the grim and foreboding tension would come later.  There are tasty rock moments and light psych-dustings, but the band is clearly slipping deeper into the slide zone of experimental prog-rock.  And you can hear the band getting closer to that "Big Pink" sound. There are 10 tracks; 4 are instrumentals.  All are pleasing to the ear, although a couple of tracks do have an unresolv...

(4 For Friday) *   A giant anaconda climbing onto someone's porch is what nightmares are made of. *   Lou Reed performs "Walk On The Wild Side" with the "All-Star Band Of Comics."  (Jack Black, Conan O'Brien, Adam Sandler, Dana Carvey & Jimmy Fallon.)  You're gonna wanna see this! *   The ten best James Caan movies . *   They surprise the man who saved 669 Jewish children in WWII.  "What is this salty discharge?" "Running Up That Hill" (acapella) - Maytree (2022) Good stuff. Casey Chambers Follow Me On FACEBOOK