tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post5712449986194047434..comments2024-03-28T14:41:03.787-04:00Comments on PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special Everybody's In Showbiz Edition)NYMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10863355110457910935noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-15165151743138101492010-10-18T10:06:42.790-04:002010-10-18T10:06:42.790-04:00Ohhh, Brian Wilson. Inspired.
TreyOhhh, Brian Wilson. Inspired.<br /><br />TreyTMinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07221261635305430323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-27189782537096267782010-10-16T22:30:20.343-04:002010-10-16T22:30:20.343-04:00"Looking for the Magic" - The Dwight Twi..."Looking for the Magic" - The Dwight Twilley story or "Talent is an Asset" the Sparks Revue.Toddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17285722988819172501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-47423538208891886972010-10-16T12:48:15.100-04:002010-10-16T12:48:15.100-04:00Surprised no one's mentioned Brian Wilson...Surprised no one's mentioned Brian Wilson...dave™©https://www.blogger.com/profile/15303249276504183167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-7267925535562160972010-10-16T11:08:06.331-04:002010-10-16T11:08:06.331-04:00It would not be a happy heels kicking musical but ...It would not be a happy heels kicking musical but I keep thinking a show about Sandy Denny if handled correctly could be fascinating. And the music...<br /><br />ROTP(lumber)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-41407422143564908162010-10-16T08:58:20.341-04:002010-10-16T08:58:20.341-04:00Spinal Tap had a bit of The Sweet to them as well....Spinal Tap had a bit of The Sweet to them as well...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-29135628349754180402010-10-15T22:57:28.575-04:002010-10-15T22:57:28.575-04:00Actually, everybody -- including Harry
Shearer (w...Actually, everybody -- including Harry <br />Shearer (who followed them on the road) and the band themselves -- has pretty much copped to the fact that Spinal Tap was based on Saxon.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-51912491852739838292010-10-15T18:19:56.829-04:002010-10-15T18:19:56.829-04:00I always thought Uriah Heep was the main inspirati...I always thought Uriah Heep was the main inspiration for Spinal Tap.Karatist Preachernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-26259870198419154772010-10-15T16:26:02.912-04:002010-10-15T16:26:02.912-04:00Having read "Shakey," the flawed-yet-fas...Having read "Shakey," the flawed-yet-fascinating Neil Young biography, I have to vote for him. <br /><br />What a life. Mom was a bit nutty - Dad a respected writer and unredeemable philanderer.<br /><br />A couple years after graduating HS, he drives with friends across American to LA, has a sort of mental breakdown along the way, gets there and is about to give up until a chance meeting with Steve Stills - their cars happen to pass each other on the strip - leading to the Buffalo Springfield.<br /><br />Quits that band, solo career starts (who would play Jack Nitzsche?)...CSNY...huge solo success...Crazy Horse...and on and on.<br /><br />And for a killer subplot, you have to check out this <a href="http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/neil_young/special_features/12882" rel="nofollow"> story </a>about how Ahmet Ertegun got the Springfield on Atlantic Records - by having a lackey threaten original manager Frazier Mohawk with a gun.Noam Sanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14078219408896745687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-68091816858286444222010-10-15T16:16:38.661-04:002010-10-15T16:16:38.661-04:00That kinks song was written for a comedy about the...That kinks song was written for a comedy about the worlds first penis transplant.<br /><br />I'm not making this up.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-26743457908340184332010-10-15T14:01:50.658-04:002010-10-15T14:01:50.658-04:00jeez, that Kinks song is one of the most beautiful...jeez, that Kinks song is one of the most beautiful and truthful things I've ever heard. thanks for that!<br /><br />The music of the Mammas/Pappas would make a great musical. Maybe it's been done already. Talk about a soundtrack of hits. <br /><br />Bending the rules a tiny bit, and at the other end of the Dunhill/Trousdale offices, the story of Sloan and Barri told through their music: R'n'B, surfer, girl groups, folk rock, baroque folk, and blue eyed soul. <br /><br />APAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-1513238195728805222010-10-15T12:22:12.981-04:002010-10-15T12:22:12.981-04:00Never heard of Jobraith. Interesting. I guess grow...Never heard of Jobraith. Interesting. I guess growing up in Cincinnati, I missed some things.Ken J Xenozarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16024446764828171613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-4126863750245967222010-10-15T10:45:07.628-04:002010-10-15T10:45:07.628-04:00Well, the Monks are a new band for me. That is rea...Well, the Monks are a new band for me. That is really time bending. And I enjoy two Uriah Heep records, but man that video reeks.<br /><br />How about a musical about d boone and Mike Watt forming the Minutemen and fighting all the time? Seriously.<br /><br />TreyTMinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07221261635305430323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-49992533538092452082010-10-15T09:48:38.531-04:002010-10-15T09:48:38.531-04:00I could see some Broadway hacks turning "Jung...I could see some Broadway hacks turning "Jungleland" into a big, brassy musical, with Justin Timberlake as "The Magic Rat" and Mario Lopez as "Spanish Johnny."Jonhttp://mbtn.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-40883251921176704182010-10-15T09:10:05.848-04:002010-10-15T09:10:05.848-04:00"Cadillac Records" touched on several in..."Cadillac Records" touched on several interesting stories, like Etta James'. Too bad it wasn't a better movie.<br /><br />And while this has been done as a movie, and isn't exactly a life story per se, I'd love to see "A Hard Day's Night" brought to Broadway.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18282613112168154071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-1674201524357172002010-10-15T07:49:08.961-04:002010-10-15T07:49:08.961-04:00Well, I've never seen Mama Mia, or the Billy J...Well, I've never seen Mama Mia, or the Billy Joel musical, or the Green Day musical because, you know, I have some dignity. And I don't think it would work as a stage musical per se, but I'd love to see a video album--with a different director for every cut--of XTC's Skylarking. I would watch that a lot.NYMaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10863355110457910935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-10705237350332105562010-10-15T07:30:10.111-04:002010-10-15T07:30:10.111-04:00I've always had this goofy dream that if I wer...I've always had this goofy dream that if I were filthy rich, I'd love to turn Ian Hunter's "All American Alien Boy" into a production number. Starts with Hunter alone on a dark stage and just builds and builds as the song progresses, to near chaos at the end. Ah well, guess that will never happen.Feralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110786176703420978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-90375296516037800132010-10-15T07:28:14.890-04:002010-10-15T07:28:14.890-04:00"Cadillac Records" brushed by it, but th..."Cadillac Records" brushed by it, but the real Chuck Berry story would tell an incredible tale of talent, hubris, race, sin, solitude, self-hatred and success in America. If ever a man's life had many dimensions ...Fazenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-60552564596599431912010-10-15T02:56:30.979-04:002010-10-15T02:56:30.979-04:00The hard-luck stories come thick and fast, some wi...The hard-luck stories come thick and fast, some with last-reel redemption, some without. Moby Grape, anybody? Gene Clark? Roky Erickson? the GTOs?petenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-46697383515427993072010-10-15T02:37:59.132-04:002010-10-15T02:37:59.132-04:00I've always thought it would be interesting to...I've always thought it would be interesting to do a musical from the POV of a "Svengalied" rock performer, as diverse a group as Fabian, Ronnie Spector, or Mary Weiss.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03743825684303825072noreply@blogger.com