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Friday, May 31, 2013

How I Know Brian Wilson is God (Part the Infinity)

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Well, for starters, he wrote a fricking great song with my girlfriend's name as the title. Also -- the new version, from the Beach B...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Compare and Contrast: Special You Can't Copyright a Title Edition

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From 1965, please enjoy (once again) Southern California garage punks The Lyrics and "So What!," their most blues-wailing ode to ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

A Friend Writes...

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..."Can J. Richman and Elvis Costello be spliced? I think this guy has done it." I think so too, so please enjoy -- from 2012...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The Present Day Sixties Relic Refuses to Die (An Occasional Series)

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From (approximately) 2006, please enjoy Waddy Wachtel and Friends -- with special guest frontman Keith Allison -- stomping their way, aut...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Zallymania!!!

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And proving yet again that YouTube is the greatest thing since the Library at Alexandria, from 1966 please enjoy a television interview -- w...
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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Picture, 1000 Words, Etc.

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Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan , backstage at a Dylan concert (at Rutgers University, if memory serves) in 1965. I hadn't seen that one ...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

Okay, This is Getting Ridiculous Already

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Terry Reid and friends from 2006, with the Four Seasons ' "Rag Doll. Okay, we won't bring up the whole "Are the Four ...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

If It's Thursday, It Must Be One of Steve's Crackpot Theories!!!

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Food for thought: The greatest short -- under five minutes -- piece of orchestral music written in the second half of the 20th Century is ei...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Wednesday Moment of Words Fail Me

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Okay, I've done whole weeks here about the astounding Terry Reid , but here he is wailing my favorite of his songs -- "Without Expr...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Tuesday Consolation Track

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Okay, nobody guessed that it was Warren Zevon and Bones Howe performing yesterday's mystery song, so no coveted PowerPop No-Prize© wil...
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