“Once in a Lifetime” is a Talking Heads song from 1980.
Month: May 2021
Star Wars Program from 1977
May 4th reminded me that I saw Star Wars on its first day in New York in 1977. Here’s the outside of the program.
Covers: Holy Cow
“Holy Cow” was a 1966 Lee Dorsey record written and produced by Allen Toussaint who was responsible for a lot of the great New Orleans R&B. Toussaint arranged horns for the Band’s “Life Is a Carnival” and Rock of Ages and they covered “Holy Cow” on Moondog Matinee in 1973.
Los Lobos online concert May 5
Los Lobos is a great band. I’ve seen them seven times starting in 1993. I have enjoyed watching online concerts during the pandemic. They’re not the real thing but the prices are reasonable and support the artists. They’re still worth seeing. I’m looking forward to this one.
Woodstalk 2019
The 2021 minor league baseball season begins today. That reminded me that in 2019, The Wilmington Blue Rocks mascot Mr. Celery celebrated the 50th anniversary of Woodstock with “Woodstalk”. I bought the bobblehead on eBay and the jersey from the Blue Rocks. I used the number and name they had in the online sample jersey.
Great tweet from the Baltimore City Health Department
Covers: Birmingham Sunday
“Birmingham Sunday” was written by Richard Farina, also the author of the novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. The best known version is by Joan Baez. Farina was married to her sister Mimi and recorded with her. Thomas Pynchon was the best man.
The history behind the song:
I got a doormat made from a ticket stub scan
Phunky Threads will make a doormat from your scan or photo of a ticket stub. I think they did a great job. The ticket was from Jason Isbell’s first solo tour after he left the Drive-By Truckers. Fletcher’s was a bar that only held a few hundred people. I saw an incredible Drive-By Truckers show there in 2003. That show is available here.
It got dirty and I got a second one in 2023. It looks great.
80th Anniversary of Citizen Kane
It’s a great film. Orson Welles was only 25 when he made it. I was a teenager when I saw it and I was shocked. I only knew Welles as this fat guy doing Paul Masson commercials.
A collection of official James Brown videos
I was not a James Brown fan in the 1960s and 1970s. In the mid-1980s when I got a CD player, it was hard to find CDs to buy so I tried The CD of JB because I had read a favorable review of it. It was great. After that, there was a flood of excellent James Brown reissues and I bought most of them. I finally got to see him in concert in 1993. I’m sure it wasn’t as good a show as I would have seen 20 years earlier but it was still great. It was anachronistic – he had a big band and mostly played old songs but they were classics.
Brown is one of the most influential artists ever. I think he has more to do with today’s music than the Beatles, Stones, or Dylan.
I have added some official Brown videos from YouTube
Sad! 