Month: February 2022

Climate tweets – 2/15/22 update

The Levy’s rye bread ads

Note: I am not related to the people who founded this business

This was a famous ad campaign in the 1960s. The first tweet links to an outstanding article.

Buster Keaton!

Levy’s ad campaign: “You don’t have to be Jewish” (1961–70s)

Great Twitter thread on the Squarespace Super Bowl commercial

The ad was starred Zendaya and included Andre 3000. It was directed by Edgar Wright. This thread has a great view from someone who worked on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGblNvyLv3s

Trump’s China trade policy was a failure

https://twitter.com/fadde/status/1491542520098004994?s=20&t=uGOdsTA01J8ugxxOv30feA

Bob Dylan and the Band – 1974 tour

Bob Dylan and the Band toured for two months at the beginning of 1974. I saw the January 6, 1974 afternoon show at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. The music from the tour has been well captured on the album Before the Flood which is basically a shorter version of the show. For instance the album has three solo acoustic songs while he actually did five. The album has eight songs by the Band while they really did 11.

The concert was outstanding. Dylan and the Band performed everything as loud rock – listen to t “Lay Lady Lay” and “It Ain’t Me Babe” which are very different than the original versions.

The Band was excellent. However, the audience just kept shouting for Dylan while they were on. They played a few obscure songs from their catalog – “When You Awake” and “Long Black Veil”.

Dylan and the Band played several songs from their new Planet Waves album. The Band played nothing from Moondog Matinee, released just a few months earlier.

Several shows were recorded but I doubt that we will ever get a Bootleg Series release of them. There are bootlegs of many of the shows, some of which are soundboards. I have read that Dyan wasn’t happy with the tour. I guess it didn’t have the elements of innovations and controversy that his 1966 tour did. This time, Dylan was the establishment.

Ben Fong-Torres wrote a book about the tour.

Dylan and Helm

Howard Grimes

Howard Grimes, the drummer on many great R&B records recorded in Memphis, died on February 12, 2022. Fortunately, he wrote an autobiography that was published last year. I recommend it for his stories about the artists and recordings. I will post links below to a few videos of songs he played on. This is a link to information on the book, Timekeeper. This links to his discography.

Trump’s accounting firm cuts ties with his businesses

Unreliable statements? Is that a nice way of saying the Trump Organization lied? I hope this leads to criminal, not just civil, proceedings. I wish someone would hold Trump accountable. It doesn’t look like DOJ will.

Biden gets no credit for the good things in the economy

High inflation is a real problem. But a lot of good things like low unemployment have also happened on Biden’s watch and he doesn’t get any credit.

The final “Peanuts” comic strip on 2/13/00