Covers: Opening Theme

“Opening Theme” is the first track on Camper Van Beethoven’s Key Lime Pie (1989). They’re a great band,

Yes. His take on Camper Van Beethoven’s Opening Theme is amazing, cause it brings it back to the traditional Greek/eastern Mediterranean sounds we were playing with (2nd order via surf and Kaleidoscope). https://t.co/cQ10CfcKfC
— David C Lowery (@davidclowery) August 2, 2024

Tweet on Solomon Burke

You’d probably dig @4denisesullivan’s interview with Solomon Burke – it’s fascinating. I recommend all of her stuff. https://t.co/6HamC1niwb pic.twitter.com/0xOKVrOqxs
— Scott Warmuth (@scottwarmuth1) April 25, 2024

Peerless music biographer Peter Guralnick remembers R&B great Solomon Burke

https://www.peterguralnick.com/post/41191650018/the-voices-of-solomon-burke

The Dylan/Band box set will have 27 discs

This is great news. The show I saw (1/6/74 afternoon) is included – nobody knew there was a soundboard recording.

It’s unfortunate that the Band’s sets were not included. They were a big part of the show. I saw the Band four times and this was the second-best performance (after 1970). They were really great. Before the Flood didn’t include the lesser-known songs they did such as “Long Black Veil”

Bob Dylan and the Band Announce Massive 27-Disc Box Set Chronicling 1974 Reunion Tour

More: https://t.co/oOEUr3NzwV pic.twitter.com/zYQZERWjx4
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) July 9, 2024

An astonishing 417 previously unreleased tracks in 'The 1974 Live Recordings' a 27CD box set from @bobdylan and The Band. More > https://t.co/PnmhTc2rN6 pic.twitter.com/Z8KNaW9hu1
— Paul at SuperDeluxeEdition (@sdedition) July 9, 2024

‘The 1974 Live Recordings’ celebrates the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s return to touring that year. Featuring all professionally recorded shows from the artist’s 1974 performances backed by The Band, the collection will be available as a deluxe box set across 27 CDs — 431…
— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) July 9, 2024

Gus Cannon print by Robert Crumb

I just got a signed Robert Crumb print of Gus Cannon.

Cannon led Cannon’s Jug Stompers who recorded the original version of songs in the 1920s that were popular decades later such as “Walk Right In”, “Big Railroad Blues”, and “Viola Lee Blues”

Cannon also made an album in the 1960s.

I saw Kinky Friedman on 9/30/89

I saw Kinky Friedman once on September 30, 1989 at 8×10 in Baltimore. He did a book signing before his concert performance. I had four of his novels and got them signed.

I went to the bathroom before the show. The stall was in the back and there was no door on it. I could see that Kinky was on the toilet. He saw me and said, “Hi Harris, come on in!”

Kinky Friedman, a singer, songwriter, humorist and sometime politician who with his band, the Texas Jewboys, developed an ardent following among alt-country music fans with songs like “They Don’t Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore,” has died at 79. https://t.co/LK9KwWt786
— NYT Obituaries (@NYTObits) June 28, 2024

Nice obit from @pitchfork covering many of Kinky’s displays of leading a multi-talented life: https://t.co/JS3nlk0U87
— Kinky Friedman (@FriedmanKinky) June 29, 2024

Kinky Friedman, the eccentric country singer-songwriter whose musings, novels, one-liners and quixotic gubernatorial run made him a folk hero, has died at age 79

More on his life and legacy: https://t.co/4xsqPu9q7Q pic.twitter.com/7zgn5Cl26F
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) June 27, 2024

The four signed books are shown above.

Martin Mull 1943-2024

Martin Mull was a musician and actor

This is the front and back of his “greatest hits” album

Martin Mull’s hilarious mockumentary series THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE IN AMERICA (1985) is on YouTube.

w/ legends like Fred Willard, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and Mary Kay Place. Incredible stuff: https://t.co/DgUiSLLZVa https://t.co/z0JFAfU2Bq #RIPMartinMull pic.twitter.com/lNyktvnjmx
— Will McKinley (@willmckinley) June 29, 2024

Instagram post on Freak Out! (released 6/27/66)

Freak Out! was the first album by the Mothers of Invention (1966) led by Frank Zappa. This Instagram post reminded me of it. It was released on June 27th, 1966.

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June 27th 1966 – Verve Records releases the debut album by Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention, "Freak Out!" The LP is often cited as one of Rock music's first concept albums, as well as being one of the earliest double disc releases. Although it would only reach #130 on the… pic.twitter.com/4WD9i35X5v
— Psychedelic Jukebox (@60sPsychJukebox) June 27, 2024

“At its core, the point of Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention’s ‘Freak Out!’ wasn’t lysergic mayhem, but self-actualization.” @uDiscoverMusic https://t.co/6jC8xApvd9
— The Zappa Movie (@ZappaMovie) November 5, 2020

"The MOFO Project/Object (fazedooh)" 2CD released #OnThisDay in 2006. It commemorates the 40th anniversary of Zappa's first album, "Freak Out!" and documents the making of the album featuring previously unreleased material. A 4CD version was also released. https://t.co/e9Pa3yxHz9 pic.twitter.com/GUVJuWcXRg
— Frank Zappa (@zappa) December 5, 2017

The woman on the Hot Rats cover

#albumsyoumusthear Frank Zappa – Hot Rats – 1969 pic.twitter.com/mp1drxSbYu
— Albums You Must Hear (@Albums2Hear) March 11, 2024

Christine Frka, member of Zappa's GTOs, was the cover model for Hot Rats. I dig this outtake. Had no idea she died only a few yrs later in 1972. Miss Christine is mentioned in John Mayall's "2401" & Joni Mitchell's "Ladies Of The Canyon." [📸Andee Nathanson] pic.twitter.com/fctcQj0zCT
— QueenCityJamz (@QueenCityJamz) October 10, 2022

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HOT RATS was released #OnThisDay in 1969! Coming December 20, "The Hot Rats Sessions" box set celebrates the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest albums in the history of recorded music, and contains unreleased material documenting the album sessions. https://t.co/o69z4W0Gab pic.twitter.com/8v8ll9CTbk
— Frank Zappa (@zappa) October 10, 2019

I learned about Roy Milton through a CD box set

I had never heard of Roy Milton until I got the outstanding CD box set The Specialty Story. Milton made a lot of fine records in the 1940s.

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