Archive | January, 2012

Apocalypse Later,Surf Now..

by on 20. Jan, 2012 in Uncategorized

The place, Huntington Beach. It’s year #3 of Santorum’s second term as President. Gingrich runs the DOD, and Homeland Security. Romney is at Treasury, and the Dept. of Education has been abolished. (And a few other Department’s that I can’t remember). The US is at war with damn near everybody. Remarkably, despite the “exceptionalism” doctrine, [...]

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Dueling Turntables: Bad Ass Sidekicks – Comedy Version

by on 20. Jan, 2012 in comedy, dueling turntables

I’m a bit late to the game for this round, and I’ll concede defeat on musical grounds (and perhaps start a new battle?) by turning to my most favoritist of contemporary comedy pairings… the two Ls… Larry and Leon. For me at least, when these two share a scene the laughs per second roll off [...]

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Bellyboard Joy

by on 18. Jan, 2012 in Uncategorized

Days of future past. Stoked!

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Dueling Turntables..”Bad Ass Sidekicks” : Howlin’Wolf.. w/Hubert Sumlin, and Willie Dixon too.”Smokestack Lightning”.

by on 12. Jan, 2012 in Uncategorized

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1FK620bS7A It doesn’t get more bad ass than this. 1964, somewhere in whiter than white England, and keeping up with the scary Howlin’ Wolf is the amazing Hubert Sumlin on lead guitar and Willie Dixon, both of them integral to the Wolf’s take no prisoner, distinctive sound. (Probably a good night at the bar after [...]

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Dueling Turntables- Bad Ass Sidekicks….. Jerome Green

by on 10. Jan, 2012 in Uncategorized

Jerome Green was a mainstay of the Chess Records label from the mid-’50s onward — best known for playing maracas on the recordings of Bo Diddley, he also played on the records of Chuck Berry, Billy Boy Arnold, Billy Stewart, and Willie Dixon, among others. Green was, according to some sources, a tuba player who [...]

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Dueling Turntables: Adrian Belew Trio – featuring Julie Slick

by on 03. Jan, 2012 in dueling turntables, music

To keep this merry-go-round a’ twirlin’… here’s Julie Slick more than keeping pace with a couple old pros. There’s of course the aforementioned human-smile-factory Mr. Belew, but also sitting in on drums is a one Danny Carey from Tool. The song is “Neurotica,” a KC tune I think I still have post-traumatic stress over from [...]

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