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The Magic Band, “Circumstances”, 2006

We’re about do for some more Magic Band action I’d say… Live from Swedish morning programming! How good is the vocal conjuring by John French here? Also featured tearing into this version of “Circumstances” is Gary Lucas, Denny Walley, Mark Boston, and Michael Traylor. From the unimpeachable Clear Spot album, 1972.

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Dueling Turntables..”Location,Location,Location”..The Rooftop Concert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuGxYnNxcM You probably remember these guys, had a lot of success in the 60′s and early 70′s; pretty fair musicians and song writers too. At this point, the rooftop was the probably the only,safest, place for them to perform a live, free concert. They do rock. From beatlesbible.com: The 42-minute show was recorded onto two [...]

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Dueling Turntables… “Location, Location, Location”… Eddy Current Suppression Ring

Many points deducted here for lack of live audio. But more essential is the energy and spirit. Gotta love the good ol’ fashioned, never out of style, rock’n’roll beach party! These Aussies can throw down with the best of them too. Favorite moment: the girl air drumming on lil’ sister’s head at 0:39 in… Rock. [...]

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Dueling Turntables, Eno Related: Laraaji

The story goes that in ’79 Eno saw this man, Edward Larry Gordon improvising on zither in Washington Square Park. So taken he soon thereafter offered to produce a record for the guy. With Edward taking the adoptive name Laraaji, the subsequent release fell under Eno’s ambient series, this one titled Ambient 3: Day of [...]

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Dueling Turntables: Bad Ass Sidekicks – Comedy Version

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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Dueling Turntables: Adrian Belew Trio – featuring Julie Slick

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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Dueling Turntables: “Women Rock”… Sleater-Kinney at Coachella

I was struck by the Dr.’s wonderful Wonderland post. Hadn’t ever heard of her, and amazingly there would be countless others of immense talent bringing their voice and life to music. We who get to discover and enjoy really are the lucky ones. So women that rock? Well back in ’06 the ones that stole [...]

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Dueling Turntables – ‘Soloist Youtuber’ – “The Fat Lady of Limbourg”

Alright, a bit of a delayed response to Jet’s wonderful toy piano Kraftwerkin’, but non-the-less a relevant one I thinks. The stare-down between performer and viewer, such a crucial and strange bit of social interaction unique to the soloist youtubing experience. I like this lady’s commitment – to the song, to the viewer, the whole [...]

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Dueling Big Bands: Kiyohiko Senba & His Haniwa All-Stars

Years ago I came across this phenomenal bit of noise on the equally phenomenal Mutant Sounds blog. Didn’t quite know what to make of the music then, probably still don’t now, but always it remained in the back my brain, its residual frequencies never fully escaping the sound skull. This clip here just flat out [...]

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Dueling Turntables: Little Howlin’ Wolf – Water and Music

James Pobiega aka Deacon Blue aka Papa Doc aka The Shadow Drifter aka Little Howlin’ Wolf is a Chicago street performer slash bluesman with tales to spare, as this clip hints. Read and hear more about him HERE. After viewing the Caplan post I immediately thought of James, as well as the myriad of others, [...]

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