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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Shatner's version is superior to Dylan's and the Byrds. I think he is the only one who really got it.
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Posts by El Monko and Son
New Listy Thing: "I Didn't Know That Wasn't the Original"
"Sentimental Lady" by Fleetwood Mac"Black Magic Woman" by Fleetwood Mac"Lotta Love" by Neil Young"Mama Told Me Not to Come" by Randy Newman"Without You" by Badfinger"Strawberry Letter 23" by Sugie Otis"Respect" by Otis ReddingMore to come, I'm sure.
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My Whole Family Has Seen Tom Waits! And Not In Traffic, Like Last Time!
In retrospect, it was a Herculean undertaking. Making a six-hour drive with a four-year-old; attending an eight-hour concert the following day; running around San Francisco the following day; driving home the day after that. But, we did it. And damn, it was worth it. Not only is my son's life no longer bereft of concertgoing experience, but he has seen more top-line acts than most people twice his
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Like a Bar Mitzvah, but Louder, and with More Jaegermeister
Question:What do Tom Waits, Jerry Lee Lewis, El Monko and Son, Metallica, Neil Young, Eddie Vedder, Mrs. El Monko and Son, Flea, Regina Spektor, Tegan and Sara, Jon Mayer, and my friends James and Heather have in common?Answer:We will all be at Shoreline Amphitheatre on sunday for a very special event: the Boy's first concert!Yep, years from now, when he is a strong young man and I am a wizened pr
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A Special Kind of Love
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As someone whose self-esteem was too low to venture wholeheartedly into the realm of romance when I was young, I used to enjoy a good laugh at those who were proactive enough to stick a foot (or any body part) into the water, so to speak.I discovered a preferred guffaw source fairly early on in the blindness of those who would interpret certain songs as romantic due to the fact that they had not r
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Born To Lose
Rock and roll, being romantic by nature, is chock full of storied hard-luck cases. Syd Barret, Ian Curtis, Roky Erikson, Sid Vicious, Darby Crash, and many others. The list is long enough that one may assum hard luck is part of rock (music? art? life?).So, which band is the hardest luck band ever? I am torn between Derek and the Dominoes (one member drinks himself to death at 38, one dies on his m
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Eat a Glob o' Velveeta
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Who knew that Iron Butterfly was still out there, doing their thing?I went to go see them for free at a charity thing for the Humane Society this last Sunday (my friend put it together, so he got me a pass) and it was a singular occasion.Mrs. El Monko and Son was not in a place to handle their howling elemental psychedelics, so she waited in the car while the boy, the dog and I danced around. The
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Moved by Andy Samberg, of all the Ridiculous Things
Greetings all, or, whomever the F is still out there;Watching Saturday Night Live tonight, I was moved by the oddest goddam thing. I'm not sure it was a "digital short," per se, because I was eating leftover pasta out of the fridge when it started (and it was fucking awesome; Odin and Bel Marduk be praised for the Heirloom Tomato), but the piece that satirized the president of Iran for his "there
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Funniest Thing of All Time, At the Moment
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/pastry/Either you find this funny, or we're quits.
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Where's the Beef?
Here is a list idea that I have contemplated for a while, and I feel it truly needs some scholars to complete it. The concept: songs about feuds within bands. I know of several of these, and I find them fascinating, at least in the rock tradition where such things were not expected (as in rap), and, indeed, even frowned upon to some extent when seen clearly.Anyhoo, here is what I got, some of whic
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