Here's Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football, shortly after 11:00 pm, 28 years ago today. Here's the way Howard and all of us would have preferred to have remembered John Lennon on Monday Night Football. Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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I Heard the News That Night, Oh Boy
The Rock Town Hall Xmas Record
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The RTH Xmas record is the 15 best Xmas songs as nominated by you: the villagers of Rock Town Hall.Here are the rules: You nominate a song for inclusion. The moment another villager seconds your vote, it's in. We keep going until we have 15. This becomes the Official (Mod? [Mod - Why not, provided my favorite rockin' Xmas song is included?] ) Rock Town Hall Xmas Album .This process should leave...
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Not Great Men?
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12675794I often fall behind a week or two in reading my subscription to The Economist. That's OK, because I don't put much stock in being a current events guy. I mostly read The Economist in hopes of finding signs of Great People.My wife and I have subscribed to The Economist since 1995, when we got back from our year in Hungary. It provi...
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Jim Ford: Godfather to Pub Rock
I love pub rock. There’s no clear definition of the style, but it was a mid-70s British phenomenon, a back-to-basics trend that was never wildly popular, a precursor to punk, and many pub rock musicians carried on into the punk era. Brinsley Schwarz is probably the best-known exponent of the style, which I think of as a mixture of black and white musical genres – rock, R&B, country, folk, an
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RTH Hears the Case of Satriani vs. Coldplay
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I hate to convene the court over the weekend but the Rock Nation turns its lonely eyes to us.The Hall will now hear arguments after which a sidebar poll will determine the verdict.Original post blogged on b2evolution .
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Young and Innocent Days: Baby Flamehead
General Slocum, Mrclean, and bandmates shopping for used records, sometime in the late-80sI saw this photo of Baby Flamehead, a cool Philly band from my youth, featuring two old friends and Townspeople, General Slocum (Andy Bresnan) and Mrclean (Dean Sabatino), and took a walk down memory lane. Your memories might differ, but won't you join me?Baby Flamehead, "Badadadadup (Live on KCRW in 1990)...
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Kids Incorporated...As Their Music Was Meant to Sound!
Linda Rondstadt's gotta nothin' on this, baby. Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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Join Together: RTH Gets Serious About '70s Who
HVB made a great point when this post first ran: The Who don't get dragged through the ringer of Rock Town Hall with half the frequency of some other titans of rock around here. Maybe it's because we're mostly dudes and because The Who was so vital to our sense of budding dudeness as teenagers. Could there be Rock Town Hall without the rite of passage that was the Stages of Who? Rather than get...
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Comment of the Month: Iggy Gets a Makeover
In our recent Genie in the Hall thread, Townspeople were asked, among other wishes, to grant an upgraded Look to a treasured musician. Oats hit it on the head with this succinct suggestion:2. Iggy needs to put a shirt on. It's time.We call this getting to the heart of the matter. Well done, Oats! Thanks to our many other excellent contenders. Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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Instrumentalist in a Band Who You'd Most Like to Hear Do a Solo Album (or once thought you would like to hear solo...)
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The disappointing outcome of Rock Town Hall's latest Mystery Date got me thinking: Ever follow an instrumentalist in a band for years and think to yourself, "Boy, I'd love to hear what this cat could do on his own!"Read more »Original post blogged on b2evolution .
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Mystery Date Revealed
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Will your Mystery Date be a dream or a dud? Read more »Original post blogged on b2evolution .
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Preferring the Bastardized Version to the Original Source Material
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To this day, although I've come a long way in digging reggae music, I prefer hearing The Clash do their version of reggae than almost any real reggae artist. Give me "Police and Thieves" with those crunchy guitars and awkward bass over the Junior Murvin original version any day, even though the original version is pretty great . If you put a gun to my head I may even admit that I prefer the ba...
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Musicians Outside the Blues/R&B/Jazz/Country Traditions Who Should Have a Greater Influence on Rock 'n Roll
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We ran a poll recently that asked "What musician is cited most frequently among rock nerds based on their relation to a famous band long before anyone has heard said musician's own music?" The most frequent response was La Monte Young , the minimalist composer under whom John Cale studied and who presumably was a great influence on the music of the Velvet Underground. Young is a good example o...
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