My Mom was a pretty cool cat. She knew the music was important to me. In early December of 1972, I was browsing the vinyl at the Ayrway shopping center in Richmond, Indiana. I was drooling over this high-priced ($12.99 as I remember) import compilation of T. Rex's earliest electric recordings. I wanted it bad, but maybe someday-someway I'd have it: but for now, my three bucks wasn't gonna cut...
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Just sitting here listening to some music, minding my own business, when yet again the shuffle mode 'accidentally' played a two song set that was beyond coincidental. I have something like 20,000 songs on my Itunes, and these two came up side by side? Consider my mind blown( I know, it doesn't take much, but still.) I guess I had never really noticed how similar these two songs were before, lyr...
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So how's about my own red-button test. Here's Mr. Bolan applying his newly honed electric side to the Eddie Cochran classic (or, was Eddie the first??...hhmmm...)
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Two well-known album covers; one a photo, one a drawing/collage.Who took the photo, who did the drawing/collage?Whose finger was on the shutter release?Who wielded the pencil and the gluepot?
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The Children of the Revolution....great song...
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Picture me doing karaoke in a bar out in the sticks of the midwestern United States. This scenario is not unlike the episode of "The A-Team" guest starring Culture Club. I have just finished singing T. Rex's "Hot Love," and the karaoke DJ has a few words for me:"Hoo-wee. What was that? I ain't never heard that song in my life. Any-a you ever heard that song in your life? Betty? You ever heard t...
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This is the entire special they did to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Marc Bolan's death..
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We’re exactly one week away from Festival 8, and as Phish continues to kill off potential musical costumes we thought we’d check out a song from what I’d consider a sleeper album of the ones remaining - T. Rex’s glam-rock masterpiece Electric Warrior. Here’s Marc Bolan & Co. joined by Sir Elton John for the band’s most recognizable song Bang A Gang…T. Rex - Bang A Gong
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I've had T-Rex on the brain recently after repeated watchings of Hot Fuzz (in my mind the best comedy movie in at least 10 years), which prominently features a Fratellis cover of Solid Gold Easy Action. Then I learn that Marc Bolan had the role they gave to Jim Croce when they Americanized Life on Mars ("watch out for Minis.") Nothing, however, quite compares to the insane awesomeness of this c...
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Original article from MMN partner A Future in Noise is READABLE HERE---I have the fortune/misfortune of my birthday (December 13th) being near the holidays. The fortune is that I can potentially get many more presents around the same time at once than non-Saggitarians and Capricorns do...the misfortune possibly being that gifts may be bundled as a "birthday+holiday season+New Years+whatever" pa...
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…Legendary T-Rex frontman Marc Bolan was born in East London.Born Mark Feld, he grew up in the east and southwest areas of London and developed an interest in music from a very early age. After falling in love with the early US rock stars such as Chuck Berry and Eddie Cochran, Bolan was presented with [...]
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We’re teaming up with our pals at WNEW.com for a little “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” goodness. They are pointing their readers in the direction of our best posts of August and we’re doing the same for them. We’ve got some exciting projects in the works with the ‘NEW crew but more on that later. For now, check out our favorite WNEW posts…Forgotten Favorites looks at T.
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Long before Marc Bolan turned electric, installed a rhythm section, shortened the name of his band to T Rex and launched a full fontal assault on the UK charts with his hugely successful brand of glam rock, there was Tyrannosaurus Rex, the two man psychedelic-folk outfit who ruled the underground during the late ’60s.John Peel [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowTyrannosaurus Rex – UnicornNo rela
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