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Does it sound like Sammy's Pool Cabana? Yes, on the original. Sorta on this reissue. On the CD? Not so much...
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The Band
Capitol Reissues The Band's Second Album on 180g Vinyl
Cover Wars: Ophelia Edition
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U-Melt ran away with last week's edition when we looked at eight covers of The Boy In The Bubble . U-Melt proves that clever setlist construction goes a long way, as the performance that was selected was in the middle of MMW's Bubblehouse (Boy in the Bubblehouse?). Congrats to U-Melt on their first CW trophy, well it's an imaginary trophy, put it on the mantle.Moving on to this week, we will be...
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Endless Highway
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Album:Endless Highway: the music of The Band
I still enjoy going to music stores. Things happen in music stores. I picked up Pearl Jam's Ten months before it became a big deal because I heard it in a local shop. Same thing with Sarah McLachlan. Even now, I find things in music stores that I would never find if I always just ordered on-line. Mostly because the music stores play albums to try to entice people to buy them. So I hear th...
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Alcohol Abuse?
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Album:The Basement Tapes
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I've been posting just a few too many utubes lately, but what the heck, here's Rick Danko, Janis Joplin, and Jerry Garcia doing Ain't No More Cane from the Festival Express DVD(Danko is so obliterated that even Janis has to ask him if he's OK--when Janis is worried about your state of mind, you must be pretty messed up.)
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A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one...
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Other than the unoriginality of the bandname, I love this cd. I'd seen parts of The Last Waltz a couple times and decided to check these guys out. Got there second album because it had the highest rating on allmusic.com (I defer to that sometimes when deciding if I should buy something or not), and it is great and solid all the way around. It sounds like it's from the 70s, 'cause it is, but it ...
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another one bites the dust
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Have I ever mentioned my sincere love for *"The Last Waltz"*? Directed by Martin Scorsese, it's hands-down the best music documentary of all time, and even better - it's got tons of amazing concert footage intermingled with some great interviews. The concert footage (most of the disc) is from *The Band*'s last show (*The Band*, of course, having been back-up for *Bob Dylan*, *Neil Young*, etc...
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Who's ready for Endless Highway?
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I know I am. This tribute album (release date: January 30, 2007) comes at the height of my obsession with The Band. I've been less than enthralled with tribute efforts of the past, namely Encomium in which several 90's artists got together and botched song after song from the catalog of Led Zeppelin. But I have high hopes for Endless Highway, because I think songs by the Band are more accessibl...
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SEE THE MAN WITH THE STAGE FRIGHT.
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".......they gave this poor boy his fortune and fame....Since that day he ain't been the same" Robbie Robertson's broad stroke sketch of the performing artist in general, (long rumored to be "about" Bob Dylan in particular) resonates a bit more today. The Death of Michael Jackson slams home the cold reality, the maddening certainty that the world has gone mad. Celebrities who once merely liv...
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OOO! OOO! ANOTHER EXCUSE TO POST KING HARVEST
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Don't anybody point this out to Spike okay? I've already posted this song at least twice.
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WHAT ARE WE?
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dermahrk says: We are being overtaken by the Pod People - the Mog Music Network. Bloggers who don't post tunes or videos, have nothing to say and say it endlessly, and don't interact. They suck.I have to agree. We seem to be overrun of late by self-aggrandizing links to posts of little or no interest. (to be fair, some of them are very interesting), but the point is.....I guess its becomi...
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THE THIRD MAN THEME
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One of my all time favorite covers....an odd selection for a rock band to be sure, but The Band were never an ordinary rock band. This has a light feel at the surface...but it wouldn't be hard to hear this as a soundtrack to a Stephen King carnival story. Just give a listen....this is confident, imaginative, clever & very well played with a looseness that belies it's precision.
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RICHARD MANUEL (pt 2)
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If you read "this":http://mog.com/deadmandeadman/blog_post/129379#write-comment you can catch pt 1During the legendary sessions at Big Pink The Band was searching for its own identity. Having toured for years as Ronnie Hawkin's Hawks, and then as Dylan's Band, they had chops aplenty, what they didn't have was an identifiable sound of their own.But with three strong voices and the skills of Rob...
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