June 10, 2020

Answer songs

This is the original song.

This is the answer song. This was the first answer song I ever heard. In the 50’s and 60’s they had this gimmick of answer songs. Somebody would release a song about a breakup then somebody would release a song replying from another point of view. For more info go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_song.
This was the first one I ever heard and it is from Eric Burdon.


Original song


Answer song


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June 7, 2020

California Sun

Here is the original 1964 song

Here is the cover version done by wacky New Yorkers.


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June 5, 2020

Constitution boogie

Freedom to Live
Freedom from Life
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June 3, 2020

Sound track to Revolution. Punk

If you combined the bands like Rancid and Rage Against the Machine you get Anti-Flag.
This concert will exhaust you. This is the type of music you need to inspire you to protest in the streets.

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June 3, 2020

A song about cops. (Punk pop)

L.A.P.D Written in 1981. Benedict Arnold & The Traitors. Since this song is apropos to current events, here you go…

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May 31, 2020

Last night my old neighborhood had a riot.

In Los Angeles there is an area called "The Fairfax District". Once upon a time it was predominately Jewish. Now it is a multi-racial area. What happened last night was very usual event to happen in this place. I write about it in my Blog.
This is what really happened last night on Fairfax.
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May 24, 2020

Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains: I hope I am not repeating myself. At my age my memory plays tricks on me. There is nothing romantic and rebellious about alcoholism or Drug abuse. In the early 70’s was a sign that you were cool and hip. Thank my lucky stars I stopped doing that in the mid 70’s. This is prime example. Alice in Chain had a lot going for them but personal demons ruin the whole thing. Just think what Hendrix or Jim Morrison would be like if they were alive. Jim Morrison would of have produced their 5th if they were still alive. Check this short Rock Doc.

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May 24, 2020

Newport 1958 The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Newport 1958. The Dave Brubeck Quartet: If I were with the so-called silent generation I would have been a Beatnik. They were the rebels of my dad’s generation. Just a reminder, they were not baby boomers. They were the Bohemians of the 50’s. They didn’t buy the anti-communist hysteria or the racist attitudes and the homophobia of that time. They preferred to smoke weed and paint a masterpiece. Jazz was the muse of poets and painters. This was the time when Existentialism clashed with Buddhism. I could see myself living with some cool chick in a pad in Venice California. She would be painting some surrealistic oil painting while I would be composing a poem while this album played.
Who said: Less is more: Miles Davis? Probably. One flaw classical orchestration has, you need a lot of instruments! You need a large stage with some conductor waving a stick around directing traffic, if you have the money and the time. Fine. Jazz can be just as huge with the advent of the Big Band era. In the 1950’s, jazz downsized. If you have a piano, stand up bass, saxophone, and a drum kit, you were in business. This was The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
I don’t where I got this album. I suspect it was dad’s record. I wonder why he would buy this L.P? He was a classical music geek.
This was the first jazz album I ever owned. It was recorded live while Dave Brubeck band played a tribute to Duke Ellington. The sound is bouncy and syncopated. He does employ weird rhythms, strange meters and Avant Garde tonalities, which appeals to my unconformity style.
The artist who did the water colored cover didn’t get album credit. He did sign the art piece. The signature is illegible. They use to write these liner notes in back of albums promoting the artist. Somebody wrote this short essay that was on a college level.
This is a great introduction to Cool Jazz.

Here is the album.

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May 22, 2020

My encounter with a Trump Zomie and other weirdos.

The old American adage is: Never talk about religion or politics to strangers or anybody else unless you trust or really know the person well. That is something my grandmother told me time and time again. When I was a loud mouth kid in my 20’s, I often got into fights because of passionate political beliefs and they weren’t just arguments. I learn to shut my mouth over the years. I had encounters and was subjected to unsolicited opinions by Trump supporters. This piece is about my neighbors in a mobile home park. It’s called: Space 166.

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May 20, 2020

Wild thing! Not the Tone Loc song.

Here is the original
Wild thing Troggs 1966

Here is the cover
Jimi Hendrix 1967



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