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Avon53
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2 months ago
The Nazz Forget About It (Alternative Version) (HQ)
From their 1971 album Nazz III.
I appreciate Galantski's comment.
I was under the impression that this recording most likely reflected an attempt to delete and overdub Todd out of Nazz III before Stewkey & company proceeded to (re?-)release it, seeing as Todd had left the band by then.
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The Nazz Forget About It (Alternative Version) (HQ)
From their 1971 album Nazz III.
This wasn't on the original "Nazz III" release ... but maybe it was on the 2006 re-release on Sanctuary Records that includes a bunch of out-takes? Anyway it's clearly got different vocals than the original. A dubbing error at 2:20 sounds to me like a blatant attempt to remove and replace Todd'...
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Teenage Head - Picture My Face (Toronto, 1978)
From Colin Brunton's The Last Pogo.
December 1, 1978
Recorded at the Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto.
The film this clip comes from is nicely described in the Wikipedia article on Teenage Head. And I consider myself lucky to find it so easily here!
Punk in 1978 was a whole different animal than it got to be by 1980 when there were hit albums and punk became accepted as a valid type of rock music...
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The Rutles: The Knicker Elastic King
"The Knicker Elastic King" By The Rutles
From "The Rutles Archaeology"
A parody of "Getting Better" and "Penny Lane" By The Beatles and "Coronati...
@SgtRuttersClubBand - sounding like is one thing; capturing the spirit or imagination is quite another.
The punchy 1-2-3-4 beat is the only powerful thing I feel in it.
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The Rutles: The Knicker Elastic King
"The Knicker Elastic King" By The Rutles
From "The Rutles Archaeology"
A parody of "Getting Better" and "Penny Lane" By The Beatles and "Coronati...
Sounds to me like it's as much influenced by Motown as anything else.
I just read an opinion piece contrasting Jobs genius to Gates intelligence, so I'm prone to think I hear an exceptionally clever effort that's utterly lacking in genius.
Which means, interesting and even impressive but not ...
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Amboy Dukes - Journey To The Center Of The Mind
Amboy Dukes perform Journey To The Center Of The Mind
How come nobody cares if the music sounds absolutely great? I'm lovin' it!
My only complaint is that almost no psychedelic rock hit records can be reproduced in a live performance very well at all, though this one is lip-synched with pretty faithful guitar-fingering so it looks more convincingly...
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The Balloonist
A small town forms a special relationship with a hot-air balloonist, who delivers gifts to the local children. When he goes missing, one young boy ...
I'd love to know which school's students contributed this!
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Avon53
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4 months ago
Generation X-Wild youth
TOTP performance
Great footage! Some ot the other 1977 performances are a little raw and falling-apart (although better for a club show than a TV show like this one), and the later performances are a little too glam/civilized. Here they are, on the eve of the release of their first single and at the peak of the...
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This song opened "Nazz Nazz" with a bang ... and probably explains why so many people (relatively speaking, considering that there were no hit singles on it) bought the album. It's pure late-1960s Fun Psychedelia ... a genre that lived briefly but gloriously, and whose fans still glow when they ...
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Avon53
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5 months ago
The Nazz Forget All About It (HQ)
From their 1969 album Nazz Nazz.
This song opened "Nazz Nazz" with a bang ... and probably explains why so many people (relatively speaking, considering that there were no hit singles on it) bought the album. It's pure late-1960s Fun Psychedelia ... a genre that lived briefly but gloriously, and whose fans still glow when they ...
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Hot Coffee Official Trailer
The official trailer for Hot Coffee, a documentary film by Susan Saladoff.
I've carried the facts of the Liebeck case with me in my briefcase every day for many years, so as to be able to rebut any false aspersions about a "jackpot" won.
Ms. Liebeck never collected the $2.9million because McDonalds was found on appeal not to be at fault. A much smaller award fit their ...
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Join Be The Match in Saving Lives: Faith-Based Communities
This video shows how churches, temples, synagogues, and other faith-based communities can show their faith by holding marrow donor registry drives ...
I'm a fan of the registry, and enthusiastic about getting people to join including for religious reasons. The video puts me to sleep within the first 30 seconds, and every bit thereafter is also painfully slow. Who has time for a one-minute message that takes six minutes to sit and watch? My c...
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Avon53
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6 months ago
The Angels : My Boyfriend's Back
General concensus says this is in fact from the Ed Sullivan Show, not the Clay Cole Show, despite what the intro card says (I got it that way, that...
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Avon53
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6 months ago
I'm dying to know the date and venue of this performance! I used to see them from time to time when I lived in D.C. (mostly before the head got shaved) and the adrenaline pleasure rush of the occasion grabs me once again every time I see a clip. I just wanna know which one of the pleasure rushe...
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@Akuajaay - Don't I know it, man! All geezers like me have to do is turn on the radio, and great music from 1965-1972 is all over the place ... and teens and twentysomethings and generation X and boomers ALL know the songs and listen to them. How unusual is that for such a short period of music ...
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You MUST see the movie footage of her at Woodstock. She was astonishing to watch, moving onstage, at the moment of totally delivering her goods. Even two years earlier, during the Summer of Love, the "Monterey Pop" movie footage will blow you away. What a loss to the world that from beginning ...
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the kinks - celluloid heroes
a video of the british band The Kinks.the song is celluloid heroes which appears in the album Everybody's in Show-Biz, in live.
I think it's remarkable that we get a pianist and horn section onstage, back in the day when they still made 'em dress up nice. Most bands just had to lip-sync their songs to a playback of the record, regardless of whether it looked ridiculous to hear the lead vocalist multi-tracked in harmonies...
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Santana - Black Magic Woman , Gypsy Queen
From the live LP "Lotus"
Black Magic Woman written by Peter Green
Gypsy Queen written by Gabor Szabo
Maracas , Vocals - Leon Thomas
Guitar - Ca...
@allenchenn
Well, it did get to number 15 in Holland, and it sold well in a couple of other countries.
I was music director and then general manager of a radio station in 1974, and I don't even remember it being issued. Strange, since Columbia sent us free copies of every record they issued. M...
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Gabor Szabo - Gypsy Queen
Gabor Szabo wrote and recorded Gypsy Queen on his 1966 album Spellbinder. Santana had a huge hit in 1970 combining this beatiful tune with Peter Ge...
Absolutely gorgeous. And his cosmic connection is palpable - even without any video footage (and if anyone knows of any, I'd love to know where to find it!). No wonder Carlos Santana, who was always on that wavelength himself, loved to play the song - and pulled it off so powerfully. It's a gi...
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Gabor Szabo guitar solo
Beautiful acoustic guitar solo by Gábor Szabó.
I wish there were footage of Gabor Szabo playing "Gypsy Queen," which is one of the most mind-blowing things Carlos Santana played. I've never heard it done by its original composer, and "it oughtta be on YouTube!"
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Avon53
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7 months ago
Janis Joplin - Piece of my heart
Janis Joplin Live
"Her band" was different every album or two. This one has to be the Kozmic Blues Band, not the one (Big Brother) she recorded the song with in the studio, 'cause it's got the horn section and I doubt Big Brother would ever have put up with that fat sound. Both had Sam Andrew on lead guitar so a...
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Frontier Gandhi Badshah Khan a torch for peace
International Diaspora Film Festival
Film Screenings - 2009
Twenty-one years in the making, this dramatic feature length documentary tells the ext...
Teri McLuhan seems to be doing what she can to keep this movie in the public eye. She appeared at a showing in NYC this month (April 2011) ... and I had to miss it!
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Activists Show Naked Truth about Torture: Bradley Manning Stripped of His Rights
On Tuesday, March 22, CODEPINK activists and Veterans stood nude outside of Senator Feinstein's San Francisco office urging their senator to speak ...
The fact is, he is NOT on suicide watch, but on a lesser level of surveillance - one that usually does not involve stripping or the other extreme measures. If he were officially designated a suicide risk, he would have had a clear legal right to contest that designation (because it's not warra...
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Smokey Robinson And The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown
Smokey Robinson And The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown Music Video
I myself "can't relate", as they say.
But while I'm at it (commenting), I can say what "Selma's NAACP" seems to me to mean. I noticed the sign and it made sense: it's Selma, Alabama's contingent of the National Assn for the Advancement of Colored People proudly announcing their presence as a...
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Smokey Robinson And The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown
Smokey Robinson And The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown Music Video
The video has nothing whatsoever to do with the song!
That song is one of the most brilliant pop hits ever written, and its performance is stellar - but it's about one guy's feelings over one girl, and even the decade whose style it epitomizes has nothing to do with the song. (I say that as a Si...
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Avon53
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1 year ago
"John Lennon" - Genius Is Pain
Recorded with an Akai M-10 reel-to-reel (made around '69-'71)
A not-too-far-off parody based off of an actual interview with a rather whiny Lennon ...
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Avon53
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1 year ago
LOU REED Walk On The Wild Side (Live)
White-faced Lou is brilliant!
[source] Live at Olympia, 1973/9/17.
I'd like to know more about the "source" info posted by goog1e, who supplied this video. Lou played in Copenhagen on Sept. 19 1973 and Amsterdam the next day, so where's this "Olympia" on Sept 17? And I'm also surprised to see his hair so long, since by December at the latest (when the Rock & R...
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Gang of Four - Damaged Goods - Live, Atlanta 1980
Gang of Four perform Damaged Goods live in Atlanta, GA in 1980.
I saw them in 1980 in WashDC, where they played in a movie theatre in a rundown section of the city where punks often hung out. I thought they sounded just too weird - even "My Sharona" sounded odd then, and the Psychedelic Furs weren't out yet. But you could dance to it and it was political, a...
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The Music Machine - Talk Talk
garage a go go!!
Great stuff! Even then, 1 minute 58 seconds was on the short side for a hit record, but Sean Bonniwell's speed and energy got a lot done in that time.
What a shame his punkish sensibility was out of step with the times - his "message" lyrics had a lot to say, his voice was authentic, and he coul...
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Keep on Dancing
Shindig, 60's pop
The Gentrys may have been one of those numerous one-hit wonder groups, but they sure hit the nail on the head with their song. And at least they actually existed (unlike imaginary groups such as the Shondells, the Archies, various Crystals or Angels incarnations, etc). And the song pretty much ...
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OutSider - Time won't let me
OutSider - Time won't let me
The Outsiders were truly great.
And this video is special - all the vocals are freshly sung, including three on mike and a couple of background shout-alongs off-mike, just like in the original recording. But here it's not lip-synched - although the instrumental mix is played back from the reco...
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Lies - The Knickerbockers
Nov 1965
What I love most about this ridiculous video is the dancing.
Sure, it's a great song. But the video of non-miked singers, unplugged guitars, and silent saxophone is just too silly for words. (A lot of the great Sixties TV shows used lip-synching shamelessly, but this one takes the cake - they d...
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Touched by an angel S3 Episode 28 Inherit the wind.
Kevin Greely's father has died and he must locate Joseph Wells to claim the rest of his inheritance. Monica helps Kevin find Joseph Wells but must ...
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Avon53 said:
The New York Times linked to this today, from an article about what makes Bill Cosby great. Their TV critic picked a few minutes of this episode, starting at 28:55, as one of the 5 best things Cosby ever did. (Not that they liked the idea of the show in general.) I never knew that Cosby's own ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air (1971)
Quicksilver Messenger Service performing Fresh Air at the closing of the Fillmore in 1971. I tried to clean up the audio a bit, let me know what y...
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Avon53 said:
It gives me the chills just to hear the typically shorter-than-short introduction from my hero, Bill (Wolfgang) Graham, without whom a dozen great bands (and dozens of other important bands) would never have been heard from outside local bars. And then to see Quicksilver deliver some fresh music...
Its a beautiful day white bird
Live version´s WHITE BIRD. Now with syncro...
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I think both this version and the LP (slow) version are great! One is light and pure; this one rocks out.
If they had done such intense violin solo improv, interesting new organ and bass ideas, and lots of tambourine, like here, and done it all slow, then it would sound sludgy and awful. But it...
Montag (Short film)
An animated short film about a seeing-eye dog and his dealings with his dark past.
2010 Bridge Film Festival Judge's Choice Award Best Narrative F...
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Avon53 said:
What Friends School submitted this film to the Festival?
I hope that can be posted in the header info, and if not then as a Comment.
computer addiction
The dangers of computer addiction. This clever, funny and all too true, mixed media PSA depicts the symptoms of spending way to much time on the c...
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Avon53 said:
I'd like to see the Festival post (along with the comments about the Award it won and what its theme is) who produced this PSA. Looks like Brooklyn Friends School, but what class, group or individuals?
If it can't be posted, of course, someone can put the info in a Comment.
TEEN IDLES - Adventure
TEEN IDLES - Adventure
Dischord's 100th release. Recorded: 1979/1980
Remixed and released: 1996,
(Dischord Records)
Vocals - Nathan Strejcek
Guit...
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Dr. Dischord, the hero of white adolescents in D.C., is immortalized.
Fitting! No one else over 20 within a lotta miles of Washington seemed to have a clue about punk.
The ZEROS
Rare Footage of the Zeros on a San Diego TV show from 1977
137,300 views
Avon53 said:
"Don't Push Me Around" and "Wimp" were the B and A sides of their first single on Bomp Records.
Who knew the lead singer (Javier) was Alejandro Escovedo's little brother?
I love the way the host and Javier himself discuss what that new term "punk rock" might possibly mean! Pretty aware and poise...
Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love - Live Rockpalast 1986
gh
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Avon53 said:
Would it be his favorite song? and why?
I love his comments during the intro! German audiences probably know he was born in Nuremberg.
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