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Category Archives: YouTubery
Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Reunion Shows – January 29/30, 2011
If laughter is considered the best medicine by most – for musicians then, in contrast, music will always be their best medicine. At very least that was in the mind of Todd Rundgren and the band Utopia as they assembled … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellany, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 2011, benefit, Highline Ballroom, Moogy Klingman, New York City, reunion, Todd Rundgren, Utopia
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Band From Utopia @ Cologne’s Tanzbrunnen, 1994
While initially invited to perform at the Jazz Open Stuttgart in Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany on July 1st, 1994, Band From Utopia also had one other gig two days after Stuttgart at Cologne’s Tanzbrunnen on July 3rd, 1994. Watch these recently … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Frank Zappa, FZcovers, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 1994, Band from utopia, Cologne, Tanzbrunnen
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Interview With Michael Bruce – The Original Alice Cooper Group
Recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the other original members of the Alice Cooper Group – Michael Bruce was the band’s guitarist, keyboard player and backing vocalist. In an exclusive interview by Nightwatcher for … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Interview, Miscellany, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 1972, alice cooper group, Beat-Club, In Concert, Michael Bruce, Nightwatcher's House of Rock
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Sunday Big Note – Listening Session #19
Riding the post punk wave out of the 1970s and into the 1980s along with such bands as The Talking Heads, The Residents, Devo, and Cardiacs, was a favourite band of mine – a thinking man’s band some would say … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Sunday Big Note, YouTubery
Tagged 1983, call of the west, El Mocambo, post punk, streaming audio, wall of voodoo
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The Cardiacs in Rehearsal
Long before I had began writing and posting here at KUR, one of the many things which had attracted me to this weblog (and frankly, still does, years later) was all the new music I was exposed to on a … Continue reading
The Tubes – White Punks On Dope
This video of “White Punks On Dope” taken from the extremely rare 1981 Japanese Laser Disc The Tubes produced is a fantastic collage of audio and visuals from 1981 and 1975. Check it out.
Posted in Miscellany, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 1975, 1981, Japanese Laser Disc, The Tubes, White Punks On Dope
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The Tubes – Re Styles, Then & Now
From the very beginning of The Tubes, I was always taken with the vocal and performance style of band member Re Styles – born Shirley Marie MacLeod (certainly being a teenage boy at the time didn’t hurt my infatuation very … Continue reading
Frank Zappa on The Late Show, 1986
Frank Zappa talks with guest host Joan Rivers on The Late Show on November 21st, 1986 about his parents, his children’s names, Valley Girl, his theories concerning the origins of AIDS, Star Wars, and what led up to the PMRC … Continue reading
Sunday Big Note – Listening Session #18
Unlike many of their contemporaries, British group Gentle Giant‘s classical influences ranged beyond the Romantic to incorporate elements of mediaeval, baroque, and modernist chamber music. Undoubtedly, this was what drew Frank Zappa to their music – that, and their elaborate … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Sunday Big Note, YouTubery
Tagged 1975, gentle giant, Ultrasonic Studios, WLIR-FM Radio
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Frank Zappa – Penguins In Bondage, 73-74
Ah, the memories, Barry. Especially from the 8th November 1974 WXRT radio broadcast of “Penguin In Bondage” from Frank Zappa’s performance at the Roxy on December 1973 (above) with various visual memories added later. Then a soundboard recording of “Penguin … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Frank Zappa, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 1973, 1974, buffalo, Opopoppa Special, penguin in bondage, Roxy, St. Paul, Sweden
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