Category Archives: Music

Dope

Chuck Negron on sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll in the seventies — but mostly drugs.

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One Of These Days These Boots…

Please excuse the poor attempt at anything remotely humourous in this post’s title. However, here’s a question for you: how do you guys go about managing the various boots you download here and there? Textfiles? Access-databases? Copy-paste Word documents *shivers*? … Continue reading

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Mudshark Mythology

‘A pretty young groupie with red hair was tied to the bed,’ claimed Stephen Davis in Hammer of the Gods. ‘Led Zeppelin proceeded to stuff pieces of shark into her vagina and rectum.’ Not quite. Zep did catch sharks from … Continue reading

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Analyzing Jon Bon

On the genius that is Bon Jovi: “To begin, I’d like to look at the opening verses of “Bed of Roses”. You may think you understand the meaning behind this poem – that John Bon Jovi likes a lady, and … Continue reading

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A Tribute To The Wall

Dr Sharleena will surely be delighted: a tribute album to Roger Water’s “The Wall” is to be released soon, featuring Vinnie Colaiuta and Aynsley Dunbar. After all, who doesn’t like this masterpiece! ;)

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Back In The USSR

Guitars from the communist era: “this site is dedicated to really bad guitars. The price on any of the axes shown here may vary from $10 to $200, and you are strongly adviced not to buy them – unless you’re … Continue reading

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Largest Digital FZ Catalog

eMusic, “the world’s No. 2 digital download service” apparently now has the largest Frank Zappa catalog available in digital form. Have a look at its frontpage, if only for the sheer brilliance of the educational sign-up graphics. See what I … Continue reading

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Dut Dut Duhhh *

Classic Rock Categories, nicely summarized. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet, b-b-b-baby! * Guess the Classic Rock Song

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Album Covers – Again

“A friend of mine sent me a link the other day that has kept me entertained with what has become my first top ten list. I guess ‘bottom 10’ would be more appropriate, since it goes from ‘really bad’ to … Continue reading

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Rediscovered

Rediscovered in ’04: The Beatles – Revolver Donald Fagen – Kamakiriad Steely Dan – Everything Must Go JJ Cale – Naturally Elliott Smith – XO Dr John – Duke Elegant Warren Zevon – Life ‘ll Kill Ya FZ – Uncle … Continue reading

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What To Buy

What to buy for the person who knows everything: — if they correctly pronounce “Shostakovich”: a bottle of good wine. (via The Funk Files)

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School’s Out

“As soon as she opened the door, we marched in and set up all of our equipment in the hallway outside of Frank Zappa’s bedroom and we started playing. The song’s like halfway through and the door opens and a … Continue reading

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‘t Is The Season To Be Jelly

It’s Christmas time, there is a need to be afraid — the curse of the Christmas single.

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Five Mistakes

Five Mistakes Band & Label Sites Make. 1: Too much Flash — “Okay, I get it. You’re creative. Awesome. But you’re totally wasting my morning as I helplessly wait for your designer’s dancing sausages to finish loading.” I know someone … Continue reading

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One Man Band

Check out McRorie Tait’s one-man-band, it is truly amazing. One can’t but wonder what would happen if this guy were to take on a Zappa tune! :) (Thanks Tom!)

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