Stax / Volt Tour - 1967 - Norway

Happy New Year everybody!

Enjoy some truly remarkable performances
from a 1967 show in Norway
featuring
Booker T and The MGs
The Mar-Keys
Arthur Conley
Eddie Floyd
Sam and Dave
Otis Redding

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The Boys Next Door - 1978 - Melbourne

As a small example and in commemoration of the music
created by Rowland S. Howard (1959-2009) the following clips present
The Boys Next Door.

"Alternative Animals"
Preston Institute of Technology
Melbourne 28 April 1978

Boy Hero • Big Future • Success Story


Roman Roman • Andy Warhol • Friends of My World • Secret Life


Earthling in the Orient • Somebody's Watching





November 1999 Australian ABC tv show - Studio 22
Interviewer Clinton Walker.
Musicians:
Rowland S. Howard - Vocals, guitar
Brian Hooper - Bass
Mick Harvey - Drums
Edward Clayton Jones - Keyboard

My Ten Favorite Albums of 2009

2009 offered a most happening selection of musical treats in both recorded (mainly cds) and live venues.

It seems fitting, that the same year in which I turned 40, many of my favorite live shows were delivered by long time rockers who refuse to limp away quietly and still have the chops to thrill an audience. Chicago hardcore heroes Naked Raygun played an incredible set this past summer and provided me with a chance to see them for the first time since 1989. The Butthole Surfers reconvened their classic touring lineup as did one time fellow Touch n Go label mates The Jesus Lizard. The JL show at the Paradise in Boston is easily my favorite of 2009. Also got a chance to see the Brazilian Os Mutantes not only touring, but releasing new, vital music. Never thought I'd get an opportunity to see them live, much less have them play right down the street from me in support of an album of entirely new material.

Os Mutantes - Hai or Amortecedor is the first of my favorite 2009 musical releases listed below, but there really isn't any order to the ten...


Os Mutantes - Hai or Amortecedor


The Flaming Lips - Embryonic


Slayer - World Painted Blood


Neko Case - Middle Cyclone


Mastodon - Crack the Skye


Dinosaur Jr- Farm


Air - Love 2


Bebel Gilberto - All In One


Sonic Youth - The Eternal


Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

What's Happening!! - a Christmas minisode

Rather loosely based on the somewhat more seriously minded 1975 film Cooley High, the television show What's Happening!! presented a family centric sitcom throughout it's run from 1976 to 1979. During it's tv tenure the What's Happening!! crew had more than a few memorable and funny adventures, such as the botched bootlegging escapades at a Doobie Brothers concert.

Presented below is a condensed episode, set during Christmastime. Raj and Rerun deal with the Grinch-like theft of not only their tv and stereo, but also all their Christmas presents!


What's Happening!! - Positive Identification - 1978

Great Toy Robbery (1963) Christmas cartoon

Recently discovered this rocking Canadian Christmas cartoon from 1963. Animated and scored in a very swinging, early 60s manner, this short incorporated Santa into a wild west theme and is a Christmas treat. Also created by Jeff Hale (as well as Norman McLaren, Gerald Potterton and Grant Munro) in 1963 is the second bonus cartoon - Christmas Cracker.

The Great Toy Robbery


plus
Christmas Cracker

Donny & Marie - 1976 - Christmas Special - Paul Lynde

Posted this mainly for the skit in the first five minutes with Paul Lynde as Santa Claus. The Donny and Marie Christmas medley is curious as a period piece, but to catch the always entertaining Mr. Lynde in his mid 70s television appearance glory makes this clip worthwhile for yuletide yuks.