Archive for the 'old school' Category
Christmastime’s A-comin’
Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, “Christmastime’s A-comin’”
Read More..>>In Honor of Jon Jones: Motormags, “Just Wanna Be Loved”
Where to begin…
Jon Jones, the guitar player in the AC/DC shirt, is an old friend of mine going back as far as Tim Kelly. He played in tons of great hardcore bands back in the day (none of who have websites) like Positive Outlook and Step Forward, before moving on to the post-punk Two [...]
More SNFU
She’s Not on the Menu, and more…
God only knows when this was taped. Wow.
Who is that new waitress? He wants her on his plate
Well every time he sees her he just has to masturbate
He wants her luscious breasts on the end of his fork
But all this menu offers is chicken, beef & pork
But I don’t [...]
Return of the Friday Video! The Bags: Big Wig
The Bags, live 9/20/08: Big Wig
I lost my copy of their re-released The Bags ‘89, available here. It’s really impossible for me to fully articulate what a great band The Bags are, and how great their 1989 eponymous release is. It’s really something you have to hear for yourself. As Tim Kelly [...]
Bluegrass Legend Ralph Stanley Cuts Ad for Obama
VIA TMP, a great ad. More than great: incredible.
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A lot of my readers aren’t bluegrass fans, or don’t know that much about the genre. Take it from me: Ralph Stanley is a living legend, not only in the bluegrass community but in the broader country music genre. He and his brother Carter started [...]
Thank You Note
For this guy.
Read More..>>Friday Videos: Merle Haggard, Rebuild America First
A must see, even if you don’t like country music.
Read More..>>An Early Jerry Falwell Memory
Back in 1984-1985, I was in my first hardcore band. We went through a number of name changes before we decided on Nerve (our guitar player Chris Shea came up with that one).
One of my best friends at the time, Kelly Bray, was our singer, though the two of us wrote songs [...]
Friday Videos: Shape Note Singing
Last night I did shape-note singing for the first time, also referred to as Sacred Harp from the most popular shape-note songbook, a style highly popular in the rural south in the 19th and early 20th Century.
The dominant religion at the time, the Baptist faith, largely prohibited musical instruments in worship, so hymns were sung [...]
“The Awful German Language”
Via FDL commenter Eli:
Mark Twain’s The Awful German Language is a reminder that any successful contemporary American satirist or humorists stands on the shoulder of giants. I couldn’t hold in the belches of laughter reading Twain’s experiences with German. A sample:
There are ten parts of speech, and they are all troublesome. An average [...]
