TOOBZ! Great job Donita!

Fini FiniTOOBZ! #1
You are my tech hero!! You are the wind beneath my sloppy wings!
Thanks for all of your “help!”

Jesus, that would be like a Subway ad featuring Mama Cass.

-GSD

Oh yeah, and the “debate” over global warming continues with the Christian Science Moniter turning over their editorial page to an oxymoronic conservative comedian for her take on the Al Gore “sham”.

Support your local stand-up comic, not your local right wing propagandist.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/…..ing-comic/

-GSD

Wouldn’t that be more appropriate to have Mama Cass do a KFC ad?

Oh wait, ham sammich, I forgot, I always thought it was fried chicken?

poor Mama

Soul Coughing! some other great songs by them:

Blue eyed Devil
Is Chicago, Not Chicago
True Dreams of Witchita
Screenwriter Blues

Super Bon Bon
White Girl
Collapse
Disseminated
4 out of 5

$300 (with guest vocal by Chris Rock)
Circles

… the more I’ll think I’m with him? In the ground?

That Gram Rabbit song reminds me of Nancy Sinatra and Hazelwood. On to the next one.

Maybe Ken Lay should do a Lipitor ad….

I was about to be snarky then I saw “Frida Kahlo Tequila.”

Oy.

Nothing’s sacred anymore, Donita.

.

Fini,

You were mistaking the John Belushi impression of Elizabeth Taylor.

Comedy gold. Mean spirited, yes. But damn funny.

And yes, Amen to Mama Cass. What an angels voice.

By the way, I think Ken Lay should be doing Kingsford Charcoal ads right about now.

-GSD

Everythingseemssoneat@8
Yeah, they’ve got some of that going on. Some cool dance stuff too!

Madcap Laughs is my favorite Syd record. Donita, How is the LA club scene these days?

Janie Hendrix is a disgrace. Experience Hendrix, the company she set up after bilking Jimi’s brother Leon out of the estate, has been hawking EVERYTHING with Hendrix’s name on it. It’s really a sad end to a legacy that deserves better.

Now, the spin I’m in:

David Ackles – “Candyman”
Sandy Denny – “No More Sad Refrains”
Soul Asylum – “Stand Up And Be Strong”
The Seeds – “No Escape”
Laura Nyro – “Save The Country”
Quicksilver Messenger Service – “Fresh Air”
The Replacements – “Message To The Boys”
Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris – “This Is Us”
The Who – “We’re Not Gonna Take It”
J. P. Spencer – “Undefeated” (available for listening at:
http://www.myspace.com/jpaulspencer/
sorry; I couldn’t help but throw in a self-serving plug)

Marilyn Monroe sleeping pills? You’re wicked, Donita! That’s why you’re loved here at FDL. ;)

GSD

If you can be mean spirited to dead rock stars who can you be mean spirited to?

the spin i’m in has been revolving around ‘the go! team’…i can’t stop loving them…the whole record is lovely…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lT2Tq2rC9I

TYPO

If you CAN”T be mean spirited to dead rock stars who can you be mean spirited to?

Love Harry Belafonte and was just listening to him last nite on the tube…

Hi Donita!

I have been listening to this an awful lot– actually since w got enthroned. It runs thru my head way, way too much. ;(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..search=eve of destruction

Mama Cass dying choking on a ham sandwich is an Urban Legend.

For some reason I’ve got Lambert, Hendricks & Ross’s “Gimme That Wine” stuck in my head now.

And I’m STILL pissed at Cass being gone. Whenever I want to feel less miserable in this world I listen to “New World Coming.” One of the all-time greats of the Groovy genre…

Cass was great to listen to. Michelle was great to look at.

wow barry mcguire

Gotta be sure Jane Hamsher sees that one, angie. Sumptin tells me she’ll like it, since I do so much.

TheOtherWa@16
I actually think it’s a sad state of affairs. My point is not trying to be mean towards any of these artists. Sometimes I just have to laugh to keep from crying.

All this discussion of Hendrix got me remembering my trip through the Experience Music Project here in Seattle. It started out as a Hendrix museum, but eventually evolved into something much bigger. But it still has lots and lots of Hendrix stuff, and all the rest of the 60’s as well.

If you ever make it to Seattle and you are into rock and roll, especially th 50’s through the 60’s, with a small amount of Seattle grunge thrown in, don’t let the butt-ugly building at the base of the Space Needle scare you off. It’s kinda pricey, but well worth the trip into downtown.

And next door is the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. It’s pretty cool, too. The queen alien from ALIENS is really pretty scary looking up close.

1. Eric Clapton – The Core
2. Sister Hazel – Sometimes
3. Tom Petty – Maryjane’s Last Dance
4. Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
5. 3 Doors Down – By My Side
6. Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Deja Voodoo
7. Aerosmith – The Grind (Honkin’ on Bobo)
8. Ten Years After – Baby, Please Don’t Go
9. Led Zeppelin – Hats Off to Roy Harper
10. Russ Ballard – Voices

1. Grateful Dead – Blues for Allah
2. Cream – Royal Albert Hall Reunion 2005

good for now…

Thanks everyone for leaving me epuing myself in a dark thread below….

Donita, I didn’t think you were being mean to the artists, more like the losers who think up these marketing schemes.

“The caterpillar hood
won’t cover the head and
You know you should be home in bed”

I am completely consumed lately by “1000 Years of Popular Music” by Richard Thompson, which comes with both two live CDs and a DVD video of the performance. It’s stunning.

Old Bonnie Raitt is the spin I’m in these days. “Walkin’ Blues” describes it to a T.

O/T, headline just now:

Hezbollah`s Nasrallah declares ‘all-out’ warfare against Israel (Channel 10)

[Ha’aretz]

Thanks Teddy– my s.o. and I sing it a lot and he plays it so well on the gitbox. We make up all kinds of verses to it, just to vent our spleens.

I love that song and it is amazing how relevant it still is– we haven’t come so far as it turns out.

Donita — those are fantastic clips. It’s like a summer vacation in a single post. JUST what I needed today — thanks so much! Awesome, awesome job. :)

OfT: great interview with my mayor about a problem Democrats have.

http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/?p=281

TheOtherWa@30
right on!

Christy Hardin Smith@36
Thanks so much for the props Christy! I think you do an Awsome, awesome job yourself

BobbyG @ 34

Do you have a link for that from Nasrallah? We are witnessing some very very bad juju in Israel right now. This whole thing with Hizbullah, Israel and Hamas WILL draw in the neighbors if this keeps up like its going. Forget about our boys and girls in Iraq coming home now if that happens, it will be World War 4 for real.

Also, OnT, I am enjoying the Charley Pride CD Howie Klein sent me for giving money to some kewl Democrat.

Maybe it was that shithot John Laesch.

Dr. Bong says:
July 14th
10. Russ Ballard – Voices

Wow, I thought I was the only one.
He has another one I really like but I can’t remember the name of it(killed too many brain cells for recreation)right now.I’m at work so I can’t go rummaging through my boxes of albums to find it. :{

Here’s an interview with Ennio Morricone

I’m listening to an album by Gino Paoli, a great Italian singer with whom Morricone wite a number of great songs in the early 60’s (two of them were used in Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution)

Currently Morricone’s working with Morrissey.

Fini @ 40 -

Got it from Ha’aretz online

Dig THIS:
_____

“Military officials are discussing contingency plans for what appears now to be the inevitable evacuation of U.S. citizens.

One official says that the most likely plan would be to use the assets from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based out of Camp Lejeune. The 24th MEU is currently in the Red Sea near Jordan, conducting bilateral and unilateral training exercises.

The most likely candidate from the MEU would be the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima. It resembles a small aircraft carrier, complete with helicopters and light attack aircraft.

One official says that the military is working on the assumption that they would have to evacuate nearly 25,000 people.” (MSNBC)
_

great post again, Donita. What a way to insure no work gets done Friday afternoons!

I have been listening to Bryan Ferry — particularly Tokyo Joe — reminds me of Lotus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..arch=bryan ferry tokyo joe

Donita-
love the weird link to rock and roll heaven. fab playlist.
thx
b

Jimi Vodka?!? I know a few hundred thousand college guys who’ll be searching for a bottle after it shows up on the pages of Maxim.

But Frida Tequilla?!?!? Somehow that troubles me even more.

I’ll just keep drinking my beer until the Mahatma Ghandi Schnapps comes out.

Songs I’m glad I had playing in the car on my ride home from work:

Dj Erb – Eurythmics/Marilyn Manson/Snoop
Nick Drake – Pink Moon
And although I don’t understand this video clip, Nick Drake’s – Black Eyed Dog is still an amazing song.

David E. @ 43 writes:

Currently Morricone’s working with Morrissey.

This is just wrong.

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Well, it isn’t as if Jimi’s bones haven’t been picked clean a thousand times before. I going back to e-bay to look for those hard-to-find Hank Williams signature tourniquets and Karen Carpenter diet videos.

Stooges
Beefheart
Bird
Bach

peace,
jim

Holy crapola! When Marines are evacuating citizens we are going to war. Here we go kids, let’s hope Israel restrains itself and doesn’t go nuclear on Syria or Iran.

Awesome Donita. I was in a Hendrix spin last night (not from an vodka), which is not unusual in this house. I was listening to (in no particular order):

1. Drifting
2. Hey Baby
3. Isabella
4. Peace in Mississippi
5. One Rainy Wish
6. Night Bird Flying
7. 1983 (and Moon Turn the Tides)
8. Love or Confusion

Soul Coughing and Kraftwerk… nice call.

Dover Bitch @ 50

I thought the Kraftwerk choice was outstanding myself. I gotta give her mad props for the geek rock science she dropped there. And who doesn’t like Soul Coughing?

“Wir fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn”?

.

Favorite Hendrix song? Waterfall.
Favorite Hendrix cover? All Along the Watchtower
Favorite cover of a Hendrix Cover? Patti Smith’s awesome version of Hey Joe.

Holy crapola is right, Fini.

Dover Bitch@50
yeah One Rainy Wish was my first choice…but then I wanted to GO FASTER!

g#@ammit!
F@$#in’ firewall.

Gnaw arm off…get the hell outta here.

spork

My oldest brother Tom is a guitarist and keyboardist that is 14 yrs older than me. When I was 5 years old he bought Autobahn and it pretty much has stayed on my lifetime playlist ever since. I would make all my childhood friends listen to it, I think it is the ultimate children’s music album. It certainly did wonders for my adult musical taste.

Goldfrapp reminds me of T-Rex (Marc Bolan).

Completely OT, and I apologize, but

Mark Maron’s last show is tonight. The brass at AAR failed to syndicate him and made him some other kind of offer he could refuse.

I will miss him a lot and hope he turns up somewhere else.

Goodnight, Sheeple. :(

I’m really boring: been listening primarily to the 2 Gorillaz CDs and Ringside all week.

FDL has become my one-stop-eye-headshop for all things gruv-vy in politics and music! Now help me keep track of Kevin Shields, eh?

My song of the day, Patrick Hernandez “Born To Be Alive”. Really. Actually it’s punishment for my partner making me watch that dance reality show on TV last night. Let’s see if Kev can remix that one ala GoTeam.
Dan

Ooops.

Make that Marc Maron . . . .

What I’d be listening to on a cloudy Friday afternoon if I didn’t have the radio on:

Our New Orleans: 2005

Good column idea, no?

The site right now is featuring three complete clips from Dirty Dozen, Buckwheat Zydeco, and Dr. John.

ABC Look of Love — hahahha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..arch=bryan ferry

Donita! Fini!

Thanks so much for this lovely Friday afternoon break.

Considering how protective the Hendrix estate has been of Jimi’s legacy over the decades, the latest developments in the licenses they are signing have been…to say the least…quite surprising.

Favorite Hendrix: Little Wing. Whenever I’m asked about my favorite song of all time that’s the answer I give.

It certainly did wonders for my adult musical taste.

That’s sad. ;-)

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The Spin I’m in this week (Psych edition):

1. Jimi Hendrix – Axis Bold As Love (side 1) – “Now if you’ll excuse me/I must be on my WAYYYYY”
2. Orquesta Flamboyan – “Vencenermos” – late 60s psych-meets-salsa. KILLER.
3. Os Mutantes – “Rita Lee” – if you don’t know… learn.
4. Stone Circus – “People I once knew” – kind of a tripped out poem over fuzzed guitars. Late 60s California.
5. TRAP DOOR – this just came out… billed as “An international psychedelic mystery mix,” it’s about 40 minutes of non-stop sickness from the guy who runs Groove Merchant record shop in San Francisco. I can’t recommend it highly enough – think: the best moments of the best psych records without all the noodling. Available: http://www.dis-joint.com/
6. Love – “you set the scene” – wraps up Forever Changes.
7. Funkadelic – “Maggot Brain” – listen as Eddie Hazel wrings blood from the neck of his guitar.
8. Lula Cortes y Ze Ramalho – Paebiru lp – this is as close as anyone’s ever come to committing the spirit of a peyote trip to record. by turns lovely and scary.

damn, donita, I’m giving up all my secrets…

Here is my YouTube playlist for this week for The Spin I’m (currently) In:

http://www.youtube.com/view_pl…..E7F3A10109

Fini FiniTOOBZ! (51)

Both Kraftwerk and SC are underrated. Especially Kraftwerk. “We are the Robots” is awesome.

immanentize (53)
Favorite Hendrix song? (Impossible to answer).
Favorite Hendrix cover? How about Killing Floor or Hoochie Kootchie Man
Favorite cover of a Hendrix Cover? Let’s go with Stanley Jordan’s Angel.

Donita, you rule for even thinking about One Rainy Wish for this list. A sure sign these Friday threads are going to be outstanding.

It might be a really good time to start contacting the WH and reps. and letting them know we are not up for the beginning of a world war. Of course it might be too late. The whole thing is totally out of control in the Middle East. And our unloved and impotent President is either incapable of, or not disposed to doing anything to stop it. We are fiddling while the world is teetering in the midst of a fiery “Purple Haze”. As for me? I’m scared.

Hsker D

Just sayin’

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Hey Jim Preston,

I saw Hendrix when he appeared at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, in, oh what? 1968? 69? I think he was dead within a year. Also saw a lot of the Stooges of that era, and listened to “Trout Mask Replica”.

The Hendrix concert was incredible, in the end you could barely hear for the feedback, and Hendrix was busy ramming his guitar into his speakers while the roadies held the speakers steady. Played the guitar with his teeth, finally smashed it to smithereens. I swear I was not stoned at this concert.

Dover Bitch,

Hoochie Kootchie Man — Yaaasssss! Good call!

Donita-
check this out. just posted on youtube a day ago.

Linda Mccartney talks about Jimi being very sensitive about the “packaging” of “Electric Lady Land” album and Linda and Noel Redding re-enact the photo session for the inner cover.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hma…..ch=hendrix linda mccartney

I suppose nobody wants to talk about what a kick-ass band ABBA was….

Yeah, I thought not.

OT – One for the Santorum file:

On the name-calling scale, this doesn’t come close to that red-faced guy in Glenside. But U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum’s re-election campaign keeps calling Democratic opponent Bob Casey Jr.”Bobby.”

This diminutive nickname makes Casey sound inexperienced, lightweight and without the substance of his father, the late Gov. Bob Casey.

In other words, it’s smart for Santorum to keep doing it.

The Casey camp could fight back by referring to the incumbent as “Ricky,” but Clout has a better idea.

Santorum’s high-school nickname was “Rooster.” Why not have a staffer (where’s Philly Press?) dress up as a rooster to attend Santorum’s public events?

Each day “Right-Wing Rooster” would carry a placard reminding everyone of one of Santorum’s more outrageous statements or positions.

The Santorum people could counter by bringing back “Bobby the Duck,” the duck-costumed staffer they had earlier this year to charge that Casey was ducking the issues.

Then the duck and the rooster could get into a shoving match during a televised debate… well, we can dream can’t we?

http://www.philly.com/mld/dail…..035870.htm

-via huffpo

Me too, OK Kiddo. I feel completely helpless– I have been writing nonstop with LTE’s and the Wapo, it feels so bad and the responses I have gotten and read don’t make me feel any better at all. An example below from wapo today:

>>>>>>>>
Fairfax, Va.: Many well know commentators and pundit are arguing strongly that the U.S. must place itself in some kind of mediator role in the current growing conflict. Do you agree with this premise and if you do why or why not?

Jefferson Morley: If there is going t be a mediator, it has to be the United States. There is no other country capable of playing the role. But the alignment of U.S. and Israeli policy now means that the United States cannot play that role.

Fini @ 50

Background

Spin?
Lisa Gerrard-Elegy
Eastmountainsouth-Ghost
Arvo Part-Psalom
Wynton Marsalis-Stardust(Live Village Vangaurd)
Robbie Robertson-Sacrifice
Richard Ashcroft-World Keeps Turning
Me’Shell Ndegeocello-Track 18(Anthropological Mixtape)
A Jazzy Deep House Mix-Little Louie Vega
Sun Kil Moon-Carry Me Ohio
Ooh Child-Valerie Carter

Hendrix?…….Pali Gap

Thanks Jane and Christy for helping me maintain my sanity in this world. This shit is too scary. Peace.

but zeppo, I can sing almost all the words to ABBA’s songs…..

what does that mean? hmmm, i wonder. ;)

Syd Barrett. Nice.

Jane @ 65

It’s fantastic to work with Donita, thanks for putting us together on this project. She’s a real trooper and a great columnist! Not to mention one hell of a vocalist in her own right.

I keep showing that clip on YouTube from Serial Mom to friends and family when I am telling them about helping her with tech stuff for this column. It’s a big hit with Mom and my uncles, they think its hilarious when she spits on the guy and he bursts into bigger flames.

OT-
This is funny as shit…”former WSJ editorial writer John Fund in court over civil spat with former girlfriend, Morgan Pilsbury, the daughter of another of his former girlfriends.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/new…..6015c.html

garymar,
Thanks for the memories. I was too young to go in those days. Saw Captain Beefheart several times in small venues in NYC in the 79-80 era. If you want a trip back in time, check out the movie “Festival Express”. Best footage of Janis I’ve seen (in the DVD special features). Also excellent Dead footage (Easy Wind, Don’t Ease Me In) sweet stuff.

j

coriolanus,

Pali Gap… yes! I knew I forgot a tune that was in my play list last night. FDL is an amazing place… Pali Gap, Maggot Brain, Pocket Calculator… all in one thread.

Jane, did you know Angel and Little Wing were the same song when Hendrix first started writing it/them (at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 I think)?

Eveythingseemssoneat@59
Goldfrapp samples “Spirit In The Sky” on that track, I’m jealous

john in sacramento @ 78

That’s a fantastic backgrounder John, I bookmarked for later review in its entirety. Thanks.

OK, house stuff calls, bbl maybe, but more likely late night tonight after I finish calling bingo at the church festival. WOOHOO!! Yay me!

curve666@62
Born To Be Alive is one of my favorite dance songs of all time!

zeppo@76
I want to talk about ABBA, one of my favorite band of all time. In fact my solo band is currently covering Waterloo

Dover @ 86

I love Stevie Ray Vaughn’s version of Little Wing

for “spirit in the sky” fans, check out the Stovall Sisters’ (of “hang on in there” fame) gospel version.

john in sacramento, me too. and Voodoo Chile.

nicelyput2000@75
thanks for that youtube link. I actually saw that interview yesterday whilst I was putting together this piece. Very interesting.

I wonder if Hendrix ever took Sprite.

YAY– Donita loves ABBA too! woohoo!

Eric Clapton’s 73 Rainbow Show has an outstanding Little Wing.

Jerry Garcia still rules…..

Jefferson Morley: If there is going t be a mediator, it has to be the United States. There is no other country capable of playing the role. But the alignment of U.S. and Israeli policy now means that the United States cannot play that role.

This is ass-backwards. America’s policy has always been aligned with Israel, and that has not prevented American Presidents from playing the role of mediator, with varying success. The problem is that our current pResident, with his eponymous Doctrine, has neither moral authority nor leverage over any of the players.

We are seeing (and some on our small blue orb are experiencing firsthand) a regional war in the Middle East, as our single-superpower status has been tarnished by having at the helm of the only possible mediator-state a sociopath.

Now, perhaps as never before, is the time when the blogosphere could well play a role in bringing to bear enormous pressure on our government to play an extremely active role in stopping what might be starting in the Mideast. The lives we save may be our kids’. America has the tools to do the job.

Whups…. I thought I was being facetious there with the ABBA reference.

My own current musical preferences, presently, run toward some newer jazz stuff. Keiko Matsui being one of my current favorite artists. Acoustic Alchemy is running quite high as well, with their Sounds of St. Lucia album.

sticky — I am a very big spirit in the sky fan. I am sure i quoted it here six or seven months ago….

Thanks very much for the tip — I will check out the Stovall Sisters version.

gotta learn me some blockquotes, i guess….

I saw Hendrix at the one and only Denver Pop Festival. It was a cool night in June, and I remember being cold more than I remember the performance.

The police tear gassed the gate crashers (me) but we left before the gas reached us — it drifted into the stadium, as part of that extra special concert experience for the paying customers. After eating a watermelon in the park, the radio announced they were letting everyone in. We went back, saw Hendrix, and went home.

angie…78

Kiddo kudos coming your way.

Jane Hamsher@66
Yeah all of this Hendrix estate stuff I’ve been reading the last couple of days has been making my eyes cross.
Fini is the best!
Pleasure to be here!

Teddy SF, really easy to blockquote — just like bold or italics only write — blockquote — where you would put the — i — or the — b –

and always preview those blockquotes (speaking from huge past mistake).

Oklahoma kiddo:

“tools”?

Greg Sargent’s got a short interview with Jonathan Turley up at TPM Cafe about the Wilson’s civil case:

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/co…..ves_office

Donita –

There is a picture of you on your site under the classic gallery of you on stage playing guitar with your hair flying around you –

That picture is so aural!

Who took it? It is tremendous.

immanentize says:

Teddy SF, really easy to blockquote — just like bold or italics only write — blockquote — where you would put the — i — or the — b –

…and don’t forget to close the tag.

:-)

TSF –

gotta learn me some blockquotes, i guess….

Easy — same as italics, but use [blockquote] [/blockquote] instead of [i] [/i].

Oh that reminds me of a favorite night of mine, we had 4 couples over for dinner. All the guys were playing music of their choice and their guitars etc and we were listening raptly; then I suggested the girls have a chance to pick something. The ladies were polite and demurred, but I persisted. I pulled out my ABBA best of and my s.o. saw me and shook his head worriedly. I put it on, turned up the volume, and all the girls jumped up and started dancing wildly around the living room and singing with fake mikes– completely unrehearsed and spontaneous.

The guys sat there stunned.

(hey, ok kiddo, that was not my letter there, but thanks; just wanted to reference what you were talking about in your 71. I have had many, too many, letters published lately, though. I am really scared and have been writing alot.)

Janie Hendrix…More maroon than purple. Karma g’wan getcha, girl.

>:-(

Today’s spin:

-The Best of Doug Sahm and Friends

-Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers

-Slayer/Seasons In The Abyss

-Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman – Song X

-Thelonious Monk/Solo Monk

…and, before all the moneychangers defiled the temple…Jimi, Axis:Bold As Love.

No buyer’s remorse here.

hi,

generally, i’m a FDL lurker, but i love music and donita rocks so i will briefly de-lurk now

these are the current grooves i’m rockin’ on my hit list:

grandmasterflash – white lines
prince – kiss
britney spears – toxic (i constantly get slammed for this but it’s a great ass shaker)
missy elliot – work it
beastie boys – hey ladies
salt n’ pepper – shoop
commadores – brick house
cypress hill – insane in the membrane
m.i.a – galang (remix)
50 cent – hate it or love it
staple singers – i’ll take you there
stevie wonder – sir duke

Actually Haaretz had a good article I think it was called the Angry Skies that gives some background. The Israeli unit hit in the North was from the reserves. There were questions about its training (and the training of most reserve units) and it was their last day before being rotated out. The response of at least one of the participants of a meeting of the General Staff was to bomb Lebanon’s infrastructure back 30 years.

In the article BobbyG cited, Nasrallah did speak of further escalation. Of course, his house had been bombed by the Israelis earlier in the day.

Haaretz has its own slants but over all it’s coverage is lightyears ahead of what you can expect from the American media.

The current Israeli goal is to destroy Hezbollah. Their strategy to accomplish this is to shoot up Lebanon and destroy its infrastructure. They were not able to eliminate Hezbollah with an 18 year occupation of Southern Lebanon so you pretty much have an idea of how successful their strategy is likely to prove. According to the first article I cited, the Israeli General Staff put Ehud Olmert in a bind by leaking their plans for a massive retaliation forcing him to go along with it or face the political consequences of appearing to back down. The generals seem to be currently in control of Israel’s response. While they have been able to play political games with Olmert, their skills on the wider international scene are abysmal. We will support them because our foreign policy has been held hostage by them for years. In Europe and the Middle East, the Israeli reaction has been a public relations disaster.

If you are interested in rooting around Haaretz, it’s at:

http://www.haaretz.com/

yay darkblack!

(I’ve kinda been waitin’ around for that one, actually!)

darkblack you raided my music collection (except for slayer)!!

Have you heard Frank Black’s cover of Doug Sahm’s “Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day” on Honeycomb?

huge past mistake

NO WAY!

Spirit in the Sky, Promises End, I Hear You Knocking – day.

OT

Donald Rumsfeld knows how to fix the Iraq he broke. Not militarily – but through reconciliation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..umsfeld_22

Awwww.

He thinks they should do it the way the Republicans and he have done it here in the States.

Asked what the reconciliation process will entail, he said it would boil down to the Iraqis convincing as many people as possible to support the new government. “Anyone that doesn’t want to, they’re going to have to go find and do something about — that’s what I mean,” he said.

Exporting values and … cowbell?

Okay, here’ s a try at it.

Like this?

Then I want to be sure it’s closed, right?

immanetize@109
I think the photo that you’re referring to is by Al Flipside from Flipside Magazine, a very famous underground music ‘zine that sadly doesn’t exist anymore

This little bit of necrophilia is indeed pretty creepy, especially in light of the cause of Jimi’s tragically early demise.

Some good spins going on here. Kudos to you folks. ;)

Favorite Hendrix song? Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Favorite Hendrix cover? All Along the Watchtower
Favorite cover of a Hendrix tune? Sting’s version of Little Wing w/Gil Evans

Spins:
Frou Frou – Let Go
Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek
Damone – Out Here All Night
Jose Gonzalez – Heartbeats
Chroma Key – Graveyard Mountain Home
Porcupine Tree – Arriving Somewhere, but Not Here
Killswitch Engage – Rise Inside
Tool – Vicarious
AC/DC – Sin City
Millencolin – Hard Times

Hey, Teddy. :-) You ever get a chance to read Sharon Lawrence’s book on Hendrix, go for it…Pulls some of the covers off of the unfaithful servants that surrounded Jimi.

DB – No, does it have the same rays of sunlight as the original?…Would have loved to play some high lonesome music with that Texan.

Dr. Bong…107

“tools”? Respectfully ask: in reference to what?

I really like that Soul Coughing track, Soundtrack to Mary…but kinda like better Houston and Rare Star Ball.

And I just love that collaboration between Mike Doughty and BT…great song and the video is pretty cool too:

Never Gonna Come Back Down

mary — did you say cowbell:

http://search.netscape.com/ns/…..ry=cowbell mp3

There’s rumblings at the White House that Josh Bolton is alreay calling Tony Snow the fifth Compassionate.

ratzo@114
So I’ve smoked you out have I ? Well I’m glad ‘cuz your right up my alley.
Shoop indeed! That’s going in The Spin next week

mary — did you say cowbell:

Moooore cowbell!

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I remember seeing some Flipsides — a friend of mine in college was an LA punk fan — we hassled her mercilessly, being from New York and all…. Then she played some of the music. Melted my self-righteous heart.

It’s so great to read that people have been reading, reading, reading…. and then they find a way, via a new topic (music) or poster (Donita!) to plunge into the ‘lake.

This is a generous, wonderful, supportive, accountable community. I’m terribly lucky I found you.

darkblack, here is the iTunes link for Honeycomb if I got the URL correct. You should check out that Sahm cover. It’s excellent.

Hey everybody! Thanks for all of Your Spins! II’ll be back later to check in.
Peace babies!

The Spin I’m in today…
Fu Manchu – Thinking out Loud
Heart – Straight On
Jesus Lizard – Glamorous
Greenskeepers – Lotion
B-52’s – 52 Girls
The Crowd – Desmond & Kathy
Blondie – Fade Away & Radiate
Donna Summers – I Feel Love
Beck – Beercan

In case there’s anyone who hasn’t heard SRV’s Little Wing

Enjoy

Well It’s Raining Men on my iPod right now and I’m in a serious drought. Doesn’t seem quite fair…

I’m in a disco phase right now
Donna Summer before the conversation
Chic
Bee Gees
Dianna Ross
Gloria Gaynor

and now I’m on the way to Funkytown, which considering the town I live in, (think Mayberry meets Children of the Corn), it’s the perfect escape.

I was really in a quandry about the cover answer. I originally thought of SRV’s Voodoo Chile (Slight Return), but that seemed redundant. Then I thought of SRV’s Little Wing, which is fantastic, but ultimately (for whatever reason) opted for Sting/Gil Evans. Ask me tomorrow and I’ll have a different answer.

Oklahoma kiddo @123

“tools”? Respectfully ask: in reference to what?

In response to your #99

America has the tools to do the job.

Just thougt it kind of ironic as we don’t have the sharpest tools in the shed.

donita@127
sweet!

Bush jokes during visit to Germany

July 13, 2006 – President laughs about roast pig, leading the band, and a historic church
STRALSUND, Germany (AP) – President Bush was high on the hog in Germany.

Even before he sat down for dinner with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bush commented again and again on how much he looked forward to the 65-pound wild boar that was on the menu.

“I understand I may have the honor of slicing the pig,” Bush told Merkel during opening remarks at a news conference Thursday.

One German reporter asked Merkel about violence in the Middle East, then asked Bush for his impressions of the region – aside from the pig. Bush cut Merkel off.

“I haven’t seen the pig yet,” he said with a chuckle, then apologized to Merkel for interrupting. She said she hoped it was already roasting, with six hours until dinner time.

And when a U.S. reporter asked for a follow-up, Bush seemed disappointed by the topic: Iran.

“I thought you were going to ask me about the pig,” he said.

50 Ways to Dump the Dubya

H/t Randi Rhodes…

I saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers play “Castles Made of Sand” once in the early 90’s and they nailed it. Also saw Living Color play “Burning the Midnight Lamp” at Lallopalooza and that was awesome too. Vernon Reid is amazing.

Hey Subway!

Waving from the West Coast ~~~

DB – Unfortunately, that song is only available domestically (U.S.) through iTunes…I’ll keep an eye out for it.

Golly gee, turns out the manufacturer of Hendrix Electric vodka is/was Leon Hendrix’ manager who also had a go at Janie back in the day, before he decided to crassly licence the image for an alcohol product of an artist who died of an alcohol/barbiturate overdose.

Nice

King Sunny Ade

Question… where did you read that the US Marines were headed into Lebanon to help evacuate US citizens??? I’ve read on Google News that there are around 25k Australians ‘trapped’ in Lebanon, many there on vacation. Those there on vacation are calling back to Aussie (the travel agency they booked the trips on) asking for help. One major problem, there’s no Australian Embassy in Lebanon (don’t know how long that it’s been that way). Apparently there’s a whole lot of panicing foreigners in Lebanon.

Annette Funicello RULES.

Brian Jones Swimming Academy anyone?

Vodka. The new Pinot Noir (though vodka is probably cheaper).

Dr. Bong…137

Tools? We have weak diplomatic tools. Then we have cutting off aid, loan, and grant tools. And blockades. And the sharpest tools of all… our military. We also might form an unlikely alliance with Europe, China, India, Russia, Japan and others such as Egypt to hand Israel and the others an ultimatum to stop the madness. Or we will send in the U.N. and whatever other forces are needed to back them up. We better do something quickly. I’m thinking. And lastly, we need to convince the Arab “street” that we are serious about an evenhanded approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. And begin to dismantle the gulag that is Gaza.

James Dean Driving School? OK, I’ll quit.

Wolf Blitzer just asked, rhetorically, if the events in the ME right now will trigger a “reverse domino effect.”

WTF? Was there a forward domino effect? This country didn’t learn jack shit from Vietnam.

Dover Bitch,

Speaking of Red Hot Chili Peppers, I was thinking that Lamont could make an awesom campaign video et to Suck My Kiss, with appropriately placed footage of the infamous Bush kiss hehe.

Rushton @ 146, 149:

Ian Curtis’ Swinging Hemp Rope Hut

Marc Bolan’s Thrill Drivers

Karen Carpenter’s All You Can Eat Burger Baron

Chet Baker Jazzy-Sheen Window Cleaners

…My turn to quit. I don’t want to give any more enterpreneurs fodder for their ‘biznezz’.

OT – Ushering in a new generation of Losst Boys.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/…..gressives/

From thinkprogress, re: the Young America’s Foundation up coming National Conservative Student Conference. Seems the self-professedly surprised spokeman:

YAF’s spokesman Jason Mattera, who describes himself as “the surprisingly fresh face of conservatism,”

won’t give press credentials to a progressive reporter to cover the event (although Mattera had been given credentials to cover CampusProgress conferences for The National Review).

In what I think is supposed to pass for snark, he told the reporter:

You will not receive press credentials. My advice for you is to watch it on C-SPAN. If you have a problem with that decision, you can complain to the Foundation’s media department spokesman. Oh wait…that’s…me. :)

I don’t want to start an ugly rumor that it was the aftermath of a long day at the spa that caused Mattera to immediately exclaim upon the surprising freshness of his face, but it is no surprise that the guy still struggling to find the true meaning behind his ideologically defining moment of self-appellation (I am the”Loss Leader”) is on the YAF board.

Contact Rich Lowry, who is on the board of YAF’s National Journalism Center . . .

I guess the end result of the Star Trek fundraiser was “The Next Generation”

lol – but kinda sadly.

Saw David Lindley and Martin Sexton live last night in Downtown Salt Lake at a free concert. For anyone who thinks Salt Lake is a conservative backwater should come to one of these free concerts held every Thursday in SL.

Highlight of the show was hearing David Lindley play Steve Earle’s Copperhead Road.

A bloated and semi-coherent Lawrence Eagleburger is fanning the flames of war on Wolf the Beards show.

We have to show Syria we are “tough”.

Our nation is full of warmongers, it is sad to see it coming down to this.

-GSD

Saw this at Froomkin. Fox News poll of Bush’s JAR 36% and AP also at 36%.

I remember when Martin Sexton was a newbie doing the coffee shops in Boston and NH.

-GSD

George W. Bush CEO Training Seminar?

Oklahoma kiddo #147

Agreed 100% – but I just don’t foresee a departure from the current administration’s agenda (i.e. cowboy diplomacy) when we have a chief exec with absolutely NO FUCKING CLUE of what true diplomacy is and PNAC offstage pulling all the strings.

I need a drink

Martin was really great but I’ve been a sucker for David Lindley ever since Jackson Browne’s Running on Empty tour. My best friend’s older brother took us when we were 12 y.o. and it forever changed my outlook on music.

Can you name..naaamme….name them all today.

Ah the B-52’s.

Reminds me of cheap beer, tijuana smalls and skinny ties.

-GSD

On NPR, Olmert has put out his terms for a ceasefire in Lebanon:

1) Return the two Israeli soldiers captured
2) Stop missile attacks on Israel
3) Disarm

OK, hands. How many of you think this is going to fly except perhaps in the Bizarro universe?

GSD 155–The way all these blowhards are talking you would think that they “know” all the inside poop. I didn’t believe the cooked intel before the war in Iraq and don’t believe what they say now. I was right then. I’ll make my judgements based on what I see and read in the international press. Never Eagleburger, either (nice and accurate description of him, btw)

total bs.

‘We’ll return to our synaptic incontinence after this important commercial message about ED’

Chris Farley Academy of Diet and Exercise?

darkblack, I (presumptuously) asked Jane to send you my email address

Well …….. Duh!

Ronald Reagan School for what was that again….

Dr. Bong…159

“I need a drink”. Have one on me. As the caterpillar might have said to Alice.

Bibi coming up to talk tough with Wulfie next on the Situation As We Decide to Present It to You Room.

(how am I gonna get in a better mood?)

more youtube.

You mean Dr. Bong DRINKS!?!?!

Looks like old Rover must have been rooting around in his bag of dirty tricks and found a left over vial of anthrax that he forgot to ship off to a news source back in the day.

Boy, it sure was interesting how all that Cipro got into the hands of the Washington elite before the anthrax attacks.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters…..nted=print

-GSD

Angie, it is looking more and more like this will be the way to drag Syria and Iran into a conflict. Michael Hoenig from FAUX SNOOZE and Billy Kristol and The P-NAC-ettes are demanding it. If only for the sake of the market.

Link on evacuating U.S. Citizens from Lebannon. Official word is that there is only contingency planning at this point.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI…..index.html

Yeah, GSD and then w can blame the crazy oil prices on them crazy ayrabs.

I seriously am praying that somebodies stop this madness; so many are dying and must be terrified.

The wheel is turning and you can’t slow down,
You can’t let go and you can’t hold on,
You can’t go back and you can’t stand still,
If the thunder don’t get you then the lightning will.

shooogarp:

You mean Dr. Bong DRINKS!?!?!

Gave up the wacky weed many brain cells ago. I’m a barley pop afficianado now.

But if the opportunity arose…

:-)

New Thread

I’d like to dedicate Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’ to the stock market.

Mmmmmm. beer.

angie says:
July 14th, 2006 at 1:46 pm

‘must be terrified.’

I’m several thousand miles away in a relatively nice, safe place and I’m terrified!! God have mercy on us all.

What is disturbing to me is that I live in the same city as the North American Islamic Mother Mosque and there will be a ‘demonstration’ downtown by a group that will be protesting Israel’s bombing of Beruit. I sure as hell hope that nothing happens there.

Current Spin List ‘on shuffle’ includes

Van Morrison — Into the Mystic
Wallflowers — One Headlight
Santana/Claptop — The Calling
Mercy Street — Peter Gabriel
Shine on You Crazy Diamond — Pink Floyd
(one of my favs’ especially in memoriam now)
Under Pressure — Queen
Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag — James Brown
Twilight Zone — Golden Earring
In Never Entered — Miles Davis
Her Comes the Rain Again — Eurythmics
(gotta love Annie Lennox)
Golden Years — David Bowie
Blister in the Sun — Violent Femmes

…its eclectic, but makes parsing web and firewall logs a bit more interesting…

GSD –

Have the Gulf Oil Producers fallen asleep at the wheel? Commander Codpiece won’t do anything to rein in Israel, but a 10% or 20% reduction in output would cause such pain in the global markets, even Bush would be forced to take action.

The only way Israel can back down is if they can save face, by saying the USA made them do it. The only way to force Bush to do anything is to bite him in the ass — cause him enough political pain that he has to respond.

shooogarp…171

“You mean Dr. Bong DRINKS!?!?!” Well perhaps. But I would hazard… never during surgery. IMHO only. That would be a question you might want to direct to the good DR. directly, though.

I’d also like to throw into the mix:

Van Morrison – Sweet Thing

Oklahoma kiddo:

steadies the hands – it’s medicinal.

Kurt Cobain School Of Firearm Safety? I know-I said I’d stop. This time I mean it.

Big kudos to Sophist. A great set of tunes. I might substitute [i]Rebel Rebel[/i] for [i]Golden Years[/i], but that’s me. In that vein, my next spin of [i]Heroes[/i] goes out to the FDL crew.

Matchstick:

Preview is your friend.

teehee

:-)

Wasn’t there an Ernest Hemingway line of “signature” sporting equipment that came out a few years ago included a shotgun? I always though that was an unfortunate choice.

The John Denver School of Flying?
The Michael Jackson Day Care Center?
The George W. Bush School of Business Adminstration?
NOW I’ll stop, too!

Sharkbabe way upthread – Lambert, Hendricks and Ross – Wow, I’m impressed!

(Dating myself, but I actually met Annie Ross at her club in London after she left the group – Great Lady!)

Dr. Bong, you are correct. I saw -ck-’s comments about the tags and just went with those. Little did I realize I was being led astray. *sigh* ;)

never sweat the small stuff… i’m just now able to italicize and bold…

Still can’t embed a linky, though.

Steve Clemons know the Middle East

Test

How crass, man I will stick with Cystal Palace.

S’cuse me while I kiss this guy!

moe99, old Bonnie Raitt is where I am too.
“Girl, you’ve been a fool for love….”

grs at 184
absolutely one of the finest love songs ever.

Wow! This is too cool! Ms. Donita Sparks and FDL–a perfect combination! So will Ms. Sparks be doin’ any netroots thangs or will she be writing ’bout music?

Ahem. My playlist of late has included Brits that made it big in Britain but not in the US: Family, Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger and the Trinity, the Move, and the like. Any Move fans around here?

Likely a dead thread, but feel compelled to spin that spin:

Broken Social Scene – It’s All Gonna Break
Guided By Voices – Knock ‘em Flying
Deerhoof – Top Tim Rubies
The Books – None But Shining Hours
Neutral Milk Hotel – Communits’s Daughter
Swirlies – You Can’t Be Told It, You Must Behold
It

Jimi – Are You Experienced?
Syd – See Emily Play

I like this music attention on FDL. A full-service blog; thanks.

Cool I love tune sharin threads.

A bit of new:

Dream Theater-Octavarium
Paul McCartney-Fine Line

..and a bit of old:

Young Ella Fitz! ;)
“..you can’t be tamed while the band is playin”
The Assad Brothers-Baroque Music for Two Guitars

As I understood it,

J. Marshall Hendrix was adament about his aural vision being fleshed out, before it was released.

I speculate he would not be happy with whomever is spreading anything other than his message, through his music.

My Favorite Hendrix,

The Band of Gypsy’s

“HAPPY NEW YEAR FIRST OF ALL.
I HOPE WE’LL HAVE
A MILLION OR TWO MILLION MORE OF THEM… IF WE
CAN GET OVER THIS SUMMER, HE HE HE……..RIGHT”

Jimi Hendrix intro to Machine Gun

It would be pretty funny if they priced this stuff super premium but it was really rot gut almost assured to make you puke on one shot.

Nifty bottle.
Does the label say “drink on an empty stomache”?

Say hello to Elvis’ “Deep-fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and double-cheeseburger’s laced with Seconol!”
Now at Hardy’s!

Favorite Hendrix song: I’m with LITTLE WING Though I love the opening chords to HEY JOE.

Favorite Hendrix cover: that would have to be Stevie Ray Vaughan’s homage to Hendrix, LITLE WING again.

What I’m listening to lately – Ray LaMotaigne’s TROUBLE; the newest Chili Peppers STADIUM ARCADIUM – damn those guys are good – and Smog – COLD BLOODED OLD TIMES.

Also, my nearly twelve year old keeps me current in the rap world. 50 Cent’s HATE IT OR LOVE IT is terrific.