Category Archives: music

URGE FOR GOING Joni Mitchell

November 7, 2013 – 8:06 pm

Men and boys weren’t allowed to like Joni Mitchell during the 60s and 70s. But that was wrong-headed thinking. Joni wrote great songs and sang them even better. URGE FOR GOING is a killer. I love it to his day

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Happy 70 Joni Mitchell

November 7, 2013 – 7:15 pm

I love Joni. It took me many years to admit that love, but there it is. Happy 70th Birthday, Joni To hear BOTH SIDES NOW and THE CIRCLE GAME please go to the following URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTVjCWekS1Qx

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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE – Lou Reed – Movie

October 27, 2013 – 6:30 pm
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METAL MACHINE MUSIC

October 27, 2013 – 3:09 pm

In 1975 RCA demanded an LP from Lou Reed and the ex-Velvet Underground frontman gave Clive Davis METAL MACHINE MUSIC. “I don’t see a single in this.” Clive Davis I doubt he listened to it all, but supposedly only the sound engineer accomplished that stygian feat. Rolling Stone’s review said METAL MACHINE MUSIC sounded like […]

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Lou Reed 71 RIP

October 27, 2013 – 2:44 pm

I never saw the Velvet Underground or heard Lou Reed live. Those gaps were added to missing Woodstock or opting to see Sha-Na-Na instead of David Bowie in 1971, but one spring night in 1970 I was lying on the sofa with my high school sweetheart. Kyla’s mother was out with her Portugese boyfriend and […]

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