Category Archives: music

DARKNESS DARKNESS by the Youngbloods

March 23, 2013 – 7:38 pm

At summer’s end radio stations compile the 1000 best songs of all time. HEY JUDE was dethroned by STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN. SATISFACTION by the Rolling Stones enjoyed a brief moment in the sun, however my choice for best song was always DARKNESS DARKNESS, which Jesse Colin Young wrote in 1969 and performed with the Youngbloods. […]

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ROCK CREEK PARK Donald Byrd and the Blackbyrds

February 13, 2013 – 8:30 pm

In September 1974 my good friend AK swears we saw them with the Hues Corporation, Richard Pryor, and Sly Stone at Franklin Park in Boston. If I don’t remember that, does that mean I didn’t see them. 3 minutes ago · Like Peter Nolan Smith RIP Donald Byrd To hear , please go to the […]

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THE LAUGHTER OF THE MAESTRO by Peter Nolan Smith

February 9, 2013 – 2:27 pm

Last week I was walking home through a snowstorm. Turning the corner toward Fulton I called Cecil Taylor, who lived in the last unrenovated brownstone on that street. We knew each other from back in the 70s. The jazz pianist’s manager James Spicer had been a mutual friend, until the silver-haired impresario ripped off my […]

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PIMPMOBILE Isaac Hayes

January 30, 2013 – 9:51 pm

Great demo derby through LA from TRUCK TURNER, a 1974 blaxploitation film starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, Dig those bongos To view PURSUIT OF THE PIMPMOBILE please go to the following URL

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DISCO INFERNO The Tramps

January 26, 2013 – 8:23 pm

The Phillie group The Trammps burned up the charts and dance floors with DISCO INFERNO in both 1976 and 1978. A friend posted this another white boy’s story on his Facebook page about DISCO INFERNO. Back in the day I went to the Boston Arena to see the Trammps. I went with a friend. We […]

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