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Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 1:35 am
by President Bush
stanky wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:44 am What's popular in Bolivia? Like, what music have you taken in by osmosis there; overheard on the bus?
(I kinda hope it's not our pop music, but probably is.)
Los Donkeys, a Bolivian group I just found out about from the late 60s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4laNDbf_Bs

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 3:49 am
by stanky
Los Donkeys are wild!

(Think they're still around?)

Reminds me of Wildman Fisher's song "Monkees vs Donkeys"'.

The Donkees may be better than the Monkees.

here's WMF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aE-0vm8ro

Probably not for everyone.

(love Kow Kow, btw. when it gets to "Turn on your love light" that's a transcendent moment in music)

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2024 1:16 pm
by President Bush
found out about WMF in eighth grade, from this $1 record which fucking blew my 14 year-old mind:

https://www.discogs.com/release/1827704-Various-Zapped

way too much classic stuff like the satire Catholic church fund-raiser, gets pretty funny once you listen a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INOMzVDVjeA

Looking up more on TheDonkeys found this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah6bNn4fi5w

back to "Zapped"... Captain Beefheart (and The Mothers) doing the Hindenburg going down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpA4XpnnI_U

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2024 12:59 pm
by President Bush
stanky wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:44 am What's popular in Bolivia? Like, what music have you taken in by osmosis there; overheard on the bus?
(I kinda hope it's not our pop music, but probably is.)
Our cab driver out to Puente Sucre yesterday was playing these guys on his video player, Los Kjarkas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqhQj5VSaOI

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 2:17 am
by stanky
great!
love the comments

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 11:30 am
by President Bush
stanky wrote: Mon Sep 23, 2024 2:17 am great!
love the comments
yep, very refreshing here.

ETA: back here in La Paz we were walking around and stopped at a little Venezuelan-run place. Check it out less, about $3...

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for the migrant, his homeland is the land where he is given bread

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 11:08 pm
by President Bush
RIP Kris Kristofferson... figured out the words so I could sing this out loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=almf_1K9S8M

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:40 am
by grayman
President Bush wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 11:08 pm RIP Kris Kristofferson... figured out the words so I could sing this out loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=almf_1K9S8M
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-ti ... -yard/amp/

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2024 4:41 am
by arthwollipot
Willie is the only one of the Highwaymen still with us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFkcAH-m9W0

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2024 4:36 am
by stanky
If Jimmy Carter were down under, he'd be 100.
(still monday here)