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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