is rock and roll really dead this time?

Start here
User avatar
President Bush
Posts: 1053
Joined: Thu Dec 22, 2022 3:05 am

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Post 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
stanky
Posts: 982
Joined: Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:33 am

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Post 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)
User avatar
President Bush
Posts: 1053
Joined: Thu Dec 22, 2022 3:05 am

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Post 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
User avatar
President Bush
Posts: 1053
Joined: Thu Dec 22, 2022 3:05 am

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Post 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
stanky
Posts: 982
Joined: Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:33 am

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Post by stanky »

great!
love the comments
User avatar
President Bush
Posts: 1053
Joined: Thu Dec 22, 2022 3:05 am

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Post 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...

thumbnail - 2024-09-26T174343.951 (1).jpeg
thumbnail - 2024-09-26T174343.951 (1).jpeg (102.13 KiB) Viewed 415 times
thumbnail - 2024-09-26T163550.893.jpeg
thumbnail - 2024-09-26T163550.893.jpeg (64.54 KiB) Viewed 415 times

for the migrant, his homeland is the land where he is given bread
User avatar
President Bush
Posts: 1053
Joined: Thu Dec 22, 2022 3:05 am

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Post 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
User avatar
grayman
Posts: 592
Joined: Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:33 pm

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Post 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/
User avatar
arthwollipot
Posts: 674
Joined: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:20 pm

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Post by arthwollipot »

Willie is the only one of the Highwaymen still with us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFkcAH-m9W0
If you're not on edge, you're taking up too much space.
stanky
Posts: 982
Joined: Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:33 am

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

Post by stanky »

If Jimmy Carter were down under, he'd be 100.
(still monday here)
Post Reply