That time Ornette Coleman jammed with the Grateful Dead:
Enjoy, folks. Hopefully Booman digs this too. We all need a couple moments to breathe before returning to battle.
About The Author
Don Durito
Left of center and lover of photography, music, pop culture, and life. Favorite quote - "There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility" (Lisbeth Salander, from Stieg Larsson's original Millennium Trilogy).
Mixing drinks and musical genres. Enjoy!
Love this one:
I ended up enjoying Johnny Cash’s cover far more than the NIN original (and that’s not to diss the original, which was a fantastic effort in its own right).
Gotta evangelize for this one again.
Robbie Fulks was being interviewed by Terry Gross about the craft of writing songs. He was asked to play a well-written song from someone else. He picked this, and gave it a shockingly sincere delivery:
Nice cover. I will never get the image of a Stormtrooper in a tutu out of my mind. Fun collection of photos as well.
The movie version provided a different mixing of genres, and it broadened the lyric’s simple but deep thrill in witnessing the empowerment of a teenage girl and provided that empowerment to women of all ages. Get past the cringeworthy start and you’ll be rewarded:
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an actress appear to have more fun than Streep did in this movie. Cannonball, Meryl!
My spouse is a huge fan of the movie. Not a huge fan myself, but that scene is fun.
The original was on heavy rotation at the local roller skating rink back around 1976 or so. Also on one of the local top 40 AM stations.
Roller skating rinks,
My parents met at one in the early 40’s, and my family spent a lot of time at them in the 50’s and early 60’s.
Disneyland, camping, and roller skating.
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I am simply blown away. Such amazing talent.
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Well, this is excellent. Nice discovery for me.
Let’s keep it rocking and rolling:
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Apropos your footer, wouldn’t it be better to call him a neo-nihilist?
Another beautiful voice snuffed out too soon. If you were a suburban kid in the 1970s, the Carpenters were part of your life’s soundtrack.
Here’s another gone way too soon,
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Chris and Chester – two voices that will be missed.
While we’re at it – Chris Cornell unplugged, covering a song written by Prince that turned into a monster hit for Sinead O’Connor:
Here’s a mid-1980s cover of an early Bob Dylan song. Susanna Hoffs contributed the vocals to this one-off supergroup of various members of the Paisley Underground scene that had a following in SoCal at the time.