sábado, 31 de janeiro de 2009
quinta-feira, 29 de janeiro de 2009
quarta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2009
Roky Erickson
O mais demente de sempre! Desde o psicadelico a grande mito do Rock'n'Roll é uma incontestavel referencia minha ao mesmo nivel do velho Shane Mcgowan. No blogue do cineclubefdup podem ler um pouco mais sobre este campeão
Etiquetas:
Demencia,
Horror,
Psychadelic,
Rock
domingo, 25 de janeiro de 2009
sexta-feira, 23 de janeiro de 2009
Buddy Lives !
Wikipedia:
Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959) was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. The change of spelling of "Holley" to "Holly" came about because of an error in a contract he was asked to sign, listing him as Buddy Holly. That spelling was then adopted for his professional career.
Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and innovations were copied by his contemporaries and later musicians, notably The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and exerted a profound influence on popular music. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Holly #13 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
The Day the Music Died
Holly began a solo tour with other notable performers, including Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. After a performance in Green Bay, Wisconsin at the Riverside Ballroom, on 1 February the tour moved on to the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa on 2 February 1959. Afterwards, Buddy Holly chartered a Beechcraft Bonanza to take him and his new back-up band (Tommy Allsup and Waylon Jennings) to Fargo, North Dakota, enroute to play the next leg of the Winter Dance Party tour at the Armory in Moorhead, Minnesota. Carl Bunch missed the flight as he had been hospitalized with frostbite three days earlier. The Big Bopper asked Jennings for his spot on the four-seat plane, as he was recovering from the flu. Ritchie Valens was still signing autographs at the concert site when Allsup walked in and told him it was time to go. Valens begged for a seat on the plane. Allsup pulled a 50 cent coin out of his pocket and the two men flipped for the seat. Allsup lost.
The plane took off in light snow and gusty winds at around 12:05 A.M., but crashed a few minutes later. The wreckage was discovered several hours later by the plane's owner, Jerry Dwyer, some 8 miles (13 km) from the airport on the property of Albert Juhl. The crash killed Holly, Valens, Richardson, and the 21-year-old pilot, Roger Peterson. Holly's body, along with those of Valens and Richardson, was thrown from the wreckage. Holly and Valens lay 17 feet (5.2 m) south of the wreckage and Richardson was thrown around 40 feet (12 m) to the north of the wreckage. The pilot's body remained in the wreckage. All had suffered severe and multiple injuries. Without any doubt, all had died on impact, with the plane hitting the ground at 170 mph (270 km/h). While theories abound as to the exact cause of the crash, an official determination of pilot error was rendered by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Although the crash received a good deal of local coverage, it was displaced in the national news by an accident that occurred the same day in New York City, when American Airlines Flight 320 crashed during an instrument landing approach at LaGuardia Airport, killing 65. Don McLean referred to it as "The Day the Music Died".
Holly's pregnant wife became a widow after barely six months of marriage and miscarried soon after.
Holly's funeral was held on 7 February 1959 at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock under the direction of Sanders Funeral Home. His body was interred in the City of Lubbock Cemetery in the eastern part of the city. Holly's headstone carries the correct spelling of his surname (Holley) and a carving of his Fender Stratocaster guitar.
Maria Holly did not attend the funeral and has never visited the gravesite. She told the Avalanche-Journal: "In a way, I blame myself. I was not feeling well when he left. I was two weeks pregnant, and I wanted Buddy to stay with me, but he had scheduled that tour. It was the only time I wasn't with him. And I blame myself because I know that, if only I had gone along, Buddy never would have gotten into that airplane."
Early in 2008, Maria visited the apartment building where she and Holly lived. There, she observed musicians in nearby Washington Square Park, where Holly often played his guitar. "I gave one musician $9 because 9 was Buddy's favorite number," Maria told the Avalanche-Journal. She said that she had never come to grips with his premature death.
quinta-feira, 22 de janeiro de 2009
quarta-feira, 21 de janeiro de 2009
Chuck Berry
Dizem que o melhor é sempre o original. Reis existirão sempre, mas o primeiro rei será por quem teremos sempre especial carinho (em caso de sermos leais súbditos). Estas palavras revestem-se de uma espantosa veracidade quando ouvimos as belas melodias de Deus o único deus do rock’n’roll, Chuck Berry.
domingo, 18 de janeiro de 2009
Fuzztones on Tour
Radiante, é como me sinto desde que soube que os Fuzztones finalmente vêm a Portugal. Pois é, uma das minhas bandas favoritas, pena que não esteja já o Cavalieri com a banda.
Garage do melhor !!!
Espero ainda que toquem as suas covers de Sonics
Que mais poderá ser dito ?
links bacanas:
www.fuzztones.net
www.myspace.com/thefuzztones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fuzztones
Essa Morena
A mensagem seguinte é inédita, uma vez que aqui será um espaço das minhas referências, que na maior parte ou totalidade das vezes apenas povoam o meu imaginário. Inédito falar de uma pessoa com quem lido diariamente e que me surpreende a cada nova conversa. Poderei descreve-la assim?
Talvez, ou quem sabe não seja o suficiente. Será a minha “ Morena de Azul “?
Vou acreditar que seja a segunda hipótese
Talvez, ou quem sabe não seja o suficiente. Será a minha “ Morena de Azul “?
Vou acreditar que seja a segunda hipótese
sábado, 17 de janeiro de 2009
A Mudança
That Woman's Got Me Drinking
Um dos meus artistas favoritos. Dotado de um génio impar, figura única no seu tempo. De uma poesia que poucos sabem escrever, uma lenda viva. Partilhou o palco com figuras como Joe Strummer, e é vocalista da primeira banda a juntar a música tradicional Irlandesa ao espírito do Punk. Não apenas modelo em escrita mas também partidário de um estilo de vida que eu desejo para mim. Senhores e senhoras Shane Mcgowan.
Self-destructive behaviour
MacGowan is an avid proponent of recreational drugs including alcohol. Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor reported him to the police in London for drug possession — in an attempt, she said, to discourage him from using heroin.[5] He claims to have been introduced to alcohol and cigarettes by his aunt on the promise he would not worship the devil. In a 50th-birthday interview with the Daily Mirror he told a reporter: "I was actually four when I started drinking. I just remember that Ribena turned into stout and I developed an immediate love for it." MacGowan says he tried whiskey when he was 10 and continued to drink heavily thereafter.
Speaking on BBC Four's Folk Britannia television programme (first broadcast February 2006), Robyn Hitchcock recalled: "I remember going to the Hope and Anchor (a pub where many folk punk acts played in London). The Pogues were all on stage and ready, it was a full house, but they hadn't started yet. Then this character shambled in through the door and shambled downstairs. I thought, 'Jesus, you're not letting that guy in are you?'. Then he walked on stage. That guy was Shane MacGowan."
He has suffered physically from his years of binge drinking; he is notorious for performing while drunk, and was often impaired in interviews; on the BBC TV political magazine programme This Week MacGowan gave incoherent and slurred answers to questions from Janet Street-Porter about the public smoking ban in Ireland.
On 7 September 2002 MacGowan became so intoxicated before a performance at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin that he stopped singing and threw up over fans in the front row. Fiona Wynne wrote in the Daily Mirror that the consequent criticism of the behaviour of MacGowan "who was in a wheelchair after breaking his leg" led Sinéad O'Connor to call Joe Duffy's RTÉ Liveline programme three days later to defend MacGowan, saying: "He is an angel near the end who needs support. He's too far gone to stop drinking; he has an illness that cannot be cured, and as far as I can see, the end is near for him".[
Conversely, MacGowan's fiancee Victoria Mary Clarke claims that although his alcoholism was so bad that the two had to split up at one point, "[Shane] loves a drink and he probably always will. But he drinks less than people think and I haven’t seen him drunk for quite some time", suggesting that his enjoyment of alcohol is in moderation, and perhaps not as dire or life-threatening as most of his fans believe. According to Clarke, "it became difficult for us to get from A to B without being dragged into bars by well-wishers desperate to buy him a drink", and "Shane, essentially a shy person, hated seeing his picture on magazine covers and on billboards because he thought he was ugly. He loathed interviews and despised schmoozing. To cope with his social anxiety, he began drinking more and more".
Dental problems
MacGowan has, throughout life, suffered from dental problems, caused by an imbalance of chemicals in his mouth. An article in The Mail writes: "Now he is 50, the singer said he at last planned to address the ever-present problem of his trademark teeth — or lack of them. With a mouthful of bloody stumps and only the odd tooth here and there, MacGowan said 2008 would be the year he sorted his mouth out. 'I'm going to get my teeth done,' he said. 'Emergency dentures to stop my face falling apart. I might get some dentures in and leave it at that, or I might get them done gradually'." The singer once protested when the American record company of the Pogues released a record with a cover bearing a picture of MacGowan with teeth airbrushed in, allegedly so as not to deter American buyers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Mcgowan
sexta-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2009
domingo, 11 de janeiro de 2009
Brian Ferry o deus do amor
A Besta
sábado, 10 de janeiro de 2009
Molotov
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