Music

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/11999727

Well, now they're a complete set 😢 . RIP Machine Gun.

The News: Dennis Thompson, last remaining member of MC5, dies at age 75 via archive.is

• Induction into the RRHoF, my ass

The Freep: Dennis Thompson, MC5 drummer and ‘last man standing,’ dies at 75 via archive.is

Paying my respects: howzabout a little music for the sad occasion?…

• The New Order - 1975

• New Race - Looking At You

• Rave-Up of The Dead! 🧟‍♂️: DTK/MC5 + Lemmy - Back In The U.S.A.

  • Wishing studio-musician-in-denial and eternal "best New Rock Guitarist" Gilby Clarke a long life and not to join fellow bandmates on a different stage for a loooong time.

• Drummers…ya just gotta hate 'em! 🤣 Old Man Thompson boring the bejeezus out of some Michigan kids with his "war stories". I was just…like…that… and I'm sure most of you were too.

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Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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rm -rf *.*
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Everything I say is a lie.
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The Genius. Brother Ray could sing the Wikipedia main page and it'd be beautiful.

I'd bet Vlad's got Georgia on his mind, too.

Remember…Parma spelled backwards is AMRAP!
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Au revoir, Jazz Fest…see y'all next year.

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Scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls, stay sick…but don't get caught!
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…just in case y'all forgot.

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heard about 10 seconds of this in a water-softener commercial. made a ringtone.

artsy videos. it's a playlist.

Also like this german version 'Technique'

haven't heard in a long time. yt ads. need to ditch

🎸 Twang! 🔊 🎶

Icons for an icon.

RIP, Mr Eddy, one of the greatest guitarists ever. He, and producer Lee Hazlewood and a giant reverb tank defined that sound. For most of his hitmaking career, he played what seemed the most basic riffs and melodies which only belied his true talent on the big ol' hollowbody Gretsch or Guild he was playing at the time. Always unassuming, always armed with his killer smile. Less is more. Sincerest condolences to Señora Deed and the surviving family.

• Yep!
• Because They're Young
• Eddy and that killer smile - Shazam!
• on American Bandstand, 1964 - Guitar Child
• on Musikladen - Cannonball Rag
• with The Art of Noise - Peter Gunn
• from the Blue Velvet OST Honky Tonk
• from 1996 - Ghost Riders In The Sky
• with John Fogerty - Three-30 Blues
• Dynasonics rule! The Gretsch Duane Eddy Signature 6120 Model
• live from the 2011 Glastonbury Festival - Peter Gunn

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I-Liked-Them-Before-YOU-Did BONUS:

• Interpol - PDA (Precipitate EP Version)

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The legendary Gang of Four. RIP Andy Gill.

There was terrible violence. [There were] pitched battles between students and British Movement members on the university campus. We could see the struggle between the Socialist Workers' Party and the BM capturing the straying youth. We were sympathetic to the SWP. We had done some benefits, but we didn't make our own approach in those broad political terms. It was more to do with living in a late capitalist society; we were also very concerned about the spectre of Thatcherism and what it was going to do to the people in this country.

-- Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill, England's Dreaming, Jon Savage, 1991

[…]bunch of miserable northerners walking round indoors with their overcoats and Doc Marten's on. Take your bloody coats off! No, manically depressive sixth form common-room music.

-- journalist Robert Elms, Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution, Stephen Colegrave and Chris Sullivan, 2001

Out-Clashed-The-Clash BONUS:

• From Entertainment, 1979 - 5:45
• From Entertainment, 1979 - Natural's Not In It
• From Solid Gold, 1981 - He'd Send In The Army
• From the criminally-overlooked gem Shrinkwrapped, 1995 - Tattoo, video here
• From Second Life, 2008 - Second Life
• From Content, 2011 - She Said 'You Made a Thing of Me'
• From Content, 2011 - Who Am I
• From Complicit EP, 2018 - Ivanka (Things You Can't Have)

Watch new blood on the 80" screen
The corpse is a known personality
Guerilla war struggle is normal entertainment

Play loud…for some reason the official audio is set low.

Play-Your-Own-Way BONUS:

• St. Vincent with Louis Cato and The Late Show Band - Down

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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/11629197

Forgive all the what-might-seem hero worship…

Today Detroit-born guitarist Wayne Kramer, founding member of the MC5 (among other achievements and misadventures), would have celebrated his 76^th^ birthday. Unfortunately, being a mere human like ~~all~~ ~~most~~ some of us, pancreatic cancer took his life earlier this year, February 2, 2024, a mere two months ago.

I'd already written what I had to say regarding Wayne's career and his legacy in an earlier post. So today, in honor of Mr Kramer's would-have-been 76^th^, I leave you all with…

• Back When Dogs Could Talk

• Something's Broken In The Promised Land

• Looking At You 2022

RIP, Brother Wayne.

Even Nineties Brit-Pop darlings Blur weren't above ~~stealing from~~ referencing Bowie. Note uncredited video performance by tortured Shine star, Vanilla Sky's virtual presence, and Preacher's piano-playing Adolf Hitler, Noah Taylor.

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Chase-Me-Around-And-Call-Me-Names BONUS:

• Boys Keep Swinging (Kenny Everett Video Show version)

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Aww, don't be such a snob.

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I can see that you're 15 years old
No I don't want your ID
And I can see that you're so far from home
But that's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime

I bet your mama don't know you scream like that
I bet your mother don't know you do spit like that

Bob Geldof, KBE said in Uncut magazine's "The Rolling Stones’ 40 best songs"…

It’s an absolutely filthy song, you don’t know how they got away with it. The sleaze is spread all over it like butter melting on toast.

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includes an auto-generated playlist. no two are ever alike

stuck-in-head repeat offender. still stands up neck hair

Tangential Public Service Announcement

There's a (reoccurring) bug with the open-source YouTube front-ends Invidious/Piped access, most likely instigated by YouTube. Both projects aim to defuse YouTube's privacy invasions by serving Google-hosted video and bypassing all the distasteful tracking and algorithm nonsense ("If I'm the product, where's my cut?"). The linked music in my posts all point to the sites in the Invidious network. Until the situation is resolved and in case the situation again appears…

• for past links, substitute the site's address with youtube.com…
  • before: https://iv.datura.network/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw
  • after: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw

• for today and at least until the problem is resolved, I will link directly to YouTube.

If you haven't already installed this add-on for your browser, I highly suggest the LibRedirect extension. This extension not only redirects from YouTube to open-source networks but also redirects from Twitter/X, Reddit, TikTok and a plethora, a myriad of other privacy-invasive sites. As they say, I'm not connected with the devs, just a satisfied client.

Turn blue, climb walls, stay sick, scratch glass, …but don't get caught!

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Great artist I just got into. A country artist with actual working class songs.

Today in the Italian Republic they're commemorating the 79^th^ annual Day of Liberation from the nazi-fascists in 1945. The linked song, Bella Ciao is the de facto anthem for the Italian resistance and, according to Wikipedia…

Versions of "Bella ciao" continue to be sung worldwide as a hymn of freedom and resistance.

So, raise a glass to the original antifascists, raise your middle finger to those that would appropriate this song for venal commercial gains and who would reduce it to mere vapid entertainment and raise a clenched fist to those who would atttempt to drag us back to those times when "the trains ran on time."