Day 5

This is cool Jeff Lober was on!!!

DUCK ROCK (influnces)

 Malcolm McLaren Died today. Man, his record "Duck Rock" was a huge influence to me, more so then any other Hip Hip album that came out in the 80's...well, next to "Wild Style" and "Run Dmc" self entitled album. Duck Rock is on my all time top 10 Hip Hop albums ever. It was also the very first record I ever bought to use for Djing back in 1983.



In 1982... I remember clearly riding in my sisters boy friends supped up 1965 mustang. Billy was blasting "Buffalo Gals" down Grand Ave in Spring Valley more than likely going around 70+ and doing burnouts or donuts.(mother fucker was crazy) The single just came out and to this day I still don't know how he got a hold of it or why he bought it he was a rock head. That wailing spooky scream at the beginning had me hooked from the get go. Buffalo Gals was the first song that I ever heard a DJ scratch on a song. The video was even better! My old writing partner Kaze and I first got to watch the video for Buffalo Gals on a TV show called "Night Flight" a year later. I tripped out how in the movie "scratching" all those DJ gave credit to "rocket being the first to have scratching on it" I was thinking bull shit! or maybe just these DJ's first notice "scratching" on that album. But come to think about it Grandmaster Flash put out the " The Official Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash" in 1981, which has scratching and cutting and back spinning breaks featured on the single. 

Gabriel Fauré

Good stuff

This group reminds me of portishead. They have a creepy sound and the singer Angela McCluskey has a cool voice.

Chopin

Good for rainy days.

5

Happy Birthday Dave!

ssotw

Some SUBWAY footage.... Around frame marker 109. Can't forget the HUGE banner that Zephry and Futura 2000 painted for the Clash.

I think this is the first music video that shows breaking being done in 1981.


Sorry.... haven't been posting working on a show.....and with Matisse ready to be born next month and My wife and I are nesting like crazy around the ranch..... bloggin will be on hold...... I WILL BE BACK!!!!

Hound Dog Taylor

Boku to konya.

One of my favrite songs from Kyu Sakamoto.

Snow is...

Happy Holidays folks. 

Sunny

Miles bday today!

He is 3.

Pops

I had a very strange dream with Louis Armstrong the other night. I don't remeber much, but I remeber giving him a hug and I couldnt get my arms around him and He smelt like a musty old nightclub.

Sidney

Cab

The Zero Hour

Radio Tokyo

Iva Toguri was an American stranded in Japan at the outbreak of World War II. She was forced to broadcast propaganda to the Allied troops for Japan. In these radio programs, she taunted the troops and played music from home. She took the name Orphan Ann on the program, Zero Hour.

"Tokyo Rose" is a myth: Iva Toguri, like other women who also broadcast Japanese propaganda to Allied troops, was never referred to as Rose or Tokyo Rose. It was a name given by the Allies to the various female Japanese broadcasters. But it has been used since the war primarily to refer to Iva Toguri D'Aquino.

After the war, Iva Toguri was convicted of treason and imprisoned, released early for good behavior. She maintained her innocence, asserting that she had not said the words used to convict her, and that she had remained a loyal American. Though forced to broadcast to the troops, she claimed that she, with the help of American POWs assigned to the radio broadcasts, made herself and her words purposefully ridiculous. She had refused to give up her American citizenship, despite pressure and even punishment from the Japanese who forced her into the broadcasting role.

In the 1970s a public campaign brought to light the testimony of the POWs who worked with her and supported her story. The testimony of the witnesses against her was questioned, and some admitted lying. Eventually (1977) she was pardoned by President Gerald Ford, and early in 2006, the same year she died, she was given the Edward J. Herlihy Citizenship Award by the World War II Veterans

More sound bits here

Mean Gene

Pete Drake

Pretty cool song from Ol Pete. He also played the steel guitar on Elvis's version of " Little Less Conversation" which kicks major ass!

Catching Recs

The King

One of the coolest! Died 31 years ago today.

Yeah Yeah Yeah ....Woah!

I tried showing spider man 2 to miles the other day and trust me he loves his spider man!  He could careless about the movie. Maybe to much going on, who knows? But when I showed him this...... he was hooked!  It's strange what could keep a child's interest a big huge Hollywood production or a sweet Japanese version of Spiderman with a KICK ASS theme song* ...woah!  

*TURN UP THE VOLUME*

                                  

This is the longest version I could find on the net. They messed with the subtitles some funny parts but man this is great!