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late night blues

Modern Lovers
Hospital

"Will There Be Enough Water" - The Dead Weather

The Dead Weather in Roxy. from PERSONA985 on Vimeo.

johnny cash, ain't no grave

Ain't No Grave, Johnny Cash from Milton Mind on Vimeo.

Up with People

Barcelos vai invadir Rio Maior daqui a 1 semana

Agora a novidade boa...

Os Flaming Lips vão estar no SW2010!

Flaming Lips Glastonbury from vitorpeixoto on Vimeo.

RIP Alex Chilton (1950-2010)

Big Star - Thirteen from Warren Deans on Vimeo.

Fiquem com o texto da Twighlight-Zone (fonte):

Paul Westerberg and the Replacements spoke for countless artists and diehard fans when they wrote a song called "Alex Chilton" in 1987.

"Children by the millions sing for Alex Chilton when he comes 'round/They sing, 'I'm in love, what's that song?/ I'm in love with that song.' "

Chilton, who died Thursday in New Orleans of a heart attack at age 59, was a cult artist for most of his career, better knonw for the bands and artists he inspired, including R.E.M., Wilco, Jeff Buckley and the Replacements, than his own music. Yet his legacy endures, most especially the three studio albums he recorded with his group Big Star in Memphis during the '70s. Big Star was a group ahead of its time, its merger of British Invasion-style guitar melody and Southern soul a template for what would become known as "power pop." But it was virtually unheard in its time; the third Big Star album, "Sister Lovers," was released long after Chilton had walked away from the group utterly discouraged by its lack of success.

Yet Big Star's music only grew in stature as the decades passed, and songs such as "September Gurls" and "In the Street" were covered by numerous artists. The band's music was recently repackaged in a lavish box set, and was to be the subject of a major panel at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, followed by a concert in which original members Chilton and JOdy Stephens were scheduled to perform.

From the start, Chilton cut a contrary figure, charting an artistic course that indulged deeply personal idiosyncrasies rather than courting universal appeal. This was apparent the moment the 16-year-old Chilton first stepped inside a Memphis recording studio in 1966 for a rehearsal with his first major band, the Box Tops.
He was wearing jeans with holes torn in the knees, a black T-shirt and a woolen scarf tossed Dylan-style around his neck. The studio regulars, in their dress shirts and penny loafers, were appalled. But when Chilton re-entered that same studio a few weeks later for his first recording session, he would emerge with a hit: His impossibly soulful reading of Wayne Thompson's "The Letter" became one of the biggest singles of 1967, the first of seven top 40 hits for the Box Tops, and the beginning of what would become one of the most brilliant, enigmatic and maddening careers in rock history.
Chilton would walk away from the Box Tops, disgusted by record-company machinations that would bedevil him the rest of his career. He joined the brilliant songwriter Chris Bell, bassist Andy Hummel and drummer Jody Stephens in Big Star, only to be disappointed again, this time by the public's indifference.
Glimpses of Chilton's fractured brilliance continued to poke through as he pursued a solo career; the haphazard, frazzled energy of the "Like Flies on Sherbert" album captured the tenor of the late '70s more effectively than dozens of better-known punk records, and Chilton also made his mark as a producer, working on the early records of the notorious psychobilly band the Cramps.
It wasn't until the mid-'80s that Chilton returned to making records, and his music took another turn; it was more relaxed and bluesy, about evenly split between covers and original songs, with a generally lighter feel than much of his crucial '70s work. He reunited with Stephens to record a new Big Star album in 2005, but otherwise confined himself to live performing.
In a 1995 interview with the Tribune, Chilton claimed that Big Star's music meant little to him. "In general, I think it's overrated," he said. "There are only a few songs that I can stand to play anymore."
That comment was typical of Chilton in its contrariness. His solo career was marked by inconsistency, and sporadic reunions with Big Star and the Box Tops.
"He's been popular, his music is pervasive, and yet he's virtually unknown," Memphis music journalist Robert Gordon once told the Tribune. "He's a magnificent obscurity." - By Greg Kot (Chicago Tribume)

Big Star - Kangaroo (uma das minhas favoritas)

late night blues

Brian Olive - Jubilee Line
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os Maiorais orgulhosamente apresentam

Os Maiorais e o In a Bar apresentam

Vou abanar a cabeça até ela cair e chuta-la para os confins do universo! Sessões, com:

BLACK BOMBAIM
[ Concerto . Rock Psicadélico . Barcelos ]

+

DJS MAIORAIS
[ Dj Set . Rock’n’roll e mais coisas boas . Rio Maior e arredores ]

In a Bar, Rio Maior, 27 de Março de 2010, a partir das 23:00 horas

Os Maiorais – Secção de Cultura da Casa do Povo de Rio Maior e o In a Bar orgulham-se de apresentar Black Bombaim ao vivo em Rio Maior. Os Black Bombaim encontram-se actualmente a promover o seu novo álbum “Saturdays and Space Travels”. Melhor do que aquilo que poderíamos dizer sobre esta grande banda nacional, eis alguns recortes de imprensa:

Reportagem do concerto dos Black Bombaim em Coimbra por Santos da Casa:
"Black Bombaim
Brutal!
De cortar a respiração.
Sempre a dar sem parar.
Músicos de excelente nível.
Camadas de som a acertarem certeiras no nosso peito.
Stoner, com algo de psicadélico à mistura.
Grande prestação! Sem defeitos!
Belo power trio.
A fechar com chave de ouro a noite.
Venham mais noites eléctricas destas."
Texto: Nuno Ávila

Black Bombaim, mestres desse psicadelismo excessivo a que decidiram chamar stoner-rock (...) editaram recentemente o homónimo e muito recomendável álbum de estreia: dispensam vocalista e concentram tudo numa descarga eléctrica mastodôntica. São os Black Sabbath em jam enquanto o Ozzy rói um morcego no bar, os Comets on Fire com rédea solta no estúdio onde os Blue Cheer gravaram "Outside Inside", são uma felicidade opiácea em volume acima do recomendável (e é assim que deve ser).
Mário Lopes, Ípsilon

Depois de verem editado pela Lovers & Lollypops e Sonic Infusion Records aquele que muito arrogantemente não posso deixar de considerar o mais interessante álbum português do presente ano (até ver), os BLACK BOMBAIM são uma das poucas bandas deste rectângulo que o mundo inteiro deveria conhecer - jovens, promissores, coesos, competentes, catárticos …muitas palavras se poderiam utilizar para os definir, palavras que eles não precisam de usar para transmitir a sua vibração musical sísmica. De Barcelos para o cosmos - um POWER (com letra grande) trio a sério!
Óscar Pinho

Turn on, tune in, drop out... Bombaim na Índia , Black Bombaim no deserto. A garrafa de Jack Daniels, já vazia, no palco. É este o cenário. É esta a banda a que todos tentam arranjar um vocalista. «Todos»...são aqueles que não libertam as fronteiras da música e não assimilam o conceito de banda instrumental. É esta a banda que possui uma visão própria que ninguém pretende entender e com a sonoridade que actualmente, em Portugal, poucos serão os que a fazem e poucos foram os que a executaram desta forma. É nisto que são diferentes: do comum das bandas que vemos com frequência por aí.
Ilídio Marques

Site internet: www.myspace.com/blackbombaim

A selecção musical pré e pós concertos estará a cargo dos Djs Maiorais que prometem muita dança ao som de Rock’n’roll, Soul, Indie, Dub, Disco, Beat, enfim, tudo o que uma boa festa merece.

Os Maiorais agradecem o apoio das seguintes entidades: Super Bock, EMG Som e Imagem, Restaurante Avis.

Organização e Contactos: Maiorais . maiorais.rm@gmail.com . http://myspace.com/maiorais

Próximos eventos Maiorais: The Poppers (Lisboa), 17 de Abril, Nova Fonte Velha, Rio Maior; Rob K & Uncle Butcher, 5 de Junho.

Canal memória

Death in Vegas - Girls from RyanMooney on Vimeo.

Lido por aí

Anita Pallenberg (far left), Keith Richards, Gram Parsons & Gretchen Parsons. Reflected in the mirror is Dominique Tarle, the French photographer who shot The Rolling Stones that summer at Nellcote while they were recording Exile on Main Street.

A foto e o texto foram retiradas daqui, o blog chama-se the selvedge yard e encontram-no aqui. Na minha opinião é das melhores coisas que andam por aí na net.

late night dream

Son of Dave tem um novo disco

yeah!

Which Came First?

open & close
In & out
add it up & tore it down
do it again
& again
& again
& again
& again
& again

remember: "What we see is a perspective, not the truth."

flutuando ao som de tiny vipers, life on earth