My Dwight Masterpiece: If There Was a Way
Tonight I’m reaching back to the archives for my favorite Dwight Yoakam album, 1990’s If There Was a Way. It’s a great record start to finish, and my cassette – yes cassette – got many listens in its day. Dwight…
A new Mac and some good Blow
PC or Mac? As my Dell PC (c. 2004) began to slow down a bit, and the 80 gig hard drive neared its capacity, it was time to start the search for my new computer. For once, it was a…
Friday Flashback: Richard Marx
The CD single of Richard Marx‘s “Hazard” was the latest disc my 1 year old grabbed out of my CD rack. It prompted me to toss it in the CD drive and have a good listen. Early 90’s cheese? To…
Hollywood Weller
Add Paul Weller’s three night February stand at the Avalon in Hollywood to my “shows I would have driven 6 hours to if I was still a bachelor” list. The former Jam and Style Council frontman has been a very…
Intro to Blue Man Group
My friend Jim just posted an “Intro to the Blue Man Group”, complete with some interesting mp3’s. Let’s scare him with traffic. Ready? Set? Go….. Intro to the Blueman Group (melchman.net)
La Boheme, Acts III and IV
Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, soprano who plays Mimi in this performance (I’m not sure which character / opera the photo is from). And so here we have Acts III and IV of La Boheme. I’m glad to see some enthusiasm about the…
Keith snorts his old man!
A delightfully strange nugget of music news crossing the wire today… LONDON (Reuters) – Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards said in an interview published on Tuesday that he once snorted his father’s ashes mixed with cocaine. “The strangest thing I’ve…
Placido Domingo’s Nessun Dorma
My recent posting of Pavarotti singing “Nessun Dorma” had some people commenting on their preference for Placido Domingo’s version. Here’s one of them…
Start your week right: The Shirelles
Thanks again to David Johansen and his Mansion of Fun for continuing to introduce me to amazing new music, which in this case happens to be 44 years old. The Shirelles: Everybody Loves a Lover
