Yours truly has been all about myself of
late, which is why I am behind on record reviews and most everything
else, but I do have a new batch of recordings, starting with
"Betty from Memphis", a tribute to stable types such as
my actual Aunt Betty (Olita) in Memphis (not shown here), as well as to
all those weary road warriors out there playing the soundtracks to
everybody else's movies.
Call it
"creative destruction", like Mitt Romney does. "Until Sam
Walty's Dead" is a cowboy yarn about a villain -
personified by the late and wonderful Warren Oates (below) - who
has left an unfortunate legacy for himself (see chorus...). Walty is my
metaphor for early 21st Century predatory capitalism, a force that must
be dealt with so that honest souls can carry on.
Glory be unto Angie Omaha, whoever
she is, pictured below on the cover to my next- generation version of
"The Glow
of Your Dark Eyes", introduced several years back
as a tune about "the dark side of loving a dark soul". Our girl Angie
may not let me exploit her in this way for long, but as long as she does
isn't she perfect? I mean, for this song?
"Just Eleven
Minutes" comes from a few years back, and from the same
box as "The Glow of Your Dark Eyes", but the versions provided below
come much closer to my ambitions for this story of a booze-fueled
cuckold speeding toward a crime of passion and revenge. The song is
almost entirely played around the single chord of E, with occasional
transitions through A-B, for those keeping score. The "psycho" version
was the original inspiration, but the Nashville chicken-pickin' version
has some nice qualities. Unfortunately it also shows that as a guitar
player I am no Randy Barker, though I hope to be when I grow up.
(Randy Barker played with Michael Woody and
the Too High Band, which in the end gave him way too little
exposure, but those who heard him play remember it even 30 years later
as something special.)
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IN THIS EDITION
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Power- RAR waxes on the powerfully unique qualities that
trigger our emotional responses
The
Edited Trio - Douglas Strobel offers a House Concert Review
Lookout!
Records - Video tribute to Berkeley's iconic punk music
label, now ending its historic run
New Releases on
RARadio:
"Darkness" by
Leonard Cohen; "Sweetbread"
by Simian
Mobile Disco and "Keep You"
from Actress
off the Chronicle movie
soundtrack;"Goodbye to Love" from
October Dawn; Trouble in Mind 2011
label sampler;
Black Box Revelation Live on
Minnesota Public Radio;
Apteka "Striking Violet";
Mikal Cronin's "Apathy" and "Get
Along"; Dana deChaby's
progressive rock
Aerial acts first showed up on the Los Angeles,
California (USA) music scene, and were first featured in 2006 at RARWRITER.com,
but they were first introduced as "aerial dance" in the 1970s. A choreographer
in the San Francisco Bay area, Terry Sendgraff,
invented the "motivity" trapeze, based on the low-hung circus trapeze. His
innovation was to link the two ropes of the circus device to a single point of
attachment, so that the apparatus could be used to spin, twist, fly in a
straight line as well as in a circle. Aerial dancers started hanging from tall
buildings and performing 3-dimensional choreography at dangerous altitudes. In
Boulder, Colorado the "Aerial Dance Festival" was founded (1999) to celebrate
this dare devilry. In the competitive world of music it seemed only natural that
the spectacle of aerial dance be incorporated into pop music, most notably by
rock singer Pink, who has recently made aerial dance a big part of her show. It
has also become a stage show staple in Las Vegas. And here it is in India, at
the Mlrchi Music Awards (at right).
If you aren't so interested in that intellectual
hanging from the ceiling stuff, you might opt instead to watch Neha Bahsin's
instruction in basic biology. Apple Bottoms is foundational stuff.-
RAR
And more butt work from DJ SANJ. Apparently
the interest in girls bottoms is universal.
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Bombay Bo -
You know I'm genius and it's not my fault
The Freddie Mercury Connection
Lata Mangeshkar
Freddie Mercury, the
extraordinary vocalist of the legendary British rock band
Queen, was born Farrokh Bomi Bulsara to
Indian parents in Zanzibar. He grew up in Panchgani, near Mumbai, and the music
he was most influenced by in his early youth was that of
Lata Mangeshkar.
Born September 28, 1929, Lata Mangeshkar is one
of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's
career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has
recorded songs for over a thousand Bollywood movies and has sung songs in over
thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages, though primarily in
Hindi. She is the elder sister of singer Asha Bhosle, and Hridayanath Mangeshkar,
Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar. She is the second vocalist to have ever
been awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
