Headed out the door in a few minutes to catch Del The Funky Homosapien w/ Mike Relm at The Fillmore...
hopefully they are feeling fresher than me, a guy who spent a little too much time last night consuming a bottle of Irish vodka...
I did not know that the Irish even were involved in the vodka trade.. go figger
The vodka seemed free at the time, but today I've definitely been paying for it...
I went out and celebrated after I cashed a check last night for selling some video footageof my encounter with Borat to G4 TV, the ICONS show it's used in airs on Sunday night...
check it out...here's some random tunes I'll toss at ya while I take some asprin...
Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty - Live on Rockpalastcourtesy the always rawkin' postpunkjunk.com
Sinead O' Connor , Huey Lewis, Mavis Staples w/ Umphery's McGee at Jammy Awards in NYC - I'll Take You ThereMarvin Gaye vs Lipps Inc - Sexual Town - Esotic Mashuppssst... is this the Indian George Carlin?
F*ck
anyone know the academic in question there?
Speaking of academic...
I just caught the GreenDay / U2 collaboration and while I enjoyed the flashy video and the sentiments and all...
Anyhow, nuff of my pontificating...
are you still here?
look... i already told you...
I gotta get out of here...
but, since yer still hanging around, here's one last tune...
I got it free courtesy the always entertaining
Emusic.com...
So I thought it might be ok to pass onto y'all...
It's an interesting duet that just came out, that has nothing to do with Katrina, U2 or Green Day but is worthy of checking out...
It's built around the aged voice of Charlie Louvin, a man who should need no introduction, but since the media and the mayhem of the age ain't gonna pre-enlighten y'all ... I'll step up to the plate a bit.
Charlie was part of one of the greatest country / bluegrass acts of all time, The Louvin Brothers, with his brother Ira who both started performing in the 1930s. Louvin, born in Alabama hill country, toured throughout Appalachia and had radio slots on stations in Knoxville & Memphis Tn in the 1940's. By the 1950's they had a string of top country hits, and Charlie went solo also reaching the charts several times. His brother Ira died in a car crash in 1965.
He influenced a whole range of performers including The Everly Bros, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Gram Parsons, Nick Cave, and Cake who took Charlie out on the Unlinited Sunshine package tour with Cheap Trick and The Detroit Cobras a few years ago. Undoubtedly the guy he's singing with here, was a fan too, that being fellow country legend & Hall of Famer George Jones.
Charlie Louvin (featuring George Jones) - Must You Throw Dirt In My Face
2 comments:
Just an FYI,
I can't speak for Green Day, I've never been a big fan, but I know that the Edge was at work on the music-recovery efforts just weeks after the disaster, and also was working with his "focus area," inner-city at-risk youth by working on building teams to try to get some schools open ASAP. Adam & Larry did their Habitat for Humanity time, as did Danny Lanois. (Larry and Danny have done production and session work in NO with various artists including Emmylou Harris, so I imagine they have the same soft spot so many other musicians have.) Bono is so high profile, he tends to stay away until his profile can be a benefit. But I'd be surprised if he wasn't talking with his various contacts about needs so that his and Ali's money would go where it was most needed.
I know it seems contradictory b/c U2 is so high-profile, but they are notable for the seriousness with which they take their philathropy; i.e., charitable giving is supposed to be low-key, putting the emphasis on the recipient, not on the giver. And I do understand that they purposely waited to do their benefit because so many other artists jumped on the immediate needs. Yet we all could see that needs would be ongoing for months or years.
Bono can be a real egomaniac (and I've been a fan almost 25 years) and he really tweaks my hair sometimes, but I do think they try their best to put their heart - and their money - in good places. They just don't advertise it. (For example, most people in the States don't know that there is a primary school in Dublin named after David Evans, and have even less awareness of just how dedicated the Edge is to his foundation for at-risk youth.)
Thanks for posting the tracks.
Hey thanx for all the info on U2's efforts
I didn't doubt their sincerity... and have been a longtime fan as well...
my questions were mostly rhetorical in nature...
just tossing out fodder for a pointless post I suppose...
may we all stay high & dry & keep on rawkin in the freak world to the tunes that make us all a twitter for many years longer...
anyhow i gotta get back to watching my czech subtitled movie before the plot escaes me any further...
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