Because Mr. Nolan says!

Introducing…

Mr. Nolan (Jeff Nolan), guitar hero and all-around rock king, has gone to the mountain of rock, drank from the eternal fountain and made it back alive! From time to time we hope he'll share some insights, tall tales and stories that'll make a trucker blush.
Who knows? We'll see.
In the meantime, he's put together a list of cover songs that you may not have realized were cover songs.
Take that Cat Power!
Discuss…

• All Along the Watchtower — Jimi Hendrix (originally written by Bob Dylan)

• Summertime Blues — Blue Cheer (originally written by Eddie Cochran)

• Hallelujah — Jeff Buckley (originally written by Leonard Cohen)

• Hey Jude — Wilson Pickett (originally written by The Beatles)

• Respect — Aretha Franklin (originally written by Otis Redding)

• With a Little Help From My Friends — Joe Cocker (originally written by The Beatles)

• Love Hurts — Nazareth (originally written by Everly Brothers)

• My Back Pages — The Byrds (originally written by Bob Dylan)

• Crossroads — Cream (originally written by Robert Johnson)

• Black Magic Woman — Santana (originally written by Fleetwood Mac)

• Jersey Girl — Bruce Springsteen (originally written by Tom Waits)

• Black Diamond — The Replacements (originally written by Kiss)

• Because the Night — Patti Smith (originally written by Bruce Springsteen)

• Black Betty — Nick Cave (originally written by Ram Jam)

• Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers — Motorhead (originally written by ZZ Top)

What a fool believes…

YACHT ROCK

J.D. Ryznar and Hunter D. Stair devised the series after noticing similarities among bands such as Steely Dan, Toto, and The Doobie Brothers. In particular, members of those bands often collaborated with each other and with singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. For example, Loggins and Michael McDonald co-wrote several songs, including Loggins' "This Is It" and The Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes." McDonald himself sang backing vocals for several yacht rock artists, including Steely Dan and Christopher Cross.

Instead of choking on its vomit in a Paris bathtub or overdosing on a Hollywood sidewalk, Yacht Rock simply told one last story about Steely Dan, then hoisted its sails and drifted away while a satisfied crowd waved goodbye from the docks, exactly one incredible year after its historical debut. Bye, Yacht Rock. We loved you.

[READ MORE]

SOURCE: YachtRock.com

Single-handedly…

…setting the Women's Liberation
movement back at least 40-to-50 years.

Wow!

SOURCES: From a game called Crayon Physics.
[via Jackson Fish Market via Amit Gupta's Blog]

Highly recommended!

SOURCE : The Ruby Suns

What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?

"When we recognize the common source of our humanity, the common origins of our dreams and longings, our hopes and fears, we are able to see that we are all joined together in the great miracle of existence. When we can combine our tremendous inner wealth to create a treasure of love and wisdom that is available to all, we are linked together in the exquisite pattern of eternal creation."

SOURCE: Osho Zen Tarot

Zelo's Word-of-the-Week is: Bollocks!

"Bollocks" is a word of Anglo Saxon origin, meaning "testicles". The word is often used figuratively in English, as a noun to mean "nonsense" or conversely to mean "top quality" or "perfection", an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, and an adjective to mean "poor quality" or "useless". The common phrases "Bollocks to that!" or "That's a load of old bollocks" expresses a distaste for a certain task, subject or opinion; "the dog's bollocks" expresses the opposite, namely admiration, pleasure or approval.

Perhaps the best-known use of the term is in the title of the 1977 punk rock album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. Testimony in a resulting prosecution over the "obscene" term demonstrated that in Old English the word referred to a priest, and could also be used to mean "nonsense".

SOURCE: Wikipedia

New kid on the block

Read a review here.

Does this album cover make me look fat?

While at SXSW, take a moment…

…to reflect about the recent passing of famed drummer and Austin resident, Buddy Miles.

George Allen Miles, Jr. (September 5, 1947 – February 26, 2008), known as Buddy Miles, was an American rock and funk drummer, most known as a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys from 1969 until Hendrix's death in 1970.

As a teen he gigged with his father’s band, the Bebops, and with Preston Love, Sr. and Lester Abrams. He first made it in New York, hooking up with Wilson Pickett. He jammed in the Village with Eric Clapton. His big break came when Michael Bloomfield plucked him for the Electric Flag, a blues-rock band Miles still considers the best he ever played in.

Asked how he would like to be remembered by the American music magazine Seconds in in 1995, Miles simply said: "The baddest of the bad. People say I'm the baddest drummer. If that's true, thank you world."^[6]

A memorial concert will take place on March 30 at Threadgill’s on Riverside Drive, South Austin.

SOURCES: Wikipedia, The Reader, news reports

File this under funny

PHOTO: Goldtoe

SOURCE: GoldToe.net

SXSW Interactive

Jemina Kiss
taps into
SXSW
and the
future.




SOURCES: SXSW2008, The Guardian

Idaho spells relief

Perhaps one can trace the proliferation of what's been dubbed sadcore to the imminence of the millennium, the bleak consensus that the twentysomething generation is destined to be worse off than its predecessors or the technology-accelerated breakdown in interpersonal communication. More likely, this oh-so-Caucasian progeny of the blues has found its niche because the only thing that feels better than complaining about your lot in life is hearing someone else grieve about the things that make his or her existence even worse than that. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: The Trouser Press,
IdahoMusic.com

Say hello to artist Joe Concra

Joe Concra
Inside the Kingdom
74" x 82" oil on canvas

From an article on the artist that ran in Chronogram magazine:

One Fine Day

…You never start with a good idea. You just start with working. The idea comes later. There's never a finished painting that doesn't have four or five paintings underneath it that were complete failures. If I hit one out of 75, I'm really happy.

SOURCES: JoeConcra.com, Chronogram

Of migraines and things…

Shaking It Off
By Jeff Tweedy

Jeff Tweedy is primarily known as the lyricist, lead singer and guitarist of Wilco, one of America’s most popular and critically successful rock bands. He is also a lifelong migraine sufferer whose headaches were for decades compounded by bouts of depression and panic disorder. In 2004, Tweedy suffered a collapse and entered a rehabilitation clinic in Chicago to treat his conditions and a resulting addiction to prescription painkillers. In Tweedy’s estimation, his new found ability to treat and manage his depression and panic has helped him to remain migraine-free for the past four years. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: NYT

BarCamp Orlando vision

Annual 3 Day A Cappella Music Festival

RESTON, VA – March 7, 8, 9, 2008 – Over 100 of the best professional a cappella singers from Germany, Austria, Canada and the United States will take the stage at South Lakes High School for the annual 3 day a cappella music festival, “CASA’s East Coast A cappella Summit” from March 7 to 9, 2008. The a cappella groups will use only their voices to perform leads, harmonies and to vocally imitate a virtual orchestra of sounds – including jazz trumpet, classical strings, distorted electric guitar and a full drum set. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: MMDNewsWire.com

Boy band mogul admits to being an idiot

Lou Pearlman, the man behind boy bands 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, is set to plead guilty to a $300m fraud scheme, prosecutors have said. In a plea agreement, the music mogul has admitted running scams that defrauded investors and major banks for more than 20 years. Mr Pearlman entered a not guilty plea last year, but is scheduled to reverse that in court in Florida on Thursday. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: BBC News

FROM PAZZ & JOP 2007: Grow Up Like a Rock Star

The "rock star," as we traditionally think of it, is scarce on this year's Pazz & Jop ballots. The mega-famous icon clutching a guitar and singing about heartache or fucking or partying or escape or revolution; the prophet whom we come to for concrete answers instead of riddles and viral videos and cryptic website codes. Maybe there's a dearth this year, given the lack of new offerings from Dylan, Beck, Green Day, System of a Down, U2, or Johnny Cash. Or maybe we're prisoners of our own self-awareness. [READ MORE]

— Christopher R. Weingarten

SOURCE: Village Voice/Pazz&Jop 2007

Roger Black

SOURCE: RogerBlack.com