Mind you there's something to be said for dying young.



Ahhh she's not doing too bad I guess

I only saw this once and never forgot the performance, maybe cos the rest was shite. This was really great though. Glad I finally found it.

Songs that make me smile



"I can't be overdrawn, I still have some checks" 

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That clip is beyond awesome! Great stuff!

Grey wrote on Oct 29^th, 2011 at 4:10am:


I quite liked Blondie during the late 70's and thought they split at about the right time before they got embarrassing.

I saw Deborah Harry live in '91. By then the spark she once had was well and truly gone. That she resorted to getting naked on stage was telling.

Condolences to m'man up the thread.

Now I discovered something today. There's this band that we've been kept in blissful ignorance of. The Yanks have kept them a secret for the last decade. They're called My Morning Jacket and have been described as 'Pink Floyd come from Dixie". Actually that's my phrase but the connection between Pink Floyd and the South is not. They're really great and you may have seen them because they did play the basement. It's on You Tube and is not really typical, it's great too actually, (MMJ come to small venue). But this is more typical

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuobpnRXz2o&feature=related

But it's not the end of my story this morning Erykah Badu, whom I posted upthread, (Annie, don't wear no panties) Is black from Texas. She's the black music other black musicians go to see. For a variety of reasons, she's experimental, controversial, political, and has perfect timing both in music and 'theatre'.

These two would not in a normal world cross paths.

But, those well kno0wn philanthropists American Express have thrown a number of piles of money at musicians in a vain effort to buy popularity. The series of concerts this has produced is called UNSTAGED and the objective is to get two musical polarities to collaborate. The result is amazing, wonderful, it totally runs against my world view of course, but it's really hot. The song 'Tyrone'(there's others from the same concert) is a Badu one that MMJ Had done a cover version of previously. Better get full screem and crank up. 

One other point I'll make, the jackets the lads are wearing is not their usual garb. It's part of the ironic piss taking of each other that's going on throughout,(the flamboyant uniforms adopted by earlier black boy bands) see Badu's reaction when HE starts singing HER song. This really has everything in my opinion, it's intelligent, funny and great GREAT music.

Nice, Grey.

This is another of my favourite live performances: