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Can’t Always Get What You Want

I love the Stones and particularly the classic song: You Can’t Always Get What You Want.

I just watched the movie, 21, about the MIT Blackjack team. The flick was mediocre due to all the added fake melodrama, but the concept was cool.

Anyways, at the end of the film, they played this remix of the song. I’m not fond of techno/electronica music, but I actually found this cover/remix mildly entertaining.

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1 year ago

May 19, 2012

Happy Birthday, Uncle Frankie!

Today the late-great Frank Vincent Zappa woulda been 71 had cancer not taken him out of this world. His genius in these trying times is sorely missed.

In his honor is this kickass tune, “Zomby Woof” off the 1973 album Overnite Sensation. I particularly enjoy the face-melting guitar solo…

Enjoy!

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1 year ago

December 21, 2011

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Amazing Live Freestyle Flamenco -Style Guitar by a couple of 13 & 15 Year Old Kids…

The Season 04 finale of Breaking Bad was so fucking amazing. That show is the best thing to scorch up the silver screen since…well, ever…

I could talk about it for pages and pages and pages…but I’ll spare the internet of my pitiful fanboyness (for now…).

The icing on the cake is the amazing musical direction, provided by Dave Porter. This last episode had heaps of great (and fitting) tunes, and one that stood out is this speedy flamenco-style tune. I dug the song, but the thing that blew me away was how young the performers are: 13 & 15, respectively.

Give it a listen:

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1 year ago

October 11, 2011

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“The Gumbo Variations” by F.Z.

Another kickass track from Hot Rats (I can’t believe these songs are 42 years old!). Unlike the tight, orchestrated “Peaches En Regalia”, this one is a slow-building, face-melting 17-minute live jamathon. Everybody gets a nice solo, but Uncle Frankie’s guitar “air sculpture” really makes it.

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Prepare to have your socks rocked.

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1 year ago

August 9, 2011

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“Peaches En Regalia” by F.Z.

Just getting myself psyched for the Zappa-Plays-Zappa show tonight by listening to some classic Zappa albums.

Here’s the intense instrumental intro track to the seminal 1969’s Hot Rats. What a record!

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1 year ago

August 9, 2011

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Who knew Dudley Moore was such an accomplished pianist?

I always thought dude was a charming little funny man, but damn - he had some serious chops!

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1 year ago

July 16, 2011

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Some sick Italian drummer jamming to the Super Mario Bros Theme…

This guy is pretty sick.

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2 years ago

March 25, 2011

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“Tangerine” - by Led Zeppelin

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“Measuring a summer’s day
I only finds it slips away to grey
The hours they bring me pain. *Tangerine Tangerine
Living reflection from a dream;
I was her love she was my queen
And now a thousand years between.

Thinking how it used to be
Does she still remember times like these?
To think of us again?
And I do…”

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2 years ago

March 1, 2011

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1970’s Cartoon Time: “The Point”.

Groovy little cartoon concept + music conceived by Harry Nilsson.

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2 years ago

November 22, 2010

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Slagsmålsklubben (Little Red Riding Hood, Euro-Style)

Very cool, modernized version of the classic fairy tale:

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2 years ago

October 9, 2010

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Dogfish Head’s Bitches Brew - Beer of the Week - Slashfood

by Joshua M. Bernstein, Posted Aug 23rd 2010 @ 3:00PM

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Back in 1970, jazzman Miles Davis released the boundary-busting album Bitches Brew, which brought jazz-rock fusion to the mainstream. Now, forty years later, a special anniversary edition of Davis’ masterpiece is being released with a special feature that beer fans can appreciate — a real Bitches Brew made by Delaware’s Dogfish Head, sold in a bottle featuring the album’s trippy original artwork.
“There’s a spirit of innovation, of creativity and individuality that’s at the core of Miles’ music,” notes Adam Block, Legacy Recordings’ senior vice president and manager. “Sam [Calagione] and Dogfish Head approach their art from the same place.”
To pay homage to Davis’ tunes, head brewer Calagione constructed what he dubbed a threaded beer — that is, batches of separately fermented brew that are blended into a cohesive elixir. Of Bitches Brew’s four threads, three constitute an imperial stout made with Muscovado sugar. The last thread is an African honey wine called Tej, which receives its bitterness from the gesho root (hops aren’t native to Africa).
It’s a fun experiment, sure, but how does the taste rate? Well, Bitches Brew pours an intense brown, with a small, tan head — not much carbonation here. However, that doesn’t detract from the appealing aroma of mocha, burnt caramel and earthy herbs. For a 9 percent ABV brew it’s surprisingly light and drinkable, boasting sweet honeyed notes, super-bitter chocolate and a creamy mouthfeel to seal the deal.
Bitches Brew is, well, one bitching brew.
What’s your favorite strange stout? Spill it in the comments.
Joshua M. Bernstein has written about brews, bars and booze for New York Magazine, Time Out New York, Imbibe Magazine and The New York Times. He is currently writing a beer book for Sterling Publishing, to be published in 2011.

Filed Under: Drinks
Tags: beer, Bitches Brew, Dogfish Head, Miles Davis, tej

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Wow - my favorite brewery making a tribute beer for one of my favorite albums! Dogfish head are true geniuses that can do no wrong.

* Special thanks to Amber G. for enlightening me about this!

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2 years ago

September 3, 2010

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“The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution”

This is one of my favorite Zappa instrumentals. It’s a long jam with some extraordinary face-melting, oddly-tuned guitar work.

“The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution” was recorded in 1976 with the following (3) personnel:

FZ — guitar, synthesizer
Patrick O’Hearn — string bass, electric bass
Terry Bozzio — drums

ENJOY!

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“ARF!”

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2 years ago

August 21, 2010

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“Sharleena” (alternate version)

“Sharleena” by Zappa off of The Lost Episodes album. The original version (from 1970’s Chunga’s Revenge - perhaps my favorite F.Z. album) is amazing, but I always liked this version a little better, cause of Don ‘Sugarcane’ Harris’s soulful lead vocals, and the overall longer, jammier feel.

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2 years ago

July 19, 2010

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“Stink-Foot”

Presenting “Stink-Foot” by Frank Zappa, from the 1974 classic Apostrophe (‘).

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God, listen to the guitar solos in this one. They really aim to rip yer face off!

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2 years ago

July 18, 2010

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“Loving Cup” (*alternate 1969 version*) by The Rolling Stones.

“Loving Cup” was always one of my favorite Stones songs off of my absolute favorite album Exile on Main Street, which contains such a wondrously deep-dark tortured white-man’s-blues soul.

A few years ago I stumbled across this alternate version of the tune and immediately fell under it’s slower, muddier spell. Unlike most of the rest of Exile, which was recorded in 1971 in the murky, dank basement of Keith Richard’s French mansion (Nellcote), this gem was recorded back in ‘69 at the Olympic Sound Studios in London.

Well recently the “The Greatest Rock & Roll Band in The World” released a remastered version of Exile which included this track on the 2nd disc of ‘unreleased’ stuff.

Now I share it with you. If you dig it (and you will), buy the album!

LYRICS:

I'm the man on the mountain, come on up.
I'm the plowman in the valley with a face full of mud.
Yes, I'm fumbling and I know my car don't start.
Yes, I'm stumbling and I know I play a bad guitar.
Give me little drink from your loving cup.
Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk.
I'm the man who walks the hillside in the sweet summer sun.
I'm the man that brings you roses when you ain't got none.
Well I can run and jump and fish, but I won't fight
You if you want to push and pull with me all night.
Give me little drink from you loving cup.
Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk.
I feel so humble with you tonight,
Just sitting in front of the fire.
See your face dancing in the flame,
Feel your mouth kissing me again,
What a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz,
What a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz.
Oh, what a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz.
Yes, I am nitty gritty and my shirt's all torn,
But I would love to spill the beans with you till dawn.
Give me little drink from you loving cup.
Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk.