Bud Powell is another one of my favorite jazz pianist. He was also another victim of systemic racism in America. He was a jazz music genius who suffered from long term mental problems and a drug habit triggered by the racial discrimination he experienced every day in the 40's and 50's America put him in mental institutions. He later moved to Paris to escape the racism but sadly died at the age of 41. A tragic loss for jazz and American music.
60@60 Sounding Booth
reflections, ruminations, ramblings and rants on music, books, beer, politics, technology, media, etc, etc. from a 60 something music collector, librarian, political observer, technology geek, veteran, history buff, beer enthusiast, sci-fi fan, obsessive mixtaper and former DJ. And now retired. I've also have begun to gather posts I've made over the past year of so (2017-18) from various other social media platforms and have gathered them here in one place.
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Friday, June 19, 2020
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Book List 1970 - 2020
I read first read this book in the summer of 1974 about a year before the movie came out. It was a very powerful book and the first time reading Kesey. I would read Sometimes a Great Notion in 1978.
I read this book again last month. It was just as good the second time. Maybe better.
This story would also be one of my favorite movies. The 1975 film of the novel starring Jack Nicholson.
There's a lot to be said about that movie... IMDb
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
No Wow
No Wow. We were scheduled to host a weekly Parkside neighborhood Wine on Wednesday this evening but of course it's not happening. This picture is from our WOW last year where over 40 people were in our backyard over the course of the evening. We're going to miss having that kind of fun again tonight. And it's a beautiful night too.
The Parkside Wine on Wednesdays (WOW) are weekly summer gatherings of friends and neighbors that have been happening in backyards for seventeen years. The host provides snacks and each guest brings a bottle of wine and a glass.
The WOWs have all be cancelled this year so far but hopefully maybe a few will be held later in the summer or early fall... with social distancing of course. We'll host another one next year.
No Wow... the song.
Waterfront Social Distancing
Today Becky and I went down to the waterfront. It was a beautiful day... except for the other people. We started out at the Erie Basin Marina, walked through the Naval Park, past the Liberty Hound and on to Canalside. Everywhere were went there were people obviously not maintaining adequate social distancing. There were not many people wearing face masks. We had ours but took them off when nobody was around. However, when walking along the paths we were constantly having to dodge people who walked right at us or who came walking up behind us very closely.
We had one incident where we were sitting in the shade under a tree in a couple of Adirondack chairs. A woman came along and dragged a nearby chair to a spot under the tree a few feet behind us. OMG, less than three feet away. We got up and walked away and as we looked back we could see her sitting in the chair I just vacated. Did she do that just to get us to move from our prime spot? What is wrong with people? The Pandemic must be making everybody crazy.
Fear and Loathing
The What When Book List 1970 - 2020
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973. Read this in Spring 1984. Replay and throw in a plague too.
I had read some of Thompson's work prior in magazine articles prior to this and was not particularly a big fan of his gonzo style of alternative journalism in the 70's but certainly did want to hear what he had to say.
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973. Read this in Spring 1984. Replay and throw in a plague too.
I had read some of Thompson's work prior in magazine articles prior to this and was not particularly a big fan of his gonzo style of alternative journalism in the 70's but certainly did want to hear what he had to say.
I read this during the 1984 presidential campaign between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale which Reagan in a landslide despite the already growing signs of his Alzheimer's disease which including confusion and forgetful behavior.
Over the next couple of years in the mid 80's I would also read his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas from 1971 and Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga from 1966.
None of that has prepared me for the Fear and Loathing on the 2020 campaign trail yet to come.
None of that has prepared me for the Fear and Loathing on the 2020 campaign trail yet to come.
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
I read this book in June 1976 after a long conservation with several Native American activist from the Midwest who were in Philadelphia to take part in demonstrations and protest associated with the ongoing Bicentennial activities throughout the city in the Spring of 1976.
At the time Becky was living around the corner from my house. Across the street from her was a house full of radical students who were hosting the members of A.I.M. (American Indian Movement). Since they were friends with some of the people in Becky's house they asked if a couple of the Native American activist could stay there too which is how I met the group. One of the people there was a cousin of AIM activist leader Dennis Banks.
So after my conversations with members of the AIM group I read this book. The whole experience was a real eye opener. I also wrote a research paper for a class on the media coverage of the American Indian Movement and the Bicentennial celebrations issues the following semester.
The book was very intense and heartbreaking. I have always been interested in reading history and the author certainly did his homework gathering the facts which included the systematic slaughter of the native population.
Monday, June 8, 2020
Side A / Side B
I've recently become an admin member of a new Facebook group called Side A / Side B that is devoted to the art of making mixes and is made up mostly of former members of the Art of the Mix website mix trading collective and in particular the Splitters offshoot group.
The photo here is from my third floor box of old mixes and is being used as the photo header for the group.
"We are also about discussing the joy of making the mix, the process and tools, the motivation, the resources, the sharing of ideas and of course the themes."
"We ask three things: 1: Try to give some context for your mix in the post (mix title, format, intention, history, albums sourced if available). 2: Try not to post a new mix more than once a week (in order to share the air). 3: Try to be kind to each other and be accepting of different points of view. Feel free to invite friends to this group, and we don’t want to get into issues of exclusivity. Perhaps we can build a group with diversity in mind."
"What kinds of mixes to post? Alternating DJ mixes, thematic mixes, whatever suits you.
Spotify mixes are fine, mix length is open, but we’re going for intentional sequencing in the venerable tradition of the mix tape, not data dumps. Also feel free to post mix challenges or collaboration ideas."
Here is the About section of the group:
"This group is for sharing the love of the mix - via tape, cdr, playlist, thumb drive, or 3-d printed vinyl (do they have that yet?). Please share your mixes here."
"We are also about discussing the joy of making the mix, the process and tools, the motivation, the resources, the sharing of ideas and of course the themes."
"We ask three things: 1: Try to give some context for your mix in the post (mix title, format, intention, history, albums sourced if available). 2: Try not to post a new mix more than once a week (in order to share the air). 3: Try to be kind to each other and be accepting of different points of view. Feel free to invite friends to this group, and we don’t want to get into issues of exclusivity. Perhaps we can build a group with diversity in mind."
"What kinds of mixes to post? Alternating DJ mixes, thematic mixes, whatever suits you.
Spotify mixes are fine, mix length is open, but we’re going for intentional sequencing in the venerable tradition of the mix tape, not data dumps. Also feel free to post mix challenges or collaboration ideas."
Another group was also recently formed Facebook with essentially the same people is now called AOTM Spotify Edition. Apparently some people in the first group didn't want to have anything to do with Spotify so a second group was spun off where folks can post Spotify mixes available to listen by anyone. However, members of the Side A / Side B are also posting Spotify mixes so I guess it really doesn't matter.
Thursday, August 1, 2019
AC Pop
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Come Together - Decade 2
Decade 2 - Come Together
8 hours 9 minutes
8 hours 9 minutes
- Come Together - The Beatles, 1969
- Let's Work Together - Canned Heat, 1970
- Dialogue (Part One) - Chicago, 1972
- Southern Man - Neil Young, 1970
- Ride My See-Saw - The Moody Blues, 1968
- Pinball Wizard - The Who, 1969
- I'm Not Like Everybody Else - The Chocolate Watch Band, 1968
- Rock & Roll - The Velvet Underground, 1970
- Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin, 1969
- She Came In Through The Bathroom Window - Joe Cocker, 1969
- (I Know) I'm Losing You - Rare Earth, 1970
- Beware Of Darkness - Leon Russell, 1971
- Season Of The Witch - Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper & Stephen Stills, 1968
- Sookie Sookie - Steppenwolf, 1968
- Peace Frog - The Doors, 1970
- I've Seen All Good People - Yes, 1971
- Low Yo Yo Stuff - Captain Beefheart, 1972
- Angry Eyes - Loggins & Messina, 1972
- Bad Side Of The Moon - Elton John, 1971
- Wild Night - Van Morrison, 1971
- I Walk On Guilded Splinters - Dr. John, 1968
- The Witch Queen Of New Orleans - Redbone, 1971
- Ball And Chain - Big Brother & The Holding Company, 1968
- Help, I'm A Rock - The Mothers Of Invention, 1966
- Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan, 1965
- We're A Winner - Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions, 1968
- Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday - Stevie Wonder, 1969
- M'Lady - Sly & The Family Stone, 1968
- There Was A Time - James Brown, 1968
- I'll Bet You - Funkadelic, 1970
- Fire And Rain - The Isley Brothers, 1971
- By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Isaac Hayes, 1969
- Slippin' Into Darkness - War, 1971
- Spirit In The Dark - Aretha Franklin, 1970
- Reflections - The Supremes, 1968
- Cloud Nine - The Temptations, 1969
- Harlem - Bill Withers, 1971
- Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye, 1971
- Whitey On The Moon - Gil Scott-Heron, 1970
- Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones, 1968
- Turn On / Tune In / Drop Out - The Fugs, 1968
- Heroin - The Velvet Underground, 1967
- White Cat Heat - The Godz, 1966
- Bird Song - The Holy Modal Rounders, 1968
- Bat Macumba - Os Mutantes, 1968
- Hallogallo - NEU!, 1972
- The Story In Your Eyes - The Moody Blues, 1971
- 5:15 - The Who, 1973
- Do The Strand - Roxy Music, 1973
- 20th Century Boy - T. Rex, 1973
- Pablo Picasso - John Cale, 1975
- Real Man - Todd Rundgren, 1975
- Aht Uh Mi Hed - Shuggie Otis, 1974
- Everything I Own - Ken Boothe, 1974
- The Hurt - Cat Stevens, 1973
- Brand New Me - Dusty Springfield, 1970
- Because Of You - Gene Clark, 1971
- Crayon Angels - Judee Sill, 1971
- Let It Be Me - Roberta Flack, 1970
- Oh Me Oh My - Lulu, 1970
- At Seventeen - Janis Ian, 1975
- Love Hurts - Gram Parsons, 1974
- Forever Young - Bob Dylan, 1974
- A Case Of You - Joni Mitchell, 1971
- A Man Needs A Maid - Neil Young, 1972
- Chestnut Mare - The Byrds, 1970
- Alligator - Grateful Dead, 1968
- All The Love Of The Universe - Santana, 1972
- Hocus Pocus - Focus, 1971
- Orgone Accumulator - Hawkwind, 1973
- I Been Hoodood - Dr.John, 1973
- Soulsville - Isaac Hayes, 1971
- What Am I Living For? - Mark-Almond, 1973
- It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City - Bruce Springsteen, 1973
- Babylon - New York Dolls, 1974
- Everyone I Meet Is From California - America, 1975
- California Saga (On My Way To Sunny California) - The Beach Boys, 1973
- Susie-Q - Jose Feliciano, 1970
- I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash, 1972
- I've Been Hurt - Bill Deal & The Rhondells, 1969
- Rainy Day Women #13 & 35 - Bob Dylan, 1966
- Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies - The Association, 1966
- House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals, 1964
- Wild Is The Wind - Nina Simone, 1966
- Caroline Say II - Lou Reed, 1973
- Paris 1919 - John Cale, 1973
- Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart, 1971
- Captain Jack - Billy Joel, 1973
- It Makes No Difference - The Band, 1975
- Take It To The Limit - Eagles, 1975
- (I've Been) Searchin' So Long - Chicago, 1974
- Love, Devotion & Surrender - Santana, 1973
- Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack, 1973
- Hey Big Brother - Rare Earth, 1971
- Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder, 1973
- The World Is A Ghetto - War, 1972
- People Get Ready - Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions, 1965
- Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Fairport Convention, 1969
- Sitting - Cat Stevens, 1972
- Starman - David Bowie, 1972
- Behind Blue Eyes - The Who, 1971
- Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory - Traffic, 1973
- Conquistador - Procol Harum, 1972
- Get Back - The Beatles, 1970
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