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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 15, 2017 1:46:09 GMT -5
They were on the go in the late 80s to very early 90s, so not from the original psychedelic era. The first album I heard by them was their last one, Recurring, and - as often happens - it remains my favourite, though later on I went back and listened to everything else I could find by them. They're not available in my library systems but all their albums are available in full on YouTube. When I can I'll give a listen
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 15, 2017 1:18:51 GMT -5
Never heard them. I'll see if my library has their CDs
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 15, 2017 0:59:06 GMT -5
How about some SF films from folks who don't do SF films? It Happened Tomorrow (1944) Dick Powell, Linda Darnell It's the beginning of the 20th Century and plucky newspaper reporter Dick Powell gets hold of a newspaper from 24 hours in the future. It takes awhile to realize it's a future paper and then he sees that on the front page he reported an armed robbery at a theater. he tells a bunch of people it's going to happen and goes to the theater itself so he can witness it. After writing the scoop he's arrested by suspicious cops who think he must have been in the planning stage of the crime. Doh!! Again he gets a newspaper 24 hours early and wants to cash in at the race track. Easy money. Then he gets a final paper that gives the time and place of his death 24 hours from then. Can he prevent it? Probably not It's a fun film adapted from a Lord Dunsany play and directed by Rene Clair. Linda Darnell plays a phony clairvoyant who's of no help to our plucky reporter. Seems he's fated to run out of pluck Sphere (1998) Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson From a Michael Crichton novel Directed by Barry Levinson A huge space ship is found intact at the bottom of the ocean, crash landed 300 years ago. Signals from within indicate activity. A handpicked team of scientists go down for the first encounter. Except evidence shows that the futuristic ship is from Earth. What the? And what's that weird pulsating sphere in the middle of the ship? The film kept my interest.It's filled with mystery and suspense, has a great cast and Levinson is a favorite director of mine. I did expect more from the film as it winds up being a variation of Alien/ The Thing (From Another World). As far as I know, it's the only SF film that Dustin Hoffman appeared in
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 14, 2017 23:57:52 GMT -5
Pinkfloydsound
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 14, 2017 21:00:49 GMT -5
Wolverine is supposed to have feral tracking powers or something, isn't he? That should include an enhanced sense of smell. Probably Ka-zar too. And Kraven the Hunter. And blind-man Daredevil, presumably, though I can't recall any references to it. Yes, but I need good pictures representing them And for heaven's sake, I said comic book art-not photos. The surgeon does not need my help acquiring photos of people
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 14, 2017 20:34:00 GMT -5
50 Years Ago Today- March Week 3 1967 And now, finally, after a 6 month hiatus to recharge their batteries, we have a new Beatles single release and after a few weeks on the charts, it has captured the #1 spot. And the real cool thing about Beatles singles are that both sides of the 45 are excellent and both sides are chartbusters. First up-The new #1 song in the USA As I previously mentioned, The Beatles filmed a music video to accompany their singles. They are no longer touring and no longer travelling to other countries and appearing on TV variety shows. Instead, all their time and efforts will be focused on recording music and other artistic endeavors. This move is pretty unheard of since a music band makes most of their money from live appearances. Speaks volumes to the Beatles decision that their art comes first It quite confused me when I saw the Penny Lane video for the first time, as I had been unaware that there had been music videos at all in the 60s. Where were they typically played before the days of MTV? I'm aware of some of them, like Bowie's 'Space Oddity', but were they more of a novelty by artists who were exploring the visual medium a little bit? As I mentioned, they were played on TV variety or music shows. If you read my Music News notes for March 1967 from last week (of course you did, you just forgot) The Beatles videos premiered on Dick Clark's Saturday Afternoon American Bandstand Show. That was a nationally syndicated show and there were a bunch of local music shows for teens back then airing on Saturdays or late afternoons. They would be very happy to play a Beatles video and pay a small fee for the privilege since the band themselves would never show up. TV variety shows in Prime Time would also be quite happy to premiere a new Beatles video in support of their latest single and pay top dollar for it too. Again, the band had announced-no more tours and no further live TV performances. I remember the TV show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for a full week kept announcing the next show would include the Beatles. What they wound up showing was the world premiere of the Hey Jude music video. Yes, these film music clips didn't get the continuous airplay since there was no MTV. But it worked out to a band's advantage to do them instead of making a trip to the TV studios just for a 1 or 2 song appearance. Plus many times they just lipsynced to the song-either because the show's producers insisted on it or the sound setup in the TV studios were so horrible it would sound awful. And I'm sure most bands got a kick out of filming a music video as a change of pace Generally, only the top groups could get away with it. Most others did whatever it took to get on TV
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 14, 2017 16:39:52 GMT -5
He should just get a bunch of random Gil Kane back issues. Gimme pictures people
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 14, 2017 16:34:07 GMT -5
Oboy, I can go back to ignoring that forum
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 14, 2017 16:20:04 GMT -5
Ehh..It's winding down now and was not as bad as predicted. Yes cold and very windy but we only got less than half of the snow they forecast. Much of it was just rain. Well, the pudding won't go to waste. Snow in March in NYC is not that unusual. There has even been snow occasionally in early April . But in total it's been a rather mild winter . 'Funny' thing is, that whenever snow does fall, people seem to be ill-prepared for it. What do you mean? Don't they have pudding in Holland?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 14, 2017 16:13:35 GMT -5
I've read many times the same info that Slam alluded to for 1960/1970 sales tallies. It would take about 4 months to get the preliminary sales figures of a particular newsstand comic. 6 months to get the final sales figures
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 14, 2017 16:07:46 GMT -5
Well, the snowstorm of the year is about to start in NYC. A state of emergency has been declared in the tri-state region. 16-20 inches is expected to fall with winds averaging 40 MRP, I mean MPH. Just about everything is announced closed tomorrow and the storm is due to last 24 hours. Hope my fellow nor'easter people like Iccy, mph-I mean mrp, Prince Hal and others are all prepared and safely snugged away. My refrigerator is loaded, I got a dozen servings of pudding, candles and batteries in case of power failure and stocked up on library DVDs today to last the week. If I post too much here tomorrow you know the reason why Wow, crazy. One week before the start of Spring? Hope you guys will get through safely. Ehh..It's winding down now and was not as bad as predicted. Yes cold and very windy but we only got less than half of the snow they forecast. Much of it was just rain. Well, the pudding won't go to waste. Snow in March in NYC is not that unusual. There has even been snow occasionally in early April . But in total it's been a rather mild winter
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 14, 2017 15:52:50 GMT -5
I'm going to be mighty irked if someone tries to dominate our Music Notes thread with fawning Celine Dion posts
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 14, 2017 15:46:19 GMT -5
I know a Rhinoplasty surgeon who would like to adorn his office with a mural of comic book images concerning noses. He asked me about heroes with Nose powers and I could only think of a few. But any images you can think of that would be appropriate for a Nose Doctor's office will be forwarded to him. Elongated Man and his Mystery Twitching Snozzola
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 14, 2017 15:14:49 GMT -5
Would anyone really ask this same question concerning a real book or a movie or a song? Answer-if it ever was, it was not taken seriously
Gee-that sequel really sucked.I guess the original wasn't great after all
Boy that cover band was garbage. Must be that those Beatles songs they did must be garbage too.
Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye is not a great character because nobody else can make it work
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 14, 2017 15:00:00 GMT -5
50 Years Ago Today- March Week 3 1967
And now, finally, after a 6 month hiatus to recharge their batteries, we have a new Beatles single release and after a few weeks on the charts, it has captured the #1 spot. And the real cool thing about Beatles singles are that both sides of the 45 are excellent and both sides are chartbusters. First up-The new #1 song in the USA
As I previously mentioned, The Beatles filmed a music video to accompany their singles. They are no longer touring and no longer travelling to other countries and appearing on TV variety shows. Instead, all their time and efforts will be focused on recording music and other artistic endeavors. This move is pretty unheard of since a music band makes most of their money from live appearances. Speaks volumes to the Beatles decision that their art comes first
The flip side of the single is below. And unfortunately, I cannot find the full length video of their original music clip on the internet. It can be found on various DVD compilations . There are plenty of Youtube clips of early versions of this song that are captured on the Beatles Anthology CD. And tons of cover bands. But you'll have to settle for this here
This week at #7 for 2 weeks in a row are Mitch Ryder and his Detroit Wheels.They already had some big dance hits such as Jenny Take A Ride, Little Latin Lupe Lu and the classic Devil With A Blue Dress On. This would be their final Top 20 song. Changing tastes in music and throat problems broke up the band.On rhythm guitar for the group is a fellow named Joe Kubert (not the artist).
Herman's Hermits new song was at #12 and climbing. As popular as The Monkees were at this time was how popular lead vocalist Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits were right before. In the states, preceding this song, they had 11 Top 20 songs including 2 at #1-Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter and I'm Henry The VIII. Comparing US and England music charts, they seemed to be even more successful on this side of the Atlantic. They appeared in 3 movies as well. Somewhat like the Monkees, many of their recordings employed session musicians instead of Hermits. And also like the Monkees, especially Peter Noone, he desperately wanted the acceptance of the rock and roll critics and elite stars. He did not get it
Donovan began as England's answer to Bob Dylan. In 1966 he evolved his style and became a superstar in the USA. Sunshine Superman reached #1, Mellow Yellow got to #2 both in 1966. Epistle To Dippy was his next release, peaking this week at # 19. As an audience member would answer Dick Clark's question of what they thought about the song-" I give it an 8. You can dance to it"
Finally for this week, here is a song I'd normally reserve for my occasional Music To Cringe With posts. I am pleased to say this record never touched the Top #100 charts in the USA. But for some reason it was huge in England in March 1967. So huge that on that month it won the Eurovision Award for Best Song and was #1 in England as well as #2 in Australia. As terrible as the song is, the dancers are even worse. Here is Sandie Shaw. Oompah..Oompah..Oompah
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