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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Dec 28, 2021 14:27:57 GMT
I just saw this bumper sticker on a pickup truck:  |
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Post by rayge on Jan 5, 2022 10:04:09 GMT
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Post by Charlie O. on Jan 5, 2022 17:31:01 GMT
Eve Babitz is one of those names that pops up every now and again for me - if you had asked me (and why would you), I could have told you that she was on the LA pop scene in the sixties and that she had done the cover art for Buffalo Springfield Again and was maybe a photographer... But until today I had no idea that she posed for a famous (but possibly NSFW) photograph with Marcel Duchamp. |
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Post by fonz on Jan 6, 2022 19:03:54 GMT
Nice chess set
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Post by rayge on Jan 6, 2022 20:16:31 GMT
Eve Babitz is one of those names that pops up every now and again for me - if you had asked me (and why would you), I could have told you that she was on the LA pop scene in the sixties and that she had done the cover art for Buffalo Springfield Again and was maybe a photographer... But until today I had no idea that she posed for a famous (but possibly NSFW) photograph with Marcel Duchamp. There was a documentary on her, on the BBC I think, a month or two ago. Considering I had never heard of her, she was associated with an extraordinary number of peope on the 50s/60s American arts scene that I had heard plenty about. That pic, and her association with Duchamp, was covered in the programme. |
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Post by Charlie O. on Jan 9, 2022 3:58:16 GMT
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Post by Charlie O. on Jan 10, 2022 5:45:57 GMT
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Post by rayge on Feb 8, 2022 9:51:25 GMT
Nice interview with David Thomas. The most astonishing thing to me is that he now lives in Hove.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2022 13:03:29 GMT
I've been enjoying those vids too, especially Lennon taking the piss out of one track before realising it was Alma Cogan who he'd been having a fling with. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2022 21:24:53 GMT
Watched the Alan Hull/Lindisfarne doc from BBC Four, it had lots of great little stories about the guy, including getting 'Lady Eleanor' from reading Poe during night shifts in a mental hospital.
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 15, 2022 2:03:11 GMT
According to Wiki, Del Shannon was under consideration to produce Echo & The Bunnymen's Crocodiles album.  |
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Apr 15, 2022 15:04:41 GMT
According to Wiki, Del Shannon was under consideration to produce Echo & The Bunnymen's Crocodiles album.  So, Tom Petty would actually be doing the work. |
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 15, 2022 15:23:31 GMT
oof.
Also learned that the two songs that I had always thought that Sire added to the US version ("Do It Clean" and "Read It In Books") were always intended to be part of the album. Someone at the UK record company thought (mistakenly) that they contained dirty words and removed them (but left them on the cassette release)!
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Apr 15, 2022 17:37:55 GMT
Funny, for a brief moment in the 80s it was "resurrect an old AM pop star": Springsteen~Gary US Bonds; Mellencamp ~ Mitch Ryder; and Tom Petty ~ Del Shannon. I guess we can include maybe Dave Edmunds with the Everlys, though he might have been hired rather finding them and resurrecting them.
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 18, 2022 14:59:23 GMT
I was just reminded that Jeff Lynne produced a Del album too (it's being reissued for RSD).
Allegedly the Traveling Wilburys were talking about approaching Shannon to fill the vacancy left by Roy Orbison, but then he saved them the phone call by shooting himself. (I might as well say it before somebody else does: "Or maybe he shot himself rather than join the Traveling Wilburys.")
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