So Den and sits and waits patiently for the train that may never come he has to find things to fill in those 24/7. So he's mainly been eating chocolate and watching lotsa films on the one eyed lodger. So this week there's the usual smatterings of goodness from good ol' Uncle D. Plenty to keep you outta trouble and away from the reeb...
You can't beat good ol' Piano Red. Somebody once told me he was an albino black man. I dunno what ethnic grouping he would sit on but this guy surely should be better known than this! He certainly pounds them ten long fingers like a mad-man. I scoured youtube for my fave '1-2-3' but to no avail so you'll have to make do with this version of Carl Perkins' classic slab.
And for the first time some lily-livered Merseybeat which in the house of Den has aged about as well as a Stilton off the rotten shelf that rolled under the bed on a hot summer's day...that said yup- most of it was cack (and the yanks flipped their wigs for it?). This one is the Macca lookylikey (even down to the Hofner bass) on this Mary Wells cover. Ain't ever heard this one before peeps- fairly competent cover that turns a Motown classic sound as if it's just crawled outta the Mersey tunnel after getting robbed by some scallys.
So on to some stereotypes. Hillbillies drinkin' hooch made out in the barn. This is written by the Big Bopper- which blew my mind (has he ever recorded it??). These guys look like they should be workin' at Butlins in those stoopid red coats but we'll let em off for being able to go deep on the 'white lightning' line!
So I watched this Bergman flick yesterday: Sawdust & Tinsel. There was me declaring it wasn't his usual bleak stuff, that was until a screaming, fat, ringmaster shoots the circus bear! That said Harriet Andersson is in it and led me to think if you could build a time machine that could travel through time and space that would just be the berries! So here you have a clip (not sure what from?) of her backed by some nice Dixieland jazz.
And so to the end...last time I was bangin' my drum about Joe Black and so on to more 'boylesque' (those gals really need to raise their game to enter Den's world any time soon!). I've been trying to describe this half man/ mouse to my sidekick at the day gig but have been struggling all week so we just had to book him for Burly Q. Top- notch stuff that makes the generic tits and tassles tedium look like increasingly so late- noughties!
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