Apocalypse in 9/8: Genesis perform ‘Supper’s Ready,’ 1973
Genesis performing their epic, seven-movement progressive rock sonata “Supper’s Ready” onstage at Shepperton Studios in 1973. “Old Michael went past the pet shop, which was…
Author: Richard Metzger Archives: 12/2011
Competing James Bond themes: Tom Jones vs. Johnny Cash’s ‘Thunderball’
It’s the Man in Black vs. the bombastic Welsh crooner… I like the Johnny Cash version, it’s cool, but more for a James Bond film…
Songodsuns (DJ Nobody & 2Mex): ‘Do That Trick’ (w/ naked nuns)
Elvin Estella, aka DJ Nobody of LA’s famed Low End Theory DJ collective (and former Dangerous Minds blogger), put out my favorite album of the…
Pre-punk Nina Hagen in East Germany, 1974
Although she’s celebrated as “the mother of punk,” the musical fruits of Nina Hagen’s early career sounded much closer to the tuba-led Bavarian oompah music…
Jodorowsky’s ‘March of the Skulls’: Collective Psychomagic in Mexico
Late last month in Mexico City, Alejandro Jodorowsky organized the “March of the Skulls” to disperse negative energy caused by the death toll of the…
Scott Walker is pissing himself, should win a special political Darwin Award!
This is THE BEST: Hapless Wisconsin governor Scott Walker wants people who protest his administration to pay for their First Amendment rights! He even wants…
All the World (and the Media) is Your Stage: Occupy Wall Street, Act II
The clueless conservatives chatterboxes on Fox News and AM talk radio cheering on the evictions of the rapidly dwindling in number Occupy sites around the…
Debit! Debit! Debit! Said the Chinese Machine Gun: New Firesign Theatre shows!
I just found out, by way of the brand new issue of Phil Proctor’s always wonderful Planet Proctor e-zine, that all four members of the…