Bob's Music Shack: 2012

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Santana & McLaughlin - Hymns For Peace (Live At Montreux)

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Baby Don't You Do It (Don't You Break My Heart) - 3 Versions

The Who - Baby Don't You Do It

This is Track 11 of the Who's album - Who's next. A stage favourite of The Who from the 1964/65 era, this Marvin Gaye classic was perhaps and unusual choice ...

Friday, March 16, 2012

Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care

This group was wonderful during its short swing through our space-time. What a great pleasure it is to hear Roy Orbison's smooth voice and range on this one -- "I'm so tired of being lonely. I still have some love to give. Won't you show me that you really care?" Perfect Orbison lyrics. But really they all are great. Orbison, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Jeff Lynne. Talk about a supergroup!

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Johnny Cash - Heart Of Gold

His deep voice works on this.

Avenging Annie - Roger Daltrey Cover and the Andy Pratt Original

Andy Pratt's classic, by Roger Daltrey

And the original by Andy Pratt.

Friday, March 2, 2012

High Heeled Sneakers -- Rolling Stones -- Leon Russell

"Put on your high heel sneakers. Wear your wig hat on your head."

This song was written and originally performed by Robert Higginbotham using the performance name Tommy Tucker in 1963-64, and went to number one on the Cash Box R&B Locations chart and number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100. The Rolling Stones recorded it for BBC in 1964. I couldn't find it in the album discography for the early Stones.

Leon Russell performed it on the TV show Shindig in 1964.

Yes, the same Leon Russell who looks like this nowadays (from last year, 2011, his induction to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:

Monday, February 27, 2012

Iggy Pop - Repo Man

First video is the theme song of the film "Repo Man" (1984) by Iggy Pop. Second video is the "Repo Code" scene, featuring Harry Dean Stanton as the "repo man" (also did great job as Fundamentalist LDS sect leader Roman Grant in HBO series "Big Love").

"Repo Man" (the 1984 original, not to be confused with "Repo MEn," which came out in 2010) is one of those odd and more or less obscure films that are among my favorites.

Others in no particular order:

"The Man Who Fell To Earth" (1976) (David Bowie)
"Deathrace 2000" (1975)(John Carradine, S. Stallone in an early part before he broke out as a star)
"Performance" (1968) (Mick Jagger)
"How I Won The War" (1967) (John Lennon)
"Freeway" (1996) (Kiefer Sutherland, R. Witherspoon in one of her early roles before she became big-time)

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Wooly Bully [HD video / Very Good picture ...

1965 - the year I turned 18, graduated from high school, started college, worked for a moving company in Kew West, FL for the first month of Summer vacation, traveled in Europe for the second month.

It was very weird, traveling in Europe that Summer of 1965, to find that I heard "Wooly Bully" playing every place young people congregated. Then, when I flew in to JFK coming home, the first thing I saw on the TV news - reports of the Watts riots in LA.