Monday, November 28, 2011

Dune

When I worked in Manhattan (1980 -2001) I did a lot of reading, mostly on the Long Island Rail Road.There used to be this guy who had a table out on the corner by J&R Music World (by City Hall). He had paperback books for one dollar.
Even though I read the “Dune” series, I picked this up for one dollar. It was printed in 1965. I bought it for the cover. I love those Sci-Fi covers from the 60’s and 70’s.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Don't Tell Me

Ever meet people that think they know it all. No matter how little they know on a subject, they act like they’re experts.
I was over somebody’s house and the discussion was about baseball. We’re talking about Fenway Park where the have the Green Monster. The “know it all” says, “The outfielders should play in so if the ball goes over their head’s they can catch it off the wall for an out. Everybody just ignored him cause what he said was wrong and stupid. The more people ignored him the more he kept on yelling “Catch it off the wall, catc it off the wall.” People were trying to be nice to him but finally somebody yelled at him, “You can’t catch it off the fucking wall for an out. Once it hits the wall it’s like hitting the ground.”
 That shut him up for awhile.

Jerry Garcia

Smoke them if you got them.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Bigfoot

"Why’s it called Bigfoot? It should be Bigfeet."
                                             Zapple100

Sunday, November 20, 2011

CD Show and the Revolution

 I went to my local CD Show today. They have it about every two or three months in the American Legion. Even though I knew how to get there I used my GPS that I bought last month. If I followed it, I would have ended up in another town. If I had more time I would have followed it just to see where it would have taken me. It might have taken me to the place via New York City.
The CD Show is in one room and it’s pretty well packed. They get a good crowd there. If you go early in the morning, there’s no room to walk. I try to go a couple of hours after it opens.
You get these people that have to look at every single CD. They don’t move. They pick up the CD’s read the back, the front, they put them down. I hate getting stuck by those people. I don’t understand why they do this. You can’t like every artist. If you don’t like them, move on. Anyway, I found this table that had Jazz CD’s. There was no price on them. I was going to ask the guy how much they were but he was talking to this lady. Not about music but about revolution. I didn’t want to interrupt them  cause if they did seize power they might have thrown me in jail for derailing the revolution. The guy  that own the table looked like he was in his 60′s with long grey hair. The lady looked like she was in her 40′s and looking for a cause. I didn’t know if they wanted to take over the government or the room. I felt out like yelling out “I like Fidel and I like his beard.” Instead I said, “I don’t want to interrupt the revolution, but how much are these CD’s? They guy said five apeice. So I picked up Art Farmer  “The Perception” and Charlie Haden Quartet West “In Angel City.”
 
 I got on the Art Farmer now. It’ nice and mellow. In the winter time when it gets dark early, I like to listen to Jazz and relax. Summer is Rock music and winter is Jazz and Classical. This way I get to listen to a lot of different music.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Bob Dylan’s other Judas Moment

Everybody know the time somebody in the crowd yelled out “Judas” to Dylan cause he went electric and Dylan said to his band, “play fucking loud.” There was another time somebody yelled out something to Dylan that got him pissed.
Dylan was doing “All Along The Watchtower” and changed the words around a little. He  sang:
“”There must be some kind of way out of here,”
Said the joker to the thief,
My feet really hurt
I can’t get  no relief”
Then somebody in the crowd yelled out, ” Get some Dr. Scholls.”
Dylan stopped singing, turned to his band and said, “Let Jimi have the song.”

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Jimi Hendrix and the Gay Connection

What does Hendrix have to do with the gay crowd? The color purple, is the color for gay pride. In the Teletubbies, Tinky Winky is purple. Everybody thought Tinky Winky was gay because he’s purple. The name don’t help either. Where does Hendrix fit in with this. One of Hendrix’s biggest songs is “Purple Haze.” There’s a line in it that goes, “Scuse me while I kiss this guy.” The gay crowd heard the song, love it and adopted purple as their color.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Sha Na Na Teen Angel Sep 23, 1970



While my friends were into Led Zeppelin, I was into Sha Na Na. They thought I was so uncool, but what did they know. I didn’t bow to peer pressure and like what everybody else liked.This was the band!
If there was one band I could be in this would be it. I love the 50′s music. Just give me a guitar, stick me in the background and I would be in heaven.
BTW, Sha Na Na’s “The Golden Age Of Rock And Roll” is now out on CD. Life is good.



Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The Kryptonian Klap Is…………………..Fake!

When I first posted about “The Kryptonian Klap,” I tried to find it online in another site to see if it was real. I couldn’t find it. The cover looked so good, I thought it was real. Keith  ( http://worldofkeitho.com/ ) went looking for it  and couldn’t find it. The reason we couldn’t find it listed anywhere else is because it’s a fake.
Here’s the first cover
:
On the Kryptonian Klap cover, most of this cover is what Superman is holding in his hand.
Now, here’s the original cover it was inserted to
:
Put them together and you get this:

Was I ever wrong. I was even looking on Ebay to see if they had it. it would have made a great story.

Lois, and the Kryptonian Klap

Do you believe this comic!? If something like this came out today there would be a major uproar over it.
First of all, I didn’t know Superman could get sores. He has a super immune system to fight this kind of stuff.
Then I got to thinking, this isn’t regular klap, it’s kryptonian klap. One of Superman’s enemies had to infect Lois someway to give it to Superman.
But wait, I didn’t know Superman and Lois, you know………………did it.
Or maybe, Lois is just a Superhero groupie. She gets around more then Herman Cain.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Grand Pa Munster and Donald Fagen, Brothers?

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“Discussing Where To Put The Little Black Dots On The Paper”

Mozart, Garcia, Beethoven, McCartney and Zappa discuss the fine art of songwriting.

"Beach Boys "SMiLE""

I’ve been listening to this. The sound is excellent and a big improvement over
some of the boots.
I have to ask, how would this have been received back in the 60’s? No matter
how far out they got, it was still the Beach Boys. I don’t think the young hip,
out of sight audience would have gone for it since it was The Beach Boys.
A lot of The Beach Boys image problem was The Beatles. They wanted to keep up
with The Beatles. The Beatles are changing and so should we. The Beatles started
off as a Rock band, then when Epstein managed them, they got cute. So The
Beatles could have went back to being a Rock band since it was in them.
The Beach Boys started out as a Pop, Rock vocal group. Change for them was
didn’t come easy.
Now, what would have happened if they listened to Mike Love and sang about
Surfin’ and girls? There were still bands that did this stuff in the late 60’s
and had hits. Maybe the Beach Boys could have weathered the hippy storm till it
blew over.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Superheroes

Messing around online and came across an old comic book cover, “Superman vs Spiderman.” They made it look like it was an even fight. Are they kidding. Superman would destroy him in 2 seconds. He could burn him with his x-ray vision. Fly around him so fast it would start a hurricane and take Spiderman away. Blow a cold blast of air on him and freeze him. Or he could just punch Spiderman in the head and knock his head off his body.
 Then I got to thinking, some superheroes aren’t superheroes. They might be nice guys, but not superheroes. Batman has no powers. He has a nice car and some fancy gadgets, but no super powers. Same for Captain America. He even uses a gun. How many superheroes use a gun.
Green Lantern, no super powers but a nice ring.

The Dinosaurs