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Author: ezzy
A Fitting Tribute
… Tighten Up Your Stroke
Live Ohio funk on prime-time TV? Watch the set turn into a huge party a few minutes in. Oh the seventies, oh the seventies…
Super Group Redux
Here’s maybe the first super-super group, given that their bass player was in one of the worlds first super groups back in the 70’s. Fear not rock is not dead!
… Read the restNEW ROAMING CRAZY!!
Awww Yeeeah!! The latest and greatest from Roaming Crazy is done and on its way to the epresses!
“Sing Too” is liable to cause spastic brain flams and incoherent fist swings.
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Juice Juice
Rare TV Funk
TV appearances by funk artists are often stunted affairs of micro-sized forced funk, easily mocked and pulled away from for commercial break. I had never seen this Sly performance from 1983 playing with Letterman’s Paul Shaffer band. The tempo a … Read the rest
RIP MCA
We’ve lost another pioneer to cancer. Adam “MCA” Yauch, the voice that helped transition the Beasties from goof rap to good rap, succumbed to cancer on May 5th, just a few days after his band was inducted into the Rock … Read the rest
Straight To Hell Boy
The Ballade of Nikka and Prince
Nice live performance of Nikka’s jam with a special guest on guitar…
Not In Kansas Anymore
Loved these dudes — good music about beer and woman problems. How did this not catch on?
Base not bass, haha.
… Pre-emptive Strike On The Majesticons
Pizza Rocket!
Mmmm pizza!
… Read the restBefore Google There Was… Speech
Genre jumping again, I know. Check this funky little thang a few years back from an amazing band that played the music business blues in the nineties then dropped from the scene.
… Read the restNEO Neo
Ok sentimental fools, here in Cleveland we had our own version of the Beatles, or was it Queen? Well anyway, The Raspberries are one of the most underrated bands of the seventies. Check them out tackling this pop classical masterpiece.… Read the rest
Layup Lines
… Lipstick Kicks
One of my favorite beats and bass lines from the UK reggae punk vibe:
Potus With The Mostest
Very funny. Look at that applause too — don’t see that on the news much do you?
I remember seeing cheering crowds of (white only) flag waving supporters almost every night for President Bush even when his support was at … Read the rest