Aw yeah get your 1985 hairspray out, I’m going on a cheese binge! These guys were the best hair metal band of all time, great musicians, decent songs, good sense of humor…
I think since the lead singer Kevin Dubrow … Read the rest
classic
Pre-Weezer Devo Dream
There was Devo doing the teenage dream thing….
… Read the restFunk With A Capital G
Rare p-funk offshoot band Quazar (featuring Kevin & Glen Goins, amongst others) courtesy of Miss Funkyflyy.
… I Want My Clothes
Promo for Best. Movie. Ever.
… The Power Of Rock
Wowza.
Check out this rare clip from the 90’s Page & Plant tour (you know, the 2 old guys that didn’t join Them Crooked Vultures) where they rip through a rarely played classic Zeppelin Monster Jam “Achilles Last Stand”.
Turn … Read the rest
Come On Baby
OK I found this a couple of months late but still the perfect jam. Goofy video, best kind…
… Read the restTortured Genius
… I Got Spirit
Nice live War track with Eric Burdon, circa 1971.
Need I remind everyone that this was the last band Jimi Hendrix jammed with before his demise? Damn you pills taking Jimi away from us.… Read the rest
Dayton’s On The Mothership
More classic Ohio funk for you, this time from Faze-O. Dayton & Cinci are really making their pitch as the home of funk and I like it. So many good funk bands and all kinds of killer players came out … Read the rest
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…
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
NEO 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:
Knock Knock On Your Front Door, Guess Who?
Wow Michael Franti has come a long way over the last 20 years. I remember the first time I heard this band, I loved them. A big early influence on 2merica, for sure.
8 Bit Goodness
I present the first computer I purchased (and still a favorite of mine)…
The 8 bit goodness of the Atari 130xe.
Commodore people were everywhere back then (like Windows now), waiting 23 minutes to load a game, but my Atari … Read the rest
