Also, I’ve posted this clip before, but it’s certainly worth seeing again — “Fantôche” by John Façade, with a swirling backdrop of stills taken directly from Peellaert & Nik Cohn’s Rock Dreams.
Archive for November, 2008
Guy Peellaert
Posted by s woods on November 23, 2008
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Rockcritics Podcast: Talkin’ Beatle Books (with Tim Riley)
Posted by s woods on November 18, 2008
The latest rockcritics podcast features Tim Riley, author of one of my favourite Beatle books, Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album by Album, Song by Song, the Sixties and After. A couple weeks prior to our chatting, I asked Tim — currently completing a large-scale John Lennon biography — to submit a list of some of his favourite Beatle books, and it’s that list which forms the basis of our conversation. We delve into more than a dozen titles here, including a few obscurities, a few ancillary titles (Aesthetics of Rock, Peter Doggett’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On) plus, of course, Tell Me Why, which, among other things, is notable for its annotated (in-need-of-an-update!) Beatles bibliography.
Big thanks to Tim for taking time out to do this (and for putting up with my usual nonsense and semi-competence).
Listen Here (approx 67 min.):
Titles discussed:
- Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head
- Mark Lewisohn, The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions + The Complete Beatles Chronicle
- Devin McKinney, Magic Circles
- John Lennon, In His Own Write and Spaniard in the Works
- Bob Dylan, Tarantula
- Allan Kozinn, The Beatles
- Wilfid Mellers, Twilight of the Gods
- Peter Doggett, Art and Music of John Lennon + There’s a Riot Goin’ On
- Ringo Starr, Postcards From the Boys
- Chris Salewicz, McCartney
- Jim O’Donnell, Day John Met Paul
- Beatles, Anthology
- Michael Braun, Love Me Do
- Richard Meltzer, The Aesthetics of Rock
Musical interludes (in order of appearance) by: Al Green, David Hillyard & the Rocksteady Seven, DJ Dangermouse, Bongwater, Peter Sellers, Irvin’s 89 Key Marenghi Fairground Organ, unknown house artist (“Revolution”), Rainer, Sunshine Company, First Moog Quartet, Los Fernandos, Cristina, Candy Flip, Bryan Ferry, P.M. Dawn, Sunshine Company (redux).
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Question of the Week: What music or artists would you have listened to…
Posted by A.C. Rhodes on November 13, 2008
It's le Fin de, le Fin de siècle.
and reviewed in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s? For younger listeners and writers, feel free to tack on a couple of more decades since you weren’t alive then, either (little crappers).
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Dear Directory: The Music Press Report Represents with its Music Press Directory 2009
Posted by A.C. Rhodes on November 12, 2008
People, goods and services, by the book.
Every year young writers wait with bated breath for the newest edition of Robert Brewer’s, Writer’s Market (Writers Digest Books), where lists of publications, contact names and numbers appear. But by the end of the year (or even sooner if you go by Magazine Death Watch), many have changed or are no longer. And with the state of the music industry, job-seeking security can be even more elusive. That’s why The Music Press Report has issued the Music Press Directory 2009, the most comprehensive and editor/user-friendly guide for writers seeking editors, journalists seeking journals.
This first edition contains contact information for music writers, photographers, artists, websites and print publications in one 213-page e-book. Collected largely by readers of MusicPressReport.com, this directory has the distinction of precision where the user can benefit from the sort of detail necessary for specifically targeted searches. The reasoning behind this is that publicists, labels and musicians spend too much time and money finding and pursuing every writer they can with un-targeted quests for coverage that often go ignored.
Similarly, print, e-magazines and web sites acquire new talent many times by haphazard meetings, or ads if there is even a budget. Thirdly, all participants in music publishing would do well to increase networking more time-effectively, yet too often there is not enough time during the average workday to find and meet with the appropriate professionals. While still modestly considered an experiment, if enough downloads are recorded, the guide will be expanded to other areas of music publishing and a companion print edition will be released next year.
The Music Press Directory 2009 can be viewed at http://www.lulu.com/content/3052680.
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Question of the Week: What songs best represent…
Posted by A.C. Rhodes on November 3, 2008
your experience of growing up or living in America?
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Rockcritics Podcast: Talkin’ Election Blues
Posted by s woods on November 3, 2008
Actually, not a podcast so much as a broadcast: Phil Dellio invited me on to his Sunday morning college radio show yesterday (at CKLN in Toronto) to talk about Obama and the U.S. election and to play some music and sound clips (think of us as the Gergen and Blitzer of Canadian rockcrit). The audio in the first eight minutes got completely mangled, so there’s unfortunately no context provided up front, though I don’t think it’s particularly complicated to follow what’s here. (Each of these segments is approximately 20 minutes.)
Part 1
Music: DJ Shoe, “The Simple Things You See” (theme music); Jan & Lorraine, “Number 33″; Figghole, “Red, White and MILF” (YouTube); Bob Dylan, “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry”
Part 2
Music: Ron Clark Academy students, “You Can Vote However You Like” (YouTube)
Part 3
Music: Stevie Wonder, “My Cherie Amour”; Google Dolls, “Mr. Obama Save My Planet” (MySpace)
Part 4
Music: Neil Young, “Cripple Creek Ferry”; Fleetwood Mac, “Landslide”
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