http://www.theflue.org/forum The 'flue en http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20164#20164 20164@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Where was The Weakly Pole™? Message: well like 'Car Talk ' peeps give the puzzler a vacation. I was watching a boat load of movies on me Holiday with fine wine and woodfordwelcome back pole 'BURP* :mrgreen: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:24:25 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20163#20163 20163@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Hot For Teacher - Van Hale Message: Hot For Teacher - Van HalenPerhaps yesterday's SotD was a little too old school. Let's dial the Way Back Machine™ to early 1984, just after the release of the Van Halen album MCMLXXXIV ("1984"). "Van Who?" you say? The band out of Pasadena, California that was formed in 1972 by brothers Eddie and Alex Van Halen. After adding a singer (David Lee Roth who the brothers were going to rent sound equipment from, but decided to save some money by letting Roth join the band) and a bass player (Michael Anthony) the band had to ditch their original name, "Mammoth." The self-titled debut album hit #19 on the Billboard pop music charts, one of rock's most commercially successful debuts. Since then Van Halen has gone on to sell over 80 million albums, have had the most number-one hits on Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and during the 1980s had more Billboard Hot 100 hits than any other hard rock or heavy metal band. According to the Record Industry Association of America (also known as 'The Evil Empire' in some parts) Van Halen is the 19th best-selling band/artist of all time with sales of over 56 million albums in the U.S. There have been break-ups, reunions, hiatuses and line-up changes along with all the drama that a rock band could generate Van Halen are still kind-of sort-of around. Kind of.Today's song takes us back to the days of big hair, hanging out at the mall and Converse high tops. With kids heading back to school it seems only right to have Van Halen singing about having a crush on a teacher. THis was way back in the day when MTV showed videos. What seems strange today, in a time of teachers constantly engaging in 'extra curricular activities' (IF you know what I mean) this song now comes across as naive. Or was it a song predicting the future? Okay, now I'm freaking out a little. Listen to a sample at the iTunes StoreI had that dream again the other night. The one where I ask for suggestions for Songs of the Day and suddenly my PM mail box is overflowing with quality, well-thought-out responses. Its like 6 or 7 months before I make my way through all of them. I am so very happy. The sky seems bluer, our children better behaved. Heck, my hair even starts growing back. And then I wake up and our clock radio is in pieces all over the bedroom floor. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:49:52 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20162#20162 20162@http://www.theflue.org/forum
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Topic: Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape 34 "Red something-or-other" Message: Mixed Tape 34 "Red yadda-yadda-yadda" is now available!Get it now!~c Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:41:17 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20161#20161 20161@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: School Days - Chuck Berry Message: School Days - Chuck BerryAin't no school like the old school. Or so they say. How about we go all the way back to 1957 with Chuck Berry's School Days? A song about the drudgery of high school way back when sold well with the teen market and took this single to number 3 on the U.S. charts. It was also Berry's first hit in the U.K. Born Charles Edward Anderson Berry, this guitarist, singer and songwriter was one of the pioneers of rock and roll. Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock so distinctive with lyrics focusing on teen life (see above). Influenced by the guitar work of T-Bone Walker, Berry would leave his day job at an car plant to spend evenings performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio until he big break. In May of 1957 Berry went to Chicago and met blues legend Muddy Waters who suggested he contact Chess Records. Berry's first release, Maybeliene,  was a retread of the country song Ida Red that went to number one on the Billboard R&B charts. By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star selling loads of hit records and appeared in films. When the Rock and ROll Museum opened in 1986, Berry was one of the first inducted with the comment that he "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance." Well into his 80s, Berry continues to tour and plays a local gig every Wednesday night in St. Louis. Listen to a sample at the iTunes Store Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:01:40 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20160#20160 20160@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Where was The Weakly Pole™? Message: If thats wrong, I don't want to be right. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:00:52 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20159#20159 20159@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Where was The Weakly Pole™? Message: hanging out when in my company... that's just rude and mildly enticing!? Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:54:28 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20158#20158 20158@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: You Don't Learn That in School - Louis Armstrong Message: You Don't Learn That in School - Louis ArmstrongBack to school time. Think back, and you realize that only so much is actually learned in school. Louis Armstrong has some words of wisdom about that:"Venus was a womanWho had a lot of charmsBut she got so much huggin'And she wore out both her arms"Listen to a sample at the iTunes Store Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:11:33 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20157#20157 20157@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: We're Going to be Friends - The White Stripes Message: We're Going to be Friends - The White StripesA guitar and a drummer. I'll admit my biggest problem with the duo kind of from Detroit is the serious lack of a bass booming along. And let's be honest here, Meg White is no Keith Moon. Otherwise, here is a lovely little song about going back to school and making new friends. Something near and dear to many hearts this week as our school starts up again. A world full of promise and potentail lay ahead as the leaves begin to fall. How very depressing :SListen to a sample at the iTunes Store Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:01:36 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20156#20156 20156@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: In one word Message: sapped Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:12:50 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20155#20155 20155@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: C Jam Blues - Duke Ellington Message: C Jam Blues - Duke EllingtonEdward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was a composer, pianist and big band leader who became one of the more influential artists in the history of recorded music, and is recognized as one of the greatest figures in the history of jazz, and sadly Song of the Day is just now, close to fives years on, getting around to recognizing him. Duke's music was too big for just one genre, and touched on blues, gospel, film scores, popular and classical. His career spanned 50 years and remnants of his orchestra continue to tour today. Ellington's inventive use of the orchestra or big band and his refined public manner seems to have elevated the perception of jazz to an artistic level on par with that of classical music. Ellington called his music "American MUsic" rather than jazz and many of the musicians who where once members of his orchestra are considered among the best in jazz in their own right (for example: Johnny Hodges, Lawrence Brown, Rex Stewart, Cootie Williams and Barney Bigard). As musical tastes and styles changed (including the rise of bebop) Ellington continued working on his music recording longer and longer composition s, some of which had been waiting sine the 1930s for technology to come up with longer playing albums so that they could be recorded.I can go on and on, but instead will close with some of the Duke's own words. "The writing and playing of music is a matter of intent…. You can't just throw a paint brush against the wall and call whatever happens art. My music fits the tonal personality of the player. I think too strongly in terms of altering my music to fit the performer to be impressed by accidental music. You can't take doodling seriously."Listen to a sample at the iTunes Store Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:11:15 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20154#20154 20154@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Where was The Weakly Pole™? Message: I'm not sure, but it maxed-out a charge card and the car has some mysterious scrapes on the roof. Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:09:50 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20153#20153 20153@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Arabesque No. 1 - Branford Marsalis Message: Arabesque No. 1 - Branford MarsalisBranford Marsalis, part of that REALLY talented Marsalis family that includes trumpeter Wynton, is a saxophonist, composer and bandleader who is accomplished in classical and jazz. But then again, aren't most of the Marsalis boys? Branford, while still a college student, began touring with a band lead by Art Blakey. Marsalis would hang with some big bands (such as Lionel Hampton and Clark Terry) as well as joining his brother Wynton in the Jazz Messengers. Branford has also played with Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie (Davis, who once threw Wynton off a stage during a performance) as well as Sting and The Police. In short, Branford has had a rather good career making music with his saxophone. And yes, his 50th birthday was yesterday.Listen to a sample at the iTunes StoreAnd as always, suggestions for up coming Song of the Day picks can be sent to me for consideration (that sounds so snobby, but the truth is that I'm running out of stuff to recommend so I'll throw just about anything in here just to fill the day. Um, I mean all suggestions will be carefully considered for significance and relevance. Yeah, thats it.) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:18:58 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20152#20152 20152@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Overture to 'Candide' - Andrew Litton, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Message: Overture to 'Candide' - Andrew Litton, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Jeffrey KahaneYou know how I've been a day behind on famous musician's birthdays this week? Yeah, Leonard Bernstein was yesterday.Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, conductor (musical, not trains), author, music lecturer and pianist. Bernstein was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States to receive worldwide acclaim. Best known as longtime music director for the New York Philharmonic Bernstein also conducted many of the world's leading orchestras. More popularly known for writing music for West Side Story, Candide, Wonderful Town and On the Town Bernstein was also one of the first cmusical conductors to make numerous television appearances. The New York Times said of Bernstein 'he was "one of the most prodigally talented and successful musicians in American history.'" That's saying something, eh?Now if only there were some way I could look up some of these birthdays in advance so that I could prepare a more topical Song of the Day. Perhaps some sort of computer network. Oh, right.Listen to a sample at the iTunes Store Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:06:45 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20151#20151 20151@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: A Quick One, While He's Away - The Who Message: A Quick One, While He's Away - The WhoWhile I'm playing catch-up on famous musician's birthdays, I also missed The Who's Keith Moon on Monday.Incase you where born some time after 1990, The Who is (were) rock and roll quartet consisting of Pete Townsend (guitar), Roger Daltrey (vocals), John Entristle (bass, deceased) and originally one of the finest, most flamboyant and talented drums of rock, Keith Moon (rather deceased) from England. They formed in 1964, and have gone through a series of break-ups and "last time we're going to tour" tours. I content that they were the first punk band, known for trashing hotel rooms and destroying their kits at the end of their shows. On their first American tour they where so far in debt from trashed equipment that they had to go out and tour again to pay the bills. Today's song was just the tip of the rock opera ice berg, not to be missed. Or, how about a video of The Who making the Rolling Stones look like a bunch of wankers while performing this song? Will THAT convince you? Listen to a sample at the iTunes Store Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:12:22 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20150#20150 20150@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker Message: Boom Boom - John Lee HookerSunday was also John Lee Hooker's birthday. John Lee Hooker was a legendary American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. Born in Mississippi, Hooker was the son of a share cropper and made a name for himself playing Delta blues. Delta blues originating in the Mississippi Delta region, dominated by guitar and harmonica with an emphasis on rhythm and "bottleneck" slide. It is the kind of music that most think of as the blues. 'Hooker's life experiences were chronicled by several scholars and often read like a classic case study in the racism of the music industry, although he eventually rose to prominence with memorable songs and influence on a generation of musicians.' Or in other words, if you have a hankering for some solid delta blues, follow the link, chillen.Listen to a sample at the iTunes Store Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:12:21 -0700