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King Floyd
I just found out the late great Mr. Floyd died at the age of 61 this weekend. Thank you to Matthew Africa at KALX in Berkeley for playing a tribute to him. So much more than a one-hit wonder!
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Alan Hull
Hull was the leadsinger of Lindisfarne, which was very popular in the UK in the early 1970s, but remained fairly unknown in the states. Hull died in 1995, but I dug out his solo album last night, and especially dug “Country Gentleman’s Wife,” “The Money Game,” not to mention such Lindisfarne songs as “Winter Song” and “Poor Old Ireland.” If only the freak-folks would know about him as much as Donovan and Marc Bolan
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Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer
These two poets gave a great Reading at Pegasus Books in Berkeley on March 15th.
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The Onion, 16-22 March 2006
The Onion is hit or miss, but when it hits it can blow away Jon Stewart (if not quite Chris Rock). This week, such stories as “Poverty-Stricken African Receive Desperately Needed Bibles” were definite hits.
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Kandia Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse published one of the best pieces of music criticism in this week’s San Francisco Bay Guardian, in which she brilliantly and passionately championed Lewis Taylor as well as the recent grammy performance by Sly Stone against the “minstrelsy” of much of contemporary black R&B
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David Chappelle’s Block Party
A thoroughly enjoyable film, even for someone like myself
who is not the biggest fan of a lot of contemporary mainstream hip-hop.
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Nate Cavalieri
In the latest issue of the San Francisco Weekly, Mr. Cavalieri sends up the upcoming San Francisco Noise Pop festival, which is always a good thing for a scene that has a tedency to take itself a tad bit too seriously.
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I Feel Tractor
I Feel Tractor is the musical project of Brooklyn-based poet Eddie Berrigan. He performed a solo acoustic set on March 12 at The Stork Club with other musical poets David Buuck, Alli Warren and Brandon Brown.
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Eli Crews
Perhaps most known as the bassist for Beulah, Mr. Crews also co-runs Oakland’s New Improved Recordings, where I am recording my new album. I have to give him props,
for even though his studio is not yet as well known as Tiny Telephone, run by John Vanderslice Tractor, Eli is the consummate professional, and his studio has an amazing grand piano
that rivals that of Steve Albini
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Mott The Hoople – “I Wish I Was Your Mother,”
Since I started this list with dead people who got their fame in the early 1970s, I thought it was only fitting to end with this excellent Ian Hunter composition from 1973
