17 August 2008
When that old folk song, “Hallelujah I’m A Bum” meets Bo Diddley(R.I.P) (and that ain’t no Johnny Otis whistlin’ “Willie and The Hand Jive”
I heard a Bo Diddley tribute on local college station KALX (and they played songs influenced by him, and hardley ANY Bo-Diddley. Ugh. That’s not what we need. We need more BO DIDDLEY (at least they played The Animals “The Story Of Bo Diddley” alongside “I Want Candy” and The Smiths policies (threatening to become law as so many elected officials remain ignorant of the political, democratic, stakes involved in this issue) is to contact www. savenetradio.org
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“The Swim”, Bobby Freeman
It seems that most of the national dance crazes back in the days came from the east coast (or Detroit or New Orleans), but here’s one that actually came from San Francisco
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Marc Bolan, “San Francisco Poet”
Yes, the T. Rex frontman, the b-side to his second single before he joined John’s Children juxtaposing it with rockets and strippers
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Louis Jordan “Caledonia” etcJoe Jackson maybe turned a lot of white people onto Jordan back in the early 1980s, covering “Is You is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby” which DJ_Schmeejay on KUSF just played (Because July 8, 1908 is Louis Jordan’s birthday).
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Dixie Chicks, “Goodbye Earl”
pleasure to hear it again, on a country show hosted by Nick Swisher and sponsored by Bank of America and the voice of The Oakland Athletics
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Isaac Hayes, “Hold On I’m Coming”
He also died this week. the 60s stuff before he became the overblown “Black Moses” in Wattstax is still his best stuff, even if his last words were not, “I”m a soul, man”!
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Ken Emerson, Always Magic In The Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of The Brill Building
More on this book later…
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George Strait, “Old Troubadour”
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Nick Cave, DIG LAZARUS DIG
I think Mr. Cave may very well be defying many prejudices about music and getting better and better
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Bart Davenport, “Really Into Music”blog comments powered by Disqus
The winner of my “Songs that are like
Visqueen live in the studio (and interviewed) and "Best of the New Breed, Vol. 1" now on Rabid In The Kennel!
21 August 2010
“Rabid In The Kennel” appeared on Bastille Day with a very special guest: the one and only Visqueen, playing a special, drummer-less session for us in support of their awesome recent LP , A Message to Garcia, and then the members, including dashing, powerful-throated singer Rachel Flotard, sat for a long 35-minute chat, including lots of funny sexual innuendo.
More recently, we tried a special new wrinkle on our established format, by presenting all music and no chat with seven less established, but equally deserving new bands, called “Best of the New Breed, Vol 1.” This began airing just last week!
Welcome to the new Bigtakeover.com!
11 July 2010
On behalf of all of us here at bigtakeover.com and Big Takeover Magazine, I bid you welcome to our newly redesigned site! Looks cool, doesn’t it? Our print magazine is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, going back to a good 15 years or so before there was any electronic media. So the timing is perfect. Our endeavor has come a long, long way from the days of typing, Xeroxing, reducing, stapling, folding, mailing, shipping, and selling at gigs, and we are celebrating this long three decades of service and commentary in three distinct ways this year.
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