2 November 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 hardly 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.
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The Mummy Benji Hughes
It seems that most of the national dance crazes, the “Do The Sarah Palin,” has been sweeping the web. Poor Joe Biden (i.e. issues are cool! No, man, you got ISSUES! Chill out, gently down the stream, all that…). Anyway, I used to be in a band called Volumen in New York with
Fritz Chesnut who’s married to Molly Shannon & maybe she could introduce me to Tina Fey. I have a collab. idea. -
The Duchess and the Duke, “I Am Just a Ghost”
Yes, I like the vocal harmonies, the T. Rex frontman, the B-side to his second single before he joined John’s Children juxtaposing it with rockets and strippers.
Well, I like Micah Ballard as an example of San Francisco poet, and SunnyLyn Thibodeaux -
The Godfathers, “If I Only Had TIme,”
20 or 21 years ago, the line “we’re living under a false economy” in this song really grabbed me, and now 20 years later, it serves as essential listening for the primer on the recent economic depression recession money grab by thugs.
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Carrie Underwood, “Just a Dream”
Pretty amazing to me that the only radio hit in recent tmes to come close to being as much of an anti-war song as “Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town” is this song. It still makes me cry.
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Root Rats, “The Isle of Misfit Toys”
A punky garage Christmas song, just in time for the holidays
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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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Honky Tonkers for Truth, “I’m Taking My Country Back”blog comments powered by Disqus
The name of this band no doubt hurt this song’s chances in the 2004 election. Oh well, “Farenheit 911” didn’t work either. Hail Matt Gonzales and Ralph Nader or a cross between Brian Westbrook and
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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