19 April 2009
Bo Diddley(R.I.P) (and that ain’t no Cadillac Records; maybe Nas will play him in the sequel; Little Walter, “My Babe”)
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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Eddie Bo
Recently deceased, amazing New Orleans piano soul/funk R&B sides.
Google him, if you not yet know. -
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. -
Norman Whitfield
Also recently deceased (September, 2008). Another amazing “behind the scenes” guy, whose songwriting and production was as at least as important to “The Motown Sound” as Smokey Robinsonand Holland Dozier Holland.
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John Rich, “Shuttin’ Detroit Down”blog comments powered by Disqus
A contemporary country hit whose working class message about bailing out the fat cats on Wall Street I was very happy to hear. But, watch out, Democrats and progressives. People 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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