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Ronnie James Dio dead at 67

dni — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:06:05 +0000

Inspired by Dave W., A Heavy Metal Yahrtziet Candle in his honor.

Heavy Metal Yahrtziet Candle in honor of Ronnie James Dio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_James_Dio

First known color photo of the Beatles (1957!)

dni — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:56:17 +0000

First known color photo of the Beatles (1957!)

Found it here:

http://benfungtorrez.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/first-known-color-photo-of-the-beatles-super-cool/

Go see Bob Mould while he is on tour with a band

dni — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:03:26 +0000

If you live in Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or San Diego you would be nuts not to go see Bob Mould while he is on tour with a band (those are the remaining dates).

He is traveling with Jason Narducy (ex Verbow) on Bass and John Wurster (ex Superchunk) on Drums.

I experienced an excellent show last week in Boston, at the Paradise.

Tour dates here: http://granarymusic.com/tour/dates/ or here: http://bobmould.com/shows

A little video taste of the show is here:

and a photo here:

Bob Mould Band at the Paradise Boston 10-07-2009

Looking for Matweeds recording of Ron Wood’s song “I Can Feel The Fire”.

dni — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:52:26 +0000

I saw the Matweeds, a Boston band, a couple of times in the mid-late 80′s.

The best time was at a Thayer Street loft party (de rigeur for Museum School types – present company included) I believe they played with the Gigolo Aunts (who are still around!). Pretty sure it was 1987 and that it was their loft.

Anyway, a song that they played that night has been stuck in my head ever since – especially the sax playing for some reason, and it pops up from time to time. So, today when the song popped into my head I finally googled it to see what the deal is.

According to this read-only page about the Matweeds, there exists a demo tape that has that song on it. The title of which (the song, not the demo) is I Can Feel The Fire. I had no idea that it was a cover, much less a Stones cover (kinda).

It’s a longshot, but anyone out there have this? I would be happy to convert it from any sort of analong format to digital, if that would be helpful. Anybody know any of the people in the band who might have one and be willing to make a duplicate? Anybody have a live recording of them?

According to the afformentioned web page (and some more google-ing), Richie Hughes and Dave Fredette (is he related to Stephen Fredette of Scruffy the Cat?) played in the Matweeds along with Dave Collins (D.Y.S) Jerry Lehane (Dogmatics and here) Frank Shacht (Last Stand) John Goetchius (Keyboards: Mighty Might Bosstones, Cherry Poppin Daddies) and Nate Bowditch – I think he played saxaphone (Enormous, Sorry). Also Jimmy Keough (link to photo of him performing by Anita L. Maffei) and Mike County.

Again, I know it’s a long shot, but what the hell.
You never know.

Thanks.

Music to make code by

dni — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:56:41 +0000

Music to make code by, according to Red Hat Linux developers. “Hats Off” to the inclusion of The Living End

Bob Mould: Zen and Now

dni — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:24:05 +0000

Bob Mould: Zen and Now. From Harp Magazine.

Bob Mould wrestles with his muse

dni — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:28:59 +0000

Bob Mould wrestles with his muse: from the Boston Phoenix

Kol Cambridge – The UK’s only radio show dedicated to Israeli & Jewish music

dni — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:46:51 +0000

Kol Cambridge – The UK’s only radio show dedicated to Israeli & Jewish music.
They have a podcast, too.

Yehuda Poliker

dni — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:51:12 +0000

Yehuda Poliker was frontman of “Benzeen” , Israel’s original major platinum selling rock’ n’ roll group, until he decided that the time was right to make a record that was true to the pure roots of Greek and other Mediterranean music.

The Rings

dni — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:41:31 +0000

The Rings on New England Music Scrapbook

The Rings on Boston Rock Storybook (Joe Harvard)