Bands With Terrible Hair

Randomizing!

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 I will return to serious rock journalism soon, I promise. I'll have reviews of  new or recent releases from Danzig, Night Horse, Dead Confederate, Early Man and Alain Johannes. I'm researching  material for an interesting list of the Top 15 secret weapons(band members) of rock. 

But see, we're all still on summer vacation, with one week remaining before we go back to  rock school so lets stay silly for a short time more, maybe put the kids to bed early with a little benadryl in their ice cream, invite some friends over for some beer bong contests in your living room while you watch The Song Remains The Same for the 7,000,000th time, repeating the Bonzo drum solo over and over.

From Buzzfeed.com,  I found this awesome article on  Bands With Terrible Hair. Unlike A Flock of Seagulls, The Plasmatics and Kajagoogoo, these kids have No Talent Whatsoever. I bet they all have stylists, though.  I bet the thought balloon straight from the mind of the stylist goes something like this...."Hmm, I think we'll do a smidge of windblown skaterat, add a little half gelled mulletude and some goth dutchboy meets dull scissors...then go roll in a dumpster and viola!"

  Every band on the sensitive faux-screamo side of Warped Tour....below for your pleasure.

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  1. Blood On The Dance Floor

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  2. Breathe Carolina

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  3. Black Veil Brides

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  4. Bring Me The Horizon

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  5. Brokencyde

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  6. Confide

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  7. Dot Dot Curve

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  8. Escape The Fate

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  9. Family Force Five

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  10. Handshakes And High Fives

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  11. Medic Droid

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  12. Scene Kidz

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  13. Forever The Sickest Kids

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  14. The Cab

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  15. The Maine

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  16. The Devil Wears Prada

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  17. Tokio Hotel

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  18. Never Shout Never

  Christopher Drew may fly solo, but his horrendous hairdo makes him list worthy! (www.myspace.com/nevershoutnever )
  
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  19. Stereo Skyline

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John's John

From the Guardian UK:

 

John Lennon's loo fetches £9,500 at auction for Beatles fans

 

 

The porcelain toilet from Tittenhurst Park, Lennon's Berkshire home between 1969 and 1972, was sold for £9,500 at auction. 

 

A porcelain lavatory which John Lennon told a builder to use as a "plant pot" has fetched £9,500 – nearly 10 times its guide price – at an auction today.
The loo was used by the music legend when he lived at Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire between 1969 and 1972.
Lennon told builder John Hancock to keep it and "use it as a plant pot", after he installed a new one.
The toilet was stored in a shed at Mr Hancock's home for 40 years until he died recently.
It was expected to fetch only £1,000 at the auction at the 33rd annual Beatles Convention in Liverpool today. But an overseas investor forked out £9,500 for it.
Auction organiser and Beatles expert Stephen Bailey said: "It is unbelievable. We had bids coming in from all over the place but it went to a private overseas buyer."
The loo was among the highlights of the auction of Beatles memorabilia.

Also up for grabs was a rare mono-sound copy of Two Virgins, which Lennon recorded with wife Yoko Ono. It was expected to fetch at least £2,500.
When the LP was released in November 1968, it was sold in brown paper bags as the sleeve controversially featured a naked picture of the famous couple.
A limited release of 5,000 stereo versions of the album were available in shops, but fans had to write to the record label to purchase a mono copy of the record.
The exact number of mono copies sold is unknown. However, organisers say it is likely to be as few as a "couple of hundred".

What is it with memorabilia hounds and toilets? Is it just one guy who is a wackjob combo of scatologist/celeb stalker who is buying these and plans on building a museum ?

Was he the guy hiding in the brush behind Jerry Garcia's house in Northern CA that day that an old toilet was brought to the curb and "mysteriously vanished" less than an hour later.? (sung to the tune of "Roll away..the Loo")

Has he been forcibly removed from Graceland more than once for sneaking past the velvet ropes and zebra print wallpaper armed with a camera and trying to get a shot of the "Holy Grail" of johns....the one on which Elvis pushed out a peanut butter and banana doody too fast and  too hard and blew out a vein in his neck , breathing his last breath in Aug of '77?


I know there's a list of celebrity toilets sold at auction or stolen somewhere...anyone wanna send me a link?


Please don't poo-poo this request. I'm a serious rock journalist and I need to get to the bottom of this....

Also,  Brits, help a brother out...How much is 9500 pounds in US greenbacks.?

Ozzy vs. Snooki

I love Ozzy. This is one of the video spoofs running on the screens at his concerts. Ozzy does the Jersey Shore. The Prince of Darkness looks so pale next to all of those glossy orange nudniks. I was hoping he'd spit bat blood all over Snooki's  high hair, or take her over his knees and spank her with brass knuckles....Crazy...but that's how it goes.

VH1's Top 100 Artists of All Time

I love me some lists! I especially love music related lists with huge glaring errors! I will expose said errors to the world with the hopes of angry mobs forming around certain "artists" falsely represented on this list. These angry mobs will be dispatched via a subliminal power chord emanating at ultra low frequency from this website and will be activated when clicked upon.

Here is VH1's list of the Top 100 artists of all time. Soon to be a special airing right after Dad Camp and right before Ochocinco. Apparently, it was voted on by a large group of musicians such as Darryl Hall, Rob Halford and P Diddy...for the record, I just sharted.


Ok listen for the subliminal power chord......settle in and then join your mob and disperse to find Justin Timberlake and Coldplay. Who should never even be on a best of ANYTHING list except maybe" Best Attempt of Growing Facial Hair to Look Less Feminine."


"VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" List:
TOP 5, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
1. The Beatles
2. Bob Dylan
3. Michael Jackson
4. Led Zeppelin
5. Rolling Stones
NUMBER 6 – 11, RANKED
6. Jimi Hendrix
7. Prince
8. Elvis Presley
9. James Brown
10. Stevie Wonder
11. Bob Marley
12. David Bowie
13. The Who
14. Nirvana
15. The Beach Boys
16. Madonna
17. Queen
18. Pink Floyd
19. U2
20. Marvin Gaye
21. Bruce Springsteen
22. The Clash
23. AC/DC
24. The Velvet Underground
25. Chuck Berry
26. Neil Young
27. Aretha Franklin
28. Elton John
29. Radiohead
30. Aerosmith
31. John Lennon
32. Black Sabbath
33. Guns N' Roses
34. Tina Turner
35. Johnny Cash
36. Paul McCartney
37. Fleetwood Mac
38. Sly & The Family Stone
39. The Kinks
40. The Police
41. Van Halen
42. Metallica
43. Ray Charles
44. Joni Mitchell
45. Al Green
46. Ramones
47. Jay-Z
48. Rage Against The Machine
49. Parliament-Funkadelic
50. Sade
51. Billy Joel
52. Beyonce
53. Little Richard
54. Public Enemy
55. Peter Gabriel
56. KISS
57. Iggy & The Stooges
58. Cheap Trick
59. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
60. Whitney Houston
61. Cream
62. Genesis
63. Notorious B.I.G.
64. Talking Heads
65. The Doors
66. Justin Timberlake
67. Coldplay
68. Otis Redding
69. Tupac Shakur
70. Def Leppard
71. R.E.M.
72. Janis Joplin
73. Van Morrison
74. The Cure
75. Rush
76. Run-D.M.C.
77. Lynyrd Skynyrd
78. Judas Priest
79. Eminem
80. Mary J. Blige
81. ABBA
82. Steely Dan
83. Earth, Wind and Fire
84. Curtis Mayfield
85. The Band
86. N.W.A.
87. George Michael
88. Bee Gees
89. Beastie Boys
90. Elvis Costello
91. Green Day
92. LL Cool J
93. Pearl Jam
94. Mariah Carey
95. OutKast
96. Journey
97. Pretenders
98. Depeche Mode
99. Hall & Oates
100. Alicia Keys
  
I really don't have a problem with the top 40(..I would have switched a few,(see comments below) but it looks OK to me.




Ok listen for the subliminal power chord......settle in and then join your mob and disperse(armed with molotov cocktails and balloons full of Vaseline) to find Justin Timberlake and Coldplay. Look inside nail salons, naked yoga classes and organic cooking classes everywhere.

These pampered assclowns should never even be on a best of ANYTHING list except maybe" Best Attempt of Growing Facial Hair to Look Less Feminine."


To have Mr. Timberlake ahead of the likes of Janis Joplin, Van Morrison, even Steely Dan is preposterous.
To Have Coldplay(who sound like a bad Radiohead cover band whose lead singer has chronic post nasal drip) ahead of the likes of Otis Redding, Rush and Lynyrd Skynyrd is criminal....


Get those teeth ready to clench Rocker Girls...because Beyounce, Mary J Blige and Mariah Carey are all ahead of The Pretenders...even though they never wrote a note of original music.
Beyounce is also wayyy ahead of The Doors, The Stooges, The Band and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. You can find her on a yacht on most days of the year. Mob, feel free to fire bomb it from the dock.

I don't deny Madonna's talent and influence , but she would hover around the low 80s if I was the List King, not AHEAD of Queen, Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen and the friggin' Clash. Shit, she's ahead of Aretha Franklin.!!!!! Aretha should be the highest ranking female. Nuff Said. Un -arguable.


I don't think the Velvet Underground belongs ahead of Neil Young or Elton John or JOHN LENNON....cmon now..and I love Lou Reed, really I do. ..just listened to Berlin 2 days ago.


Let's talk AC/DC...I love them from '76-'82.....just fantastic transitioning from Bon to Brian....since then.....Feh. They're superstars, extremely influential, but for fuck's sake they should not be ahead of Johnny or Joni....not now, not ever.


Kiss are Con Artists...not great artists...not even artists. Not much separating them from Insane Clown Posse except a genre, 2 members and 75 pounds.
Rage Against the Machine....sort of a one trick pony with a horribly overrated guitarist.
Sade??? With 2 hits?   Alicia Keyes? with ONE?
LL Cool J???????   Doesn't he spend most of his time doing sit ups and sit coms?


Bob Dylan is still a legend, an American Treasure...but he's sounded like he's singing through a cancer kazoo since '95 and he..and that pharmacologist Michael jackson should never be placed in front of the Stones.


The Beatles....yesterday, today and forever number one.


What do you think?   Who is missing?

"There's One For You, Nineteen for Me"

Thank you to ALL of the new visitors to Circle of Fits and for your continued words of support AND dissent. I have enjoyed them both equally.

The press/attention has been shocking and awe-ing me and my crack staff. The people who run my fan club, my PR guy, my masseuse, lifecoach and my accountant have been overworked these last few days due to the extended interest in questions and answers stemming from the Philadelphia Citypaper article that mentions Circle of Fits and which spotlights the city's plan to tax bloggers.

There is a chance this site/blog/business may go to an Initial Public Offering in the next few days, right after I split up my three ply toilet paper into 3 separate rolls, buy my latest round of Ramen in bulk, and turn my socks inside out for a fourth go round.

Until then, be sure to click on the ads that offer up training to become an AVON representative in the right and left columns of this blog.  I'm sure all of my readers, who are mostly made up of cranky, basement- dwelling third rate karaoke contestants.....have already.

Talking About the Philly Blogger Tax/License

Well, that little article which in last Wednesday's Philly Citypaper regarding the alleged proposal by the city to TAX Philadelphia based  bloggers if they happen to be making any money from their passionate wares.....has created a mini-media firestorm. Not mini like, Mini-Kiss, or mini like any chance of serious accolade ever being given to Justin Bieber,  but mini in a regional journalistic controversial sense.

I was one of only two bloggers mentioned by name and URL in the article.  I was/have been contacted by various Philadelphia based newspapers and radio stations. I'm giving an interview to an NPR program called The Takeaway tomorrow at 620 am. Someone said I was mentioned on The Drudge Report, right next to a report on Bikini Clad Tea Party girls planning to do a calendar(LOLOLOLOL..choke, spit).

I don't know what to make of it all. I'm not impressed, though because neither Lester Bangs, Howard Stern or even freakin' Kurt Loder has requested an interview and one of them's dead.

Listen, I don't make any money on this blog, but if I did it would either be spent on fine pale ales or a lifetime supply of Cookie Crisp...I'm not a hookers and blow sort of guy.

If the city wants to come after me, have at it, I have nothing but some pristine bagged and boarded comics and a signed copy of Tonight's the Night...and you'll have to fight me for those.... but, in reality, I'm just a writer who likes to go to shows and complain about everything, and have had to do so out of pocket...for the lifetime of this blog. I said I have made 11 dollars over the course of two years from my ads..that will get you lukewarm Bud Light at a Phillies game...What I didn't say, is that I don't even know how to GET that 11 dollars that I've made...it's out in the digital ether somewhere...

I chose to put up banner ads on the site to maybe, in a Dream Police-d world cover the cost of going to a few shows per, month. It has not worked out in my monetary favor.

But I'm still here, cranky as ever, selfishly reporting on what is wrong or right in rock and roll...and nobody has come for the 300 bucks that I don't have yet.

I'll be waiting.

Philly's Citypaper mentions Circle of Fits

Famewhore.

Algae mite attached to a tadpole attached to a small fish in a big pond.

Attention craving non journalist who goes to shows and points fingers at the world, and the world of music for sucking so hard.

Call me what you will, me and my blog (this one that you're reading right now- for the window licking- quotient of my fanbase) , got a mention in an article in this week's Citypaper (one of two Philly weeklies with big circulations).
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The article is called Pay Up.  It was written by the fabulous Valerie Rubinsky and it lets people of the blogging persuasion know that the city of Philadelphia may want to TAX you if a blog you write, happens to make any money off of banner ads and the like that are embedded on  your blog. So after Google gets a cut from adsense ( my tally so far, just over 11 dollars in two years), you could be a target depending on how much of a business your particular blog is. My definition of "business", and probably that of many other Philly based bloggers, is different than that of the city of Philadelphia, apparently.

Here is the link:  http://citypaper.net/articles/2010/08/19/blogging-business-privilege-tax-philadelphia

Circle of Fits is a labor of love for the most part. I re-launched it in Sept. 2008  as therapy...as a project  that could allow me to reconnect to a long dormant creative writing/ side of my life trapped under years of doubt, loss and laziness...and inspired into fruition by the snapshots of the last year of my late sister's life. I used music as a touchpoint/ launchpad, because it inhabits a huge part of my battered soul and it stirs up so many emotions. It lights my fuse, burns my candle and leaves a scar.

I never expected Circle of Fits to "make money" or be deemed a "business". The only business I incorporate into this site is mine, not yours. Its none of your business, but all of your business. I put ads on it as an experiment, and I don't ever expect anyone to click on them..I don't even know how to put the time in to learn how to control which ones are being presented...i.e. There is an ad for a website called everybodyloveshiphop.com that makes an appearance from time to time. This pisses me off to the tenth power of evil..most of my readers know I despise hip- hop and proclaim it as one of the major contributors to the decline of civilization. So there. Do you think anyone would want to advertise with Circle of Fits after a statement like that????  Naw...shit..there's a new ad shown before movie previews with hooded hip hop Hamsters trying to sell you a Kia Soul car...makes me puke popcorn into my mouth... So I wear that happy hatred on my sleeve and don't intend to cash in from this here blog..... I hope to inspire and infuriate equally...because when the day is done...all I want is conversation .....

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McCartney Pics

McCartney/Meaghan- Riding the Rides

I went to see Paul McCartney on Saturday.  Monday was the second anniversary of my sister's death. This is what I call an emotional roller coaster. I could compare it to a ride at a Six Flags in purgatory. The ride is one where.. well,.you stand in line with all of the other fans, clutching tickets you've been mentally preparing yourself for your entire life, fun beyond compare.  goose flesh rolling in waves from your arms to the back of your neck... sandwiched between jubilation and fear....

The ride is all you never expected it to be...and more.  There were high peaks, greased wheels squealing over the rails.....(never heard the song Here Today before, about John, chillingly beautiful, written soon after his death...I demand you find it yourselves...it is on the Tug of War album from 1982....never expected A Day in the Life or Something, both poignant, and compelling almost to the point of being overwhelming and sung perfectly.)

There were curves where you expected to feel the wheels release from the rail as you swerved on through..  LET ME ROLL IT !!!...THE TWO OF US!..did not expect so many Wings songs to have impressed me as they did. Did not ever expect to hear Ram On from the second solo album.... Rock Show/Venus and Mars opened the show and set the charges... Now I have everything Wings ever did. My Love was a tough one to get through for very specific reasons, yet it's still a lovely, lovely song.... never again will I write off anything Macca  post Beatles.The Pics I took will be posted soon.....I had the smallest lens of the entire press line..but it mattered not...the pictures I have behind my eyes leave a historic stamp on my time here on earth.

 For the second part of the ride..there was an abundance of coasting....on Sunday, in anticipation of an awful anniversary which will never get any easier....thoughts of all of the snapshots of joy , the joy I volleyed in my head so easily in the company of a Beatle...the simple joy of being alive and experiencing that which makes one as close to happy as they have ever experienced....was taken for granted, a short lived dream , I awake in a sea of sweat, the hours are jumbled, those Saturday snapshots were lost in the undertow of darkness that can so easily pull me under.

Monday....my sister is two years gone...the ride reaches its final turn before returning to the start...to transport so many others closer to their dreams of exhilaration, release and the unknown....the smell of the pull brake the oncoming tunnel, people with their hands up, screaming in the dark....and then day?, light..a coast to a stop...for everyone but me. I pull away in reverse, ride alone to relive that last tunnel over and over, screaming..while she is ahead of me lost in her search for the light. I chase her, begging her to take another ride with me, one or two cars ahead... she will always be one or two cars ahead....

My Grunge Love Affair Continues

Soundgarden from Lollapalooza this past Sunday night doing Blow Up the Outside World.

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Just could be my anthem all over again.

But I still wanna break my Rusty Cage......and run.

Live Review: Phish at Susquehanna Bank Arts Center, June 24, 2010

Phish are the most popular band in the jam band scene. Phish play their instruments with virtuosic intensity. Phish  are recession proof. They're one of those bands that nobody on the outside understands, and their fans like it that way. Phish make those perpetual two left- footed people get up and dance, like nobody but twenty thousand total strangers are watching. They make people feel really, really good.

Their tour stop in Philly, in many ways, was standard groove and granola fare. Every generation will have its band for the whirling dervish youth nation, tipsy and twirling on a hillside to blandly sung psychedelic jams with a funk whip topping.  Phish is different. Their fans are culled from many walks of life. The Phish family could be mostly comprised of post-Deadhead refugees falling right into place with a different band, but a familiar scent and scene. However, these faces were young, organically and chemically conscious folk and this crowd was perched atop the tip of bliss from opener to encore. Their Priuses smell like kind bud, they are looking for ways to make hemp a fiber optic equivalent and they love variety. One of the qualities that makes the band that they love a jambase standout is the surprise factor.

Phish can move effortlessly from a perilously funky groove,as they did roaming through a massive cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Boogie on Reggae Woman” and straight into the swampy thump of their song "Gumbo”. The band fearlessly weaves through the jaunty hop of crowd favorite "Reba" and then rolls right into a never before played, and bulls-eyed take on Led Zeppelin’s "The Rover”. Their catalog is immense, and they fear no genre. Guitarist/singer Trey Anastasio seems to be able to handle any style, with appropriate noodling yet his sound is certainly his own. Drummer John Fishman is a percussive marksman, never missing a swing or groove, leaving tempos ebbing and flowing in his wake. Did I mention he wears a dress while doing so?

The raucous and laid back “Timber Ho” sent the crowd into a critical mass of floaty fun under the diving arcs of giant beach balls and a back-lit night sky. There were people pushing babies in sweaty strollers, singing along and refusing to grow older as "Down With Disease" broke open the second set. For some revelers, the acquisition of a personal quadrant of space to dance sent waves of released joy through their undulating extremities. It was if they had discovered a cure for boredom and wanted to share it with anyone.

Dancing is one of life’s simplest joys. To explore movement, very personal movement as an interpretation to how a body is guided by a song, go no further than a Phish show. The dancing throughout the venue on songs like “Harry Hood” and “You Enjoy Myself” was sometimes instinctive, sensually manic and very necessary.
There will always be a need for music that allows people to not only let loose, but to completely set themselves free. Phish fans know this, and seem to be reborn within the crazy rhythms of every song.

 Article first published as Concert Review: Phish at Susquehanna Bank Arts Center, June 24, 2010 on Blogcritics.

Last Night a Grunge Band Saved My Life Today

Today is my birthday. It is a lonely one with dead shadows creeping up the walls, assailed by the humidity and falling into pools of evaporating blood. I am alone while the cicada's hum outside sounds like ball bearings rolling and scrumming around my emaciated skull in a rock tumbler.
There is no doubt of my age. I'm as old as Moses.. a bloated and tattooed Moses clutching tablets of composite concrete, etched with the spray painted ten deadly sins that I have partaken in and had done done to me.  The sea that parts ahead of me is a frothy ripcurl of backwashed pale ales and carcinogenic dust particles inhaled from 23 years of making everything that is built, beautiful. I am still here and my angel clean sister is not.

I am as old as the Hills you are supposed to run to, like Iron Maiden says .....I am the Old Man that the crusty cleric Neil Young spoke of, except I'm much more than the "24 and there's so much more."  I'm older than the fossilized molecules that made up jesus' sandal fungus....you get it by now, right?

I will age twice as fast as all of you these coming seasons for reasons I cannot say, but my constipated ticker will hold steady..lead by my conquistador of a brain. On to new old lands. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Today, I didn't want no card, no cake, no firm handshake or pat on the back for having existed for another year...but I would have liked to be in Chicago at The Vic Theatre last night. Soundgarden played.

Soundgarden were responsible for my perilous and heavy soundtrack from 1993-1998. All of the other bands were equivalent to mere newsreel footage. And their boots weren't nearly as heavy.

I've got proof that they did the show right below..with my soundtrack for today is my birthday...here is Soundgarden performing Let Me Drown.





And now, I will do as they have told.

Iggy's Aging Abs

I don't care what anyone says or thinks after you check out this link to A Time Line of Iggy Pop's Shirtless Aging.

The man is one of a kind. Often imitated, NEVER duplicated. Perhaps he moves so much at age 63?, that he shook his abs loose from his bones., and they are just jiggling around in place, still rock solid, but detached like rocks in a tumbler. He's on tour now, as old as your Dad and rocks harder than any mall punk pussy with off kilter douch spiked Warped tour hair. 

http://www.iggyandthestoogesmusic.com/us/news

The Best Backing Vocal Performances

The Velvet Rope website had a great thread going the other day regarding Songs With the Best Backing Vocals  that I would like to expand upon.

Their list included:

 1) Any Van Halen Song with Michael Anthony on it.  He's the high voice. Not Dave or Sammy or whats his name from Extreme.
 2) Chaka Khan on Winwood's Higher Love
 3) Merry Clayton on Gimme Shelter (The Stones)
 4) Clare Torry on The Great Gig in the Sky (Pink Floyd)
 5) Mike Mills on Fall on Me (REM)
 6)Linda Rondstadt/James Taylor on Heart of Gold (Neil Young)
 7)Whoever sang on I'm Not In Love by 10cc
 

I'm gonna add these

1) Mick Jagger on You're So Vain (Carly Simon)
2) Michael McDonald on Peg (Steely Dan)
3)Stevie Nicks on The Chain(Fleetwood Mac)
4)  The "Colored Girls" :Karen Friedman, Dari Lalou and Casey Synge on Walk On The Wild Side(Lou Reed)
5)Nancy Wilson on Dog and Butterfly(Heart)
6) Roger Taylor on Bohemian Rhapsody(Queen)
7) Sandy Denny on The Battle of Evermore(Led Zeppelin)
8) John Lennon on Fame (David Bowie)
9) Paul, George and Ringo on The Sun King(Beatles)
10) Jerry Cantrell on Rooster or Down in a Hole (Alice in Chains)
11) Graham Nash and Steven Stills on Guinnevere( CSN)
12)Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell( for each other) on Hunger Strike (Temple of the Dog)
13) Rob Halford on Feel Good Hit  of the Summer (QOTSA)
14) Bobby Whitlock on I Am Yours (Layla) Derek and the Dominos
15)Jerry Garcia/Bobby Weir on Box of Rain (Grateful Dead)
16)Greg Rollie on Wheel in the Sky(Journey)
17)Art Garfunkel on Homeward Bound (Simon and Garfunkel)


What can you add?  Dream it, and it will come...

The Khyber Passes

During these last few, short years in Philly, I've been to the legendary Khyber Pass club 4 or 5 times to see bands/review them. It is with great sadness that I read this morning of its demise. For any decent indie rock, or punk band passing through Philadelphia during 1988-1996, 1997-2005, this was the place to play.

It is a dive of dives, with a low ceiling, a crooked floor, and a fantastic selection of beer which made you feel better about the sort of pissy smell throughout the place. It is located in an area of the City called Old City, which is, sadly mostly inhabited with the type of nightlife afficionados who value their clothing,their orang-ish hue and their swagger more than going to see a live show in a narrow and cramped room accompanied by rock ruffians.   Iggy Pop, Guided By Voices, J Mascis, The Killers, Flaming Lips, Screaming Trees,Smashing Pumpkins, The Dead Milkmen and The Jesus Lizard all took the stage at the Khyber.

It was a great escape from the semi suburban hell that I encounter every day...I will miss it. 

Here is the great article from Philadelpia City Paper, written by Brian Howard:

http://citypaper.net/articles/2010/07/29/khyber-philadelphia