• Do A Good Deed, Get Free WIM Art!

    Mike Dorman’s Revenge of the Daisy posters are here, and man do they look great.  Wimbot is taking quite a beating from The Daisy, but he deserves it after all of that stomping. I have a few of these glossy 11×17 beauties to give away absolutely100% free.  Here’s all you need to do:

  • From the Stacks: Ahh…The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!

    Ah, yeah.  William “Bootsy” Collins is a favorite of my son’s and mine.  All either one of us has to say is “on the one” and the other will bust into some variation of “ahhh, it’s Bootzilla, baby.”

  • Conversations With Adrian Bellue, part 2

    (Previously Adrian was talking about how time mending after knee surgery turned into time dedicated to the guitar.  Those hours led to great refinement in his technique, which led to friends encouraging him to get out in front of an audience.)

  • Deep Cuts: Playing Card Songs

    I have been bitten by a faulty “save” button today.  I had a fairly nice piece written about playing cards and music, and apparently it has vanished. The good news is that the music survived, so here are some playing card songs without my half-witty commentary.  Enjoy.

  • Legend Records Release Party, San Diego 3/31

    So I’m bumping around the intergooglewebtubes a couple of nights ago and I stumble on this cool San Diego band named Chocolate Revolution.  With a name like that I had to check them out:  did they sound like The Strawberry Alarm Clock?  The 1910 Fruitgum Company?  Moby Grape?  Chocolate Milk?

  • 120. The Turn of a Friendly Card

    South Carolina is contoured like a playing card bent at the upper left corner.  This is where I was raised, up here on the K on the suicide king, above his coat of arms, tucked into to the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains.  But after the new year put 1985 to rest, I packed…

  • From the Stacks: Mark Radice – Intense

    Mark Radice is one of those really interesting figures in the music business whose story really deserves telling.  Unfortunately, he never responded to my interview requests, so you’re going to have to settle for my version.

  • The (Kind Of) Complete Woodstock: Paul Butterfield Blues Band

    It’s six o’clock Monday morning.  The sun is up and the kids are clearing out, going back to their jobs, schools, worried parents.  Some are just wiped out from a long weekend of too much music, rain, and dope, and too little food. Regardless, the crowd is clearing out, which is a goddamned shame because…

  • From The Stacks: Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense

    This is a cool limited version of the soundtrack to Stop Making Sense.  Musically there’s no difference, but this version came with the booklet that you see on the left.

  • Conversations With Adrian Bellue, part 1

    This is an interesting story.  One afternoon I was kicking around the intergooglewebtubes and I stumbled across the kind of tough looking kid playing solo acoustic guitar.  His technique was fantastic and his songs were great, so I did a little poking around and discover that he lives in Sacramento, California — my home base.…