Tuesday 9 February, 2010 (on this day in history) scroll to the bottom of the page to post a comment...
Long ago - but not far away, a generation of American Patriots, mischaracterized by our Vice President, Spiro Agnew, as “the misfits of society”, decided that the state of the union was in such disarray, that something had to be done to reunite us with some passion and focus… something like the Boston Tea Party without the anger and violence…our answer, was“Woodstock”…we were ten times as pissed off and disappointed with our government as todays “patriot”…yet our “Tea Party”, (the largest gathering of humans ever to assemble for anything besides a war) manifested itself in a gathering of the tribes to listen to the music of our generation…music of hope, peace, promise…not a drumbeat for anarchy…God help us...
Colbert: "Sarah Palin Is A F--king Retard" (VIDEO) Using Sarah Palin's defense of Rush Limbaugh against her, last night Stephen Colbert proudly pronounced that "Sarah Palin is a f--king retard." After mocking Palin's speech at the Tea Party Convention (taking the obligatory jabs at the notes on her hand) Colbert moved on to Palin's reaction to Rahm Emanuel's use of the word "retard." Palin not only called for his Emanuel's firing, but also defended Rush Limbaugh's use of the word, deeming it acceptable because it was satire.
Jeb Brady Band... 6:00-8:00 Tonight...19 Broadway February 9 th, 2010...Jeff Muldaur really made out sounding so much like Jeb Brady...come see for yourself Hip Shake...
Monday 8 February, 2010 (on this day in history) scroll to the bottom of the page to post a comment...
RIP JOHN MURTHA - JUNE 17, 1932 - FEBRUARY 8, 2010
Veteran Democratic lawmaker Jack Murtha dies at 77 Democratic heavyweight Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) -- who went by Jack -- has died after complications following gallbladder surgery. A local news station said the congressman had died in the hospital with his family by his side at 1:18 PM ET Monday. Murtha was the chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, where he oversaw Pentagon spending. He was the longest-serving Pennsylvania lawmaker, and was first elected in 1974. Murtha has been an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama's Afghan war policy. The chairman of the House subcommittee in charge of allocating war funding told a magazine in September he opposed any further troop increases for Afghanistan. "In Vietnam it took 500,000 troops and that didn't solve the problem," Murtha told Foreign Policy. "So we have to take a different approach."
As we say back in Loosianne', "Dis is wut I'm talkin' bout',"
Here's Jerry Lawson and The Talk Of The Town and the tribute he wrote and they recorded for Barack Obama in general and our Obama-Thon in particular...thank-you Jerry and Julie Lawson and The Talk Of The Town...
The Persuasions - Gypsy Woman
Seasons greetings from California...The Hotel California, that is...
"what kind of guitar is he playing, it sounds funny. These guys are ok, but whoever is playing guitar during the solo needs to get his effects right. like seriously."
"They are "playing" only with mouth, it is a vocal group"
RIP JOHN MURTHA - JUNE 17, 1932 - FEBRUARY 8, 2010
Veteran Democratic lawmaker Jack Murtha dies at 77 Democratic heavyweight Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) -- who went by Jack -- has died after complications following gallbladder surgery. A local news station said the congressman had died in the hospital with his family by his side at 1:18 PM ET Monday. Murtha was the chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, where he oversaw Pentagon spending. He was the longest-serving Pennsylvania lawmaker, and was first elected in 1974. Murtha has been an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama's Afghan war policy. The chairman of the House subcommittee in charge of allocating war funding told a magazine in September he opposed any further troop increases for Afghanistan. "In Vietnam it took 500,000 troops and that didn't solve the problem," Murtha told Foreign Policy. "So we have to take a different approach."
As we say back in Loosianne', "Dis is wut I'm talkin' bout',"
Mimi Margharita Baez, folk singer and activist: born Standford, California 30 April 1945; married 1963 Richard Farina (died 1966); died Mill Valley, California 18 July 2001. It was a concert she did with B.B. King at Sing-Sing Prison in New York, followed by an appearance arranged by her cousin to sing to patients at a half-way house for people with drugs problems, that marked out for her the activist role she was to play for the last two and a half decades of her life. Yet, the most important work she did in her life was as organiser of the Bread and Roses musical charity...
Kate and Anna, known as the McGarrigle Sisters, began their careers performing at Montreal coffeehouses in the 1960s with a group called the Mountain City Four. They got their break in the 1970s, when their songs were covered by numerous artists, including Linda Ronstadt, who used "Heart Like a Wheel" as the title song to one of her albums.
Rufus & Martha Wainwright...
Kate McGarrigle and Anna McGarrigle "Hard Times Come Again No More" w/Sylvan, Lily and Dane Lanken, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Joel Zifkin . From "Songs of the Civil War" dir by Jim Brown song written by Stephen Foster
Martha, Rufis, & Teddy Thompson...
Teddy Thompson himself...
After the encore, Rufus invited his mother Kate and sister Martha up onstage to sing "Hard Times (Come Again No More)," an 1855 song by Stephen Foster (Martha and Kate were, in fact, sitting right behind me). All of us in the audience, still standing from our standing ovation, were completely mezmerized (nobody sat down, or moved a muscle). The Gramercy, 6/6/07
Loudin Wainwright III is the father of Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, and Lucy Wainwright Roche...
Performance Demo - When I shoot a performance in a club, I charge $250, you get 2-3 sets taped, I choose 2 clips to put up on YouTube and Google Video, which you can email or embed in your own site, whatever, they're yours, I deliver a 2 hour DVD with your selection of 2 hrs. of your performance and I furnish one copy per member of the band. If you want a high resolution 1 hour DVD with a menu and scene selection, art-work printed on the disc, it's an additional $100 per 1 hour disc. ie., Part 1, and Part 2, etc.
Kate and Anna, known as the McGarrigle Sisters, began their careers performing at Montreal coffeehouses in the 1960s with a group called the Mountain City Four. They got their break in the 1970s, when their songs were covered by numerous artists, including Linda Ronstadt, who used "Heart Like a Wheel" as the title song to one of her albums.
Rufus & Martha Wainwright...
Kate McGarrigle and Anna McGarrigle "Hard Times Come Again No More" w/Sylvan, Lily and Dane Lanken, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Joel Zifkin . From "Songs of the Civil War" dir by Jim Brown song written by Stephen Foster
Martha, Rufis, & Teddy Thompson...
Teddy Thompson's folks, Richard and Linda Thompson...
Teddy Thompson himself...
After the encore, Rufus invited his mother Kate and sister Martha up onstage to sing "Hard Times (Come Again No More)," an 1855 song by Stephen Foster (Martha and Kate were, in fact, sitting right behind me). All of us in the audience, still standing from our standing ovation, were completely mezmerized (nobody sat down, or moved a muscle). The Gramercy, 6/6/07
Loudin Wainwright III is the father of Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, and Lucy Wainwright Roche...
another group courtesy of Skippy The Bush Kangaroo..... (Suzzy was once married to Loudin Wainright)
Teddy Thompson's folks, Richard and Linda Thompson...
Loudin Wainwright III is the father of Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, and Lucy Wainwright Roche...
Rufus Wainwright with his mother, Kate Magarrigle, and Elvis Costello...
as long as we're getting to know one another...
Rufus & Martha Wainwright...
Kate McGarrigle and Anna McGarrigle "Hard Times Come Again No More" w/Sylvan, Lily and Dane Lanken, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Joel Zifkin . From "Songs of the Civil War" dir by Jim Brown song written by Stephen Foster
Martha, Rufis, & Teddy Thompson...
Teddy Thompson's folks, Richard and Linda Thompson...
Teddy Thompson himself...
After the encore, Rufus invited his mother Kate and sister Martha up onstage to sing "Hard Times (Come Again No More)," an 1855 song by Stephen Foster (Martha and Kate were, in fact, sitting right behind me). All of us in the audience, still standing from our standing ovation, were completely mezmerized (nobody sat down, or moved a muscle). The Gramercy, 6/6/07
Now that everyone's acquainted...here's Teddy's dad on Austin City Limits (at one time he was rated 2o th in the world as a guitar player...)
After the bottom fell out of the oil business back in Louisianne, I returned my houseboat to the bank and my current squeeze, Dianne, who was "as fine as wine", and Honey Bear, and myself journey'd west, We stayed over night with brother Ed in Morro Bay and moved on up the coast to San Francisco. Back in 72' I met a fella named George who had recently returned from flying medi-vac helicopters in Viet Nam, He was hangin' with Ham and Carey, our engineer at KFML. He was a fine fella' but had little or nothing to say about anything. Viet Nam left a lot of feelas' with little or nothing to say.
By now it's Christmas time in 1985 and George has migrated with Ham and Carey to Marin County and got himself a job flying tourists in a Jetstar helicopter at Pier 39 in San Francisco. I mentioned to George that I had a good video camera and had been shooting video for a while and would love to shoot from a helicopter. If I came over to Pier 39 the following Sunday, any time he did'nt have more than 5 passengers, I could ride along and shoot some video.
With Dianne in tow, I was there with bells on. We spent the day riding with George and various and sundry "paying guests" and here's what I was able to assemble from two hours of shakey camera work.
I was at a Verizon store in Corte Madera one day and ran up on a spectacular looking woman working customer service. I had spoken to her a couple of years before, and determined that we were both happily "married". Having found myself recently single, I asked her if she was still happily married. "All men suck", she replied, and I mentioned that my video work occasionally took me to clubs to "shoot" lounge acts and maybe we could meet at The Seafood Peddlar, a nearby waterfront restaurant, have a glass of wine, and "kick the gong around".
I was talking fast as the store was full of up-tite customers with a myriad of complaints, champing at the bit to unload on someone. She slipped me a note that read, "I'm playing at the Elbo Room in San Francisco next week, come and see me". I said, "I'll call ahead and clear it with management to bring a camera, and she said, "Just bring it and shoot, they shoot me all the time".
Your about to see what I saw, and heard, and although I was dumb-founded, I managed to shoot a good hour of video. Here's a couple of tunes, and the reminder that "there's no fool like an old fool". http://www.nobodyfromipanema.com/ Enjoy...
Here's Jerry Lawson and The Talk Of The Town and the tribute he wrote and they recorded for Barack Obama in general and our Obama-Thon in particular...thank-you Jerry and Julie Lawson and The Talk Of The Town...
Jerry Lawson and the Talk Of The Town documentary...
Thanks so much for sharing my music. One friend at a time. Means the world to me. By the way the video above me & Gans is "Heavenly Salvation" a Kurt Weill tune. Also I have a brand new CD with my new a cappella group. Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town. Masterpiece of my career. Hope you'll check it out. www.jerrylawson.biz
In Harmony, Jerry
MAY 27, 2008 9:55 PM
Ayo Down On My Knees - Jerry Lawson
And here at our own Freight & Salvage...
Jerry1234 said...
Jerry Lawson here, lead singer , arranger & producer of The Persuasions for 40 years. Pretty touching that you have those memories of us 35 years later. Sure would love to hear those ids we did. Some fun times. Did you know I left The Pers in 2004? Thought I was through with a cappella but the universe had other plans. Got a new a cappella group & just released the masterpiece of my 40 years! I hope you'll check it out & spread the news. In Harmony, Jerry Lawson www.jerrylawson.biz
"what kind of guitar is he playing, it sounds funny. These guys are ok, but whoever is playing guitar during the solo needs to get his effects right. like seriously."
"They are "playing" only with mouth, it is a vocal group"
