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The J.B.'s were James Brown backing group. Formed in 1970, Brown enticed back band members who'd previously split due to his autocratic nature. One of those was trombone player, Fred Wesley, who came back into the fold as bandleader of The J.B.s. In 1974, under the name Fred Wesley and the J.B.'s, they released their third album entitled, 'Damn Right I am Somebody', echoing one of Jesse Jackson's catch cries. From this album is today's track, the eternally funky instrumental, 'Blow Your Head'. Apparently Wesley had deemed it finished and ready for release when Brown decided it needed something more, so he added a wild free-jazz style moog synthesizer lead over the top of the entire track. Welsey wasn't pleased but the result is a top notch dancefloor stomper that hasn't gone unnoticed by the beat-digging hip hoppers.
Like so many James Brown tunes, this one has been sampled over and over, perhaps most recognisably by Public Enemy on the track that gave them their name, 'Public Enemy No.1'. I've included the version from their 1987 debut album 'Yo! Bum Rush The Show' for good measure.
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17 4" x 5" and smaller black and white photos of workers for the 0wens Illinois plant in Portland, Oregon. On the photo with the chalkboard the date 1-6-39 is visible.
A good many of the reviewers of that time came from literary backgrounds, usually the New York School of poetry, which showed up in their exaggerated claims and overripe metaphors. In art school in the late '50s, we played a game, reading reviews aloud from the latest issue of Art News and trying to guess who the subject was. I can still remember one: "X dumps live chunks of landscape steaming hot into the gallery." (Give up? Helen Frankenthaler.) What changed this situation? Artists started writing. (I'll leave it to someone else to answer the question "What changed it back?") Why let the critics speak for you when you are perfectly capable of speaking for yourself?
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this here is a 1949 buick super sedanette the way it looked when it rolled out of the showroom. its a two door with a straight eight and a fastback in like new (unrestored) condition. this may be my big personal icon for the 20c.
MJ: You've written that the concept of boredom didn’t really exist until 1760.
TH: That's the date most of us put on the Industrial Revolution, i.e. the age of the Big Machine. The idea of the machine was that we wouldn’t have to do that kind of work anymore ourselves. But you still need lots of men to work the machines, and these men become robotic because there’s no real skill involved. It’s like in Fast Food Nation where Eric Schlosser says the ultimate successful business could be operated by monkeys. They make it easier and easier to work the machines and keep the wages as low as possible. In the past we had a more varied existence, where you might do a bit of weaving, you’d be tending the garden, you were involved in a whole range of activities. You still see it now, if you go to, say, rural Mexico. Work was mixed in with leisure, and the day was more varied, so it wasn’t boring.
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If the Nomadic museum shows up in your city, it’s worth a visit. Like much of Ban’s work, it questions the norms of Western buildings by confronting them with a strikingly different architectural sensibility, and demonstrates that contemporary architecture can be both innovative and deconstructive without blobs, shards, or other formal gyrations.from brutal joint
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The Beastie Boys paid a licensing fee for the six-second, three-note segment of Newton's work but failed to pay an additional fee to license the underlying composition.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to dismiss Newton's lawsuit alleging copyright infringement. The appeals court reasoned that the short segment in "Pass the Mic" was not distinctive enough to be considered Newton's work.
Where do you see cars in Jackson Pollock's ''drip'' paintings?
You can't see it, but you can certainly feel it. You can feel speed, and you can feel the wind blowing through your hair. It's just there. There's no denying it.
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The Electric Express "It's The Real Thing, Part 1 (Short Version)" (Linco 1001)mp3 via 45 blog
I'm dying to see a picture of these guys. Does no one have a photo? All I can tell you about this is that The Electric Express hailed from Greensboro, NC, and that Linco was a short-lived subsidiary of Cotillion Records, pressed and distributed by Atlantic. It was written by Joe Lewis Powell and Vic Hudson, and produced by Slack Johnson (no, I won't say it, but I can't stop you from thinking it). Johnson seems to have remained active in the Charlotte area, producing and arranging gospel music. I understand Part 2 had some socially-conscious lyrics, but my promo copy only has a longer edit of the instrumental on the B-side. Love the sax with the octave divider!
Georgia White started out by recording hokum style blues songs that are okay but nothing special, however by the mid 30s she was recording for Decca and making some amazing blues music back by the best musicians the blues world could offer. This track “Was I Drunk?” was recorded with Richard Jones (one of the great blues piano plays and lyricists) and Charlie McCoy and features a very strong vocal performance by Ms. White as she ponders the night before.mp3 via honey where you been so long?
One of my favorite recent records is a little gem that Program Director Brian found called Call of the Wild by Dean Carter, on the Big Beat label. Calling him the missing link between rockabilly and garage punk doesn't do him justice. Recorded mostly between '65 and '68, it's psychobilly pure and simple, with a backdrop of echo chambered heavy breathing, tortured off kilter guitar and barely controlled singing.rip-rockin' 4 song mp3 via ken fmu blog
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The end is drawing near for a dark, shrouded ghost of a building overlooking Ground Zero.The Deutsche Bank tower, ravaged on 9/11 and long draped in protective netting, will be examined tomorrow by bidders on a contract to erect scaffolding prior to demolition.i never understood why 130 liberty st has to come down. it sustained damage but its clearly structurally sound. its just a matter of all that asbestos but they would have to face the same environmental challenges in the demo process as with a rehab. i think it had something to do with the owners winning out over the insurers in court? i still dont get it.
The last of six hotels that Frank Lloyd Wright designed is listed on eBay for $10 million.
The Park Inn Hotel, located in Mason City, Iowa, is not actually up for auction; rather, the city, its current owner, listed the three-story brick building on eBay to generate interest in and funding for its restoration.
The prairie style hotel opened in 1910 to enthusiastic reviews. With its French doors, cantilevered balconies, and central atrium where guests dined under a stained-glass skylight, the building was once one of the town's most elegant establishments. Its popularity eventually declined, however, and the hotel closed in 1972. Although the upper stories were converted into apartments and the ground floor was reserved for commercial space, the building continued to deteriorate.