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Video of the Week: Glen Campbell & Roy Clark Tear Through “Ghost Riders in the Sky”
29 Dec 2025 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: ghost riders in the sky, glen campbell, roy clark
Grace Slick Explains Why Joni Mitchell Got Woodstock All Wrong
29 Dec 2025 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: grace slick, jefferson airplane, jomi mitchell, woodstock
(via SACRAMENTO’S K-ZAP)
Grace Slick explains why Joni Mitchell got Woodstock all wrong:
Jefferson Airplane were billed as the Saturday night headliners, but the festival was famously marred by major delayed due to a huge rainstorm in the middle of the day.
Santana was due to perform at 1pm on Saturday, but was too busy tripping on mescaline and wasn’t mentally there yet. So instead, they brought in someone else, shuffled him to 2pm and thus began a whole day of push-backs and hold-ups, eventually leading to bands playing throughout the night and Slick only hitting the stage as the sun was rising.
The only thing bands could do was surrender, and so that meant one thing: drugs. “Our road manager had a box with about 16 little segments in it, and he had different drugs in each of the little segments. And we took what we thought was cocaine — snorting it, not shooting it — snorting it backstage just before we went on,” Slick recalled as the band thought they were doing their typical routine.
They were mistaken, though, as they quickly realised that the white substance was the wrong one. “We took it out of the wrong box, and we took LSD. So, about 15 minutes into the set, we looked at each other and went, ‘Oh boy. Oops.’”
With way more people than planned for, the facilities weren’t up for the job either, meaning that there was just mass filth everywhere from leaking toilets and overflowing bins. A lack of clean water was the cherry on top, too.
“We are stardust, we are golden,” Mitchell sings on her theme tune for the event, claiming “Everywhere was a song and a celebration.” However, Mitchell wasn’t there.
“Joni Mitchell got all, you know, sugary about it and said we got to get ourselves back to the garden, and we’re stardust, and we’re golden and all that kind of stuff, which is a little bit over the top,” she said in 2019 when her own real memories were of dirt and drugs.
To her, Woodstock was as sleazy of a scene as any other chaotic festival, adding of Mitchell, “I’m surprised that her take on it was so sweet.”
Catch the stream at k-zap.org, on the k-zap apps or at 93.3 FM in the metro Sacramento area.
Songs You May Have Missed #810
28 Dec 2025 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: riu chiu, the monkees
The Monkees: “Riu Chiu” (1967)
The Monkees perform (a portion of) a Spanish Renaissance-era Advent carol from a Christmas episode of their TV series.
The “riu chiu” nonsense syllables were meant to mimic the call of the nightingale or kingfisher. The lyrics translate thusly:
Ríu, ríu, chíu, la guarda ribera,
Dios guardó el lobo de nuestra cordera
[With a cry of] Ríu, ríu, chíu, the kingfisher, God kept the wolf from our Lamb
El lobo rabioso la quiso morder
Mas Dios Poderoso la supo defender
Quísola hacer que no pudiese pecar
Ni aun original esta virgen no tuviera
The raging wolf sought to bite her, but God Almighty knew (how) to defend her; He chose to make her so that she could not sin; no original sin was found in that virgin
Éste que es nacido es el Gran Monarca
Cristo Patriarca de carne vestido
Ha nos redimido con se hacer chiquito
Aunque era infinito finito se hiciera.
This one that is born is the Great King, Christ the Patriarch clothed in flesh. He redeemed us when He made himself small, though He was Infinite He would make himself finite
“Jingle Bells” it is not.
Recommended Albums #103
26 Dec 2025 Leave a comment
in Recommended Albums Tags: get young, tripwires
The Tripwires: Get Young (2014)
The Tripwires are survivors of the 1990’s Seattle rock explosion, but don’t expect anything approximate to grunge here.
Instead, it’s lean power pop with smart lyrics and swagger, twin guitars dueling from right and left channels, catchy original melodies, and lots of harmonies.
For folks who like guitars deployed in an ebullient two-and-a-half minute burst rather than a plodding, bluesy dirge, John Ramberg and company have you covered.
One-album wonders Rockpile might be the best comparison, but honestly the Tripwires might do it better–and certainly more prolifically.
Comprised of members of bands such as Screaming Trees, the Minus 5, and Young Fresh Fellows, the Tripwires are that true anomaly: a “super group” that’s actually better than the sum of its parts.
Listen to: “Get Young”
Listen to: “Early Bright”
Listen to: “Owner Operator”
Listen to: “How in Heaven’s Name”
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2024/06/29/songs-you-may-have-missed-744/
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2020/07/04/recommended-albums-80/
Video of the Week: George Harrison’s “Give Me Love” Gets a New Animated Video
24 Dec 2025 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: george harrison, give me love (give me peace on earth)
Stranger Things actor and filmmaker Finn Wolfhard, along with a team of 20 stop-motion animators have created a new video for George Harrison’s “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)”.
The 1973 #1 hit single featured an all-star cast of studio musicians: Nicky Hopkins on piano, Gary Wright on harmonium, Klaus Voormann on bass guitar, and Jim Keltner on drums, with Harrison himself playing the slide guitar riff of course.
The video celebrates the ex-Beatle’s love of gardening and features the garden gnomes from the cover of his All Things Must Pass album cover, among other Easter eggs.
Every Moment Has A Song 