GET YOUR ASHES PRESSED INTO VINYL WHEN YOU DIE

23 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

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(Reprinted from The International Society of Music Snobs & Elitists)

It is the most that a vinyl obsessed person can do;  die and have his remains pressed into vinyl.  It is, in fact, the obsession becoming complete, when the obsessee becomes the obsessed.

The company And Vinyly is offering this dream come true for vinyl enthusiasts.  They actually will take your ashes and press them into vinyl so you can actually become a record.  They offer a few different packages and, like an album, you get two sides to get your message across, albeit each side is only 12 minutes long…

Read more: http://www.intlmusicsnobs.com/post/56526679881/get-your-ashes-pressed-into-vinyl-when-you-die

How Pop Was Born In West Africa

20 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

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(Reprinted from Culture Sonar) by Ken Hymes

(Everything I am about to tell you is boiled down. Exceptions abound, I can’t tell the whole story in a few hundred words, and music is so big and complex that it wouldn’t be hard to find another angle on this. But I want to point out the way our ideas about music were deeply shaped by African culture, beyond rhythms and “blues scales.”)

If you love blues, classic rock, jazz, or modern pop, you owe a debt to West African stringed instruments. Here’s why…

Read more: http://culturesonar.com/pop-born-in-west-africa/

10 Hidden Images on Album Covers

15 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

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by Rudie Obias

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4. Def Leppard // Retro Active

Def Leppard’s Retro Active features a 19th century woman sitting at a dressing table staring at a mirror. If you look at the cover at a distance, you can see a skull made up of the woman and her reflection. Artist Charles Allan Gilbert’s 1892 painting All is Vanity was Def Leppard’s inspiration for the album cover.

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8. Harry Nilsson & John Lennon // Pussy Cats

Recording artist Harry Nilsson teamed up with John Lennon to produce Pussy Cats in 1974. The album cover features a rug under a table with two block letters—”D” and “S”—flanking it.  If you sound out the puzzle, it reads, “D-rug-S” or specifically, “Drugs under the table.” This was an inside joke during Lennon’s “Lost Weekend” era, a drunken and drug-fueled 18 month period between 1973 and 1975.

Read more: http://mentalfloss.com/article/58886/10-hidden-images-album-covers

That awesome time in 1975 when there was a giant Alice Cooper balloon

12 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

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(via Dangerous Minds)

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/that_awesome_time_in_1975_when_there_was_a_giant_alice_cooper_balloon

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Also…

Love it to death: Alice Cooper’s original guillotine ‘headed’ to auction

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http://dangerousminds.net/comments/love_it_to_death_alice_coopers_original_guillotine_headed_to_auction

10 Hours that Changed EVERYTHING

12 Mar 2016 1 Comment

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(via CultureSonar)

by Al Cattabiani

It was a slow song, in the style of a plaintive Roy Orbison ballad. The band started to record it; but the producer wasn’t feeling it. He advised the band to pick up the tempo, and to add a hooky instrumental bit at the beginning.

Fortunately, the band listened to the grownup in the room.

John Lennon grabbed his harmonica. Ringo kicked up the tempo. “Please Please Me,” The Beatles’ first #1 single (in the UK) was born – and a bond between the band and George Martin was forged.

What would have happened if the lads insisted on doing it their way?

Read more: http://culturesonar.com/10-hours-that-changed-everything/

Johnny Duncan & The Blue Grass Boys – “Last Train To San Fernando” –

09 Mar 2016 1 Comment

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In a recent article titled 10 Records That Changed My Life, Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson named “Last Train to San Fernando” by Johnny Duncan & his Bluegrass Boys, saying:

“Around this time, I heard a song on the radio and I really liked it, and I convinced my parents to let me buy a copy with my pocket money. It was folky and it had something of a skiffle beat, which was becoming the rage in England. It was Last Train to San Fernando, by Johnny Duncan and his Bluegrass Boys. It was an incredible piece of Americana music, but interestingly, it’s really a calypso song but done in a skiffle kind of way.”

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