A song that makes me feel cooler than I am when I play it loud.
“Locked Down” (too on the nose?) is a fairly recent song from the late Dr. John and I love it. I’m not THAT into New Orleans-y music (although I wouldn’t really classify him that way), but I had the pleasure of meeting him and seeing him perform for the first time the year this album came out. I would say he was taken too soon, but he lived way longer than he had any right to, given his habits.
It’s lovely to see your smiling/non-smiling/not-actually-faces avatars.
Awesome stuff! Here’s my Dr. John favorite:
Ahh yes another great one.
Cheap Teeth – Belly Of The Beast
Oooh I had never heard of them – I really like this.
I love the illustration, you’re very talented.
Anyway, if i don’t post it somebody else will so
Such A Night.
I love that album.
I see what you did there 😉
im just gonna cherry pick a word from the title go with that
coz i like this song better than the original
LOL good enough for me. I am a fan of creative interpretation of a theme…or just not adhering to it. So this song reminds me of the guys I went after in high school. Not the same in my old age!
There’s always the threat of death. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Death Threat
Sppooooky
The Night Tripper!
That costume is brilliant.
In 1981 my stepfather was considering job offers in Honolulu and Seattle. For what I guess were obvious reasons he chose Hawaii, though I was pretty upset about having to move that far from my friends and family on the East Coast. To this day I never miss an opportunity to remind my mom that I could have been in Alice in Chains instead of B.F. Deal (You’ve all heard of us, right? Yeah, I thought so.)
Hey, I’ve heard of B.F.Deal! They were awesome! They did a great cover of Roadhouse Blues. I also had an audio class at the Seattle Art Institute that supposedly Alice in Chains recorded at before they were known but I didn’t hear the recordings.
I was partial to “tease Freebird and launch into ‘Boogie No More.'”
It’s actually the lead singer of B.F.Deal’s birthday today so funny you should mention that band.
I have not heard of BF Deal but wait what, were you really close to being in Alice in Chains?!
I’ve been known to scream/sing the acoustic version of “Down in a Hole” in the car.
No one can do angst like the 90s.
As the joke goes, had we moved to Seattle in 1981 I most definitely would have been in AIC or Soundgarden. Instead, I got stuck living in “paradise.”
I would choose Seattle over Hawaii, especially back then. No offense to Hawaii, but it’s not even a close competition for me.
I never knew that Dr. Teeth was based on Dr. John, but it makes perfect sense.
Louis Jordan – Jack, You’re Dead
Mm, mm, mm. Don’t he look natural?
Yeah – the whole Muppet band is based on real people. My friends were other band members but I cropped them out for privacy. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/9248840/farewell-to-dr-john-dr-teeth-the-electric-mayhem/
I have to take a moment to be impressed with myself that I know this song. I have some real blind spots with jazz haha.
Before I checked out the Sun article I tried to figure out on my own who inspired each band member. The only one I got right was Animal. I never would have pegged John Lennon as Floyd.
Louis Jordan doesn’t get nearly the recognition he deserves, even today. He was a major influence on all the people who influenced the birth of Rock and Roll. Chuck Berry modeled his entire stage act after Jordan’s. Fats Domino crafted his sound from Jordan’s. Jordan convinced Nat King Cole that he needed to sing instead of just play piano–and wrote a song for Cole that became his first major hit. Jordan was actually tapped to record the first rock record, but he passed because he felt he was too old. So the guy who had been producing Jordan’s records at that time produced Bill Haley and the Comets. The list goes on.
I had to remind myself of a few of them – I think the only ones I remembered were Dr. John and Lennon. And thanks for the history lesson!
The Clash – Death or Glory:
Your book illustration is lovely!
Thanks. It’s a book about mermaids but we threw a tiny piano playing nutria waaaay in the background haha.
I think Dr. John as a nutria is brilliant!
Did someone call a doctor? I think we need A Little Bit More
OMG my mom always listened to these guys when I was a kid.
DEATH, you say . . . ?
I’m not a real doctor, but I am a real worm.