My friends always ask me, “Where the hell did you find this?”, when I play them obscure music. My answers are all over the place but sometimes it is following the family tree of bands I like. Case in point, The Born Again Floozies. One of my favorite ska bands was Johnny Socko and when they stopped putting out music, I was very sad. Luckily, the guitarist Joseph Welch and the Tromboner (I prefer that term), Charlie Krone, started another fun band called The Born Again Floozies. They are definitely not ska but more like something you might hear on a street corner. I love this description of them from Apple Music: “Built around one electric guitar, a tuba, the occasional odd percussion and slide trombone, and a couple of tap dancers, Indiana-based experimental rock quintet Born Again Floozies are as eclectic as their name and instrumentation would suggest.”
For this performance they included a DJ but didn’t have the tuba player. You can really get a feel for Joseph’s unique guitar style though.
Thanks for your support of Deadsplinter & obscure music.
of course,
The Rolling Stones – Street Fighting Man
The Commitments – The Dark End of the Street
The Cure – Fascination Street
DOWN ON THE STREET
STREETS OF FIRE
All-time favorite from XTC, @Hannibal.
I don’t know if I could pick a favorite, they had so many good songs!
How about a little Creedence
Robbie Robertson Street Serenade
Where did those flames come from? WTF?
if you go to 0:44 you can see the dude reaching down for a bottle and then pouring it on the drum
btw, ‘7 Deadly Sinners’ was great!
Speaking of obscure, sometimes a Walgreens gets turned into a place for great music:
https://twitter.com/algreen/status/1301151947437887491
I would definitely shop there!
Out in the Streets – Trio
Not music, but a good story, about folks pulling together, to help a little girl out😉😁😃
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f510371c5b6578026ca9079
A little off point, but I have 3 Alaskan coworkers. One is so far away from civilization that they have to truck in water and still have an outhouse. She is able to work for us via a line of sight internet link on top of a windmill on a nearby hill. Now and then the windmill people will rotate it, and she has to tromp up the hill with her laptop to figure out how to position her work space for optimum connectivity. With only about 730,000 people in the entire state, that sense of being your brother’s keeper is real.
I have some family up there that work on “the slope” oil rigs. Crazy beautiful place but you need to be ready for anything every day. I have so many crazy Alaska adventure stories. My wife deals with a bunch of patients that fly in from Alaska just to get good healthcare.
Wondering where you were with this! Nice triple play! sprots!
Sprots!
https://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2020/09/alberto-selected-as-orioles-nominee-for-roberto-clemente-award.html
“Alberto stepped up in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic to support his hometown during an unprecedented crisis. San Francisco de Macorís was the center of the Dominican Republic’s pandemic in May and access to the city was completely restricted, but Alberto and his family worked with former Rangers teammates Elvis Andrus, Adrian Beltre and Robinson Chirinos to distribute food, medicine and other essential items to more than 500 families in need.”