30. oktober 2014 arkiv

Grace Slick fylder 75

30. oktober 2014

…og det markerer jeg med en 45 år gammel klassisk optagelse med Slick og hendes band Jefferson Airplane. White Rabbit fra Woodstock-festivalen. Et højdepunkt i karrieren og i rocken…

Tak til Mod strømmen for at gøre opmærksom på denne mærkedag…

Tilbagespoling

Ba Ba Thomas – Miss Shake It

30. oktober 2014

Jeg ved ikke, hvem Ba Ba Thomas er eller var, blot at han i 1964 fik udsendt singlen Miss Shake It / Love Can’t Be Beat. Muligvis er han identisk med den C. J. Thomas, der står som komponist på singlens label – men det gør mig ikke meget klogere. Men musikken – især A-siden – viser, at Little Richard ikke har levet forgæves. Thomas har taget Richards tidlige, flamboyante stil til sig i denne herlige rocker…

Tak til Derek for at have henledt min opmærksomhed på denne oversete sag…

Marcus Mumford fortolker Bob Dylan

30. oktober 2014

Mumfords sang indgår i The New Basement Tapes (se omtale andetsteds i bloggen), der snart udkommer.

Michael Stipe om queerness

30. oktober 2014

“In 1994, most people had a largely binary perception of sexuality – the message was complicated for them. I am thrilled to see how much this has changed in those 20 years. The 21st century has provided all of us, recent generations particularly, with a clearer idea of the breadth of fluidity with which sexuality and identity presents itself in each individual. Gender identification, and the panoply of sexuality and identity are now topics that are more easily and more widely discussed, debated and talked about openly. It’s thrilling to see progressive change shift perceptions so quickly.

What I feel we have arrived at with all this, is that queerness – as I am happy to call an all-embracing, foundational tenet – is really a state of mind brought about by an understanding: it is understanding difference, accepting your own truth, desire and identity, and lovely, lovely choice. It is the final, completely obvious contemporary acceptance and understanding that this enormous world of beauty, sexuality, identity, lust, feeling, excitement, and love isn’t just black and white, or simple, at all – it is literally every shade and gradation of the rainbow. It doesn’t just lie in one of two camps. It includes accepting and supporting positions that you may not even completely understand; and to arrive at that conviction is so, so beautiful, and to quote my great friend Casey Legler: “Fierce!”

Michael Stipe fra REM til Guardian om Queerness som en sindstilstand

Shiny happy rainbow people…

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