🎵 Music
🎶 Apparently Vanilla Fudge could have been as big as Zeppelin and if not - certainly Purple.
Say what now? No they couldn’t. Listen to their stuff back in the day and then to early Purple and Zep. It’s clear where the talent is.
To riff on Rob Reiner’s mum …
“I’ll have what they’re having.”
And ‘they didn’t stay together’ is the excuse?
Neither did Purple and Zep - but a number of individuals in the two English bands went on to great success in solo careers.
Name me one member of Vanilla Fudge - and what was their best album.
🎶 Been a while since Lark’s Tongue were played through my speakers … and it remains just as big, extraordinary, relevant and engaging as I remember it.
🔗🎵 Finally, a New Idea in Rock and Roll - The Atlantic
I had a listen over the weekend. Not bad at all - and I am only 4 albums late
🎵 Paul Simon wrote The Sound of Silence nearly 60 years ago. Not as a hymn to peace, more a warning - about noise drowning out meaning. Yet here we are in 2025, trapped in the Noise Economy: dashboards buzzing, leaders performing, everyone talking, no one listening.
.. .Govan in case you need to know before watching a master in action.
In no particular order - just rediscovering links and sharing. Enjoy. All my children are equal.
🔗 📼 🎵This Record Label Is Trying To SILENCE Me
🔗 My Wishlist for 12 Substack Enhancements - by Ted Gioia
@dave .. there is barely a whiff of bringing more personalisation to the appearance of your ‘stack - and NONE to do with writing in your tool of choice. Maybe you should weigh in.
🔗 AOL discontinues its dial-up internet.
Oh no - what am I going to do?
🔗 You Should Probably Leave Substack | How to Leave Substack.
🔗 Daring Fireball: The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap
🔗 The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway | WIRED
Personally, I’d never heard of Tuvalu - but it is an extraordinary place judging my this screen grab from Apple Maps
… and it’s about to disappear.
🔗 We Are Winning! - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker
🔗 Arturo Dominguez on Substack: Here’s a clip they won’t show you on legacy media.
🔗 🎵 Have I shared this before? I have? I don’t care.
Guthrie doing his thing. In five minutes unpacks why he must be one of the greats.
Follow me down to a place by the river
Sold for my kidneys, sold for my liver
Why so weedy, so fucking needy
There’s no such thing as being too greedy
🎵💬
I Am A Patriot
My friend reflects on the enduring impact of the song by Little Steven, expressing a longing for integrity and compassion amid current political turmoil in America.
🪦 … and so farewell Ozzy – thank you for asking that question at the very beginning. It is often my only one. 🎵
🎵Yes? You mean ‘Steve and his mates that currently perform as Yes?
Now, 54 short years later, Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, Billy Sherwood, Jon Davison and Jay Schellen are taking the timeless collection of songs (and a few other classics) on the road.
I am not generally a fan of hip-hop - but I do check in from time to time. I came across this one from mcc@mastodon.social - and just spectacular. It kind of felt to me that he’s channeling Gil Scott-Heron - 55 40 years later. (LATER: Reading more - I realised that the music is from a 2007 album._
Lyrics in the comments - because as MCC wrote in her post
Position paper read through a megaphone. Terrifying, breezy industrial beats and laughing children.
Yes - which sometimes makes it hard to hear the words.
This morning’s song on rotate … 🎵🍎🔗 Thankyou Jarvis
🎵 The inaugural Premiata Forneria Marconi album from 1972 just added to one of my albumwhale lists albumwhale.com/albums/31…
