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Close to the edge
As an admirer of Art Rock and an actual participant in the 70′s and beyond, I am often asked by students to compile a list of Essential Listening. (I’ve left off most of the obvious choices, preferring...
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Noooo!! Shirt? (What it is)
1978 Lou reed Street Hassle T shirt $1000 pleaseI previously posted my most essential artists of the 1970′s. Interestingly, both Iggy Pop’s Stooges and Lou Reed’s Street hassle have made the list of...
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A New Career In A New Town
An Oblique Strategies CardAs I wrap up the ’70′s and prepare to move into the ’80′s it would be a grave error not to talk about the collaborative work (77-79) of Brian Eno and David Bowie. Wikipedia...
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Rhino Records
Musically, for me, he 1980′s were less about Bowie than about the musicians he introduced me to. Adrian Belew is a former drummer who took up the guitar in his sick bed and tried to emulate certain...
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Beat This!
July’s entry in Music Passion calls for an Instrumental. Since it is also the month of explosive fireworks here in Washington, the following quote should help to introduce my favorite, non – lyrical...
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SiX oF a PerFeckt PaiR (Level I)
So, it’s 1995, there’s this band, and they have two drummers both using a mixture of percussive, electronic, and traditional drums , a guitar player who uses a power drill on his guitar, the other...
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2 Sides of the Moon
In 1975 Who drummer Kieth Moon put out an L.P. entitled “Two Sides of the Moon”. No, it didn’t contain any Songs with Moon in the title, but it serves as an apt opening to this follow up on “Any More...
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The Lark Ascending (Music Passion July)
Larks’ Tongues In Aspic is the Fifth Album by the English Progressive-Rock Band King Crimson. Though frequently credited with “inventing” the genre, King Crimson never fitted into most of the common...
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Heart Of The Sunrise
Heart-of-the-Sunrise-Yes Heart is the word in this month’s Music Passion competition. While I could post something that actually has a shot at winning (like Niel Young’s “Heart of Gold”) I decided...
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Please Talk To Me
peter_gabriel_-_secret_world_live-front The pleasant days of May are upon us, and “Please” (in the Title or Lyric) is the subject of this month’s Music Passion video gallery. With that in mind I...
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Return Of The King (Part A)
Robert Fripp 2014 Acapella has been the focus on All About Lemons Music Passion since August. I have chosen the King Crimson Barber Shop Quartet as a means of paying tribute to the return of the “King”...
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