Neal Cassady: All The Forms Are Dead.
Topic: Poetry

Reality is what you make of it. Although lately I wonder if assuming the character of other people’s assumption – which is essentially theater – can leave you feeling empty.  

Gregory Corso
Topic: Poetry

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Now Playing: All You Do Is Talk.
Topic: Rock

Live, in Portland. To the person in the crowd that seems to have a hand in the air throughout the song - I am with you in solidarity. 

For photos of BRMC, click here.

The Doors
Now Playing: Five to One
Topic: 60's Rock

Thanks, Mr Stubbs
Now Playing: "You Keep Running Away", The Four Tops.

Levi Stubbs, he gone. The anguish in his voice was spine rattling.

Slightly overproduced
Now Playing: Eddie Brickell and the New Bohemians
Topic: Ballad

6o's
Now Playing: Moby Grape
Topic: 60's Rock

I would have done well in the 60's. I don't get along well with cell phones and texting, although they are supposed to bring closer together. "I guess no one is alone anymore."

Makes you shake and boogie.
Now Playing: Superstition by Stevie Wonder
Topic: R&B
Stevie Wonder live on Sesame Street when Sesame Street was bad ass. Check out the kid going nuts on the fire escape. Solid!

Breakout moment.
Now Playing: Ball and Chain.
Topic: Rock

Janis Joplin and Big Brother & the Holding Company, Monterey Pop Festival, 1967. This is the performance that brought Joplin into prominence. 

Amazing in my book, walking on air, tip-toe kicking clouds, total devout meditation with vocal chords, indestructable, there's no depth more than that. Lady in the crowd with sunglasses totally speechless and dumbfounded, is Mama Cass.

 

My favorite American band of the moment.
Now Playing: LCD Soundsystem, "Someone Great".
Topic: dance

Fantastic music video... depicting the holes that lie in each person's orbit. The feeling of something's amiss.