Friday, August 22, 2025

The Best of Lenny Bruce

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Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-wheeling, and critical style of comedy that combined satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity.His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon in 2003.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Monday, August 18, 2025

Bob Kuban & The In-Men "The Pretzel" "& "Hard To Handle"

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Bob Kuban & The In Men "The Pretzel"


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Bob Kuban & The In Men Hard To Handle

Bob Kuban & The In Men Hard To Handle↵— 星 Video

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Kuban was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 19, 1940. He graduated from the St. Louis Institute of Music. In the early 1960s, Kuban was a music teacher and band director at Bishop DuBourg High School, a Catholic secondary school in St. Louis.

In 1964, he formed the group Bob Kuban and The In-Men.[1] Kuban was both its drummer and the bandleader. The group was an eight-piece band with horns.Kuban was heavily influenced by Ike & Tina Turner, whom he would watch perform at Club Imperial in St. Louis before his band became regulars. He said, "I just loved the band so much... I mimicked a lot of the stuff that they did. We had the horn section in my band. When Ike and Tina Turner left, we were able to play there. .

WIKI...Bob Kuban & The In Men Hard To Handle↵ LOWDOWN

Originally Posted 9-11-15

Friday, August 15, 2025

J. Geils Band on the Joe Frankin Show February 1982

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The J. Geils Band (formerly known as The J. Geils Blues Band) was an American rock band formed in 1967, in Worcester, Massachusetts, under the leadership of guitarist John "J." Geils.

The original band members included vocalist Peter Wolf, harmonica, trumpet, and saxophone player Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz, drummer Stephen Bladd, vocalist/keyboardist Seth Justman, and bassist Danny Klein. Wolf and Justman served as principal songwriters.

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The video contains an interview and a performance. Both are great but, FYI, it's the entire show. It's worth watching the greatest party band in the world at that time

J. Geils Band on Joe Frankin Show February 1982--↵ 星 Video

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Joe Franklin (March 9, 1926 – January 24, 2015), born Joseph Fortgang, was an American radio and television host personality, author and actor from New York City. Franklin is noted for having the first talk show and inventing the format. His television series debuted in January 1951 on WJZ-TV (later WABC-TV), moving to WOR-TV (later WWOR-TV) in 1962, remaining there until 1993, one of the longest running uninterrupted careers in broadcasting history.J. Geils Band

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Thursday, August 14, 2025

Jan Kerouac

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The Wippets 星 Video

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In 1964, Jan Kerouac was briefly in a girl group called The Whippets.[2] The group, which consisted of Kerouac, Charlotte Rosenthal, and Bibbe Hansen, released one single, "I Want to Talk to You," a song response to the song "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The B-side, "Go Go Go with Ringo," also reflected the Beatlemania of the time. The single did not chart or get much airplay, and the Whippets broke up.[3]

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Jan Kerouac was Jack Kerouac's only child. She was born on February 16, 1952 in Albany, New York. Jack had nothing to do with Jan's upbringing and she was raised by her mother Joan Haverty, mostly in New York City and in the American northwest, along with her half-brother David Bowers. Beginning in her turbulent teenage years, Jan was frequently on the road. She was an adventurer, making frequent trips to Mexico, Central and South America. It was around this time that she met John Cassady, Neal Cassady's son, who proposed to her.

Like her father, she possessed a vivid imagination and memory and a love of words. She recounted many of the experiences in her dramatic and exciting life in two novels, "Baby Driver" and "Trainsong".

And so time passes, passes by, passes over, passes away and through and pass the butter please. Sometimes time passes by so fast...you can't even see those seconds make their little streaks of reentry into your heart."

Jan Kerouac, Trainsong

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Originally Posted 8_17_05

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Friday, August 8, 2025

The Chambers Brothers

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The Chambers Brothers are an American psychedelic soul band, best known for their eleven-minute 1968 psychedelic soul hit "Time Has Come Today".

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

An Anthology Of Chance Operations. Fluxus Is Born.

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An Anthology of Chance Operations was an artist's book publication from the early 1960s, featuring experimental neodada art and music composition that used John Cage–inspired indeterminacy.

It was edited by La Monte Young and DIY co-published in 1963 by Young and Jackson Mac Low in New York City.

Its full title is: An Anthology of chance operations concept art anti-art indeterminacy improvisation meaningless work natural disasters plans of action stories diagrams Music poetry essays dance constructions mathematics compositions.

The project became the manifestation of the original impetus for establishing Fluxus.

Anthology of Chance Operations/The Begining of Fluxus--WIKI

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Monday, August 4, 2025

Maria Callas: Dallas Rehearsal November 1957

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"Maria Callas: Dallas concert rehearsal from November 20, 1957. It is rare for a rehearsal session of a major star like Callas to be recorded and issued. (This does appear to be issued after her death.) I have to agree with the jacket notes that "this recording is both a unique and fascinating document" of this great performer. Side A: Selections from La Traviata (Verdi) and I Puritani (Bellini). Side B: Selections from Anna Bolena (Donizetti). Side C: Selections from Macbeth (Verdi) and Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail (Mozart). Transfer and restoration from the Historical Recording Enterprises LP HRE 2322." Transfer by Bob Varney. Internet Archive

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Friday, August 1, 2025

La Monte Thornton Young

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La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music.

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