Rock On Jackie!

Here's a quick little post of a few seemingly random tunes for my buddy Jackie and his lovely wife Amelia in honor of their busy red carpet weekend.

The theme song for Saturday: Sugar Sugar by the fabulous Archies!

And for Sunday, preferably over some Cafe Du Monde coffee and beignets: Kim Wilde's Kids In America.

And, because no matter what day it is, life's always better with a little cowbell: Crank up the Stone's Honky Tonk Women.

And Happy Birthday to Trey, Michelle, Carlos and Steve!

Have a great weekend dudes!


Migwell

And this is one from the All The King's Men...

Happy Trails Ann!

Happy Trails Ann

Sad day here in Texas.

Ann Richards, the 45th governor our great state of Texas back in 1990, died Wednesday after a six-month battle with cancer.

She was 73.

She was a wicked funny lady with a sassy homespun charm and a tough, positive, pioneer spirit and truly one of the best things about Texas.

With her bright silver hair, a weathered face and an affinity for cobalt blue suits and pearls, Richards was also the quintessential Texas woman.

On then-Vice President George Bush: "Poor George, he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

She won cheers at the 1988 Democratic National Convention when she reminded everyone that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did: "She just did it backwards and in high heels."

Rest in Peace Ann, Happy Trails.

I miss you already!

HMK

Good Day Sunshine!

Ah, Sunday morning. Good hot coffee, the Sunday New York Times and 90.1 KSYM's The Best of The Beatles With Richard Turner.

Richard is host of "The Best of The Beatles With Richard Turner", the longest running show in the history of KSYM radio 90.1 fm in San Antonio, Texas. Richard started his show in 1986 while attending the Radio, Television, Video and Film Department of San Antonio College.

Now, 20 years later, his Beatles program has become a positive, and significant, entity of San Antonio the community. Richard's program has a huge following that makes up for approximately 20% to 30% of the stations support mechanism each year during their annual pledge drives, proving that his listening audience is one of the largest of KSYM's diverse format.

Here's couple of mellow Beatles covers you might want to add to your Sunday Sountrack mix that I guarantee Richard won't be playing.


These are both from the Soulful Strings 1968 album, Another Exposure.

First track is Hello, Goodbye followed by Lady Madonna.

Enjoy, And Thanks Richard!

Michael

Wes Montgomery

I meant to post this for the Full Moon on the 7th...

It's a super sexy mello little swoon tune from Wes Montgomery off of his truly hip Willow Weep For Me lp.

Although the official release of this album was 1969 on the Down Beat label, the quartet tracks were recorded between June 22 and 27, 1965 at the Half Note in New York City for Verve and then the brass and reed overdubs were recorded October 8, 1968 in New York City.

Dig: Oh You Crazy Moon.

Enjoy your weekend,

Migwell

Twist!

Nice. We're finally getting a break from one of the hottest summers on record. And while we're on the subject of records - treat yourself to these hip 45s. I'm putting a Totally Twistin' compilation together and these are a few of the stand outs so far.

Let's go back to 1964 and start this micro Twist Party with Orchestre James Award's goofy Batman influenced number called Tanganyka Twist!

Next up is the Migiani Grand Orchestre with their 1962 diity Swim Twist!

And finally, we've got one more twist tune from 1964 by Lou Cleveland et Son Orchestre De Danse with their appropriatly titled One More Twist!

So move some furniture and get twistin'!

Ciao,

Migwell

Chant Of The Moon

In honor of tonight's Full Moon - from his 1959 album VooDoo, Robert Drasnin's enchanting Chant Of The Moon.

Drasnin also composed the incedental music for three episodes of Hawaii Five-0.

Lots more here: Robert Drasnin.


HMK

And The Winner Is...

And dig this: I Made It!!

Have a great weekend,

Migwell

Hopelessly Devo-ted

My friend Tim Foley sent me this answering the question: If you we're asked to do a poster for the Devo show in San Antonio, what would it look like?

Check out Tim's other talents at his newly launched monkey-men-in-business-suits venture as a partner of the soon to be famous (really!) GoFullContact!

Thanks Tim - now get back to work you freak!

Migwell

Pitchfork

Pitchfork: How a tiny web outfit became the most influential tastemaker on the music scene.

If you enjoy, have an interest in, play, hate, like, dance, record or listen to music, this is an awesome must read from kids over at Wired.

Go to: Pitchfork Media.

Do you remember?


It was wonderful...


Make it louder,

Miguel

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When In Rome, blow off the opening band...

Lost my voice at the Devo show last night.

And my legs and feet hurt from jumping up and down.

Shane and John drove down from Austin and we had a micro pre-game session over a couple of beers in the Tiki Room. The brewskis Shane brought had a shark on the lable. Not a bad brew.

We decide to blow off the opening band. - When in Rome. When in Rome? I must have been sick the week they were famous.

Anyway.

There was an awesome refreshing breeze last night. The crowd was cool but the beer lines (Swiller Lite, uh, got any water?) were way too long. Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs sounded great. Shane and I were hanging in the beer line talking to Langly and Justine. The sun was just setting, the Furs were about to go on so Shane and I, trusting our rock & roll instincts, decided to cruise to the front and join John. Next thing you know, the lights drop and they kick straight into Love My Way! Perfect.



And yeah Tim, they did play some stuff off of Duty Now For The Future - Wiggly World rocked and Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA was some good old fashioned frenzied punk! But golly, us Spuds got not real Satisfaction cause they for some reason forgot to start the meeting with our Devo Corporate Anthem. Must have been the heat.

When all our bones and muscles hurt, what's so funny about that?

Still, it makes me wanna move!




Deathray Davies Tonight @ The Limelight on North St. Mary's Street in beautiful down town San Antonio.

Yeah.

A Man Is Real - Not Made Of Steel!

Migwell

Are We Not Men?

Tonight!

Yes, Tonight!

Devo! At The Sunken Garden Theatre, an awesome outdoor venue that's just a 10 minute walk from my house!

This will be my 6th time to see the bad boys from Akron Ohio. And like alot of things in life, the first time was the best!

I've got a Gut Feeling tonight's gonna be hot!

The Psychodelic Furs are opening up - sounds like a Slap Your Mammy blast of fun.


Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah!
(These opening lyrics from Uncontrolable Urge explian exactly how I'm feeling about tonights show!)

UPDATE:

Dude - no shit - I just ran into Mark Mothersbaugh at Central Market across the street from my office and he totally frosted me! Really!

I was leaving Joe Barfield a message regarding my 2 free tickets (That's Right!) and I jokingly said I was wandering around CM with the first Devo album under my arm hoping for an autograph. As I was fixin' to head down the stairs outside he was walking up.

He was all dapper in a white fedora and starched out duds and I said excuse me.

Uh Excuse, me. (He walks past me going faster) Oh man c'mon.

I finally said I'll see you tonight and he turned around barely smiling and walked away. Shit!

Anyway, it's still gonna rock.

Weird.

Migwell

UPDATE II: It most certainly did! Rock That is...