Check out the latest HMK Mystery Stream: Episode 081 H2o de Março.
I played my Tiki Bongo song Let's Go Back 2 The Tiki Room for my bud Tom Rehkopf aand he said it reminded him of The Waters Of March.
What do you think? Kinda freaked me out a bit, they're really not the same at all but there's something there, other than the word "mud" that seems to bring these two songs together.
Migwell
Celebrating 11th Years of The Casbah. Sir Brian Parrish's 7-9pm Saturday night show features a super-sonic wall of killer 60's garage raunch & roll, butt shakin' surf instros and the absolute best of the Puro San Antonio vibes. Like it says on this year's pledge drive shirt - The Eleven Year Happy Hour... Make It Louder!
Support College Radio and score one or both of the shirts I just finished for this years KSYM Pledge Drive.
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And hey - got a good Taco Land Story? Proove it and share it over at Stories From The House Of Ram.
"Maharishi — what have you done? You made a fool of everyone."
That was the opening line of a sarcastic song about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who died on Tuesday, February 26th, that John Lennon wrote in 1968, not long after the Beatles abruptly left the maharishi's ashram in Rishikesh, India, and declared themselves no longer his spiritual disciples. It wasn't released that way. (He supposedly hit on Mia Farrow who was traveling with the Beatls in India.) In the end the other Beatles, particularly George Harrison, argued that whatever disagreements they had with the maharishi, his work demanded respect, and it was unfair (and perhaps libelous) to be so blunt.
Lennon retreated, changing the song's title, and the references to the maharishi in its lyrics, to "Sexy Sadie," the form in which it can be heard on "The Beatles," commonly called the White Album.
"Sexy Sadie," for all its implicit anger, was part of a huge trove of songs Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison wrote during and just after their visit to Rishikesh. Whatever shortcomings the Beatles' interaction with the maharishi may have had, the experience — which lasted only eight months, from August 1967 to April 1968 — seems to have opened a floodgate of creativity and got them out of what threatened to be a creative rut.
Read the whole International Herald Tribune article.
In Paul Mcartney's biography, "Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now" Paul says that a Greek character named Magic Alex was accepted as by John as "The Beatle's Guru." But after the Beatles met Maharishi, Alex's Guru status was threatened. When the Beatles went with Maharishi to India, Alex, burning with envy went there and began instigating to separate Maharishi from the Beatles.
It was Alex's accusations and conspiratorial activities that turned the Beatles against the Maharishi. Alex was later exposed as a fraud. In Paul's own words,"It turned out that Alex had a subscription to Scientific American and we didn't, so he was able to wow us with common knowledge." "It was Magic Alex who made the original accusation and I think it was completely untrue."
Another cool fun fact: Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, was also there, and her experience led Lennon to write "Dear Prudence."
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Dig the latest HMK Mystery Stream, Episode: 087 Downtown.
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Migwell
The ever witty insaniacs over at Abduzeedo have a come up with a pretty cool Top 25 Best Band Logo list.
Nice job guys, but there are a few blaring omissions like Zeppelin, The New York Dolls and dude, you can't leave out Legs Diamond!
Kiss made it all the way to number 4 and The Beatles clocked in at 17.
I must say though, I totally agree with the top choice.
What do you think? Check it out: Abduzeedo
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Wow! The World's Largest Record Collection is for Sale on eBay.
A physical music collection purported to be the largest in the world is on sale on eBay, with a minimum reserve bid of $3 million.
The collection includes more than 6 million songs on 3 million records and 300,000 compact discs. If you were to buy the whole thing on iTunes by the song -- not that you'd be able to find all of them -- the collection would run you $5,940,000 (in that sense, $3 million is a bargain).
Read it all from Eliot Van Buskirk and the smart folks over at the Wired Blog or listen thanks to NPR.
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Migwell
Tune in to the latest HMK Mystery Stream here: Episode 044: Three Hearts.
And check this out: Happy Valentine's Day!
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Here's the cover art I put together for this past Saturday's Hammond Eggs Show on 90.1 KSYM down here in beautiful San Antonio, Texas.
My Set List: Hammond Eggs 033, 7am-9am February 2, 2008.
So hey, if you're up bright and early between 7am and 9am on Saturdays, why not grab some fresh coffee and tune in to KSYM 90.1 and join me and my buddy Brian Parish on his Saturday morning Hammond Eggs Show.
And just in case you missed it - here's this past weekend's show: The Hammond Eggs Show: 033.
Make It Louder,
Migwell
Dig the latest HMK Mystery Stream, Episode: 094 Tweed.
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Migwell
Check out this sweet Timeline of Jazz courtesey of the smart folks over at Jazz In America.
Starting in the 1600's and running though the present, the time line parallels developments in jazz and it's relation to popular culture.
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Migwell
The HMK iPod Speakers featured in the Cult of iPod Book! Listen to the art: I.F. Irregular Frequency.
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