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...still my guitar gently weeps

2012-02-26T15:42:00.003-08:00

Antes que acabe la noche ...

2011-11-30T11:53:00.000-08:00

Another great band from Barcelona...

Their biography mentions they met in a ship "Santa Maria Mercedes", where Remo was playing for the crowd in the warehouse in the lower floors and Renata was working as a waitress on the upper glamorous restaurant..

On a trip to South America they docked in Sao Paulo... and they start up an argument about who should get down from the ship first..

After that quick meeting they decided to collaborate which lead to the composition of several tunes..

Being the first of them "Vamonos", (Let's go away) .. which we present you below !

Thing like that drive me out of my mind...

2011-09-21T04:16:00.000-07:00

This song maybe on my top ten list since the first time I heard it..

The whole transformer album is electric and just looking to the cover is a must to understand Rock history..

inside that masterpiece.. you'll find.. David Bowie, Mick Rock, Herbie Flowers, Mick Ronson, Klaus Voorman, Sid Vicious, Andy Warhol, Ronnie Ross, Henry Mark and John...

You can take a walk on the wild side, attend a makeup session and a terrific phone conversation in NYC... You may also find a perfect day..
You may be hit by a flower, or you may loose your head if you start giving some ...

Just waiting for a Hammer to Fall...

2011-08-19T01:02:00.001-07:00

Guitar Riff on its best.. this time with Brian May, and the incredible Freddie...
Not seeing Queen in concert may be one of the biggest disappointments in life...

thank you for this bitter knowledge...

2011-07-22T02:43:00.000-07:00

Heard on the news that is Rufus' birthday today,.

Haven't listen to him lately.. but man.. I remember when I first heard this tune.. and everything in it.. called my attention so much.. from the title to the Queen-like chorus.. which I miss so much..

if you don't mind... I don't mind

2011-06-29T13:21:00.000-07:00

I love the Buzzcocks, because when I was living in London with my bro and good mate Charlie, we went looking for bargain records on whatever pawn shops we could find...

One day we bough for just 1 ₤ each The Head on the Door by the Cure and Singles Ready Steady by the Buzzcoks.
In that compilation there are great songs.. like Noise Annoys, Orgasm Addict, What do I get?, Whatever Happened ...

Suddenly this song came on the air.. and couldn't help singing this on top ...

Where the skies are so blue..

2011-06-20T02:26:00.000-07:00

We were playing last Friday.. and then some guys from the crowd asked us to play "Sweet Home Alabama".. So we did..

When we were done.. I came to talk with them.. and this girl, asked me which was my all time favorite American Band.. and I said.. "The Doors", she didn't even know who they were.. and asked me why.. Didn't have to think about it.. "well.. the lyrics are clever, the music is incredible, they are sort of the most original and daring band I've ever heard.."

Then she asked me about Bob Dylan.. well.. I said.. "he's not a band.. but he must be the greatest performer and writer of the century and his influence goes beyond music".. Then she said,... "He's English right ? " .. "WHAT ??! " ,, "Dylan English ???.. how can you say that ???"

"He went all the way from Minnesota to New York, to get on the folk circuit and became an icon for singing for civil rights in America ".. Her face was like if I was speaking in Chinese..

.. so bad there was no time to speak about Neil Young..

Through the sleeples nights I cry for you..

2011-06-15T02:33:00.000-07:00

Listened to this song 80 times now..

Printed the chords and lyrics and will record it myself .. maybe this evening..

It's on the last record from Eddie Vedder, Ukulele songs.. great surprise.

Do I Deserve to be ? ...

2011-06-13T02:33:00.000-07:00

This is the best example of what a Rock Band should be..

But the greatest thing on Pearl Jam were Eddie's originality in lyrics.

Back then I was just, listening to all the stuff inside this songs.. the drums are still something out of the best I've ever heard.. Dave Krusen, left the band just after Ten was released.. and I really believe they never sounded better than this.. at least on a record..

The guitars are just McCready doing Hendrix and Gossard doing Jimmy Page,... really .. listen to it..

And Jeff Ament.. well.. amazing bass player.. Jeremy has one of the best bass lines in rock...

And the guy who was leading them, Eddie Vedder.. in the great tradition of Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, a real guy showing his feelings ...

if you need to find me, just go to the end of the longest line

2011-04-12T05:58:00.000-07:00

Love hardcore bands .. from the 80's and 90's ...

When I first heard NOFX.. I couldn't believe it.. man !! they were playing like Metallica with Queen backing vocals.. and not pretending to be bigger-than-life ... real punk rock attitude..

Saw them live when they released Punk in Drublic .... that record was great.. the only problem is that their three previous releases were even better.. Ribbed, White Trash, Two heebs and a bean and the EP The Longest Line, where this song, obviously, is found.

Now they are coming to Barcelona to play next Tuesday and my good mate Luis bought tickets to go..

So I am back again playing air drums while listening to this old stuff..

Check it out..

In the darkest tunnel it's nice to see a light
not just a headlight
like the one that's heading right for me
it would be nice if things could turn out right
turn out right yeah
don't think I'll ever see the day

I must have done something wrong
or maybe pissed off God
I think of Chinese food when I think of life
that's sweet and sour
my life is sweet as saccharine
you know three week old milk and grapes are not
not the same, no
I am the one Johnny Carcinogen

I must have fucked with some witch
in turn she cursed me, cursed my life
at the end of the longest line
that's where I will always be
if you need to find me, just go to
the end of the longest line

But officer that was a yellow light
the light was red, son
insubordination, reckless driving
I must be wrong, this can't be right
I don't belong, this world is much to dangerous
for someone lacking luck, like me

At the end of the longest line
that's where I will always be
if you need to find me, just go to
the end of the longest line
at the end of the longest line
that's where I will always be
at the end of the longest line

This bloody mary's lacking a tabasco...

2011-04-06T06:06:00.000-07:00

man ..!! have fun, make a band, write a song, say I love you to a girl.. get drunk, get naked.. go to the beach, sleep on the sand... take a plane, take a ride on your motorbike.. draw your face on a paper and hang it on the wall..

but enjoy.. !!!!!

Teardrop on the fire, Fearless on my breath

2011-03-21T08:06:00.000-07:00

Ok..Which song gives you the goosebumps each and everytime ??

this one works for me

Love love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Fearless on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me makes me lighter
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath

Night night of matter
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath

Water is my eye
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath
Teardrop on the fire of a confession
Fearless on my breath
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath

you're stumbling into
you're stumbling into

Tuesday's gone with the wind.

2011-03-09T08:24:00.000-08:00

I remember listening to Free Bird long time ago.. and be totally struck by it.

Yesterday.. I was thinking which songs were about Tuesdays.. and remembered that Metallica covered this one from Lynyrd Skynnyrd...

And that was it..

Great song, great arrangements and amazing solo..

beware of the growl of your soul

2011-03-08T08:19:00.000-08:00

This video is the first single from Eric Fuentes new project after The Unfinished Sympathy.
I must say, that saw it first hand and though it was good..

A few weeks before I read there was so much controversy about it because of the obvious references to a military terrorist group.

And then all the fuss.. People seem to be so easily triggered by this images or metaphors.. anyway... that was the real attitude for a rock band.. And I'm happy for them to gain this attention.

it's time to borrow your soul
squeeze it up to a new direction
it's time to break up the weight from the shade of your soul

it's time to borrow your soul
approve your sins and approve your madness
it's time to measure the weight of the hate in your blood
the weight of the hate in your blood

it's time to borrow your soul
we take your handbag will give you sadness
beware of yourself
beware of the growl of your soul
run away from the growl of your soul..

I’ll just say fare thee well ...

2011-02-28T03:17:00.000-08:00

Well there ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
even you don't know by now
An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
and I'll never do somehow
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I’ll be gone
You’re the reason I’m trav’lin’ on
Don’t think twice, it’s all right

and it ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe
the light I never knowed
An’ it ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe
I’m on the dark side of the road
But I wish there was somethin’ you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin’ anyway
but don’t think twice, it’s all right

So it ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal
Like you never done before
and it ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal
I can’t hear you anymore
I’m a-thinkin’ and a-wond’rin’ all the way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I’m told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don’t think twice, it’s all right

so long, honey babe...
Where I’m bound, I can’t tell
goodbye’s too good a word, gal
So I’ll just say fare thee well
I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don’t mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don’t think twice, it’s all right

Copyright © 1963 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music

I'm in love for the first time

2011-02-24T05:44:00.000-08:00

There is nothing that can beat a "don't let me down" at the right time...

ocean trip is good for me...

2011-02-17T01:36:00.000-08:00

Ricky Malberg is a musician of the Barcelona scene, involved in several projects

Here is his first release as an independent artist ... which is this fresh and moving "Ocean Trip"

The song has certain flavor of Bow Vow Vow "Fools rush in" with Lou Reed's voice ..

Might also sound like World Music with 50's guitars..

I just love the trumpets which remind me of Herp Albert

ser valiente no es solo cuestion de suerte...

2011-02-09T00:39:00.000-08:00

To be brave is not just a question of luck..

So many great bands appeared in Spain in the last years.. Vetusta Morla, as the turtle in the Neverending Story by Michael Ende, is one of them.. maybe the band that had more exposure to media..

somehow I didn't listened to them properly until just yesterday night while drawing on my desk this song came on a playlist I made of Spanish bands..

this sentence caught my attention..
and then the whole song...
then the album..

Wow... Then I found this video, and the sound is just perfect.. you can see they are quite emoted by listening the crowd singing the lyrics... dream come true ?? probably...

we're on a road to nowhere..

2011-02-02T05:35:00.000-08:00

Are we on a road to nowhere ?

Once I lived the life of a millionaire ...

2011-01-28T01:10:00.000-08:00

Clapton is a discussed guitar player... people loves him and people hates him..

I was never into him until the evidence got me closer to listen ..

1st - When I read he was the one who put a Gibson Les Paul through a Marshall and recorded an album.. Check the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton, just listen to Hideaway.. that was the guitar sound used for the next 10 years.. and it was recorded in 1966..

2nd - When he left the Yardbirds because they wanted to play pop music..

3rd -When he recorded the solo for "While my guitar gently weeps"..

4th - When he wrote "Layla" cause he was in love with Patty Boyd and couldn't do anything 'cause she was his best friend's wife.. George Harrison..

the list keeps on growing...

The last time random took me to him was when I went to Sin-e in Dublin last summer and there was this guy playing songs... he had a great voice and was a good player... He sang "Nobody knows you when you are down and out" .. I had never heard it before.. (don't know how could I..) when I went back home in Barcelona I looked for it and saw that the cover was coming from Clapton's version in "Layla and other assorted Love songs"..

With the collaboration of the great late Duane Allman..

The original from Jimmy Cox and the first know version by Bessie Smith.

Love him or hate him... now listen here and look in the eyes and try saying "he's not that good"

Nobody helps a liar ...

2011-01-21T00:55:00.000-08:00

Having a conversation yesterday about new American folk female singers.. I couldn't help remembering Jenny Lewis..

There are so many great songs in this record.. which I heard a hundred times..

There is something in the way she rises her voice on the chorus and how the backing vocals sing along with her that gets me goosebumps.

One of the play list I listen a lot is the one she did for Rolling Stone Mag...

Great selection of early 70's folk singers.

‎... but she breaks just like a little girl

2011-01-19T07:00:00.000-08:00

Dylan's ode to all women in the world.

The song one can obviously link to who we are in love with..

To a girl who surprises us with her smile in the nighttime singing love songs to our ears while we hold hands...

A girl who makes drawings of women going to the beach and brings Japanese soup to dinner..

party party party !!

2011-01-14T01:29:00.000-08:00

This is another song from the Seihos

The video is great, an homage to Cake's "Short Skirt Long Jacket"..

The best of it is that shows how is life daily in Barcelona, the tourists, the people chilling in any square or by the shadow of a cathedral..

Is a great city to live in..

Some people say the song is good, some say they don't like it at all.. but overall is such a laugh. you see people is great, different and similar everywhere ..

Best comment

"You can win a lot of money with publicity with this song.."

Spanish bombs.. yo te quiero infinito.. !!

2011-01-11T06:48:00.000-08:00

The Clash payed a great homage to the victims of the terrible Spanish Civil War...

and The Clash were not a demagogic band ..

Joe Strummer was trying to bring into attention some injustices of the past and the present..

They were the only ones who ever talked about this terrible episode..

The lyrics remember Federico Garcia Lorca, the late poet shot and killed by Nationalist militia on 19 August 1936.

World War II would began shortly after...

George Orwell who participated in the war as a volunteer would write "Homage to Catalonia" which is another book I yet have to read...

Paco de Lucia - Percusion Flamenca

2011-01-08T02:05:00.000-08:00

"Unos me dicen que si y otros que no... y yo le he preguntado a grandes musicos si debo aprender musica.. y me han dicho que no.. no es necesario"

"Some say yes and some say no, ... and I have asked great musicians if I should learn music .. they have said, no .. it is not necessary"

Paco de Lucia

Sure it's not necessary to learn music if you are such gifted and incredibly talented musician... otherwise..

you float like a feather....

2011-01-06T14:24:00.001-08:00

Have you ever felt somebody was so fucking special ???

losing love is like a window in your heart...

2011-01-01T12:08:00.000-08:00

Everybody sees you're blown apart,
Everybody sees the wind blow,

Starting 2011 with a guitar in my hands.. singing Graceland..
Lots of meanings in this song.. love the way Paul Simon talks about his personal daemons with such tranquility..

The music in this record is among the greatest recorded in the 80's...

The South African musicians he worked with are simply superb...

Giving credit to them..

Ray Phiri on guitar
Bakithi Kumalo on bass
Vusi Khumalo on drums
Makhaya Mahlangu on percussion

.. and Simon's own childhood heroes ... the Everly Brothers providing backing vocals...

Going to Graceland is a metaphor .. a metaphor for the old belief that maybe taking one chance will suddenly give some sort of reason to life..

The Mississippi delta was shining like a national guitar
I am following the river down the highway through the cradle of the civil war

I'm going to Graceland, Graceland
Memphis, Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland
poor boys and pilgrims and families
we are all going to Graceland..

My traveling companion is nine years old
He's the child of my first marriage

But I got a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland

She comes back to tell me she's gone
As If I didn't know that
As If I didn't know my own bed..
As If I never notice the way she brush her head from her forehead,.

She said losing love is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees your blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow..

I'm going to Graceland
Memphis, Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland
Poor boys and pilgrims and families
we all are going to Graceland..

My traveling companions
are ghosts and empty sockets..
I am looking at ghosts and empties
But I got a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland

There's a girl in New York City
She calls herself the human trampoline
sometimes when I am falling flying, tumbling in turmoil
I say wow so this is what she means
She means we are bouncing into Graceland

And I see losing love is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees your blown apart
Everybody feels the wind blow..

in Graceland, in Graceland..
For reasons I cannot explain there's some a part of me that want s see Graceland.

And I maybe am blind to defend every love every ending or maybe there's no obligations now..
Maybe I have a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland..

In Graceland.. In Graceland..

Centenars De Petites Coses....

2010-12-30T08:53:00.000-08:00

Hundreds of small little things...

Another great Catalan band... this time Mine!

Coming from the post-rock and indie scene.. they finally decided to switch from English to Catalan ..

They self released a few records before getting the attention of labels, which allowed them to record professionally.

This tune reminds me of a nice children song, with a great arrange on the backing vocals and a loving Beatles bass line..

tattoo'd lady, pretty baby...

2010-12-29T09:19:00.000-08:00

When I was in Dublin this summertime I was surprised by Rory's guitar hanging from a wall in Temple Bar..

I got to know him specially because Fender made a replica of this guitar.. And I think this is the greatest guitar ever.. It's shred and wormed out .. as an instrument should be

Quite expensive, unluckily... but anyway that's just a memorabilia thing...

Though I wish I would have it..

How he made it ?? Ireland back in the 70's was not an easy place to live in.. not even for making it into rock music.. but there he is..

Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn ..

2010-12-27T03:17:00.000-08:00

Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born.

Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going To California with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me there's a girl out there
with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane, never let them
tell you that they're all the same.
The sea was red and the sky was grey,
wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
as the children of the sun began to awake.

Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow;
I think I might be sinking.
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I'll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high.

To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings... la la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.

Everybody loves somebody sometime..

2010-12-25T06:42:00.000-08:00

Great radio show today dedicated to Dean Martin..

They just played this old song which my mother use to sing us..

Another good memory I gather ..

There is one question I'd really love to ask ...

2010-12-22T17:10:00.000-08:00

This pic of Marley and George is just incredible..
How great would have been a jam between the two...

these are the things I can do without...

2010-12-16T03:06:00.000-08:00

without what ??
..isn't this sentence left undisclosed ?

With these epic drumbeats, synthesizers all over the place, big hall reverb, massive backing vocals.. OK, that was the 80's..

Can't decide whether this lyrics are the ... you-are-wrong-I-am-right type or else the classical auto criticism.. I'm-actually-talking-to-myself thing

And Tears for Fears, where this band who got a number 1 on the Billboard, back in the day.. which is no trivial thing..

Their name comes from a chapter in Arthur Janov's Primal Scream therapy book.. never read it, even I really wanted to sometime ago..

Alive in the superunknown !!!

2010-12-15T03:26:00.000-08:00

I always write suspension points... but I really need exclamations to shout out that I am alive in the superunknown... !

SoundGarden was one of those bands that I would really would have loved seeing back in the day when they release their first albums..

Unfortunately they didn't come to Spain until their 1996 album which I actually never heard.. as I was into other stuff in that days..

Anyway as they appear in Guitar World cover I wanted to remember one of their most kicking ass tunes..

Basically what Sabbath or Zeppelin could have done in the 90's...

with your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue...

2010-12-09T07:29:00.000-08:00

The only thing I ever got from you is sorrow..

I guess that we'll meet... we'll meet in the end

2010-12-06T03:09:00.000-08:00

Today 6th December, is Randy Rhoads birthday..

An incredible musician who unluckily died when was only 25 years old..

Probably the most gifted guitar player of his generation, a classical trained and charismatic guy who Ozzy hired just after he tuned up his guitar in the audition..

So for guitar players.. to play with feeling, with a feeling that comes from love, the solo in Goodbye to Romance is the perfect example... like a swan song..

I sit around with my head hanging down...

2010-12-04T12:11:00.001-08:00

And I wonder who's loving you !!!

I was recording my 6 years old nephew singing a song for my sister..

Even he was singing fine .. He didn't had the attitude...

So I played him this video.. asking to sing with his eyes closed.. moving his hands and feeling the music in all his body..

it was amazing how he sang it then..

this must be true love...

2010-12-03T02:15:00.000-08:00

Checking Don Kenn's blog .. I found this little gem.. tiny masterpiece of the animation..

When the video ended.. I had to watch it again as I was so absorbed by it that couldn't properly judge it.. that's the point no judging..

The song is strange and evocative..

They are called Said the Shark from Denmark, with two records released so far ..

Always Prattling On About Wolves & Silly Killings .. the song True Love is from the second release..

is the time of the season ....

2010-12-02T02:39:00.000-08:00

I guess I'll never be able to listen to Time of the Season without remembering Homer Simpson becoming a hippie wearing his filthy old poncho in Springfield and getting everybody high with the hallucinogen crops plantation..

that's a milestone of 20th century culture's clash

I'm a capricorn and she's a cancer...

2010-12-01T00:57:00.000-08:00

Quite silly lyrics.. but it's for the sake of good times Rock n Roll !!

I use to sing this with my sister when Skid Row made the cover.. we loved the song..

I'll always love 70's Kiss.. they were the superheros of rock.. and when you are a kid they were the only rock band that were making some fun of themselves..

with two cats in the yard...

2010-11-28T14:04:00.000-08:00

This song came once in the radio when I was working in a night shift...

And it caught me by surprise..

Knew Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young for Helplessly Hoping and Suite:Jody Blue Eyes..

But Our House became my favorite song of them...

The thing here is that I have my own two cats in the yard ..

why do you come here ?

2010-11-27T02:29:00.000-08:00

Love spreads her arms, waits there for the nails

2010-11-25T01:02:00.001-08:00

The Stone Roses had a great success with their first album...

Then they got into legal issues with their record company and didn't release their second until 5 years ..

The 1st single of that 2nd album was this loose-bad-ass-zeppelinesque tune... called Love Spreads...

Everybody was expecting them to come again with the dance oriented shoe-gazing rock they were known for..

But instead John Squire decided to show the world how a Les Paul should be played ...

This is one of the songs that will push you to buy a guitar..

They say I got a lot of water in my brain ....

2010-11-24T03:34:00.000-08:00

Mojo mag this month.. .Freddie !!

As i am going to England with my mates.. I know I'll get it at the airport..

Then she slipped into my pocket with my car keys..

2010-11-23T03:48:00.001-08:00

Loved this song from day one..

The tribal singing is amazing

the rich girl poor boy classic history ...

This time with the world rhythms and sounds that Paul Simon explored since the 60's with Garfunkel..

The horns and the fret less bass are superb

DIAMONDS ON THE SOLES OF HER SHOES

He's a poor boy
Empty as a pocket
Empty as a pocket with nothing to lose
Sing Ta na na
Ta na na na
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

People say she's crazy
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Well that's one way to lose these
Walking blues
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

She was physically forgotten
Then she slipped into my pocket
With my car keys
She said you've taken me for granted
Because I please you
Wearing these diamonds

And I could say Oo oo oo
As if everybody knows
What I'm talking about
As if everybody would know
Exactly what I was talking about
Talking about diamonds on the soles of her shoes

She makes the sign of a teaspoon
He makes the sign of a wave
The poor boy changes clothes
And puts on after-shave
To compensate for his ordinary shoes

And she said honey take me dancing
But they ended up by sleeping
In a doorway
By the bodegas and the lights on
Upper Broadway
Wearing diamonds on the soles of their shoes

And I could say Oo oo oo
As if everybody here would know
What I was talking about
I mean everybody here would know exactly
What I was talking about
Talking about diamonds

People say I'm crazy
I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes
Well that's one way to lose
These walking blues
Diamonds on the soles of your shoes

Her neon mouth with the blinking soft smile ..

2010-11-19T06:01:00.000-08:00

Psychedelia at its prime.

1967 ...

San Francisco...

How great if one could go back there for a few weeks...

If I could I would seriously consider staying..

And I would form a band called... the XXIst Century Travelers..

Plastic Fantastic Lover

Her neon mouth with the blinking soft smile
Is nothing but an electric sign
You could say she has an individual style
She's part of a colorful time

Super-sealed lady, chrome-color clothes
You wear 'cause you have no other
But I suppose no one knows
You're my plastic fantastic lover

Your rattlin' cough never shuts off
Is nothin' but a used machine
Your aluminum finish, slightly diminished
Is the best I ever have seen

Cosmetic baby plugged into me
And never ever find another
And I realize no one's wise
To my plastic fantastic lover

The electrical dust is starting to rust
Her trapezoid thermometer taste
All the red tape is mechanical rape
Of the TV program waste

Data control and IBM
Science is mankind's brother
But all I see is drainin' me
On my plastic fantastic lover

let's rock till we drop...

2010-11-17T05:25:00.000-08:00

The first(and last) vinyl record LP I ever stole was The Stray Cats first album..

Which I still have ...

I just did it for the sake of being a rebel and a rocker ..

This weekend we were at my friend's birthday party and we were playing only old Rock & roll and skiffle tunes.... like I Saw Her Standing There or Man in constant sorrow...

Me I was playing bass at that moment and.. was crazy to play Rock This Town..

even Brian Setzer's guitar parts are the real rocker licks.... playing rockabilly walking bass is great.

is

In dreams you're mine all of the time ...

2010-11-15T01:38:00.000-08:00

"He was now singing his compositions in three or four octaves that made you want to drive your car over a cliff. He sang like a professional criminal... His voice could jar a corpse, always leave you muttering to yourself something like, 'Man, I don't believe it'"

Bob Dylan

When I read this line in Dylan's Chronicles I underlined it with my pencil...

I remembered Roy's voice ..

I could drive my car over a cliff while this song is playing in the radio...

Roy said this song came to him while sleeping, he dreamed that the radio was announcing a new Elvis song .. then he woke up and wrote it..

The images in the video are from David Lynch's movie Blue Velvet, which I hadn't seen yet..

The producer was Dino de Laurentiis who passed away last week..

Little homage here to all of them..

In Dreams

A candy-colored clown they call the Sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
"Go to sleep, everything is all right"

I close my eyes, then I drift away
Into the magic night, I softly say
A silent prayer like dreamers do
Then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you

In dreams I walk with you
In dreams I talk to you
In dreams you're mine all of the time
We're together in dreams, in dreams

But just before the dawn
I awake and find you gone
I can't help it, I can't help it, if I cry
I remember that you said goodbye

It's too bad that all these things
Can only happen in my dreams
Only in dreams
In beautiful dreams

wild horses couldn't drag me away

2010-11-13T09:55:00.000-08:00

Seems that my pockets were filled up with gold...

2010-11-12T03:33:00.000-08:00

I really believe there's nothing one can comment about this song...

Just give yourself a present today..

listen to this song as many times as you want..

then you'll feel a whole lot better..

My head is spinning round, my heart is in my shoes, yeah
I went and set the thames on fire, oh, now I must
come back down
She’s laughing in her sleeve boys, I can feel it
in my bones
Oh, but anywhere I’m gonna lay my head, I’m gonna
call my home

Well I see that the world is upside-down
Seems that my pockets were filled up with gold
And now the clouds, well they’ve covered over
And the wind is blowing cold
Well I don’t need anybody, because I learned, I
learned to be alone
Well I said anywhere, anywhere, anywhere I lay my
head, boys
Well I gonna call my home

How the hell did you get here...

2010-11-11T07:26:00.000-08:00

....semi-naked in somebody else's room.
I'd give my whole life to see it.
Just you,
stood there,
only in your underwear.

Hard to find more cynical or sweet lyrics than those written by Jarvis Cocker...

UNDERWEAR

Why don't you shut the door,
and close the curtains,
cos you're not going anywhere.
He's coming up the stairs,
and in a moment he'll want to see your underwear.

You couldn't stop it now.
There's no way to get out.
He's standing far too near.
How the hell did you get here.
Semi-naked in somebody else's room.
I'd give my whole life to see it.
Just you,
stood there,
only in your underwear.

If fashion is your trade,
then when you're naked,
I guess you must be unemployed yeah.
Cos once it's underway,
there's no escaping,
the fact that you're a girl and he's a boy.

You couldn't stop it now.
There's no way to get out.
He's standing far too near.
How the hell did you get here.
Semi-naked in somebody else's room.
I'd give my whole life to see it.
Just you,
stood there,
only in your underwear.

If you close your eyes and just remember,
that this is what you wanted last night.
So why is it so hard for you to touch him.
For you to go and give yourself to him?

I couldn't stop it now.
There's no way to get out.
He's standing far too near.
How the hell did you get here,
semi-naked in somebody else's room.
I'd give my whole life to see it.
Just you,
stood there,
only in your underwear.

Do, do do do do. Do, do. Do, do. Do, do, do, do, do. Do, do. Do, do.
Oh yeh,
I want to see you.
Want to see you only in your underwear.

I woke up this morning ... worried in my mind

2010-11-08T14:33:00.000-08:00

the voice of a worried guy ...

Almost 90 years ago...

I woke up this morning ... worried in my mind
Thinking about ... that girl I left behind
I'm worried now ... I won't be worried long

The brownie I love ... makes me sing this song
If the blues don't kill me ... they will drill me through and through
Woman I love ... don't know what to do

There's one thing in this world ... I cannot understand
That's a bow‑legged woman ... crazy about a cross‑eyed man

...I'm gonna tell Aunt Mary 'bout Uncle John

2010-11-08T08:14:00.000-08:00

My and my good mate Luis.. went to see Lemmy's Documentary..

was OK.. but what I'd like was when he and Dave Grohl started talking about Little Richard.. and I remember a rock'n roll oldies record my parents had..

My favorite song was "Long Tall Sally" because it's like a lightning bolt..

The Beatles and Led Zeppelin covered the song later on...
and his style was copied from Bowie to Hendrix to Prince..

But nobody could sing like Little Richard.. not even today..

How go forward into something we're not sure of? ...

2010-11-05T07:06:00.000-07:00

Sometimes when we look for answers we only find more questions...

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
How can I go forward when I don't know which way to turn?
How can I go forward into something that I'm not sure of?
Oh no,
Oh no,

How can I have feeling if I don't know if it's a feeling?
How can I feel something if I just don't know how to feel,
How can I have feelings when my feelings have always been denied?
Oh no,
Oh no,

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
How can I give love when I just don't know how to give?
How can I give love when love is something I aint never had?
Oh no,
Oh no,

You know life can be long,
And you have got to be so strong,
And the world is so tough sometimes I feel I have had enough,
Oh no,
Oh no,

How can we go forward when we don't know which way we're facing?
How can we go forward when we don't know which way to turn?
How go forward into something we're not sure of?
Oh no,
Oh no

What do you think they would say...

2010-11-02T08:41:00.000-07:00

...
if I stood up and I walked away
Nobody here really understands me,
and so I'll wave goodbye I'm fine
and I'm fine

Well that was Shannon Hoon did more or less 15 years ago..

Though this is quite a feel-good song.. that could have been the long lost B side from Led Zeppelin III

Linger on, your pale blue eyes...

2010-10-30T03:39:00.000-07:00

sometimes I feel so happy
sometimes I feel so sad,
sometimes I feel so happy
but mostly you just make me mad..

Warhol Factory was in the 60's something that hasn't been surpassed artistically

Edie Sedgwick is the girl in the pic..

Aslo Warhol himself, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale ..

Edie attracted Andy Warhol because of her strange sense of fashion, style and "whatever" attitude...

Anyway here the Velvet Underground..

And so she woke up...

2010-10-27T06:17:00.000-07:00

I didn't choose this song today..

It was more than an election..

I was watching the open field in front of me..

... A resonator and the slide on my hands of a lonely wooden house in the prairie...

Running To Stand Still

And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was lyin’ still.
Said I gotta do something
About where we’re goin’.
Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain, maybe
Run from the darkness in the night.
Singing ah, ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day.

Sweet the sin, bitter the taste in my mouth.
I see seven towers, but I only see one way out.
You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice.
You know I took the poison, from the poison stream
Then I floated out of here, singing
Ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day.

She walks through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under black belly of cloud in the rain.
In through a doorway
She brings me white golden pearls
Stolen from the sea.
She is ragin’
She is ragin’

And the storm blows up in her eyes.
She will suffer the needle chill
She’s running to stand still.

Valhalla, I Am Coming ...

2010-10-25T06:15:00.000-07:00

Led Zeppelin III is known as their acoustic album..

but the first song is Immigrant Song ...

About Scandinavian mythology and warfare

Maybe the most heavy tune they ever recorded..

(from wikipedia.org)
Valhalla is a majestic, enormous hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the God Odin. Chosen by him, half of those that die in combat travel to Valhalla upon death, led by Valkyries, while the other half go to the goddess Freyja's field Fólkvangr.

This is the one where they evoke the Hammer Of The Gods..

That's the title of the infamous biography that they'd always dismiss..

The film Almost Famous is somehow based on the groupie phenomenon that happened in the first part of the 70's to Led Zeppelin back then..

Director Cameron Crowe himself wrote liner notes for Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same live record, when he was just 17 years old.. He was already working for Rolling Stone since 1972.. enough said..

Who wouldn't want to be part of those days ?

Immigrant Song

A-ah-ahh-ah, ah-ah-ahh-ah
We come from the land of the ice and snow
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow

The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands
To fight the horde and sing and cry, Valhalla, I am coming

On we sweep with, with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore

Ah-ah-ahh-ah, ah-ah-ahh-ah
We come from the land of the ice and snow
from the midnight sun where the hot springs FLOW
How soft your fields, so green
can whisper tales of gore, of how we calmed the tides of war
We are your overlords

On we sweep with, with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore

S-so now you better stop and rebuild all your ruins
for peace and trust can winthe day despite of all you're losin'
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ahh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

You're happy when I'm on my knees...

2010-10-22T05:34:00.000-07:00

Oh my oh my...

Who can resist grabbing a White Les Paul Custom though a Marshall and just strum this riff..?

Yo ho yo ho ho ...

2010-10-21T01:56:00.000-07:00

I discovered this great song from Alela Diane in the album Folk & Proud by the record label Naïve.

She's from California and tagged as part of the psych folk and New Weird America.

This song it really sounds like a pirate song.. with the low backing vocals, the hand-claps and the rare banjo arrangement ..

Her album bears the same name and was released in 2006.

Had a time with it and must say it's a good folk thing..

Come closer and see ...

2010-10-20T08:54:00.000-07:00

Does the Cure write songs or make movies ?

This songs are full of passages and always spark my imagination...

A Forest is quite dark and obscure... it's the most goth they have ever been..

And is one of the best songs ever from the last century..

I mean no trouble, please don't put me down, don’t get upset...

2010-10-19T03:51:00.000-07:00

So I never knew this song existed... !!
It was on the bootleg series from Dylan... and then on the Legacy Edition of Jeff Buckley's Grace...

How come this song is not on any official release being as good as it is.. ?

this little hidden gem...

Dylan once again is undressing our feelings.. with such plain words and simple pictures.. the soul of a man trapped in the cell of love-sickness..

I really prefer Jeff Buckley's demos than his official recordings.. because it's like when he was playing in Sin-E and nobody knew who he was..

Mama, you been on my mind.

Perhaps it is the color of the sun cut flat
An' cov'rin' the crossroads I'm standing at,
Or maybe it's the weather or something like that,
But mama, you been on my mind.

I mean no trouble, please don't put me down, don’t get upset,
I am not pleading or saying that "I can't forget you."
I do not pace the floor bowed down and bent, but yet,
Mama, you been on my mind.

Even though my eyes are hazy and my thoughts they might be narrow,
Where you been don't bother me or bring me down in sorrow.
I don't even mind who you'll be waking with tomorrow,
But mama, you're just on my mind.

I am not askin' you to say words like "yes" or "no,"
Please understand me, I have no place I’m callin’ you to go.
I'm just whispering to myself so I can't pretend that I don't know,
But mama, you're just on my mind.

When you wake up in the mornin' and look inside your mirror,
You know I won't be next to you, you know I won't be near.
I'd just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear
As someone who has had you on his mind.

I guess I'm doing fine...

2010-10-18T06:02:00.000-07:00

What kind of answer is that ...

Well lately I feel like saying that when they ask me how am I ...

Funny How Time Slips Away (by Willie Nelson)

Well hello there my it's been a long long time
How am I doin'  oh I guess that I'm doin' fine
It's been so long now but it seems now it was only yesterday
Gee ain't it funny how time   slips away
 
How's your new love  I hope that he's doing fine
Heard you told him that you'd love him till the end of time
Now that's the same thing that you told me seems like just the other day
Gee ain't it funny how time  slips  away
 
I gotta go now I guess I'll see you around
Don't know when though never know when I'll be back in town
But remember what I tell you that in time you're gonna pay
And it's surprising how time  slips  away

...then you’d know why I feel blue

2010-10-13T07:00:00.000-07:00

back to the 50's !! with Buddy Holly, what a legend ..

..the look he had with that glasses, the suit and the Stratocaster...

A guitar that was released in 1954 just three years before this song ...

Don McLean sang in America Pie that the day he died at 22.. the music died as well...

This last weekend we went to the mountain's country house of my mate...

We had a the best time..

Then after lunch we took the guitars out and played some tunes...

We were playing some early Beatles songs.. and I remembered Peggy Sue and asked Marc to play that repetitive drum rhythm...

And so.. with the 12 bar blues structure.. we played Peggy Sue ...

and it was magic..

Peggy Sue

If you knew Peggy Sue - then you’d know why I feel blue
without Peggy - my Peggy Sue
oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - oh how my heart yearns for you
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - pretty pretty pretty pretty Peggy Sue
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
oh well, I love you gal and I need you Peggy Sue

I love you Peggy Sue - with a love so rare and true
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
well I love you gal - I want you Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue
pretty pretty pretty pretty Peggy Sue
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
oh well, I love you gal and I need you Peggy Sue

I love you Peggy Sue - with a love so rare and true
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
well I love you gal - I want you Peggy Sue

oh well, I love you gal and I want you Peggy Sue

Please don't give up on me ...

2010-10-11T00:32:00.000-07:00

Solomon Burke died this weekend..

Learned about it from some newspaper...

This morning listening to Radio 3 ("hoy empieza todo") they paid a little tribute by playing this song..

While I was getting dressed I was absorbed by his voice.. that feeling he's putting in here..

Don't give up on me

If I fall short
If I don't make the grade
If you're expectations aren't met in me today
There's always tomorrow, or tomorrow night
Hang in there, baby
Sooner or later I know I'll get it right
Please don't give up on me
Oh please don't give up on me
I know It's late, late in the game
But my feelings, my true feelings haven't changed
Here in my heart I know, I know I was wrong, wrong, wrong
I'd like to make amends for the love that I've never ever, ever, ever shown
Just don't give up on me, every word is true
I'll give you my everything, all of my love,
All of my love, all of my love, love, love to you
Just don't give up on me,
oh please, please, please don't give up on me
I don't want you to
I know It's late, but wait please, please, please, please don't give up on me
Promise, will you promise me, will you promise me
Please don't give up on me
We can make it if we try
I'm going to hold on, hold on with me
And don't give up on me
Oh baby don't give up on me
Whatever you do we'll make it though
Don't you give up on me,
Please, please, please promise me,
Don't give up on me

scanning the scene in the city tonight..

2010-10-08T11:39:00.000-07:00

..must be the only metal band who is respected by all generations and still make people feel good...

After reading that James Hetfield participated on an auction for Little Kids Rock organization-- I wanted to see which was the item.. and was quite surprised watching the guitar he decorated..

It carries sentences like..

Can't you do anything right..
It's not good enough..
Get outta Here..
Are you really that stupid..

Focusing on the reality of a childhood some people go through...

luckily some of the times this can be reverted through art, music or passion for any discipline...

The rest of the decorated guitars are just esthetically OK.. (Specially the one by Stan Lee)

But this one.. really made me think twice about not pretending bad times are just gone.. I guess one must have them present to never allow them to happen again

It doesn't really matter what chords I play ...

2010-10-07T01:42:00.000-07:00

What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern song ..

I still remember when my mother bought us the film Yellow Submarine..

I was around 10 years old..

That exposure to such artistic film, with all that psychedelic meanings, the colors and the naivety...

I think that made me understand the world in a particular way..

Where only art is worth enough any effort..

Only a Northern Song

If you're listening to this song
You may think the chords are going wrong
But they're not, we just wrote them like that

When you're listening late at night
You mayo thing the band are not quite right
But they are, they just play it like that

It doesn't really matter what chords I play
What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern song

It doesn't really matter what clothes I wear
Or how I fare or if my hair is brown
When it's only a Northern song

If you think the harmony
Is a little dark and out of key
You're correct, there's nobody there
And I told you there's no one there

you'll never wait so long .... so long ... so long

2010-10-04T02:38:00.000-07:00

Lou Reed was waiting for his man back in 69 with 26 dollars in his hand up to Lexington 125 ..

So lucky !!! the Pixies announce his man was finally coming in 1989...

Probably, both songs have no connection at all..

but they do have one for me..

"Here Comes Your Man"

outside there's a box car waiting
outside the family stew
out by the fire breathing
outside we wait 'til face turns blue
i know the nervous walking
i know the dirty beard hangs
out by the box car waiting
take me away to nowhere plains
there is a wait so long
here comes your man

big shake on the box car moving
big shake to the land that's falling down
is a wind makes a palm stop blowing
a big, big stone fall and break my crown
there is a wait so long
you'll never wait so long
here comes your man
there is a wait so long
you'll never wait so long
here comes your man

When you're feeling kind of lonesome in your mind....

2010-09-30T00:52:00.000-07:00

Read on Layla's blog about the inductees for this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony...

Was surprised about Donovan... who lately had been quite forgotten from the media..

I reckon his contribution to popular music, from folk to psychedelia has been great..

So unfair he's remembered for his particular relation with Dylan.. the criticism over the style similarities,... while they were only strumming a guitar and singing on top..

Or so it seemed. Thousands of Dylan fans voiced their anger at me at his shows. Dylan mentioned me in his song "Talking World War Three" and his audience jeered my name. Backstage, Dylan told reporters: "I didn't mean to put the guy down in my songs. I just did it for a joke." In their turn my fans were just as vocal in championing me. It had obviously got out of hand.

Excerpt from 'The Hurdy Gurdy Man' by Donovan Leitch
the independent

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light ....

2010-09-28T02:35:00.000-07:00

Or just another lost angel...

Mojo is my favorite mag...

And this month (link) they celebrate the 60th anniversary of my favorite record label; Elektra Records...

Where Love, The Doors, Tim Buckley, The Stooges, MC5, Queen, Metallica and some other once were signed...

All because of Jac Holzman who could discover such diamonds in the rough ..

So... Happy Birthday Elektra... and thanks for providing such great artists.. (their website is great, check link)

And this one done by Andy Finney ... it's extremely documented with all the record covers, serial numbers, and details.. a must see.. link

Again Jimbo is on my blog... this time because of the wordplay between his anagram and Mojo Magazine..

Mr. Mojo Risin',
gotta keep on risin'
Risin', risin'

I really love you and I mean you...

2010-09-27T05:41:00.000-07:00

I can imagine when Syd Barret sings a song like Terrapin strumming his guitar, people couldn't be able to stop and listen to him.

Even most of the time his lyrics are cryptic, full of metaphors..

He's playing with words and their sound on his songs as well as the meaning..

like a child's game...

Syd is my favorite bizarre crazy artist ever.. along with Salvador Dali… Sometimes they are blamed for trying to make a fool out of everyone... but I don't think they were doing that, they were exploring through expression..

Time puts everyone on its place... and after all these years, the legend over him has never diminished... even he choose to retire from public eye and stopped giving interviews long ago..

He died as a regular guy three years ago... but his contribution in taking pop music and present it as a supreme art form is far from being ordinary..

I really love you and I mean you
The star above you, crystal blue
Well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...

I wouldn’t see you and I love to
I fly above you, yes I do
Well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...

Floating, bumping, noses dodge a tooth
The fins aluminous fangs all ’round
The clam is dark below the boulders hiding all
The sunlight’s good for us

’cause we’re the fishes and all we do
The move about is all we do
Well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...

Floating, bumping, noses dodge a tooth
The fins aluminous fangs all ’round
The clam is dark below the boulders hiding all
The sunlight’s good for us

’cause we’re the fishes and all we do
The move about is all we do
Well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...

I really love you and I mean you
The star above you, crystal blue
Well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you...

train kept a rollin' all night long !

2010-09-24T05:10:00.000-07:00

In case you need a definition of what a rock band should be.

This picture talks so much...

Jimmy Page is capturing the attention in it.. even he was just the bass player in the band..

Everybody's pretending to make a picture of him.. without knowing he would become the most legendary guitar hero, composer and producer icon in a few years..

Everybody but one.. Jeff Beck is the only looking at the camera.. with a non so pleasant face..

The love/hate relation between the two guitarists .. is very well known ...

Since their competitive actions in the late 60's both with the Jeff Beck Group and Led Zeppelin...

The controversy over Beck's Bolero composition and the strange coincidence of both covering You Shook Me at the same time...

May you stay forever young ...

2010-09-22T05:54:00.000-07:00

May God bless and keep you always,
May your wishes all come true,
May you always do for others
And let others do for you.

Some people say my love cannot be true ...

2010-09-21T00:53:00.000-07:00

Some people say Heavy Metal was born when:

1- a riff first drove a song.. that would be You really Got me by The Kinks.

2 - Big drum rolls were recorded ... Then should be Keith Moon in I Can See for Miles.

3 - Distorted melodic guitar lines .. Then The Beatles with Helter Skelter.

4 - Lyrics related with Evil nature.. then The Rolling Stones did it with Sympathy for the Devil.

5 - Long and complex guitar solos .. Then that would be Jimi Hendrix with Voodoo Child.

6 - heavy guitar sound and high pitched vocals... then it must be Led Zeppelin I.

7 - Violent attitude... Then The Stooges with I Wanna Be Your Dog.

8 - Heavy Metal on the lyrics.. SteppenWolf with Born To Be Wild.

9 - Heavy in the record title - Iron Butterfly with Heavy.

10- All together ... then it happened when Ozzy met Tommy Iommy who met Geezer Butler who met Bill Ward..

They’re locking them up today ...

2010-09-20T01:59:00.000-07:00

Forever Changes... who hasn't heard about this legendary album ?

There are so many good songs in it ..

I particularly love the Red Telephone...

The best example of psychedelia,

and the prediction it carried...

They’re locking them up today
They’re throwing away the key
I wonder who it’ll be tomorrow, you or me?
We’re all normal and we want our freedom
Freedom...
freedom...
freedom...
freedom

Arthur Lee would end up for some time with his bones in the jail and through several bad mental times...

That's the thing with records that exceed the creators expectations...

If I say I don't need anyone...

2010-09-17T06:15:00.000-07:00

This is the best guitar tone ever...

The riffs, the dynamics, the drum pattern .. !!

Just listening to the intro.. How did they get to create such masterpiece from scratch ?

Appetite For Destruction is the best selling debut album of all time ..

After this beginning, who could expect this band to last any longer ?

I started playing guitar just after listening to this record.. So it will always be in my heart..

Svefn-g-englar

2010-09-16T03:02:00.001-07:00

Not so long ago I realized that my alarm tone was such an annoying and disturbing thing... I just linked it with the fact of waking up.. and didn't care too much..

The thing is that it was the worst sound ever...

So I firmly resolved to change it, and started to search in my cellphone for some less aggressive and hostile melodies..

Checking there I arrived to a Svefn-G-Englar by Sigur Rós ... A song which had been there for no more than a week or two...

Since then waking up is another experience… it’s like being in heaven or in the middle of an open field.. that’s the first thing I think of now… every morning.

…Things happen for some reason and Svefn-G-Englar, casually means Sleep Angels in Icelandic.

It would be great if each person could take 10 minutes away from their daily obligations.. and give a present to themselves by listening to this piece...

Svefn-g-englar

Ég Er Kominn Aftur
Inn I Þig
Það Er Svo Gott Að Vera Hér
En Stoppa Stutt Við
Eg Flýt Um I Neðarsjávar Hýði
A Hóteli Beintengdur Við Rafmagnstöfluna Og Nærist
Tjú Tjú
En Biðin Gerir Mig Leiðan - Brot Hættan Sparka Frá Mér
Og Kall A - Verð Að Fara – Hjálp
Tjú Tjú
Eg Spring Ut Og Friðurinn I Loft Upp
Baðaður Nýju Ljósi
Eg Græt Og Eg Græt – Aftengdur
Onýttur Heili Settur A Brjóst

Og Mataður Af Svefn-G-Englum

Sleep Angels

I’m back
inside of you
it's so nice to be here
it's just a quick stop
I fly around in underwater
on hotel connected to Electrical Tables and feeds

tju tju

but waiting makes me sad

fragile kick
and calling

have to go

help

tju tju

I burst out and the peace is in the air
bathed in new light
i Cry and I cry -unlinked
unused brain put on a breast
and feeds of Sleep angels

reflected in the eye of the dead man on the beach...

2010-09-14T05:13:00.000-07:00

let's play some songs based in books...

For instance.. Killing an Arab which was inspired
by The Stranger by Albert Camus..

The song is great.. the book is superb..

This is one of the first books I read from my parents library.. just because it was a short one..

And while reading it I notice I was growing up..

exposed to some situations which were not supposed to be read by a kid..

but it did affect my way of thinking...

Then when I recorded my first demo.. my sister's boyfriend.. told me that it remind him of the Cure.. and gave me his Cd's from them... Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds, Pornography, ....

Some years later I realized he said that because their first album is as raw.. as a demo..

The best analysis of the song is by Sean K. Robb from Chart Attack "...a short three-minute burst of metaphysical angst that is meant to question the meaning of existence "

Killing an Arab

Standing on a beach
With a gun in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring down the barrel
At the Arab on the ground
See his open mouth
But hear no sound

I'm alive ... I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab

I can turn and walk away
Or I can fire the gun
Staring at the sky
Staring at the sun
Whichever I choose
It amounts to the same

Absolutely nothing

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab

Feel the steel butt jump
Smooth in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring at myself
Reflected in the eyes of
The dead man on the beach

The dead man
On the beach

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab

...What reasons do you need ?

2010-09-13T02:41:00.001-07:00

Every Monday life starts again...

Then why don't we like them ?

Probably because the strength of laziness wins the battle to initiative..

So from now on I will take good care with Mondays, because they are the best days for taking the greatest decisions...

What are you going to do for the rest of the week ?

Even my current-new-found-consideration for the 1st day of the week... I still love the Boomtown Rats classic... "I don't like Mondays"

Which turned out to be the ultimate chronicle of a lovely teenager shooter girl... so bad..

I guess is all about a praise on boredom, low self-esteem and going to school another dull Monday morning ...

I almost forgot to mention ... this song contains the coolest hand-claps in pop history..

so give me Coffe and Tv...

2010-09-11T06:08:00.000-07:00

This is one of the best videos I ever saw...

They could even make a movie with the Milky, the milk Carton...

It was created by Jim Henson's company.. which also created some years before The Muppets ..

ohh such nice memories..

Do you feel like a chain-store
Practically floored
One of many zeros
Kicked around bored
Your ears are full, but you're empty
Holding out your heart
To people who never really
Care how you are

Chorus
So give me coffee and tv
Peacefully
I've seen so much, i'm going blind
And i'm brain-dead virtually
Sociability
Is hard enough for me
Take me away from this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start over again.

Do you go to the country
It isn't very far
There's people there who'll hurt you
'cos of who you are
Your ears are full of their language
There's wisdom there you're sure
'till the words start swirling/slurring
And you can't find the door

Some people think they're always right...

2010-09-09T03:08:00.000-07:00

The guitars and the beats and the bass and the words...

These are the things that make the Strokes the best rock band out there ...

They don't even have competitors mixing bitter melodies, sharp lyrics, edgy guitar harmonies and tight drumbeats..

You Only Live Once which opened their last record.. First Impressions of Earth

It shows ... no need for the ultimate effects pedal, wall of sound.. or tricky guitar solos ..

Again.-.. all about the feeling...

the only way it can be done..

LINK TO NME REVIEW

Think of a number, divide it by two..

2010-09-07T15:33:00.000-07:00

Another amazing record from 1977..

this time WIRE...

Pink Flag, great record cover

One of the most forgotten punk bands..

this tune with 1:24 shows all the cards that now the new age revival are revisiting..

Franz Ferdinand, Artic Monkeys, Gossip, etc...

Well.. Elastica ripped it off straight away with their single Connection..

10 over 10 in pitchfork media

Three Girl Rhumba

Think of a number,
divide it by two,
something is nothing,
nothing is nothing.
Open a box,
tear off the lid,
then think of a number,
don't think of an answer.
Open your eyes,
think of a number,
don't get swept under,
a number's a number
A chance encounter you want to avoid,
the inevitable, so you do, oh yes you do the impossible
Now you ain't got a number,
you just want to rhumba,
and there ain't no way you're gonna go under
Go under

... What are you so afraid of?

2010-09-05T13:34:00.000-07:00

In Q's issue of August different artists choose their top ten songs of the moment..

I was checking Bruce Springsteen's list and he mentions a song by Ron Sexsmith..

Even his name is familiar, I never found the moment to listen to him...

So I went to his first record which had the following critic ..

"Ron Sexsmith is so anti-cool that this may actually be one the coolest albums you hear"

Secret Heart reminds me a bit of Roy Orbison's fragility, and the musical logical sense of Brian Wilson and McCartney..

Regarding the question he throws.. We are afraid of rejection and feeling small .. I guess he already knows..

I know what it means but ...

2010-09-03T05:24:00.001-07:00

When the Who were trying to find their way through auditions for recording labels back in 64..

One of the A&R told them they were a great band but needed to write their own songs..

“You just really got to do it. ..so way we walked on… Everybody looked round .. and who’s gonna write ? …And me being an art student.. being able to say long words.. like uh.. perspicacity.. which I heard on the Spike Milligan album.. uhh … was elected to do the job.. and about eight, ten weeks later.. the song I had written “I can’t explain” was number 8 in the chart… it all seem so automatic and easy for me”

PETE TOWNSHEND interview 1974

but you're innocent when you dream...

2010-09-01T02:57:00.001-07:00

And is very true... when you dream..

When you're asleep and is the time to rest.. and inside your head..

all those things start to get up from the ground ....

all your hopes... the faces of people you once saw..

the places you can't forget .. and the things you never dared to do...

they gather together on a trip that happens every time you close your eyes..

I need an easy friend ...

2010-08-30T03:05:00.000-07:00

Apparently Kurt Cobain wrote this song after a marathon day of listening to Meet the Beatles ! ..

Well.. I guess that listening to the Beatles for the whole day won't necessarily allow you to write a classic such as this..

But still, the formula is easy, four chords and a story to tell..

When they rehearsed it, Chad Channing , Nirvana's 1st drummer, asked him which was the name of the song..

He replied "It's about a girl.."

Best comment in youtube
"my brother said nirvana sucked, i slapped him. "

... easy like Sunday Morning

2010-08-29T04:18:00.000-07:00

My favorite band member from Faith No More is Jim Martin..

the only guitar player I have seen who looked like out from a Freak Brothers comic book...

So bad they sacked him.. after that, FNM didn't get my interest at all, even he didn't contribute too much on his last record with them...

They were so original...

Which other alternative band would dare covering a Leonard Ritchie song ??

The single cover is also great... showing the love of a pair of rhinos on the African sunset ...

don't worry it's just a personality crisis...

2010-08-28T10:53:00.000-07:00

Would there have been Ramones, Sex Pistols, Mötley Crüe or Guns'n Roses if these 5 guys hadn't been around a few years later ?

They gave so much influence they don't even want to recognize..

They had the nerve of putting a show on and backstage that was unseen before

the spirit of real punk rock..

get your guitars and make a disgrace..

You say the hill's too steep to climb,..

2010-08-27T00:27:00.001-07:00

This song from Pink Floyd appeared on their record Meddle, which probably may be the least known album of theirs..

Pink Floyd is known for bringing madness, isolation and obsessions in their lyrics of their most remembered records ...

In fact the band's history couldn't be explained without certain episodes of erratic behavior by their two main lyricists... Syd Barret and Roger Waters

Surprisingly they are one of the biggest record sellers ever..

But there was a time where they were writing relaxing and conciliating tunes like this one..

I see concept of climbing, as a metaphor, is very illustrative in a lot of personal situations...

At the the end You'll Never Walk Alone is heard, sung by a crowd...

Which also is a great song about getting up and feel supported.

...And I wonder why I still live on

2010-08-25T03:25:00.000-07:00

This is ironic...

I made up my mind about posting some good positive song to change my mood ...

And thought,"- Hey Queen is such a cheerful and positive band ..."

but end up picking All Dead, All Dead, from News of the World...

Probably a song that not many people stopped and listened to...

That title caught my eye since day one..

And it's definitely not an encouraging one..

Brian May wrote it..

And for me is referring to the lost of the childhood...

The time when one realizes about those dreams once one had..

I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand ...

2010-08-23T01:36:00.000-07:00

Joy Division took rock music to a higher artistic level ...

Punk helped teaching the public to avoid all the rock star debauchery and bigger-than-life attitude...

Luckily these new breed of artist came, like Ian Curtis... real people who talked on their lyrics about isolation, angst, solitude, death.. and so, thousands of ears found in them the, always desired, identification..

Ian Curtis decided to pass away at 23.. and became a legend
Me.. I don't agree too much with suicide.. but I guess this shows that he was not pretending ...

Music as an expression field should not always be an entertainment..

Joy Division is one of these exceptions..

I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand,
Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?
These sensations barely interest me for another day,
I've got the spirit, lose the feeling, take the shock away.

It's getting faster, moving faster now, it's getting out of hand,
On the tenth floor, down the back stairs, it's a no man's land,
Lights are flashing, cars are crashing, getting frequent now,
I've got the spirit, lose the feeling, let it out somehow.

What means to you, what means to me, and we will meet again,
I'm watching you, I'm watching her, I'll take no pity from you friends,
Who is right, who can tell, and who gives a damn right now,
Until the spirit new sensation takes hold, then you know,
Until the spirit new sensation takes hold, then you know,
Until the spirit new sensation takes hold, then you know,
I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling,
I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling,
Feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling...

....all is quiet in New Year's Day

2010-08-20T01:16:00.000-07:00

I bought WAR from U2 as a birthday present to myself long ago ..

..and went mad with the bass riff in New Year's Day ..

I haven't listened to it in a really long time..

But it sounds as good as then..

Maybe better than most of the over produced music made today.. (U2 latest releases included)

Because is either that or low-fi..

so bad guitars don't sound this way anymore.. ;(

She told me to come but I was already there ...

2010-08-18T07:24:00.001-07:00

So I was 15 years old..

went to a record shop..

saw an all black album cover with AC/DC in embossed letters ...

and thought - This must be a good one..

I really couldn't recall how many times I have listened to it..

And all the hours I spent doing it .... weren't wasted.. !!!

When the train left the station ...

2010-08-16T02:16:00.000-07:00

It had two lights on behind
Yeah, when the train left the station
It had two lights on behind
Whoa, the blue light was my baby
And the red light was my mind

We were talking with my band mates about Robert Johnson.. and all the legend that throws shadow over his name..

I think I first heard about him on the crossroads story about selling his soul..

Once when I first had Let It Bleed on my stereo I got hooked on Love In Vain... And was highly surprised that wasn't a Stones original... Then I realized what a great writer Robert Johnson was ..

Somebody gotta save my soul !!

2010-08-14T05:16:00.000-07:00

Who doesn't need a little kick in the ass from time to time ?

I've spending all my money in the old town...

2010-08-13T10:46:00.000-07:00

It's not the same honey
When you're not around

Wow.. what a surprise is Dublin for a music lover..

I went to concerts every single night of the week, from traditional Irish to punk rock.. really..

Apart the vibe is great...

Saw the Rory Gallagher street with his old stratocaster hanging on the wall...
Though even I know Phil Lynott statue is somewhere around, I couldn't find it...

Anyway I am posting one of the songs of him that I most like.. which is related to this dirty old city.. and a little boy crackin' up ..

no one remembers your name...

2010-08-08T05:14:00.000-07:00

This is the song that started all ...

... it was just that the time was wrong

2010-08-06T06:41:00.000-07:00

They are probably the least cool band in the world..

But these lyrics on Romeo And Juliet are so well written and so bittersweet.. that I listened to them and can see their faces and everything in between

Mark Knopfler was playing live in Barcelona a few weeks ago.. and I went straight to this song.. cause I always loved it.

...And I remember she used to fall down a lot

2010-08-02T02:03:00.000-07:00

That girl was always falling
Again and again
And I used to sometimes try to catch her
But I never even caught her name

This song was a surprise..

Because I've been a Cure devoted fan since I was in high school..

but somehow this song slip through the rest and never heard it until this year..

Don't miss it..

those kilometers and the red lights..

2010-07-31T04:47:00.000-07:00

Yes.. that's what we do ..

crash in the same car.. and we crash again..

and then we said to ourselves.. I already knew that..

I shouldn't have tried..

but something push you harder towards it..

Even it's a mature lyric I found it quite clear the first time I'd heard it..
and it became one of my songs..

2BANG

...still my guitar gently weeps

Antes que acabe la noche ...

Thing like that drive me out of my mind...

Just waiting for a Hammer to Fall...

thank you for this bitter knowledge...

if you don't mind... I don't mind

Where the skies are so blue..

Through the sleeples nights I cry for you..

Do I Deserve to be ? ...

if you need to find me, just go to the end of the longest line

This bloody mary's lacking a tabasco...

Teardrop on the fire, Fearless on my breath

Tuesday's gone with the wind.

beware of the growl of your soul

I’ll just say fare thee well ...

I'm in love for the first time

ocean trip is good for me...

ser valiente no es solo cuestion de suerte...

we're on a road to nowhere..

Once I lived the life of a millionaire ...

Nobody helps a liar ...

‎... but she breaks just like a little girl

party party party !!

Spanish bombs.. yo te quiero infinito.. !!

Paco de Lucia - Percusion Flamenca

you float like a feather....

losing love is like a window in your heart...

Centenars De Petites Coses....

tattoo'd lady, pretty baby...

Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn ..

Everybody loves somebody sometime..

There is one question I'd really love to ask ...

these are the things I can do without...

Alive in the superunknown !!!

with your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue...

I guess that we'll meet... we'll meet in the end

I sit around with my head hanging down...

this must be true love...

is the time of the season ....

I'm a capricorn and she's a﻿ cancer...

with two cats in the yard...

why do you come here ?

Love spreads her arms, waits there for the nails

They say I got a lot of water in my brain ....

Then she slipped into my pocket with my car keys..

Her neon mouth with the blinking soft smile ..

let's rock till we drop...

In dreams you're mine all of the time ...

wild horses couldn't drag me away

Seems that my pockets were filled up with gold...

How the hell did you get here...

I woke up this morning ... worried in my mind

...I'm gonna tell Aunt Mary 'bout Uncle John

How go forward into something we're not sure of? ...

What do you think they would say...

Linger on, your pale blue eyes...

And so she woke up...

Valhalla, I Am Coming ...

You're happy when I'm on my knees...

Yo ho yo ho ho ...

Come closer and see ...

I mean no trouble, please don't put me down, don’t get upset...

I guess I'm doing fine...

...then you’d know why I feel blue

Please don't give up on me ...

scanning the scene in the city tonight..

It doesn't really matter what chords I play ...

you'll never wait so long .... so long ... so long

When you're feeling kind of lonesome in your mind....

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light ....

I really love you and I mean you...

train kept a rollin' all night long !

May you stay forever young ...

Some people say my love cannot be true ...

They’re locking them up today ...

If I say I don't need anyone...

Svefn-g-englar

Svefn-g-englar

reflected in the eye of the dead man on the beach...

I'm a capricorn and she's a cancer...