A second of your life...ruined for life.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Equal-Temperament may have been invented so that this modulation could happen...

You'd think that a video with members of The Kinks, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Buzzcocks, and the, erm, Purple Hearts would have more than 841 views...



Steve Diggle, Mick Jones, Glen Matlock, Mick Avory, & Bob Manton
100 Club, London, 07/26/09
"You Really Got Me"

I don't know if this is any better than me playing "All Day and All of the Night" with the guys from Copper Faceplate at the K of C Hall in Lakewood in 77 or 78,
but I don't have a video of that, so you'll just have to imagine it. I did have a
nice Dylanesque blue shirt with red dots on it, if that helps...

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Monday, June 28, 2010

"You're # 37, have a look..."



"The second single from Aloe Blacc's album Good Things is a cover of the Velvet Underground classic “Femme Fatale” b/w instrumental on heavy slab of 7-inch vinyl. Produced by Truth+Soul."



Alex Chilton/Yo La Tengo - "Femme Fatale"
Performed live at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ, on the 4th night of Hanukkah, 12/07/07.

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A Gift

or a present is the transfer of something without the expectation of receiving something in return. Although gift-giving might involve an expectation of reciprocity, a gift is meant to be free. In many human societies,



ゆらゆら帝国の午前3時のファズギターはたぶんヴェルベットのギフトのオマージュなのでわと思い混ぜてみました。

the act of mutually exchanging money, goods, etc. may contribute to social cohesion. Economists have elaborated the economics of gift-giving into the notion of a gift economy. By extension the term gift can refer to anything that makes the other happier or less sad, especially as a favor, including forgiveness and kindness.



Prime Minister Pete Nice & Daddy Rich - "The Sleeper" - 1992

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