New stuff from the paperrad kids, they have their own caretoon now, it looks like it’s going to be incredible, i love them.
Also, I must make a point to get over to Death by Audio more, it’s a fun space in Williamsburg that has bands and share my love of effects pedals.
When not hammering Youtube for random videos, stalking Raymi’s blog friends or emailing copy edits to the NYTimes, I go here for some interesting articles on various scintillating topics, as well as the hermenautic circle blog, a content aggregator based on the same philosophies/topics.
Today’s YouTube offerings:
First off, any of these
Stairway to Stardom clips totally rule, but I recommend
Dante
Black Flag live at Umass Amherst 1984
Dinosaur live at Umass Amherst 1986
Canned Heat’s best song
While we’re in the 60’s, I’d like to move it over a bit to Alvin Lee and 10 Years After and their insanely heavy “I’m Going Home in a Helicopter” from Woodstock.
Also, I never heard about this one before, but while I was browsing other Woodstock videos, I saw this one labeled “The Who before and after the Abbie Hoffman incident” which leads me to believe Abbie jumped on stage during the Who’s set, Pete Townsend hit him with his guitar or something that causes it to go out of tune, and as a result, he warns the crowd “The next person to get on the stage is going to be fucking KILLED”, which rules, even if you don’t like the Who.
The Who live at Woodstock
edit:
At Woodstock in 1969, Hoffman interrupted The Who’s performance to attempt a protest speech against the jailing of John Sinclair of the White Panther Party. He grabbed a microphone and yelled, “I think this is a pile of shit! While John Sinclair rots in prison. . .” The Who’s guitarist, Pete Townshend, unhappy with the interruption, cut Hoffman off mid-sentence, shouting, “Fuck off! Fuck off my fucking stage!” He then struck Hoffman with his guitar, sending the interloper tumbling offstage, to the approving roar of the crowd. Townshend later said that while he actually agreed with Hoffman on Sinclair’s imprisonment, he would have knocked him offstage regardless of the content of his message, given that Hoffman had violated the “sanctity of the stage,” i.e., the right of the band to perform uninterrupted by distractions not relevant to the actual show. The incident happened during a camera change and was not captured on film. However, the audio of this event can be heard on the The Who’s box set, Thirty Years of Maximum R&B (Disc 2, Track 20, “Abbie Hoffman Incident”). –Wikipedia
Ah, sounds about right — my Dad grew up with Abbie Hoffman in Worcester, Mass. and personally beat him up more than once…