Wednesday, October 14, 2009

By popular demand...

Even though it's not the greatest way to share music, I just uploaded a song to Youtube from the live 1979 appearance of NRBQ at Toad's Place that I recently discussed in excruciating detail here, a terrific cover of "Shake Rattle & Roll", featuring numerous solos showcasing the band's remarkable talents.

Oh, and listen carefully at the beginning for Joey Spampinato to start singing the wrong song, and Al Anderson quickly shushing him. Enjoy!

UPDATE: I just Tweeted this! I figure I'll tweet at least once a month, whether I have any big news or not. But I really don't see the point in all this.

8 comments:

tessa said...

aha! By George, you've got it!

The point is that there is no point.

tessa said...

It must have been in 1986 or '87...Mike Brown at a Mets game singing "Howard Johnson's got his HoJo working"

Anonymous said...

"The point is that there is no point."

Yes, I see. We find pointfullness through our active participation in pointlessness. Sounds very Zen.

I've often thought all this twittering, texting, and facebooking was part of a grand conspiracy designed to keep us all functioning at a sixth grade level throughout our adult lives.

If I find out who's behind this conspiracy, I'll let you know.

lakezoarian said...

Thanks!

lakezoarian said...

I MEANT thanks, Bob, that must have been some night. Wish I had been there too. Song is on the 'pod, in heavy rotation.

CT Bob said...

I may put the entire 85-minute recording on the 'net someday, as soon as I can figure out how to do it so I won't get nailed for copyright infringement.

lakezoarian said...

Well, I'd sure enjoy that. Perhaps they wouldn't mind if you asked first. You could remind them that a very big part of the Greatful Dead's mystique was all the live show "bootlegs" being traded around. It was actually encouraged.

Or, you could email directly to your readers that sent requests.

oldswede said...

Here's more from Al Anderson, rasta version:
http://www.myspace.com/alanderson3
oldswede