Sunday, January 5, 2014

The altar song; RIP Phil Everly


I shed some tears last night. It seems like it was only yesterday when the beautiful close harmonies of Don and Phil came out of the wireless and changed our lives forever.
I don't give a shit about the twerps down on the ice putting all those other people at rish
k so they could have their xmas party and five minutes of fame on teevee.
I care about Phil Everly.
At first it was just a cursory snippet on TV1 but they came to the party last night and gave him a decent send off.
He did more for music that the dweebs and posers current a the moment who cant sing and cant play.
Their names all end in a Y.
didy
pinky
beyony
jaysy
kanyy
robby
miley
brittney
weewee
kourtney
hee hee
Lets hope RNZ can rise above it this year and stop trying to be with it and pandering to an audience that isn't there by playing all the trite and trivial crap they played last year.
Worst of all is that they think they are so cool when hey man they just L7.
dig.


and it was great watching Billy T James Te Movie last night on the teevee.
The end of an era when people really did do it themselves and with flair and panache.
What a shame.
I shed some tears for Billy too.
Goodbye guys.
There will never be anyone like you two again.
The times have changed and we are all the poorer for it.

re the Everly Brothers.
Gave The Golden Hits a thrashing last night.
That album was from from their Warner Bros years and with a different emphasis on the material.
I'm Not Angry has a solo that is not Chet Atkins but good enough for Jimmy Page to give it a namecheck as one of the most influential solos of all time.
So there ya go.

I stand corrected.
Apparently there is a weedkiller now that is organic.
You know. Spray and walk away.
Still a a man who cant bend down and pull out a weed is not really a man in my book.

Kiwi wiseacres.
One in the bunshop this morning.
holding everything up with an eftpos card that was so old it looked like a mk1 job.
meanwhile his poor little grand daughter was trying to disappear into the linoleum and she was bloody hungry too.



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