I want to live in Effington.
Sky Saxon, Lead Singer for the Seeds, Dies – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com.
The Seeds…among the most under-rated bands of their day. Both way ahead of their time, and the essence of their time. They were both groovy and punk at the same time. What a great sound, the NOW sound in all its splendor. They were, indeed, the NOW sound.
Now he rests…up in Her room…
Also see this LA Times obit.
I’ve been a big fan of the Kent Records series of LPs produced during the mid-1980s. Lots of under-appreciated, under-recognized, under-rated artists, writers, singers, and musicians laid down lots of music for this company.
Listening today to a Fresh Air review of this Jerry Ragavoy anthology reminds me how good this music was, how good it is, and how it has stood the test of time.
Somehow, I need to figure a way to convert my old Kent LPs into the digital age.
I don’t have CATV so it took me a while to find this TV show. Thanks to Netflix, I was able to catch the first three shows on DVD of Mad Men. Wow, great music, great casting, great sets, it’s all great!
I’m still not going to pay for TV, yet, but there’s a DVD purchase in my future!
Cool article at the NY Times..smoking, drinking, womanizing…
My SO got me a Route 66 DVD thinking it was a travelogue. Heh!
They didn’t realize, and I had forgotten all about the TV show from the early 60′s. So, I sat down to watch and, wow! What a delight. There’s that great Nelson Riddle theme and other show music in that cool early 60′s style. The shows were filmed in black and white, and on location, far away from the actual path of Route 66. It was a time where the homogenization of America had not developed so you hear dialects of people from Southern Louisiana, among others, that you don’t hear too much these days.
Hard to believe that this was prime-time television for its day. Music, television, screenwriting…the likes of which we’ll probably never experience again from a mass media outlet.