H20 + Pandora

Perfect soundtrack for breakfast this morning from Pandora on the FSOL channel. It's overcast and rainy and the horizon reminds me of Hiroshi Sugimoto's Seascape Collection

• FSOL - Amoeba - ISDN
• Apex Twin - Xtal - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
• Autechre - Nil - Amber

Old school techno ambient this morn...back to it...

RPM 2010

This was the first year 5321 Studio participated in the RPM Challenge which was kinda fun.

It's essentially 35 mins of music in the month of Feb. for the fun of it.

It forces a "focus" but I found it also forces a propensity to "fill" (in terms of time requirements for submittal).

Kind of the good and the bad sides of Agile efforts that you have to be aware of and manage to in real life.

I would have probably tinkered with a few things here and there in terms of leveling and transitions if I was doing this for more than fun.

Anyway enjoy set on Radio site, 5321 site, and Soundcloud set - all with DL's

Dada Bob courtesy of Subgenuis Art Mine

Recent Sensory Stimuli

In honor of March 1-7 being National Procrastination Week...

Don't You Forget About Me - John Hughes Documentary

Robyn Hitchcock - Sex, Food, Death, and Insects

Roky Erickson - You're Gonna Miss Me

Beck Record Club - Book of Moses

Sampling Abby Road

Wow....really just wow here....vintage mics, vintage gear, recorded on vintage and sold as digital.

Beautiful marriage between Abby Road and Native Instruments

"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. I am the eggman"

My 3 Sons

50's propaganda with a funky beat...gosh Beav' you can dance to it.

Happy Saturday...Ciao

Solidification Deux by 5321Studio

Get Back, Get Back

Beatles + Analytics + Social Collaboration = Groovy

"Oh I get by with a little help from my friends

Mm going to try with a little help from my friends"

Happy Weekend

120Angels by 5321Studio

Little Axe

Feeling some Skip McDonald this gray Monday. Enjoy. Done for day...time to go create something

Eno Experimentation

Is that duplicative...?

Not this cold but feels like it last few days. Picture courtesty of a old team member who scaled Mt Rainier around 10 years ago. Cant imagine actually being there

A stark short ~1 & 1/2 minute experimental track as corresponding soundscape using:

• Guitar Rig tape loops effects through keyboard
• Kore 2 for ambient sounds and dub keyboards
• Heavy and purposefully dirty non quantized isolated Maschine beats
• Mixed down in Pro Tools pushing the drums to the front of the mix

Inspired by Eno and the dirty snow

EnoTrippin by 5321Studio

The Middleman Isn't Dead

...He's just found new distribution models.... Imagine a Zeroin defined mash-up such as:

((The RPM Challenge + Tunecore)*Viral)^luck=$$$

...also...interesting End of the Century article wrt music distribution channels

David Byrne's thoughts on this 2 years ago

Frequency via TCP/IP

Its been awhile but...3 new sets on Radio O^N

Circuits Not Channels

Under a "deep throne of thought" I stumbled onto blurb about M.I.A.'s new work with Rusko.

Using the circuit v channel construct spelled out by Umair Haque (HBR Blog, Bubble Generation, Havas Media Lab), they are pushing their collaboration out through Twitter & TwitterPic

Re-tweeted (see widget on left), linked above and embedded below....

Scanning Rusko's tweets provides you a real-time realization of Hague's 9th point below

9. Messy beats clean. Hashtags and @s, Time notes, weren't invented by Twitter - they were the result of people playing with Twitter. Twitter is messy — people can use it in uncontrolled ways — and that messiness means Twitter has better ideas faster than, for example, Facebook.

Log and Roll

Cool space designed by Piet Hein Eek for Hans Liberg for secluded space to make music

From Keys of Grey

Inventor of Ambient

Great article on Eno in the Guardian (from Beyond the Beyond)

On the end of an era

"I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't last, and now it's running out. I don't particularly care that it is and like the way things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it."

Analog Weirdness

For a good start to your Sunday Morn...

Wouldnt want to work on it but shows the power of old gear

Blast From Past...brings back my ol' Tackhead days in high school...Adrian Sherwood is the next Lee Perry

Rediscover the origins

Road Trip into the new..

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Its a Lock

Found these videos doing some setup research for the studio...

Rusko at Apple's Miami store (proof no one can compete with Apple in terms of urban youth branding and cool - can you see this in another store - even during WMC?)

Another use of the APC40. It's in the queue for the studio sometime in 2010 but plenty to bit-twit for now...

Pro Tools and Maschine Configuration

Progressive House Mix on APC40 (not my cup of tea but good demo and nice skills on the device)

Finally, check Out Chris Joss on recording tracks from ESL Music and listen to his new offering "Monomaniacs Volume 1". Nice multi-instrumental talent from the house o' Thievery.

Thievery Corporation was also covered on a Current Embedded in 2009. I remember when I bought that CD "because of the cover" 12 years or so ago and it opened up the whole avenue of ESL music. It was one of those moment where I couldn't believe what I'd found and had to share it right away.

Tesla Coil

Watched a portion of Coffee and Cigarettes with Jack & Meg White talking about Tesla's Coil

My 2 favorite lines are:

1. "Telsa perceived earth as a conductor of acoustical resonance"
2. "You dragged it down here in your lil' red wagon"

Plus Stooges in the background is always a good thing....

Stone Cold Monday

Ran into this over the weekend for a new playlist to soon be on Radio 0^N Best flat out funk-soul record/band I have heard in a while that wasnt made in the 60s/70s.

If this video doesn't get you in the bedroom I don't know what will

Middle School (not quite Ol' School) here

I Wanna iRock

Using the multiple sensors on iPhone U of Michigan Georg Essl (older link with thesis) is teaching a class on making the iPhone a musical instrument.

Looks like Ge Wang from Stanford is doing similar things

To cap it off, Lou Reed (yes that Lou Reed) and Ben Syverson created "Lou Zoom" to help aging rockers read the text on their iPhone

It's Got A Beat

...You can bob your head to it...

New base level "not bass" track Dub-0 for Dubstep Mixdown at 5231 Studio

Dallas Dub Assembly

Come to Me by Dub Assembly

While you are at it check out The SRKs Bass Weight Documentary

Ten CDs For Just a Penny

"Despite all the computations, You could just dance to a rock 'n' roll station"

Beck's Record Club - Velvet Underground and Nico - European Son



Updated with Sunday Morning video, Beck's Record Club, & You Tube Search String for all the VU vids from these sessions

"Sunday morning, praise the dawning
It's just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning, sunday morning
It's just the wasted years so close behind

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Sunday morning and I'm falling
I've got a feeling I don't want to know
Early dawning, sunday morning
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all"

Scintillation

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

Right Here Right Now

Did You Know by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod; Globalization & The Information Age

In The City

Luc Gut courtesy of Rhizome

Infectious Chord Progressions

Southern Fried Black Friday

Discovered this site last Friday (actual Black Friday) looking for a cover for the phone and I found a place that sells cowhide IPhone covers which rocks almost as much as the IWood. The "cherry on top" is the cowhide koozie - Giddy-up.

Their blog is pretty cool if you are into blues etc... I discovered the Black Keys new project with Damon Dash called Blakroc. Check it out.

Yo! We Geeks Man

Anticipation

Thanksgiving | Mmmm

Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Concert | Nov 29th

AMZN | Dec 2nd

Robin Williams | Weapons of Self Destruction | Dec 6th

Bored to Death | Schedule

Sky Blue Sky

Yesterday I was in serious holiday mode, puttering around, playing piano, guitar, surfing (web), and staring at the tube. Into the Wild came on and after re-watching a few minutes of it I realized I needed to be outside enjoying the 67 degree weather on Nov 23rd. Pinto and I headed for the upper deck of the dock and watched the birds flying over.

Sky Blue Sky, originally uploaded by jasonham.

I snapped this great photo and posted it to Flickr while listening to a playlist, while the birds caught the warm breeze from the south drafting above the cove (yea...so its my own version of the wild...there's an app for that)

One of the sub-themes of the movie, where he cant get far enough away to stop seeing jets fly overhead, made me me aware of the flight pattern to the north east corner of the skyline from DFW airport. I fly a lot but only once have I knowingly flown that pattern on the way to Seattle. It was pretty cool looking down on your own house.


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It made me look for the Eddie Vedder track below in my collection



I have also noticed lately that a lot of folks who have chosen a very unique path, Chris McCandless Alexander Supertramp, Wes Anderson, and Spike Jonze, were born in that '68-'69 timeframe.

To finalize this "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events", (Vedder, Wild, Surfing, Interesting people), lets cap it off it with someone who share the great last name of Hamilton ;-). Another great Iconoclasts from the Sundance Channel



"I've found the best way to take advantage of what a day offers is if you just really let it unfold, let the day dictate it" - Laird Hamilton

"I look forward to what I haven't seen yet..."

Ciao

Animal Magic Tricks

Smallish Hooves



Thanks delicious scopitone

Heaven Can Wait

...and Hell's too far to go.... Love this...Beck + Charlotte Gainsbourg

Sage Advise Within Seasons

In the transition from Summer to Fall, this year, I had a dream where I told a friend of mine to be his generation's Michael Stipe. I woke up the next day and texted him this after watching Stipe + Batali on Iconoclasts on the Sundance Channel.

He preceded to text me back with "???" indicating my reference was dated for his generation. At first I thought "man I am old", but somehow this nugget kept jingling around in my internal space of random thoughts and adventures and I think its more applicable when it was thrown off the cuff. Thinking more about it translates into:






1. Work Hard
2. Embrace Art
3. Be Multifaceted
4. Listen to Your Own Voice
5. Wash Rinse Repeat

Calling Out In The Transit... 1983

Thank You Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin is the new Quincy Jones. Lets hope his production brings more attention to the Avett Brothers new offering

LaundroMatinee is a good place to catch live video of quality music like the Avett Brothers and The Walkman

Adaptation

Remix it...



Original Below...

Looking In

...While You Stand on The Inside...

Check out my boi' KnockedSquared rockin' the Maschine which is a new edition to the 5321 Studio. You can see how powerful it is and how much fun you can have

Nice...thx for the tutorials and the flow

5321 Coming Soon

Traveling around a bit this week but...online presence of 5321 Studios

Through Your Eyes

"I'm just a vision on your TV screen. Just something conjured from my dream. Seen through your x-ray eyes"

Mirage by Siouxsie And the Banshees

Thanks to 3 Quarks Daily

Probably A Fist Fight

Run, don't walk to the local theater that is playing It Might Get Loud. If you have any appreciation of music, art, instruments, and talent, you wont be disappointed

Got a group of friends together to see it when it opened in Seattle last week. One of them essentially summed it up perfectly (loosely quoted).

"Edge a sonic genius,
Jimmy the consummate pro,
Jack banging on it to get it to come out..."

Chasing Sound

R.I.P. Les. A true innovator

Back From MeatSpace

The 3 people who read this know I have a pattern of taking the summer off from "internet related activities" and try to enjoy surf and sun as much as possible. Summer is winding down and weird changes are a blowin' in...

One concert I wished I hadn't missed this summer.

Dusty Library

Creamy sugar pop from across the pond on a rainy Monday AM before plowing into it....



Modern recreation of the girl groups of the early 60's from Belle and Sebastian

Wall Of Sound

2009...And not the Phil Spector of late...

Breathe Easy Benefit is essentially The Dandy's Odditorium and their friends making music. I am super partial to this Dandy's, J. Mascis, Blank Angels collaboration. The mix of that 5 string bass line, the pounding drums, and the wall of noise from the Angels guitars is slammin'



A bit of history before the super crazy

Iron 883

Kudos for the Black Angels (Austin) usage in this ad...must...resist...urge....to....buy

Daddy's Turn

Live Version of Rich Man's War



Tennessee Blues

Scar On The Face Of Country

When KEXP, SXSW, & Justin Townes Earle collide you get this cool video which has an general interview (title of post from this section) and a live performance (love the custom acoustic with his name on it ;0)

In prep for the complete album, his Dad has a new EP dedicated to Townes Van Zandt from Fort Worth



"Never Know When to Shut Up...I Aint Fooling No One..." from Mama's Eyes

Loop Soup

Contest Winner for Guitar Rig 3 which is making the trip back to Seattle with me next time, to the chagrin of my neighbors

Twice As Tight

Software, Meet Talent...

Paperback Writer

Matt Taibbi is the best writer in America period. No discussion.

From: The Big Takeover

…there was such a crush to underwrite CDOs that it became hard to find enough subprime mortgages — read: enough unemployed meth dealers willing to buy million-dollar homes for no money down — to fill them all…

From: AIG Exec Whines About Public Anger, and Now We're Supposed to Pity Him? Yeah, Right

…DeSantis has a few major points. They include: 1) I had nothing to do with my boss Joe Cassano's toxic credit default swaps portfolio, and only a handful of people in our unit did; 2) I didn't even know anything about them; 3) I could have left AIG for a better job several times last year; 4) but I didn't, staying out of a sense of duty to my poor, beleaguered firm, only to find out in the end that; 5) I would be betrayed by AIG senior management, who promised we would be rewarded for staying, but then went back on their word when they folded in highly cowardly fashion in the face of an angry and stupid populist mob….

I have a few responses to those points. They are 1) Bullshit; 2) bullshit; 3) bullshit, plus of course; 4) bullshit. Lastly, there is 5) Boo-Fucking-Hoo. You dog.

Here’s what you need to do. Go get a subscription to Rolling Stone and support a magazine that supports this kind of writing.

Assume the trees are dead already and protesting the waste of paper gets you nowhere because frankly the amount of coal that is burning right now to keep the electricity flowing for your precious internet connection makes this thought stupid and ill informed unless you are living off the grid anyway. If you are then you are not my target audience of 5 people counting my relatives so screw off…

You get Taibbi, the National Affairs Desk (do I have to spell out the history for you), The Smoking Section, and David Fricke (who reminds us of bands like the Dukes of Stratosphere) . These get you past the shite that Jan Wenner needs to focus on to sell in the 21st century (Jonas Brothers, Gossip Girl etc…)

Some More Frogs

N.A.S.A. video for Spirit of Apollo track "Money." Includes artist Shepard Fairey animation, Ras Congo , David Byrne, and Chuck D preside with direction by Syd Garon and Paul Griswold.



The Specials - Gangsters (with the sweet vintage gear)



Neko @ the Farm recording Middle Cyclone (6 people playing piano at once). My favorite comment in the recent rolling stone article is she wanted to see how many piano's she could get from EBay free.



Neko Live from the previous album



The perfect pop song



The Inspiration for Neko



Cio

Crazy Ass Setup

Finally getting around to posting this…. A friend at work turned me onto this cat from Seattle who plays live drum and bass KJ Sawka. While Drum and Bass has long since gone from my heavy rotation this guy’s live drumming is pure talent.

Check him out doing it live from a Seattle rooftop...



At the club live...



In the radio station studio live...



To quote the video “It’s a crazy ass set up dude – cool”

This really makes me Jones for this setup

Middle 8

There is something about this new U2 album that goes beyond the push and hype around it. Frankly it rocks in the right way. Listen to it streaming for yourself while supplies last. It’s familiar and different, innovative but geared towards singles.

After streaming it for a week, I have been kicking it “old skool” buying the CD and listened to it in my car vs. a few tracks in a crafted playlist that gets ran through maybe 3 times before the next playlist. It’s holding up…

The live video of the title track (which also is my current fav) is illustrative. Its sloppy (good) “ live” which make it rawer, Bono screaming “Middle 8” in the song is funny and cool, and when the Edge stomps on the fuzz box it makes me want to spend a few hours trying to duplicate it on my Guitar Rig3. Clearly the Edge was influenced by the time spent in It Might Get Loud. Plus when Larry “breaks it down” near the near of the song on the drums I am bobbing my head. Enjoy.

Fresh Coons

“You soak him in vinegar and water, soak it four, five hours, and that get the wild game taste out of it. After that you cut him up just like you cut up a rabbit, then you preboil it about a half-hour, let the water jump about a half-hour, then take him out, put him in a pan like that, get your seasoning on, then you put him in the oven, just like you do a roast. Cook until well done"

Good eatin' - Pintsy would be proud

The Detroit Blog is getting some press these days (Wired and Sterling). Its a pretty interesting stop wrt the decay of a major city and the folks who still inhabit it

Check out Glemie Dell Beasley cooking coons and picking a Gibson 335



Perfect timing of this post as I listen to Johhny Horn's Preaching the Blues over KEXP's Live Stream

Do You Understand

R.I.P. Lux. As I near the 40 mark the greats who influenced me are slowly going away.

Lux, John Aston (Stooges), Hunter a few years back. I still remember when Joe P turned me onto "Bad Music for Bad People" in his bedroom after middle school and I thought "I've got to have that magnificant piece of shite."

As recently as last summer (see listening to sidebar) this resurfaced on my terabyte radar actually getting the CD purchase treatment and heavy rotation.




All my friend are dead...



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63 dollars?

Wow that's an expensive book

Decent Blog though...

Just For One Day

Video Diarrhea to start off 2009

Something New...


Something Old...


Something Blue...


Something Funny...


Something In-between...

Santa Boogie

As I was mingling in the warmth of heated air of various retail stores, making my way back to the hotel on a recent trip to Chicago I was bombarded with various forms of “Yule Tide Cheer”. These were typically in the safe “Silent Majority” forms of Muzak. The “Cherry on Top” moment in the bastion of commerce known as the Magnificent Mile was some store was playing Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here”. I found myself at first mindlessly humming along, then stopping with a “wait a minute” moment trying to figure out the song, and finally the juxtaposition of the whole scenario hit me like a ton of bricks. I cracked a Grinch Grin and mumbled a cackle.

Shake off the Muzak and get “Your Cheer On” on Xmas Marks the Spot. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and a Rockin’ New Year

It's Got A Beat

You Can Dance to It....

Minor scrub of the site this windy morn' with new streams on the Radio Site

Giving Thanks

Last year's material lust satisified…this years in queue

Dear Prudence

Wont You Come Out to Play.... 40 Year Aniversary

Playing The Building

David Bryne 1983 – Girlfriend is Better

Down, down in the basement
We hear the sound of machines
I, i, I’m driving in circles
Come to my senses sometimes
Why, why, why, why start it over?
Nothing was lost, everthing’s free
I don’t care how impossible it seems

David Byrne 2008

Down, down in the basesment…we hear the sound of machines



Associative thinking leads to industrial and noise rock to Foetus and all incarnations including...



A primer for that era…



Free Associative Jazz and Noise Rock Parallel Lines.. All Roads Lead Back to Texas



Ciao

Nostalgia Trip

Hey what did the M stand for again? Oh Yea Music.... A quick critique of MTV putting their Music Videos online

The Good
Since I tire of the digital rights yanking/spanking on You Tube and its mostly just kids ripping from the source...why not cut out the middle man. Kudos to finally putting the catalogue online. Better quality...

The Bad
Limited options for crusty ol' non Britney Types over 16.... Lets hope they get it together/better. Size Matters. More Lou Redd Less Hanna Montana. Maybe their mgmt needs to read the Long Tail (See Netflix for it in action)

In Celebration - Lo Fi Dirty Fuzzed Out Morning... From the Roots to the Present. J&MC, The Kills, & VU from both depots

The Jesus & Mary Chain |MTV Music

A Day In The Life

I Just Had to Laugh, I Saw the Photograph...

This image just struck me. It personifies the admiration, love, and memories that must be swirling through Sir Paul's head at that particular moment.


Art lives forever.

I have been on a pretty strong Beatles and overall nostalgia kick this summer brought on by reading an 800 + book The Beatles A Biography by Bob Spitz which I just polished off a week or so ago.

Lessons Learned

Paul was more creative than given credit for next to Lennon post the early Lennon-McCartney joints and also craved the spotlight and fame

John exemplifies the fact that personal and emotional turmoil makes for great art.

George was the original cynical hippie

Ringo was well...Ringo

Throughout the reading its prompted me to see how much "my house was in order" wrt to old stuff, Beatles, Wings, Solos, and The Stones in my near terabyte collection. Not bad but could shore up some early George and Wings... Expect that to show up in some upcoming streams.

Because the Wind is High...It Blows My Mind

For Those About To Rock

...We Salute You

Perfect Summer Song

Never realy heard much from Jason Mraz but his performance was real vocal talent on Letterman. The bar/note rip off of Over the Rainbow aside, pick up your favorite cocktail and enjoy whats left of Summer 08



JKLivin'

Genius When I See It

Choppin' It Up... Watching a documentary on 70's directors, A Decade Under the Influence: Documentary. Directed by Ted Demme and Richard LaGravenese, I was mentally compiling the 5 greats of my time in honor of High Fidelity



Wes Anderson out of Houston meets the Wilson brothers.... Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, etc... for capturing human oddity and endearment



Micheal Mann, Heat, Insider, Ali, Miami Vice...for cinematography and making you feel "there with it" for both the action and the human drama



Coen Brothers for making me laugh until I wet myself with Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, & No Country For Old Men



Quentin Tarantino with Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill(s), & Parts of Sin City for turning the lust of comics, LA weirdness, and the other side of America into something crazy and cool



The Wachowskis for the First Matrix alone...how many bullet time sequences did we see after the first in the trilogy? The last one is excused on the face that almost all part 3's suck (Godfather) and b/c extra credit is given for Natalie Portman and V For Vendetta



There is No Spoon

Sonic + Literary Musings

A few new streams on the Radio Site + some updates on the crusty old book and album links. Intermittant updates from vacation land wedged between swimming, running, boating, lounging, and completely unplugging from work

Better Faster Stronger

Some things go hand in glove. Louis Vuitton and Daft Punk are one such pairing. My IPod was on shuffle (common) the other day and this remix came up which reminded me of how much I really liked it. Despite Daft Punk blowing up last year wrt to their live performances they are mostly linked to my youth and they have fallen out of my favor just because I burned out on the whole electronic push years ago before it was called electronica and splintered into the many sub-genres of today.



Like other music categories I care for the stuff I associate with the time I was deep into it and discovering the bands. FSOL, Daft Punk, early Chemical Brothers, Fluke, etc... This is just a continuation of my combinatorial lust for the melodic (e.g. the perfect pop song) and the noisy, WaxTrax, Play Again Sam, dance-industrial days (e.g. Front 242, Revolting Cocks, Second Ministry Album), to the crowd clearing SWANS (wanna get folks to go home from a party - any SWANs album will do)

Specifically Jonathan (a buddy I went to grad school with) and I were exploring in Geneva on New Years Eve when we were studying macro-economics. Geneva was a surprisingly sleepy town (at the time - post 10 PM) until we stumbled onto a street party blaring Daft Punk's first album.

Beyond their repetitive later work this remix really exemplifies their skills and collective mashing of their own work. They were really ahead of the curve with their follow up work never living up to their initial creativity, similar to the Pet Shop Boys in the mid 80's. Chris Lowe's production work even with 80's tech blows most dance tunes out of the water.



I appreciate fashion, art, film, and music and like when they collide in a way that complement each other (e.g. Lost In Translation and soundtrack). While the PSB are super dated, they always remind me of being in Dallas in my late teens, convertibles, riding with folks with visible superior genes (you can figure it out), so they will always be connected to good memories.

I Want Candy

For the Sweet Tooth that never seems to be the one under the pillow.

“Three cookies is enough.”… “You don’t need whipped cream on everything.”…

In a world pre-fauxhawk...the full meal deal

"I Want Candy" Video to round it out...

Pick A Habit

...We Got Plenty to Go Around...

Friday Night Videos Redux. Also at the top of Station 3 @ the Radio Site…Another LA themed song

The Master Texan

Cyrus Jones from 1810 to 1913…. The quality of the video is shite but when you see Willies ol’ face singing this it just looks and sounds right

The Power of B Minor

This begs for a top down summer night on the Strip

A Few Exits off Lost Highway

Now on Fantasy Records...

Yardbirds Redux

Snow on Thanksgiving

Winter finally comes to Texas. Was 27 F Thanksgiving night. Puffy flakes of the non stick variety rain down on the lake and backyard as Pinto chases them jumping in the air chasing, biting, and sneezing as they melt into his nostrils

Light Years Ahead

When you only sound like yourself that’s an accomplishment… This band continues to be light years ahead of everyone else both sonically and in production/industry

In Rainbows...you know the story by now

Play…Repeat…Repeat

"He don’t swear he’s nice he knows he’s nice"…..Cant stop listening to this in the hut, running, gotta post the video. This song reminds me of when I first heard them in the way back machine, when rap had PE, Eric B, Old Run DMC…now I just can’t listen to the sparkly, prepackaged, no sample - lawsuit scared, in-da-club beat, Hollywood Hills wanna’ be gansta shite clogging the airways and eyeballs.

Maybe it’s a get off my lawn moment waxing nostalgic but this sounds both original and old school at the same time, the horns, the acoustic guitar is the shite…play…repeat…repeat. Maybe I can listen to rap again…maybe