Motörhead knew only one song. Thankfully, it was a great one. The running time of my collection of physical copies of Motörhead albums and CDs is more than six hours. Talk about overkill...
I never had any use for Hawkwind, but Lemmy Kilmister’s Motörhead meant a lot to me. I came upon the Ramones and Motörhead at about the same time. Like a lot of self-conscious teenagers, I had been under the foolish impression that image had meaning. Lemmy and his partners in crime helped me to understand that the barriers between punk and metal were artificial constructs.
My bones were rattled at several Motörhead performances. The group’s 2006 concert at the minor league baseball stadium in Kansas City, Kansas, is ranked #19 on my 2009 list of The Best Shows of the Decade.
Kilmister died last week.
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I reviewed Tech N9ne’s Strangeulation for KCUR.
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Natalie Cole has died. Her live version of ”Something Got a Hold On Me” is my favorite Cole performance.
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Craig Strickland has died. The member of Backroad Anthem last performed in the Kansas City area at Kanza Hall on Jan. 15, 2015.
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Nicole Mitchell’s Artifacts is the first entry on what’s sure to be a long list of unintentional omissions from my Top 50 Albums of 2015 post. Check out the skronky combination of flute, fiddle, bass and drums on ”The Clowns”.
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The soundtrack for The Revenant is RIYL: Tangerine Dream, isolation, Nico Muhly.
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Posted without commentary: footage of Osa Johnson, the native Kansan who traveled the world with her husband Martin, dancing to jazz with African pygmies.
(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)
2 comments:
haven't seen the dancing pygmies before
Osa Johnson's autobiography is titled "I Married Adventure."
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