Author: Renfield

New episodes this Thanksgiving.  Something to do on the most boring holiday of the year.

I love how he tries to rescue only priests.   At the end is a good poke at the BBC, who in 70’s-80’s had a fetish for earnest, depressing documentaries.  Maybe they still do, I haven’t been over there in a while.

You Libertines fans already know this one, so I guess this is mostly for the rest of you.  Great song.  Notable about video is the absence of their co-frontman, the notoriously drug-addled Pete Doherty.  Off on a bender, I guess.  If you like it, check out performance of same song below on Letterman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh6FrbCyg8k

Words fail me on this one.

I was wondering how the company that once made the best (in my opinion) six-string electrics alienated so many loyal customers and landed in bankruptcy.   Did some googling and came across the all-too-common tale of misplaced priorities, high staff turnover,  and ego-driven incompetence at the top.  It took bankruptcy to convince their CEO that just maybe they should focus on building  good guitars.   Fortunately he’s on the way out.  Here is a pretty good summary.

My favorite comment: “The end result of ‘kissing cousins’ and inbreeding.”

Guitarist is Duck Dunn’s grandson.  When this was made, three were juniors and one was a senior.  The senior has since graduated, and the other three are now seniors.

From 2002, produced by Mick Jones.  You know you’re old when you still think a sixteen-year-old song is recent.

Originally a flexi 45 from a ’63 issue of MAD.  Allegedly the sax solo was by King Curtis.  Burps by Alfred E. himself.

He would have turned 66 today.