Last Shadow Puppets

This guy’s OTHER band, at the same time as young Arctic Monkeys. Seems like they’re still teens.

They switch guitars and positions between these two videos, I think, and they look kinda the same, so it threw me.

Monkey Rocker II

A friend recently made a reference to Lancelot Link, and it went right past me.

You’d think I’d have heard of a secret agent / rock star chimp!
Are you bastards fans?

A.V. Undercover Is Back!

And so is GWAR. They’ve done Undercover eight times now, which must be a record. Below is my favorite AVU performance of theirs, Kansas’s “Carry On My Wayward Son.”

A.V. Undercover archives are up now too. Right here.

So This Is Cool

Learned this past weekend on a trip visiting my 81-year-old aunt that my grandmother’s cousin (my first cousin, twice removed) was a songwriter in California. And that I’m named for him, by way of my dad. (Fucked up spelling and all.) Here’s one of his tunes that Bing Crosby recorded.

And here’s another that could be fun to work up as a rocker.