Wanda, helming policy meeting, yesterday
Wanda, visiting th' Isle O' Foam© as part of her global outreach program, spoke yesterday with public library enthusiast Farquhar Throckmorton III as Kreemé [19 my ass - Ed.] served chilled root beers and gave neck rubs poolside.
WK: Which you are much feted for your enlightened stance toward, like, bookishness and suchlike, Farq.
FT3: Likewise I'm sure! I gots nuthin' against swell tomatoes like yourself on account which they espouse book learnin' for th' bum in th' street, toots!
WK: Playing Who's In My Box? will highlight stocking and shelving issues within the Amish community.
FT3: You bet yer ass, honey! Have you brung some obscure country rock artist in your box for th' Four Or Five Guys©?
WK: (giggles) Shall we give them a peek?
Yes, we're putting on our snowshoes and trekking North O' Th' Border again in what is to be the last in this popular and long-running series, for Bearfoot's medium-swell couple of albums for Epic in '72 and '73. Hit the link in the comments, if you have nothing better to do (spoiler - you probably do).
ReplyDelete****peek****
Now we gotta find the damn link and guess at what the hell it is, all on a Monday?!? WTF!!!!
ReplyDeleteSheesh - is it a yet to be dicovered famous singer/songwriter who recorded an early album with his wife, and died years later at the height of his career????
Since you're a come-with guy, pmac, I've emailed you a personal clue, which you are free to share here. (But no, in answer to your question).
DeleteYou expect me to be magnaninous with other 3 or 4 guys?!? Those bums and cretins?!? Yeah, well.....
DeleteHere's another clue for you all - it's another friggin' Canuck band, who made two albums for Epic in 72 and 73. And yeesh, are they homely-looking.
Homely! They were almost as good looking as ZZ Top.
DeleteAre we talking Geddy Lee homely?
ReplyDeleteAnd here I thought I had a puncher's chance...
ReplyDeleteI hate this game.
Ooh, ooh, ooh,.......
ReplyDeleteBob McBride?!?
Yikes - who switched out the box!!!
ReplyDeleteYes, what happened here? We came for the cleavage and stayed for, uh, the nice glasses?! The fetching smile?!? The lovely pimples?!? Farq, what is this mischief?
DeleteThis piece got the lowest number of page hits in the hidtory of Foam - and believe me, that means in minus numbers - so I figured I was on the wrong track what with th' cheesecake, and since changing the picture the page hits have edged into the plus figures, which demonstrates it's a woke world out there and I needs must adjust me ideological stance an' not treat th' tomatoes like broads no more.
DeleteAlso, the track downloads have been, like - I can see them with a magnification glass. Nobody's stepping up to th' plate except pmac. I dunno, pals, maybe this feauture has run its course. As it is a lot of work for me - at least, for me, it's a lot of work - I'm figuring on retiring the Box game.
Well, Farqster, I would step up to the plate if I could. But since your helpful tips actually made it *harder* to formulate even a very uneducated guess...
DeleteLimiting your focus to page hits and downloads is like trying to get free milk from the wrong end of a cow! Remember, the grass is never greener when you're down in the mouth of a dead horse, so get off your high hog and learn to earn while Rome burns! Wrestle poodles AND WIN!
DeleteAs I understand this business, it's all about moxie, hashtags, shitposting, spam, subtweeting, monetizing your viral load through crossplatforming with savvy social media influenzers, and collecting enough blog boxtops to send in for the secret decoder ring. I mean, that's why I'm here.
Also, the judicious use of subliminal messages, product placement, breakfast cereal endorsements, skywriting, word of mouth, and a little good old fashioned payola never hurt nobody.
Gosh gee, Jonder, you're right! I started this thing for my own amusemink and for some reason recently started looking at the stats on blogger, and it's a pointless exercise. I know a Beatles piece (or a piece featuring anyone well-known) will get more hits, but I also know those hits are just for the downloads and not for joining in, so they're pretty meaningless. Why should I care? What matters is amusing myself, and hoping someone shares it. And what matters is communicating in these here comments. Which th' Four Or Five Guys© are swell at.
DeleteThanks for the wise words - skywriting you say? Hmm ..
Unlike the rest of us bums, Jonder speaks the truth. The reason why we come here is become its different. So, hits and d/ls are not a real meaningful stat. Look at the music we relish - its the stuff that is has never sold, but its damn good. As Neil Young once said, the gutter is much more interesting than the middle of the road. Ich bin ein gutterites!
Delete*pmac and FT3 attempt embarrassing white-guy high five, stumble into passers-by*
DeleteThe story of my life.......
DeleteYeah, I thought there was something off about that. AN heir of Acme millions talking about trivialities like page hits seemed unbecoming of the fun-loving, nonsense-spewing, sarcasm-drenched bon vivant that we know you are.
DeletePage hits, page shmits. The four or five guys aren't going anywhere. And you better don't, either, buddy!
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stats.
DeleteOn a serious note, I admire the community that Farq has cultivated in these pages. His sense of humor, creativity and way with words inspires folks to participate in a way that few other music blogs can match. There's a spirit of camaraderie here, rather than cowardly keyboard warriors taking potshots at each other.
DeleteTBH I rarely download the rekkids (unless it's The Fugs, The Feat, or Firesign-related). But I always enjoy the posts, even if I don't know the artists involved, or don't have anything to add to the repartee. I try to avoid looking at my own pathetic blog stats; comments are much more rewarding, and this blog has an enviable commentariat.
And you're obvioudsly part of it, J. Any comment involving Oscar Wilde and cyberspace truly belongs among the four or five guys.
DeleteAlso judging from your comments in this thread, you seem to have the repartee thing down pat.
And also: what he said.
Delete"The reason why we come here is become its different."???
DeleteSal Good unless...
The reason why we come here is it's become indifferent.
Never!!!
Long live FMF! And The BOX!!!
@jonder is right as usual -- "a little good old fashioned payola never hurt nobody" -- and for just the price of a cup of coffee a day (triple latte please), I'm here willing to shit post and spam this blog to the viral stratosphere! And if you act now, I'll cross-post my comments to the blog of your choice to multiplex your hit count for maximum wow and flutter!
DeleteWe used to call Wanda " Sugar Lips"
ReplyDeleteHer best friend was Marybeth Eazy
Theyu hung out with Anita Shalom
ReplyDeleteWe called her "Abe", coz all the guys took a shot at her in the balcony......
ReplyDelete(apologies to Johnny)
obeygravity
Here's Bearfoot's couple Epic waxings - https://workupload.com/file/WqmCHM7kezA - which I'm not making you squint for because you have SUFFERED ENOUGH goddammit. The first is medium-swell, the second less so, suffering from surfeit of piano-based Important Ballads.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm gonna keep guessing Chilliwack until it hits. Vague memory and a visit to the archive confirms that I actually have a copy of Bearfoot's debut, complete with a Epic Records Radio Station Service Not For Resale sticker on the front, right there between the Beach Boys and the Beat Farmers. Is Terry Danko related to Rick Danko? Who knows? Who cares? Glen Spreen?
ReplyDeleteI may be tempted to stuff Chilliwack into somebody's box for a series finale. Just for you.
DeleteFor those of us who downloaded Wanda's sample cut, had no idea, and are not now inspired to download more from these guys, is there a name for this track? It's just sitting there in my iTunes, an unnamed orphan.
DeleteRain-O, rain-o...
Hugh - link here: December 2, 2020 at 6:49 AM
DeleteOr here: https://workupload.com/file/WqmCHM7kezA
A re-run? Wow.
Delete". . . between the Beach Boys and the Beat Farmers . . ."
Huh? No BEAT? As in (as they were re-dubbed here on this side o' the pond) "The English Beat"... I sure hope you at least have Bad Manners...
(urp)
("I'm a happy boy [happy boy]... hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba...")(R.I.P. Country Dick)
The English Beat is betwixt Buddy Emmons and Brian Eno on my American made shelving unit.
Delete(Can't get used to losing you, no matter what I try to do...)
"Can't get loose when using you..."
DeleteTheme song for imbibers who've built up resistance to [insert substance of choice here]...
This all somehow brings to mind an eternal question.
HOW to "file" one's musick... ALL in one ball o' wacks, like, as in ALL acts, be whatever "genre" they is, in an "A-to-Z" form...
EG:
Your "S" 45s crate might have:
Snow Pee-trol
Bank Snow (extremely little-known Canoodian country guy..)
Phoebe Snow
Valaida Snow
Or...?
Ideas? Thoughts? Perturbed serial "labelers" and other assorted pigeon-holers?
Talk amongst yourselves...
Speaking of little known Canadian country dudes with a B - I just discovered Bob Burchill on You Tube by accident.
ReplyDeleteAnyone got any swell albums from that man?
Oh, and that dude from Bearfoot. He looks like the "Dumb-and-Dumber" version of John Entwhistle. Or the real life inspiration for "Silent" Ed Vallencourt in "Almost Famous". If you already look like the freakin' Butcher's son, maybe some more careful hair choices, facial and otherwise, should be in order...
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I finally listened to those Bearfeet and there is some surprisingly swell stuff on 'em. I think they are rotating lead vocalists and one of 'em sounds quite a bit like Rick Danko with two of the songs having a distinct band vibe. Most of the mid- and uptempo stuff from the first record is good and I wouldn't be that hard on the second one. T=It's hit and miss, but the last four songs are quite good. It's just weird that they decided thay had to go light-prog on parts of that second record. "Lecher's Reign" has the title to go with those pretensions and sounds like a couple of yokels trying to be Yes.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the albums too, OBG. Any criticism I make here is in the context of being posted at all, which is my endorsement. Unless I actually specify shittiness, everything I post comes with the Foam Fine Listening Guarantee™, which is your guarantee of fine listening!
DeleteYour observations are piercingly astute - they lost the plot with the second album.