But Jon had country-inflected soft rock burning in his blood, and was soon playing in a band called Tony And The Tigers, with Tony and Hunt Sales. "Their dad, T.V.'s Soupy Sales, wanted them to join the family business as television comedians, but like me, they rebelled," laughs Jon today. "As Dylan said, we were the young generation, and we had something to say."
Tony and Hunt went on to play with David Bowie [as Metal Machine - Ed.], while Jon formed The Pousette-Dart Band and recorded a bunch of albums for Capitol, and is today still making swell music under his own name, Jon Pousette-Dartband.
Today's Sarabande O' Soft Rock™ is a scented nosegay of their four albums plus the relatively hard-to-find Archives set, which includes a live disc with Little Feat. But - caveat griftor - exactly who and what Little Feat were at the time is unclear. Don't expect any Lowell George.
This post funded in part by The Peggy Guggenheim Foundation For Fucking Anybody Who Stands Still Long Enough.
Leave us give Babs a break from chairin' th' Mass Debate today. Topic du jour o' th' day is - did you have a childhood ambition? What did you want to be when you grew up?
ReplyDeleteI wanted to be a television actress. On Tuesday, October 20th 1987, my wish came true, when I was interviewed regarding; Monday, October 19, 1987.
ReplyDeleteIf I remember correctly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 508 points (22.6%), making it the largest one-day drop by percentage in the index's history. Federal Reserve provided market liquidity to meet the unprecedented demands for credit.
DeleteI wanted to be a cartoonist but I ended up writing.
ReplyDeleteThis is why Farq's mother had to tie a pork chop around his neck -- so the dog would play with him.
DeleteYou ended up writing the same comment twice, is what you ended up.
DeleteI wanted to be a cartoonist too, Clarence. I couldn't draw, which was a significant drawback.
DeleteFarq, how do you know I'm speaking of the same mother and same dog?
DeleteDoes your dog bite?
DeleteJonder, look at some cartoons and drawing is merely second to a good idea or premise.
DeleteThere are a few New Yorker cartoonists whose only drawing ability is top dollar.
DeleteI haven't quite decided yet but I'll be sure to let you know when I do.
ReplyDeleteThere's plenty of time.
DeleteI wanted to be a paleontologist, but just for kicks. - konrad useo
ReplyDeleteI wanted to be a singer /Guitar /Harmonica player,devastated to learn from others I was tone deaf.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to be an Egyptologist.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was about six, seven, my older sister asked me what I was going to be when I grew up, and I said "a writer". Finding this idea very amusing, she asked me what I was going to call myself (as apparently my name wasn't suitable), and I said Elson Quick. I have no idea where the name came from, but that's what I said, and she never forgot. Spool forward a few decades, and I get Baddha published, and I choose Elson Quick as my pseudoplume, reverse-engineering the future.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah - anybody want these long-playing LP recordings, SPEAK UP!
ReplyDeleteSure, I'll give them a listen.
DeleteI always confuse The Pousette-Dart Band with Aztec Two Step. Songs I think are The Pousette-Dart Band's turn out to be Aztec Two Step, and vice versa.
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/06/gimme-two-steps.html
DeleteThis has nothing to do with today's music or Mass Debate. I just discovered this compilation album (released in 2004), and thought that others would enjoy the unintentional humor. You can stream it here:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.sunnyboy66.com/various-juddy-in-the-sky-with-nazis-rare-60s-worldwide-garage-surf-rock-roll-music-bands-album-compilation/
You can read about it here:
https://showcase.thebluebus.nl/soundtrack-of-my-life/december-2007/juddy-in-the-sky-with-nazis
Keep the download on the lowdown. Nobody likes a Nazi.
https://krakenfiles.com/view/kNG2eai2CO/file.html
Ah, jeez, Jonder...I'm in the middle of digitizing the syndicated radio shows that I'm going to clean up over the next year. I do this while the grandson is in Seattle.
DeleteAnyway...down in the basement I've got boxes of cassettes that I'm going to get to...and in there, somewhere...is the unknown Japanese blues band doing phonetically recreated American R&B. Wild stuff, it's almost English but isn't.
Now I've got to track this tape down and get it digitized, too!
That sounds great! I have great respect for people who know more than one language. Having said that, I find mistranslations very entertaining.
DeleteGood Humor Man...still. Would love the LPs Farq...thanks
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ReplyDeleteIncidentally, I am disappoint that Babs didn't want to be a Marine Biologist.
ReplyDeleteCeramics. In high school, I took a class and had a talent for it. Sold my work in local stores, street fairs. Parents refused my request for art school. I gave it up.
ReplyDeleteRenaissance Man: writer, musician, auteur, artist. But not a musician who writes, or a film maker that plays music -- I wanted to be respected as an innovator independently in each field. Needless to say, it didn't pan out.
ReplyDeleteIf it's any consolation, I revere you for your pan-discipline artistic genius.
DeleteAnybody coming here after clicking the link in Aloha! who wants the music is urged to request an upload in the comments to that piece.
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