Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated.
Yes, this broke your screen. Back in the day, our computers were big enough to handle this. And we had no phones.
ReplyDeleteWhat is this junk? It hasn't broken anything, just filed the screen with piffle.
ReplyDeleteTsk. Sudge langwidge.
DeleteYeah
ReplyDelete..and "Chris" is now "Darius"!!
ReplyDeleteRed Telephone66 lives on here: https://www.youtube.com/@leonardlos3209
ReplyDeleteThat's great to see - thank you!
Deleteexcellent "once upon a time"
ReplyDeleteRubble comps rule. End of.
ReplyDeleteMan that does this bring back some memories. May I add Bird with Broken Wing and another I can't remember the name, something Doctor and he had a lot of hard to get music.
ReplyDeletehttps://psychedelicobscurities.blogspot.com/
DeleteSome real music blog glory days there . . . -Muzak McM.
ReplyDeletedon't 4get Willard & his wormholes
ReplyDeleteThat's Willard's earlier incarnation as Never Get Out Of The Boat, above. I remember even earlier days, when he "didn't do covers". Imagine that.
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ReplyDeleteAh, Willard... MIA? AWOL? Honorably discharged? Anyway, wherever he is, I'm buying at the Officer's Club.
ReplyDeleteHe lost a lot of good will when he shuttered the Wormholes blog without warning, and took down the links-only site as well. In his own words, he was "not a people person".
DeleteI recall his blog was constantly disappearing and reappearing, likely due to threats from the Thought Police. But I was always flattered whenever he messaged me with a new link; he must have appreciated my comments (and appreciation).
DeleteHis Harry Nilsson blog (which I thought was his best project) was indeed taken down after copyright threats from the label. Stupid move on their part - all the downloads were @128, with plenty of links where you could buy the official releases, and many of his links were to otherwise unavailable material. That blog must have generated a lot of sales!
DeleteI daresay the Nilsson site (which I didn't know was him but doesn't surprise me) did a lot of good for the Nilsson estate in the long run. Surely the 17-CD box wouldn't have been as exhaustive.
DeleteThere was another wonderful blog whose proprietor died suddenly, and his life partner kept the links going for several years in his memory. Unfortunately I don't recall the name, since Yahoo dismantled their My Yahoo pages, where I kept a lot of my old bookmarks.
There's a great bloglist here:
Deletehttps://werelateforclass.blogspot.com/
(scroll down at left)
(Hey Wardo - not possible to comment at your blog - at least on the Springsteen piece!)
Deletedone and thanks!
DeleteI thenk yoh!
DeleteAh those were the days. I do miss Chocoreve's and Redtelephone66's blogs in particular. I had some great gear from them which sadly was on a drive that took a header off a shelf when it was far too late to replace it.
ReplyDeleteHonourable mentions for a few others Sir Psych, Psych Spaniolos, Time Has Told Me, Pop On The Run and Folk Yourself amongst. Good times
https://psychedelia411.blogspot.com/
DeleteIndeed but its been a very long time since he posted anything even on his newer site.
DeleteHere's another much-missed "ghost" blog:
Deletehttps://24hourdejavu.blogspot.com/
Most of these I’ve not seen before. The number of bookmarked pages I have is a lot smaller than it once was.
ReplyDeleteA favourite of mine, quiet for a few years now, was Scarfolk Council, a dark, funny British site - not music related, I think will appeal particularly to British readers, the artwork is wonderfully done.
https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/02/water-electrification-1974.html
https://likembe.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteit has a "listen" list with loads of (defunkt) blogs and loads of the best of the best music.
Just DL'd Malagasy Divas.
DeleteIf I could have one back, it'd be Boogie Woogie Flu https://boogiewoogieflu.blogspot.com/ Long after it ended I still used it as a teaching tool in my Secret History First Year Seminar. Ted Barron was great, remarkably consistent, and he had some amazing guest posters.
ReplyDelete"Long Live BWF" - ironique, non? I enjoyed his screed on Reed way more than I do Lou.
DeleteI've bookmarked Boogie Woogie Flu, splendid writing, will visit when I have a spare hour or two.
DeleteIt's history writing itself. Beautiful.
ReplyDeletemp3 gets a regular kicking from the snowflake-eared, but for me it's the most important music carrier yet created, and music blogs were a fantastic replacement for the trawls through the junk shop circuit I used to make in the UK and France, before "collectors" inflated the price of original vinyl. No, you don't get a tangible object-thingie you can fetishise over, but you do get the music, which is what this whole business should be about. I suspect there's an almost political snobbery at work here; mp3 was/is a genuinely democratic liberation of music, making it available to anyone with the most basic computer set-up. I'm still grateful for the original music bloggers' passion and expertise. The best part of the internet.
ReplyDeleteFine summary for the easily pleased. Thanks for keeping the spirit alive @193!
DeleteD in California
I'm snowflake-eared (I guess) but I agree with your comments about mp3 and the reasons you cite.
DeleteDo you remember listening to a record at a store before buying it. And sometimes the record-store-holder tried to get rid of you when you wanted to listen more than five.
DeleteAnd the fun we had taping tapes from friends who had taped them, 7th generation John Peel Shows.
Now mp3 is a whole lot better and we can exchange so much, and with so many more and every year new music lovers who don't know about D.Boon can get his music, because blogs share their hearts out.
Thanks to anonymous for the Red Telephone link. That was one of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteThanks Farq, that's a trip down memory lane. Funnily enough I wasn't aware of Red Telephone66!
ReplyDeleteMore recent than the other blog sites mentioned, but I miss The Good Old Major's Hole.
ReplyDeleteGbrand
So does he.
DeleteAnyone remember a badass blog called--I think--Locust Street? Like 15 years ago or so?
ReplyDeleteHere's an obscure one that I miss. And he was only about halfway through his tour when it petered out. https://oldweirdamerica.wordpress.com/ "This is the way the world ends
ReplyDeleteNot with a bang but a whimper." --Muzak McMusics
very cool--thanks!
DeleteGood times! I leeched off most of these sites back in the day before I learned my manners. Some very generous people sharing their time, music, and knowledge out there, present company excluded of course (kidding!!!).
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