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an interesting feature from our friends up north....
Calgary's preserver of pop art past
You can't blame Jerry Keogh for being nostalgic. The poster shop owner is surrounded by rare remnants of the past, which just happen to be wise investments in pop art culture.
By Eric Volmers, Calgary Herald
The modern-day Jerry Keogh would probably not approve of how a young Jerry Keogh began his collection of rare and colourful concert posters as a youth in Edmonton.
Now the owner of Calgary's Heritage Posters, which deals in rare and colourful concert posters, Keogh had a less formal mode of acquiring these items in his youth.
"You would see a poster stapled to a wooden telephone pole," he says. "So you stop and look at the poster and say 'That's great.' And you'd rip it off. That's how I started collecting all these posters. Just ripping them off telephone poles."
Read more at the CalgaryHerald.com
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Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz celebrating 50 years of preserving American roots music.
By Jim Harrington
Oakland Tribune
Chris Strachwitz can't seem to go 10 minutes without playing music.
As he tells the fabled history of Arhoolie Records, the El Cerrito-based label he founded in 1960, he finds it necessary to mix music with his words. He sits in his small, crowded upstairs office in the back of his record shop Down Home Music on San Pablo Avenue, and splits his attention between a vinyl turntable, a digital database of a near-infinite number of songs and some of his favorite music videos on YouTube.
Read the rest of this story HERE
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an interesting read from the UK:
Reggae: the sound that revolutionised Britain
Punk may have got all the headlines, but reggae proved vital in ending the rift between black and white teenagers and introducing cross-pollination to the charts
Neil Spencer The Observer
It was punk's "summer of hate", 1977, and the required pose was a sneer, a leather jacket and something hacked about – a spiky haircut, a ripped T-shirt, a sawn-off school tie. And, of course, no flares, the despised flag of hippiedom. But at the cold, concrete roots of Britain a very different aesthetic was also in the ascendant, one calling for an oversized tam, dreadlocks and a display of "the red, gold and green", the colours of Rastafari. Flares? Fine!
The two looks represented the different worlds inhabited by young white and black Britain, worlds which a year previously had been remote from each other but which by the summer of 1977 were unexpectedly and often uncomfortably rubbing shoulders.
Read more at guardian.co.uk
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CHILDREN OF BODOM: Limited-Edition 'Was It Worth It?' Picture-Disc Single Due Next Month
Side A: "Was It Worth It?"
Side B: "Angels Don’t Kill" (live at Bloodstock)
"Was It Worth It?" comes off CHILDREN OF BODOM's new album, "Relentless Reckless Forever", which will be released on March 8 via Universal Music.
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Independent retailers get ‘significant boom’ after banner year for vinyl sales
By Dave Larsen, Staff Writer
DAYTON — Vinyl record sales boomed in 2010, and several area independent music retailers are benefitting from the trend.
Vinyl was the fastest-growing music format in an otherwise distressed year, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan. The throwback format increased 14 percent, selling more copies in 2010 than any other year since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.
Read more HERE
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Did You Know?
yet, more useless stuff we should all know....
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross. (I thought KISS had some made, anyone know?)
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia....
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. I do.....but I'm not telling
And in the great state of New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile. Ya think? And, do they really need a law for this?
and in music
In 1956 - Elvis Presley recorded his immortal version of "Blue Suede Shoes."
On this day in 1961, good ole Buck Owens' debut album was released by Capitol Records.
The Beatles performed live for the last time on the roof of the Apple Building in London in 1969. The performance of "Get Back" was filmed for the movie "Let It Be."
In 1973 - KISS played their first show under their new name at the Popcorn Club in New York. Their old name was Wicked Lester. The band performed 2 sets at the club that night for a crowd of under 10 people.
And if you see Joe Terranova of Danny and the Juniors, wish him a happy birthday! (1941)
