Ringing the Doorbell in Your Mind
When in doubt: Minutemen. That’s a personal code and I’m passing it along to you free of charge. Don’t forget it. Etch it in your brain. Not many people got a code to live by anymore. To that end,...
View Article“Blowin’ shit up and rockin’ ass till it’s all ashes and smoke.”
New Adios Lounge mission statement? Just throwing it out there. It’s either this or the thing about team-building, synergy, and never giving in to our robot overlords. Frankly, I’m torn. Anyhoo,...
View ArticleThis Ain’t No Picnic
Last night I was housesitting for my homeboy, Ducktaper, so I brought along Double Nickels On The Dime (1984). I’ve written about this Minutemen classic before [click here], mainly because it’s one...
View ArticleLydia Loveless and the Blood of the Lamb
“They’re gonna feel almighty When I can barely stand I just tell them I couldn’t turn down One more glass of the blood of the lamb.” About a month ago, I had the good fortune to see Lydia Loveless...
View ArticleAdios Lounge Interviewed by Blues.Gr
A couple of weeks ago, my interview with Michael Limnios of Blues.Gr was posted to his website of the same name. Blues.Gr is “the online community of people that got the blues in Greece” and it blows...
View ArticleI Must Not Think Bad Thoughts …
“The whole world is a sack of shit ripping open. I can’t save it.” —Charles Bukowski, The Captain Is Out To Lunch And The Sailors Have Taken Over The Ship, 2002, Amazon These are troubled times. I’m...
View ArticleI Stand for Language, I Speak for Truth, I Shout for History
“Punk wasn’t a style of music, it was a state of mind, and the style of music was up to each band doing it.” –Mike Watt 30 years ago this summer, The Minutemen — D. Boon (guitar, vocals), Mike Watt...
View ArticleBob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
A couple of weeks ago, Bob Dylan gained a measure of notoriety for giving a speech in which he sprayed buckshot in the direction of Merle Haggard, Tom T. Hall, Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun,...
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Old Glory vs New Glory
In doing early research for my next Nicky Hopkins post, I landed on the Jefferson Airplane’s 1969 album, Volunteers, because Hopkins plays on five tracks. Unfortunately, his prodigious talents couldn’t...
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