Jimmy Jazz

Junior Walker. He played sax on the original Foreigner version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjt1AQli-P0

BQ: Favorite Hawkwind album?

BQ2: And once more, for old times sake, who would win in a wrestling match between Lemmy and god?

Reopening as a restaurant in Newark Airport? Holy smokes.

http://gothamist.com/2015/12/21/cbgb_newark_restau...

What will some of the menu items be?

Example: Rock Lobster

Apparently she has cancer, new album and tour cancelled. But it sounds like she will recover so yay.

http://sharonjonesandthedapkings.com/news

I was listening to Jesus Is Waiting the other day and the way he sings 'Gee-us' is spectacular.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmb2i-GBURY

Generally he has a great sense of when to stretch a word out to like 20 syllables or shorten it to 1. And his voice can be all nice and sweet and then flip over to dirty in a hot minute.

Feel free to remark on Al Green's phrasing or about how much he rules in general.

I feel like I don't hear about them anymore. I remember going to them in the 90s and early 00s. Usually you got something free like a poster when you bought the album. Plus you just got to meet other die hard fans. I guess record stores don't really exist anymore either.

Hadn't heard this one in a while until the other night at a karaoke bar. She nailed it too.

Black Velvet - Alannah Myles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS870zCCAwM

By my count, and there were probably more I don't know about, we have:

If Somebody Told You - Anna King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IaJZ5v724Q&feature...

Super Good - Vicki Anderson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5gHWFB8DKc

Things Got To Get Better - Marva Whitney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijZdiZBV4PI

Mama Feelgood - Lyn Collins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7335tJGkXQ

BQ: Favorite song by one these women?

I think my favorite is You Got To Have A Job when James is screaming 'Call him' and Marva is singing 'Maceo' at the top of her lungs and poor Maceo is back there blowing the hell out of the sax.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqpj7iGIIiU

Pretty Woman was on the other day which of course features It Must Have Been Love.

Myself, gotta go with Dangerous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFNRh26TPmM&ob=av2e

BQ: Favorite Swedish pop band/artist?

We all know George Clinton in the king of interplanetary funk but who is the king here on earth?

Inspired by this thing I read:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0...

that talked about some funk compilations from around the world, specifically India, Indonesia, and Nigeria.

I checked them out, here are a few songs I enjoyed:

Meri Aakhon Mein Ek Sapna Hai - Sapan Jagmohan (India)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt925i6wLjA&feature...

Somebody To Love - Kalyanji Anandji (India)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DXnEcdXFVw

Saman Doye - Black Brothers (Indonesia)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lnb4TeGzGw

Do What You Like - AKA (Indonesia)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3osux7NEE

Brand New Wayo - Mixed Grill (Nigeria)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlYdSuhydqI

Some of it sounds more psychedelic or disco than straight funk but it's all good.

Apparently they recorded pretty much every live show they ever did, around 800 in all. The tapes sat around for years until they finally decided to go through and catalog them. Now the first 130 will be available at the Dischord Records site for whatever price you want to pay.

http://www.dischord.com/news/465/2011/11/fugazi-li...

Favorite Fugazi Song?

Favorite Dischord Band?

I heard this band Communist Daughter last night at a bar. They were pretty solid, laid back, chilled out, (and obviously named after the Neutral Milk Hotel song). Picked up their album, here are some songs I liked:

Not The Kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBNBbuKgjGc

Speed Of Sound

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elvelk-mLuU

Golden Slumbers (Beatles cover)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX3MNisvTgA

Northern Lights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d98BzrTBZ-4&feature...

A. She's a big freak.

B. She's a great big freak.

C. Gotta be freak of the week.

D. She's a disco lovin' mama.

Freak Of The Week - Funkadelic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qXuMdQLwkQ

Favorite Funkadelic song/album?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1i5coU-0_Q

Unbelievable that he's been overlooked all these years.

BQ: Favorite movie about time travel?

Concert A: Tiffany & Debbie Gibson

Concert B: New Kids On The Block & Backstreet Boys with special guests Bell Biv DeVoe

These are two concerts attended by my girlfriend this weekend. She said Tiffany was the best.

BQ: Which of these 5 acts do you like the best?

The town of Winslow, Arizona has erected a statue of a guy standing on a corner, painted a mural of a girl in flatbed Ford checking him out, as well as parked an actual flatbed Ford nearby.

Here are some pictures:

http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/outoftow...

So what other songs lay out scenes like this that towns could depict?

A strip club in Atlanta that only played Grateful Dead music.

http://thefirstset.net/2011/05/31/strip-club-plays...

It was called The Dancing Bare.

Club owner Sammy Christianson admitted that there were many obstacles to opening a Grateful Dead themed strip club. “Well first you have to get the girls. It was tough getting chicks that were willing to give lap dances for 28 minute jams. And the only girls that would agree to dance wouldn’t shave. Anywhere. Plus, every girl wanted her name to be Sugaree. They can’t all have the same name! I had to ban that name so no one was thinking I was playing favs or nothin’.

Yes this is fake.

What band (other than Motley Crue) would be a good band for a club like this?

TLC (minus L of course, which in itself is a pretty big hurdle to overcome), performed on American Idol last night. By which I mean they half-heartedly danced around barely even pretending to sing along to the clearly piped in audio.

They were introduced by Lil Jon then they did No Scrubs and Waterfalls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV7oVig5ij4

So....

1: Other terrible comebacks?

2: Favorite TLC song?

Remember how great they were? I loved this group.

Free Your Mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaoSSVQz37A

My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpugp6DIb3I

Their masterpiece collaboration with Salt N Pepa, Whatta Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-WFNbMohTQ

And the best song they ever did, Don't Let Go (Love)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8jdyIcHDJw&feature...

Favorite song by these funky divas?

Chasing Pavements

Hometown Glory

Cold Shoulder

Set Fire To The Rain

Make You Feel My Love

Someone Like You

To me, the above are just not that good. So any others?