Dec 14

YouTube 2015

YOUTUBE – 2015

 

I found several songs on YouTube (all audio only) – might be the whole album piecemeal, I don't know.  One of the album's highlights, "She's Gone" can be heard at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=llqydnFIwLU .  Another fine song, "Lord Can You Hear Us?" is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ence6WKz4Zw ; and "Pretty Little Girl" is at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFAbAFDPrVE .  

 

(January 2015/2)

 

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YouTube has a host of Link Protrudi and the Jaymen songs on their website; they must have a lot of fans out there.  "The Shadow Knows" is on the album that I have, Missing Links and can be heard at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dWZrAPyRqw .  "Orbit", the leadoff track on Missing Links is available at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wrDvqRzh0Q .  "Bandito" has evidently gotten the most hits on the site:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6LqQ8LRhiE.  There's plenty more where that came from! 
 
(February 2015)
 
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The only song on YouTube from the Giles Brothers CD that I own is "Nobody Knows the Game"; it is a 1967 song recorded by the Brain:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy508iQuqLI .  However, there are several songs by Giles, Giles and Fripp and others taken from the McDonald and Giles album – that's Ian McDonald and Michael Giles, who are both ex-members of King Crimson. 

 

(March 2015)

 

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An honest-to-God music video of the opening track on their debut album, "Ride on the Train" can be seen on YouTube at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GlNKST3_Rc  .  Hollis Brown's great cover of the Lou Reed song "Sweet Jane" (audio only) as taken from Hollis Brown Gets Loaded is available at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=duP9OECMyWs .  Another music video of "Nightfall" that mostly features a female model posing, dancing and stretching in front of Paris street scenes like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre is at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAXMTZi0w34 . 

 

(May 2015)

 

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In 1956, Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio released "Train Kept A-Rollin'"; a cool video showing them playing the song is available on YouTube.  Wikipedia reports:  “The Trio’s version features guitar lines in what many historians consider to be the first recorded example of intentionally distorted guitar in rock music."  This record came out 2 years before Link Wray introduced power chords to rock music with his hit instrumental "Rumble", where he also included considerable distorted guitar. 
 
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YouTube has all or most of the songs by the band Fur (all audio-only).   Their minor hit "Sex Drive" can be heard at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kHdxZZ9TVY .  The opening track "Beautiful Wreck" (with slightly better audio quality) is available at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=arhXh6ZE84E .  The slower "James Brown" is at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6EGzqolXGs .  There are also some great songs by Fur lead singer Holly Ramos that you could check out. 
 
(June 2015)
 
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YouTube has several songs by the Klubs.  This is the dreamy psychedelic "A" side of their only 45, "I Found the Sun", and the band would be worth remembering for this song alone:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlS5vvs-KLE .  Another winner, "Can't Ebenezer See My Mind?" has wyld lyrics in keeping with the title:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX5UxktFfQ8 .  This is the title song "Midnight Love Cycle" from their reissue album whose lyrics recall Tomorrow's "My White Bicycle":  www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NCBTHxWVWU . 

 

(July 2015)

 

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Amanda Brix had been in an all-female band called the Lame Flames that was active in the Los Angeles area in the 1980’s.  They are described variously on the Internet as a rap trio and a heavy metal act (with Amanda Brix called a "sex goddess").  Though the band has a Facebook page – www.facebook.com/The-Lame-Flames-137156196321030/ – they apparently did not release any records, and I am not sure that there are any YouTube videos out there either.  There are oodles of photos and posters on the Facebook site and elsewhere on the Internet though. 
 
(December 2015)
 
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I really don’t need to do the “Picture Gallery” anymore; beginning in December 2012, I have plenty of photographs in the posts. I am also not planning to keep up the “Flashback” segment on the UARB from two years earlier, laying out where YouTube clips can be found; they are easy enough to hunt down without my help.
 
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