Guess what, I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.
A Golden Retriever/Border Collie mix puppy named Maple adds more cowbell as her owner Trench plays an acoustic version of the 1976 Blue Öyster Cult song “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper“.
Paul Stanley’s Long-Lost Folgers Commercial
Here is the never-aired Folgers commercial featuring Paul Stanley that ultra conservative parent company, Proctor and Gamble shelved out of concern regarding being associated with KISS.
“This is your wake up call / Time to reach and go for it all / Folgers stirs inside of me and I know what I can be,” Stanley sings, coffee mug in hand. “Limit is the sky / Hey world, watch me fly / The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup.”
Stanley actually talked about the nixed Folgers ad in an interview. “Life is strange. I got a call asking if I was interested in singing a Folgers commercial. And like many other things, I thought “Why not?” Stanley said (via KISSanity). “I wasn’t at all concerned with who thinks it is okay or not okay, cool, not cool, rock & roll or not. I had a blast doing it and like I said, isn’t that what this is all about?”
Bert and Ernie on their 50-year friendship
They’re two of the most famous friends in television history. For almost 50 years, Bert and Ernie have lived together on “Sesame Street,” teaching children about numbers and letters, singing songs and going on adventures. But what originally brought the two together? On “Oprah: Where Are They Now?”, Bert and Ernie talk about what makes their friendship work:
Bert: “How did we meet? I think it was over tea.”
Ernie: “No, buddy Bert. It was ‘Y.'”
Bert: “No, no, it was tea.”
Ernie: “No, it was ‘Y.’ We met over the letter ‘Y,’ Bert. Remember? That’s why there was the yak there, and the yarn. And the yo-yo!”
“I’d say the key to a lasting friendship is always respecting each other, listening to each other, and caring what the other person thinks and feels,” Ernie says.
Bruce Springsteen’s Isolated Vocals For “Born To Run”
Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” is one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded. Upon its release, music critic Robert Christgau took note of its wall of sound influence and called it “the fulfillment of everything ‘Be My Baby’ was about and lots more.”
The first recording of the song was made by Allan Clarke of the British group The Hollies, although its release was delayed, only appearing after Springsteen’s own now-famous version.
Listen for how out Bruce breathes during the breaks, however small, between the lines. Bruce doesn’t even double track his vocal until the end at 4:02.
https://youtu.be/ReOx-XyznBU
If You Can’t Sleep, This Video Is For You
This is not to say that bookkeeping is boring. Why, I know a few bookkeepers myself, who are awfully nice, even though sometimes they take an uncommon step of writing long-winded emails to explain their suitably working relationship with said client and the most recent tax laws. These are very kind, and often smart individuals with their happy occasions, as watching this extremely dull and boring video about bookkeeping will show you.
Drake, Lil Wayne Have Historic Moment On Billboard Hot 100
As If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late blasts onto the Billboard 200 at No. 1, five songs from the set enter the Hot 100, led by this track at No. 49. He now has 80 Hot 100 entries, the sixth-best total in the chart’s history. And, with Lil Wayne guesting on Drake’s “Used To,” a debut at No. 91, Weezy ups his count to 125 career visits.
Here’s an updated look at the acts to make the most appearances dating to the Hot 100’s 1958 launch:
207, Glee cast
125, Lil Wayne
108, Elvis Presley (whose career predated the Hot 100 by more than two years)
91, James Brown
83, Jay Z
80, Drake
Via Billboard
Bruce Springsteen’s Manager Barbara Carr On The Best Advice She’s Ever Received
What’s the best advice you’ve ever gotten?
Here’s a kind of funny one, because I can’t think of the best career advice. Earl McGrath was a friend of [Atlantic cofounder] Ahmet Ertegun‘s, and he was a little bit of an art dealer. He would say things like, “Why are you buying a new couch when you could buy a painting? That couch is fine.” His apartment was kinda like that — it had these incredible contemporary paintings everywhere and hardly any furniture.
So, not that I’ve bought extremely expensive art, but I have always bought art, and I’m sitting in my kitchen and there are four great paintings in here. So maybe the best advice I’ve gotten is, “Buy art.”
Via Billboard
Billy Corgan on Music Media and Reviews
Is your relationship with Marilyn Mansion the kind of friendship where you’d call each other up when things seemed to be going badly for the other one. Say, during the aftermath of Columbine …
I’m sorry, but to me that’s a silly question.
Why?
Because it presupposes that those situations needed attending to. I think those things, and some of the things I’ve been through, they’re false narratives. They’re not real narratives. He’s brilliant in that he can intuitively identify those false narratives and rather than run from them he goes straight at them. We need people like that.
Do you think you’ve suffered from false narratives throughout your career?
I think that’s obvious. I’m laughing because I thought for sure I would get really strong reviews for our new album [Monuments to an Elegy], based on all the feedback I was getting. But I’m getting the same reviews I got back in the day, these kind of middling, muddling reviews that just won’t fucking say: “This is a fucking brilliant album from a brilliant artist.” It’s always got to have a qualifier to it. So my point is this: I made, according to most people, two classic albums in my life. But go back and read those reviews – I got the same type of reviews then as I’m getting now! People assume we got great reviews back then – we got shit reviews. So it’s weird because this is like: “Here I go again.” I strike on to something fresh, fans are going fucking nuts, everyone’s excited, and we’ve got to have some fucking guy going: “Oh I don’t know how to feel about this.”
You feel like the reviews are pre-written?
Yes. I think these are false narratives. The old guard sets up gatekeepers who decide who is in and who is out. The joke for me is that I’ve been on the fucking outside for 25 years and yet here I am. My whole point is – at what point do I get invited inside?
Do you even want to be invited inside?
I do.
I don’t understand why you’re bothered by what critics think if fans are liking the record.
It’s bad for business. If you’re Martin Scorsese and you’ve got a new picture coming out, you want good reviews, because then more people see your film. So if you make a good album then you deserve a fair review of your work, especially after being in the culture for 25 fucking years. But I realise now I’m not going to get my due from that culture.
Via The Guardian
Joan Jett Gives A Damn ’bout Her Bad Reputation
“Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I’m mean and I’m not. People expect me to have fangs.” – Joan Jett
Behind the Scenes Photos of “Dazed and Confused”
Dazed and Confused is one of my all-time favourite movies, written and directed by Richard Linklater. It’s astounding watching the cast of actors who would later become stars, including Matthew McConaughey, Jason London, Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich, Cole Hauser, Parker Posey, Adam Goldberg, Joey Lauren Adams, Nicky Katt, and Rory Cochrane. A fascinating insight into the minds of teenagers in the 1970s, it’s also hilarious and as real as improvised direction through little scripting as you can get. All people who were a teenager should watch this at least once. Alright, alright, alright.
(via The Criterion Collection)
