Let´s Active

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Mina damer och herrar: Armageddon!!!!!

Är det nån som har undvikit denna film? Senast den gick var förra veckan på 6:an. Jag satt som fastklistrad framför tv:n för att se hur slutet skulle bli denna gång, skulle Bruce Willis klara av sin uppgift att rädda jorden undan en ruggigt stor meteorit? Peter Stormare gör sig väldigt bra som rysk kosmonaut.

Jag vet att den här är en Stefan Lindeskogs stora filmfavorit.

Knappast ny men ack så bra. Let´s Actives "Big Plans For Everybody" låter lika underbar som den gjorde sommaren -87 när jag upptäckte Mitch Easters band. Lyssna på "Talking to myself"
http://www.mitcheaster.com/news.html

Mitch Easter carved his place in music history as a hip producer in the '80s, most notably for the early R.E.M. albums Murmur and Reckoning; unfortunately, these achievements often overshadowed and distracted him from giving his full commitment to his own recording career with Let's Active, a band that, between 1983 and 1988, released some of the finest Southern power-pop/jangle-pop of the decade.After a short stint with the Sneakers, a band he formed with future dB's Chris Stamey in North Carolina in the late '70s, Mitch Easter set up his legendary Drive-In Studios in 1981 and formed Let's Active with bassist Faye Hunter and drummer Sara Romweber. The trio released a six-song EP, 1983's Afoot, on IRS Records. In 1984, the band released the more experimental Cypress. While the EP and album sold modestly, they found a strong following in the emerging alternative/"college rock" audience. Hunter and Romweber left shortly after the release, leaving Let's Active as essentially a solo project for Easter. Romweber later went on to join Snatches of Pink .Easter recruited drummers Eric Marshall and Rob Ladd, along with multi-instrumentalist Angie Carlson (Hunter returned temporarily for bass duties) for Big Plans For Everybody in 1986, another critically praised yet commercially undervalued album. The harder-edged Every Dog Has His Day, which replaced Hunter with a full-time bassist, John Heames, was released in 1988. Following a small-scale promotional tour of college campuses, the band hung in limbo — no subsequent albums were recorded. Easter has continued producing into the '90s while infrequently playing with other bands, including Velvet Crush and Vinyl Devotion. (från Allmusicguide).

Ikväll är det konsert med Tomas Andersson Wij på Göta Lejon. Syns vi Näsan?

"Händer det ibland att du faller ner på knä och tackar Gud för att du känner mig och har tillgång till mitt vansinne?" (George Costanza)

George Costanza vs Radar

Är det någon annan än Tompa och jag som sett likheten mellan George Costanza i Seinfeld och Radar i Mash? Skrämmande likt eller hur?










Såg Patrik Isaksson på melodifestivalen för nån vecka sen och såg att han var en blandning av Peter Stormare och Anders Lundin.

Kommer Hedström att återuppta sin OS blogg till sommaren? Snälla!!!

Ett roligt musikfynd som jag gjorde förra våren var den amerikanska folk/country/pop bandet Brewer & Shipley. Lite info ifrån allmusicguide: California duo Mike Brewer and Tom Shipley began their careers separately on the 1960s Los Angeles folk club circuit before teaming up to write and perform together. Their song "Keeper of the Seven Keys" was recorded by H.P. Lovecraft and also appeared on their 1968 debut, Down In L.A. Their second album, Weeds, featured guest appearances by Jerry Garcia, Mike Bloomfield, and Nicky Hopkins. In 1971, the duo scored a surprise Top Ten hit with "One Toke Over the Line," in spite of radio bans owing to the song's marijuana-oriented lyrics. Following this success, Brewer and Shipley moved to rural Missouri, but their appeal dwindled, and the partnership was dissolved in 1979. Brewer recorded the solo album Beauty Lies in 1983. At the request of a Kansas City radio station, Brewer & Shipley reunited for a concert in 1989 and began touring occasionally. In 1995, the duo released their first album in almost 20 years, Shanghai. Heartland followed two years later.