Letter to Rhino

Dear Rhino,
Recently, I was the one who suggested that you put out the second Big Daddy album. I believe it was called ....Meanwhile Back in the States. I know one of Rhino's founders was heavily involved in the project. I am cool. I was just unwise in loaning my copy out to another dj trying to get more airplay for the tunes. I haven't seen it since the 1980s. Somewhere someone at Rhino has extras that they would like to see find a good home. Please forward this around as much as possible, even for years if it takes and perhaps you and all who forward this will reach platinum successes of plentitude. Who knows maybe the one who will decide to put The Day the Earth Froze on an MST3K DVD will find an extra copy and Sports Stadiums around the world will play Love's 7 & 7 Is on every cool play and Dr. Demento will replace Rush Limbaugh and Rhino will dominate the charts with Exene Cervenka's remake of At This Moment while the Sopranos cartoon plays Fish Heads every time Tony gets an idea and Rhinos supergroup of famous people who tried out for the Monkees but were rejected will become the highest grossing album of all time the same year that Rhino expands into theatre and its Broadway production of Spirit's Adventures in Potatoland begins its 40 year run.
Thank you in advance for our future fortunes,
Randy Black

Streaming Concert From Aimee Mann

Aimee Mann

Aimee Mann is the best female rock singer performing today.

Here is the T3 Windows stream of King of the

Jailhouse from her new DVD. Stream it while you can.

Here is the Real Audio stream of it.

A 5 song concert can be streamed from here.

Be Sure to Wear Your Mask

Trick or Treat


Watch the magic pumpkin.

Be sure to wear your Mask.

Goodbye XM

I wasn't ready to talk about it yesterday, the day I was violated. I had been up all evening not able to sleep because of a stomach ache. Instead of my usual drink of Coca-Cola I went to the refrigerator for some refeshingly, cold water. I have always preferred cold water in a jar or glass over plastic cooled water. Unfortunately the old, Hawaiian Punch jar that I have used for a long time for this purpose had been pushed to the back of the fridge, was cracked, and its contents were soaking the items below. Unfortunately, the day would not get any better.
My wife returned to me with tears in her eyes shortly after leaving for her work. She had gone to her car and noticed a crunching sound under her feet only to find out she was stepping on shattered glass. She turned and noticed that the car beside her had had its window burst out. She felt sorry for the person whose car was next to her and then she realized it was my car.
I did not want to go outside and look at my car, but I finally relented. Someone had smashed in my passenger side window, ripped out my CD Player, taken my XM receiver, and it was raining. I couldn't stand to look at it, so I went back into my apartment.
My second violation came when I attempted to contact the Chattanooga Police Department. They were very cordial on the phone and took all my info and promised to get in touch with me. So, I waited, and waited, and waited. I decided to call back after two hours. They stated that they had the wrong number for me. (I looked it up online and it belonged to a Mr. W. F. Stephens of East Ridge, TN which has its own police department.) After making sure they had the right info, I waited another hour and called the department again. Another lady responded and I still never saw the police. (They were busy shooting radar on I24 even though their grant was for Highway 53.)
My mother-in-law knew someone who worked at a glass business and we got the glass replaced for $120. The man from the glass company said that he replaces about 4 - 5 glasses each day as a result of such burglaries. While he was talking a neighbor walked up and stated that 4 other cars at the complex had been broken into, each owner had called the police, each never got any response.
Over the past year, I have lost my respect for the police. At my wife's business, the bank deposit was lost. The police were called and told of the matter the officer asked what color was person was that made the deposit. When told the person was black, the officer immediately said, "He did it." I turns out that the bank had lost the money. On another occasion, I know of a person being deliberately pulled over because, the police wanted to check the person out. They told the person that they did not use their blinker when they had. Sad, sad, sad. Steppenwolf had it right in Monster.
I am going to miss Al Franken and Deep Tracks and Dr. Demento on XM. There are some formats that XM does not have that I would like to give them. For now my only consolation is that if anyone tries to connect to XM with my old receiver the XM staff will record their information and turn in the person. I don't know if that will help much because I did not make a police report.

What do these artists have in common?

In case you do not recognize the performers. Pictured are the Velvet Underground, Billy Bragg, Lenny Kravitz, UFO, Alice Cooper, Mazzy Star, Rush, Robert Plant, The Move, and Hooters' member Rob Hyman. After I put this montage together, I remembered that I could have included the Ramones, Urge Overkill, and Teenage Fanclub.

Found Music Files 1

As I journey across the web, I find some interesting music, some funny, some serious. Here are my latest discoveries.

Bluegrass Radiohead Medley Click on one of the red dudes to get it.

Paranoid Little Android can be heard as done by UMASS percussion band. Click link at bottom of review.

President Bush ala Morricone Good, the Bad and the Ugly and a good job of tape editing.

Rush Limbaugh - I'm a Nazi Good impersonation here. (language advisory)

Free World Party concerts. Go here. Log in with User Name : thejoint Password: Always
World Party is former Waterboys keyboardist Karl Wallinger's band. His hobby is reconstructing Beatle tunes by literally re-creating mike locations, etc as they were placed when the Beatles created tunes.

An older World Party Site with 4 mp3s here. This site is a bit slower and will probably be obsolete soon due to a new album about to be released.
This is a good example of his hobby in remaking All You Need is Love.

Superdrag frontman Johnny Davis under pseudonym JohnnyFlame has 18 Beatle covers. They are cruder than the World Party covers.