1 AM Friday here: click on post title for link, then click "viewers", then click "NATV Ch 53"
This is part 2 of the broadcast "Remembering Gabby Pahinui" -- with MC Skylark Rossetti and guests Cyril & Martin Pahinui, Peter Moon Jr. and Palani Vaughan.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Gabby All Night
Housekeeping!
Be sure to check out the bottom of this page for the latest RSS feeds from WWOZ in New Orleans and the Mt. Washington Observatory. Good stuff!
What This Country Needs Is A Good 5-Cent Joke
"The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests that toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today.
It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."
Kaua'i Helicopter Crash: Mechanical Flaw
"A mechanical defect caused the fatal March 2007 Inter-island Helicopter crash near Tunnels Beach on the north shore, a National Transportation Safety Board report said."
This was the same crash that seriously injured two people from here in New Hampshire, who settled for $9.5 million...
Jelly
Not Jelly Roll Morton or jelly donuts (sorry, Homer), but a flotilla of box jellyfish has closed Hanauma Bay...
Come And Get It!
Here's an interesting story about Joey Molland, the last remaining member of the first band signed to Apple Records, Badfinger. I saw Joey live last summer at "Hippiefest", and will be going to see him again tomorrow night.
All That Jazz (and Folk!)
National Public Radio has announced that they will offer webcasts of portions of the upcoming Newport Jazz and Newport Folk Festivals.
Thursday Music Digest
Looking back at some forgotten 45's
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/olyfilmgirl/archives/144841.asp?from=blog_last3
Great band name that Neil Young would love-Lionel and the Big Trains!
http://www.wickedlocal.com/holbrook/news/x1542103438/Lionel-and-the-big-trains
Walter Trout sings the blues:
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/469974
A look at the New Orleans Music Hall of Fame-
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977410143
And yet another music fest this weekend-Gathering of the Vibes in Stamford CT.
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/livingandhealth/ci_10051188
Legal Tales From Gilligan's Island
As a character from another 1960's teevee classic would say, "Fascinating!".
Includes the story of how 30 thousand people once signed a petition to change the island name of Mau'i to "Gilligan's Island".
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Water on Mars?
"In a discovery that could qualify as one of the most important in the history of space exploration, NASA’s Phoenix Mission may have confirmed the presence of water ice on the planet, Popular Mechanics has learned. The scheduling of a press conference for Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern by NASA and the University of Arizona has raised hopes in the space community that scientists will announce the breakthrough."
Yet More Lowell Fest Pictures
Click on the post title for another photog's work on Flickr. Over 200 of them!
Wednesday Music Digest
A profile of a lady who dresses African musicians:
http://www.ugpulse.com/articles/daily/Arts.asp?id=987
The Minnesota Orchestra gets jazzed up!
http://www.minnpost.com/pamelaespeland/2008/07/29/2750/a_big_step_for_jazz_and_the_minnesota_orchestra
RIP to legendary African music producer Faisal Helwani
http://dailyguideghana.com/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6412
Saving folk music in Berkeley:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_10036895
And Ringo and Paul have stopped the DVD release of "Let it Be"...
http://www.list.co.uk/article/10681-beatles-cant-buy-dvd/
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Mobile!
One of the marauding bands of musicians (these were from Mexico) who held guns to our heads and forced us to listen to their music at Lowell Saturday.
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