Jimmy Buffett has taken over Don Ho's old venue in Waikiki...and to celebrate, he and the Coral Reefers will be playing the Waikiki Shell tonight, no doubt joined by Jake Shimabukuro.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Final February Music Digest
Axl Rose: Slash is a "cancer"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=36368
Green guitars
http://www.riverwired.com/blog/music-our-ears-green-guitars
An American band introduces jazz music to Vietnam
http://army.qdnd.vn/vietnam.Culture-Sports.cnews.22983.qdnd
A look at Raul Malo's new album
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/27/entertainment/e084313S77.DTL
And yet another appreciation of Snooks Eaglin
http://www.2theadvocate.com/opinion/40329097.html
Friday, February 27, 2009
Aloha, Snooks!
Legendary New Orleans guitarist Snooks Eaglin was laid to rest today in the Big Easy, after a traditional jazz funeral. Click on the post title for story and pictures.
Backstage Pass
A new book from rocker Joe Vitale, who during a long career has worked with 50% of The Beatles (John and Ringo), Neil Young, and a cast of thousands.
Friday (Stupid) Music Digest
Mike Doucet and BeauSoleil pass the gumbo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/26/AR2009022601095.html
Stupid Music comes to Galveston, the latest stop for "Ride With Bob"...
http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=59ecc8191097f727
And more Stupid Music at iFest in Houston
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2009/02/lonesome_onry_and_mean_western.php
R.I.P. to Detroit jazz man Lyman Woodard
http://www.freep.com/article/20090226/ENT04/90226095
And our friends in Lowell have announced some of the shows in this year's music series at Boarding House Park!
http://www.bostonmusicspotlight.com/article.php?id=1940
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Life's a Beach?
Assuming Governors Island in NY harbor even opens this summer, the latest proposal is a beach in the parking lot behind Building 110, where I used to board my daily bus to go to Junior High in lower Manhattan. No swimming allowed!
Thursday Music Digest
Yet another great new band name-The Bad Plus
http://www.metroactive.com/metro/02.25.09/music-bad-plus-0908.html
Well-done fish and all that jazz
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-090225-food-jazz,0,2466440.story
Video from NRBQ's Spampinato Bros.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihDhnypw0a0
The 10th Cape Town Jazz Fest in London
http://www.redcarnationhotels.com/press-room/destination-news/19045947
And celebrating George Harrison's birthday with...ookeleles!
http://www.beatlesnews.com/blog/the-beatles/200902251608/ukulele-birthday-celebration-for-george-harrison.html
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Blues Hall of Fame Class of 2009
An "august" class this time out-Reverend Gary Davis, Son Seals, Miss Irma Thomas, and former Kaua'i resident Taj Mahal. Here's a profile of "Hanapepe Dream"...
Got Ferry?
The retired Massachusetts ferry destined for Governors Island sold Monday on eBay for $23,600. That's $476,400 less than the State of NY paid for it a couple of years ago.
Day-After-Fat Tuesday Music Digest
Buddy Holly, frozen in time....
http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20090225/OSH04/90223074
Music for The Day After in New Orleans
http://blog.nola.com/keithspera/2009/02/catch_irvin_mayfield_and_other.html
A new jazz fusion instrumental album...
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=30712
Pretty women playing ookeleles
http://www.boingboing.net/
And it's Wednesday, which means that Uncle Tom is gabbin'
http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/utg_article/uncle_toms_gabbin156/
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Save An Island!
DISCLAIMER
Normally this is a politics-free blog, but this appeal (click on post title to sign the petition) involves sustaining funding for a true treasure, Governors Island.
Please help us!
Mahalo
"I Was Right About The Comet!"
Mysterious traveler...Comet Lulin! Visible right now in a sky near you (southeast sky)
Click on post title for a user manual.
Fat Tuesday Music Digest
Frenchman Street
http://blog.nola.com/keithspera/2009/02/frenchmen_street_in_new_orlean.html
Bourbon Street
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hL7aZNCssidTM4QtZC_y7dqXTyfwD96HU84O0
Baton Rouge
http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=9894091
Dr. John
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-daltonbeninato/notes-on-dr-john-and-mard_b_169369.html
And last but not least, the 8 best N'Awlins places to get an adult beverage
http://www.gourmet.com/winespiritsbeer/2009/02/eight-great-bars-in-new-orleans
Monday, February 23, 2009
Obligatory Tropical Island Post
Here's one of my college room-mates, Johnny Mac, on the beach at Molo'oa Bay on Kaua'i in 2003. John, his wife, father in law and I spent 8 days on the Garden Isle, and this was one of the highlights, as it's the exact beach where the pilot episode of "Gilligan's Island" was filmed-curiously enough, on Assassination Weekend 1963. At that time I was living about 120 miles to the east in Kailua.
John's wearing his official Little Buddy T-shirt. In the distance behind him is the platform where much of the "Gilligan" pilot episode was shot.
The majority of casual Garden Isle visitors have no idea where this beach is, as many of the best beaches on the island are off the beaten path, or unpublicized, or too overcrowded to bother with. We would have never known about this beach without having visited it on the Kaua'i Movie Tour.
Click post title for more Movie Tour info, and tell Marty from Lowell we said Aloha.
Bye Bye to Manny's
Back when my family lived on Governors Island in New York Harbor in the late 1960s, we would make weekend pilgrimages to lower Manhattan to "Radio Row", which was a densely packed area of surplus electronics and ham radio stores. Sadly Radio Row was razed to make room for the WTC Towers, which of course are now no longer there either.
We would also take the subway up to Times Square, as "Music Row" included some other electronics (and camera) stores. Music Row has since 1935 been anchored by Manny's Musical Instruments-which is about to call it quits.
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