The Poison in Your Human Machine (or, Politics is Merely the Decoy of Perception)

Posted by Lance Davis - November 8, 2016 - Chuck Berry, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Network, Repo Man, Sex Pistols

0

While researching my previous post, “A Requiem for Multitudes: Revisiting Chuck Berry’s America,” I ran across this interview with Chuck that didn’t fit tonally in the piece. I found it on BuzzFeed, who got it from a now-defunct blog called Music Ruined My Life, who in turn got it from an actual printed zine from […]

A Requiem for Multitudes: Revisiting Chuck Berry’s America

Posted by Lance Davis - October 28, 2016 - Bob Dylan, Carl Hogan, Chuck Berry, Johnnie Johnson, Louis Jordan, Taylor Hackford, Walt Whitman

4

With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums I play not marches for accepted victors only I play marches for conquer’d and slain persons –Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself” Who could’ve predicted that it was Chuck Berry’s 90th birthday on October 18th that brought me out of retirebernation? Fact is, I’ve been […]

10

Posted by Lance Davis - July 7, 2016 - Alejandro Escovedo, Happy Birthday, I love you Leilani

4

I’m briefly reviving The Adios Lounge for a very special reason. I want to wish my eldest daughter, Leilani, a happy 10th birthday. Double figures, baby! It’s hard to believe you were born a decade ago. It’s also hard to believe I haven’t been allowed to speak with you since you were 3. Well, you […]

2015: Love All the Way to the Dirt

Posted by Lance Davis - January 8, 2016 - Bob Forrest, Brent Best, Britt Daniel, Connections, Courtney Barnett, Dave Alvin, Dead Rock West, Joey Kneiser, Kelly Smith, Low Cut Connie, Mike Nicolai, Phil Alvin, Sabrina Ellis, Sink Tapes, Summer Twins, Sweet Spirit, Will Johnson

9

2015 started with such promise. My girlfriend, Sarah, became my wife, Sarah, on March 26, after which we honeymooned in Joshua Tree, even staying in the Gram Parsons Room at JT Inn. (Room 8 for those of you looking to follow that plan.) I saw a transcendent Replacements at the Hollywood Palladium in April, […]

Adios Lounge Podcast with Bob Forrest, Pt. 2

Posted by Lance Davis - October 24, 2015 - Adios Lounge Podcast, Bob Forrest, Thelonious Monster

5

Well, I hope you liked Part 1 of my interview with Bob Forrest. This is the second part, which is a bit longer than the first. The main difference between the two posts — and knowing me, I’ll end up doing this for both — is that Part 2 comes with an annotated timeline. […]