Get Kinked: One For The Road

Posted by Lance Davis - December 2, 2014 - Dave Davies, Kinks, Ray Davies, Replacements, Wilco

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Link to One For The Road video & annotated setlist below Back on July 4th, I annotated The Kinks‘ BBC-TV appearance from January 24, 1973. (Check out God Save Donald Duck, Vaudeville and Variety.) That show bookended the band’s golden age that I’d say began with the transcendent “Waterloo Sunset” single (released May 1967) and […]

“I’ll Puke If That Jukebox Plays John Cougar One More Time”

Posted by Lance Davis - February 13, 2013 - Bottle Rockets, Brian Henneman, Chuck Berry, Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, Otis Gibbs, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco

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When we last discussed Brian Henneman, it was during his stint as roadie, second guitarist, and piss-taker-outer for Uncle Tupelo*, just prior to him forming The Bottle Rockets. He’s a great rock ‘n’ roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist, but Henneman is also a hilarious frontman and perceptive observer of the human experience. Those latter […]

Sock It To Me, Wild Honey

Posted by Lance Davis - January 19, 2013 - Beach Boys, Carl Wilson, Jay Bennett, Wilco

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I told you I was doing top-secret Beach Boys research. The interesting thing about that — well, interesting to me anyway — is that though I’m a born and bred SoCal kid, I’ve never been a huge Beach Boys fan. Not a hater by any means, but I’ve always felt they’ve been slightly overrated. And […]