Bartender/writer Andrew Bohrer discusses Tom Waits’ song “Down There by the Train”: “it is fairly obvious that this is a song about death . . . In a less dramatic way, for me it is just a song about being done, and being tired, [of] needing relief and forgiveness. Cocktails are liquid forgiveness.”
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And very nearly free of Roger Taylor, for that matter . . . there was nothing for him to do.
I assume you are all aware that the guitar Brian May usually plays is the one he and his father built in their garage when he was a teenager? They were accomplished engineers and craftsmen; the [...]

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Because I’m totally not obsessed with Freddie Mercury. Freddie Mercury is not singing on this video.

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I’m a Runaways fan. It begins today, boys and girls. Wake up and smell the rock and roll.

It’s rock and roll: they tore each other apart. For a time. (There are exceptions: see Ford, Lita, whose beauty was more conventional that that of the front girls. And her music? Much less, thank you very much.)
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This one, however, has Beyonce in it. I kind of like it, though of course YMMV. It’s a bit S&M-ish, and just a tad murderous.
Definitely not chidren’s viewing, whatever that means. However. Not only did I see Reform School Girls in the 1980s—I also saw Born Innocent on television in the 1970s. Though they [...]

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Here’s your quiz for the day: Without checking, can you tell me what group did the original that this is a cover of?
If you can do that, and you’re younger than, say, 47 years old, I will be very. Very. Impressed.

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Her name ain’t Rio, but she sure does know her way around the sand. Watch out for coffee with that almond-like flavor, though . . .

Via Treacher, who is getting a lot of pleasure out of the fact that the gang at Huffington Post seems to genuinely believe this is going to hurt Scott Brown’s [...]

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Lady Gaga - New Music - More Music Videos
Lady Gaga is amazing, and an astonishly talented woman. She is less beautiful than Madonna, but a deeper thinker, and just as good a dancer and singer. Her idols are my idols: Freddie Mercury, David Bowie.
Remember when Brian May suggested that he was a bit uncomfortable [...]

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. . . but he does one heck of a version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

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Wake up. Have some coffee. Now, doesn’t this make you want to go out and take on the world?

It’s the anniversary of the album release in just over a month. It seems like just a few weeks ago. Back when I still wore a bikini now and then—a practice that had long been abandoned by [...]

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to exhale: The Runaways movie is nigh.
These are my girls.
No connections specified yet to Suzi Quatro, or to former Bangle Michael Steele. Developing . . .

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The vid doesn’t do anything—it just sort of sits there—but this song is amazing. Terribly underrated, as is the entire Heavy Horses album:

So, buy it, already.
Okay, here’s the title track again, though I think it’s been less than a month since I last ran it, but it is a real video. An early one.

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Now that is the way to change the world.

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I’d never let her go. No, never.

She’s right up there with Joan Jett, Michael Steele, and Ambrosia Parsley.
More of Suzy-Q’s music here. And, the classic album cover:

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. . . to drink champagne (or even Martinelli’s, for that matter) out of my boot.
And, don’t be fooled: it isn’t “elegant pride.” The way he sings it most times, it’s “elegant pie.”
What I mostly miss from the studio is the whipping sounds during the verses.

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