Lou Papineau

"If You Leave Me Now" in "Three Kings" YouTube video by ceterafanatic

A previous expertly deployed needledrop of "If You Leave Me Now" by Chicago which made me smile:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqnC...

I had a sweet two-year run. They cut me loose after I did an entire Creem-infused column on the splendor of Slade's "Cum On Feel the Noize" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_(Woonsocket)]

I got this promo copy when I was 17 [writing a music column for The Woonsocket Call for $2.50 per week -- but jeez, FREE records!!]. And yay for such a cool library! [Cool library is redundant.]

Happy 84th birthday to John Cale, and happy 8400th listen to one of my fave albums.....

Forty-five years ago I told him that I loved him and he said, "You can see my Smith & Wesson shirt, right?"

I go to BWS every time I visit my son. *Love* East Passyunk!! [Just Googled Pittsburgh George...wow!]

Bought some records in Philly [three A&Ms] and Bill was waiting for me when I got back [I have a well-worn/unplayable Dusty from my formative years, was thrilled to find a near-mint reissue for $5!]

See a Little More Light

Years ago, on a whole ‘nother website, I crowdsourced this playlist in honor of daylight savings open.spotify.com/playlist/4xi...

Put the Message in the Box / Migrations, by Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats 2 track album

Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Mountain Goats covering World Party is not something I knew I needed or ever expected to exist, but by God, it's good...

themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/put-th...

Yes. Forty minutes, the crowd couldn't sustain the female/male dueling choruses any longer.....

Acrylic on canvas

#records #painting #artist #artistsofbluesky

You didn't miss much. They just played "Black Coffee In Bed" for 80 minutes and then did an encore....

.@throwingmuses.bsky.social

Row 5 for East Greenwich!!!!!

And here's a good book that explores America's greatest underground rock radio station on the other coast:

Grant & I by Robert Forster Grant & I is the story of the friendship and collaboration of Grant McLennan and Robert Forster, who gave Australia The Go-Betweens, one of our best and most influential bands. It ...

Forster tells that story and many others in this lovely book:

www.penguin.com.au/books/grant-...

WOW!!! @gangoffour.bsky.social will be at the Greenwich Odeum on June 28!! Tix on sale Fri @ 10 AM [https://www.greenwichodeum.com/gang-of-four/]. YOWZA!!!!!@tedleo.bsky.social

The Children The haunting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Melissa Albert, in which the estranged adult children of a legendary author, written into thei...

A helpful link:

www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

#Shadowplay

Jefferson Airplane - We Can Be Together YouTube video by JeffersonJukebox

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxA3...

Zayd left out obscene, lawless, and hideous:

British singers Rod Stewart and Sandy Denny (1947-1978) with their Melody Maker Pop Poll awards for Top Male and Top Female Singer, after the awards ceremony in London, 15 September 1971. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Para la tarde.

And this!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLTB...

#NowPlaying #MegaMelodicAcousticGuitarHookMachine [I heard "This & That" on the mp3 shuffle this morning before learning The Breaking News, am hitting reset...] #PlayingItADayEarlyInETZone

Just occurred to me: your user name is a nod to the Quarrymen, yes??

Bigness accomplished!

I was next to you at the R.E.M. show [on 4.29, 7.14, or 10.13]; first saw them at Randy's place on 10.4.82 [a Monday night, the Debutantes opened, maybe 40 people were there.]. Was also privileged to do phoners with Buck/Mills/Stipe through the years at The NewPaper....

For the Old Heads