"Laser FX" display

["Laser FX" display]

This is actually pretty cool. Back then, anything "laser" sounded state-of-the-art.

[Rick Ocasec Of The Cars Dead at 75]

Yeah, he made a lot of great music. Huge loss.

[Looking for name of old song.............]

Yep, this is the place.

[CCR @ Woodstock]

This is a weird one - it's like someone had this footage handy and just released it on YouTube. There doesn't seem to be any official release for this.

Also, it shows that their performance was really good, blowing up the theory that they wouldn't let the movie or soundtrack use it because they thought they were terrible.

[So much more than Random Thoughts]

Country is to Western as Track is to Field.

["Armstrong" by John Stewart]

Someone had to write a folk song about this. I still prefer Bowie's "Space Oddity" though.

[Google does "Over The Rainbow"]

I like how it's accompanied by a suitably ersatz Dorothy.

[So much more than Random Thoughts]

Cosmo Sheldrake may be the best name in music.

[Rock List: The Fifty Best Songs Over Seven Minutes Long]

"Orlando's" by Twiddle. Runs 9:35. Check it out:

 

[So much more than Random Thoughts]

Was looking to see if there is video for the 1993 Triangle Ball, and found this instead.

 

[Worst jobs at sea]

"Dirty Jobs" - British Navy edition.

[What you can do with old pallets]

Wow, that took vision. Very impressive Ken.

[Song/Video of the day]

Rickie Lee Jones covers America in a video where he re-creates her classic looks:

 

[Bagpipe not an alto sax]

Gotta admit that never crossed my mind (hard to imaging that song without a saxophone), but bagpipes could definitely work. Certainly appropriate.

[True facts about Ducks]

I can understand why this is taught in schools.

[The "Old" Songfacts Gang]

Ron, you have some incredible Twitter skills. We have you followed and I keep an eye on your feed.

["Tattoos" by Speaker Knockerz?]

Some serious Auto-Tune on that one.

["Sunflower" by Post Malone]

This is very elegant in look and sound. Love it.

[Grundig vs. Philips: Cassette Wars!]

Wow, I've never seen those Grundig things before. Wonder if they were like Beta, better but doomed.

[RIP Peter Tork of the Monkees.]

I love that the Monkees were revived in 1986 on MTV. And it wasn't a "reboot" with new actors trying to re-create the magic - they just showed the same episodes again.

[Nobody But Me commercial]

It lives!

[The "Old" Songfacts Gang]

Agree. Hope they life you never imagined is a good one.

[Linda Ronstadt Speaks]

Linda Ronstadt hasn't sung in 10 years because of her Parkinson's disease. This video is a great look at how she's doing today, which can be summed up in two words:

Acceptance

Uncompromising

She retains a huge fan base that really connected with her music and her struggle.

 

["Stan and Ollie" (2018)]

Now if Abbott and Costello can get their own biopic...

[What Song Are You Listening To Right Now?]

Billy Joel's version of "All Shook Up." He does a bang-up Elvis.