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Jason

Papa Don't Take No Mess

About Me



My Interests


I'd like to meet:



Music:


The Bee Gees, Euphoria, Marvin Gaye, Lee Hazlewood, Bread, Curtis Mayfield, France Gall, Al Green, Elvis Presley, Nino Tempo & April Stevens, Otis Redding, Britney Spears, Astrud Gilberto, Tammy Wynette, Eurovision Song Contest, The Beatles, Kenny Rogers, Billy Squire, The Dells, Queen, Wizzard, The Grass Roots, Lesley Gore, The Dramatics, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Jake Holmes, Sniff N' The Tears, The Commodores, San Tropez, Ian Whitcomb, Boyce and Hart, My Bloody Valentine, Chicago, The Moody Blues, Frankie Beverly and Maze, bubblegum ('60s-'00s), Justin Timberlake, Albert Hammond, Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, Walter Egan, Al Caiola, Bobby Womack, Los Shakers, Major Lance, Green Day, Kyu Sakamoto, The Niteliters, Lou Christie, King Pleasure, Skeeter Davis, Mary J. Blige, Freddy Fender, Neil Diamond, R. Dean Taylor, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Bessie Smith, Hank Snow, Exile, Johnny Taylor, Lobo, Barry Ryan, Bread, Mouth & MacNeal, Bob Dylan, John Rydgren, Yoko Ono, Paul Williams, Roger Nichols and the Small Circle Of Friends, The Cowsills, Hot Butter, dusties and steppers' cuts.

Movies:


Point Break, The Seventh Seal, Head, High Noon, Casino, Xanadu, Goodfellas, The Manchurian Candidate, early-70's futurism like Planet of the Apes, Rollerball, Soylent Green, Logan's Run, etc

Television:


27" diagonal, gathering dust.

Books:


Bee Gees Songbook Vol.1

Heroes:


No, no, no.
But here's my personal Hall of Fame:
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett
1946-2006
Special achievement: Total mental breakdown
Quote: "My head kissed the ground
I was half the way down,
Treading the sand, please, please
Please lift a hand
I'm only a person
With Eskimo chain
I tattooed my brain all away
Won't you miss me?
Wouldn't you miss me at all?"
Terence "Steve" McQueen
1930-1980
Special achievement: Rolling Stones song "Starfucker" contains the line "giving head to Steve McQueen"
Quote: "I believe in me. I'm a little screwed up, but I'm beautiful."
Siddhartha "Sid" Gautama
563 BC-483 BC (approx.)
Special achievement: Complete enlightenment
Quote: "All things must pass away."
George Harrison, MBE
1943-2001
Special achievement: The "Quiet Beatle"
Quote: "All things must pass away."

My Blog

"Please please don't go"--Goodbye JB

I can imagine James at his funeral, jumping out of the casket 3 or 4 times and having to be coaxed back in.See you on the other side, Godfather....
Posted by Jason on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 11:24:00 PST

There Was A Time (1968)

8 1/2 minutes on one chord. Perfection....
Posted by Jason on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:59:00 PST

Cold Sweat

This clip from a 1969 Mike Douglas show demonstrates how JB's constant touring led him to continually re-work his material into something new. Here we see 1967's "Cold Sweat" undergoing the transforma...
Posted by Jason on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:17:00 PST

Olympia 1966

Sorry to repeat a song when there are so many to choose from, but this clip is too good. First there's a sick version of "Out Of Sight" (are those the JB's or the MC5???), followed by "Maybe the Last ...
Posted by Jason on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:19:00 PST

Out Of Sight

JB brings it to the white kids at the TAMI Show in 1964. The Rolling Stones, who closed the show, were said to be nervous wrecks backstage when they saw JB performing...and who could blame them? Keit...
Posted by Jason on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:25:00 PST

Popcorn

It's James Brown all week, people. This one is unbeatable....
Posted by Jason on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:27:00 PST

there are no words...

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Posted by Jason on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:12:00 PST

Happy Birthday Eugene Record

Lead singer, songwriter, producer and auteur behind Chicago's own Chi-Lites. He is gone, but his 'fro lives on....
Posted by Jason on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:42:00 PST

Un-American Pop: R.I.P. Mariska Veres

Mariska Veres, smoking-hot singer for the Dutch group Shocking Blue, died yesterday.Although they are known in the US for their huge hit "Venus", which has been covered a million times, they produced ...
Posted by Jason on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:04:00 PST

Headline of the Day

"Court Takes 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' Case"And yes, we're talking about the SUPREME Court here.Really, the story itself isn't that interesting. Some kid held up a banner in Alaska while the Olympic torch w...
Posted by Jason on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:39:00 PST