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john rouse

About Me

Available to DJ events including tea parties, political upheavals, coronations, go-go dances, debutante cotillions, national sales conventions, beauty pageants, sewing circles, coffee klatches, birthdays for that special someone, self help seminars, beach parties, barroom olympics and much, much more. Let rouseputin provide the soundtrack to your swingin' soiree!!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Snake Richards, Bo Hopkins, Smokey Robinson, Mort Drucker, Helen Mirren, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Ian MacShane, Jerry Blavat, Gilberto Gil, Mathilde Seigner and BING SLAMET !!

My Blog

Best CDs of 2008

10 more 2008 CDS you forgot Arty!   10.) Don Henley : The Dirty Laundry Outtakes. Arguably some of the Hen's best work. The unedited title track is worth the price of admission. Plus Stevie Nicks...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:02:00 GMT

The Velvelette Underground

 One of the most fascinating stories in pop music history has to be the transformation of an innocent Motown girl group into a dark harbinger of rock and roll cynicism and debauchery. A tale so b...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:08:00 GMT

The Game vs. The Edge

 I had a strange idea today while driving. Suppose hip-hop star "The Game" took on rock dinosaur "The Edge" in a one on one hoops game.  Imagine what a nightmare that would be for the sports...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:45:00 GMT

Air Laptop Tryouts

 Just a heads up to let everybody know that after the success of last year's air guitar festival, the Baltimore/DC Air Musicians Association will be having a different type of shebang this s...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 09:54:00 GMT

Top Cat Defied Stereotypes

 Post Hayes Code Hollywood was guilty of many things. Censorship, xenophobia and anglocentric casting were the rule of the day. Just about all ethnicities, bar whites, were villains, noble savage...
Posted by on Sun, 11 May 2008 19:34:00 GMT

Stone Tribbin

 One of my best friends that I've known since 7th grade is a guitar playin' man in Seattle. When we were teenagers, he fronted a high energy hardcore band. He was the stereotypical, upc symbol ta...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:14:00 GMT

Im Not Lisa, Im an Outlaw!!

Music Review: "I’m Not Lisa, I’m An Outlaw - The 1969 Goodlettsville Sessions" This was a great week for country music enthusiasts. Found festering in the basement of a 250-watt ...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:56:00 GMT

The Blues Conspiracy Revealed

 It was one of those once in a lifetime experiences. I was drinking a cold Jax in Sunflower, Mississippi on a dirty, dusty Delta morn looking at the southbound freight while a lonesome demon wind...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:28:00 GMT

Sentence Hipsters to the Chain Gang

 Wouldn't be a gas to drive down Jarretsville Pike and see a gaggle of Baltimore hipsters chain-linked and swinging scythes at the weeds feebly whimpering out "umm, like take my gas attendent sty...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:38:00 GMT

Ban CD Endorsement Stickers

 I must say that I have an insatiable appetite for music. I especially get a bang out of discovering an unearthed (at least for me) gem from the halcyon years of rock and roll (1950-1975). Lately...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:23:00 GMT