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Benny

I keep coming back for more.

About Me

HELLO! I'm Benny. If you want to know more, ask me, I won't be afraid. I'm open and friendly as they say.

My Interests

Wine, Women and Song

I'd like to meet:

All you gotta do is kinda stand in one spot and wiggle around a little bit. That's when you got something.
DON'T just add me if you don't know me, except if you are really cool or have a good reason to do so. NO shitty bands anymore please (I mean it)!!

Music:


Jerry Lee Lewis, Ramones, Hank Williams, The Queers, T. Rex, Against Me!, The Mr. T Experience, Alkaline Trio, Hot Water Music, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Connie Francis, Johnny Cash, Pulp, Weezer, Turbonegro, Queen, Ray Charles, George Jones, The Smiths, Little Richard, The Beach Boys, Screeching Weasel, Marty Robbins, The Drifters, Tom Jones, Blue Sky Boys, Fatou Dust, Aggronauts, Tungsten Tips and mo

Movies:

Rock'n'Roll Highschool, American Graffiti, Wizard Of Oz, Gone With The Wind, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Talented Mr. Ripley, The Shining, Rebel Without A Cause, High Noon, The Searchers, Rio Bravo & other classic Western movies esp. ones with John Wayne

Television:

Simpsons, Futurama, Six Feet Under

Books:

i do enjoy reading books, fiction, books about music.

Heroes:

friends & family, Disco Stu, Penny Markt, John Wayne

My Blog

What's Made Glenn Sutton Famous...

Actually I just wanted to announce that from now on I will post all my music-related blogs on my last.fm journal, so more music fans read them and because myspace is a bit lame. I came to realize that...
Posted by Benny on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:16:00 PST

New thing

I now got me one of those last.fm accounts.Right now I'm ripping all the highlights from my CD collection on the computer so I have all my favorite songs on demand and don't have to get the CD out whe...
Posted by Benny on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:52:00 PST

fame

Go to rateyourmusic.com and read my Disco Box review on the frontpage as long as it's there. Disco 4 Ever! (Ironically, I just got a haircut.)Yours truly, Dr. Cool / Benimal / Benny!...
Posted by Benny on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:28:00 PST

Favorite Records

Hey!I made a list of my 50 all-time favorite Albums, isn't that what you always wanted to know?Here it is! Cheers, Benny...
Posted by Benny on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:37:00 PST

R.I.P. Frankie Laine

Legendary and million-selling singer Frankie Laine passed away yesterday at 93. His main success was in the 40s and 50s, but lasted into the 60s and longer, he is still often forgotten today despite o...
Posted by Benny on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:39:00 PST

They Killed

Hey, on rateyourmusic.com, I put together a list of musicians, who were convicted of murder or manslaughter: ListIt took a while and it might be interesting. I bet there are many more I forgot, so if ...
Posted by Benny on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:54:00 PST

Box set overkill

At amazon.de they have a bunch of high-quality box sets for a very cheap price available right now, including many Bear Family ones. So if you want to refresh your music library a bit, go get some. I ...
Posted by Benny on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:39:00 PST

My favorite recordings from 1945 to 2006

Put this together on a forum and thought I post it here, since it took a while. Subject to change.1945 The Pied Pipers - Dream 1946 Louis Jordan - Choo Choo Ch'Boogie 1947 Ernest Tubb - Let's Say Good...
Posted by Benny on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:29:00 PST

CD Tip (Rock'n'Roll Piano alive)

Hi folks, long time no blogging, just wanted to say that Jerry Lee Lewis's new album Last Man Standing is out in Germany today (in the US since september and in the UK this week as well) and everybody...
Posted by Benny on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:05:00 PST

Rock'n'Roll piano death II

Not a death, but all the Jerry Lee Lewis shows in Germany got cancelled. The Berlin one some time ago and now the others. now i cant go to frankfurt if i wanted to.
Posted by Benny on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 02:49:00 PST