Hundring

Så här såg hundringarna ut på min tid, och fortfarande... Kolla kungens tunga!
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Upplysning

Det är uppenbart att dagens energityngda samhälle är en ohållbar lösning. Men jag har ändå precis hittat festlig kuriosa från en tid när Båkab fortfarande fanns och hette Bålforsens Kraftbolag och upplyste om att lyse är bra för miljön. Kanske menade dom att det blir trevligare med lyse än utan? Inget att sticka under stolen med. Dagens politiskt korrekta svammel ger jag mindre för än denna underbara slogan från 1968, MERA LJUS - BÄTTRE MILJÖ!
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Gott nytt år!!

Spanky & Our Gang

...hade jag ingen aning om. Måste ha uppfunnits i dag på Boa på vinyl från 69...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanky_and_Our_Gang

The best (though not the best selling) of the group's three original albums, Without Rhyme or Reason (which is also sometimes known as Anything You Choose/Without Rhyme of Reason) was their most ambitious creation. The wryly cynical "Leopard Skin Phones (cleverly describing the needs of the modern recording process) slides into a Little Brother Montgomery narrative, which dissolves to Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane giving her best blues performance ever on "Mecca Flat Blues," a co-creation of her and Montgomery; the smooth, relaxed title track with it '50s pop-jazz style harmonies, which leads into "1-3-5-8 (Pedagogical Round #2), a more musical successor to "My Bill" from the previous album and segues effortlessly into the wordplay of "Jane" (sung by Malcolm Hale, his only lead vocal on this album), which manages to recall the Serendipity Singers at their most playful, this is the prelude to "Since You've Gone," which starts out as an ethereal ballad but ends as an impassioned, screaming (yet elegantly produced) rocker reminiscent of the Grass Roots from the same period; "Anything You Choose" may be the hardest rock song the sextet ever recorded, and it precedes the romantic, folk-pop/rock styled "And She's Mine," written and sung by bassist Kenny Hodges; "Yesterday's Rain" was a valiant attempt at an upbeat, serious philosophical song, the other side of early hits like "Sunday Will Never Seem the Same" and "Lazy Day"; Hoagy Carmichael's "Hong Kong Blues" gets a lean, fresh treatment, a lively, busy vocal arrangement without too much instrumental embellishment; and "Nowhere to Go" isn't much more than a song fragment, but it makes a compelling intro to "Give a Damn," enhancing the familiar single. In contrast to their prior two albums, Without Rhyme or Reason contains no major hits, and none of the songs off of it ever charted seriously, although "Give a Damn," which closes it, nearly made the Top 40 despite a radio ban over the use of the word "damn" in its title and chorus; thus, it was their poorest selling album. The group hardly played at all on most of the record but provided their most elaborate vocals arrangements, and it proved to be their most lasting creation apart from the hit singles. The death of Malcolm Hale on October 30, 1968, during the recording of the album, coupled with the group's satisfaction over what they'd achieved musically, resulted in the decision to disband in the early 1969, soon after the release of Without Rhyme or Reason.

Kontakt med inre rymden

I dag fick jag kontakt med inre rymden. Inte var dag. Åtminstone länge sen.
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Analfebeten

Ibland hinner man liksom inte med livet. Men sånt här kan man ju inte alls räkna med. Och än mindre förstå. Fick den här boken för flera år sen av en antikvarie/bokhandlare i Sundsvall som jag brukade handla av, "Analfabeten" av Ivar Lo Johansson. Han ville att jag skulle läsa boken, komma tillbaka och berätta vad jag tyckte. Det har jag fortfarande inte gjort. I dag läste jag i ST att han mördats i veckan. Ofattbart! Ivar Lo Johansson blir för mig härefter för alltid förknippad med detta. Märkligt.
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Fireflies

I går såg jag det här klippet på tuben. Det är min lekkamrat Petter Parlör som klivit upp igen, efter nästan ett kvarts decenniums vila från livescenen. Med den äran! Pärla till låt också, Fireflies.
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