The Super Colossal Beatle Blog

It's time for the super colossal Beatle Blog, Yay!!

I have been a Beatle fan for as long as I can remember, literally. One of my earliest childhood memories is The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Mostly what I remember is my screaming teenage sisters, I was a few months shy of my fourth birthday. I thought it would be fun to share some videos.

Ladies and Gentlemen may I introduce....

Evolution and the Music Video

Archaeologists in Nairobi have unearthed what is believed to be the first Music Video. The Video as we know it was not "created" by man at MTV but instead "evolved" from the time when Monkeys ruled the Earth. Scientist have dubbed this ancient kinescope The Nairobi Trio.

The next phase of the "Evolution" showcased the inquisitive nature of monkeys and asked the age old question "What Makes The Monkey Dance?"

The story of the "Evolution" has never been told more succinctly than this video complete with Go-Go Dancers.

MISSING LINK...FOUND!
During the period known as the "Summer of Love" monkeys tried to take over the world with their wild music and psychedelic ways this "Evolution Revolution" stifled and the monkey movement went under ground.

After years in the underground movement monkeys decide to walk amongst men. You can shave a monkey but as this video demonstrates you can still tell it's a "Monkey Man".

Yes, here they do come walkin' down the street.

We now live in a day and age when shaved monkeys have infiltrated society and have taken over.

Vagabonds

Gary Louris ~ Vagabonds

Vagabonds is a beautifully produced album that is a mostly acoustic recording textured with steel guitar and choir. This album has soul, not in the R&B tradition but in that it is music from the heart. One can't help but feel that Gary Louris found himself at a crossroads, he could keep with the path he was on and keep the group together which would have been safe, he could return to an old partner and make a duo album which also would have been relatively safe or he could could go out on his own and work without a net. He chose the least safe path. The song "Omaha Nights" seems to be a story of an epiphany that came in a road trip from Des Moines to Lincoln, answers seem to reveal themselves on the road especially when driving through the cornfields of America's heartland, the prairies, flat and endless bring one to an almost zen like awareness, in which he was set free by Omaha. I think the line "Am I growing old in the arms of the wrong lover" is a metaphor for his career path and the epiphany that comes in "Omaha Nights" is what lead to this solo album, as if in a lightning flash he came to the conclusion it was time to do something for himself instead of the writing and producing he has been doing for others. "Am I singing melodies all meant for other singers, Occupying spaces that were clearly meant for others". Vagabonds is an album that bears repeated listening, it continues to grow with every spin. From the choir bringing you to an old tent revival in the ending of "To Die A Happy Man" to the subtleties of "D.C. Blues" to the soaring steel guitar through out, this album has magic that doesn't seem to end.