Tag Archives: Phil Spector

bootleg cover

by Art Chantry: this is a cover of a bootleg rolling stones recording from back in 1973. they were just taking break on their legendary monster tour following the release of “Exile” and this is a tape of a concert … Continue reading

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meatloaf musicals

Caught a drift of the old album Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf wafting out of a cafe yesterday, and tried to think of why it could have been so popular, and how it seemed to defy easy classification at … Continue reading

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xmas record cover of covers

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) this is maybe the second best rocknroll xmas record ever set to vinyl (phil spector’s xmas disk being the best). this is the “etiquette xmas record”. i found this copy recently in a thrift store … Continue reading

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LA confidential: ultra vox & roll over beethoven

California, and Los Angeles used to pretty cool…. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) One of the things we’ve forgotten about is just how cool Los Angeles was in the mid-sixties. Maybe our forgetting was intentional, actually. After them hippies went … Continue reading

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munster mash: goth meets surf

Another article from the brilliant Art Chantry, Graphic designer par excellence and a very articulate transmitter of art design and lo-fi culture in a straight-forward and honest manner. No punches pulled. The intro is a fragment from an interview with … Continue reading

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SOMEONE KEPT MOVING THE DOOR

Nowhere Boy. Everywhere Man. In any examination of  John Lennon; mainly because of the exalted, now mythological esteem held, there is a real danger of  loss of perspective and sliding into idolatry, hero worship and misplaced identification. The lesson of … Continue reading

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MUSIC & MADNESS: AN IMP OF A LIBRETTO

A cursed libretto is not your typical campfire ghost story.Its not a joking anecdote to be easily dismissed either. Its one helluva an imp who has displayed wildly inconsistent behavior over the years.  The specific association of music and madness … Continue reading

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AUTO TUNING HIS MASTERS VOICE: THE CURSED LIBRETTO

It could have been a very conventional life. He returned from Milan, because his old teacher back in Busseto croaked, and Verdi, who had obligations to the town, was recalled to take over the local Philharmonic Society. During the following … Continue reading

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