POST BURNING SITE

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An amazing performance by James Brown on the TAMI Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMqM4lZGiK0.

There is a backstory to this video that I am going to get wrong.  The Rolling Stones were booked on the same show, and someone thought it would be a good idea for the Stones to close the show. It was up to Mick to deliver the news to James Brown, who said, "Ok" and then delivered a performance that caused Sir Jagger to not want to leave his dressing room. "Welcome to America" is what Mr. Brown told Mr. Stones as they passed each other, one to go rest and the other to go flail.
 
The Stones closed the show with this awful performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQkqs1_laf4. Anyway, I am messing up a really good story that one should Google for more information about that particular evening. Credit to Joey "CoCo" Diaz for remembering this video and mentioning this article from the New Yorker on his show - mystery solved!
 
Update: Mick shows off his Eaton Riflehood and London School of Economics education on the subject (in French and English, no less): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MlzyCzwc1s.

Bonus! Toni Basil Reflects on James Brown on the Tami Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swaQxvrLgdY <- Such an interesting interview/person!

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MEMO FROM TURNER - MICK JAGGER

Well, I'll just put this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3qgmVb4-kU and that there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_(film).

Note:  This post is probably not family-friendly for any kind of family arrangement.
 
Note: Ry Cooder plays slide on Memo and, sure enough, on this one, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UOweeSdI2k.
 
^{It looks like there is a documentary about making this perform-a-rama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fikZwrIOpyQ. Brush up on your Jorge Luis Borges, mebby. See Mick Read (part of Part 2: https://youtu.be/wGmZYKm7FGo?t=172).}

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Robert Gordon - Someday Someway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VwzuzhWv3A


It also contains a very nice performance by the late Danny Gatton on sideburns.

^{Must be lip sync, no, yes?}

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Let's Visit the World of the Future - Rev. Ivan Stang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHx2nLFMAzE

No, no, no. No, this video is not safe for anyone. Please feel free to sue the Church of the Subgenius should you find yourself suddenly in the World of the Future.

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Il fantasma del palcoscenico - Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXlnwocULf8

Ah, torn from the pages of Famous Monsters comes the Phantom of the Paradise. When, oh when, will Tom interview Paul Williams?


_{Oh man...of all the Aurora Monster models I built, somehow I missed this one: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/phantom-paradise-resin-model-kit-12746218. I guess I could buy one now and put it together, but, let's be honest, I'd just sniff the glue probably. So...no model and no glue.}

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RAINBOW - RUDE PROGRAMME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbcQIT7BMc

Yeah...No. This is not "kid friendly" at all. Not one bit. 

[From the comments] This was actually recorded as a joke by the cast and crew, who played it at their annual staff Christmas Party (usually they just did a bloopers tape, but this particular year, made something different). It was never aired on children's TV. However in 1991 it was shown on the Victor Lewis Smith - TV Offal, who mistakenly said it was a 'pilot' show. Still fookin hilarious though...

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LIGHTNING SEEDS - PURE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrTDnM_OMlM


This was Disk 5 on my Toshiba 5 Disk Platter from...20 years ago?

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The Great American Fourth Of July and Other Disasters (1982) Jean Shepherd movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zow7fro-WGE

Henry Chinaski (Factotum) stars in this film about the Fourth of July.

^{I think it is far superior to the Christmas Story (blech). Maybe it aired once on PBS? Well, I don't think it could ever be shown these days.}

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Hawaii Five-O: Bored She Hung Herself Rare Full Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0mKcIMN_bs

From TV Obscurities:

Is there a lost episode of Hawaii Five-O? Technically, no. In this week’s DVD Tuesday I mentioned that there’s an episode from the second season of Hawaii Five-O that hasn’t been seen since its original broadcast. Someone in the comments asked why the episode is missing from the DVD release.

The episode was called “Bored She Hung Herself.” It aired for reportedly the first and only time on Wednesday, January 7th, 1970 during Hawaii Five-O‘s second season.

It is worth reading the full article, me thinks/suggests: https://www.tvobscurities.com/2010/03/a-lost-episode-of-hawaii-five-o/.

^{Also, Kam Fong (as Chin Ho) had an amazing life, so I hear.  After his first wife and child were killed when a plane struck their house, he became a real police officer and asked for the most dangerous assignments. Well, this wiki-thingy doesn't do the guy justice as far as I'm concerned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kam_Fong_Chun. Maybe Jan Wooster can start an iPetition for him like his fellow Knuk-uh-du-Nort did for Reggie Leech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjdXz1jSm0U. I won't hold my breath. My friend of a friend in Sonic Youth said he's a cheapskate.}

[fonpr]

Dammit, you are doing Fredericks proud.

Damn right, bdb318!

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WEDDING PRESENT - KENNEDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNYyNqCSSg

True Fact: I saw them a number of times in serveral incarnations. Yeah, I know, huh?

I think one of the guitarists left to form this band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5CTh840X68.

Wow. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dLUHqrB8nc. Think I'll download it on Spotify while I look at the CD cover in my hands - minus the CD.

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Meat Wagon Slot Car Set
https://vimeo.com/211400697

This is a pretty accurate film of "fun" in the 70s.

Trigger Warning: fire, ambulances, irresponsible children...

Note: I think that's Buck Henry (Catch 22) and his mom in the opening.
 
^{'Memberin' is fun!}

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MY BREAKFAST WITH BLASSIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiSMrRKMasM

I imagine that most people know of this film, but I have a theory about the origins of Tony Clifton. I watched the beginning of SNL S1 E3 from 1975 (https://www.hulu.com/watch/159645). Rob Reiner's opening monologue is dead-on Tony Clifton. Since Andy Kaufman attended that the show, I am beginning to put the pieces together: maybe Tony Clifton is doing Andy Kaufman who was actually doing Rob Reiner. I see similarities between '75 and '77 and Andy's first TV apperance as Tony Clifton in 1977.

The Blassie thing is a thing, well, that is a thing entirely unto itself. It's like Zappa's toilet plunger come to life.
 
<sup>I love this song so, so much. Andy is not everyone's cup of tea, but this is a beautiful version of the song: https://youtu.be/bR-DGJ9ovaM?t=187

And, yes, I do see this video as culturally insensitive on several levels. I am not excusing the video. Nonetheless, I love his voice in this stupid video. So...what can I do? What can any one of us like at all anymore? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTh7LUcZwec</sup>

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So that I can find it again!

^Dammit!

#45...

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IN HIS EYES - VIGILANTES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8WBddFF8HI

That song has been stuck in my head for years, but, for the life of me, I cannot understand one word of it. Then I happened upon their reunion tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLgY6LM-APk.

Well, it looks like they're meatheads; but are they my kind of meatheads?
 
That...that I don't know.

True Fact: That's Bill "Butter Cheeks" Burr on guitar: https://youtu.be/ZLgY6LM-APk?t=35. He's so good. Why is he still trying to play drums?

^{He's a meathead, but he's my kind of meathead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCXWHw8p7es.}