Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Soul Train Edition

It ain’t quite Nudie Magazine Day, but I’ll do my best to fill the void tonight…

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Sly & The Family Stone played a dominant role in both the musical background and musical discussion of our New Year’s Eve party. The band that most closely answers the test question “What group is the personification of chocolate pudding?,” Sly and his multicultural rascals produce a sound so penetratingly loose it can deflower a half-dozen virgins if played at the right decibel level. Shit, throw 100 College Republicans For Family Values in a room with a boombox and “In Time” on repeat, and after an hour you’ll walk in to a Bacchanalian orgy and post-coital protest planning. Long story short, these guys are pretty decent.

Here’s a newly added, nine-minute YouTube clip of Sly & The Family Stone’s rehearsal some time in the ’70s. It’s a little fuzzy, but the music is neat-o:

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Onto the rest of this week’s video haul, as we go…Pullin’ ‘Tubes:

  • We’ve been fluffingly fanning the festival flames of Langerado pretty briskly since the artist announcement materialized. But of all the ridiculous bands I’m excited to see for the first time down there, I’m probably most stoked about getting my first glimpse of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings. In anticipation of our clash, here’s a triple dip: Antones @ SXSW 2006, Conan O’Brien on 1/20/05, and Taxes at the Knitting Factory.
  • While we’re dishin’ out powerful black females with a commanding presence and soulful voice, let’s give a little love to the woman Sharon Jones kinda reminds me of in some way. Here’s a cool clip of Etta James belting out I’d Rather Go Blind with an egg-shaped but awesome Dr. John.
  • What’s not to love about Peg? That shit combines the songwriting genius of Steely Dan, the foxy backup vocals of Michael McDonald and a kickass beat. This clip has it all — at first you’ll think it has little to do with Mikey McD, but then it contains dangerously high doses: The Making of Peg.
  • I’ve listened to the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot version of I’m the Man Who Loves You so many times in the past few months that this Lollapalooza 2006 performance kinda freaked me out. But I’m pretty sure it freaked me out in a good way. Like, for sake of analogy, seeing 6’9” Liverpool striker Peter Crouch do the robot after a goal.
  • And if you didn’t see the link in today’s Hors d’Oeuvres department, check out the videos of Paul Green’s School of Rock kids playing Dead tunes like total pros — seriously, it’s wicked stuff.

Let Carlin end this: What tubes? Have you seen any tubes? Where are these tubes? And where do they go? And how come there’s more than one tube? It would seem to me, one country, one tube. But is every state all of a sudden have to have its own tube now? One tube is all you need. But a tube that big? Somebody would have seen it by now. [George Carlin, Back In Town]

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