Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Salad Days Edition

Let’s pull right into the interstate weigh station with this heavy haul of videos…

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I spent almost every summer from 1986-2001 up at one of those Northeastern sleepaway Jewcamps. As a staff member in some capacity for six of them, my cohorts and I would find ourselves in one of the area’s local watering holes four or five nights a week. The jukebox at a backwoods bar called Cheers — where the locals don’t know your name, don’t care, and would probably shoot you if they knew that it ended in “stein” or “berg” — always played the same songs, every night, just in different rotation based on who arrived at the bar in what order.

No matter what time of night, though, every time Blind Melon’s Change hit the speakers I’d be stricken with a wicked case of the goose pimples. That song just did it for me. Now in any instance when the song comes up, be it on the iPod or somewhere in the real world, I’m immediately transported back to the carefree days of the Pennsylvania countryside. And I love that fucking song because of it. So here’s a little more Change for your pocket this morning:

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Now let us over-indulge on the rest of this week’s YouTube deliciousness…

  • Anyone taking the Trey arrest story too seriously is a bit dangerous. I mean, who among us has never driven all full of hashish with a pocket full of pharmies? The Trey story is just that, a story, a clever diversion from our own lives in which we can dissect someone else’s more charmed life. Still, the story’s been pretty funny, and we all for some reason feel like we’re part of it. So in stretching out our hero’s cautionary tale, check out this eerily prescient video of Big Red on The Preston & Steve Show, where the former 70 Volt Parade frontman may or may not make some pill jokes.
  • I’m so fed up with the current state of mainstream music that I can’t even fathom how a song like Billy Preston’s Outta Space could ever hit number one on the charts. That kind of shit tells me that we’ve taken a bigger-than-huge step back as a society, ‘cuz that song fucking blows the doors clean off, and yet it would never even register a blip these days — see for yourself with this spectacular live version from 1973.
  • From one minority keyboardist to another: Nobody made a bigger splash in 2006 than Grace Potter. Combining a pretty face with sickening talent, the Vermont fox saw nothing but good press written about her in just about every city she visited. And it’s all deserved — here’s Grace and The Nocturnals at the Boston Music Awards playing Nothing But the Water.
  • I’m glad I caught Grace a few times in 2006, and now she’s off my “must see now” list. So who’s the band I most want to see in 2007? That’d be Rose Hill Drive, which has eluded me for far too long. Here’s a little taste of RHD rockin’ out at NYC’s Mercury Lounge in September.
  • Lastly, for my Arrested Development brethren, here’s a cool rant from the mind of David Cross (and the body of Mrs. Featherbottom) about the constant flubs made by the Fox marketing department.

And if you don’t know, now you know, [buddy]. Enjoy the day. Seize it, even.

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10 Responses

  1. Honestly I don’t know if I would have ever met Ace if it wasn’t for talk of summercamp (this is a half-truth).

    Westmont owns yer face!

  2. I stumbled upon Rose Hill Drive a few winters ago when they were playing in Vail. Outside. In February. (Of course. Only Damien Rice-level pussies play indoors when it’s 15 degrees out.) I – being a seventh degree Led Zep fan – found them most palatable. As far as power trios on this scene go, I ain’t galloping along on a Mule. No, I be cruisin’ on the Rose Hill Drive. I haven’t had a chance to see them live since, but the one time was pretty impressive. Thanks Ace!

  3. Love what you guys are doing with this Blog. I stop by here on a daily basis. Keep up the great work!

    Long live NE Jew camps.

    Haven’t heard this Blind Melon tune in forever! ::amkes trip to the PIG::

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