Hang on for "Skater Dater," the 1965 coming-of-age skater movie, with soundtrack by Davie Allan. (I should point out, for the unobservant, that all of the skating is done barefoot.)



Lovely. I think we know who the real winner was. (Though Burroughs, bless his heart, would have wept.)

Oooooh, yeah.

In my earlier post about Samantha Fish, I neglected to mention that the linked videos were performances not by Samantha Fish alone, but by the Samantha Fish Band. Sam steals the show, but she's not onstage by herself: she's part of a well-balanced trio with bassist Christopher Alexander and drummer Go-Go Ray ( Read more... )

Samantha Fish. I mean, hell, man.

There are a couple videos you've got to see, but embedding is disabled. Please, click through. I doubt that you'll regret it.

Sweet, dirty cigar-box slide: Shake 'em On Down Not--I caution you--to be missed.

On the six-string now: I Put a Spell On You (Seriously, that song can walk all over a singer, but Ms ( Read more... )

Longer than always is a long long time.

Didn't I tell you it was wild bass? Didn't I tell you that?

A little repetitive, I grant you, but wild.

...than to try to learn a technique called "Travis Picking" without actually watching or listening to Merle Travis, right? Talk about avoidable mistakes, this is up there with "don't sit in the lake."

Well now, I hate to tarnish your image of me as a man of good sense, but I must confess that's exactly what I been doing. (As penance, I'm typing ( Read more... )