Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Les Coole & Professor Truck

Greetings, music people.

Les Coole & The Cukes have spent more time in the studio lately. I also have it on good authority that Greasetruck Studios has seen (heard) some action of late as well.

In late 1973, a pair of former co-writing sensations released songs of their own at the same time.  John Lennon's "Mind Games" and Paul McCartney's (& Wings') "Band on the Run" hit the same airwaves. Different sounding material and yet a common thread.  Both brilliant.

47 years later, another long lost songmaker duo followed suit. Random Idiots founders and farceurs Whitney & Dave (in their assumed personae) have issued a pair of solo singles at the same time. Different sounding material and yet a common thread. Both . . . are songs.

Learn them. Know them. Live them.



25 comments:

rob said...

speaking of funky white boys

Dave said...

am i lennon or mccartney?

Dave said...

just changed something and reuploaded. i think it worked . . .

Marls said...

TR beat me to the punch.

Whitney said...

You're more Lennon. Controversial, well-read, hairy. Your wife is more like Linda McCartney, though.

Dave said...

just fixed something else. the guitar wasn't right. my wife does look a bit like linda mccartney (she looks more like linda mccartney than she looks like yoko ono).

Mark said...

Being on vacation at a resort type place early in the week is underrated. Feels like you have the whole place to yourself.

OBX dave said...

Re: zman's previous post on SVP, Trouble Funk and Go Go. Transported me back. Listened to a lot of TF and Chuck Brown back in the day.

Several friends and I, let's say, altered the vibe at numerous parties in the late '70s and '80s when Chuck and TF and the Bar Kays found their way to the turntable. Particularly jarring at gatherings where the Bee Gees and Madonna and Duran Duran and Fleetwood Mac were the prevailing tunes. We liked to think of ourselves as cultural educators.

rootsminer said...

Is our man in the OBX admitting to spiking punch with psychedelics, or just enhancing the vibe with some deep grooves?

And though it may hurt my cred, I can't help but like Fleetwood Mac. I think Rumours got profoundly burned into me as a toddler. There's a story about someone asking two year old rootsy who was on the radio, to which I correctly replied "Fleetwod Mac!"I prefer the Peter Green era, and haven't followed their catalog beyond Tusk, but I can't hate them.

TR said...

My wife looks a little like Charlize Theron. And a lot like Dog the Bounty Hunter.

Whitney said...

I'm a Fleetwood Mac fan as well. I mean, not now, as you read. But I like their stuff. The music doc on Rumous was entertaining. As you read.

rob said...

got my aarp card in the mail today. see you guys at morrison’s for the early bird!

Dave said...

speaking of spiking the punch with psychedelics . . .

https://ew.com/article/1996/09/13/pcp-laced-chowder-derails-titanic-filming/

i love Fleetwood mac.

whit's voice sounds pretty smooth for an old man . . .

OBX dave said...

I like Fleetwood Mac, as well, including the Peter Green era when they were a blues band before Green went off the rails.

It was simply a little disconcerting for folks grooving to them, Billy Joel, disco, etc., to suddenly be subjected to a half-hour of Trouble Funk, Chuck, and company.

zman said...

I'd rather be Lennon than Stalin.

rob said...

also, the mushrooms you put into the punch, dave

TR said...

I’m sure you all are tuned in, but tonight’s Isles-Flyers game is a good one.

rob said...

celtics gonna be a handful

rootsminer said...

I’m getting my first taste of bubble ball. I ditched my live cable when the shut down started, but the antenna gets abc now. Looks pretty good.

TR said...

Sorry, Marls. I was the mush for the Isles.

As Troy Aikman would say, it’s a heckuva sports night. Celts win again, Yanks beat Rays with a dust-up at the end, NHL playoff OT and the Utah-Denver Game 7.

Mark said...

I thought Conley’s shot was going down.

rob said...

'my cellmate is my soulmate' is a heckuva turn of phrase.

also a major plotline in oz, if memory serves.

Whitney said...

Thanks. And part of why I never saw an episode of Oz.



Whitney said...

I didn't have HBO for a decent period of time, and I missed out on / skipped a bunch of series. Series I have never seen include:

OZ
Deadwood
Rome
Veep
Mr. Show
Band of Brothers
Silicon Valley
Chernobyl
Treme
Entourage
Six Feet Under
True Blood
Bored to Death
Eastbound & Down
Girls
Curb Your Enthusiasm
ARLI$$

Seen most/all:
The Wire
The Sopranos
Sex and the City
John Adams
Hung
True Detective
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Not Necessarily the News
The Kids in the Hall
Larry Sanders
Dream On

Saw a few:
Flight of the Conchords
Big Love
The Hitchhiker
1st & Ten
Real Sex
Project Greenlight

Your recommendations and judgments are welcomed.

TR said...

Flight of the Conchords episodes are quick diversions and very funny. Season 1 of Eastbound and Down is all-time funny. Like the idea of seeing Danny McBride on Ecstasy at a middle school dance? Or the idea of seeing him call his girlfriend a dickhead?

Chernobyl is great, but heavy. Deadwood is very entertaining. Rome was decent, but not great.

I think you can let Arli$$ go.