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Happy birthday to Motorhead Guitarist
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The Cardigans - Lovefool
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Wow! But that’s not the real eye color, is it?
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I’m not an eyeologist just a regular guy, but it seems that this is some kind of video trickery. She has blue eyes but less vibrant and more realistic. Which is probably a good thing. But again, not an eyeologist.
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Nina Persson has very blue eyes, but not as blue as this. As Whadupp says, probably some “video trickery”. Perhaps it has some symbolic meaning here. To be “blue eyed” can also mean to be a little naive and innocent. After all the song is called Lovefool.
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Music history time again, because today it is 113 years since the legendary blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson was born. The word “legendary” is sometimes used a little too freely, but in this case it actually applies. Hell, we’re talking about a man of almost mythical proportions here.
Robert Johnson’s legacy rests on 29 songs, and several of these have become blues and rock standards, among others Dust My Broom, Crossroads, Stop Breaking Down and Sweet Home Chicago. He was also a sk__led and unique guitar player, which has inspired the likes of Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Johnny Winter, to name a few
The best known legend about Robert Johnson is that he made pact with the devil to to make him the great musician he was. Also, his death is a bit of a mystery. It’s told that he was poisoned by a jealous husband of a woman he had an affair with, But this is rumours based on anecdotes and stories. His death certificate gives no cause of death and no formal autopsy was done.
Robert Johnson passed away in August 1938, which makes him a member of the infamous Club 27. There’s three graves that are allegedly his. Modern historians suspects that none of them are real, and that he was most probably buried in a so-called potter’s field, a grave place for the common or unknown people, somewhere near the place he died.
In addition, there’s just a handful of photographs of Robert Johnson. So if anyone deserves the label “legendayry” or “mythical” in muisic, it may well be him. To his memory, here is Cross Road Blues, one of his best known songs. Who Robert Johnson met at the crossroads is anybody’s guess.
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She probably wear blue contact lenses!
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As it was said here yesterday by Whadupp6969 “I love going down these cover song rabbit holes”. Here is one of the same kind!
Cross Road Blues - Peter Green Splinter Group and Nigel Watson (2005)
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Just heard and seen a few songs for the European Song Contest
the best one in my humble opinion is Norway
Gåte - Ulveham
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Gåte - Bendik og Årolilja
Gåte (riddle) is a band who’s had quite the career in Norway. Here’s a song from their debut album, which in 2002 went straight to number 1 in the Norwegian charts upon its release.
The song is Gåte’s adaption of an old Norwegian folk ballad, dating back to the middle ages. There’s different versions of the song, and the oldest version written down dates back to 1698. As with many of these middle age ballads, the story in this song is rather bleak. Bendik (male name) is a peasant boy who falls in love with Årolilja (female name, not common anymore), who is the d______r of the king. The love is mutual, and they meet in secrecy.
However, the king is being told by one of the sevants, upon which he has Bendik arrested and decapitated. Shortly afterwards Årolilja dies of sorrow. Bendik and Årolilja are then buried on opposite sides of the graveyard, with the church between the graves. Soon a lily vine starts to grow from each of the graves, and the two lilies meet and get tangled together over the church roof.
Damn, they knew how to make dramas back then. I imagine some of these medieval writers could do pretty well as script writers on some streaming network today 
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MC5 - The American Ruse
I’d like to pay tribute to Dennis Thompson, drummer in the US garage rock/hard rock/proto punk band MC5. He passed away yesterday at the age of 75.
MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer passed a little over three months ago, and now the last surviving member of the classic line-up of this seminal band has left us too. Thank you for the music Dennis, may you be remembered.
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Happy Birthday to Donovan Phillips Leitch, best known as just Donovan. This Scottish singer and songwriter is turning 78 today. Often dismissed as a “poor mans Dylan”, which I find rather unfair, as Donovan made some damn fine songs back in the latter part of the 1960’s.
Several of Donovan’s songs got to be hits. Sunshine Superman got to number 1 in the US, while Atlantis topped the charts in both Holland and Switzerland. In addition he had quite a few songs in top 5 in various countries,
Donovan did both folky acoustic songs and songs with a band or orchestra. To celebrate his birthday, here’s both the band- and acoustic version of this sadly under appreciated artist. I’ve picked two of his “lesser known” songs.
Donovan - Season of the Witch
Donovan - The Ballad of Geraldine
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Happy Birthday to Eric Burdon, who is turning 83 today. Best known to the world as the singer in the UK band The A____ls, who had several hits in the 1960’s, the best known is of course their adaption of The House of the Rising Sun. The song became a worldwide hit, getting to number 1 in the charts both in the UK and the US, as well as in Canada.
After the original A____ls split, Eric Burdon went on to front a more psychedelic version of the band, calling themselves Eric Burdon & The A____ls. He then fronted US funk rock band War and his own Eric Burdon Band, before going all solo from around the mid 70’s up to (almost) currently.
Eric Burdon is a great singer, with a deep, powerful and distinctive voice. Personally I think he’s one of the best ever. So to celebrate his birthday I’ve picked no less than three songs from different places in his career, Happy Birthday again to Eric Burdon.
The A____ls - We Gotta Get Outta This Place (1965)
Eric Burdon & The A____ls - When I Was Young (1967)
Eric Burdon - Woman of the Rings (1977)
I got to see Eric Burdon live in 1985. I remember it as a good gig, where he sang most of the old hits along with some newer songs.
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Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator
Love the voice of Steven Tyler
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Let me join in the wishes with one of my favourites of Eric Burdon besides his version of “Ring Of Fire” it is
ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS San Franciscan Nights (1967) [HQ]
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No, no, guys we can’t congratulate Eric Burdon without including “The House…” the signature song for us old A____ls fans. MAY 18, 1964 - It will be 60 YEARS AGO when The A____ls recorded House of the Rising Sun! 
The A____ls - House of the Rising Sun
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fun topic… or best song topic… or fun… or best song…
I just can’t decide. fits in both, so it should be in both
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