Rare Photo of the Casino Burning Courtesy of Montreux Music Juxtaposed With a Shot of 1,721 Guitarists All Playing “Smoke on the Water” In Unison
On This Date, December 3rd in 1971: During a concert by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at a casino in Montreux, Switzerland, a fire started after an audience member shot a flare gun at the ceiling. The building burned down but there were no fatalities. Deep Purple were in Montreux at the time to record their album Machine Head and watched the fire burn from their hotel window. Continue reading Smoke On The Water: Fire In The Sky→
When Trader Joe’s opened its first store in Manhattan it completely changed my life, and it is still the primary grocery store in which I shop, even when it means I must stand in a line that snakes all the way through the store and back to the entrance. It’s always worth it. If you feel similarly, please enjoy this fan-made video with an accompanying original song about all of the many items that make this store incomparably special. Trader Joe’s Forever!
I really had to post Nicole Betancourt’s cool Latin salsa video, “Respondole a Obama” about the Latino community rallying behind Barack Obama, especially since I was just in a cab on Saturday night with a driver who insisted that Barack Obama would have tough time carrying Florida, “since there is such high Cuban population there, and everybody knows the Cubans hate the Blacks.” I swear to god, the cabby said that right to my face. But I think he was wrong. I think even the haters can put aside their lack of reason to avoid electing another fascist regime to government. Think people. And vote Obama / Biden a week from tomorrow.
Just posted in the Starpolish.com Critics’ Corner are four new reviews from yours truly: Tel Aviv-based melodic rockers DMA, appropriately named, shitty garage-punk band Monstrous, and not-one-but-two rappers: GIF (Harlem) and D.E.V.O. (California). Check out my Reviews to find out which artist does a song that I described as “a multi-layered, electronic beat-heavy instrumental piece that sounds like the theme to some futuristic spy thriller where the robots conquer the humans, or something like that.”
