So you wanna be a rockstar?
The Johnson 5…
Where miracles never cease.
The sound of… the future.
Am I the only one who gets nostalgic with this stuff? The greatest part is that it sounds and looks like utter shit.
False optimism is just so attractive- like a little naive fawn-
…and I wanna make music with it.
Funk dancing. Disco boogie.
You gotta love it. Or else you don’t have a funky bone in your earth body.
Not much needs to be said.
The kids are scared. And they should be.
Behold… marvel… JM Jarre… 1990
Electronic new age pioneer. Son of film composer, Maurice Jarre.
Player of the Laser harp (as seen in above video)
Hosted a concert spectacular in the Egyptian desert to harken in the new millenium. Tried to have a concert at the Pyramids of Teotihuacan, Mexico during the great solar eclipse. [...]
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
A clear influence (at least aesthetically) on Iggy Pop, KISS, and Alice Cooper among others, Arthur Brown drifted into obscurity after releasing this 1968 psychadelic rock gem.
Apparently Arthur’s world was a little too crazy because he got kicked off a tour with Jimi Hendrix due to his stage antics. Getting [...]
An addendum to the pubby’s last post on simfonik.com… Check the above vid for a jaunt through memory’s dirty Rave warehouses.
The Jackson Sisters sample? Whoa..
And what a f*ckin slideshow!
But just to push the horse off the cliff, here’s some extra clips from the era- I gotta send these guys a bundle to dupe. Heavy [...]