Wednesday, August 28, 2024

ANNIVERSARIES ~

 





Los Lobos, founded in 1973


Two great music sets we love — one is quite recent, informal, a miniature powerhouse. The longer concert is beautifully shot: exquisite pan shots of the full stage, clear as a bell right up on the stage with the performers, back-shots, side-shots, the instruments are in your hands.


Imagine (you can) this group hasn't been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame


They are the Americas (south and north) Songbook


Today is our 50th wedding anniversary — Bob & Susan


We've played these guys throughout all the years, and Susan is from L.A.




Oh, the one-of-kind film Texas Chain Saw Massacre is also

50 years old this year. Here is film director Eli Roth's

smart cookie contemporary eye to the film classic:

"Texas Chain Saw Massacre unnerved me in ways I didn’t expect. I didn’t know it was going to start with those solar flares, and the strange music that blurs the line between score and sound design. The actors didn’t feel like actors. I wasn’t scared by it. I wanted to live in it. It was a movie just dripping with mood and atmosphere, and it felt like it had been made by serial killers."