"Wherever You Are"

Supper club atrocity credited to The Friendship as a tribute to John Lennon. He's probably turning over in his coffin.







From the always entertaining Appearing In The Motel Lounge

Eddie Layton

One of my childhood heroes, Eddie Layton, was the master of the Hammond Organ, with his principal gig being at the "House That Ruth Built" - Yankee Stadium. Eddie regaled us with his captivating ditties like "Hava Negila"(a fan favorite when Ron Blomberg or Kenny Holtzman were introduced), "La Cucaracha" for Zoilo Versalles and Celerino Sanchez and a somber "Ave Maria" after the 9/11 attack in New York.

"I thought that a sacrifice fly had something to do with killing an insect", he recalled in an interview with National Public Radio, shortly after his retirement at the end of the 2003 baseball season. "I didn't know where first base was or third base. But I quickly learned within a week, and I started doing the famous chants, the hand-clapping things, and the dun-dun-dun-dun-da-dun."

And I was the first guy to do that, he said of the "charge."

''I've had my day,'' he told The New York Times in October 2003 as he closed his career. ''Playing with 50,000 watts of power, what rock star has an amplifier like that? I play for up to 56,000 people a night. Not even Madonna has done those kind of numbers.''

Eddie passed in December of 2004 as ball clubs and corporate conglomerates had moved onto pre-recorded pablum for musical game interludes and entertainment. I don't know but I yearn for the mighty Hammond every time I go to a game................

Here's Eddie showing his chops on "Tico, Tico"

"We Like Mambo"

Eddie Bo was a New Orleans musical legend who recorded with anyone who was ready to go to work. His prolific career included work with just about every musician in the Big Easy. During the 1950's Eddie led a group of stellar New Orleans sidemen around the country backing such vocalists as Ruth Brown, Joe Turner, Lloyd Price, Smiley Lewis, Earl King, the Wild Magnolia Indians, Algiers Brass Band, Treme Brass Band, the late Johnny Adams and the Platters.

On this tune, he conjures up a bit of gris-gris and Cuban funk. Great track.

Rediscovery and a boatload of tracks right here: White Trash Soul

Cyd Charisse R.I.P.

Dancer and actress Cyd Charisse, whose legs were insured for a million dollars in the heyday of the Hollywood musical, died at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, her agent said. She was 87.
A classy dame is gone. Hotter than hot.

Then Charlton Heston put his vest on

RIP Charlton Heston.

Stump (with the irresistable force) - Charlton Heston:

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Richard Widmark R.I.P

Tommy Udo in "Kiss of Death"

Ny Times Obit
In reality, the screen’s most vicious psychopath was a mild-mannered former teacher who had married his college sweetheart, the actress Jean Hazelwood, and who told a reporter 48 years later that he had never been unfaithful and had never even flirted with women because, he said, “I happen to like my wife a lot.”

God Bless.

Johnnie Johnson (1924 -2005)

Stuck inside Western New Yawk with the winter blues again? Johnnie Johnson, legendary pianist and influence on all things rock and roll will set you free.

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A great video clip is available at You Tube of Johnnie doing his trademark "Honky Tonk Train Blues" but embedding is "disabled" per the posters request (why?)

Enjoy. Spring is just around the corner.

Bad Karma

As a further introduction to the Yuma lifestyle, I have been a huge fan of the music of Warren Zevon for the past twenty some odd years. His lyrics and music have been a source of inspiration and a guiding light over this time frame. It's time to share this passion with the PCL legions.

To start let's venture back to the early 90's and this video gem:
Searching for a Heart

They say love conquers all. Can't start it like a car, you can't stop it with a gun.

Disorder In The House featuring one of the great blistering guitar solo's of all time courtesy of The Boss

I'm scrawled across the davenport of despair

From the My Ride's Here CD
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Official site is Warren Zevon
More WZ stuff is at Zevon Fan Page


Warren passed away in 2003 of lung cancer. In his last televised interview with David Letterman when the diagnosis was a fait accompli, his advice and words to all were to "Enjoy Every Sandwich". Amen.

Dead Guitarists - Part I

I'm not sure what has gotten into me of late besides a handful of Percocets and a twelve pack of Busch. In any case, I have had a yearning to go back in the Yuma vault and dig out dead axemen tunes.

Here's one of the greatest slide players I've seen: Lowell George

Rather than the traditional glass or steel slide, George employed a Sears & Roebuck 11/16ths spark-plug socket wrench. Although not the first – since 1965 Ry Cooder had been playing slide live and on albums – George was certainly amongst the pioneers of the use of slide guitar in rock music. After minor stints with the Factory and The Standells, George teamed up with the Mothers Of Invention in 1969. He recalls that he was tossed from the band after proposing the song "Willin" because of it's references to drugs.From 1970 to 1979, he was the spirit and soul of Little Feat. Dead at age 34 from excess, his band continues on without the swagger and soul that Lowell brought to the table.

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