Quarantine Martini setlist: Happy Hour (Ted Hawkins)/Mineral/Larry/I’m Allowed/ Treehouse/ Porchlight/Fortune Teller/Taillights Fade/The Bus/ Tangerine/Hearts of Palm/Sodajerk/Scottish Windows/Crutch/Atlantic/Frozen Lake/Wiser/Freckles/Sunday Night/All Be Gone If you want to contribute, Paypal janovitz.bill@gmail.com or Venmo @bill-janovitz. This weekwent to charities linked in events description at FB.
I sell real estate as a day job, with a specialty in midcentury-modern homes in the Boston suburbs. More often than not, we help folks edit down their stuff. It is rarely a painless process. Yesterday, my partner John and I just happened to stop by to do an impromptu video shoot at a listing …
February 22, 2020 Burren Backroom Series I have been playing a monthly series in an intimate venue. All have been selling out in advance. Please get your tix ASAP.
Many of you know I have been playing a monthly residency on Saturday nights at the Burren Backroom in Somerville, MA. This is the only show so far that we recorded with multi-track. I finally got around to listening and doing a quick mix of some songs. I will post what I have so far. …
Happy birthday, Mick. An excerpt from my Rocks Off book about favorite vocal of his performances. Let It Loose Recorded: July and October-November 1971 Villa Nellcôte, Villefranche-sur-mer, France (Keith Richard’s rented house December 1971 Sunset Sound Studio, LA Releases: LP Exile on Main Street May 1972 The Gospel of the Rolling Stones. Soon after Brian …
I just happened to be re-mixing this last track for Vol. IV of the Covers of the Weeks releases when I realized it was Bob Dylan’s 78th birthday. So here is a sneak peek of Vol. IV. Listen here to Sweetheart Like You. Have not yet decided on the running order, but here are the …
Happy 75th to Keith Richards. Here is a bit about him via his ballad, “Coming Down Again,” from Goat’s Head Soup, excerpted from my book, Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones. It is missing some of the formatting and footnotes, so grab yourself a copy of the book. Coming Down …
Happy 75th Keith. Excerpt from Rocks Off: “Coming Down Again.” Read More »
“Good Time Woman,” one of the outtakes included in the expanded Exile On Main St. box set, just came up today on shuffle in my car. It is the most complete of a number of iterations, a handful of recorded versions familiar to Stones fans from bootlegs that led to “Tumbling Dice,. Chris Kimsey explained to …
My uncle, a mentor, had been murdered the day before and I was still stunned, but the waves of emotion were beginning to boil up and seep through in that state of shock when I finally went to see Aretha Franklin perform for the first time, in 2009. My wife and I had gotten tickets …
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the release of the single, here is my entry on the song in my book, ROCKS OFF: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones. This has been my ring tone for about 10 years. Never tire of it. Jumpin’ Jack Flash Recorded: April 20, …