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Thursday Tidbits....

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Thursday, February 11, 2010 20 Of Your Sparks

~~So, at this point I have no idea how the Name That Tune Death Match turned out, but for my sake I hope I did not bomb badly!~~

OH I BOMBED...major league choke artist...total loser...stick a fork in me, I am done...the brain immediately locked up and I could not evn identify the simplest of songs and artists...C-H-U-M-P

CONGRATS TO ANNIE, who giggled at me the whole time as I stumbled and bumbled

WTF is going on with this weather? I loved reading that some in the Washington area are blaming it on our President. Seems President Obama made a comment when he was elected about missing the snow of Chicago...and now people have found a way to blame him for something else!

Charlie Wilson, the former congressman from Texas whose funding of Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in the movie and book "Charlie Wilson's War," died Wednesday. He was 76.

The preliminary cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest. If you have not seen the movie, you must. It really chronicles many of the mistakes made by the US which led to bin Laden being able to start his war of terror. Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman are all superb.

When the Russians withdrew, the US decided to pull all of it's support from Afghanistan, thus resulting in the Afghan people being bitter after promises had been made.

Hugh Hefner has lived the high-life for years, but now things may be changing slightly...seems Hef has been sued by a shareholder who wants the Prince of p***y to sell the empire. Recently Hef has "sabotaged two potential deals in the last six months to sell the company at a decent price".

The suit also alleges that the issue price of Playboy $5.99 is even higher than the stock price.

This could get into a jello wrestling match real soon...

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Wordless Wednesday

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Wednesday, January 03, 2007 29 Of Your Sparks

NAME THAT TUNE
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Congrats to the following for knowing the following:
BAND: Vanilla Fudge
ALBUM: Vanilla Fudge
SONG: Ticket To Ride
MEMBERS:
Mark Stein
Tim Bogart
Carmine Appice
Vince Martell

A short history on THE VANILLA FUDGE:
Originally formed in 1965 after breaking away from another band Stein, Bogert and drummer Joey Brennan formed the Electric Pigeons. This was later changed to The pigeons.

Vince Martell joined shortly after.

An R&B cover band they spent time between NJ and Long island. They along with other east coast bands such as The vagrants (know who played lead guitar in this band?), The Illusion, The Good Rats, The Hassles (know who played organ in this band?), and a west coast bang The Sparrows (know who they became?) were in the background hidden behind the British Invasion and the west coast sound…but they worked the clubs hard up and down the eastern seaboard.

The Vagrants were one of the first bands to make elaborate productions out of other peoples music and The Pigeons took up with this idea of building inspired new arrangements to the covers they played.

Near the end of 1966, Joey Brennan left and carmine Appice joined the band lending his special qualities to their arrangements.

Early 1967 The Pigeons became the Vanilla Fudge.

At this time touring bands were constantly waging war on each other. The west coast bands vs. the east coasters and even within the east coast contingent, bands did not like each other.

One of the bands that warred with the Vanilla Fudge was Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention. Zappa even wrote a song lambasting the VF as “teen combo” of adolescent sexual deviants (Do you know the song?)

In 1969 a brand new band opened for the Vanilla Fudge when the Jeff Beck band backed out (YES, The VF were the headliners!)…this band toured with the Fudge for most of the fall…The band…Led Zeppelin.

This is an abbreviated history taken from the official web site for the band. To read the entire history and see how many bands the fudge played with over the years, you can find it HERE.

OH, the Guitar player from The Vagrants? Leslie West and many for that band became Mountain.
The organ player for the Hassles? Billy Joel.
The Sparrows? They became Steppenwolf.
The Song…I am not really sure of this one...Do YOU know?

On a personal note, I have original music by the Illusion (GREAT FREAKIN BAND!) and The Good Rats, who I also helped get gigs in Rochester, NY while in school there and one of my friends is mentioned in one of their songs.

The late 60’s – early 70’s on Long Island was a treasure chest of bands playing local clubs and many of the members went on to great things.

To hear more Vanilla Fudge, check them out at bestaudiocodes.com

Yes, it is WORDLESS WEDNESDAY and that means NAME THAT TUNE, but of course we don't always play by the rules here on THE COUCH...OK OK, hardly ever do we play by the rules...

Thank you to Turnbaby for pointing out that yesterday Ray Ray McElrathbey was named the 2007 FED EX ORANGE BOWL-FWAA COURAGE AWARD. The award is given to a player, coach or support person who shows courage on or off the field.

What did this young man do to win the award? Well we profiled him back in September HERE and you can also read about him and the award HERE. Good things do happen to good people.

And before we get to the music...and the no words! Something happended yesterday afternoon and the dark blue background on the site just disappeared. We asked a few people and they could not see it either.

An emergency email was dispatched to SANNI (The winner of the January 2, 2007 BESTEST BLOG OF THE DAY!) Hopefully she will come running with the calvery and some assistance... bear with us until then please. ALL IS BETTER THANKS AGAIN SANNI!

We only had two bad comments about the blue, but that does not mean that one day you will see it has darkened... always tinkering...

Well, something else...hehehehe a new link on the side is to BAG WINE RUMINATIONS. It is the brainchild (or would that be conceived monster!) of Matt-Man (not my Matt), who we have run across on blogs all the time. This weekend, laying in bed, we decided to visit and man what a blast!

He was away, but his friend Gouda Girl hosted a retrospective and reran three posts about a dinner party Matt-Man gave. Go search those posts out and this is a warning...do not drink any liquids while reading or cover your keyboard and monitor with plastic.

Now it is time for me to shut up and give you a chance to play the game.
REMEMBER GIVE US:
The Band, members at the time the song was recorded, album, album the song first appeared on.
Get them all correct and the first three get their name in LIGHTS!

Dug into the vault...later we will give you some info on this interesting band.

BestAudioCodes.com

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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Wednesday, December 27, 2006 33 Of Your Sparks

There will be no names in lights today...

Honorable mention goes to:
DAMM
DIANA
&
ANOTHER DESERT RAT

HERE IT IS...

THE LONDON HOWLIN' WOLF SESSIONS
CHESTER ARTHUR BURNETT aka HOWLIN' WOLF
ERIC CLAPTON
STEVE WINWOOD
BILL WYMAN
CHARLIE WATTS
HUBERT SUMLIN
JEFFREY M CARP
LAFAYETTE LEAKE
(he is the one you all forgot!)
THE RED ROOSTER (False Start & Dialogue)
THE RED ROOSTER
(actually it is two separate tracks)

The album was recorded in 1970 in London, during Howlin's European Tour. The album was recorded in a week and also featured on other songs: the great Klaus Voorman, John Simon, Phil Upchurch, Joe Miller, Jordan Sandke and Dennis Lansing. Additionally there is a musician credited as "Richie" on drums on the song "I Ain't Superstitious". The real identity of this drummer is none other then Ringo Starr.

The "False Start and Dialogue" is a real treat, as Clapton and Winwood try and convince Howlin' to play with them on "THE RED ROOSTER", while he is giving instructions on how to begin the song..including the great line..."See, he drops in when you say...BOOOOM!" In the end, Howlin' won the discussion as he is not playing on the complete recording of the song heard following the discussion.

One of the final highlights of a wonderful career, Mr Burnett left us on January 10, 1975 in Hines, Illinois at the age of 66.

I hope you enjoyed this piece of true brilliance. THE COUCH has to say it liked the fact that the answer was not submitted within five minutes of the song posting as has been the case in the past, but we will try and find a better choice for next week.

Hello and welcome back...

Hope your holiday was special and filled with love and smiles and friends and family.

Special WORDLESS WEDNESDAY NAME THAT TUNE this week in a couple of ways.

To begin, to me this is one of the classic recordings of my life..AND I have never mentioned it before. I am hopeful that those of you who have never heard it will appreciate the significance...

And secondly, because it is a special recording it is a bit more precise.

This is a specific recording.
You need to name the song.
Name all of the people who played on this particular recording.
Name the album.

Get it right, and get your name in lights...

Tomorrow, we will tell you all about the trip to Florida...

BestAudioCodes.com

St. J - P.B.U.A.B.W.A.B

Thanks for sitting on THE COUCH, hope you enjoyed your stay.

Light A Candle For The Innocent Victims Of Online Child Pornography HERE

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Remember .. Nets For Malaria - UNFoundation.org/malaria - find the big SI's Nothing But Net logo ... Or call 202.887.9040. Every cent goes to buying nets to place over the beds of children in Africa to stomp out Malaria. PLEASE HELP.

Keep that spark of insanity kids...It helps keep you an individual.

SONG INDEX: Source: Record Liner Notes

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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Tuesday, December 12, 2006 24 Of Your Sparks

BestAudioCodes.com

Congrats to all who played.
SWEET KITTY almost snuck in, but had the wrong album.
DIANA had the wrong guitarist. Alvin Lee was guitar when this was originally recorded.
COCO had the wrong band, though Al Kooper was the composer of the song.

St. J - P.B.U.A.B.W.A.B

Thanks for sitting on THE COUCH, hope you enjoyed your stay.

Light A Candle For The Innocent Victims Of Online Child Pornography HERE

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Keep that spark of insanity kids...It helps keep you an individual.

SONG INDEX: Source: allmusic.com
I CAN'T KEEP FROM CRYING, SOMETIMES: Composer: Al kooper

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Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Tuesday, December 05, 2006 34 Of Your Sparks

BAND: Widespread Panic
SONG: Pigeon
BAND: Bell, Hermann, Nance, Ortiz, Schools (Hauser on this cut)
ALBUM: Widespread Panic (self titled)

Please Take A Seat And Get Ready To Play...

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
NAME THAT TUNE

To refresh the rules, we are looking for:

Name Of The Band
Name Of The Song
Name The Members Of The Band
Name The Album (First Album It Appeared On)

First Correct Answer Gets Their Name In Lights.
(Put up normally & when I get home, in lights )

Second & Third Answers Also Get Recognition.

Leave Your Answers In The Comments Section

BestAudioCodes.com

St. J - P.B.U.A.B.W.A.B

Thanks for sitting on THE COUCH, hope you enjoyed your stay.

Light A Candle For The Innocent Victims Of Online Child Pornography HERE

FIND AN OPPORTUNITY TO PAY IT FORWARD!

Remember .. Nets For Malaria - UNFoundation.org/malaria - find the big SI's Nothing But Net logo ... Or call 202.887.9040. Every cent goes to buying nets to place over the beds of children in Africa to stomp out Malaria. PLEASE HELP.

Keep that spark of insanity kids...It helps keep you an individual.

SONG INDEX: Source: allmusic.com
PIGEON: Composer: Widespread Panic

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Tuesday, November 28, 2006 35 Of Your Sparks

Well kids.... We do have one winner...
and two people who partially won...

Diana
knew the correct answer in it's entirety..
Sweet Kitty
knew the song and the group, but forgot to include the members
Coco
had the group and the members, missed on the song title the first time,
but got it later on

Song: WATERSONG
Group: HOT TUNA
Band Members: (we are being a little lenient here):
JORMA KAUKONEN & JACK CASSIDY (they are the permanent members of the band.)
In 2004 ERIC DIAZ began playing drums during their electric sets, and is on this version.

Seems people liked playing, so we will be back next WEDNESDAY with another addition of NAME THAT TUNE ON WORDLESS WEDNESDAY! (OH, and they are going to get tougher)

THE COUCH NOTE: The sign-in link was not there, so if you come back and were here before, please sign in down below

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
"NAME THAT TUNE"

In our continuing adventure of finding out what happens out there in the Bloggosphere, we will join the hundreds who play along with Wordless Wednesday, whose Official site can be found HERE

Now, THE COUCH has only seen still pictures used for this Meme, but being the rebel that he is, THE COUCH decided that, we would do it slightly different.

We checked the site and we quote from it:

"Also, there are no rules with WW. Creativity and expression are your guide.
Have fun & enjoy a wordless day, don’t we all wish there was really a wordless day?"

Probably broke the rules with this many words, but needed to explain the rules...

A song will be posted, no information given.. guess the, song title, band, band members and have your name put up in lights for all to see. First two correct answers get the honor.

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