Showing posts with label MCCB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MCCB. Show all posts
Saturday, July 23, 2016
Monday, January 01, 2007
More sixes & sevens
I posted this in June '06 --->
Sixes + Sevens
There's definitely a link between the history of rock/pop music & sixes + sevens.
Rock 'n' Roll hit the streets around 1956/7. Psychedelia changed everything in 1966/7.
Punk appeared between 1976/7. The rave scene & the 2nd Summer of Love 1986-7.
BritPop & Battle of the Bands - Oasis v. Blur 1996/7.
2006? The supremacy of the Internet. MySpace etc could soon be history. 2007? The mind boggles! The Blog Minders are here.
Obviously I was being a bit flippant, especially on the Oasis / Blur thing, & the MySpace comment, knowing full well I'd have to give up & join the masses at some point.....
But the general idea seems ok to me, & here we are at the end of 2006, & the start of 2007, so it's now........or in ten years time!
I've had many questions over the years about some of the famous jazz (& rock, to a lesser degree) musicians I got to see live onstage in my younger days. I've been promising to tell the tales for so long, I figured it would be a really positive new year resolution to actually sit down & start doing it.
Likewise "The Real MCCB History" (Mass Culture Control Bureau to the non-initiated).Now the official MCCB website is stranded, & slowly sinking just off the coast of Cyberia, Aliens@C has become the main info source.
By a sheer stroke of luck, Blogspot have just introduced a new version of their Blog. Amongst other things, it enables posts to be given a label which can be accessed easily at one push of a button.
I'm going to start the jazz story from 1956, & the MCCB History from 1976 - both of these dates being relevant, as you'll find out.
So watch out for the labels "MCCB HiStory" & "JazzMan-T"
Sixes + Sevens
There's definitely a link between the history of rock/pop music & sixes + sevens.
Rock 'n' Roll hit the streets around 1956/7. Psychedelia changed everything in 1966/7.
Punk appeared between 1976/7. The rave scene & the 2nd Summer of Love 1986-7.
BritPop & Battle of the Bands - Oasis v. Blur 1996/7.
2006? The supremacy of the Internet. MySpace etc could soon be history. 2007? The mind boggles! The Blog Minders are here.
Obviously I was being a bit flippant, especially on the Oasis / Blur thing, & the MySpace comment, knowing full well I'd have to give up & join the masses at some point.....
But the general idea seems ok to me, & here we are at the end of 2006, & the start of 2007, so it's now........or in ten years time!
I've had many questions over the years about some of the famous jazz (& rock, to a lesser degree) musicians I got to see live onstage in my younger days. I've been promising to tell the tales for so long, I figured it would be a really positive new year resolution to actually sit down & start doing it.
Likewise "The Real MCCB History" (Mass Culture Control Bureau to the non-initiated).Now the official MCCB website is stranded, & slowly sinking just off the coast of Cyberia, Aliens@C has become the main info source.
By a sheer stroke of luck, Blogspot have just introduced a new version of their Blog. Amongst other things, it enables posts to be given a label which can be accessed easily at one push of a button.
I'm going to start the jazz story from 1956, & the MCCB History from 1976 - both of these dates being relevant, as you'll find out.
So watch out for the labels "MCCB HiStory" & "JazzMan-T"
Thursday, March 30, 2006
MCCB Take Over
Blimey O' Really - just realised how much the MCCB has taken over my life the last few days - rediscovering these photos with typically meaningless (or not) culture-babla addendumisms. The reason being of course the need to remind myself that I've been promising The Boss (no no not Bruce the bloody redneck Re-PUBliCAN --->>>THE REAL BOSS) to write the Official MCCB Story, a job I've been putting off for far too long now. It's not an easy one to do, mainly because it's so ridiculously surreal that probably a lot of readers will imagine it's all just made up. That's the problem with disseminating disinformation - "The Sheep v. The Wolf" scenario - if you invent too much stuff, in the end nobody believes anything you say! So please excuse this unconscious foray into that as yet unvirtualified not to mention linguistically solidified history, but do check out the MCCB site now and then - hopefully all will be made clearer as our lives slowly slip away into eternal ontological oblivion without a word or two left behind for future archivists. Still too young to die and too old to rock 'n' roll, but maybe in there with a very small chance to become some kind of gaga-guru. The net is such a great place for fools like me - full of blabla, nowhere to go, nothing to do, no time to even do nothing anyway - what a mess!
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