Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past - Simon Reynolds

An in-depth look at the recycling of popular culture through the eyes of a music critic.  Such trends as Northern Soul and people like Billy Childish and groups like Sha Na Na are explained.  I certainly openly mock anybody who is enthusiastic about some facet of retro culture as being lame and out of it unless it is the facet of retro culture that I am enthusiastic about.  Then, I'm all for it.

Set List - May 28, 2012

Jack DeJohnette's Directions - Flying Spirits - Untitled - ECM
Jack DeJohnette's Directions - Flys - New Rags - ECM
Davis, Miles - Directions - Black Beauty: Live at the Fillmore West - Columbia
Cowell, Stanley - Astral Spiritual - Illusion Suite - ECM
24 Carat Black - Gone: The Promises of Yesterday - Gone: The Promises of Yesterday - Numero Group
Blue Magic - Welcome to the Club - Blue Magic - Atco
Shawn, Damon - Feel the Need - 7" - Westbound
The O'Jays - Deeper (In Love with You) - 7" - Neptune
Scott, Freddy - Are You Lonely - 7" - Shout
Taylor, Johnnie - I'm Trying - 7" - Stax
Taylor, Johnnie - Next Time - 7" - Stax
Bell, William and Carla Thomas - I Need You Woman - 7" - Stax
Tate, Tommy - I Remember - 7" - Koko
Pickett, Wilson - Woman Let Me be Down Home - 7" - Atlantic
Stephens, Tennison - Where Would You Be? - 7" - Chess
Saab, Cliff - Mix It Up - 7" - Roulette
Johnson, Johnny and His Bandwagon - (Blame it On) the Pony Express - 7" - Bell
Wright, Charles - You Threw It All Away - 7" - ABC
Welch, Lenny - Such a Night - 7" - Roulette
Rufus - Circles - 7" - ABC

Set List - May 21, 2012

Sun Ra - Somebody Else's World - My Brother the Wind Volume II - Evidence
Sun Ra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated - Pictures of Infinity - Black Lion
Sun Ra - Calling Planet Earth - When Sun Comes Out - Evidence
Earland, Charles - Spinky - Live at the Lighthouse - Prestige
Cox, Kenny and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet - Trance Dance - Introducing Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet - Blue Note
Cox, Kenny and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet - Spellbound - Multidirection - Blue Note
Myrick, Bert - Scorpio's Child - Live'n Well - Strata
The Lyman Woodard Organization - Kimba - Live At J.J.'s Lounge, 1974 - Uuquipleu
The Lyman Woodard Organization - Joy Road - Saturday Night Special - Strata
Nozero, Larry - Tune For L.N - Time - Strata
Maulawi - Root in 7/4 plus - Maulawi - Strata
Notorious B.I.G. - Big Poppa - Ready to Die - Bad Boy

Set List - May 14, 2012

Corea, Chick - Return to Forever - Return to Forever - ECMCorea, Chick - Never - Duet - ECM
Shaw, Woody - Blackstone Legacy - Blackstone Legacy - Contemporary
Shaw, Woody - The Goat and the Archer - Song of Songs - Contemporary
Maupin, Bennie - Nightwatch - Moonscapes - Mercury
Smith, Lonnie Liston and the Cosmic Echoes - Love Dreams - Visions of a New World - Flying Dutchman
The Stylistics - It's Too Late - Stylistics: Round 2 - Avco
The Four Tops - In These Changing Times - Changing Times - Motown
Butler, Jerry - Let Me Be - The Sagitarius Movement - Mercury
Bloodstone - Never Let You Go - Natural High - London
King, Albert - Born Under a Bad Sign - Born Under a Bad Sign - Stax
King, Albert - The Hunter - Born Under a Bad Sign - Stax
Jarrett, Keith - Trust - The Mourning Star - Atlantic
Garnett, Carlos - Panama Roots - Let This Melody Ring On - Muse

Set List - May 7, 2012

Shepp, Archie - A Message from Trane - Steam - Inner City
Krivda, Ernie - Song for the Moon - Satanic - Inner City
Walcott, Collin - Cloud Dance - Cloud Dance - ECM
Gateway - Waiting - Gateway - ECM
Gateway - Nexus - Gateway II - ECM
Bryant, Rusty - Cootie Boogaloo - Night Train Now! - Prestige
Bryant, Rusty - Riders on the Storm - Wildfire - Prestige
Lee Fields & The Expressions - Moonlight Mile - Faithful Man - Truth & Soul
The Rolling Stones - Moonlight Mile - Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
Brown, James - Think - The Singles Vol. 8: (1972-1973) - Hip-O Select
Brown, James - World of Soul - Make It Funky: The Big Payback 1971-1975 - Polydor
Brown, James - Sayin' and Doin' It - Hell - Polydor
Brown, James - Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved) - The Singles Vol.10: (1975-1979) - Hip-O Select
Anderson, Vicki - Message from the Soul Sisters (Parts 1 & 2) - Mother Popcorn Anthology - Soul Brother

Pink Floyd - May 4, 1972

Pink Floyd
Music Hall
Boston, MA
May 4, 1972

More information on this venue can be found here:

http://mondaymorningjazzandblues.blogspot.com/2011/11/pink-floyd-november-11-1971.html

Pink Floyd - May 3, 1972

Pink Floyd
Concert Hall at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
May 3, 1972

Got an image of the tour program from this blog. 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/08/05/139023311/bobs-favorite-concert-ever

Rebels in Paradise - Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

You can read about the book here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/rebels-in-paradise-the-los-angeles-art-scene-and-the-1960s-by-hunter-drohojowska-philp-book-review.html?pagewanted=all

or here:

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/17/entertainment/la-ca-hunter-drohojowka-philp-20110717

Pink Floyd - May 1-2, 1972

Pink Floyd
Carnegie Hall
New York, NY
May 1-2, 1972

More on this venue can be found here:

http://mondaymorningjazzandblues.blogspot.com/2011/11/pink-floyd-november-15-1971.html