Happy New Year Show

 Here is the New Year’s Eve podcast featuring New Year’s Eve tunes (all four of ‘em!) and the Donny & Marie New Year’s Eve TV special from 1977. What more could you ask for?

Listen to the podcast HERE

The Zambonis: The World's Only All Hockey Rock N Roll Band

 

 I have never been a hockey fan. I don’t really know why. It has everything someone could want in a sport, it’s fast paced, takes great skill and there is often blood. Maybe it’s because I never played it as a kid. It was not a family thing, I don’t remember anyone in my house ever mentioning it. 

They say you are never too old to change and I may just become a hockey fan yet, thanks to the Zambonis. The ‘Zambonis are a rock n roll band out of Bridgeport, Connecticut that play nothing but tunes about hockey. No love songs, break up songs or car songs, just hockey songs.

Okay, so they put out a couple of songs about hockey, big deal? Right? Try seven albums and counting. They play everything from punk to ska, metal, rockabilly and even country and western.

Mainly a recording act, they do play a few gigs a year  mostly in the northeast.  Last year they played a 2:30pm gig at a library in Roxbury, Connecticut! How rock n roll is that?

They have been sanctioned by the NHL and have been commissioned to write songs for several teams. There music is available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple etc..and you can checkout there videos on YouTube.

--Casey Redmond (January 2024)

Zambonis Website

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Woody Guthrie. by R.Crumb

A great drawing of Woody Guthrie by R.Crumb.

 

 

Tom Waits; Hippie?

Tom Waits, early 1970s. Waits once stated that he skipped the sixties, never had a black light or listened to Hendrix. These photos might indicate differently.

 

 

Phil Clarke: A Pirate Looks At 40

 

Phil Clark: A Pirate Looks At 40

The infamous Phil Clark

Jimmy Buffett 's song, "A Pirate Looks At Forty" has been a long-time anthem for those who dream of quitting the rat race and sailing off to some exotic island and living the life of a beach bum. While most people believe this song to be autobiographical, Buffett actually wrote the song about a Key West resident named Phil Clark.

In the early seventies, when Buffett was an unknown hippie folk singer trying to scrape a living together playing Key West watering holes, he met a sometime bartender, sometime marijuana smuggler named Phil Clark. Probably a good ten years older than Jimmy, the mysterious Clark regaled Buffett with stories of his adventures sailing around the Caribbean, drinking, drugging and romancing beautiful women.

Buffett during his hippie days

Not much is known about Clark before he showed up in Key West (some say he was an insurance man from up north somewhere) but around the keys he was thought of as a modern day twentieth century pirate. His hedonistic lifestyle was a big influence on Buffett and you have to wonder, would there be a Parrotthead Nation if Jimmy had never met Phil Clark?

Eventually, Clark got into trouble with the law and fled Key West. (After he went on the run, locals started referring to Buffett 's song as, "A Pirate Looks At Five To Ten". He reportedly drowned near Sausalito, California a few years later.

Here is a video of Jimmy Buffett and Jerry Jeff Walker (who also lived in Key West in the early seventies) reminiscing about Phil Clark.

For more information on Phil Clark check out these books:
"Jimmy Buffett:  The Key West Years" by Tom Corcoran
"Mile Marker Zero" by William Mckeen
Both are

Casey’s Jimmy Buffett Mix

 Before he was a middle age multi millionaire, Jimmy Buffett was a longhaired, dope smokin’ beer drinking beach bum. His first five albums reflect that lifestyle. Here is a mix I put together featuring tunes from his early years. A perfect soundtrack for a hot summer afternoon. Manana…Click on the link & checkout the mix

Casey’s Jimmy Buffett Mix