It's Tuesday Tunes time. It's a random sampling of what I've been digging lately including a repeat video from my review of The Beths just because Sidney Gish's "Sin Triangle" video is so boss!! Hans Pucket were originally going to play Nashville, but had troubles with their visas, so they had to wait until just this week to arrive to play SXSW. The Lemon Twigs have a new record coming out soon. Collider are a neat band from Denmark who play a kind of proggy shoegaze. Snooper and Tayls are both Nashville groups who are also playing SXSW this year. I've never been a huge Stones fan, but I've lately really been digging their 1967-1968 period.
So this is it. The end of my Sunday Showcase reviews. It's been lots of fun looking through them and I hope you've enjoyed reading my posts. I'm going to keep blogging away, but the coming year will be a little more free form. I decided to end the series with a look through many years worth of December cover pages. The Sunday Showcase section began in 1963 and if you stick around to the end or scroll down you'll find the very first cover. Keeping with the spirit of my previous reviews there's no real method or attempt to share stuff from every year, but instead it's covers that I liked for some reason or other.
December 26, 1965
Juliet Prowse
December 25, 1966
Uncle Joe is moving kinda slow
December 29, 1968
Sock it to me baby
December 26, 1971
10 Minutes Ago
David Hoy was an interesting cat.
Phil Hoy on his brother David Hoy
The Dave Hoy interview story
December 17, 1972
Lynn Anderson on the Tennessee Ernie Ford Christmas special 1972
December 15, 1974
December 26, 1976
1977 Rose Bowl Parade super 8 footage
December 18, 1977
Wilma Rudolph rules!
December 31, 1978
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Happy Birthday, Charlie Brown special
December 30, 1979
I miss Dick Clark
December 28, 1980
Live from the Los Angeles basin
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on Fridays
American Girl performed on Fridays
Jefferson Starship on Fridays
Elvis Costello made his country album in Nashville so the city was one of only three in which he performed for his Almost Blue tour in 1982. I would have been much more interested in seeing AC/DC on January 18, 1982 at Municipal Auditorium.
For Those About To Rock live December 1981
December 26, 1982
Typical great week of rock and roll at Cantrell's
As far as I can find out this movie didn't get finished. I don't think that's Linda Perry of 4-Non Blondes fame. I do know that Jones Pet Shop in Hillsboro Village was later a coffee shop Bongo Java.
December 25, 1983
I would be remiss if I didn't include at least one Top Ten songs list so here's the one from the December 25, 1983 issue. Quiet Riot had peaked and was on the way out. The Stones hit the list with "Undercover of the Night" which was a strange one with its accompanying violent video. The Top Ten is dominated by mega stars of the early 80's.
