Watch Kurt Cobain’s pre-Nirvana band, Fecal Matter playing live at Evergreen State College in 1988
Fecal Matter was a short-lived punk rock band from Aberdeen, Washington. The group was formed in 1985 by Kurt Cobain, the future front man of the grunge band Nirvana, along with Dale Crover of The Melvins and drummer Greg Hokanson. Melvins members Buzz Osborne (also known as “King Buzzo”) and Mike Dillard appeared in a later version of the band during rehearsals the following year.
Songs from group’s sole recording session were issued as the Illiteracy Will Prevail demo tape. With the exception of the song “Spank Thru” the tracks from this session remain unreleased officially. A re-recording of “Downer” was also released on the first Nirvana album, Bleach. Illiteracy Will Prevail is the earliest documentation of Cobain’s songwriting in circulation, and helped Cobain to establish himself as a composer and performer among his peers in the underground rock scene in Washington state.
Rare home movie of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty as The Traveling Wilburys
The Traveling Wilburys (sometimes shortened to the Wilburys) were a British-American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. The band recorded two albums in 1988 and 1990, though Orbison died before the second was recorded.
During their time together, the five members of the Traveling Wilburys frequently collaborated on each other’s solo records:
- Lynne and Petty worked extensively on Orbison’s final album Mystery Girl (1989). Harrison also contributed acoustic guitar to one of the album’s tracks and vocals to another.
- Lynne produced and played on the Petty solo album Full Moon Fever (1989). Harrison also appeared on one track on guitar and backing vocals, and Orbison sang backing vocals on another.
- Harrison played on Dylan’s Under the Red Sky (1990).
- Petty and Harrison worked on Lynne’s Armchair Theatre (1990).
- Lynne produced Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers‘ album Into the Great Wide Open (1991)
- Lynne and Petty co-wrote a song with Del Shannon for Shannon’s album Rock On! (1991), which Lynne produced. This spawned rumors that Shannon would join the group.[9]
- Harrison and Petty appear on Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration album (1992), and perform “My Back Pages” with Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Eric Clapton and Neil Young.
News Footage Of The Funeral For Ivor Novello In 1958
David Ivor Davies (15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.
He was born into a musical family and his first successes were as a songwriter. His first big hit was “Keep the Home Fires Burning”, which was enormously popular during the First World War. His 1917 show, Theodore & Co, was a wartime hit. After the war, Novello contributed numbers to several successful musical comedies and was eventually commissioned to write the scores of complete shows. He wrote his musicals in the style of operetta and often composed his music to the librettos of Christopher Hassall.
The Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting, established in 1955 in Novello’s memory, are awarded each year by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) to British songwriters and composers as well as to an outstanding international music writer. A scholarship in memory of Novello was established at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and in 1952 a bronze bust of him by Clemence Dane was unveiled at Drury Lane. In St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, known as the actors’ church, a panel was installed to commemorate Novello, and in 1972, to mark the 21st anniversary of his death, a memorial stone was unveiled in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
New Trailers Released for ‘Everybody Wants Some’, The Sequel to Richard Linklater’s ‘Dazed and Confused’
Everybody Wants Some, the so-called ‘spiritual sequel’ to Richard Linklater’s film Dazed And Confused, follows a group of college baseball players as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. It opens on April 15th, and I’ll be right there to see it.
Drowning Pool Kicks Off Fifth USO Tour in Support of US Troops
