tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post5643230658013755389..comments2024-03-27T22:39:08.396-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFB: THE AMERICAN FOLK SCENE ed. David DeTurk & A. Poulin Jr.; BOB DYLAN: DON'T LOOK BACK transcribed & edited by D.J. Pennebaker et al.; DANGEROUSLY FUNNY by David BianculliTodd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-18749613409570319792018-11-09T15:49:57.714-05:002018-11-09T15:49:57.714-05:00Well, Charlie, LAUGH-IN was more about keeping eve...Well, Charlie, LAUGH-IN was more about keeping everything moving than being funny per se. It was an hour of mostly bad jokes and attempts at sexy display of the young women in the cast that was even more flashily edited than the commercials it was presented around. Hence, it was the direct inspiration for HEE-HAW. Which CBS offered up in the SMOTHERS BROTHERS slot after they fired them.<br /><br />George, that BILLBOARD has a folk and acoustic chart is indicative of a commercial market for the forms, albeit their chart goes far beyond bluegrass and New Acoustic Music to include a number of pop songs and such...folk hasn't tended to ride the general pop charts consistently since the early '60s, but there's still plenty of activity in the music artistically as well as commercially. (And many of the writers and others involved with the books above would write the pop-folk performers, including Dylan after BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME and the Smothers Brothers from their beginnings, out of "true" folk.<br /><br />Matt, when I first read that column as reprinted in Royko's collection from the early '70s, only the first line is on the first page of the column as the book is laid out...so one had to turn the page for the twist. I've revised the link to a reprint of the column in a discussion list, as the old academically-driven reprint is gone.<br /><br />Rick--Always ready to provide a little bohemian flavor, certain clubs! dc space (relentlessly lower case--"district creative space" with an art gallery aspect to it on the walls, too) might've amused you in the '80s...I was one of the relatively few who attended their free jazz/chamber jazz and their punk rock concerts with equal enthusiasm. But it was the original 9:30 Club in DC that was trying to keep the industrial/hoho vibe alive...the new, much bigger and cleaner 9:30 Club was a great improvement (and done in imitation of The Black Cat, backed Dave Grohl, a DC-based punk musician who'd gotten very wealthy as a member of Nirvana and went on to continued success as the primary member of the Foo Fighters...who backed his old quasi-bandmate and restauranteur Dante Ferrando).<br /><br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-black-cat-is-shrinking-by-half-why-because-punks-dont-live-there-anymore/2018/09/12/d6c319ec-b529-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2fd81f56f030Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-29925789698311756532018-11-09T11:44:25.259-05:002018-11-09T11:44:25.259-05:00Used to go to The Ice House in Pasadena to see fol...Used to go to The Ice House in Pasadena to see folk artists, including Baez, in the early -mid Sixties. Loved it, though the venue itself was a little rough inside, painted black, exposed pipes, etc.Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-77788494988404645052018-11-09T11:07:05.137-05:002018-11-09T11:07:05.137-05:00"I figured that if he added a few more imitat..."I figured that if he added a few more imitations–-maybe Bette Davis and James<br />Cagney–-he would have an even funnier routine." <br />MWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA... How does it feeeeeeeeeeel??Mathew Pausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-34571129759201671212018-11-09T09:28:44.019-05:002018-11-09T09:28:44.019-05:00Folk music seems like a dying genre. Despite the ...Folk music seems like a dying genre. Despite the mega box sets of Bob Dylan material, that seems like a shrinking audience, too.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-16496243241625460362018-11-09T08:06:33.019-05:002018-11-09T08:06:33.019-05:00I remember when the 2 big comedy shows were the Sm...I remember when the 2 big comedy shows were the Smothers Bros. and Laugh In. I always preferred Tom & Dickie to Laugh-In. I never got the latter. I saw a rerun recently and I still don't.Charlie Riccihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06930103645729165149noreply@blogger.com