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There's a book called "Starmaker Machinery" (now out of print) that is about the way the music business screws artists generally, but it used the Commander Cody after they had this hit as a case study to demonstrate the point. Even after that hit, the band was still in debt to their label thanks to cross collateralization, among other things.
There's a book called "Starmaker Machinery" (now out of print) that is about the way the music business screws artists generally, but it used the Commander Cody after they had this hit as a case study to demonstrate the point. Even after that hit, the band was still in debt to their label thanks to cross collateralization, among other things.
That is interesting. I never heard of it. I just looked it up and it's a pretty expensive book at $40 but I am interested in just this subject so put it on my list to buy.
So this morning on the way into the city this idiot in a Hot Rod Lincoln is weaving in and out of 4 lanes of traffic. This shid box was all jacked up in the back with big fat tires. Just like we did when I was a kid in the 70s. The driver was practically sitting in the back seat like all young punks do today. He was also doing the Detroit lean as young punks do. It was loud, probably just some stupid thrush mufflers. This guy thought he was real special.
Anyway what came to mind was the great old song "Hot Rod Lincoln" by Commandor Cody and his lost planet airmen. I chose this version written by a Japanese cartoon writer.
Wondering how us old timers liked this song as well as how younger people who never really had any great music to call their own think of it. My curiosity is due to this song really is just talking with perfect rhyming but with good music by real instruments. Oh......and no cursing.
At the bar up the street from me Saturday night there was a kid who had a slammed Dodge Dart with a homemade orange on black paint job with more invested in rims than the rest of the car ( silver spray paint on the bumper instead of actually springing for a chrome job, yes it is a preservation issue ) The only thing missing was the Tinker Toy "Wing" on the back...got that Desert? God, I can't stand those chintzy appointments on a car.
He confided that he removed the rear brakes...so he can do burnouts while holding down the fronts. Ha.
When he was leaving I made hand circles to tell him to do a "burnout" . We were laughing at him as this rig had no cajones against my old 92 Escort GT stick that I had in the past...I would have smoked him in a wild set of seconds...guy had no clue.
Honest I sold that Escort to an old gearhead, he said it was a ballsy 4-popper...they were actually raced successfully in course racing. Rod Millen Motorsports made that a under 5 second 0-60 car, for a price...unibody no preservation protocol, all diposable.
There are some sweet tuner cars out there, but not with this Dart guy...
The WRX Subaru Impreza is a great car, but the unskilled who own these have made this car a high rank insurable vehicle.
That is interesting. I never heard of it. I just looked it up and it's a pretty expensive book at $40 but I am interested in just this subject so put it on my list to buy.
In The Real Frank Zappa Book, Frank speaks of unscrupulous behavior in all aspects...he sued record labels and won, goofy antics of the London Symphony Orchestra he hired for recording, unionized concert hall pinheads, and our own government on recorded material labeling.
Not sure why but when I hear Commander Cody and Hot Rod Lincoln, I automatically think of this song. Must be the time period, I guess. Ain't it funny how a song can take you back to a certain time in your life?
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