Like Rock on the piano, there’s this young lady – covering rock tunes like a pro!
Check it. Go, gurl!
This Girl on the Drums
14 Tuesday Jan 2020
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A Little Soothing Work Music
10 Friday Jan 2020
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Happen Friday!
Some tunes, in two videos, suitable for reading, work, school, or cigar enjoyment.
Sure that’s what the kids are ear-budding these days.
Anyway, may have a little Tom Ironsides’ current affairs along later.
Tis the Season Christmas Music, 2019 Edition
23 Monday Dec 2019
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Please find HERE the same old list, substantially the same since 2015.
AND, please find the following, with nearly three additional hours of slightly higher caliber tunes:
Joyeux Noel!
Perrin’s Big Old Crazy Scary Halloween Music Fest 2019 – New and Disproved!
31 Thursday Oct 2019
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Music for that scary night when all the little Bernie Sanders wannabes come calling:
Note: some of these links may have been disabled or changed. Sorry. Think of it as a suggestion list if nothing else.
Now: the music for Great Pumpkin Night:
Werewolves of London, Warren Zevon, 1978.
Zevon (RIP)/Asylum.
Werewolves, Alternate Take, Zevon, 2007 Release. I know more than a few people don’t like this version. Then again, more than a few people can be wrong. Cool, jazzy, and you always have the ability to listen to the damned original…
Long Cool Woman, The Hollies, 1971. No Halloween, per se, but fits with:
Devil Woman, Cliff Richard, 1976.
Evil Woman, ELO, 1975. All these women…
Witchy Woman, The Eagles, 1972. More women…
Self Control, Laura Branigan version, RIP, beautiful, 1984. The best-looking artist on the list.
Legend of Wooley Swamp, Charlie Daniels Band, 1980. Lucius Clay approves.
David Pumpkins – Elevator Skit, SNL and Tom Hanks, 2016. Not a song. Just funny.
Monster Mash, Misfits, 1997. Yeah, I have trouble understanding the words too.
Mash, Original, Bobby Pickett (with Dick Clark), 1962. Classic; those facial expressions.
Dragula, Rob Zombie, 1998. Burn through ’em.
Thriller (Full), Michael Jackson, 1982. Before we knew the real MJ (RIP) horrors. With commentary from Price (RIP).
Poison, Alice Cooper, 1989. A few Cooper songs I could have gone with; I chose this one.
House of Fire, Cooper, 1989. And this one.
Ghost Riders in the Sky, Johnny Cash’s Version, 1979. Scary with a message.
The Time Warp, RHPS Version, Richard O’Brien, 1974. No need to suffer a theater full of freaks. (They still do that?) You’re welcome.
Sweet Transvestite, RHPS Version, Tim Curry, 1974. Probably the only trans-friendly post I’ll ever make.
Blue Moon, The Marcels, 1961. Shout if you know why I included this one.
The Zoo, Scorpions, 1980. Why not?
Nightmare on My Street, DJ Jaz Will Smith, 1988. Just remembered this one!
Pet Sematary, The Ramones, 1989. My personal favorite – possibly tied with Werewolves.
Sematary, Last Live Show, 1996. You don’t know this…
Stranger in Town, Extended Studio, Toto, 1984. Is your hero a criminal?
Uprising, Sabaton, 2010. Scary history. Great gym song!
Dr. Demento Halloween Special, Demento, Westwood One, 1986. Hour and a half of crazy.
Little Red Riding Hood, Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs, 1966. For the g-g-g-generation.
Swamp Witch, Jim Stafford, 1974. Wonder if she knew Lucious?
Purple People Eater, Sheb Worley, 1958. Currently seeking the DNC nomination…
Ghostbusters, Ray Parker, Jr., 1984. Can’t believe I didn’t have this one earlier.
…and…
Here Comes Santa Claus, Gene Autry, 1947. Oops. Too early – for another week or two…
30+ hits sure to rock the candy off the beggars!
Have a great Halloween!
The cigar-chomping, government-bashing, culture-questioning madness shall resume soon. Oh, curious about how Tom Ironsides spent a Halloween evening? Check out Chapter Ten of The Substitute.
Long Live Rock
02 Monday Sep 2019
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But there’s another sense in which rock is very nearly dead: Just about every rock legend you can think of is going to die within the next decade or so.
Yes, we’ve lost some already. On top of the icons who died horribly young decades ago — Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, John Lennon — there’s the litany of legends felled by illness, drugs, and just plain old age in more recent years: George Harrison, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty.
Those losses have been painful. But it’s nothing compared with the tidal wave of obituaries to come. The grief and nostalgia will wash over us all. Yes, the Boomers left alive will take it hardest — these were their heroes and generational compatriots. But rock remained the biggest game in town through the 1990s, which implicates GenXers like myself, no less than plenty of millennials.
At least there was no mention of Cobain. And, the Boomers are steadily clearing out. Not all so bad.
Trevor Horn “Raps”
18 Saturday May 2019
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Another musical interlude. Horn, for my money, one of the most underrated pop composers/performers of an era (not sure which), keeps shaking up his MTV launch tune. “Rapping” commences around 4:10 herein:
Another Installment of the Piano Rock Kick
16 Thursday May 2019
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This wonderful woman not only plays but she sings! Just excellent, I think. Have a listen (watch):
On a related note – Rumor has it that I’ve discovered even more newly added lyrics for “Video Killed the Radio Star,” maybe in a live performance. More on that, perhaps, at a later date. Maybe a TPC “Perrin’s Music Minute?”
My Apology to Darius Rucker
13 Saturday Apr 2019
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For several years, as part of my annual Masters Tournament coverage, I’ve dropped snide remarks about Darius Rucker ruining Rock Fore! Dough. In fairness to me, it really has become the Darius Rucker (and friends) Show. I recall, fondly, Cheap Trick’s dynamite delivery back in 2007. Remember waaaay back then?
But, I have to now admit that Rucker is a fine fit with the finest of festivities. Attention, RFD people: just add a little R-n-R variety if possible. Rucker and the Blowfish are pretty damned good. That I gathered from last night’s (non-RFD) concert, which also featured Sheryl Crow. It was a REM cover that convinced me. Not too bad. Rock on.
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April Serious
01 Monday Apr 2019
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Once again, April Fool’s Day caught me unprepared. But! Here’s a serious but cool interlude for the musically-minded.
Anna Fedorova is coming to South Carolina! Two dates and soon, this month. Click HER SITE for the Calendar. She’ll be in Utah later in the year.
Possibly the best Rachmaninoff pianist in the world. Mean Tchaikovsky too.
The easy on the eyes part is purely coincidental.
Happy April!
The Kick Continues: “Back in Black”
24 Sunday Mar 2019
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Back in Black on piano.
High fidelity version:
Sister knocking it out in person:
PERRIN LOVETT 
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