Run your car on water???

Ok, I just read about this mins. ago, and watched a video on youtube from Fox26 News ( im not judging Fox, or taking sides, just watching a video) and this is Fucking Awesome. I want to try this in my shitty Pontiac just to see if it works.

We have all heard of Hydrogen vehicles, and the first thing that comes to my mind when thinking of this is a highway full of mounted human bombs. We would all be like little terrorists driving around! However, instead of storing the hydrogen in a fuel cell or whatever they want to call it, this new take on the technology burns the converted Hydrogen direct, at a supposedly safer 60PSI.

I have seen cars run on vegetable oil, and I have seen the Hybrid Battery Video Game Wonder that is the Prius (thanks Dlo, way to save the planet!), but I am very curious to see how this works in person.

Check out the links

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50255
http://hytechapps.com Hydrogen Technology Applications Inc.
http://www.piebald.com/environmental.php (they ran their tour bus on vegetable oil. And, I love this now defunct band) HEY! You're Part of it!

You want me to throw this thing into the tub when "WHITE RABBIT" peaks. Is that it?

For good reason, White Rabbit is one of those songs that makes me feel like I am on drugs, and marching through hell. It's a similar feeling I get when listening to Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath".

That being said, it is a song written and recorded by Grace Slick sometime in the 60's, but the version that most of us are familiar with was Grace's version with Jefferson Airplane.

A co-worker of mine brought in a George Benson album for me last week. As he hasn't led me wrong as of yet, so I put the disc in expecting the best, and got way more. So this of course sent me on a mission to find more and more of Benson's material.

I found this (gasp!) online, (don't judge...) and had to share it with the rest of you. It has a fantastic rendition of white rabbit, rejecting Jefferson Airplanes quick and solid 2:32 mins of acidy rock for a more smooth/jazzy/jammy 6:58 mins of goodness.

Dont get me wrong, I love both versions, but this one stood out a bit more. Im still debating if I like Grace Slicks version (not the J/A version) more than this or not.

Track Listing As Follows
1. White Rabbit
2. Theme from Summer of '42
3. Little Train
4. California Dreamin'
5. El Mar

Check the great take on The Mama's and The Papa's "California Dreamin, as well as the other amazing artists on the record like Herbie Hancock and Billy Cobham (Miles Davis's drummer).

Coming Soon: Miles Davis, The Wailers, The JB's, Coltrane, For Squirrels, The Rights Of Spring The Vaselines, and more obscure stuff.

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The Million Dollar Quartet

Sun Studios Memphis TN.
December 4th 1966

Elvis (The Pelvis) Presley
Jerry Lee Lewis (The Killer)
Carl Perkins (The King of Rockabilly)
Johnny Cash (The Man In Black)

Nuff Said.

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Lead Belly

Huddie William Ledbetter, (January, 1888 – December 6, 1949) (from Wikipedia)

I have been listening to Lead Belly since I first heard Kurdt Cobain, (who happens to be born the same day as me! Feb. 20th), sing "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" on the Nirvana Unplugged In NY record. If you haven't (by some freak chance) heard that album, or seen the performance I highly recommend picking it up. It was recently released on DVD as well.

So, Lead Belly. Beyond his music, I am not especially familiar with the artist as a person. So, I am not going to lie to you and spout out fiction. Instead I ask that you search out more information on this fantastic 12-string fingerpickin blues artist, and learn more about his music and of similar artists pertinent to the time period and music style.

Just in case you are lazy, here is a link to the Leadbelly Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadbelly

This particular recording from June of 1949 is fantastic! Especially the surprising quality of the recording and mastering. As you will see in the included notes, this record was released on vinyl by the short lived PLAYBOY record label in the 1970's, possibly for the first time.

It is one of Huddie's last performances before his untimely death months later in December of 1949 from Lou Gehrig's disease.

I hope you enjoy this record and others by Lead Belly as much as I have, and search out more great material from the artist!


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Rock and such!