5 Things to Check Out
Ty Segall and his new album Manipulator – I know we are sounding like a broken record here, and if we had a mail bag I’m sure many of the letters would question if Dingo has a man crush on this guy (we do) but this guy is a rare talent. We’ve seen him live six times in the last year – solo twice, with the Ty Segall Band, with his Black Sabbath influenced band
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Fuzz twice, and with his surf punk band Traditional Fools. Each show was unique in both its set list and in musical style and sound. This is a guy who can sell out 1800 seats auditoriums but prefers to play small venues for less than $20/ticket. He seems to be doing on the West Coast what Jack White did in Detroit and is doing in Nashville – making the music he wants, playing live constantly and promoting all his favorite bands. Buy this album and see him live – he is currently on tour do what it takes to get a ticket (Dingo will be at the January 30th show in San Francisco)
Mike Tyson Mysteries – I spent many of my formative years watching the original Scooby Doos, Johnny Quest, Superfriends, Hong Kong Phooey and the Flintstones. I love that style
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of art work, the static backgrounds, limited animation, corny dialog and ridiculous villains.
This new series on the Cartoon Networks Adult swim has captured all of that perfectly and added Iron Mike actually providing the voice for his character. Genius.
Foxygen Live – This band was recommended to me with the endorsement “they sound a lot like the Rolling Stones” they must have meant “Some Girls”era Stones but
with more disco and less soul. I saw them live 6 months ago and was blown away. It was Hedwig& the Angry Inch glam, androgynous Bowie-ish style (after everclear shots and make-up applied while driving down a gravel road). The whole show balanced on a razors edge of falling completely apart. I saw them again a week ago – completely different image, clean cut, sport coat and stage confident. Tight, not sloppy and with a level of energy and performance that made it one of the best shows we’ve seen this year. Hate the recordings but won’t miss a chance to see them live.
Urban Putt in San Francisco
This Kickstarter venture in San Francisco’s Mission District is just awesome. An indoor Putt Putt course that was designed by Rube Golberg (look him up). There are only 14 holes but the originality of each is satisfying. Add to that a full open bar, a crazy great selection of draft beers (heavy on the Belgium ) and no kids after 6:00 and you got the hot spot of the mission.
Motley Crue Dirt
The best book about the rock and roll life style good and ugly. With the Aerosmith, Rolling Stones, Zepplin, Clapton, Richards, etc. 
books you can tell that key things are left out, modified, abridged to make the band look good – they read like a USSR history book. Not Dirt. This books is told by the band and feels like an honest recount of the events that they lived through even when it makes them look like the most stupid, depraved, drug addicted people on earth. It doesn’t matter if you like Motley Crue or not this book is a must read.
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