WIGGUM DAILY

 

This is Zack Kim, and Zack plays guitars. Yes that’s right, guitarS.  Zack is a pluralistic plucker who today is performing a verbatim version of the theme from the The Simpsons using TWO guitars. Very clever stuff…

 

 

If you know this theme as well as I do, you’ll know that this rendition is note-perfect, even down to the timing and inflection on particular notes and passages. As a guitar player I’m having trouble following the zipping hands across two guitars, let alone comprehending actually learning to play it THIS well.

 

 

Remembering the words to many religious songs can be hard. Now you’ll never have to "fake" those words during church sing-a-long at your local house of worship. 

 

 

Makes a lot more sense this way I think you’ll all agree

 

 

Who the heck is SPENCER ELDEN I hear you ask ? Well if you grew up in the 80’s and remember the dispruptive musical force that was NIRVANA arriving in the early 90’s, then you’re about to feel very OLD…   Back in 1991 a newly born baby Spencer Elden appeared on the cover of Nirvana’s iconical NEVERMIND album. 

 

This week on June 27th,  Spencer celebrated his 17th birthday.

 

   

 

Just to bring the memories flooding back, here’s a reminder of just how great an album it was, and remains today.

 

This video combines some the craziest/best/worst/luckiest driving on public roads you’ve ever seen, and one of the worst ever Number #1 Pop Songs Of All Time.

 

 

  ENJOY 

 

Especially for long time WD reader Bobba, who’s been telling anyone and everyone at work all week about this video and pestering me to put it up… here it is. Not sure what’s up with the judge on the left of screen. He’s either dead, or on horse tranquillizers.

 

 

What an awesomely powerfull set of pipes, for ANY singer, let alone one so young in years. Fairly sure she made it to the final and got beaten by the break dancing robot that caught on fire.. or something like that.

 

 

In honour of the pure awesomeness of THE CURE, here’s another of the all time classics. Sporting one of the all time great bass /keyboard melodies of anything written in the last fifty years, it then tops that at the end with trumpet and sax dancing all over the core melody right to the very last note… Genius stuff indeed.

 

 

The self loathing, sad sack, pathetic goth wannabe, emo try-hards that frequent a supermarket razor blade aisle near you would do well to study these guys hard and see what they COULD become… if only they had talent and drive and…  actually…any emo’s reading this.. forget it… you’ll never be as good as Bobby and the boys… why not do us ALL a favour and just end… anyway,  I didn’t mean to lose all touch with punctuation, or sentence structure, but it’s working OK so far,  so I’m gonna run with it for the rest of this… and before I digress any further and draw away from the awesome force that is THE CURE…

 

 

This guys is an awesome flute player and a mean beat-boxer to boot.

I ran out of breath just watching it. 

 

 

 

From the song REMINISCING by the masters of harmony LITTLE RIVER BAND today’s MOTD features what must surely be one of the great opening lines to any song…

 

 

A single breath, rapid fire lyrical delight that nicely set’s up the the rhyme for the short sharp second line of the song "Would it turn out right".  Now everyone is familiar with the album version of this song that’s bound to be on high rotation down at the local Gold-FM radio station. First recorded in 1978 with the band’s original vocalist GLENN SHORROCK, the song reached #3 in the Australian Top 40 and made it to #5 over in the USA, the first of six consecutive Top 10 US Singles for LRB.

 

In 1982, Glenn Shorrock left the band to pursue a solo career. His replacement was a young looking JOHN FARNHAM who fronted LRB from 1982-1984 until leaving himself to continue his successful late 80’s "You’re The Voice" fuelled solo career. The version of REMINISCING we present for you as today’s MOTD is a 1983 live performance by LRB with Farnham manning the mic.

 

 

With LIVE vocal harmonies the equal of any studio recoding from The Beach Boys or Bee Gees, we see on display the talent of the LRB performers and especially Mr Farnham.  I reckon even Glenn Shorrock, who wrote and performed the album version would be envious at vocal talent, and on stage presence that "Farnsie" brings to this performance.  Think of this version next time you hear the original on the radio. And enjoy today’s MOTD.

 

 

Nothing fancy today.

Just a simple guitar riff MOTD to start your weekend off.

 

 

Less than a minute and you’re done.