http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/fashion/thursdaystyles/28codes.html?ex=1115352000&en=8142c00ada85457c&ei=5070
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)
http://www.zionmag.cz/img/clanky/bpb.jpg
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)
LOCK THREAD.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)
http://www.drummerworld.com/pics/drum/dpa48/ringojimlevon.jpg
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)
Jet Black of the Stranglers and Peter Hook of Joy Division/New Order. Sported beards at the height of Punk, breaking one of Punk's by-laws (arguably making them that much more Punk in the process...or not).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1575000/images/_1575830_eels_300.jpg
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)
― Lazlo Hollyfeld (lazlohollyfeldchicago), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)
― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)
― asl, Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)
anyone heard (of) these guys?
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)
― asl, Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)
― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)
nice moondog!
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)
(also Rick Rubin to thread.)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)
― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)
He's Hermeto Pascoal, a Brazilian jazz musician. I think he's albino.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)
― dapes, Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)
― yo yo saw, Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)
― jedidiah (jedidiah), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)
― On a Strict El Cholo Diet (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)
http://www.sasband.com/kenthumbs/images/abrown.jpg
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)
― jedidiah (jedidiah), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)
http://www.prms.org/around/spotlight/images/monk.jpg
http://www.sjohansen.de/albert-ayler1970.JPG The white patch in Ayler's beard, I forget, he insisted it's the holy ghost peaking through or something?
― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)
now im embarrassed i didnt think to go after these guys (though i cant find the photo i was looking for)
http://www.jazzvisionsphotos.com/contact/aec-door.jpg
or kyp whos beard i remember being way bigger before the rise of tvotr
http://www.gothamist.com/interview/images/2004_08_kypmalone.jpg
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/tisue/storage/mnfest2003/day2/thumbnails/11.jpg
http://www.kittyfeet.com/stills/stills/Watt.jpg
http://www.movingthegoalposts.org/images/Willie-Nelson.jpg
― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)
― dreamy aktion, Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)
That NYT article makes it official: I need to go home and shave.
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)
how many of us now plan on shaving asap?
― b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)
http://www.adriandenning.co.uk/pictures/dolphy.jpg
― space2k (space2k), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)
I just shaved last month but this is making me kind of want to grow it back.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)
The NYT article was discouraging, but all these pictures make me want to grow it down to my fucking chest
I hope to look like Robert Wyatt in my old age (and therefore Walt Whitman, of course)
― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)
― dapes, Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)
― Gregory T (tubesocks), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)
Keyes is not a wiseguy. He's just immersed in his calling -- his true love -- of playing the piano. So Harry Keyes it is.
For seven years, Keyes has been playing piano for the dinner crowds at local restaurants along the southwest Maine seacoast. He was loved so much by one woman, that when she died, the picture that ran with her obituary was of her and Keyes singing.
His fans have included the late Ed Muskie '36 and George and Barbara Bush. "It's a great leveler," says Keyes of the music.
Keyes plays these days at the Aquarius restaurant in Arundel, just outside Kennebunkport. He plays Friday and Saturday evenings, beginning at around 6:30 p.m. It's a bit slow on a recent night, as it's Good Friday, but the evening's still young, so Keyes is low-keyed. So low-keyed that he can play Autumn Mist and be interviewed at the same time.
Keyes is dapper in a black vest, a little grizzled-looking with short gray-white hair and a BEARD. He has a wry sense of humor, is a bit self-effacing and quite friendly. He is a real Piano Man with an extensive repertoire of songs "that people hum in the shower. Anything people remember, I can play," he says. He remembers patrons, particularly tourists, by their faces and the songs they request.
But Keyes draws some lines. He doesn't play hard rock, which probably wouldn't appeal to his audience anyway, and he has a list of what he won't do. Sinatra and Streisand may be chagrined to hear the list.
"What I don't play is My Way, The Way We Were, People (Who Love People), Evergreen, Feelings, New York, New York," he says. Nor will he play anything from the musical South Pacific or Puff the Magic Dragon.
A man has to have some limits after all. But that leaves thousands of other possibilities.
Keyes sings, too, as he does occasionally on this quiet night. He downplays his vocal ability but is actually a distinctive singer, with a growly and rumbly voice in the Louis Armstrong/Dr. John mode. It's a refreshing sound, and dispels any preconceived notion that the Piano Man will sound like a cheesy crooner, sliding around notes, talking through the lyrics -- an image indelibly etched in many minds ever since Bill Murray's take on restaurant crooners on Saturday Night Live.
Keyes is the real article. He says he has been playing piano all of his life. He began studying classical music at age ten, played in a trio in high school, and also played the piano and told stories for parties and clubs. The Malden, Massachusetts, native moved to Lewiston to attend college and then began his working career. He says, until 1980, his career involved "communications and financial things. Horrible things of that nature."
That was to change. "I left it all in 1980 to go to tropical climes and play piano," he says. Keyes went to Key West (perhaps another key to the truth behind his name) where he played the ivories for four years. In 1984, he moved to Berwick, where he lives with his wife, writer Kathleen Hargraves.
"You cannot make your living doing this," says Keyes of his piano-playing life. Even playing six or seven nights a week would not generate enough income to call it a "living," he says. But that's not the point. Keyes is at home behind the piano, playing music to match the crowd's mood, or perhaps, to create a mood. He plays smartly, spritely, grandly, elegantly, altering the tempo of a song to suit his whims and the audience. Keyes moves to the background when his fans come up to sing their favorites -- people like Wanda, who is not here tonight, but is known for her beautiful voice. Says Keyes, "I love doing this."
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)
http://www.90daymen.com/photos/images/6.jpghttp://www.southern.com/southern/gallery/photos_gallery/467M.jpg http://www.southern.com/southern/gallery/photos_gallery/466M.jpg
― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)
― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)
http://www.outofthedarkness.freeserve.co.uk/whiz2%20copy.jpghttp://www.fsinet.or.jp/~eneman/MUSIC/obaka/obakapict/wiz.jpgihttp://normanhood.co.uk/wizzard2pic.jpg
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 28 April 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)
Oh, Paul Flaherty, cool! I thought I had seen that pic before, for some reason. Reminds me I want to check out that Cold Bleack Heat record on Family Vineyard.
― mcd (mcd), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)
Oh, Paul Flaherty, cool! I thought I had seen that pic before, for some reason. Reminds me I want to check out that Cold Bleak Heat record on Family Vineyard.
― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 29 April 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)
― - Copey, Friday, 29 April 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)
― Copey, Friday, 29 April 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/people/laster/Images/laster8-10-30.jpg
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)
1. Robert WyattThis is a beard that says, “I don’t give a shit about material things”, this is a beard that represents wisdom, wit and compassion. This is a beard belonging to one of the most singular talents this country has produced. If you’ve never listened to a Robert Wyatt song go and buy Rock Bottom. You won’t regret it. For his beautiful, vulnerable voice, amazing records and all-round brilliance, we salute you sir!2. MoondogHailed as the founder of minimalism by Phillip Glass, Moondog aka Louis Hardin was a blind, homeless composer of incredible scope. He would perform on the street and in concert halls and is estimated to have written over 300 madrigals, scores for brass and string orchestras, organ and piano pieces and over 80 symphonies. What a guy and what a beard!3. Will OldhamAlthough he has changed his facial hair almost as much as his performing name, Oldham reached beard nirvana in 2003 with this fulsome backwoods preacher effort. In a recent interview Oldham explained that the ladies love his freaky facial hair. Eeeww, too much information Billy-boy.4. Garth HudsonThe Band recorded some of the beardiest music of all time. The sublime ‘Rocking Chair’ tells of old sea-dog Willy, who almost certainly had a beard. And they all sported some fine, fine facial hair, not least eccentric keyboard genius Garth Hudson. It’s the combination of volume and the cheeky waxed ‘tache that does it.5. ZZ TopLegs, legs, legs? Beards, beards, beards more like! As if we would leave these guys out. You know the story: Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill sport the most famous southern fried beards in rock history, while the drummer Frank Beard is clean shaven. However, Frank has finally given in to the urge and grown a subtle blonde beard. Which makes us love ‘em all the more. 6. Kyp MaloneOur highest new entry, TV On The Radio’s imposing lead singer has blown us away with his idiosyncratic ‘fro and beard combo. Beard spies (well, those of that saw them live the other week) report that he’s shaved it down to stubble, but he deserves respect nonetheless.7. Wayne CoyneThe Flaming Lips frontman has a handsome beard. The Flaming Lips are one of the best bands in the cosmos. These two facts are not unrelated.8. Sam BeamMr Iron & Wine’s beard is a remarkable thing. It’s hella bushy yet looks as soft as pelt. In some ways it’s an extention of his sublime whisper of a voice. His touring partner also sports a great beard, complete with extravagantly waxed ‘tache. The greatest beard of the indie-folk explosion. 9. Devendra BanhartSome question Devendra’s committment to beardiness, worrying that he’s too pretty to truly understand the ways of the beard. Tish and pish. Beards can be beautiful too. Anyone who says our freakfolk hero doesn’t know what he’s doing should listen to his glorious song, ‘A Beard For Soibhan’.10. Marvin GayeGrowing a beard can be a symbolic act and for Marvin Gaye it represented his transition from Motown teen idol to socially conscious innovator. And it made him look all the more handsome. Result!
Issue four out end of May, with the top ten art beards!
― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 30 April 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)
― La Monte (La Monte), Sunday, 1 May 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 14 October 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 14 October 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)
― van der who (van smack), Friday, 14 October 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)
http://www.bellaunion.com/images/180/jpearson004.jpghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/atl/images/josh180.jpghttp://www.rockfeedback.com/images/joshpearson_basement.jpghttp://images.fluctuat.net/j/o/josh-pearson.jpg
― van igloo (van smack), Friday, 13 October 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)
― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 13 October 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)
― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 13 October 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)
― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 13 October 2006 04:36 (nineteen years ago)
― 6335 (6335), Friday, 13 October 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Friday, 13 October 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)
― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 13 October 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)
That's Jandek on the right playing guitar, no?
― winter testing (winter testing), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)
Gotta give Doobies-era Michael McDonald some respect.
I'da totally done him.
― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Saturday, 14 October 2006 05:23 (nineteen years ago)