#andy babiuk

[reconprate]

The Chesterfield Kings

The Chesterfield Kings “Meet You After Midnight” Meet You After Midnight (single 03-15-2024) Until breaking-up in 2011, the band had been around, with different line-ups, since the late 70s.  Recently reformed, the current reiteration features Andy Babiuk (from the line-up beginning in 1979) along with two from the 1995 line-up (Jeff and Ted Okolowicz), one from the 1996 line-up (Mike Boise),…

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[johnellispoems]

MADE IN DURBAN: JOHN LENNON’S SOUTH AFRICAN GUITAR

MADE IN DURBAN: JOHN LENNON’S SOUTH AFRICAN GUITAR

I’ve known for a long time that John Lennon’s first guitar was a cheap mail-order thing manufactured in a South African factory, but my interest in this legend was renewed recently when I finally got around to reading volume one of Mark Lewisohn’s magisterial Beatles history Tune In. Chapter Ten is entitled “Guaranteed Not To Split”, a mystical phrase that Paul McCartney has always loved using in…

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#Afrikaans #Andy Babiuk #Durban #Gallo #Gallotone #Gallotone Champion #Jacobs #John Lennon #Julia Lennon #Mark Lewisohn #Paul McCartney #Richard Haslop #South Africa #South African Music #The Beatles

[greensparty]

Album Review: The Empty Hearts “The Second Album”

What got my attention about the supergroup The Empty Hearts is guitarist Elliot Easton of The Cars. As I’ve mentioned many times, Cars fans aren’t just fans, they are fanatics! I was truly honored to have had Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes as a featured interview in my documentary Life on the V: The Story of V66 and since its release Cars fans who never even heard of the music video channel V66 viewed my documentary because they heard The Cars had something to do with it! My point is, being a fan of The Cars isn’t just about being a fan of The Cars collectively, but what they have done outside of The Cars. In the case of Easton, he is a guitar virtuoso, who released a solo album in the mid-80s, was a member of Creedence Clearwater Revisited, and had his band Elliot Easton’s Tiki Gods. Check out the Tiki Gods’ song “Monte Carlo Nights” on the Jackie Brown soundtrack BTW. But beyond short-lived The New Cars in the mid-00s (which was just Easton and Hawkes from the original Cars) and the final Cars tour and album in 2011, he’s laid low in terms of releasing new music. Which is what made The Empty Hearts something to pay attention to immediately.

The Second Album cover

I know I just wrote a lot about Easton, but this is definitely a supergroup for a reason. Blondie drummer Clem Burke is a fantastic drummer (I was lucky enough to see Blondie in 1999), who also was a member of The Romantics from 1990-2004, and has always had a punk spirit. Burke’s Romantics bandmate Wally Palmar on vocals shows he’s more than just the guy who sang “Talking in Your Sleep”! He also was a part of Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band (I saw him with the All Starr Band in 2010). Bassist Andy Babiuk was in The Chesterfield Kings (I saw them at Little Steven’s Underground Garage Festival in 2004...or at least I think I saw them, there were too many bands that day to keep track of). The Empty Hearts released their first album in 2014 and it made enough of a splash that they have returned with The Second Album which is being released Friday on Wicked Cool Records (Little Steven’s label).

The band poolside 

The album is straight up 1960s garage rock from start to finish! It’s even produced by Ed Stasium (producer of The Ramones, Talking Heads, Living Colour). It fits perfectly with Little Steven’s garage rock passion. There are influences galore throughout, but you can hear each of these musicians shining through. The entire band has a real fondness for 60s rock and it shows. The highlight of the album is “Remember Days Like These”, which features special guest Ringo Starr on drums (Palmar’s bandmate). How cool to hear Sir Ringo drumming in this band! This album as a whole might not grab you the way a Cars or Blondie album does, but give it a chance. The more you listen it gets better and you find yourself humming along!

For info on The Second Album: https://orcd.co/rememberdayslikethese

3.5 out of 5 stars

#the empty hearts #elliot easton #the cars #clem burke #blondie #wally palmar #the romantics #ringo starr and his all starr band #andy babiuk #the chesterfield kings #little steven #steven van zandt #ringo starr #ed stasium #album review #music nerd

[harrisonarchive]

George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Pete Best, and Roy Young on stage at The Star-Club in Hamburg, (May?) 1962; photos by Doris Kaempfert (?), © K & K Ulf Kruger OHG/Redferns, Bert Kaempfert Music - K & K/Redferns via Getty Images.

“When The Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, secured a recording contract with EMI in 1962, he sent a telegram to the band in Hamburg, Germany: ‘Congratulations boys. EMI request recording session. Please rehearse new material.’ The Beatles replied to the telegram with postcards. Paul McCartney wrote, ‘Please wire GBP 10,000 advance royalties.’ John Lennon scribbled, ‘When are we going to be millionaires?’ But George Harrison made the following request: ‘Please order four new guitars.’ While his band mates visualized piles of money, Harrison could think only about guitars.” - Andy Babiuk, Harrison by the editors of Rolling Stone (2002) (x)

#The Beatles #George Harrison #quote #quotes about George #John Lennon #Paul McCartney #Pete Best #Roy Young #1962 #1960s #Brian Epstein #harrison guitars #fits queue like a glove

[glorifiedguitars]

1996 Metropolitan Tanglewood Custom 

[Source: Andy Babiuk’s Fab Gear. Price: £1,910/$2,496]

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#metropolitan #metropolitan guitar #metropolitan guitars #metropolitan electric guitar #90s #1990s #1996 #guitar #electric guitar #guitars #music #pink

[bushdog]

(via 1967 Gretsch Stereo White Falcon White > Guitars Electric Solid Body | Andy Babiuk's Fab Gear)

[cavegirl66]

*** The Chesterfield Kings *** ** Rock'n'Roll Murder ** Rock'n'Roll Garage Punk band from Rochester, New York, who began as a retro-1960s garage band, and who have heavily mined 1960s music, including some borrowing from the 1960s recordings of The Rolling Stones. Core members were former Distorted Level singer, underground music journalist and avid record collector Greg Prevost (founder of the band), and Andy Babiuk (16 years old at the time of joining the band); others have come and gone. The band, named after a defunct brand of unfiltered cigarette, was instrumental in sparking the 1980s garage band revival that launched such groups as the Unclaimed, Marshmallow Overcoat, The Fuzztones, The Malarians, Mystic Eyes, The Cynics, The Optic Nerve, the Secret Service, and the Stomachmouths. YEAH! ;-)

Cavegirl66

#the chesterfield kings #garage rock #garage punk #rock'n'roll #cavegirl66

[syndromeblue-blog]

Pre-orders available for this beauty. 2nd album for @the_empty_hearts are available via @amazon - I’ve listen to a preview of a few tracks (4) through my Amazon Unlimited account and it’s a cracker. Got my #vinyl on preorder. The band is Wally Palmar (The Romantics), Elliot Easton (The Cars), Andy Babiuk (The Chesterfield Kings) & the coolest dude on the planet Clem Burke (Blondie). First album is brilliant too. #blondie #thecars #theromantics #thechesterfieldkings #positivevibes #positivewaves #metalhobbit #vinylcommunity #vinyljunkie #vinylcollector #vinylcollection @blondieofficial (at Birmingham, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCiJCfHJ9Dh/?igshid=1d6geda3u2fli

#vinyl #blondie #thecars #theromantics #thechesterfieldkings #positivevibes #positivewaves #metalhobbit #vinylcommunity #vinyljunkie #vinylcollector #vinylcollection

[billybennight]

This year's 3rd Annual Guitar Festival should be amazing! I loved it so much last year with these musician's musicians where you got to be up close and personal within view of all the straight up action proved to be incredible! The Beatle's Brunch with Andy Babiuk proved to be revelatory about the Beatles. I expect no less from Andy Babiuk's Rolling Stone's Brunch! #malibuguitarfest #AndyBabiuk #MickFleetwoodBluesBand #stevevai #guitarist #rock #blues #malibu #music here's the link to MGF: http://wp.me/p1VInO-rp5 @malibuguitarfestival

#malibu #blues #mickfleetwoodbluesband #music #rock #malibuguitarfest #andybabiuk #guitarist #stevevai

[wendellbartonn]

Clem Burke (Blondie) & Elliot Easton (Cars) discuss the music that inspired Empty Hearts’ new LP

The Empty Hearts -- aka Blondie's Clem Burke, The Cars' Elliot Easton, The Romantics' Wally Palmar, and The Chesterfield Kings' Andy Babiuk -- have just released their second album... Continue reading… Clem Burke (Blondie) & Elliot Easton (Cars) discuss the music that inspired Empty Hearts’ new LP published first on https://soundwiz.weebly.com/

[humility]

Top 100 Book List

Top 100 books I have read in my life and the age at which I read them.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien) {13}

The Long Walk (Slavomir Rawicz) {28}

Ecclesiastes  (King Solomon) {11}

Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) {31}

The Old Man and The Sea (Ernest Hemingway) {29}

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis) {10}

Babylon By Bus (Ray LeMoine) {27}

Bike Snob (bikesnobNYC) {29}

The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Beverly Cleary)  {9}

Book of First World War Poetry (Compiled By: George Walter) {32}

The Global Economy (Thomas Ramge) {35}

The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance (Elna Baker) {33}

The Graphic Canon (Russ Kick) {32}

Proverbs (King Solomon) {7}

All The Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr) {33}

Farewell to Shady Glade (Bill Peete) {12}

Advance Your Swagger (Fonzworth Bently) {30}

The Good Earth (Pearl Buck) {28}

The Last Battle (C.S. Lewis) {10}

It Couldn't Just Happen (Lawrence Richards) {13}

The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien) {12}

Atlas Obscura (Ella Morton) {34}

These Wonderful People (Noel Ames) {33}

How to be Black (Baratunde Thurston) {30}

Henry Higgins (Beverly Cleary) {8}

The Horse and His Boy (C.S. Lewis) {12}

Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale) {34}

A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman) {36}

Shoe Dog (Phil Knight) {36}

Why Not Me? (Mindy Kaling) {35}

The Oregon Trail - A New American Journey (Rinker Buck) {34}

You Can't Win (Jack Black) {33}

The Mutt (Rodney Mullen) {31}

Superfreakonomics (Levitt & Dubner) {32}

Hell's Angel (Sony Barger) {32}

For Whom The Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway) {29}

Modern Romance (Aziz Ansari) {34}

Anarchy Evolution (Greg Graffin) {33}

Bronze Bow (Elizabeth Speare) {14}

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon) {33}

Expressions of Loneliness (Alex Free) {32}

Wump World (Bill Peet) {11}

Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis) {26}

Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut) {31}

The Hiding Place (Cornelia ten Boom) {32}

Empty Mansions (Bill Dedman, Paul Clark) {36}

Tin Tin and the Land of the Soviets (Georges Prosper Remi) {13}

The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien) {14}

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) {29}

Achtung Baby (Sara Zaske) {34}

The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith) {31}

The Indian in the Cupboard (Lynne Reid Banks) {14}

YWAM Backpack DTS (Jay / Ryan Caven) {31}

Red Tent (Anita Diamant) {32}

Freakonomics (Levitt & Dubner) {32}

Homer Price (Robert McCloskey) {10}

Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank) {31}

The Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis) {13}

On These Walls (John Cole) {31}

Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) {29}

Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) {26}

When You Are Engulfed in Flames (David Sedaris) {29}

The World is Flat (Thomas Freidman) {30}

The Wonderful Wizard of  OZ (Frank Baum) {14}

The Girl Who Loved the Swastika (Maria Hirschmann) {33}

Colleen Green's Celebrity Encounters (Colleen Green) {32}

Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) {32}

Mila 18 (Leon Uris) {32}

Jesus on Trial (David Limbaugh) {33}

The Price of Everything (Eduardo Porter) {33}

Crazy From the Heat (David Lee Roth) {30}

Flash Boys (Michael Lewis) {32}

Runaway Ralph (Beverly Cleary) {8}

The Model Millionaire (Oscar Wilde) {25}

In the Presence of my Enemies (Gracia Burnham) {23}

Just Kids (Patti Smith) {32}

The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) {7}

Exodus (Leon Uris) {33}

Transport -7-41-R (Terry Degens) {32}

The Hunt for Red October (Tom Clancy) {33}

Beatles Gear (Andy Babiuk) {34}

Leading With Honor (Lee Ellis) {33}

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (John Godey) {32}

Prince Caspian (C.S. Lewis) {12}

Common Sense (Thomas Paine) {25}

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) {27}

Under Fire (Oliver North) {30}

The History of the Caldwell Police Department (Robert Sobba) {31}

Killer Angels (Michael Shaara) {32}

Unbroken (Laura Hillenbrand) {33}

To Kill a Mokingbird (Harper Lee) {29}

Chinatown (Arthur Hart) {32}

The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) {28}

Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis) {12}

On the Road (Jack Kerouac) {30}

No Place on Earth (Louis Charbonneau) {29}

Rising 44 (Norman Davies) {33}

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Persig) {31}

Razor Eyes (Richard Hough) {30}

The Eagle Has Landed (Jack Higgins)  {29}

In the Plex (Steven Levy) {30}

The Road (Cormac McCarthy) {32}

Free (Chris Anderson) {31}

The Cross and the Switchblade ( David Wilkerson) {30}

The Wolf of Wall Street (Jordan Belfort) {33}

Alexander Hamilton (Ron Chernow) {20}

Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) {29}

Heidi (Johanna Spyri) {13}

Tombs of Anak (Frank Peretti) {14}

The Anarchist Cookbook (William Powell) {28}

History in Headlines (Idaho Statesman Staff) {33}

Million Dollar Portfolio (David Gardner - Motley Fool) {31}

The Door in the Dragon's Throat (Frank Peretti) {14}

Castor Oil and Laughter (George Randall) {30}

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) {31}

[glorifiedguitars]

Fender Limited Edition Mahogany Blacktop Stratocaster HHH Olympic White

[Source: Andy Babiuk’s Fab Gear. Price: £683/$900]

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#fender #fender guitar #fender guitars #fender electric guitar #fender electric guitars #fender stratocaster #fender strat #stratocaster #strat #fender mahogany blacktop #fender hhh #guitar #guitars #electric guitar #music

[bushdog]

(via 1964 Gretsch 6122 Country Gentleman Walnut Stain > Guitars Electric Solid Body | Andy Babiuk's Fab Gear)

[george-harrison-marwa-blues]

Everybody talks about Lennon & McCartney and what a great songwriting team they were, but when you listen to some of the original rough demos, they're just okay. Had they left them like that, would they still have become these great songs that we've come to know & love? That's where George played such an important part.

Andy Babiuk (Fab Gear)

#george harrison #the beatles #quotes about george harrison #andy babiuk

[billybennight]

The Tearaways open their set with a thank you to MGF and Andy Babiuk. @malibuvillage @malibuguitarfestival #video #tearaways #music #dixiechicks (at Malibu Guitar Festival)

#music #tearaways #video #dixiechicks