Tag Archives: Frank Sinatra

hindsight is anything: expect the unexpected

There are some movements that are strange, unpredictable, and even when they surge into social dominance, not easy to explain; events outside the conventional thinking that hunts causes, reduces chance to a minimum, and loves plotting the tides that sweep … Continue reading

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nostalgic about the fifties

Must we be nostalgic about the fifties? Color the decade green, the color of chlorophyll; sprinkle with freckles, like Howdy Doody; add a smear of red lipstick, and put it in a sack. What do you get? An Edsel. Thinking … Continue reading

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sales ID trick: totally made man

by Art Chantry: this is another one of those record covers that i consider absolutely perfect, even exquisite. granted, it’s not a recent cover or even a very famous cover. but, it’s absolutely impeccable in concept, execution and intent. i … Continue reading

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beatin the skins

Great marketing by Zildjian, a true reflection of the “community of users” ideal. Use of social media whereby Facebook has become their principal portal and given exposure to artists past and present. … …Happy 100th Birthday to Zildjian Artist, Viola … Continue reading

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frank

by Art Chantry: cool? or just another drunk? “hope i die before i get old…” i’ve never read about a single nice thing he ever did or said to anybody. even his compliments were insults. he made deano look like … Continue reading

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they’re crazy: collector stories

by Art Chantry: i refuse to be a collector. even though i’m surrounded by clutter and crap, i much prefer to call myself a “gatherer” or even a “hoarder” rather than a “collector.” collectors are nuts. i recently found a … Continue reading

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expression of the soul

… Rock and roll “is the most brutal, ugly, desperate vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. Rock n’ roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous … Continue reading

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the bark and the sound bite: back to marciano

by Paul Hamilton ( see full links at bottom): SENIOR SHOWTIME High Wycombe is a satellite town of London and it was there, at Bucks New University’s Students Union building on Thursday 8th March 2012, Producers played the last of … Continue reading

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collector geeks: crying over the whole shebang

Obsessive completist collector geeks…. Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com): While collecting records over the years,I began to become fascinated by a certain weird ‘category’ of record collecting. There are so many odd little nooks and crannies of record collecting that you never … Continue reading

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OH DEMON ALCOHOL: STRAIGHT UP

Here’s a story about a sinner, He used to be a winner who enjoyed a life of prominence and position, But the pressures at the office and his socialite engagements, And his selfish wife’s fanatical ambition, It turned him to … Continue reading

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