Downtown Music Collective: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to the Downtown Music Collective where opinion about the arts matter! Host Phil Gammage reviews and discusses curated music, films, and books from the past and present. It’s a fast moving and engaging show with thoughtful opinion and conversation that will get you rethinking how you feel about artists and the art they make. Phil brings a fresh insight about the arts and he shares with us what he is passionate about and why he feels that way.
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Downtown Music Collective Podcast Episode 6
Gammage reviews soul revivalists Durand Jones & The Indications’ album Private Space (2021), The Cardigan’s Life (1995), the Velvet Underground album Live 1969 (1974), and the 2014 film “The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir”. Plus Phil's music video, some live performance, and more surprises!
Welcome to the Downtown Music Collective where opinion about the arts matter! Host Phil Gammage reviews and discusses curated music, films, and books from the past and present. It’s a fast moving and engaging show with thoughtful opinion and conversation that will get you rethinking how you feel about artists and the art they make. Phil brings a fresh insight about the arts and he shares with us what he is passionate about and why he feels that way.
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Welcome to the Downtown Music Collective where opinion about the arts matter! Host Phil Gammage reviews and discusses curated music, films, and books from the past and present. It’s a fast moving and engaging show with thoughtful opinion and conversation that will get you rethinking how you feel about artists and the art they make. Phil brings a fresh insight about the arts and he shares with us what he is passionate about and why he feels that way.
It’s a Texas themed Downtown Music Collective featuring artists from the Lone Star state.
Gammage reviews Ruthie Foster’s Joy Comes Back album (2017), ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres (1973), the 13th Floor Elevator’s Avalon Live ’66, and the 1993 film “Dazed and Confused”. Plus Phil's music video, some live performance, and more surprises! (Link in comment below)
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This episode contains my review of the 80s E. Village art scene film “Make Me Famous”. I’d suggest we really push that in promo, I think there could be interest about the film.
Welcome to the Downtown Music Collective where opinion about the arts matter! Host Phil Gammage reviews and discusses curated music, films, and books from the past and present. It’s a fast moving and engaging show with thoughtful opinion and conversation that will get you rethinking how you feel about artists and the art they make. Phil brings a fresh insight about the arts and he shares with us what he is passionate about and why he feels that way.
Last Night in Soho, Passin, Polyrock, and Bobby “Blue” Bland.
Phil discusses albums from Monica Passin, Bobby 'Blue' Bland , and forgotten new wavers Polyrock. Plus a review of the U.K. film Last Night in Soho (and it’s soundtrack), live performance, and some surprises!
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The birth of punk blues, the genius of Jeffrey Lee Pierce, and a review the Gun Club’s essential 1981 Fire of Love album. Also reviews of the new album from Charley Crockett Music City USA, Eilen Jewell’s 2009 Sea of Tears album, and the film The United States vs Billie Holiday. Plus live performance, and more surprises!
Welcome to the Downtown Music Collective where opinion about the arts matter! Host Phil Gammage reviews and discusses curated music, films, and books from the past and present. It’s a fast moving and engaging show with thoughtful opinion and conversation that will get you rethinking how you feel about artists and the art they make. Phil brings a fresh insight about the arts and he shares with us what he is passionate about and why he feels that way.
Last Night in Soho, Passin, Polyrock, and Bobby “Blue” Bland.
Phil discusses albums from Monica Passin, Bobby 'Blue' Bland , and forgotten new wavers Polyrock. Plus a review of the U.K. film Last Night in Soho (and it’s soundtrack), live performance, and some surprises!
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Winter, Savoy, Borges, O’Hora, Swans, and Karen Dalton
Phil reviews new singles from Tami Savoy and Sarah Borges, an album from Zephaniah O’Hora , and the amazing story behind Johnny Winter’s first album Progressive Blues Experiment. Gammage discusses the new bio film about the enigmatic 1960s and 70s folk singer Karen Dalton: In My Own Time. Plus the new book about NYC noise titans Swans and live performance.
Last Night in Soho, Passin, Polyrock, and Bobby “Blue” Bland.
Phil discusses albums from Monica Passin, Bobby 'Blue' Bland , and forgotten new wavers Polyrock. Plus a review of the U.K. film Last Night in Soho (and it’s soundtrack), live performance, and some surprises!
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Phil discusses albums from Monica Passin, Bobby 'Blue' Bland , and forgotten new wavers Polyrock. Plus a review of the U.K. film Last Night in Soho (and it’s soundtrack), live performance, and some surprises!
Welcome to the Downtown Music Collective where opinion about the arts matter! Host Phil Gammage reviews and discusses curated music, films, and books from the past and present. It’s a fast moving and engaging show with thoughtful opinion and conversation that will get you rethinking how you feel about artists and the art they make. Phil brings a fresh insight about the arts and he shares with us what he is passionate about and why he feels that way.
Last Night in Soho, Passin, Polyrock, and Bobby “Blue” Bland.
Phil discusses albums from Monica Passin, Bobby 'Blue' Bland , and forgotten new wavers Polyrock. Plus a review of the U.K. film Last Night in Soho (and it’s soundtrack), live performance, and some surprises!
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This is the launching of “Podpoems.” The title coined by Joanne Pagano Weber.
Podpoes takes over where Dial a poem left off. Dial-A-Poem was a public poetry service established in 1968 by the late poet, artist and activist John Giorno after a phone conversation with William Burroughs. The service enabled members of the public to call Giorno Poetry Systems and to listen to a poem selected at random by writers including Amiri Baraka, William Burroughs, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Bobby Seale, Patti Smith and Anne Waldman.
One Podpeom will be podcast eachmonth featuring work by a poets and writers reccommented through an artist peer to peer curatorial process.
This mponth features “Open Room #1” by Bruce Weber. recited by Bruce Weber.
Open Room #1
my cell phone was out of juice
it had a damaged psyche
something about jimi hendrix's guitar
lots of reverb;
a demented chorus of poets howling;
j. d. rage showed up wearing
the blood stained shirt
of sid vicious
another poet kept winking at the moon
a third poet waltzed with a shadow
and eve packer scatted a drum roll to billy higgins
i read some poems i found in an old trunk
written while intoxicated with the blues
a musician came by and harmonized
with the despair of a hungry cat
i drank from the fountain of youth
and made love with a slip of a girl
who learned to write poetry at the knee of jack micheline
it was a beautiful ending to a rough rite of passage
sunday afternoon's would never look so good again
bruce weber
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