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DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS

Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik

My Fellow Americans, Life is actually just a microscopic, deluded moment in time, so let"s cut to the freakin" chase. One look at our impending election debacle can solidify my case. It has been my contention since birth, that the answer to every difficulty we encounter on this sacred yet demented Stone, can be revealed with ultimate clarity through the ultra neurotic engagements of Music, Art, Literature, Film, Poetry and a good Pastrami sandwich. Why would any sane human spend so must time on a

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BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: SHE...

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2025/01/26

Henry St. Claire Fredericks, Jr., aka Taj Mahal is 82 years of age, and like that monument in Agra, he stands as an ageless edifice of blues - rock grace. On his latest recording he croons in that familiar rasp: “I’m too young to be this old,” and there’s no denying the truth of that declaration. As the years have passed, it’s gratifying to contemplate that, 60 years ago, Taj and Ry Cooder combined forces in the seminal, interracial rock group The Rising Sons, then went their separate ways to...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "THE FIRE AND SOUL REVUE"- A ...

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2025/01/16

PLEASE JOIN US AT DIG THIS!!!!! https://www.facebook.com/digthiswiththesplendidbohos/A MESSAGE FROM STAX RECORDS PRODUCER, SONGWRITER AND VOCALIST DAVID PORTER:To say I am saddened about the loss of Sam Moore would be an understatement. You see, it was the finality of the last living connection I had to God’s gift to all of our careers.The experiences we had with each other changed each of our lives in amazing ways. Sam will always be remembered because of what he gave out of his heart and sp...

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2025/01/16

This recording, composed and performed by the criminally underestimated Rick Nelson and his right-hand man James Burton, is a tone poem of psychedelic disorientation. It lopes along, taking its sweet time, floating in mid-air, then seeps out through the singer’s enthralled brain in a sensual vortex. It reminds me of my virgin night of acid enlightenment, when I crawled across my cousin’s floor, following the swirling carpet patterns, whispering: “Oh, Wow,” over and over again.The tune feature...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS " THE HIGHWAY TO A COMPLETE...

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2025/01/07

Lucasfilm has about a dozen Star Wars movies in various stages of development. One of them is a prequel from James Mangold that will tell the origins of the Force, the mysterious energy field created by life that binds the Star Wars galaxy together.In a recent interview with MovieWeb, Mangold opened up about what convinced him to make a Star Wars movie for Lucasfilm, sharing that "the really important aspects [were] the freedom to make something new." Mangold, who is co-writing the screenplay...

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72:07

HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "FAMOUS LAST WORDS- OUR NEW...

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2024/12/31

AT THE HOTEL BOHEMIA WE BELIEVE YOU CAN'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING UNLESS YOU KNOW WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN.2025 COMIN' ROUND THE MOUNTAIN.CAN YOU DIG IT? Drummer Buddy Rich died after surgery in 1987. As he was being prepped for surgery, a nurse asked him, “Is there anything you can’t take?” Rich replied, “Yeah, country music.”Lucky Luciano was a mob leader who helped the U.S. work with the Sicilian Mafia during World War II in exchange for a reduced prison sentence. His last words wer...

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BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: YUMMY...

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2024/12/28

This cut, from Julie London’s album of the same name, became a camp classic. It’s undeniably bawdy, with the torch songstress purring like a mod Mae West, with tongue solidly in cheek. The original, generated by neutered, pre-fab bobble heads, The Ohio Express, is a prepubescent rocker, lacking any lubriciousness whatsoever, but, emanating from Julie’s throat it’s an open invitation to bed, or a post-coital pillow declaration.Julie is Her Name, her first album, was released in 1955, and YUMMY...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS-"A PERSONAL CHRISTMAS...

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2024/12/23

1) EVIL WEINER- ALL AROUND THE WORLD 2) AIMEE MANN AND MICHAEL PENN- CHRISTMASTIME 3) CHRISTY MOORE- FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK4) FRANK SINATRA- CHRISTMAS SEALS PUBLIC SERVICE SPOT & I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS5) GEORGE JONES- LONELY CHRISTMAS CALL6) MELVIS - I WANT TO GET LAID ON CHRISTMAS DAY - (1958)7) MABEL SCOTT- BOOGIE WOOGIE SANTA ( 1955)8) PORKY PIG- BLUE CHRISTMAS 9)THE RAMONES- I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT TONIGHT- 10) STAN FREBERG- I'M GETTING NUTTIN' FOR CHRISTMAS (1955)1...

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BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: SOME...

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2024/12/22

Dedicated to Chemayne Halverson (1/6/1967-12/23/2020)This is a haunting song by Rodgers and Hammerstein, which expresses the indefinable mysteries of romantic love. An interesting word I learned which describes this feeling is “limerence,” which the Oxford dictionary defines as “the state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person, typically experienced involuntarily…” This revelatory gnosis occurred to me quite early, when I played the character of Emile de Becque, the aging p...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS- " A BEATSVILLE CHRISTMAS"...

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2024/12/14

A BEATSVILLE CHRISTMAS- PART ONE1) Christmas In Jail- The Youngsters- 19562) Yulesville- Edd "Kookie" Burns - 19593) Pancho Claus- Jose Gonzales-Gonzales- 19644) Surfing Santa- The Ramblers- 1964

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS: "JOHNNY CARSON AND THE...

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2024/12/14

Maybe late-night TV shouldn’t be called “late-night TV” anymore, with so many viewers consuming it in clips the morning after, on their phones. Yet the genre’s hallmarks — the avuncular host, the sidekick, the band, the monologue, the desk, the guests — linger. Most were stamped on America’s consciousness by Johnny Carson.A new biography about an old reliable, Bill Zehme’s “Carson the Magnificent” harks back to an era when doom and scroll were biblical nouns and Carson’s “Tonight Show” was a ...

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BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: SOVAY...

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2024/12/13

You remember that anachronistic Sea Chanty internet meme a couple of years ago? All over the world people were recording themselves singing “The Wellerman”, proving the endurance of the Anglo folk tradition. You can thank Bert Lloyd (1908-1982) in the UK, for being the folklorist and song collector who documented and compiled many of these ancient songs, and for keeping the folk flame alive in the age of modern recording. He started collecting songs when he worked as a sheep herder in Au...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "THE GRATEFUL LIVE- ONE BIG...

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2024/12/07

Okay. No one wants to spoil the party.But according to the American Psychological Association, 89% of US adults reported feeling stressed during the 2023 holiday season. It's a good news, bad news situation much like this podcast which is truly a conflicted search for the highway to heaven, if such a utopia indeed exists.At least we make an effort to engage about the comforted and the awkward which is more than I can say for many who only pretend to do so.The holiday season can cause stress f...

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QUE SERA SERA by Sly and the Family Stone (Epic,...

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2024/12/06

This is a difficult artistic puzzle to sort out: a) Why is this, Doris Day’s signature song, the only cover that Sly ever recorded?; and, b), Is its delivery of “cheerful fatalism” a positive or a negative? The motto, cribbed by song writers Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for the Hitchcock film THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, from another film THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA, has a rich history of memento mori application going back centuries, and yet, here it appears in a fresh, compelling funk version for t...

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GUITAR BOY by Sir Victor Uwaifo and his Melody...

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2024/12/02

I miss Amoeba Records in Hollywood. When I was working a few blocks north of there, I’d visit a few times a week during my lunch break. They had a warehouse full of oddities of all mediums and genres, books, films and memorabilia. It was on one of these mid day excursions that I came across an album entitled: “The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Africa”. This was earmarked and marketed for people just like me. The music contained therein varied quite a bit from my idea of psych, but I love discove...

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BILL MESNIK OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENTS A...

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2024/11/27

From Bill:Reflecting upon the recent death of Alice Brock, the lady who lived in the bell tower of the abandoned church in Stockbridge, MA, along with her husband, Ray, (and Vacha, the dog) -, and who hosted the now legendary Thanksgiving feast attended by young Arlo Guthrie, that time when he got arrested trying to do his hosts a solid by dumping their excessive garbage - which subsequently soiled his record, making him ineligible for the draft. Well, reflecting upon this landmark recording ...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "DEVIL IN THE BOTTLE -RICH...

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2024/11/24

The story of a boy, a bottle and the redemption Country Music can deliver.

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TOTALLY WIRED by The Fall (1982, Rough Trade) BILL...

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2024/11/23

It’s jangly and jarring, but irresistibly hypnotic. Mark E Smith chants this incantation as if he is literally crawling out of his skin. The performance is teeth grinding punk rock in its distilled essence. a portrait of a poet in service to anarchy. And, funny. Deeply biting and ironical, this was DJ champion, John Peel’s favorite group. The lyrics here seem improvised, but he’s a gonzo beat poet extraordinaire - he’s written it all down, and delivers it with his signature repetition i...

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HOTEL BOHEMIA PRESENTS "WE AND MR. JONES -AN...

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2024/11/22

Quincy Jones Receives Posthumous Oscar, and Daughter Gives His SpeechAt the Governors Awards, Rashida Jones spoke on behalf of her father, who died earlier this month at the age of 91.Before his death two weeks ago, the musician and producer Quincy Jones wrote a speech he intended to deliver at the Governors Awards, where he would receive an honorary Oscar at the ceremony created by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.On Sunday night in Hollywood, his actress daughter Rashida Jone...

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I’M ALWAYS DRUNK IN SAN FRANCISCO by Carmen McRae...

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2024/11/16

I’M ALWAYS DRUNK IN SAN FRANCISCO by Carmen McRae (Atlantic, 1968)Here’s my San Francisco story: In the 1980s, Chemayne and I went there on our honeymoon, spending a week before flying to Hawaii. We stayed at The Red Victorian, a reconverted townhouse in the Haight run by a dedicated, middle aged hippie, Sammy Sun-Child. It was adjacent to the Red Vic movie house, where you lounged on comfortable couches and ate homemade delicacies. The movie that week was Meryl Streep’s Dingo ate my ba...

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Hotel Bohemia And The Splendid Bohemians Present...

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2024/11/14

George Jones’s New YorkBY JAMES BARRON George Jones Live At The Bottom Line- New York City- 19811 Ragged But Right2 The Race Is On3 Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms4 Bartender's Blues5 Grand Tour6 Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong7 You Better Treat Your Man Right8 White Lightning9 Once You've Had the BestAND MORE!Hardly anybody would have looked for an “I ♥ NY” bumper sticker on George Jones’s tour bus. “The story of him and New York was he just didn’t want to come here,” said Jack Grace, a sing...

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