Tag Archives: rockabilly

Franny Beecher, of Bill Haley and the Comets, dies

    Comets, dies   Published February 25, 2014 Associated Press   Facebook40 Twitter18 Gplus0   This March 21, 2005 file photo shows members of The Comets, from left to right, Marshall Lytle, Franny Beecher, and Joey Ambrose perform at Rock is Fifty party held at the Gibson Guitar Studio in New York. Beecher, lead […]

Foot Tapping, Knee Slapping Sounds that I listen too !

Plenty of sounds that I like these days and here is a cool french band called. Jake Calypso & His Red Hot – My Baby Rocks They sure can belt cool 50’s style Rockabilly and I dig the song. Going with some traditional Blues with some Scat man thrown in for good measure, I love […]

Living in yesteryear

The people who are STILL living like it’s 1951: Captivating portraits take a look inside America’s Rockabilly community It may be 2014 to the rest of us, but for the subjects in Jennifer Greenburg’s photographs, it is still 1951. The assistant professor of photography at Indiana University Northwest has been photographing America’s Rockabilly community for […]

Cool Videos that I dig

OK, every now and again I make up some cool listings of Music Videos that I personally like. Now I know you may not like them all, but this is the stuff I like and gives you an idea of what turns my dial. This video that’s now up is from Norway, boy- they have […]

MOONEYES CHRISTMAS SHOW THIS SATURDAY DEC 7th

Well, it is that time of year again and the MOON-EYES Christmas party is all set for this coming Saturday at the Irwindale Drag strip, I shall be going with Dakota and maybe if I can get Jennifer my girlfriend to come along, that would make such a great Saturday for me. The Mooneyes show […]

PENDINE SANDS IN SOUTH WALES HAS AWESOME HOT ROD TURN OUT.

    WHAT A GREAT EXHIBITION OF SUPER COOL HOT RODS AND VINTAGE TIN ! Here is all the news of the up and coming day and I have also added vids and other people write ups for you all to have a look at.   The Vintage Hot Rod Association presents: Pendine Sands – Amateur […]

ELVIS PUT THE CUE IN THE RACK 36 YEARS AGO TODAY !

    The King of Rock n Roll put the Cue in the rack 36 years ago today, many of you will know where you were when the king passed away, some were not even born, but know this is the day that the poor bugger, carked it on the crapper.   The legend that […]

HOT ROD MAGAZINES 65th ANNIVERSARY HOME COMING CAR SHOW

Well,   Sunday Morning, Dakota, Jennifer and I jumped in the car and headed to Pomona, for the 65 Anniversary  Hot Rod homecoming that was organized by HOT ROD magazine and boy what a great show this was too. Weather was perfect and as we got there by 10am, we got parking easy and off […]

Pin Up Artist- Vaughn Bass, another top artist from back in the day.

Vaughan Alden Bass Vaughan Alden Bass was a Chicago artist who began his pinup career during the 1930s. He appears to have been strongly influenced by the circle of artists that grew up around Haddon Sundblom. Bass created his own pinups for for Brown & Bigelow, but he was then employed by the Louis F. […]