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Beaches of Biloxi
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Lamar Jackson has had a hot hand for the Gulf Coast Gamblers the last two weeks in the BDFL |
The Gamblers get the best of da Blitz
BILOXI,
MS - The older you get, the harder it is to keep up with pop culture,
much less underground Texas country music. However, a few years back a
collegue of mind mentioned a band out of Austin, called Mike and the
Moonpies, so thought I'd check them out. What I discovered was
refreshing. I didn't know guys were still putting out hardcore,
freewheeling, hard-driving Country & Western music. On-stage and in
studio, Mike and the Moonpies still keep the tradition and the torch of
Texas country music burning. Formed by singer-songwriter Mike Harmeier
in 2007, the band is made up of frontman Mike along with the Moonpies;
Drummer Taylor Englert, guitarist Catlin Rutherford, bassist Omar Oyoque
and steel guitarist Zachary Moulton. My favorite M&TMPs song is "Beaches
of Biloxi". Just for fun, hit the hyperlink below to get the
back story on the song and their LIVE appearance on DittyTV.
It goes something like this... Top it off, I'm bound for Texas
on this lonely stretch of Interstate 10. I got all of Louisiana to think
of ways to tell her where I've been. I'd like to kill that dirty dealer,
the way he played me ought to be a crime. He pulled a flush out on the
river and got me down to my last dime. The beaches of Biloxi got the
best of me again, on that damn riverboat the dealers always win…And I'm
gonna lose her to the tables and the gin, the beaches of Biloxi got the
best of me again. Pull the shade over the window, crawl in bed with her
as softly as I can. I'll break the news to her tomorrow. Lord, I hope
she understands. 'Cause we been saving up for babies and a little
farmhouse near her father’s land, but I lost it all in Mississippi,
buried way down in that Gulf Coast sand. The beaches of Biloxi got the
best of me again on that damn riverboat the dealers always win, and I've
lost a fortune out here paying for my sins. The beaches of Biloxi got
the best of me again. In Week 3 of the BDFL, the Gulf Coast
Gamblers pulled a flush out on the Druid City Blitz (41-15) to get the
best of them again at the Beau Rivage along the beaches of Biloxi.
Beaches of Biloxi by Mike and the Moonpies (LIVE 2018)
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DOG |
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BEL |
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MAY |
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BUL |
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BLZ |
GAM |
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With frontman Marc Bolan, T.Rex is credited with starting the Glam Rock movement in the 1970s |
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Throwback Week to celebrate Glam Rock |
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Get It On (Bang A Gong) by T. Rex (1971)
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LONDON
- While Southern Rock was sweeping the United States in the
1970s, Glam Rock was emerging in the United Kingdom. I first
heard David Bowie's "Fame" on the jukebox at Bartee's after
school in the 8th grade (1975), so you know it had to be pretty
mainstream by then. Glam rock is defined as a style of rock
music that developed in the UK during the early 1970s by bands
and musicians who performed in outrageous costumes, wore makeup
with lots of glitter, had elaborate hairstyles and in
particular, wore platform shoes. Glam artists drew on diverse
sources across music and throwaway pop culture ranging from
bubblegum pop and 1950s Rock 'N Roll to cabaret, science fiction
and complex art rock. The flamboyant clothing and live on-stage
performances were characteristics of the genre. Glitter rock was
a more extreme version of glam. The UK charts were inundated
with glam rock acts from 1971 to 1975. The March 1971 appearance
of T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan on the BBC's music show Top of
the Pops, wearing glitter and satins, is often cited as the
beginning of the movement. See the actual video below with Elton
John on keyboard. Other British glam rock artists include David
Bowie, Mott The Hoople, Sweet, Slade, Mud, Roxy Music and Gary
Glitter. Those not central to the genre, such as Elton John, Rod
Stewart and Freddie Mercury of Queen, also adopted glam styles.
In the United States the scene was much less prevalent,
with Alice Cooper and Lou Reed leading the way in Glam Rock.
Other American Glam Rock artists included KISS, New York Dolls,
Sparks, Suzi Quatro, Iggy Pop and Jobriath. Glam Rock declined
after the mid-1970s, but would go on to influence other musical
genres including punk rock, glam metal, New
Romantic, deathrock and gothic rock. There may, or may not, be
any head-to-head Glam Rock contests in the BDFL in 2022, but we
have come up with 16 honorary Glam Rock teams this season to
help pay tribute to the genre, i.e., Durham Troubadours (Roxy
Music), Great Britain Bohemians (Queen), River Finn Crocodiles
(Elton John), Wolverhampton Runaways (Slade), Harefield Fox
Trotters (Sweet), Michigan Iguanas (The Stooges), Milwaukee
Leathernecks (Suzi Quatro), New York Dolls (Same), Bay City
Rollers (Same), Mott The Hoople (Hereford British Lions), Los
Angeles Spartans (Sparks), Detroit Rock City Destroyers (KISS),
Sundridge Rebels (David Bowie), London Raptors (T. Rex), Arizona
Nightmares (Alice Cooper) and the Coney Island Velvet Spiders
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