The Countertop Chronicles

Dave Stewart is a mad genius

Not only did he come out with a line of harmonically tuned vibrators - and played Somewhere Over The Rainbow with them on the Howard Stern show (you can listen here) -

but he has totally re-done the Eurythmics songs with full orchestration to replace the synthesizers.

Check it out. It blew me away

Here’s the video for the original Sweat Dreams. WHen this song came out - at the fawn of the MTV age, it was a musical revolution

You can also see him in the video for Tom Petty’s Don’t Come Around Here No More, a song Dave wrote (about the night Stevie Nicks broke up a long relationship with Joe Walsh and he ended up sleeping with her) on an album he produced. He’s on the giant mushroom at the start.

Her and her son Ben Taylor were just on the Howard Stern show.

Wow.

They spent 45 minutes talking about her marriage to that masshole James Taylor and the subsequent icy divorce.

Apparently neither has spoken to each other since they got divorced - even about important events in their kids life. And from the sound of it - which even Ben seemed to acknowledge - its mostly that masshole James Taylors fault (he won’t take her calls, didn’t speak to her at the daughters wedding - indeed made Carly use a porta potty at the wedding instead of allowing her in the house to pee).

Fuck him. Forget the ex-wife (but really - Mr. Sensitivity should grow up) what a fucking lousy situation to put your kids in.

The shocker (indeed, the whole thing was shocking . . . and incredible to hear) is that no one has ever talked to Carly Simon about this on the air, and for the most part, in private. Even the kids (which made Ben Taylor a bit uncomforable as he plays in both his mom and dad’s bands).

(oh yeah, her dad is the Simon in Simon & Shuster)
Here’s to you Carly. Keep doing what your doing.
Nobody does it better.

By the way, she has a totally different arrangement on Your So Vain. Wish I could find it online, because its even better than the original.

Question: What makes a girl go from a 7 to a 14?

As stated by her first pimp, the guy Eliot Spitzer busted for prostitution, on this morning’s Howard Stern show. Oh what a tangled web we weave when we aim to deceive.

Sweet!!

Jeff broke the news!

Here’s my comment there:

Back when I was in high school, I would work for my dad over the summers. Looked forward to the drive home every night not just cause it meant the end of the work day but also because I enjoyed listening to Bob Grant with him.

Like Howard Stern giving birth to the shock jock format, Bob Grant was the original conservative talk radio host. The fact that he did so out of New York City during its most liberal time is only a further testament to his glory. Sadly, unlike Stern, he never got the national audience. Instead Rush Limbaugh, who is half the man Grant is, took that and Grant was dropped. Bob Grant, in his heyday, would wipe his ass with twerps like Sean Hannity, who ultimately replaced him in the afternoon drive time slot and doesn’t deserve the honor.

Hope to hear him again.

And here ya go . . . with Sean Hannity.

From the official announcement.

This proves you CAN go home again. 77WABC has announced the return of Bob Grant. Bob takes over the 8-10pm slot effective immediately from Jerry Agar, who will continue to do his show for WLS in Chicago and will also fill-in for WABC. Bob was fired by WABC in 1996 after making a remark on the air that corporate parent Disney found offensive. At the time Bob was the most listened to talk show host in New York, with 11 years on the air on WABC. He then went to WOR where he retired a year ago. Now WABC is bringiing him back!

“This adds one more slugger to the already formidable lineup on WABC,” said WABC program director Phil Boyce. “That afternoon lineup of Rush to Sean to Mark Levin to Bob Grant is the new murderer’s row of radio.”

I had forgotten he was fired because of Disney. Just another reason to hate that fake, phony, fraud Michael Eisner!

Not only Howard Stern and superior music choices, plus Cam and Company, but now you have to multiply all that greatness by the mind blowing potential of the Grateful Dead channel.

Wow

Listening to a show from 1966 right now.

Untouchable

I’m A King Bee>Caution

Before the drugs, they were a straight up hard charging, whiskey drinking, biker blues band.

The Allmans had nothing on ‘em

Here’s the performance I mentioned here and here.

And here’s a link to his web page - johndennerrocks.com.
He’s got a picture up, but more is to come. And it looks like he visited me about 40 minutes ago. If he comes back, I’d love to buy you a drink when you come down to Walter Reed.

UPDATE See comment below. Apparently the video has been taken down.

Les raises an imaginary wizard shaped bong to you . . .

and I hoist the vagina hookah

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So the other day, Howard Stern has this crazy insane one handed guitarist on . . . his story, born with a birth defect that he’s overcome to play like Eddie Van Halen and then he goes to Walter Reed to play for the troops to give them hope and inspiration is one Kim duToit should consider in light of today’s post.

Anyway, I was blown away and put a post up about it and included a youtube video of him jamming.

Apparantly, they’ve taken it down. Jed asked, in comments, who it was. I then went a googling to see if I could find more.

Turns out, Mr. Denner is putting up a web page soon. it will be at http://www.johndennerrocks.com/.

But even cooler was I found this great new gunnie site at http://www.denner.ca/ and I’ve got to say . . . . looping it back around to Kim duToit, that I think he would approve of the selection of goods.

This guy was on Howard Stern today.

Simply unbelievable guitarist. If you do nothing else today, check this video out.

He’s heading off to Walter Reed next week to meet with our injured troops and give them hope.

God bless him. An inspiration to us all

and as a bonus, Howard is going to invite David Lee Roth to come on the air and sing with him . . . get Michael Anthony on board and we can tell the brothers Van Halen to just fuck off.

I mentioned the other day that Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange was looking to go hunting. Well this morning, some PETA VEGAN shit head named Sam Simon was on debating Ted Nugent over the value of hunting and whether or not Artie could ever bring himself to kill an animal.

Only caught the end, but Artie (he was convicted of coke possession some years ago) left the question open contingent on whether he can use a gun or not - he just doesn’t have it in him to go bow hunting - and Howard said if he just wanted to go shooting to let him know he has lots of guns, he’s got an Uzi, you can shoot all of them to your hearts content.

Wish I could find transcripts, etc. (if you go here and scroll down to 8:50 its not a line by line transcript but pretty good summary of what happened)

Sam asked Ted if he eats leopards when he hunts them. Ted said he has. Sam talked about how he’s actually saved some leopards from being shot in these controlled hunting events because they have no way to get away. They’re stuck in an enclosure where the hunters can just shoot them in the open. Ted told Sam that he’s full of shit and out of his mind. He accused him of lying about that stuff. Sam said he’s seen it for himself so he’s absolutely not lying.

Ted said that he has hunted zebra, elephant and many other things. He said that the meat they get is given to people who need to eat across this country. They hunt deer for those people. Sam said that they do that just so they have an excuse to kill more deer.

Sam said that Ted makes an enormous amount of money from this hunting he does. He said the guy makes money off DVDs and stuff like that so he’s not just hunting for food. Ted told Sam to suck his dick after hearing that. He said that the money he makes goes to help kids and various charities. Sam said that maybe Ted gives away his money but there are people making money on the hunting.

There’s lots more.

UPDATE Howard’s official page has the details up from yesterday’s show.

HUNTING: BOTH SIDES
After a commercial, Howard reported Artie was in the green room sleeping, and wondered what he did the rest of the day that made him so tired. Howard then told Artie the only reason he had him woken up was because he had Ted Nugent, someone who supported the hunting of animals, and Sam Simon, a vegan of 35 years, on the line to discuss his potential hunting trip with Richard’s dad, Tom.

Sam noted he didn’t think Artie should hunt given the fact that animals both suffer a great deal when hunted and sometimes are merely wounded and not killed when struck. However, Ted claimed 90 percent of animals “hit” while hunting with a bow and arrow are killed, while another 8 percent allegedly survive like nothing happened. Because Ted compared hunting to the way animals harm other animals in everyday life during his argument, Sam noted the situations weren’t analogous, and insisted Ted was just adding more “suffering in the world” through his actions.

KILLING MORE THAN JUST DEER
Sam brought up how Ted supported canned hunts in Africa where wild animals like leopards were made to run down an enclosed area while hunters shot at them. Ted replied, though, that every part of the animals he killed in Africa went to the people of the area, and admitted to having killed and eaten zebras and elephants as well. This led Sam to claim Ted made “a ton of money” off his hunting, but Ted denied the allegation, adding “no check” had ever been written to him because of hunting.

DECIDING TO SIT IT OUT
Sam acknowledged his main problem with hunting was the pleasure hunters took in killing animals, while Artie admitted he didn’t see the difference in eating a steak and not killing the animals himself. Artie then asked Sam if he had a problem with Tom’s lifestyle, given that he needed to hunt to survive, and he said he didn’t, as long Tom needed to hunt to eat, but that it wasn’t necessary for Ted to do the same thing.

Given all the information he’d heard, Artie then promised he wouldn’t go bow-hunting, but, if he was legally permitted to hunt with a gun given of his record as a felon, he’d think about it more before making his decision. Both Howard and Robin acknowledged, though, that they were siding with Sam on the debate, and Artie ended up agreeing with them.

AN UNEQUAL “SPORT”
Howard took a number of calls on the topic, including one from a listener who referred to hunting as “a sport.” This led Gary to get on his intercom and question the caller’s definition of “sport,” pointing out he didn’t think a person with a gun was a fair match against a defenseless animal. However, the caller insisted it was, and added he thought animals like deer knew when hunting season started, and avoided walking around much because they knew they were involved in “the game.”