About
dk spent his formative years kicking around the basketball courts and ball fields of Springfield, OR and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1992 with a double major in word construction and LP appreciation. After a short stint pouring beers for Eugene’s class A minor league baseball team – The Emeralds – and replacing roofs for the Springfield School District, young K finally landed a job in professional tomfoolery in the Bay Area, where he’s lived ever since. Current interests include music, albums, and songs, as well as rooting through the dollar bin until hives appear. Current non-interests include The Eagles, Oasis, Yanni, and getting a root canal.
1 May 2007 at 9:43 am |
Hi
We’d love to write about your Sgt Pepper recreation – could you email me?
best
Rob
18 May 2007 at 5:03 am |
Hey DK, this is a cool website. I’ve been reading many things here tonight. I’m interested in how musicians get ideas from old songs and make new songs. For example, Be My Baby (Ronettes) —> Don’t Worry Baby (Beach Boys) —> Just Like Starting Over (Lennon). Or, Cha Cha Chá Loco (Cuban bandleader Rosendo Ruiz Jr.) —> El Loco Cha Cha (Ricky Rillera and the Rhythm Rockers) —> Louie Louie. I don’t mean to say they ’stole’ the ideas, or anything remotely like that. I think it’s great when artists are influenced by other great artists. I’m especially appreciative when they admit it openly. Maybe you know some connections like this, and could make a list to share with us?
davido (thanks again for your site)
31 May 2007 at 2:01 am |
[...] Some bloke has created a mix of his 20 greatest hip-hop albums of all-time. I can’t find a link to the mix on his website, but hey, check out the cover! A fantastic pastiche of the legendary Sergeant Pepper album by The Beatles. [...]
27 June 2007 at 3:29 pm |
Skipper here,
just wanted to let you know the good news: Greta and I were married. Now that’s good business!
5 July 2007 at 7:16 pm |
i have just spent a virtual hour at the mira vista social club, shirking many responsibilities along the way. doing so was the highlight of my summer so far. it’s the next best thing to being there. hey to p & your 5 peeps. – c.
17 July 2007 at 12:22 pm |
DK
Furr and I picked up the Byrds box set per your recommendation. Love Gram Parsons! Looking forward to getting Gilded Palace of Sin. Hope all is well.
Cool website! Now on my favorites.
20 July 2007 at 1:40 pm |
where’s the beef?
19 January 2008 at 7:18 am |
Yo dk,
Thanks for the #3 album, it’s great. Had dinner last night with P and family.
P tells me you bought MJQ’s Third Stream Music, what do you think? It’s an album you have to listen to a couple of times to appreciate.
20 January 2008 at 9:34 am |
Hey Peter!
Thanks for stopping in to say hello, and for recommending that MJQ album.
I’m still getting my head wrapped around it, but the album cover (with all the thumbs) drives P nutty, so it’s already worth the $1.95 we spent on it!
Enjoy the anniversary mix…
20 January 2008 at 5:31 pm |
Already have, enjoyed it that is, many times, great ending track with Miles.
$1.95 ? yikes that’s a good deal. See ya.
21 January 2008 at 3:09 pm |
Yo dk, my son wants to know, why no King Crimson?
PS; P, the restaurant was great, loved the pork cheeks.
1 February 2008 at 10:32 am |
here is a list i did a few years ago:
1- Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
2- Black Sabbath – Volume 4
3- Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
4- Black Sabbath – Sabotage
5- Black Sabbath – Master of Reality
6- Black Sabbath – Paranoid
7- Alice Cooper – Love it to Death
8- Alice Cooper – Killer
9- Jethro Tull – Aqualung
10- Black Flag – Damaged/Everything Went Black
11- Barkmarket – L Ron
12- Pink Floyd – Obscured By Clouds
13- Slayer – South of Heaven
14- Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
15- Solace – Further
16- Entombed – Wolverine Blues
17- Johnny Cash – American Recordings
18- Hank Williams – The Complete Hank Williams
19- The Obsessed – The Church Within
20- Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff
21- Misfits – Walk Among Us
22- Holocaust – The Night Comers
23- Iron Maiden – Killers
24- The Stooges – The Stooges
25- Riot – Fire Down Under
26- Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard of Ozz
this hasn’t changed to much since then but if i got down to it i could swap a bunch of them out but not the top 10…!
heh….
27 February 2008 at 6:06 am |
Have a nice day !
16 August 2008 at 6:07 pm |
Yo, DK, thanks so much for the bio book on Willie Ruff, a very thoughtfull gift, am keeping it for the flight to Italy. What do you think of Guitar Gabrial, and Big Boy Henry. Also, please let me know what you think of the “Catbird Seat”, with Dwike Mitchell.
PS, P is a great kid, you’re a lucky dude. Ciao.
22 September 2008 at 9:13 pm |
DK, I lost your email :( but thanks for the mix-CDs! Can’t wait to hear ‘em.
2 October 2008 at 3:03 pm |
I’m glad to see you’re putting your j-school training to good use. Do you even have time for a day job? However, just because this is a well-written, insightful site that’s truly a joy to explore doesn’t mean you’re not a charlatan. Or any number of other ’superlatives.’ And I thought you’d be a Surf God by now…
2 October 2008 at 4:16 pm |
Well I’ll be… Dave K!
Long time no talk. How you been??
Thanks for stopping by. Always great to hear from you!
15 October 2008 at 7:18 am |
Hello, we saw that you are featuring some of our competitors and we were wondering if you’d be interesting in a link exchange with us.
http://www.thecelebritycafe.com
The internet’s longest running entertainment/celebrity magazine
Thank you for your time and have a great day.
- Michael Mardings
16 October 2008 at 9:22 pm |
No.
10 November 2008 at 7:33 am |
Yo, Dan, just finished Willie Ruff bio you and P gave me. Enjoyed it very much, great book to read on jazz, and the plight of blacks growing up in America, especially with the backdrop of the recent election.
Thanks again.
11 November 2008 at 12:59 pm |
Interesting list. A lot reverence for the older classics, I get that, but for me I like whatever I am listening to at that moment. I just seem to move from record to record and have a few ever changing favorites that I rely on.
– Cheers!
12 November 2008 at 11:58 am |
Mitch Mitchell apparently found dead in Portland hotel room.
5 December 2008 at 6:57 pm |
Love your blog. I was looking for your top ten records with great organ. I’d like to nominate Charlie Musselwhites – Stand Back. Specifically / Cha Cha the blues, I’m listening to the record right now and it’s one of my top ten songs of all time.
5 December 2008 at 7:30 pm |
Thanks for the good word and the suggestions Brian. We’ve been grooving to Musselwhite’s album Goin’ Back Down South, with Robben Ford on guitar. Another blues gem that’s been gliding over our turntable recently is Robert Nighthawk’s Bricks In My Pillow…
11 December 2008 at 6:59 am |
Daaaannnn!!
I love reading this site… I just passed to a few guys at my new gig – http://www.160over90.com
I have 6 tickets to see Neil Young tomorrow night – 14th row center, at The Spectrum, where I saw my very first concert in 7th grade “Led Zeppelin” – along with many other great bands after. I’m looking forward to going back in time to a dirty and dark place to hear Neil echo through the beams and my head. I’ll follow up after. Cheers for Beers. – BuZz.
11 December 2008 at 2:10 pm |
Thanks Buzz! I look forward to hearing about the Neil show…
29 January 2009 at 9:05 am |
Hi DK,
I wanted to let you know about a solo exhibit John Purlia has coming up at Distinction Gallery in Escondido, California. John uses vintage album covers, books, toys, robots, and alphabet blocks to create dioramas which he then photographs. The show is titled “Plastic Prophets of Vinyl Redemption” and will run from February 14-March 7, with a special opening night reception on Valentine’s Day from 6-11pm. We’re very excited about all of the great album covers used for this exhibit, including “March Around the Breakfast Table” by Eddie Ballantine, “Jazz Red Hot and Cool” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet and “My Baby’s Gone” by the Louvin Brothers. We really enjoy your blog (which we discovered through LP Cover Lover) and any feedback you could give would be greatly appreciated!
Here’s a link to a preview of the show:
http://www.johnpurlia.com
Thanks!
Kathy Jones
Wind-up Dreams & Vinyl Nightmares
27 February 2009 at 8:25 am |
Is this Dan K______?? Hit me back.
27 February 2009 at 8:43 am |
It is indeed Pete. Great to see your name on here!
E-mail coming your way soon…
18 March 2009 at 7:57 pm |
My father was not a coke dealer, he was acquitted, and publicly publishing such information leaves you open to a libel suit, I suggest you correct it post haste.
18 March 2009 at 9:30 pm |
Done. Thanks for the correction, and apologies for the error…
28 March 2009 at 10:47 am |
Are you on Last.fm? I’m there, but backwards. There are too many pannonicas in some places of the world.
I was pretty sure it wasn’t Dorling Kindersley, but Pete ruined that for all time.
29 March 2009 at 8:30 am |
I love your site. Keep it up !
29 March 2009 at 12:24 pm |
(Sheepishly) I tagged you for a “meme” thing. As far as these things go, it’s pretty small scale. I know I don’t know you very well and am sorry to impose, but then again I guess the idea of them is to disseminate and share information. Of course there’s no obligation on your part, but if you feel the urge the link is here. Thanks? Sorry?
29 March 2009 at 5:42 pm |
Thanks and no apologies necessary. I’m always happy to be linked, especially from a fine blog like your own…
13 April 2009 at 1:46 pm |
Okay maybe you or someone you know can answer a long standing answer song question of mine. There’s a fine tradition of answer songs (Germany’s Bear Family has two or three themed volumes on just that subject), but the only three-link I know of is:
“Southern Man” · Neil Young (1970)
“Sweet Home Alabama” · Lynyrd Skynyrd (1974)
“Play it All Night Long” · Warren Zevon (1980)
Obviously, using Mensa-variety pattern forming analysis, the third answer song should have been recorded by a U.S. group in 1988 and had 5 words in the title. I’m unaware of such a thing’s existence, but maybe there’s one out there, even if it isn’t located precisely where logic says it should be. Any insights? Ideas?
13 April 2009 at 5:29 pm |
Hip-Hop battle raps took the idea of the “answer song” to a completely new level. One famous battle – known as The Bridge Wars – took place from the mid-80’s until the early 90’s (and even had a figurative shot fired as late as 2001). It featured nearly a dozen back-and-forths between Boogie Down Productions’ KRS-One and MC Shan & Marley Marl, regarding the birthplace of hip-hop.
A less famous set of hip-hop “answer songs” revolve around a track called ‘Bring The Pain’ by Method Man. Here’s the chronology of that one:
‘Bring The Pain’ – Method Man (from the 1994 album Tical)
‘No More Pain’ – 2Pac (from the 1995 album All Eyez On Me)
‘Bring The Pain’ – Missy Elliot, featuring Method Man (from the 2002 album Under Construction)
I’m no Mensa man, so I can’t speak to the mathematical progressions involved here, but these songs link together in a way that’s always piqued my interest. And these are far from the only hip-hop-related examples out there…
15 April 2009 at 6:56 am |
Aha. I remember a song called “The Bridge is Over” from back then, but I never really parsed it. I guess I just figured it was The Bridge is Over the East River or something like that. I’m pretty atypical (for a gal) in that I tend not to focus on lyrics first.
Thanks for all the information!
Hmmm. I just checked out your Wikipedia link and I see that “The Bridge is Over” was recorded in 1989. I had for a long time thought retroactively that a rap song I heard and liked very much earlier in the ’80s was “The Bridge is Over,” but obviously that isn’t the case. I’d love to know what that other song was, the rapper had a mellifluous baritone delivery and the cadences were more lyrical than other raps of the time. Unfortunately, I have no idea who sang it or what it was called or anything even remotely specific. I didn’t even hear it on the radio; it was on a local NYC UHF program called Video Music Box that was hosted by Ralph McDaniels. Oh, and the video featured a guy rapping on an elevated stage in a crowded club room. Real helpful, I know.
Maybe someday I’ll hear it again.
13 June 2009 at 10:13 am |
Hey man. I just got hipped to this site by my boy Jim C, last night, when we went to see The Church at Slim’s. (Killer show. They still got it.)
But I’m the guy who made that Afropsychfunk mix. I finally tracked down the tracklist if you like.
13 June 2009 at 10:15 am |
Thanks Kenny. I’ll shoot you an e-mail to get that tracklist…
Appreciate you stopping by.