Red McKenzie's Music Box
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This is an interesting cup of tea 🍵
And i just heard that Alex Hood went last week too. mudcat.org/thread.cfm?t... blog.bushmusic.org.au/2025/12/vale...
December 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
And i just heard that Alex Hood went last week too. mudcat.org/thread.cfm?t... blog.bushmusic.org.au/2025/12/vale...
- I think I can fit 695 MB on this CD-R for the car
- Goodness that's burning quickly, i thought i said 8x
- oh well it finished and verified ok, let's grab it and head out the door
- it's not working, maybe an incompatible file system? But I thought it got it right...
It was a DVD-R.
- Goodness that's burning quickly, i thought i said 8x
- oh well it finished and verified ok, let's grab it and head out the door
- it's not working, maybe an incompatible file system? But I thought it got it right...
It was a DVD-R.
December 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
- I think I can fit 695 MB on this CD-R for the car
- Goodness that's burning quickly, i thought i said 8x
- oh well it finished and verified ok, let's grab it and head out the door
- it's not working, maybe an incompatible file system? But I thought it got it right...
It was a DVD-R.
- Goodness that's burning quickly, i thought i said 8x
- oh well it finished and verified ok, let's grab it and head out the door
- it's not working, maybe an incompatible file system? But I thought it got it right...
It was a DVD-R.
I have spent the entire day either humming the opening trombone line Ray gave to himself, or the "ba ba dum"s of the women's/trumpet line. Catchy as anything.
This arrangement is extraordinary. If it were Bob Graettinger scoring for Kenton you'd long have been all over it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=80A5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=80A5...
'S Wonderful - Ray Conniff (1956)
YouTube video by Ken Newell
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I have spent the entire day either humming the opening trombone line Ray gave to himself, or the "ba ba dum"s of the women's/trumpet line. Catchy as anything.
Ted Egan has died. And here I was thinking he might just live forever.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Beer box musician and land rights champion: Ted Egan's 'big and generous life'
A former Government House occupant and a prolific author and historian, Ted Egan will also be remembered as the man who reinvented the beer box as a musical instrument.
www.abc.net.au
December 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Ted Egan has died. And here I was thinking he might just live forever.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
About a thousand years ago I saw Sarah Blasko on that tour at Ruby's in Belgrave with her band at the time. Ethereal on some tunes, intense on others, it was amazing. It's so good she went on to big things, but that little show still sticks in my mind.
3 - what the sea wants…
2 - desert lights
1 - Hollywood
2 - desert lights
1 - Hollywood
November 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
About a thousand years ago I saw Sarah Blasko on that tour at Ruby's in Belgrave with her band at the time. Ethereal on some tunes, intense on others, it was amazing. It's so good she went on to big things, but that little show still sticks in my mind.
Ooh, I certainly did, and everything else i could get my hands on. youtu.be/kLJkEk3F4cI
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Ooh, I certainly did, and everything else i could get my hands on. youtu.be/kLJkEk3F4cI
I did!
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I did!
Gentle nothing.
The webcomic xkcd has elicited many emotions in me over these long years, most often confusion. A gentle tear has not been a common reaction though. Just a few times, including today.
Best wishes Randall (@xkcd.com) and Mrs xkcd for both of your continuing good health.
Best wishes Randall (@xkcd.com) and Mrs xkcd for both of your continuing good health.
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Gentle nothing.
Loving the scuzzy Australian 60s rock on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social this afternoon. Even scuzzier on 855 AM!
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Loving the scuzzy Australian 60s rock on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social this afternoon. Even scuzzier on 855 AM!
Gough's famous moment as seen on TV in 1975, 1995 and restored from the original film in 2015. You can read about the restoration at www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/dismi... if you're into that sort of thing, I certainly am.
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Gough's famous moment as seen on TV in 1975, 1995 and restored from the original film in 2015. You can read about the restoration at www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/dismi... if you're into that sort of thing, I certainly am.
Also, in other early 90s chart observations, Hothouse Flowers had a number 1, platinum album here without a top 20 single. Genuinely well done to whoever decided to push them to the albums market.
November 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Also, in other early 90s chart observations, Hothouse Flowers had a number 1, platinum album here without a top 20 single. Genuinely well done to whoever decided to push them to the albums market.
I was reminded of this by the recent Paul Dempsey cover. Angry wasn't something Michael Hutchence did often but it sounds good on him. youtu.be/CIVamkD07L0
Max Q | Michael Hutchence – Way Of The World (Official Music Video) [4K Remastered]
YouTube video by INXS TV
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I was reminded of this by the recent Paul Dempsey cover. Angry wasn't something Michael Hutchence did often but it sounds good on him. youtu.be/CIVamkD07L0
The opening 45 seconds of Rachmaninov's arrangement of Liebesleid remind me of something and I just can't put my finger on it.
youtu.be/gGmILVnE_dg
youtu.be/gGmILVnE_dg
Rachmaninoff plays Kreisler-Rachmaninoff: Liebesleid (1921 rec)
YouTube video by Goruchannel
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The opening 45 seconds of Rachmaninov's arrangement of Liebesleid remind me of something and I just can't put my finger on it.
youtu.be/gGmILVnE_dg
youtu.be/gGmILVnE_dg
This week's earworm has come to me via Techmoan youtu.be/LTU3XHWS0kc - excellent transfer from Nick Dellow.
Original Dixieland 'Jass' Band - Livery Stable Blues (bass drum amplified)
YouTube video by Nick Dellow
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 7:18 AM
This week's earworm has come to me via Techmoan youtu.be/LTU3XHWS0kc - excellent transfer from Nick Dellow.
October 30, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Reposted by Red McKenzie's Music Box
Anyway I am off for a brain cleanse, because I feel like I've lost some of it reading about today's discourse.
This runs a bit slow, but it's straight off a metal mother and sounds superb.
youtu.be/4-Y9NcqUHY4
This runs a bit slow, but it's straight off a metal mother and sounds superb.
youtu.be/4-Y9NcqUHY4
Ain't Misbehavin' - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra - Okeh Metal Mother
YouTube video by Jonathan Holmes
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Anyway I am off for a brain cleanse, because I feel like I've lost some of it reading about today's discourse.
This runs a bit slow, but it's straight off a metal mother and sounds superb.
youtu.be/4-Y9NcqUHY4
This runs a bit slow, but it's straight off a metal mother and sounds superb.
youtu.be/4-Y9NcqUHY4
Jeez, imagine what happens when she finds out what their name of the arisen phoenix was.
October 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Jeez, imagine what happens when she finds out what their name of the arisen phoenix was.
I've been listening to charts from 35 years ago this month and been really enjoying some tunes I was too blinkered to like back then.
October 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I've been listening to charts from 35 years ago this month and been really enjoying some tunes I was too blinkered to like back then.
Got the sheets and towels washed and dried outside this morning and now I'm watching the afternoon rain with a cup of tea. It really doesn't get much better than this.
October 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Got the sheets and towels washed and dried outside this morning and now I'm watching the afternoon rain with a cup of tea. It really doesn't get much better than this.
An app notification just addressed me as "Hey Trendsetter", and i thought Rodney Rude had retired.
October 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
An app notification just addressed me as "Hey Trendsetter", and i thought Rodney Rude had retired.
Listening to old home recordings of a mate, and between songs we're chatting and he says "nah I didn't get anything, it was $7.50 for bacon and eggs, so screw that."
October 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Listening to old home recordings of a mate, and between songs we're chatting and he says "nah I didn't get anything, it was $7.50 for bacon and eggs, so screw that."
Like The Lonesome Jubilee, I bought this album when I was far too young to understand it, but years later realised just how good it really is.
Your #JasonDunstall89Medal Top 21
Number 17 (17* votes)
Cosmic Thing - The B-52’s
youtu.be/9SOryJvTAGs?...
Number 17 (17* votes)
Cosmic Thing - The B-52’s
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The B-52's - Love Shack (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RHINO
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Like The Lonesome Jubilee, I bought this album when I was far too young to understand it, but years later realised just how good it really is.
Wasn't expecting to have a sniffle cleaning the kitchen on a Sunday morning but here we are, hey? youtu.be/imHkz5nD6gs
Chappell Roan - Kaleidoscope (Official Live Performance)
YouTube video by ChappellRoanVEVO
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Wasn't expecting to have a sniffle cleaning the kitchen on a Sunday morning but here we are, hey? youtu.be/imHkz5nD6gs
That would explain the big change in the ARIA charts then - anything more that 2 years old has been shoved over into its own chart as of last month. So the massive runs of Riptide, Mr Brightside, Someone You Loved etc are over. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Australian music struggles on the charts, so ARIA is changing the rules
Old hits are being moved out to make space for new Australian music on the charts as ARIA implements new rules aiming to give homegrown talent a fairer chance at reaching the pointy end.
www.abc.net.au
October 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
That would explain the big change in the ARIA charts then - anything more that 2 years old has been shoved over into its own chart as of last month. So the massive runs of Riptide, Mr Brightside, Someone You Loved etc are over. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...