Right Brain/Left Brain

03/13/2024

In case you missed the Academy Awards!

07/18/2023

A few of my favorite things. 🤖❤️
Artwork by Roscoe West and John Hernandez.

07/17/2023

A very cool modern version of one of the greatest Japanese anime characters, Tetsujin-28.

07/07/2023

Are you businessman?

10/17/2021

Best costume award goes to….

A group costume that deserves all of the full-size candy bars. 🕊️💜💧

05/07/2019

Sorry for the long delay, but we haven't posted in a while. Long story!
In the meantime, have you seen our Modern Toys Museum collection? If not, please check it out here:
https://www.rightbrain-leftbrain.com/modern.html

RightBrain-LeftBrain presents Rock and Roll vintage tour programs, backstage passes, concert tickets, Beatles items, the strange and wonderful like Japanese toys, Voodoo flags from Haiti. Just like your brain.

06/18/2016

Check out this Japanese Trump TV commercial!

Get the track here: https://itun.es/us/P8B1cb & on Spotify! YuuuUUGE thanks to all the talented & lovely folks that helped me make this stupid thing out of t...

12/05/2015

Happy Birthday to the fabulous Little Richard (nee Richard Wayne Penniman) on 12/5/32. The Bronze Liberace, the Georgia Peach and simultaneous King & Queen of Rock n' Roll. He turns 83 today.

08/28/2015

Today is the 50th anniversary of Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited! This is a fun look back!

On the enduring mystique of the icon's second 1965 triumph

05/15/2015

I, like millions of teenagers, discovered a new world of music in 1964 when the Beatles performed on Ed Sullivan. That started a leap in musical evolution for me. I was buying records from my local record shop in Lubbock, Texas. Speedy Perez was my mentor as I haunted the shop regularly. It was 1966 and he asked me if I had heard any blues music. I had no idea what it was. He sold me a copy of B.B. King's "Live at the Regal". I took it home, put it on the record player, which was hooked up to my guitar amp, and discovered an emotional side of myself that I had not really paid attention to. This was music that really moved me in a way pop music did not.

B.B. "Blues Boy" King died last night at the ripe age of 89. His was a great story from sharecropper to Blues legend. I can see online how many people's lives he touched.

12/16/2014

We've been re-listening to David Byrne's & Brian Eno's superlative 2008 collaboration "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today". In particular the ultra-modern gospel-esque "My Big Nurse".

My Lazy Afternoon "David Byrne and Brian Eno-My Big Nurse", registrazione sonora gestita da: [Merlin] InertiaPtyLtd Redeye Distribution

10/26/2014

Jack Bruce, bassist for Cream, passed away yesterday. The band played a reunion concert at Royal Albert Hall in 2005.

Live from The Royal Albert Hall 2005

08/12/2014

Fascinating story about the biggest collector of vinyl records in the world. The story is so multi-faceted in all the implications....

Since he was a child, Zero Freitas has been unable to stop buying records. Now he wants to save every album in existence.

07/18/2014

The big news in rock n' roll today is the passing of Texas guitarist Johnny Winter. While Hendrix, Clapton, Page et al are the most frequently heard "guitar gods", none of them surpassed Johnny Winter. Listen to this 1987 performance on Swedish TV of "Sound the Bell".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1E1EH6bXfA

Johnny is showing some of his famous licks here....

07/15/2014

A friend of ours just saw McCartney in Lincoln, NE, last night.

Yesterday

05/23/2014

Any Pandora subscribers out there? We've used it for a while now but just discovered the GENRE stations! It's a whole new world of music. Well, some of it is not "new": one of the great finds is the 60s French Pop station!

05/13/2014

Neil Young and Jack White appeared on the Tonight Show last night. White spent a year and a half restoring a 1947 Voice-O-Gram vinyl recording booth, which was originally made for instant vinyl recordings. A one shot deal. Young stepped in the booth and played Patsy Cline's "Crazy". Young has always been a champion of analog music, and just released a Jack White-produced vinyl LP, "A Letter Home", comprised of songs that influenced him in the past.

Jimmy Fallon hosts The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Weeknights 11:35/10:35c

05/02/2014

We came across this Marquee Club contract for The Yardbirds 1965 performance on July 31st, the day "Heart Full of Soul" was released! Clapton had just left the band, and was replaced by Jeff Beck (who was later replaced by Jimmy Page). Signed by then The Rolling Stones manager Giorgio Gomelsky, who also managed the Yardbirds. According to Eric Clapton, it was Gomelsky that gave him the nickname "Slowhand". If Clapton broke a string onstage playing for the Yardbirds, he would stop and replace it before proceeding. Nice piece of rock n' roll history.

YARDBIRDS Jeff Beck 1965 MARQUEE CLUB CONTRACT Signed Giorgio Gomelsky 7/31/65