Inertia Musica

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Gearing up for a new year and surf band gigs (fingers crossed)! Look for new music and show dates, coming soon! #acegonzalez #surfmusic #springreverb #mesaboogie (at Santa Barbara, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZFspDRP_3uGuOo3rlNGuX01-wjtuW5ex4aKAo0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Thinking of my friends and family today - Stay well everybody! (at Westside) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGF2buwFVj3Ca2SSJiKIWORdig6i6LCk2rFZTo0/?igshid=zn1rhcb1hg2t

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By popular demand, another photo of some of my surf guitars #acegonzalez #turningNEbydawn (at Santa Barbara, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD2FBBBFpH2PxmqjsWgHZuj-uhQxjCZN3o3m5U0/?igshid=1nd0zz3bgdtt1

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Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, Ft Collins CO, May 23, 1976, recorded for an NBC TV special “Hard Rain”, aired September 13. #fingernails

I went crazy for this! Still one of the wildest things I’ve ever seen on TV. Like another peak classic rock TV experience, Bowie’s “1980 Floor Show” (also on NBC), it has never been released officially, and Sony keeps taking the videos down…but for now anyway, feast your ass on THIS, an electrified version of “Shelter From The Storm”, featuring Bob playing SLIDE. 

Bob had already been famous (and infamous) for switching songs up live for over a decade, but this was the first time I’d heard one of his solemn, intimate prayers that I knew like the back of my hand turned up, blown out, and howling – and I was hooked for life. 

Turn it up! It won’t really make sense until your ears are bleeding.

*nb: This clip gets taken down a LOT. If the embed is busted by the time you see this post, here’s a hyperlink to the YouTube search so you can try to find it again. :-)

Note too that this is the 1976 leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue. Most of the attention, including the Martin Scorsese documentary, is focused on the more civilized 1975 leg. That one was Bob telling his friends, “C’mon everybody! It’ll be fun!” Emphasis on Rolling.

1976 wasn’t about friends. This was Bob saying, “If I stop, I’ll die, so I’m gonna keep going until I can’t….then I’ll go a little further still.” Emphasis on Thunder.

Hell yeah it’s a mess. This is a man on fire, playing for keeps. Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn, baby. Prepare yourself to be changed.

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Yeah!!

[michonnegrimes]

There’s more of us than you! We’re a community, a majority vote. Up the workers and all that stuff!

A Hard Day’s Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester

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fanny, 1972

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Kickass all female rock band from the early 70’s - Check it! #fanny

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1964 ‘The Fool’ Guitar, designed for Eric Clapton but was later passed to Jackie Lomax and Todd Rundgren. The art deals with the themes of heaven and hell, good and evil, with the angel above hellish flames, and a “utopia” nature scene on the pick guard.

It’s so beautiful I just had to share :)

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I can’t resist either, this guitar is awesome. Purportedly also the instrument used to record the immortal “Crossroads” solo #livecream

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House On Haunted Hill, 1959. dir William Castle

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Itō Jakuchū

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Beautiful

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Roy Haynes, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker

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One of my all time favorite pics - can you imagine what that sounded like? Look at Monk and Roy’s faces...

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Friday morning breakfast music! #hottuna #livealbum #westsidesb (at Westside, Santa Barbara) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_FrUzYF2tJI4TCDZl1WkN33chu6WOGlMgovRA0/?igshid=1ekmp3f21l0ij

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Repost from FB: With all that's going on in the world right now, it is exemplified in so many amazing ways that ART is what is vital and is helping us to get through these trying times. In this spirit (and seriously overdue), I wanted share that my first record "Songs from An Imaginary Surf Movie" is finally available online through all the usual channels (Spotify/Apple Music/Amazon/etc.). Here's one of those links: https://music.apple.com/us/album/songs-from-an-imaginary-surf-movie/1499407082?app=apple%20music&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Also, I've been doing some filming and editing, some of which include new Surfilm tunes as soundtrack. "Didj Man" features my dear friend Zack Tullis-Thompson and his incredible didjeridoo playing, while the other two, "Skunk Tune" and "Canada Del Lobo" portray my brother (and co-conspirator!) Jeff-I Gonzalez. All of the following clips were shot on location in the SB backcountry - get out there! Didj Man: https://vimeo.com/315150296 Canada Del Lobo: https://vimeo.com/407279206 Skunk Tune: https://vimeo.com/407274735. #didjman #acegonzalez #surfilmsound #makemoreart (at California Highway 41) https://www.instagram.com/p/B--vL_TlcW-XG8duUinnv3N11z7XSjhQp_Duno0/?igshid=1s0iukuy7q35j

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Saturday at #cajeSB with my lovely wife (at Lab Social santa Barbara) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8myvVTlAB1FEUwKfKQNTKfGp5KwXaWt4QndZg0/?igshid=1u9mobxyvpxjs

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The Allman Brothers Band, 1971, NOT photographed in New York, but outside their Macon studio months later for the cover of At Fillmore East, by Jim Marshall

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About the coolest MF’s ever...

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Stevie photographed in 1963 | the same year he made history as the youngest artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 with Fingertips at the age of thirteen and became the first artist to have a simultaneous number one single and album in the U.S.

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What a glorious photo! 

I also recently came across this insane video of Stevie at the Apollo in 1963. I’d seen plenty of televised versions of “Fingertips” that are quite nice, typically just playing to the studio recording’s backing track, but this one ain’t nice at all. LOL It’s all live, and it’s 7 minutes of fire. 

Stevie starts on bongos (!!!), swings into harmonica, the 10-piece band jumps to its feet to swing along, and after a thunderous ovation, Stevie gets pulled back for a brief, vamped encore that’s even hotter. “Let’s swing it one more time!”

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Thanks to all the fine folks who came out for some surf jazz last night at the #mercuryloungegoleta we had a great time and hope to be back again soon! Thanks #acegonzalez #surfilmsound (at Goleta, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8CCc8slVN2rFTUkTEde2fmpA2oG69Is1HDztU0/?igshid=1b264da5igng6

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Rainy day session #acegonzalez #surfilmsound https://www.instagram.com/p/B51BoP9lA-d1gbtJOySyjRdLAuSVRglq7OVp0c0/?igshid=gae2u0kojnni