Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic
This piece updated in 2019 & 2020 * As you may have already gathered, Zero to 180 has a soft spot for music history related to Silver Spring, Maryland. We now know, for instance, that Track Recorders (with help from its chief engineer, Bill McCullough) was an important recording facility
Thanks to Bill Hanke, I’ve been privileged to witness several live performances by a Canadian band who – along with Los Straitjackets – have brought blazing guitar instrumentals into the 21st century. Among musicians-in-the-know, word has gotten out about this musical conflagration, as evidenced by their collaborations with Neko Case,
Bless those masked marauders, Los Straitjackets, whose first two albums – 1995’s The Utterly Fantastic and Totally Unbelievable Sound and 1996’s ¡Viva Los Straitjackets! – would give the instrumental an outsized and much needed shot in the arm. Debut 45 “Gate Crasher” b/w “Lonely Apache” (1995) First two full-length
I couldn’t help noticing that Bobby Jameson wrote the kick-off song on Michele O’Malley‘s Saturn Rings album. Curt Boettcher, interestingly, would be picked to produce Jameson’s second album — although the first “proper” album under his own name — Color Him In. Cubist cover art for Jameson’s 1967 album on
As DC Week heads into extra innings, Zero to 180 ponders the metaphysical with a song I always suspected to have been written with the spiritual assistance of a certain bespectacled singer-songwriter from Lubbock, Texas. My instincts, as it turns out, were eerily prescient, for I later confirmed that
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