Prog Rock Again: Stop Apologizing
Anybody remember this stuff? We explain how to beat a dead horse in 7/8 time.
Smile
Anybody remember the Beach Boys? Anybody? Fidge shamelessly rips off Gumby’s last topic.
The Love-Hate Relationship
Some people on the internet are upset about something. Gumby investigates.
The Traveling Salvation Seagull
How Neil Diamond and a marine scavenger created a new genre of pop music.
Great Lyrics Of The Seventies (Part 1)
Here at Professor Gumby we’re committed to bringing you at least one new exercise in pointless nostalgia every month. But the holidays took their usual toll, killing countless brain cells, and then several particles of what might have been sleet were spotted in southern Texas, paralyzing traffic for days. So here we are on January 31, practically empty-handed.…
Hunting The Horny-back Toad
Gumby has written here about the futility of asking one generation to understand another generation’s music. I think he’s mostly right, despite a few exceptions that prove the rule, like the Beatles getting rediscovered every twenty years, or that Canadian guy who thinks he’s Frank Sinatra. What Gumby didn’t mention is that there’s plenty of…
Remembering The Past So You Don’t Have To
I’ve had a sobering experience. In the interest of clearing shelf space, but really because I fancied myself a messianic figure dispensing sheer joy and pleasure to a larger universe, I decided to give away about 200 of my old CDs. (Bet you can see where this is going!) It was at a family gathering, and the…
The Go-Away List
[Ed: In which Gumby reveals his age.] This morning I woke up with both arms pointed at the ceiling. What does it mean? I stole this from a list of musicians people today (2013) wish would just go away.
News
Are you confused? Do you wish for simpler times? Me too! Or I did until I rediscovered this state-of-our-planet description on the back of a folk music album from 1968: We live in “a world so wrought and chained with meaningless ideas that its dreams are merely pastel colored nightmares.” Can I get that in…
Gumby & Fidge 