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GUYS I MET THE SCREAMING JETS AHHHHHHH
im sorry but what the ACTUAL FUCK. HOW THE FUCK AM I MEANT TO KNOW THIS?!
if you understand music theory, i am BEGGING YOU, help me.
Guys Neil Gaiman made an album and it’s fucking amazing I just learned this it’s called”signs of life” give it a listen
TJ: For Y’all shitting on his name
I’m actually pretty damn proud of Luke Mullen in his choosing of TJ’s name.
Jagger of course after Mick Jagger. Jagger was of course the lead singer for The Rolling Stones and an overall iconic rockstar. He was known for his gender non-conforming stage persona in the 70s. He experimented with Glam Rock fashion, and makeup, and had quite the extravagant stage-presence. Jagger is notoriously bisexual and has been with many men and women in his time, including Princess Margaret and David Bowie.
Thelonious is most likely after Thelonious Monk, a Black Pianist and a prominent jazz artist from Harlem. He was known for his fantastic improvisation skills and compositions. He was an active jazz artist for nearly 40 years and was in a quartet with John Coltrane. Monk was also a victim of Police Brutality like many Black men in America. In 1958, on his way to a gig, where he was pulled over by police officers. When he refused to answer their questions, he was beat unconscious with a club-like weapon known as a Blackjack. Monk also suffered from severe mental illness that was misdiagnosed several times, he was put on narcotics, lithium, and other hard medications to try to ‘fix him’. Monk died in 1982 to a stroke.
So I’m proud of Luke’s picks, having TJ named after a gender non-conforming bisexual rock star and a mentally ill strong black man.
Cab Calloway and host Eddie Albert on “The Eddie Albert Show” in April 1953.
Tina Turner performing at the New Fillmore East Theater in New York City on December 31, 1974.
Photos by Richard E. Aaron
Donna Summer photographed by Harry Langdon for her album On The Radio (1979).
Isaac Hayes photographed by Anthony Barboza for Essence magazine, December 1971.
25-year-old Cab Calloway photographed by Carl Van Vechten on January 12, 1933
Linda Ronstadt photographed by Joe Sia, performing at the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Connecticut, 1978.