Rock festivals continue. Jackson Michigan has Rockapalooza this weekend. Puddle Of Mudd, Saliva, 12 Stones, Coolio and 50 other bands are playing there.
Radiohead lost their drum tech on the Toronto stage collapse (good to know I have spell check since my typing is sucking already). Scott Johnson was one of the good ones.
Justin Bieber has a new record out this week, I'm sure you all are going to march out to your local record store and buy it. It's called Believe and I'm sure the kids out there are going to dig it. While the rest of us pan it and get called bad names on Twitter. But for the rest of us, Omar And The Howlers have a new one coming out called I'm Gone and it returns Bruce Jones back into the fold since Courts Of Lulu. Don Williams has a new one coming out on Sugar Hill and reunites with Garth Fundis. And So It Goes it's called. And Smashing Pumpkins has a new CD out too but Billy Corgan continues to bash his ex band mates every time a music mag is around. James Iha called and says he's doing much fine and much better without Uncle Festus around to bother him.
Top Ten Of The Week:
1. American Wheeze-16 Horsepower 1993 From the Night Owl Sessions and later reissued on the hard to find Olden CD. It's hard to pinpoint these guys and what David Edwards sees in that mind of his, but 16 Horsepower was good enough to be on A&M for 2 albums and an EP and they done this song but this one is the most spookiest. Featuring a jews harp and then an bandoneon coming through the fog this is not for the faint of heart or Justin Bieber fans. Strange to find that I have 6 of their albums in my collection and every one is a different persona. Heard stories of Keven Soll being even more weirder than Edwards and they may have played Gabe's in Iowa City years ago before a sparse crowd. The drummer and a later bass player came from the doom and gloom band Passion Fodder and made a album for Beggar's Banquet that was oddball too. Freaky music, courtesy of the local pawnshop that nobody bought.
2. Fema Camp-Killing Joke 2012 More gloom and doom but this time comes from the original band that has been together for two straight albums although your local Best Buy never carried either of the last two Killing Joke albums. In the beginning I liked their first album but everything after that seemed like the same goth dance stuff that didn't do anything for me although Night Time had Eighties on it which became the inspiration of Come As You Are by Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. Paul Raven (RIP) replaced Youth and they became somewhat industrial on the 1990 Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions but I didn't get to hear that till I got their reunion album Pandemonium a few years later and then became a big fan of theirs. They caught fire on the S/T 2003 album with Dave Grohl bashing away on the drums and even better on Hosannas From The Basement Of Hell. Then Big Paul Ferguson returned and the original guys were back on 2010's Absolute Dissent. Gotta love Jaz Coleman's goth croon one minute then Lemmy like shoutings on the chorus. I think KJ has been much better the second time around and their new album MMXII continues the winning streak that they're on. It's a import since Universal hasn't reissued it as a CD in the US yet. Universal does a fine job at that. Not releasing stuff over here. That basically killed off the power popper McFly over here although across the pond they were as revered as Justin Bieber is here.
3. Love Struck Baby-Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble 1983 The last true guitar hero had to be Stevie, who played to a crowd of assholes at Montreaux and was booed despite playing some of the most intense guitar playing and left him startled and confused by it all, to which you can hear on the Live in Montreaux 2 CD set of his 82 and 85 comeback to by then the crowd saw the error of the ways and embraced him. Impressed David Bowie enough to pick him up to play on the Let's Dance album. In the beginning Vaughn was special right off the bat, making four classic albums and a live double before an ill fated helicopter crash in 1990 took him away from us. In my guesstamation I liked Stevie's Voodoo Chile better than Jimi's version (which is saying a lot since Jimi was king of the Strat). Certainly today we still got some great guitar players out there which continues the tradition. Joe Bonamassa, Devon Allman comes to mind, Parker Griggs of Moscow Radio another but my generation had SRV to call our own. And I still have the long box of The Sky Is Crying with SRV on the backside that I still have out as a tribute.
4. Euro Trash Girl-Cracker 1994 https://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/letter-to-emily-white-at-npr-all-songs-considered/#comments
I guess there was a report about some girl at NPR that downloaded a bunch of songs but only claim to own 15 CDs that she actually bought and I think it ruffled some feathers in the long term. I'm thinking this is the same David Lowery who is the leader of Cracker, who made some classic albums of the 90s and a more recent one that I liked but nobody else bought. A lotta replies come from some well known people Steven Street, Cranberries Producer and The Dylans to name a couple. But then again we get blowhards like Bob Lefsetz who think otherwise. http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2012/06/18/the-david-lowery-screed/ To which I say fuck off Lefsetz, I work as a printing operator fucktard. If only we can make a living making bullshit blogs and getting paid handsomely enough for trips to Aspen and across the ocean. Emily White's original article is here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/06/16/154863819/i-never-owned-any-music-to-begin-with?ps=cprs Maybe she's the original Euro Trash Girl eh? Probably not, she probably was in diapers back then. Or still wetting them.... Update to all, http://www.futurehitdna.com/is-stealing-music-really-the-problem/
5. Good Morning Judge-10cc 1977 Basically I forgot how good this band was and how witty. Bought their Rubber Bullets a long time ago (on UK Records) and when they went to Mercury a couple years later they had a number 1 hit with I'm Not In Love, then Godley/Creme left the band and Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart continued on and had a bigger hit with The Things We Do For Love but I like this failed top 40 song a lot more. I think the DJ played this at a high school dance party one night and he ran out of 45s to play so he played this one twice. But never told us who did it till I got the Greatest Hits album years later. Always mistaken this for the Wall Street Shuffle which isn't the same thing after all.
6. Let The Sad Times Roll On-Buck Owens 1965 Mr. Owens was very busy in the 60s, making lots of music and albums and the funny thing was the majority of those he did write with help from Don Rich or Red Simpson. Seems like Buck could write three or four albums per year, have a big hit and even the other stuff wasn't as throwaway as you expect. Still, the albums didn't last but 30 minutes or less, an EP by today's standards. This is from the Tiger By The Tail LP, and Buck could write a heartbreak number as well as happy songs.
7. Black Coffee-Delta Moon 2012 I'm sure Tom Gray is getting tired of me touting his long ago band but really Delta Moon has been around for over 10 years and have made 6 great albums of delta blues swamp music and the new album Black Cat Oil continues the winning streak. Even KUNI played this track Monday night. Which surprised me, then they went to some chick singing some foreign language crap and I changed the channel back to the overplayed classic rock on the FOX. Even NPR can't seem to play two decent songs in a row anymore.
8. Whereever You Go-Clint Black 1994 Clint Black's output frustrates me sometimes. Better Man was considered his classic album but for me he had way too many ballads on that and I haven't heard anything off the next two and sorting through some old boxes, found a copy of One Emotion and wondered how that got into there with all those outdated Goldmine Magazines that used to be big and fat and full of music and not a bad intimation of US Weekly or People Mag. Being a music fanatic sure is hard nowadays since record stores are few and far between and music magazines more and more about flavors of the day rather than anything good. Perhaps Jerry at Relics threw it in with some other things I bought, who knows so I took it to work and didn't expect much but this CD is a bit more rocking than Killin Time, his debut to which Bill Ham had a hand in producing. Still mainstream country but not as fiddle driven as Alan Jackson but I can probably get used to hearing this a few more times.
9. San Antonio Rain-Alejandro Escovedo 2012 At least his latest album did make the Billboard top 200 at number 200. Thought I give the man a little love. His new album Big Station is worth buying.
10. Lynching Party-Bobby Bare 1963 Needless to say, my folks had a pretty diverse record collection when I was growing up and it showed. If you read the blog about Teen Idols on the Consortium side you get a picture of one part teen idol, another part country music and the rest rhythm and blues. And of course a lot of the RCA albums from artists that Dad in his collection (Jim Reeves, Don Gibson, Paul Anka...Paul Anka???) but he had 500 Miles Away From Home by Bobby Bare to which some of the songs made it onto disc one of a Bear Family Box Set that I found for a few bucks during the Mister Money Davenport Dash of the late 90's and early aughts. But this song which concludes one side of that album really intrigued me. For a RCA song, it's kinda stripped down. But it also one of my all time favorite songs ever. That's saying something. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7qR4Tn1nLE
The Five Day Forecast:
Freedom-Jimi Hendrix 1971
I Want You Back-Hoodoo Gurus 1984
Wishful Thinking-Wynn Stewart 1959
Iscariot-Walk The Moon 2012
The Thrill Of It All-Black Sabbath 1975
And in the words of the almighty Justin Beaverbiscuits we leave you with this thought provoking lyrics From his latest single Boyfriend off the new Believe album. And you can read the wonderful review from Posh boy Jon Dolan, some hack review writer that you'll forget in record time. Who's better suited for this type of music rather than the taxing Rush album that he compares with Nickleback (say wha????)
"Swag, swag, swag on you/Chillin' by the fire while we're eating fondue,"
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