In my ever continuing conquest to give the 7 inch black circle its due, we continue to mine the vast collections out there for the music that the the triple C radio stations tend to ignore. It's a lost cause we know but somebody has to do it.
1. Monorail Part 2-Tangerine Dream Virgin ZS8-9516 1977 Tangerine Dream isn't considered a singles band, they made albums with side long suites and even longer (Logos) but somebody at CBS thought it would be a good idea to release this as a promo copy and see where it led. Mostly to the cheap bins although singles of this song goes for big bucks at EBAY. Never seen a copy of this myself. Album cut is 19 and half minutes. Surprised that they didn't go for a disco version of this song.
2. Who Drank My Beer (when i was in the rear) Chuck Murphy Coral 9-61785 DJ I bet there's nobody out there in internet land has talked more about Murphy than your's truly but upon researching him for other music, I come to find that Murphy was more in line with Moon Mullican with a love of Louis Jordan (B side was Jordan's Lay Something On The Bar (besides your elbow). The latter song was done in 51, Who Drank My Beer came out in 52 and Coral added both songs in 57 as a classic all time greatest hits although Murphy was a regional artist at best. After a 55 stint at MGM Murphy became a preacher.
3. In The Ghetto-Solomon Burke 1970 Bell B-891 After a legendary career at Atlantic, Burke moved over to various labels and eventually recorded a couple of sides that was written by Mac Davis (later of Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me and It's Hard To Be Humble fame) and arranged by Gene Page for a single that Elvis Presley had a bigger hit but Burke's version hits harder since it comes from a black man. Never heard this on the radio but the record came in a pack of 10 that used to be the rage back in the 70s.
4. Big Bopper's Wedding-JP Richardson or The Big Bopper Mercury 71375 1958 Like Richie and Buddy, JP was on his way to the top of the charts before that infamous plane crash in the Alberta Clipper of 59 in Iowa. Richardson was more into the novelty side of things, White Lightning was covered by George Jones. This did some airplay although it wasn't as well charted as Chantilly Lace was.
5. Just Holding On-Pete Klint Quintet 1968 Atlantic 2533 Dunwich Records had some hits on their own but most of the time they got distribution via Atlantic in the late 60s and although none of the others charted as high as the Shadows Of Knight, they have a few others recorded for Dunwich. I think this owes more to a Steve Barri production of what The Grassroots were doing at that time. Or perhaps Blood Sweat and Tears. Or Hamilton Joe Frank and Reynoolds although this recording predates that band by about two years at least. One of those singles that I found at the Salvation Army store that I know nothing about but upon further research that Pete Klint came from Mason City Iowa and had a regional single for Mercury with a cover of Sam Cooke's Shake b/w Walkin' Proud (Mercury 72709-charted at #98 1967). Just Holdin On B/W Hey Diddle Diddle didn't chart. Later releases for IGL and PKQ suffered the same fate. However Pete Klint Quintet was well known enough to be inducted into the Iowa Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1999.
6. Carol-Tommy Roe ABC Paramount 10543 1964 And this year one of the new Iowa Rock n Roll Hall Of Famer gets his due this fall when Tommy Roe gets inducted. I have always been a big Tommy Roe fan although in the early years he was a bit more rockabilly in the style of Buddy Holly before Steve Barri retooled him for the bubblegum field and all them late 60's hits for ABC but he takes this Chuck Berry chestnut and turns it into his very own. One of the very first singles that I ever bought, basically of name association with my mom's name. Took me forever to find a replacement copy.
7. Blind Eye-Wishbone Ash Decca 32826 1970 This band never had a top forty hit at anytime it seems but they have their fans and of course I'm one of theirs. Found a few singles from them in cheap stores in the early 70s and this was one of the jukebox singles from the old Ole's Ham And Egger restaurant two doors down from Town's Square Bookstore which sold the 45s after they outlived their usefulness.
8. Can't Find Love-The Easybeats Rare Earth R-5009 1969 Motown has done wonders in the early years of the CD of putting out Motown artists but when it comes to those on the Rare Earth label, they have been very lax. It took them forever to reissue anything from Rare Earth and keep them in print. In the early years Motown put out albums from Love Scripture (with Dave Edmunds), Toe Fat (which includes future members of Uriah Heep) and the very first UFO album. The Easybeats were winding down after years on being on United Artists they recorded this bass driven song for Rare Earth although I think the other side St. Louis was the hit single, which really wasn't but that song would pave the way for a sound that AC/DC would adopt years later.
9. Do My Thing-Sid Linard Ovation OV-1020 1976 (they said although I think it's more 1975 or 74) A honky tonk singer that made a few albums for Ovation back in the 1970s and I guess he's not exactly well known on the internet. I simply can't find much about Sid but what I can tell you is that this was a very good honky tonk track although the A side was Honky Tonk Angel, a Dave Dudley soundalike which charted somewhere in the lower of the top country 100's. To All Music Guide, he simply doesn't exist.
10. Cubano Chant-El Chicano Kapp K-2129 1970 Long time ago Ray Bryant wrote it and you can find it on the Columbia album Drum Suite by Art Blakey. El Chicano is one of the earliest East LA bands that made music in the way Santana used to do. This did get some airplay on KLWW on the old Powerline show that aired Sunday Mornings way back in the early 70s here. Powerline was a half hour inspirational program that would play some secular songs as well. You're on the power line and then it's full speed ahead. The single is an 3:17 edit of the five and half minute song from the 20th Century Masters album to which I may have to get sometime soon. Sounds somewhat like Soul Sacrifice in a way.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Crabb Bits: Rain, Relics, Chuck Murphy
Actually it felt like a long month with it the beginning of it seeing Los Lobos play and then Starship, REO and Chevelle in the weekend after that. I think it felt longer since I didn't take much time off work and then having the big celebration of hitting shrapnel in the fucking road and ruining yet another tire.
Usual things going on, KCRG bitching and moaning of no rain for most of the month and then get hit with a fucking monsoon that knocked power out here. This is why I never pray for rain anymore, nobody on that station remembers 2008, I'm one of those folk that would die of thirst out in the desert and not asking for water. The ground here got scorched and I didn't have to mow it most of the month, of course with the inch and half of it last couple days may have to mow the place after all.
Carol, who came into town for Irishfest but somehow we didn't meet up (probably of her going to O'malleys at the time I was up there) mentioned that Jerry Scott the former owner of Relics has a junk shop where the old music rental place used to be. Something called Things and More Things And Then Some or something other to that effect. The old Relics I used to be a permanent fixture at from 1990 to 1997 when Best Buy bought up the place and then tore it down for parking space. Carol mentioned that the old Relic dude has bought the space next door to the Cellar Door, another junk shop that has former Rock n Bach employee Jim Kibler working there and she mentioned something bout expecting perhaps a revival of Relics in some capacity.
All fine and good I think since this town is in need of a good record store since you have to go to either Iowa City, Dubuque or Davenport to get one close by. But the sad part is that it's not 1992, nobody is flocking to music stores for the latest CD, they're downloading and the vinyl market although coming back from the dead is nowhere near what it used to be when we had 9 music stores in the neighborhood. CDs Plus found out the hard way you cannot charge 8 dollars for a used cd anymore or 5.99 for the lesser known. And CD's Plus only stay around the second time around for 4 months in the old CD Warehouse location. The old head shops that I used to frequent in my high school years, had a decent selection of vinyl of bands that Target or Marion TV wouldn't touch. In order to survive in a dying field of recorded physical stortage, you have to have a backup plan which is why Moondog Music or Record Collector have survived over the years. Moondog Music remains what Relics used to be and the old hippie is surviving quite well. 20 years ago Jerry had three locations in the area, two in town and one in Anamosa. And the end of Relics Phase One ended in a cloud of mystery and hard feelings before Marcus Draves took it over and did the best he could for the six years, with the end coming in 2003. For the CD market, we have the pawnshop and Half Priced Books and whatever that can be found at Goodwill or The Salvation Army (Stuff Etc just haven't much in years and what they do have is junk). I don't doubt Jerry, he had the best record store in town in the time they were up and running but it's a new era and you can't sell 8 dollar used cds like you once did. That's why Half Priced Books has a big turnover in the 2 dollar section, when something don't sell at 5.99 or 7.99 they get dumped in the bargain bins. And why HP Books is always busy. People come from miles around to shop there and move on to the ones in Madison and Des Moines (and I thought I was the only one that did that). Told Carol, I'll do my best to promote whatever Jerry does and reconnect with the old Relic himself when I get to see him.
In my rant and rave on the previous blog, I forgot to mention and give kudos. If Tommy Lee is the anti rock star, we have Willie Nelson being the diplomat, the musician that will give the time of day to you and even do a meet and greet. All month I have been singing the praises of Los Lobos and their Iowa City showcase but I have to give a big shout out to Enrique 'Bugs' Gonzalez for being one of all time best people to meet. I have never met a more gracious and appreciating guy that spends time talking with people after a show. He may be the new guy in Los Lobos but he has played along side of some of the best known Latin and Spanish artists (Gloria Trevi-The Mexican Madonna anybody). Very appreciate of the folk to come up to talk to him, hell he'll even let ya take a picture or two of himself with you too. https://twitter.com/EnriqueBugs
The Happy Together Tour featuring The Turtles Flo and Eddie is only 25 bucks at the state fair the most expensive is Miranda Lambert at 48 dollars which won't be cost effective for me to go see her. Too much but I'm sure the Turtles would be much more fun and more penny wise shall we say. I managed to find a copy of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (Ryko/MGM) although it was pricy 20 dollars I had to hear this. And it turns out the second cd with the opera is so sick you have to hear it to believe it. It's highly doubtful to see this in print, Rykodisc had a hell of a time even trying to get it out when they had the rights but they did a fine job putting up a very lengthy book and even a small poster of the movie 200 Motels. For the cheap music collector, you'll be happy to know that Fleetwood Mac's 1975 breakthrough album is now at 4.99 at your local Best Buy.
Finally, I finally found a better copy of Chuck Murphy's One Beer/2D Girl In A 3D Town to finally replace that old record that I found by the side of the road that got ran over 50 times. It sounds better without those scratches and to hear 2D Girl all the way through was a revelation. Interesting concept of pairing up Murphy's honky tonk Moon Mullican type of boogie with Pee Wee Ervin's Dixieland Band on that side but One Beer is dixieland New Orleans style, may not work in theory but I love that song anyway. Nevertheless it turned out to be Chuck's last Coral release before moving over to Columbia for a more straightlined early rockabilly. I guess I'm not the only one that cares about Chuck Murphy. Here's a link to somebody that also thought it would be worthy to keep his memory going. http://countrydiscography.blogspot.com/2010/03/chuck-murphy.html
CHUCK MURPHY SINGLES
Bama (1950)
300 Boogie Jackson / Woman Is The Strangest Thing - 06-50 (ad. 04-51,reissued on Coral 9-64096 in 1951)
301 Blue Ribbon Boogie / They Raided The Joint - 02-51 (reissued on Coral 9-64090 in 1951)
302 Baby Please Be Mine / It's Coming Back – ca 51
Coral (1951-53)
9-64082 My Bucket’s Been Fixed / Honky Tonk Blues - 03-51
9-64101 A Thousand Times / The Honeymoon Is Over - 51
9-60584 Lay Somethin’ On The Bar / Waitin‘ For My Baby - 51
9-60674 Clickity Mc Clackity / Nosey Joe - ca 03-52
9-60800 Who Drank My Beer (While I Was In The Rear?) / Oceana Roll - 52
9-60933 Buckin‘ The Dice / I’d Like To Break Your Neck - 52
9-61014 One Beer / A 2-D Gal In A 3-D Town - 53
9-61785 Lay Something On The Bar (Besides Your Elbow) / Who Drank My Beer? (While I Was In The Rear) - 57 (reissue)
Columbia (1954)
4-21258 Hocus Pocus / Hard Headed - 06-54
4-21305 *09-10-1954 Chuck Murphy Rhythm Hall / Riding The Sunshine Special - 10-54 (rev. Oct. 9)
4-21322 Let's Have An Old Fashioned Christmas / Santa Plays The Trombone - 11-54
4-21376 I'm Gonna Run Not Walk / The Friday Night Free For All - 02-55
MGM (1955)
K 12140 I've Been Floating Down The Old Green River / Dallas Blues - 12-55
Usual things going on, KCRG bitching and moaning of no rain for most of the month and then get hit with a fucking monsoon that knocked power out here. This is why I never pray for rain anymore, nobody on that station remembers 2008, I'm one of those folk that would die of thirst out in the desert and not asking for water. The ground here got scorched and I didn't have to mow it most of the month, of course with the inch and half of it last couple days may have to mow the place after all.
Carol, who came into town for Irishfest but somehow we didn't meet up (probably of her going to O'malleys at the time I was up there) mentioned that Jerry Scott the former owner of Relics has a junk shop where the old music rental place used to be. Something called Things and More Things And Then Some or something other to that effect. The old Relics I used to be a permanent fixture at from 1990 to 1997 when Best Buy bought up the place and then tore it down for parking space. Carol mentioned that the old Relic dude has bought the space next door to the Cellar Door, another junk shop that has former Rock n Bach employee Jim Kibler working there and she mentioned something bout expecting perhaps a revival of Relics in some capacity.
All fine and good I think since this town is in need of a good record store since you have to go to either Iowa City, Dubuque or Davenport to get one close by. But the sad part is that it's not 1992, nobody is flocking to music stores for the latest CD, they're downloading and the vinyl market although coming back from the dead is nowhere near what it used to be when we had 9 music stores in the neighborhood. CDs Plus found out the hard way you cannot charge 8 dollars for a used cd anymore or 5.99 for the lesser known. And CD's Plus only stay around the second time around for 4 months in the old CD Warehouse location. The old head shops that I used to frequent in my high school years, had a decent selection of vinyl of bands that Target or Marion TV wouldn't touch. In order to survive in a dying field of recorded physical stortage, you have to have a backup plan which is why Moondog Music or Record Collector have survived over the years. Moondog Music remains what Relics used to be and the old hippie is surviving quite well. 20 years ago Jerry had three locations in the area, two in town and one in Anamosa. And the end of Relics Phase One ended in a cloud of mystery and hard feelings before Marcus Draves took it over and did the best he could for the six years, with the end coming in 2003. For the CD market, we have the pawnshop and Half Priced Books and whatever that can be found at Goodwill or The Salvation Army (Stuff Etc just haven't much in years and what they do have is junk). I don't doubt Jerry, he had the best record store in town in the time they were up and running but it's a new era and you can't sell 8 dollar used cds like you once did. That's why Half Priced Books has a big turnover in the 2 dollar section, when something don't sell at 5.99 or 7.99 they get dumped in the bargain bins. And why HP Books is always busy. People come from miles around to shop there and move on to the ones in Madison and Des Moines (and I thought I was the only one that did that). Told Carol, I'll do my best to promote whatever Jerry does and reconnect with the old Relic himself when I get to see him.
In my rant and rave on the previous blog, I forgot to mention and give kudos. If Tommy Lee is the anti rock star, we have Willie Nelson being the diplomat, the musician that will give the time of day to you and even do a meet and greet. All month I have been singing the praises of Los Lobos and their Iowa City showcase but I have to give a big shout out to Enrique 'Bugs' Gonzalez for being one of all time best people to meet. I have never met a more gracious and appreciating guy that spends time talking with people after a show. He may be the new guy in Los Lobos but he has played along side of some of the best known Latin and Spanish artists (Gloria Trevi-The Mexican Madonna anybody). Very appreciate of the folk to come up to talk to him, hell he'll even let ya take a picture or two of himself with you too. https://twitter.com/EnriqueBugs
The Happy Together Tour featuring The Turtles Flo and Eddie is only 25 bucks at the state fair the most expensive is Miranda Lambert at 48 dollars which won't be cost effective for me to go see her. Too much but I'm sure the Turtles would be much more fun and more penny wise shall we say. I managed to find a copy of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (Ryko/MGM) although it was pricy 20 dollars I had to hear this. And it turns out the second cd with the opera is so sick you have to hear it to believe it. It's highly doubtful to see this in print, Rykodisc had a hell of a time even trying to get it out when they had the rights but they did a fine job putting up a very lengthy book and even a small poster of the movie 200 Motels. For the cheap music collector, you'll be happy to know that Fleetwood Mac's 1975 breakthrough album is now at 4.99 at your local Best Buy.
Finally, I finally found a better copy of Chuck Murphy's One Beer/2D Girl In A 3D Town to finally replace that old record that I found by the side of the road that got ran over 50 times. It sounds better without those scratches and to hear 2D Girl all the way through was a revelation. Interesting concept of pairing up Murphy's honky tonk Moon Mullican type of boogie with Pee Wee Ervin's Dixieland Band on that side but One Beer is dixieland New Orleans style, may not work in theory but I love that song anyway. Nevertheless it turned out to be Chuck's last Coral release before moving over to Columbia for a more straightlined early rockabilly. I guess I'm not the only one that cares about Chuck Murphy. Here's a link to somebody that also thought it would be worthy to keep his memory going. http://countrydiscography.blogspot.com/2010/03/chuck-murphy.html
CHUCK MURPHY SINGLES
Bama (1950)
300 Boogie Jackson / Woman Is The Strangest Thing - 06-50 (ad. 04-51,reissued on Coral 9-64096 in 1951)
301 Blue Ribbon Boogie / They Raided The Joint - 02-51 (reissued on Coral 9-64090 in 1951)
302 Baby Please Be Mine / It's Coming Back – ca 51
Coral (1951-53)
9-64082 My Bucket’s Been Fixed / Honky Tonk Blues - 03-51
9-64101 A Thousand Times / The Honeymoon Is Over - 51
9-60584 Lay Somethin’ On The Bar / Waitin‘ For My Baby - 51
9-60674 Clickity Mc Clackity / Nosey Joe - ca 03-52
9-60800 Who Drank My Beer (While I Was In The Rear?) / Oceana Roll - 52
9-60933 Buckin‘ The Dice / I’d Like To Break Your Neck - 52
9-61014 One Beer / A 2-D Gal In A 3-D Town - 53
9-61785 Lay Something On The Bar (Besides Your Elbow) / Who Drank My Beer? (While I Was In The Rear) - 57 (reissue)
Columbia (1954)
4-21258 Hocus Pocus / Hard Headed - 06-54
4-21305 *09-10-1954 Chuck Murphy Rhythm Hall / Riding The Sunshine Special - 10-54 (rev. Oct. 9)
4-21322 Let's Have An Old Fashioned Christmas / Santa Plays The Trombone - 11-54
4-21376 I'm Gonna Run Not Walk / The Friday Night Free For All - 02-55
MGM (1955)
K 12140 I've Been Floating Down The Old Green River / Dallas Blues - 12-55
Please Respect Our Privacy
It must be a bitch being a music star, who's made it on the circuit. A few things that annoyed me was when I was reading about Tommy Lee bitching about people trying to take pictures or say hi to him whiles he's out and about and he made a big stink about it on Facebook. From the man himself.
"Dear fans,
I f**king LOVE my fans! And you know this!!!... If you asked anyone that knows me really well, they would tell ya the same thing... 'Tommy loves his fans. He lives for this s**t... he eats, breathes, sh*ts music 24/7.' They'll also probably tell ya that 'he's a down-to-earth grateful life-lovin dude and a nice guy, too.'
What I have a problem with is... taking pictures! I hate it! Irritates the f**k out of me when people say... 'You owe it to your fans, they put you where you are, etc. etc.!'
I certainly don't owe anybody anything!
When I bought all my Led Zeppelin records and concert tickets, I didn't say, 'One day these f**kers are gonna owe me a picture.' It's the least they can do for me!...
[What the f**k], people? You don't admire something so that it can give back... You just cherish it! And to those who say, 'You should be grateful that people wanna take your picture. Maybe one day they won't want it!' That day can't come soon enough!
[By the way]… I'm not here to take pictures with you, I'm here to entertain you!
Nobody put me where I am but ME! They may have helped inspire me with their love for what I do... but I put myself right here where I want to be with a lot of hard work, practice, talent, luck, etc. What I do owe myself and others is being THE BEST I can be! And that's making great music, being a good man, father, lover and human being! We all owe that kinda stuff to ourselves and each other.
People, do we really need a silly picture?... For what?! Bragging rights? Really?.. Who f**king cares! Someone's not gonna believe you if ya don't have the proof pic? Then f**k 'em! I'd never go up to someone that I admired and bug them for a picture!! Why! I might say a quick hello... maybe a handshake? I dunno... It depends on the 'situation'... Most people never consider the 'situation.' That's really important... Ya wouldn't wanna handshake standing at the pisser in the men's bathroom next to me, would ya? And yes, that's happened to me, too... Or when you're eating a nice, quiet meal with your family, some rude jackass comes up and asks for a picture!
You can't even imagine what kinda crazy has happened to me. I understand the excitement and all, but just take a second and think... Is this cool right now? It's called consciousness; it's the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. Be conscious.
So like I said… the fastest way to get me to leave is whip out a camera! Maybe just say hello and I'll probably take ya home with me! Well, I'd have to ask my girlfriend first! Hah!
Sincerely yours,
The Picture Taker Hater!
Tommy Lee"
http://www.fuse.tv/2012/07/tommy-lee-asked-for-photo-while-carrying-his-moms-ashes
UPDATE: Too bad Tommy didn't tell us about this before he started ranting. Then I would agree with him.
Now back to the original blog and views.
I can probably see his point of view if he had fans that demand to take his picture with them for keepsake (or for some of them to auction off EBAY) And hell no, I would never go up to him while he's taking a piss and bothering the fuck out of him on that. Since I'm not a Motley Crue fan I wouldn't run across a street to shake his hand or even acknowledge him at the record store. Perhaps if he would cover his tatts up or at least put on a three piece suit and bowler hat he might get the privacy he wants while taking the kids out. Have to disagree that it was HIM and ONLY HIM that got to the top, basically he had a crack manager and some breaks along the way and lotta fans helping their cause. But I doubt if Tommy would consider doing a meet and greet after a show to talk with the fans, he doesn't seem to be the type.
Case in point number two. Justin Bieber took exception to a interviewer when he thought Justin sounded like the other Justin, Timerlake and the little brat got pissed and then hung up the phone when the dipshit interviewer asked him about a One Direction member dating his mom. Yeh, I probably be a little miffed too but Bieber could blame a bad connection or the signal to the cellphone going out. It's tough being a pop star in this day and age. Too many people trying to make you look like a fool without you doing it yourself. Damn radio personalities. http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=740076
Then again there's Adele, who's expecting her first child. Woman has everything right, boyfriend drops her, she gets pissed off and writes the album that broke her big 21 and complained she couldn't find a good man, wanted to have kids bla bla bla and then we get this little tidbit from the UK Diva.
Im delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we’re over the moon and very excited but please respect our privacy at this precious time. Yours always, Adele xx
"Dear fans,
I f**king LOVE my fans! And you know this!!!... If you asked anyone that knows me really well, they would tell ya the same thing... 'Tommy loves his fans. He lives for this s**t... he eats, breathes, sh*ts music 24/7.' They'll also probably tell ya that 'he's a down-to-earth grateful life-lovin dude and a nice guy, too.'
What I have a problem with is... taking pictures! I hate it! Irritates the f**k out of me when people say... 'You owe it to your fans, they put you where you are, etc. etc.!'
I certainly don't owe anybody anything!
When I bought all my Led Zeppelin records and concert tickets, I didn't say, 'One day these f**kers are gonna owe me a picture.' It's the least they can do for me!...
[What the f**k], people? You don't admire something so that it can give back... You just cherish it! And to those who say, 'You should be grateful that people wanna take your picture. Maybe one day they won't want it!' That day can't come soon enough!
[By the way]… I'm not here to take pictures with you, I'm here to entertain you!
Nobody put me where I am but ME! They may have helped inspire me with their love for what I do... but I put myself right here where I want to be with a lot of hard work, practice, talent, luck, etc. What I do owe myself and others is being THE BEST I can be! And that's making great music, being a good man, father, lover and human being! We all owe that kinda stuff to ourselves and each other.
People, do we really need a silly picture?... For what?! Bragging rights? Really?.. Who f**king cares! Someone's not gonna believe you if ya don't have the proof pic? Then f**k 'em! I'd never go up to someone that I admired and bug them for a picture!! Why! I might say a quick hello... maybe a handshake? I dunno... It depends on the 'situation'... Most people never consider the 'situation.' That's really important... Ya wouldn't wanna handshake standing at the pisser in the men's bathroom next to me, would ya? And yes, that's happened to me, too... Or when you're eating a nice, quiet meal with your family, some rude jackass comes up and asks for a picture!
You can't even imagine what kinda crazy has happened to me. I understand the excitement and all, but just take a second and think... Is this cool right now? It's called consciousness; it's the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. Be conscious.
So like I said… the fastest way to get me to leave is whip out a camera! Maybe just say hello and I'll probably take ya home with me! Well, I'd have to ask my girlfriend first! Hah!
Sincerely yours,
The Picture Taker Hater!
Tommy Lee"
http://www.fuse.tv/2012/07/tommy-lee-asked-for-photo-while-carrying-his-moms-ashes
UPDATE: Too bad Tommy didn't tell us about this before he started ranting. Then I would agree with him.
Now back to the original blog and views.
I can probably see his point of view if he had fans that demand to take his picture with them for keepsake (or for some of them to auction off EBAY) And hell no, I would never go up to him while he's taking a piss and bothering the fuck out of him on that. Since I'm not a Motley Crue fan I wouldn't run across a street to shake his hand or even acknowledge him at the record store. Perhaps if he would cover his tatts up or at least put on a three piece suit and bowler hat he might get the privacy he wants while taking the kids out. Have to disagree that it was HIM and ONLY HIM that got to the top, basically he had a crack manager and some breaks along the way and lotta fans helping their cause. But I doubt if Tommy would consider doing a meet and greet after a show to talk with the fans, he doesn't seem to be the type.
Case in point number two. Justin Bieber took exception to a interviewer when he thought Justin sounded like the other Justin, Timerlake and the little brat got pissed and then hung up the phone when the dipshit interviewer asked him about a One Direction member dating his mom. Yeh, I probably be a little miffed too but Bieber could blame a bad connection or the signal to the cellphone going out. It's tough being a pop star in this day and age. Too many people trying to make you look like a fool without you doing it yourself. Damn radio personalities. http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=740076
Then again there's Adele, who's expecting her first child. Woman has everything right, boyfriend drops her, she gets pissed off and writes the album that broke her big 21 and complained she couldn't find a good man, wanted to have kids bla bla bla and then we get this little tidbit from the UK Diva.
Im delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we’re over the moon and very excited but please respect our privacy at this precious time. Yours always, Adele xx
Friday, June 29, 2012
Two Thousand Views!
Well it is official. We have gone over 2,000 views this month, which is a first.
It's been a long month it seems, we have done a lot, blog a lot and still think we missed something out along the way. Thirty five percent of the views went to the Rock And Roll And The Brains blog, which continues to pack them in and a distant second was the Can't Review Them All Blog with Maroon 5 which managed to unseat the Paul Revere blog for the time being. I don't really that much stock in the all time blog since numbers tend to fall with the exception of number 1 and 2.
I like to thank everybody for their support and reading of the archives. Comments are still welcome but I had to add a few security words due to too many porn spammers and whatever the Russians were peddling on others.
The momentum has kinda slowed down since the Top Ten Blog, we passed 2,000 two days ago but yesterday we didn't get much hits except for the Brains Blog of course. We also cleared 100 views this month for the Consortium Blog, another first considering I don't tout that as much. For next month I don't forsee 2,000 views, I'll probably take some time off between blogs and let the rest of the world get caught up on what's still in the archives. Next month will be another return to the Mad City for more bargain hunting provided if the damn car makes it up there. And Arizona is still a dream in progress but slowly the dates of going out there are becoming clearer and all for it to work is the getting the plane ticket, car rental and map out where I am going for that week away. If we do a 10 day trip, then I can do both Tucson, Kingman to go with the Mesa/Tempe adventures. But I'm having such a disdain of flying that I'm really not that gung ho of going to the airport and getting the annual cavity search just to get on a 3 hour flight out there. Mr. Daniels is trying to convince me to head out there again and we'll see. I'm yearning for a St Louis return trip since I haven't been there since 2009. Which means that the Chain Of Rocks Bridge is missing the Crabb down there. As well as Crookton Pass in the Arizona range.
This month has been exciting and I've done a lot to get out and see some bands, starting with Los Lobos and maybe end with the I C Jazzfest this weekend although Central City has the Linn County Fair with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band being the Friday night showcase.
The 4th of July coming up with means more bands and more fun but it also means the halfway point of summer already. What's coming up for the Crabb site next month is hard to tell but I'm working of some things that are still under wraps. So keep checking back and as always thanks to all for making it past 2,000 views. Y'all rock!
It's been a long month it seems, we have done a lot, blog a lot and still think we missed something out along the way. Thirty five percent of the views went to the Rock And Roll And The Brains blog, which continues to pack them in and a distant second was the Can't Review Them All Blog with Maroon 5 which managed to unseat the Paul Revere blog for the time being. I don't really that much stock in the all time blog since numbers tend to fall with the exception of number 1 and 2.
I like to thank everybody for their support and reading of the archives. Comments are still welcome but I had to add a few security words due to too many porn spammers and whatever the Russians were peddling on others.
The momentum has kinda slowed down since the Top Ten Blog, we passed 2,000 two days ago but yesterday we didn't get much hits except for the Brains Blog of course. We also cleared 100 views this month for the Consortium Blog, another first considering I don't tout that as much. For next month I don't forsee 2,000 views, I'll probably take some time off between blogs and let the rest of the world get caught up on what's still in the archives. Next month will be another return to the Mad City for more bargain hunting provided if the damn car makes it up there. And Arizona is still a dream in progress but slowly the dates of going out there are becoming clearer and all for it to work is the getting the plane ticket, car rental and map out where I am going for that week away. If we do a 10 day trip, then I can do both Tucson, Kingman to go with the Mesa/Tempe adventures. But I'm having such a disdain of flying that I'm really not that gung ho of going to the airport and getting the annual cavity search just to get on a 3 hour flight out there. Mr. Daniels is trying to convince me to head out there again and we'll see. I'm yearning for a St Louis return trip since I haven't been there since 2009. Which means that the Chain Of Rocks Bridge is missing the Crabb down there. As well as Crookton Pass in the Arizona range.
This month has been exciting and I've done a lot to get out and see some bands, starting with Los Lobos and maybe end with the I C Jazzfest this weekend although Central City has the Linn County Fair with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band being the Friday night showcase.
The 4th of July coming up with means more bands and more fun but it also means the halfway point of summer already. What's coming up for the Crabb site next month is hard to tell but I'm working of some things that are still under wraps. So keep checking back and as always thanks to all for making it past 2,000 views. Y'all rock!
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Top Ten Of The Week-Dreaming Of 2000
This month promises to be the most viewed month here at Crabby's Top Ten and Music Review Consortium. Getting close to the 2,000 mark our advisers told me to add something sensational in order to bring new viewership in and perhaps using Justin Bieber and Maroon 5 to the fray might guarantee about 20 to 30 more views than previous. Sometimes that might backfire too. The Can't Review Them All Bog with Maroon 5 roared out of the gate but has now been stuck around 55 views. Which may not unseat the final blog of Paul Revere/Mel McDaniel to which it trades spots with the Best Of 2011 or Blanda Blackmore Blues. Anyway, Justin Bieber's album will be the number 1 record of the week and Maroon 5's latest is out this week. I'd love to but I just can't find it in my heart to review Justin's CD Believe. But will probably will settle for the new Blues Traveler, provided if it isn't in digipak.....(The Blues Traveler is pretty good, the Best Buy version has a bonus disc of six more songs and you can live without them but it's a bonus disc for fuck's sake. The Maroon 5 I passed, since it was in digipak).
Hard to believe it but we are at the halfway point of the year already. And we've done a lot in traveling and making the summerfests that have been around the area. Irish Fest was somewhat a bit boring, Dennis McMurrin, had a laid back funky feel but so laid back at times it almost puts me to sleep. And Patchy Fog had a family of dude with the shakers and tambourines to keep the beat going that it felt like being in a hippy community. The person I was going to meet up with, may have gotten to the Irish bar with friends and decided not to show up, which is okay by me. Which also freed me up into going up to the Sip n Stir for Mike's 59th Birthday party. He used to sing in the band but since he got tired of no shows and egos he retired to a Karaoke career. I'm not a big fan of that so I rarely go up there but damn if he didn't throw a microphone at me and played Tequila so I actually got to sing or shout out the word of said song. There Mike, R U happy now? You got me to sing on a karaoke song, don't do that again. ;-)
I must be losing my mind. I was going to go hang out to Half Priced Books on Sunday and then go watch Dark Shadows but forgot that HP Books closes at 8 on Sunday nights, and now Barnes & Noble closes at 8 on Sundays too, they used to close at 9. Basically, I just said the hell with it, went to Dollar General and picked up some air fresheners and went home. I'll just rent the video or take the night off and catch the late night showing.
The Linn County Fair is this weekend. Up and comer Country star David Nail plays Wed. night, Pop Evil (whoever they are) is the rock act Thursday and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band plays Friday night. Would be fun to go see them but since we're busy at work that won't happen. Plus lots of Tractor Pulls, stock car races and other fun things that making going to the fair fun. That's all in Central City.
It's top ten time. This week's specials are following.
1. Free Ride (45 remix)-Edgar Winter Group 1973 Interesting post from the Besides It's A B Side Facebook site on 45s and the different sounds and takes that vary from record. Back in the days of the 7 inch black circle, 45's would have a brighter or louder mix or a version that differs from the album version and this is a case in point. You rarely ever hear the 45 version of this song, mostly the stolic version that appears on the album. Which isn't bad, it's just there's a more lively guitar lead on the single version.
2. Runaway-Samantha Fish 2011 Not every girl wants to grow up to be another Madonna, nor Lady Gaga or starts a love affair with dance beats and autotuner, believe it or not when I say there's some women out there that are listening to the blues and having dreams of making it in the spotlight. I'm not a big blues fan myself, if I am it is usually the Chess artists of long ago or Stevie Ray Vaughan. Her CD came out on the German Ruf Records (Omar & The Howlers) and of course Best Buy doesn't have it but the local Half Priced books did and therefore I thought would be worth a listen. Sam comes from Kansas City, one of the homes of the blues and has traveled the regional scene although further research showed that she hooked up with Dani Leigh and Cassie Wilson for Girls With Guitars that Ruf put out last years. A contrast of styles, of Dani Leigh's Janis Joplin vocals to go with Fish's Bonnie Raitt. It may seem like a novelty at the time but they're no different than Pistol Annies while the PA's are country, GWG are blues that play real guitars and Samantha knows her riffs and influences very well (Stevie, Bonnie, Koko Taylor too). Here's hoping Sam Fish can join Susan Tedeschi in the blues department of being well known and being a legend like Bonnie as well. She's got the goods and Runaway, the album is great (but since it came out last year won't qualify as one of the ten best of 2012).
3. Take A Heart-The Sorrows 1965 Another obscure oldie that didn't make it across the pond, this was found on the Piccadilly Story (Castle/Sequel/Sanctuary) that came out on CD but I'm sure you didn't know about. They are considered to be the ultimate freakbeat band of that time, recording for Joe Meek and then later for Piccadilly in the UK although further research showed that Warner Brothers released this (WB 5662) as a single If this sounds familiar it's of Don Fardon who is lead vocals on this, he later did first version of Indian Reservation (later taken to number one by The Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em2xu0j-oss
4. I Blame You-Michael Shelley 2000 Do you know it's been 3 years since Michael Jackson passed away? I know where I was at, down at the La Quinta Inn in Mesa enjoying the 108 degree heat and searching for more music that nobody else knows about. Such as Mr. Shelley who sounds a bit like Freedy Johnston but more laid back. He recorded a couple albums on the power pop Big Deal Label (which are still around but dammed if I know what type of music they're selling now). Big Deal fell apart and Shelley moved over to Bar None to record this album and title song to which he got Dennis Diken of the Smithereens to play drums and give it a harder sound than on previous efforts.
5. Red Hot Chicken-Wet Willie 1972 Best known for Keep On Smiling, Wet Willie was the more R and B influenced bands that came on Capricorn and their albums did make it to CD till the Universal/Polygram merger to which Phil Walden pissed off about the whole deal pretty much quit putting out the Capricorn Reissues. Some have stayed in print (Allman Brothers, Elvin Bishop, Captain Beyond) but most if not all Wet Willie fell by the wayside. One Arizona adventure I found Wet Willie 2 and Drippin Wet for 5.99 at Hastings in Kingman but I picked both up as curio. Sold Drippin Wet off but kept WW2. For some reason the cheapest found at Amazon sells for a un fucking believable 166 dollars?!? I like the know the logic behind why it's so high on the cost list. Cheaper ones go for 80 bucks at EBAY. Update: Amazon had a cheap one for 39.95. A bargain so to speak.
6. Let The Music Do The Talking-Aerosmith 1985 Nobody expected much from them when they signed up with Geffen and put out Done With Mirrors, a album that basically is Ted Templeman recording them in one take and seeing where it would lead. Originally done by Joe Perry Project that version was a bit better thought out than the toss out words that Steven Tyler did on DWM. Everybody in the band bitched about Templeman's recording process but the album is a garage rock classic if you take it as a garage rock classic. Once they started working with Desmond Child and other song doctors, they got the hits back but as for myself I enjoy Done With Mirrors quite well in this day and age. At least the FOX don't overkill that album like they do with Love In A Elevator or God Forbid on KDAT, I Don't Want To Miss A Thing to which they sold their soul to the devil Diane Warren for a number 1 hit but rock fans don't play that song. Hell, I don't even own a copy of that song. And I'm better off for it.
7. I Just Want To Hold-Mick Jones 1989 Telling Lou Gramm to take the rest of the career off, Mick Jones does his first and only solo album with some guest stars of note. Namely Dennis Elliot of Foreigner fame on drums, Ian Hunter co writes and sings back ground and Ian Lloyd of Stories makes a cameo but perhaps a side note that Billy Joel plays on this cut, doesn't say what he does but I'm guessing that's him on piano in the background.
8. Police Dog Blues-Blind Blake 1927 From the Blues Story that Shout Factory put out about 10 years ago, which is a nice sampler of the different styles and types of blues and most of it was represented with the exception of Universal holding their masters hostage and not allowing any of the Chess stuff to be put on that album. Which is one reason why I hate mergers and major record companies and believe that if EMI gets sold to Universal they'll only hold back more masters and leave out key elements in the blues. Blake is one of those forgotten blues player although he could do rag time just as well as the blues. He recorded for Paramount (Not the ABC Paramount but rather a small Wisconsin label that was home to other blues acts) for about six years and then disappeared in 1932, whereabouts unknown for all time. Blake did influenced Hot Tuna that recorded a few of Blake's songs for their albums in his honor. Perhaps Samantha Fish would like to take a whack of some of Blind Blake's number for future song requests? ;-)
9. Ginny Come Lately-Brian Hyland 1962 If you think about it, the teen idols of the early 60s were not as puke inducing as the acts of today (Old man here, GET OFF MY LAWN.....) Bobby Darin could finger pop with the best of them and even the odious Paul Anka could pop out a cool number as well (as well as Bobby Rydell, 'snaps fingers') and Hyland kinda falls in the middle between a Darin/Ricky Nelson and Rydell/Anka. But then again I continue to get opinions that I should just stick with the classic rock era and quit messing around the new music or anything before 1958. Um, doesn't work that way, especially with a record hoarder who's looking for more and more of the obscure. He's still working the the Peter Udell and Gary Gold tag team that gave him the hit with Sealed With A Kiss. Most of Hyland's output is now in the hands of the dammed Universal umbrella (ABC Paramount, Phillips, Kapp, UNI) and MCA did put out a best of that captures most of Hyland's hits although I enjoy his failed Phillips single 3000 Miles, which was produced by Snuff Garrett and features Brother Leon Russell as band leader. This did reach number 21 on the top forty although Oldies radio doesn't play it. One of a few singles that I found at Iowa City' Salvation Army that decided to sneak in with the rest of the 45s that I took home. And the record plays very well.
10. Rock Me Baby-Paraphernalia 1982 This is for Mike Swearingen and this is his birthday present from me. His very own spot on the top ten. A long time ago (3 decades and then some) my band was looking for somebody that could sing and my best friend suggested his cousin who was in a who's who of Iowa bands of the 70s. Suede comes to mind, (not the UK band mind you but a horn driven band that sold out many dance halls and bars according to the lead singer). We were not very good, and the bass player was spending most of his time in the Marines, while the rest of us were working crappy jobs or playing in other crappy bands. Most of Paraphernalia's stuff is out of print and the only thing out there is a compilation of the better known songs, I.E. songs that they didn't fuck up or missed a note. Don't bother looking up the band, they don't exist on the internet and The Paraphernalia band that's out there is not our band. This song comes from the infamous Live At The Waldorf Astoria, a tongue in cheek album of 6 covers and a strange original called Heavy Medication (don't ask what it means, even the guitar player's mind draws a blank on why he wrote the song in the first place). This song shows how we sounded live, lotta out of tune guitars, a screaming singer trying to outshout the guitars and bass on the ten knob and the drummer was playing cymbals more than actual drums. A total travesty but at that time we were thinking we were on the verge of world domination. Which could be further from the truth. However a couple years later, the band made it to the OK Lounge on Dec 7 1984, a day that will live in infamy and under a full moon too. Nowadays, the bass player still dreams of playing in the band, the drummer would rather do top tens and hang at record stores and the lead singer is the Karaoke star of Crown Karaoke of Robins Iowa, who plays Saturday Night at the Sip N Stir and continues to badger the drummer and bass player to come up stage and pick a song. To which the drummer declines and prefers to sing solo....so low that nobody can hear him. But you're all free to join the fun whenever you're in this one horse town. Tell him Crabby sent ya. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crown-Karaoke/141448602575579?v=info
No room at the inn:
Pressure-Billy Joel 1982
Sunshine-Johnathan Edwards 1971
Banks Of The Ohio-The Carter Family With Johnny Cash 1960?
All Alone-The Cultivators 1999
Theme From Z Cars-Johnny Keating 1962
Read of the day: The Pleasure Seekers, a all female band that made a couple singles for Hideout and Mercury but mostly known for the Qutaro Sisters. http://rockprosopography102.blogspot.com/2011/04/pleasure-seekers-cradle-story.html
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Crabb Bits: Irish Fest, Samantha Fish, Mike Swearingen
Well we are three hundred views away from 2,000 so maybe just maybe we might make it there for the first time ever.
To your left this is the face of the new blues. This up and coming woman has no interest in autotuned pop that is the flavor of the day. This woman is Samantha Fish and her latest album Runaway (Ruf-Germany) has a connection that has her vocals like a Bonnie Raitt but her guitar playing is much in tune with Stevie Ray Vaughn. Normally most of what I hear in the blues is okay but not earth shattering, but Fish's CD is a revelation upon itself. From greasy bayou blues of Down In The Swamp to the Delaney/Bonnie type of soul as guest Mike Zito adds a male counterpoint to Push Comes To Shove but she can also do a slow jazz number in Feelin Alright. It's refreshing to say that not every girl wants to be a Lady Gaga. Give Samantha time and she'll give them all a run for the money. That includes the guys too.
I used to know Carol from Relics years ago and she told me about meeting her up at Irish Fest, which happened in Cedar Rapids, which was a cheaper alternative to the BBQ Roundup to which the locals were too happy about seeing no locals at the BBQ this year. Personally I didn't think paying three bucks to get in and pay more for the BBQ stuff at the vendors was a good idea so I went to Irish Fest instead. When I up there I didn't see Carol anywhere but they had some bands of note playing. In the Acoustic stage inside they had Patchy Fog, a band that played some Eagles and Buffalo Springfield and had some bald dude with a Amish beard to boot, but they were not too bad. Dennis (Daddy O) McMurrin was on the main stage and had some guest stars of note, T Bone Giblin on keys. He plays some funky grooves and did a bit of James Brown and Charles Wright and the 103rd Street band Express Yourself.. Surf Zombies played earlier and some jam band came on at 7 but by then I went up to Sip And Stir to wish Mike Swearingen a happy birthday.
I've known Mike since he played in the band I was in back in 1980. He'll go down as the main screamer for Cruise, a Iowa favorite in the late 70s (or Suede, Cruise was the band he was in when I first met him and we conned him into playing for us later on in Paraphernalia/Tyrus) Today he turned 59. So happy birthday Mike and hope you have many many more. Cheers!
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Top Ten Of The Week-Justin Beaverbiscuits
Sir Paul McCartney turned 70 on Monday. Each day the sixties gets further away like a distant planet that you can't return to. We all get old. He's 70, Willie Nelson is pushing 80 and Old Crabby is past 50 as well. Funny how our youth we couldn't wait to get older and now that we are older we wish we could be younger again. Looking at all this music that I have and wish it can be 30 years ago so I can have time to hear it all again. Too bad we can't take it to the grave and hear it in the great beyond.
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,"
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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