NATIONAL [PREFERRED TERM] MONTH

Ah hell, I was going to post this sometime this month. I might as well do the honest thing and just repost the complete thing from last year. You're welcome.:

I don't really pay attention to the National [fill in the blank] Month things. [Whatever] Awareness Month is usually noticed after seeing or hearing about it about ten times. So I didn't realize that National Hispanic Heritage Month is upon us. It's September 15 through October 15. I also learned that the term Hispanic is now kind of controversial. So, I will call it "National Flaco Jimenez, Ray Barretto, Tito Puente, Los Saicos, Celia Cruz, Thee Midniters, Willie Colon, Johnny Pacheco, Etc. Month"

Here's a song that was played incessantly on the radio when it came out, and for several years thereafter. There was no point in buying it because you'd heard it so often. It wasn't until years later that the song went away. Then, after a gap of not hearing it, I heard it again, with more learned ears. Loud. It was no longer wallpaper. It was a fucking cool song. El Chicano's "Viva Tirado" is up there with "Take Five" and "Green Onions" in terms of defining a sound. Theirs was a cover. The original is down there along with a another cover by Augustus Pablo (not his best but interesting to hear).

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Listen:
El Chicano - Viva Tirado mp3 at Internet Archive
Augustus Pablo - Viva Tirado (streaming) at YouTube
Gerald Wilson - Viva Tirado mp3 at Musica del Alma The original
Visit:
Yes, We're Calling It Hispanic Heritage Month And We Know It Makes Some Of You Cringe at NPR

MOM SAID WE HAVE TO TAKE TURNS

I'm not sure how many of you were hanging around here thirteen years ago, but I have to repost the Tielman Brothers because the old link to their video of "Rollin' Rock" went dead and we can't have that. It's too classic. The Tielman Brothers were Indonesians that moved to Amsterdam at a young age. The first thing you'll notice in the video is the energy of the band. From the beginning to the end, these cats don't stop moving. And the guitar player has some pretty good stuff. A guitar tone that sounds like Cliff Gallup's on the early Gene Vincent stuff (on a Les Paul?!). I mention that first because a little into the song it turns into a chaotic solo fest. We're talking guitar solos, drum solos, drumsticks on guitar solo, bass solo, behind the back guitar solo and my favorite, behind the back guitar solo while the guitarist is standing on the side of the stand up bass which is on top of the bassist who is lying on his back playing. It's quite a performance. Unfortunately the crazier they get, the more the actual solos suffer. By the end you're left wondering why the audience doesn't call them on their shit. All the action is fine and dandy, but when the music starts to suffer...oh.ever mind. I forgot about the clip of the audience at the very end. It's a pretty square looking crowd, not what you'd consider rock 'n' roll afficiandos. Their attention requires a spectacle..

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Listen:
Tielman Brothers - Record Hop mp3 at Rocky 52
Tielman Brothers - 18th Century Rock mp3 at Rocky 52
Tielman Brothers - A.A.A. mp3 at Rocky 52

GOT THE MEMO

Here's a nutty cat, Memo Rios, from Mexico City, who apparently did a fair amount of electro and rap, heavy on the covers. The one that sucked me in was "Techno Taco". It's like some cheesy Screamers Lite en Espanol. I didn't think it could be topped, or tainted, but I hadn't heard his covers of "Ice Ice Baby" and "Rappers Delight". Dude went from borderline oddball genius to ordinary oddball pretty quick. But the sparse production makes these interesting, as does the Spanish, and there are nice surprises, like the James Brown scream sample at :36 in "Memocotorreo". Whatever, I've gone this far. Do check the video, a cover of "Wild Thing".

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Listen:
Memo Rios - Techno Taco mp3 at Super Sonido
Memo Rios - Memocotorreo mp3 at Super Sonido Rappers Delight (?)
Memo Rios - Muy Delgada mp3 at Super Sonido Ice Ice Baby
Video:
Memo Rios -  Cosa Loca at YouTube Wild Thing

SAVE THE HOOPLA ABOUT CHANGING COLORS

This is the third time I've posted this thematic trio in the past five years. I guess I always get lazy at the end of the summer. Exhaling. Actually, the next month is usually the most enjoyable of the year. The weather's usually good, the water temperature cooling but not yet cold. We'll get Santa Ana conditions, hot and dry with offshore breezes. Tourists gone, kids back in school. If we could repeat the month between mid-September and mid-October for the entire year I'd be just fine.  

 

I know. You don't come here for a weather report. Here's the three end of summer songs. One from a Southern California band, one from a UK pop singer and one from an East coast vocal group, all of similar vintage (the sixties). I still don't get this seasons thing.

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Listen:
The Beach Boys - All Summer Long mp3 at The Pop History Dig
Dusty Spingfield - Summer Is Over mp3 at Tumblr
The Drifters - Sand In My Shoes mp3 at R Strathdee (?)

OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO

This is either cool or too cutesy for words depending on your attitude. It's three sisters from Monterey, Mexico. (There's your Hispanic Heritage Month tie-in.) The sisters start getting into music via Rock Band, the video game. They get instruments and start playing together, eventually posting some videos online. One of them, a cover of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" blew up. This was in 2015. They called themselves The Warning. The oldest sister at the time was sixteen, the youngest was thirteen. Okay, this is where it turns into cool versus cutesy. The cool part of it, coming from someone who grew up with two rock obsessed brothers, is that they are sisters. The whole time I was growing up, my brothers and I fantasized about having a band together. When we were young all three of us took guitar lessons but only my brother Tim stuck it out. (I got a bass a few years later but never got good enough.) Being in a band with siblings, especially when you're still in your teens, has got to be one of the best ways to begin a music career. Staying together as a unit for several years has got to be the absolute shit.

Here's a couple videos I ran across. One is a veiled ad for Patreon, the site that gets you sponsors. Nevertheless, it's a good place to start. The other video is clips of The Warning chronologically from when they first started up until 2022.

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Watch:
The Warning Evolution: 2009-2022 at YouTube 45 minutes

SQUEEZE BOX COOL

I completely forgot that yesterday was Mexican Independence Day. And Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica all had their Independence Days last Thursday, the 15th. Chile has their on the 18th and Belize on the 21st. But the U.S. has a grab bag way of celebrating all of them, Hispanic Heritage Month. That awkward name, as opposed to Latinx or some other more appropriate term, was picked up by the Washington eggheads from the U.S. Census (read about it here). Anyway, it gives me a opportunity to feature music from all of Latin America for the next few weeks, not exclusively but more than usual.

For whatever reason, the first person that came to mind was Flaco Jimenez. He was actually born in Texas but is Mexican and his fix was Norteño, Tex Mex and Tejano music. When I hear his music it reminds me of my first visits to Mexico. I grew up (and am still growing up) in San Diego, roughly twenty miles from Tijuana. A rite of passage when I was younger was to go to TJ and drink. The drinking age in Mexico was 18 and in San Diego the drinking age is 21. It is not hard math for a thirsty young adult. In the bars, restaurants and in shops you heard all sorts of Mexican music. A lot of it was like Flaco's. I'm thirsty.

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Listen:
Flaco Jiménez - El Pata Caliente mp3 at Let's Polka
Flaco Jiménez - Laureles mp3 at Let's Polka

RED HOT DEPOT

Like a lot of people, my first exposure to the song "Red Hot" was through Robert Gordon's 1977 LP with Link Wray. After devouring the LP, yep, the dig was on. It didn't take long to find out that the hit version of "Red Hot" was by Billy Lee Riley (above), recorded at Sun in 1957, with Jerry Lee Lewis on piano. (Gordon's LP also featured Riley's "Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll".) It wasn't until years later that I found an earlier version from 1955 by Billy "The Kid" Emerson, also recorded at at Sun. His version (the original?) is a fuckin' party. This would be my cue to hep you to an excellent four CD box set that is the deal of the century. It's called "Rockin' Memphis" and that's where I first heard Emerson's version. It's all stuff recorded at Sun and most of the cuts in the set were licensed to other labels. So you're essentially getting a whole bunch of cool songs that you won't find on official Sun boxed sets. Here's the kicker: Brand new this boxed set goes for about $16! Used copies at Discogs start at eight bucks! There's 114 songs and a 56 page book of liner notes. Get off you wallets tightwads!

Here's the three versions mentioned above and another one by the Beatles recorded in their pre-fame days at the Star Club in Hamburg. Their recording isn't the greatest but you can definitely hear some fine rockabilly licks. John or George? You make the call.

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Listen:
Billy Lee Riley - Red Hot mp3 at Internet Archive 1957
Billy "The Kid" Emerson - Red Hot mp3 at Internet Archive 1955
Robert Gordon w/Link Wray - Red Hot (streaming) at YouTube
The Beatles - Red Hot (Live at the Star Club) (streaming) at YouTube

AIN'T NO MONKS I KNOW

Just a quick one here. Los Monjes aren't my favorite Mexican band, garage, beat or otherwise. Not even close. I just dig them because they're instant oddballs. They're a three piece: organ, drums and bass. No guitar. Okay, it's the mid-sixties, I'll give you that as a bold move. Then there is their appearance. Despite the well trimmed face feathers, they look like chemistry students. With their robes (with hoods) they really seal the deal. (Los Monjes translates to "the Monks") I'm just posting a couple here. There's more at the bottom link. Sheeit, kids those days.

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Listen:
Los Monjes - Oh Yeah! mp3 at Internet Archive
Los Monjes - No Debes Mentir mp3 at Internet Archive
Los Monjes - Caravan mp3 at Internet Archive
Los Monjes - Seven more songs at Internet Archive

JAMMING JAZZBO DOWN YOUR EAR HOLE

I was looking for something else and ran across this, Prince Jazzbo's "Crab Walking". I'd been wanting to post it again because it's a favorite but assumed the link I had was dead (wrong!). Jazzbo DJs over the riddim from Horace Andy's "Skylarking" (also a favorite) and it's on Studio One (yet another favorite) and it's a DJ 12" with the version tacked on to the end (also a favorite format). Basically the only way the song could max out all of my favorite elements of reggae would be if U Roy was doing the toasting (sadly, U Roy never teamed up with Coxone Dodd.)

What I was actually looking for when I stumbled on "Crab Walking" was Gregory Isaacs's "Night Nurse". I heard it at the beach today after just coming out of the water and was stoked to hear it in the wild. I normally hate hearing other people's music at the beach, but today was an exception. Particularly after passing a group that was blasting nu-country. So here's those two cuts and a couple others that hit the spot while I was looking for the Isaacs's thing.

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Listen:
Prince Jazzbo - Crab Walking mp3 at Snuhthing Anything
Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse mp3 at Feems
Burning Spear - Social Living mp3 at Internet Archive 12" version, with a couple minutes of the version on the flip.
Horace Andy - See A Man's Face mp3 at Kazo Wailers

CBGB OMFUG OGS

I've no idea what compilation or boxed set these might be from but any of you Television type folks (the band, not an actual television) might find them as interesting as I do. I'm not someone who coddles artists. If I really dig a record and then a follow up comes out that isn't quite as good, the band is going to have to convince me to go any further. Television did not. Marquee Moon was a great debut LP. Nothing that they did after that really interested me. One and done amigos, you never did convince me to go back. But, alternate versions from the same sessions? I can dig it, especially since these seem to be a bit more raw than the album versions. If you're into Television you'll dig 'em. If you're not, well, take 'em for a spin. The guitar interplay is the draw here.

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Listen:
Television - Friction (alt. version) mp3 at Internet Archive
Television - Marquee Moon (alt. version) mp3 at Internet Archive
Television - See No Evil (alt. version) mp3 at Internet Archive
Television - Untitled Instrumental mp3 at Internet Archive

UNIONS WORK

I work and I believe in unions and I believe in workers' rights. I also believe that I will keep it short because today is Labor Day, a holiday for American workers. Though Billy Bragg is British, his "There Is Power In a Union" is right on the money.

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Listen:
Billy Bragg - There Is Power In A Union mp3 at Zed Equals Zee
Visit:
Labor Day Purpose and History at ThoughtCo

FROM THE 99 CENT BIN

This one is a head scratcher. An LP by band called The Deep, Psychedelic Moods, was released in the fall of '66 and lays claim to the first album with "psychedelic" in the title (edging out the Blues Magoos and the 13th Floor Elevators). While that may be noteworthy to some, more noteworthy is the main Deep-er, Rusty Evans. Prior to The Deep he was a folkie and before that he recorded at least one rockabilly record. Some years after The Deep, he was doing a Johnny Cash tribute thing. WTF?

The LP is psych-lite, but has it's moments. The second cut, "Pink Ether" manages to mix fuzz and Martin Denny-like bird calls. Again, WTF? And there's no shortage of intriguing song titles, "When Rain Is Black", "Crystal Nite", "Turned On", "Trip #76",...you get the picture. While this may not be the finest psych you've ever heard, chances are you might not hear The Deep again. The LP was a one-off. Having formed just to record this LP, it was the only album under the name The Deep. They did record one other LP, Psychedelic Psoul, as The Freak Scene (find it on YouTube). Interesting, the guy who wrote the drab liner notes was Neil Bogart who went on to sign Donna Summer and Kiss. Fuck, sell what sells I guess.

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Listen:
The Deep - Color Dreams mp3 at Internet Archive
The Deep - Pink Ether mp3 at Internet Archive
The Deep - When Rain Is Black mp3 at Internet Archive
The Deep - Crystal Nite mp3 at Internet Archive
The Deep - Turned On mp3 at Internet Archive
The Deep - Trip #76 mp3 at Internet Archive

IS TIME

Oh hell yeah, these hit the spot. Just what I need before a three day-er. Althea and Donna 's "Uptown Top Ranking" is my all-time summer jam, and it's right on time. We're just starting to get summer-like weather (high 70s, 70° water). Like I need an excuse. The Horace Andy and Heptones cuts are favorites as well, and these all have the versions tacked on. Partake in something. Crank it fool.

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Listen:
Althea and Donna - Uptown Top Ranking b/w Calico Suit mp3 at Internet Archive Original 1977 Joe Gibbs Record Globe 7" Version
Horace Andy - Skylarking b/w Skylarking (Version)  mp3 at Internet Archive Original 1972 Bongo Man 7" Version
The Heptones - Cool Rasta b/w Rasta Dub  mp3 at Internet Archive Original 1976 Cancer 7" Single Version

WELCOME TO THE WEIRDOHOOD

So, Eileen, the woman with the Stooges T-shirt that lived across the alley from me, moved out. A couple weeks later I see a car parked in her old parking place with a Gang Green sticker on it.  A couple days later, the guy who inherited her parking spot, owner of the car with te Gang Green sticker was getting in his car. "Gang Green, eh?" I said. We were off and running. It turned out the guy was into 80s punk, hence the sticker. So, to get an idea of how deep his tastes were, I mentioned the Stooges. He passed that test. In ensuing conversations I sorta mentioned how deep the punk well was. (Stooges is level two shit.) I told him I'd burn a thumb drive for him (no turntable, no CD player, just streaming gizmos and a cassette deck in his car). I would have offered a cassette mix but that would entail pulling out a cassette from the back of the hall closet. I knew I'd never make the effort, so why bullshit myself? That said I told him if I ran across any old mixes that I still had, they'd be his. All of this is just to say that the Weirdos songs below are for him. Please note: RIP Dix Denny. Long live all Weirdos.

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Listen:
The Weirdos - Destroy All Music mp3 at Killed By Death
The Weirdos - Life of Crime mp3 at Killed By Death
The Weirdos - Why Do You Exist mp3 at Killed By Death
The Weirdos - We Got The Neutron Bomb mp3 at Killed By Death
The Weirdos - Solitary Confinement mp3 at Killed By Death
Video:
The Weirdos - I'm Not Like You (live) at YouTube Los Angeles 1978
The Weirdos - Destroy all Music, A Life of Crime, Hitman, Idle Life (live) at YouTube San Francisco  1978

FORMATIVE YEARS ROCK

I wasn't looking for this because I didn't know it existed. A live broadcast of an Avengers show from 1979. If I don't post it now, I'll forget. The Avengers were one of the early San Francisco punk bands from 1977. Blah, blah, blah. There's three songs down there from their first EP from '77. The live thing is from two years later and is kind of sloppy but, having been recorded for a radio broadcast, the sound quality is better than a bootleg. What the hell. Years ago I would have killed for a thirty minute set by the Avengers, but these days, well, shit I've listened to Avengers a lot over the years. Might as well be "Johnny B. Goode" at this point. Still, this goes out to my twenty year old self.

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Listen:
The Avengers - We Are The One mp3 at Killed By Death
The Avengers - I Believe In Me mp3 at Killed By Death
The Avengers - Car Crash mp3 at Killed By Death
The Avengers – In Concert at Old Waldorf, San Francisco – June 13, 1979 – KALX-FM broadcast mp3 at Past Daily

THE DAY THE WORLD TURNED DAYGLO (SORT OF)

It's been a few. Unusual happenings the past few days. The big bad Hurricane Hilary was on it's way. It was supposed to plow right through the neighborhood. Everybody was scrambling around on Saturday, trying to get a weekends worth of errands done in one day. And they had to find sandbags. I finished my shit in mid-afternoon, went for a swim. It was getting close to sunset so I went out to the alley to have a smoke and read a few pages. Hung a right past the laundry room and looked to the west. Ho-ly fuck. The sky was fluorescent, incredibly colored from bright pink to neon orange. I walked to the end of the street which is a dead end on a bluff above some tide pools. I was about two blocks south of where the photo above was taken (detail of a photo by Randy Dibble), but my view was unobstructed. With my jaw hanging open, I ran into several neighbors who did the same thing, caught a glimpse and dropped everything to check it out. I love living here.

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Listen:
X Ray Spex - The Day the World Turned Dayglo mp3 at Tumblr Original
The Cripples - The Day the World Turned Dayglo mp3 at Xtrmntr Cover

EVEN THE SOUND OF THE DRUMS

Aw hell yeah. I'm not even going to bother with any excess yapping. Dig the tone on Little Walter's harp. This, in 1954. This is pre-rock metal. Shit, look at the title. Again, 1954.

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Listen:
Little Walter - Rocker mp3 at Internet Archive

ONE GOOD LONG PROG-JAZZ-ROCK JAM SPECIAL

The other night I was listening to the jazz station, the program "Bohemia After Dark". It's a good thing to have one when you feel like being surprised. Besides the sometimes offbeat jazz, I've heard Tom Waits, Fela, Ken Nordine, Gil Scott Heron and a bunch of other stuff you wouldn't really associate with jazz. That's precisely why I dig it. So the other night they (or rather her, Claudia Russell "your jazz kitten") played a song with some jammin' solos, guitar, electric piano, and organ In the middle of the song there was a drum part that really blew me away. After a few minutes I visited the station's web site to see the playlist so I could find a name to go along with the nasty jam.

Brian Auger and the Trinity, "Listen Here". Yeah. So I scoured, first to YouTube, to hear it again, then I poked around looking for an mp3. (No luck there so you'll have to settle.) Then I went to Discogs to check on the credits. I had to see who the drummer was. Oh jeez. There were six, count 'em six, percussionists on the song. (All listed at Discogs). The song had been on several Auger career spanning compilations but I wanted to find the album it originated from. There I saw it. Total fucking palm-to-forehead "Doh!!". It was on an LP I used to own. That tells you how much my tastes have broadened. Note that I said I "used to own". I know I had it. It was likely a 99 cent low-risk LP that was purged after taking it for a (obviously too short) test run. Who knows, I could still have it, about a half of my collection is unsorted. Anyway, the song is nine minutes long, the drum part is at 5:21, but start from the beginning. The whole thing is great. Cherry picking parts of songs isn't fair to the artist unless you're DJing or sampling, something like that. But listening, respect.

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Listen:
Brian Auger and the Trinity - Listen Here (streaming) at YouTube

FRESHMEN TAKE NOTE

A member of It's A Beautiful Day died a few days ago, I saw it in a news feed. I don't like It's a Beautiful Day, but it reminded me that they had a song called "Don and Dewey" that I always used to run into when I was looking for music by, yep, Don and Dewey. I'm not sure why they did a song about Don and Dewey (or at least titled as such), I just know it got in my way when searching for something more crucial. So, fuck It's A Beautiful Day, here's some Don and Dewey.

Don and Dewey were a criminally overlooked early rock 'n' roll duo. You locals here know I'm crazy about them. I have to thank for that a slightly older couple, semi-friends who played a Don and Dewey record at a house party when I was roughly twenty three years old. The next day I bought the compilation seen above. Tower Records actually had it. The record has been in constant rotation here for decades. For those of you not familiar with them, consider it a second tier essential, meaning that once you digest the big name early rockers (Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, et al) they should inhabit your playlist. Know them you creeps.

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Listen:
Don and Dewey - Justine mp3 at Rocky 52
Don and Dewey - Jungle Hop mp3 at Rocky 52
Don and Dewey - Farmer John mp3 at Rock Town Hall
Don and Dewey - Miss Sue mp3 at Rocky 52
Don and Dewey - Just a Little Lovin' mp3 at Rocky 52
Don and Dewey - Jelly Bean mp3 at Internet Archive Burned from a 78

OUR PARENTS HAD ELVIS. WE HAD X.

There's an old post about X that's been getting hits lately (Didn't see this coming) which made me want to hear X last night, so I did. The first song that happened to come up was "White Girl". That's a really familiar song to me and it made me think about why I liked it and most of X's early stuff so much. Part of it, I know, is the way John Doe and Exene Cervenka sing together. Something about their dissimilar voices, how sometimes they trade off lines and sometimes they harmonize. That's the part that gets me, when they're harmonizing. Sometimes it works, sometimes it's a little abrasive. No doubt an acquired taste, but there was no shortage of of acquired tastes in my crowd back in the day. All of my friends were into X, several still go to every show they play here, when they do. I don't go because I've seen then a lot, most shows in the early days. They're still playing a lot of the same songs. That said, I can see why a lot of people my age still go see them. From reports of friends their gigs are almost like reunions with the old punk crew. I don't do reunions because it always seems to me that it's reliving past glories. Just replace that old star quarterback with the graying spiky haired dude that used to rule the pit. Same thing.

So, with my one night X-fest I really dug into "White Girl" and realized that the vocals have just about all of the trademark John/Exene qualities. They swap lines, they harmonize in that slightly abrasive manner and, here's what got me. About a minute in (on the record, ), when they sing the chorus ("She's a white girl..."), their voices really do come together, so much so that you'd guess that John Doe's vocals were double tracked. Check the clip above, shot in the studio the day they were recording it. Dang me if they aren't both on that chorus at least on film. (2:29 in the video). I could be wrong.There's also a live recording of them doing it in 1988, eight years after it was released, and a live video from 2016, thirty six years after it was released (!).

Once again, I'm posting a link to the documentary about X, The Unheard Music. That was the source of the studio clip, but there's a mess of live stuff and hanging around in it as well. Worth a gander if you've never seen it. Shit, now I kinda know how the teddy boys felt.

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Listen:
X - White Girl mp3 at Internet Archive 1980
X- White Girl (streaming) at YouTube
X - White Girl (Live) (streaming) at YouTube 1988
Video:
The Unheard Music (documentary) at YouTube 1986
X - White Girl (Live) at YouTube 2016