BLIP SHIT GOLD

Sometimes you just have to listen to someone's whack vision of what future music would sound like. Or maybe not. This thing is a piece of work though, as if Kraftwerk were getting stoned while unboxing their first synthesizer. I've no clue if it's written music or just farting around making random weird noises. I do know that it was committed to vinyl and eight track tape and there was some effort put into it, as well having been dignified by a blog posting at Dinosaur Gardens thirteen years ago. Hey, it's still online, it's still weird, and it gets me through a night when I needed to land on something that I've never heard.

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Listen:
Pascal - The Sixth Ear mp3 at Dinosaur Gardens Nine and a half minutes!
The Whole LP: 
Pascal - The Sixth Ear at Dinosaur Gardens Nine mp3s!

ONE TWELVE YEAR OLD CAN'T BE WRONG

This is the song that made me notice ridiculous lyrics. I was a kid, I'd heard it dozens of times. What a ludicrous piece of crap, lyrically. Musically it was tight, if a little too laid back. Like stoner rock does Latin, that is if stoner rock ever managed to shake it's lethargic ass out of the bean bag chair. It's embryonic pre-"Lowrider" War, the early days when Eric Burdon sullied his Animals rep not by being in the band, but by sucking up to hippies with this pot fairy nonsense. The times were different? Hell, I was there, a kid, and I thought the lyrics were dumb as shit. Nonetheless, tonight I listened to it all the way through, chortling, half wishing I had a zit to pop.

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Listen:
Eric Burdon and War - Spill the Wine mp3 at Tumblr (?)

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE DEPOT

If you don't follow the chaotic politics of the United States, you might not have heard that Donald Trump was making a speech roughly a week ago and the presidential seal that was displayed on a screen behind him was not the official seal. (If you know all about that skip this paragraph.) It had been altered displaying a two headed bird as seen on the Russian flag, instead of the traditional (single headed) bald eagle that's supposed to be on the seal. In addition, the traditional thirteen arrows representing the original thirteen colonies of the U.S. that are normally in the left talon on the eagle were replaced by golf clubs. The olive branches normally in the right talon were replaced with a wad of cash. In the banner of the seal that normally says "E pluribus unum" ("out of many, one" in Latin) it said "45 es un títere" which in Spanish is "45 is a puppet" (Trump is the 45th president, or at least that's what he thinks he is). The person responsible for the projection of the wrong seal was fired. (The whole story can be read at the BBC website.)

Photo: Ken Feinleib

Long backstory, I know, but here's the good part. Last night Blondie was playing in Camden NJ, and included their cover of the John Barry penned theme from the James Bond film "From Russia With Love", which has been in their set for at least a year. About 40 seconds in, the screen backdrop behind them reprised the fake seal as a triptych, an intentional dig at Trump. The crowd erupted with applause. This almost makes up for "Heart of Glass".

Check this video that appeared a couple years ago. It's a doctored expertly edited clip showing the FBI taking down Michael Fynn, Steve Bannon (with James Comey watching), Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, and finally Donald Trump, with "To Russia With Love", the original version, as a soundtrack. It's like an updated version of the cut and paste type thing ala Jamie Reid's "God Save The Queen" artwork.

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Listen:

Matt Monro - From Russia With Love mp3 at Tumblr From the original soundtrack
Roland Alphonso - From Russia With Love (streaming) at YouTube Studio One!
Video:
Blondie - From Russia With Love (live) at YouTube At 1:24, seals obscured by camera overexposure
Blondie - From Russia With Love (live) at YouTube At :13, a better shot from a different angle.

BUT DID YOU REALLY HAVE TO SING?

Man, I don't know shit about Chet Baker. I know that he started out with marquee looks and from all appearances must have been a charmed life. Playing with Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz and Charlie Parker would lead you to believe that. I have a couple LPs one with Mulligan (who hasn't "met" Gerry Mulligan?) and one with Getz. The one thing that has always bugged me is his vocal numbers, not that he wasn't a good jazz singer. But his vocals are always so, I don't know, soft, that it seems like it was just a way to make the ladies swoon. You just want to grab him by the scruff of the neck and yell, "Blow, man, blow!!". But, man, what a tragic life. In and out of jail all the time, being a junkie, getting beat up, getting kicked out of countries. He's like that friend of yours that always has an excess of drama going on in their life. Sad, but after it happens again and again, your first instinct is to stay the fuck away. Like that friend with drama, I've never really given him a fair shake. I'll try.

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Listen:
Chet Baker - September Song mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Chet Baker - It's You Or No One mp3 at Drummer World
Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine mp3 at Bobo Parisienne
Chet Baker - Let's Get Lost mp3 at Mr. Suave

THE MAN FROM ELEKI

After the Ventures toured Japan in 1962, the place went instro crazy. Electric guitar instrumental bands were crawling all over the place. They called these bands "eleki", which sure is a good compact way of saying "guitar based instrumental bands". Most of it wasn't really surf music because there wasn't a whole lot of dripping reverb, but there was a whole lot of great pickin', and in quite a few some comical yelps and such. Check the beginning of Takeshi Terauchi's "Kanjinncyou". Right out of the gates. "Yooo!!" is right! There's a lot of his stuff below because, in that scene, he was the man. That's him above, the man and his Mostrite.

Eleki lives on. Check the video linked at the bottom of the post. Go! Go! Tomoko!, that's the name of the woman guitarist. She's got a colorful way of interpreting some of the standards. I swear that lady has some kind of relationship with her whammy bar.

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Listen:
Takeshi Terauchi - Kanjinncyou mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Takeshi Terauchi - Genruko Hanami Odori mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Takeshi Teraushi - Sabre Dance mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Takeshi Terauchi and the Bunnys - Flying Guitar mp3 at Radio Diffusion Intl
The Sharp Five - Golden Guitar mp3 at Radio Diffusion Intl
The Spacemen - Swim Swim Swim mp3 at Radio Diffusion Intl
The Spacemen - Che Che Che mp3 at Radio Diffusion Intl
Full LPs:
Takeshi Terauchi and the Bunnys - Let's Go Classics LP (classical covers, 11 mp3s, right click song titles) at Beware of the Blog
Takeshi Terauchi and the Bunnys - This is Terauchi Bushi LP (12 mp3s, right click song titles) at Beware of the Blog
Video:
Go! Go! Tomoko w/Sapporo Chuck Berry Rock 'n' Roll Band at YouTube Assorted classics, maximum whammy bar.

HE MADE RECORDS FOR FIFTY YEARS

Just yesterday I was walking down the street and a car drove by blasting the Meters' "Sissy Strut". It stopped me dead in my tracks. It was the first time I'd heard it out on the street (as opposed to a club, live show or record store). I wanted to take it all in, the soundtrack to navigating a crowded sidewalk, a block from the beach on a warm summer day. Click. Snapshot.

Today on the way home from work, I heard on the radio that Art Neville had died. It was if I was being told yesterday to appreciate the Meters and the Neville Brothers, because, really, the first thought I'd had in my taking-it-all-in episode was what a great musical family the Nevilles were. Man, that snapshot will stay in my album a while.

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Listen:
Art Neville - Arabian Love Call mp3 at Office Naps
The Meters - Cissy Strut mp3 at Drummer World

THE BAND THAT REFUSED TO DIE

Okay, so I'm lost tonight. A mix led to the black hole of the day and I don't think I'm making it back here. It started with a really nice mix of stuff by the Skatalites and Jazz Jamaica at Internet Archive. It's newer stuff, by that I mean not brand new but not vintage. But that's okay. Actually better than okay, because regardless of when it was recorded it's good. I've always been fond of any horn heavy Jamaican music and there's no shortage here. The unfortunate thing is that it's a single download so it's all or nothing, and good luck trying to pinpoint what song you're listening to halfway through the mix. Regardless, even if you just bookmark it to listen to when you just need a couple hours of instrumentals, it's a good mix. There's a handful of other Skatalites tunes below as well, to satiate the cherry pickers. The "Herb Man Dub" thing, recorded at Tubby's, sounds nothing like them, so if you're in the mood for something different, that's the one.

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Listen:
The Skatalites - Skalifornia mp3 at Tumblr (?)
The Skatalites - Perhaps mp3 at Tumblr (?)
The Skatalites - Herb Man Dub mp3 at Tumblr (?) King Tubby behind the board.
The mix:
The Skatalites and Jazz Jamaica - Alpha Rasta's Blue Notes at Internet Archive Once there, look in the right column, under "Download options" click on "VBR MP3 Files"

PROTO-POST-PUNK

If I'd never heard this song and new nothing of the artist, if it was the first time I'd ever heard it, I'd be ecstatic. I've heard it a lot, but not in a long while. I'd forgotten what a great song it is. Here goes the asshole comparison: Hearing it again today, it's like Television meets the early Modern Lovers, on speed. I don't expect that to be a decipherable description unless you're familiar with both bands, and speed. But, man, this song achieves the near impossible, a song with at least a couple electric guitars and a driving beat but you can't really consider it a rocker. It's not really a singer songwriter thing as the lyrics don't do shit, the electronics are fairly minimized so it's not really a synth song, the guitar heroics are all but absent (though the guitar work is the shit). I gotta say, it's good to hear it again whatever the hell it is.

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Listen:
Brian Eno - Third Uncle mp3 at For the Sake of the Song

"PRETTY BOY" SAID THE PARROT

I'm not a big fan of power pop. I can appreciate how a lot of it is well crafted, but it just doesn't grab me. I've gone through binges of a day or two...the jury's been out for a good thirty years. Fucking Raspberries, I've been putting off accessing them for years. Take these. Shit, I hear the Beach Boys and ELO and everything in between. Eric Carmen was like a American Bay City Roller that could write, and when he looks in the camera in the video below it makes me want to gag. Give him a playful slap upside the head. Flick his ear. I hate to admit it, I'd rather he look haggard and burned out.  Belly achin' aside, there's no doubting the quality of the song. AM effin' gold.

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Listen:
The Raspberries - Overnight Sensation mp3 at Stop Okay Go
The Raspberries - I Wanna Be With You mp3 at Help! Friends!  A Guinea Pig Tricked Me!

IS THE COOL. MAKES FART NOISES.

Wow, this is crazy. On Sunday night, right when the jazz radio station was switching over from their Saturday Night Fish Fry show (old rhythm and blues) to their blues show, the first song that they played was "I Am the Cool" a song that I did not recognize, but the lyrics were cool. Boastful, like Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love", but with a delivery that sounded more like Andre Williams. After checking their play list I found out it was Screamin' Jay Hawkins. When I was looking for it, I ran into a cover of it, a video by a Ukrainian band called Chernobilly Opkectp, which I think translates into Chernobilly Boogie. The video is awesome, the guy singing it as if he wants to snap your head off. The set design, the instrumentation, the camera work, lighting, everything about it is baddass. The guy's voice is kind of gravel-y, but if you listen to Hawkin's version first you'll get the lyrics (the lyrics are also posted with gravel guy's video).

From the production of Hawkins's version, I could tell that it was later in his career. The guitar tone was also a giveaway. A kind of meaty distorted tone. So I checked to see who it was playing guitar on it. That's what was crazy about this side road. One of the two guys playing guitar on it was a friend of mine, the late Buddy Blue. WTF? I wish he was still around so I could ask how that came about. 

As long as I've gone this far there's a couple other Hawkins things down there. One that I'd forgotten about was his collaboration with an amused Serge Gainsbourg doing "Constipation Blues", notable in that it may be the only time you'll ever see Serge Gainsbourg playing piano while Screamin' Jay Hawkins is making fart noises (at 6:00).

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Listen:
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell On You mp3 at Clayton Counts 1956
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - (She Put the) Wamee On Me mp3 at Tremors Rockabilly
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Am The Cool (streaming) at YouTube
Video:
Chernobilly Opkectp - I Am The Cool at YouTube
Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Serge Gainsbourg - Constipation Blues at YouTube

IT BEARS REPEATING

ONE COOL SONG

Just a total smokey vibe on this, it sounds like a lazy hot afternoon. So cool. About the energy level of the the Endless Summer theme, though a completely different song, in a different genre, from a completely different country. Jackie Mittoo was the main keyboard dude at Studio One, and he produced and arranged a bunch of others when he wasn't playing on a session or writing songs. I just ran into this one by Mittoo from a ten year old post here. I was surprised the link still worked.

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Listen:
Jackie Mittoo - Black Organ mp3 at Passion of the Weiss

THIS LADY

A friend of mine posted a video of the Arrows on YouTube, them doing the original version of "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", the song that Joan Jett made a hit in the eighties. I've always thought of it as kind of a corny song, but always given it a pass because the sentiment was, well, fuck, I do love rock 'n' roll, and goddamit cornballs are welcome too. It doesn't hurt that I know for a fact that Joan Jett does indeed love rock 'n' roll. She's entitled to roll with the cornballs if she wants to, she's earned it. Check the clip linked below of her with the Foo Fighters. She was 55 years old. Amazing. In the other video from this year, she's 60. Shiiit, you try that. I've not always been a fan of her music, but I am of her.

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Videos:
Joan Jett with the Foo Fighters - I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Lollapalooza, Brasil 2012) at YouTube
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Full live set, 2019 at YouTube

GRAVEL PARTY TONIGHT

Browsing the old posts at Super Sonido and I ran across some songs by Los Rockin' Devils (above). Yeah. Their version of "Gloria" in Spanish. Yee haw. Because the singer's voice was somewhat gravel-y, I was reminded of another band whose name escaped me. After thinking about it I realized that I could find the post because I remembered I'd said something about "gravel" when describing this band with a forgotten name. Here goes...

Now would be a good time to re-introduce you to the blog search thingamajig up top. No matter what page you're on here, it's up there in the top left corner (you might have to scroll up). Give it a whirl with any word that can be used to describe music. The results are sometimes interesting, sometimes just fucking out there.

When I searched for gravel, there they were, the band I was thinking of, Los Saicos. There also was Los Shains, the Cosmic Tones, Koes Bersaudara, and others who somehow slipped under the gravel umbrella (Little Richard, Johnny Thunders, Don and Dewey, etc.). And, duh, Los Rockin' Devils, whom I had completely forgotten I'd already posted. Here's just a few that were good to hear again. Go to the "gravel" search results for more. I love extreme anything in music and if you're willing to sacrifice your larynx, hell, I'll listen.

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Listen:
Los Saicos - Camisa de Fuerza mp3 at Laoficinalive (?)
Los Rockin Devils - Gloria mp3 at Super Sonido
Koes Bersaudara - Poor Clown (streaming) at YouTube
The Cosmic Tones - I'm Gonna Build Me a Woman (streaming) at YouTube
More gravel gold

WE'RE THE GOOD OL' BOYS

After mentioning Mickey Hawks the other day, I went back to check the other posts that had mentioned Hawks and found that some of the links were bad. We can't let that happen, not for the person who recorded the hell's-a-poppin' "Bip Bop Boom". In fact, there's two links down there for that one, in case one goes dead. You need to hear it.

Here's some a brief thing I wrote a few years ago, but you really need to go to the Hound Blog and read the bio. Here's the drivel:

They don't get any more stealth than this. The Night Raiders, sometimes billed as Mickey Hawks with Moon Mullins and his Night Raiders, and sometimes just Mickey Hawks. (Hawks is the guy in the top left.). Surely these guys were all about the bait and switch, playing the safe prom band angle and then letting loose once the stage was theirs. Maybe not. All I know is that they were capable of some wild shit, way wilder than that photo implies. The song below is just an teaser, a guitar instrumental credited to Hawks, even though he was the singer and piano player. The guitarist was a sixteen year old whizkid named Bill Ballard. He joined the band at the age of fourteen. Unbelievably badass. He wrote it too.

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Listen:
Mickey Hawks - Cotton Pickin' mp3 at Rocky 52
The Night Raiders - Bip Bop Boom mp3 at Rockabilly Hall
The Night Raiders - Bip Bop Boom mp3 at Rocky 52
The Night Raiders - Screamin' Mimi Jeanie mp3 at Rocky 52
Mickey Hawks - Rock and Roll Rhythm mp3 at Rocky 52
Visit:
Mickey Hawks and the Night Raiders at The Hound Blog

ONE LP, TWO SINGLES, TWO YEARS, KAPUT.

Revisiting the Rock-A-Teens stuff online that I never exhausted, I went looking for an image. The horror. An "indie" band had at some point taken the name as their own. I sampled about thirty seconds of a couple of songs of this latter day Rock*A*Teens, and found nothing of the slightest interest to me. What the fuck is "indie" supposed to be anyways? I'm no ignoramus, I know that it is a shortened way of saying "independent", but since when has that described a sound? Indie, as in independently released, doesn't define a sound. It defines a budget. Phooey on that shit. It's all bogus.

Back to the OG Rock-A-Teens. I'd forgotten that they did the original version of "Woo Hoo", the song covered by the 5.6.7.8's. The 5.6.7.8's are an awesome juxtaposition, particularly that clip from the Jonathan Ross Show (below). Japanese women with beehives, tight dresses and heels, playing this raw rock 'n' roll instrumental complete with a mid-song drum solo just like the original. Those ladies are a good hour or two detour right there. But I was on a dig for Rock-A-Teens. I ran into a bio that is as complete as there is available online. It's at Black Cat Rockabilly. Who knew that the Rock-A-Teens originally recorded for the same label as Micky Hawks? I sure didn't. So, I thought that since this Black Cat Rockabilly apparently knew their shit, I'd take a look at the other bios posted there. Black hole alert. Budget the next five years. That's all I'm saying.

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Listen:
The Rock-A-Teens - Woo Hoo mp3 at Rockabilly Hall
The Rock-A-Teens - Twangy mp3 at Rocky 52
The Rock-A-Teens - That's My Mama mp3 at Rocky 52
The 5.6.7.8s - Bomb the Twist EP (via Mediafire) at Poison in the Machine Five song EP, including "Woo Hoo" in a zip
Video:
The 5.6.7.8's 'Woo Hoo in Kill Bill Vol. 1 at YouTube
5.6.7.8's -I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield, and I'm Blue at The House Of Blue Leaves at YouTube
Visit:
Rock-A-Teens bio at Black Cat Rockabilly
Black Cat Rockabilly The biographies are under the This Is My Story heading

HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER.

When you see a headline exclaiming newly uncovered color footage of the Velvet Underground, you, like me, might immediately hope for live footage of the original VU with John Cale and the whole shopping bag. Though it is color footage, and there are live clips, they are short, the sound is awful and it's 1969, the Doug Yule era (I looked right past the year). But I got sucked in, momentarily, because that's about all you'll see of the Velvets, short moments. Oh well, on to the next thing.

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Color footage of the Velvet Underground performing in 1969 unearthed! at Dangerous Minds

STILL, LOSE THE SHOES.

This was weird. I got home from the beach today and had some chores to do, so I put on one of many of the go-to after beach records that I dig. The record was the 1964 collaboration with Stan Getz and João Gilberto, appropriately named Getz/Gilberto. It's jazz mixed with bossa nova, with a line up that features Getz on sax, Gilberto on guitar and vocals, Antonio Carlos Jobim on piano and Gilberto's wife Astrud on vocals on two songs. It's like a supergroup. Seriously folks, if you don't own any other Brazilian or bossa nova titles, this is one you should get. Though it's one of the best selling jazz LPs of all time, it's not really jazz. It's not straight up bossa nova either. But it's great, a mid-sixties pool party classic. Mad Men era chill music.

What was weird about picking that album to play was that, while I was listening to it, I took a break to check the news headlines online. Fuckin' A, João Gilberto passed away today at the age of 88. Head scratchers hear me, it's like losing the Chuck Berry of bossa nova.

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Listen:
Stan Getz and João Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema mp3 at Caipirinha Lounge with Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astrud Gilberto
Stan Getz and João Gilberto - Corcovado mp3 at Caipirinha Lounge
João Gilberto - Bim Bom mp3 at Sadko Martin Considered by some the first bossa nova song.
Stan Getz and João Gilberto - O Grande Amor mp3 at Il Tafano

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND

As many of you know, today is Independence Day in the United States. I find it hard to feel patriotic when the person occupying the White House is a complete idiot. I could add about twenty adjectives to that, but I'm assuming that you know what they would be. The fucker is a crazy racist with the vocabulary and temperament of a junior high school student. (Note to Trump supporters, if there are any that come here: I'd rather you didn't. There is no common ground. See Special AKA's "Racist Friend".)

People from Latin America are coming to the U.S. simply looking for a better life, many trying to escape life threatening situations. Not at all that different from why our founding fathers came here in the first place. The way the government is handling the situation is obscene. Separating families, housing people in cages and children in unsafe overcrowded conditions after they've already been traumatized by being separated from their parents. Little kids, not just teenagers. You think that won't leave scars? Welcome to America. Fuck Donald Trump.

Leaving the beach today there were all sorts of people with those pop-up shades, grills going all over the place, just tons of people. I stopped by a grassy area to have a smoke and while standing there heard some Mexican Norteño music. After listening for a few minutes it occured to me that as much as I like Norteño I can only name a handful of bands. So I went over to the group to ask who it was they were playing. It was Los Cadetes de Linares. At first they thought I was asking them to turn it off, but I told them that, no, I liked it and wanted to know so I could buy some of the music for myself. That's when they became very welcoming, offering beer and carne asada and asked if I wanted to sit down with them. I politely declined and told them that I was on my way home. They told me that Los Cadetes de Linares was their oldies, it reminded them of their youth, and just as I was leaving, we had a conversation about the border situation and how fucked up Trump is. So, today I consider it my patriotic duty to post the music of Los Cadetes de Linares for people from another country that welcomed me. You know, how it's supposed to be here.

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Listen:
Los Cadetes de Linares - El Tejanito mp3 at News Taco
Los Cadetes de Linares - Regalo Caro mp3 at Tumblr
Los Cadetes de Linares - Pueblito mp3 at Tumblr

LEIBER AND STOLLER. AND FUZZ.

Here's a good one, particularly if you'd like to think that the Linda Ronstadt version of "You're No Good" would have been done better if it was done by someone else. Well, it has, by several people. Per Soul Garage, Dee Dee Warwick's 1963 version is the original. Whether or not, I don't care. It beats the socks off of any other version I've heard. Produced by Leiber and Stoller, complete with a short and simple semi-fuzzed out guitar solo. Fu-huck yeah.

Just for good measure, another totally unrelated song that I happened to hear while lurking at Soul Garage, Sonny Jones's "Sissy Walk", featuring beatman James Black on the skins.

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Listen:
Dee Dee Warwick - You're No Good mp3 at Soul Garage
Sonny Jones - Sissy Walk mp3 at Soul Garage

WHO THE FUCK IS THIS? OF THE WEEK

I forget what I was listening to on YouTube. I'd put on a song, then went about my business. After a couple songs some old timey type stuff starts playing. It was really good. I tried to guess the year by just listening to it. Boy, was I off. By over a half century. The band was Tuba Skinny and the video was a live one, playing at a buskers festival in 2013. My first thought was "What the fuck people? What is going on in this world when there is a band this tight, regardless of genre, and I've never even heard of them?" So now you have too.

I went looking for more and came across a song called "Garbageman". Again, killer. That sent me looking for the Cramps song of the same name and while looking for it ran into Merle Haggard's song, again, with the same title. At this point I'm up to my ass in garbage men. I decide to cut my losses, go find an image of a garbage truck to use. Folks, this is what it's like over here: Somehow, I find myself on a site called Classic Refuge Trucks, which is essentially a fan page for garbage trucks, fiendish enough that I was sucked in. I must have been looking at garbage trucks for a half hour. Then I saw that one of the garbage truck manufacturers was named Gar Wood. Gar Wood is also the name of a local guitarist/bassist that was in two bands that I really like, Hot Snakes and Beehive and the Barracudas. Oh shit, that's a detour for later.

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Listen:
Tuba Skinny - Garbageman mp3 at Internet Archive
Cramps - Garbageman (streaming) at YouTube
Merle Haggard - Garbage Man mp3 at Keep the Coffee Coming
Tuba Skinny - Billie's Blues mp3 at Internet Archive
Tuba Skinny - You Can Have My Husband mp3 at Internet Archive