FEET OFF THE TABLE

Man, don't know what to make of this nut. I don't know anyhing about him. I ran into the cover above by total chance, and was curious. I know absolutely nothing about his background, but something tells me that I'm really late to the party. I've only heard those two songs below. You'll either love it or hate it. 

Let me set the scene. There's Eno and Cornelius just hanging out, throwing back some tall cool ones and smoking some bowls. Cornelius  takes a big ol' hit. Between coughs, he says "Dude (cough), you gotta hear this Chico shit", leans over and puts on "Pop Pull Hair". Neither says a word, for two and a half minutes. When the song ends, Eno says "Good shit. We should totally steal it."

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Listen:
Chico Magnetic Band - Pop Pull Hair (streaming) at YouTube
Chico Magnetic Band - Pop Orbite mp3 at Out At Sea

WHILE CURTIS PEED

Here's the situation. It's 1966. Batman is on TV, so is Green Hornet. And Davie Allan? He's on fuzz. And he also has a minor hit on the radio, called "Blue's Theme" that features, as most of his music does, said fuzz. So you're a frustrated guitarist watching all of this, wanting to make a name for yourself, playing club dates behind a marginally successful singer. So what do you do? You throw all of the shit in a blender, and write an instrumental called "Hornet's Nest" that'll show ol' Davie Allan a thing or two about ape shit guitar.

"Hornet's Nest" is from a 1966 Curtis Knight 45, and one of Hendrix's earliest songwriting credits. Listen to the chops on this one, you can hear it all, including, dare I say, a touch of Dick Dale. This is Hendrix trying hard to be heard.

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Listen:
Curtis Knight and the Squires (w/Jimi Hendrix) - Hornets Nest mp3 at The Melting Pot
Curtis Knight and the Squires (w/Jimi Hendrix) - Two other songs at The Melting Pot Go there to get them. Right click to listen.

ICHIBAN CALLING

Hey, I don't know about you, but the beginning of each month means two things for me: pay the rent, and stop by Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban to see who their artist of the month is. Sometimes they may just have a few posts featuring the artist during the course of the month but often it's a big fat deluge. I'm hoping that's the case this time because it's Mighty Hannibal month. They started with a video of "Jerkin' the Dog" from some old TV show. It's one piece of work. I'm not going to ruin it for you, just go there to see it. The song is below, but you really need to check the video first.  There's a couple other songs below, just don't look for the "Hymn No 5" (pictured above). As good as that one is, I'm sure they've got it coming up. Really, you ought to bookmark that page. They got it goin' on.

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Listen:
The Mighty Hannibal - Jerkin' the Dog mp3 at The Walrus
The Mighty Hannibal - I Found A Way mp3 at Dub Lab
The Mighty Hannibal - Fishin' Pole mp3 at This Is Get Me
The Mighty Hannibal - The Biggest Cry mp3 at Gabe Joselow
Visit:
Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban 

ANOTHER REASON WHY

Holy bejesus, it still happens. Out of nowhere, a genuine humdinger. Click on a random blog on someone's link list, it takes you to a site with a 45 by an artist you've never heard of. What the hell, the label is Specialty, home to Little Richard's finest sides, ditto Don and Dewey, along with Guitar Slim, Lloyd Price and others, so, you know, how much effort does it take? One click. That was the best decision I made all week.

This sucker was recorded by a seventeen year old kid, Jerry Byrne, who was the cousin of Mac Rebennack (Dr. John). They were in a band together, the Loafers, when Byrne jumped on stage at a Little Richard show and finished the song with Richard, thus impressing Specialty Record's A&R hound Harold Battiste who got him signed within a week of the incident. Enough of this jibba jabba. Check this house wrecker, featuring a most smokin' piano solo by Art Neville.

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Listen:

Jerry Byrne - Lights Out mp3 (via DivShare) at The Upper Shelves Note: Once you get to DivShare, click on the green "Download" button, and scratch your head for fifteen seconds while the timer counts down. When the button reappears, you're good to go.

Jerry Byrne - Lights Out mp3 at Beware of the Blog Alternate link. The one above is better quality, but just in case...
Jerry Byrne - Carry On (streaming) at YouTube
Visit:
Jerry Bryne - Excellent bio at Black Cat Rockabilly

TO BADASS MOMENTS

I happened to be in North County today, driving through a wooded area. Grabbed a random CD and put it in, and Burning Spear's "Marcus Garvey" came blaring out. It was of those rare unions of mood, place and soundtrack that comes out of nowhere. May you be so lucky.

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Listen:
Burning Spear - Call On You mp3 at Brobots! Studio One! Early!
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey mp3 at Passion of the Weiss Hitting his stride
Burning Spear - Red, Gold and Green mp3 at Passion of the Weiss
Burning Spear Social Living mp3 at Glorie de la Culture Noire
Burning Spear - Invasion mp3 at Passion of the Weiss
Visit:
Burning Spear Official Site
Burning Spear at Wikipedia

KONTROL GROUP

I can appreciated a good cover as much as anyone, and a good effort goes a long way, particularly one that deviates from the sound of the original. But there are certain songs that you just don't want to fuck with. For instance, there's a thousand Chuck Berry songs. Why would you do a cover of "Johnny B. Goode"? Likewise, with the Kinks "You Really Got Me". It just makes me want to hear the Kinks, and loud. So that's what I did after hearing some of the covers of "You Really Got Me" that were posted at Cover Me. I got all amped when I say a Toots and the Maytals cover included, but after hearing it came away wanting to hear some regular tempo Toots, a litlle less of the ska hyperness. The other covers include a Sly Stone demo, a surprisingly not bad slightly funky version by Robert Palmer, and one by 801, a Phil Manzenera/Eno joint. The only one I didn't check out was by Oingo Boingo, because I just hate that band. I know Danny Elfman has done some respectable soundtrack work, but I hate his band. Cue Kinks.

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Listen:
The Kinks - Till the End of the Day mp3 at Wandervogel Diary
The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night mp3 at Drummer World
The Kinks - You Really Got Me mp3 at Le Blog de la Grande Chose
The Kinks - I Gotta Move mp3 at 8106
Visit:
Kinks Covers at Cover Me Five covers of "You Really Got Me"

TAKE A STAND

This is not something I'd normally do, posting two versions of the same song by the same band in successive days. But, I don't care. I'm a wild man. I use two paper towels to dry one hand. Besides, there's a reason. I'm rarely listening to lyrics, the first couple of times I hear a song. You know, kind of just checking out the whole package. So, last night, the true weight of the lyrics to Mudhoney's "Chardonnay" didn't sink in, and I feel guilty for being so indifferent. Today when I was listening more closely, I heard a message that deserved to be revisited, it was that important. So, here's another in-studio version of "Chardonnay", this time recorded at KEXP, in Seattle. And below are the lyrics, if you'd like to paste them in your scrapbook.

You've always been the critics' darling
And a hit at all the fancy parties
But for me, man you don't do nothing
I see through your charade
I hate you Chardonnay
You're the grape that launched a thousand strippers
The soccer mom's favorite sipper
I can't think of anything sicker
Get the fuck out of my backstage
I hate you Chardonnay
I hate you Chardonnay
I hate you Chardonnay
I hate you Chardonnay
I see through your charade
I hate you Chardonnay

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Listen:
Mudhoney - Chardonnay (live) mp3 at KEXP Recorded in-studio, July 2013
Random:

Mudhoney - Beneath the Valley of the Underdog mp3 at Beware of the Blog

Older Mudhoney posts Scroll down the page for older posts. A lot of the links are still good.

DID THEY EVER REALLY GO AWAY?

As people in online forums like to say "I'll just put this here". It's an in-studio mini-set by Mudhoney, recorded at the WFMU studios. The sound is pretty damn good too, check the teaser below. I gotta say, they sound like they still have it. For all six songs go to the page at the Free Music Archives. Once there, click on the arrow next to the "+" to download the individual mp3s, or the arrow at the bottom of the song list to get them all in one package.

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Listen:
Mudhoney - Chardonnay mp3 at Free Music Archives (via Beware of the Blog)
The whole shooting match:
Mudhoney - Live on WFMU, May 2013 at Free Music Archives Click on the arrow next to the "+" to download the individual mp3s, or the arrow at the bottom of the song list to get them all in one package.

JACK OF ALL TRADES

The unassuming looking guy above is Don Letts, a DJ, filmmaker, and musician, and, this is important, the person most responsible for turning UK punks onto reggae. He was the DJ at the Roxy in London when they they were booking a lot of punk bands. At the time (1976-77), there was very little new punk on vinyl, so Letts played what he knew, reggae. The common thought was that reggae was another sort of rebel music, thereby allied with punk. In the overall scheme of things all of that matters, but the real reason for this post is to hep you to Letts's documentary about punk rock, Punk: Attitude. Someone just posted the whole thing on YouTube and it's probably the most definitive take there is on the subject.

Letts was there, as a participant and observer, but it isn't just his version of history. In the film he nabs interviews with a who's who of punk affiliated personalities. In just the first few minutes there's John Cale, David Johansen, Wayne Kramer, John Sinclair, Glenn Branca, Thurston Moore, Jello Biafra, and Henry Rollins. It's a chronological verbal history, dotted with rare footage, and it is thorough. If the link below is dead, which is often the case when full-length videos are posted, just do a search at YouTube and you're bound to come up with some teasers. Regardless, it's worth laying out the dough because the DVD comes with another disc of short docs, among them one on women in punk, and another excellent take on the West Coast scene.

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Listen:
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Punky Reggae Party mp3 at Pixie Radio 12" Jamaican pressing
Video: 
Don Letts interview at Red Bull Academy "The cultural revolution of two spliffs and one beer, told by the man who unified punk and reggae" (Text version below) 
Visit: 
Don Letts - Interview at Red Bull Academy 
Don Letts at Wikipedia 
Don Letts - Radio show at the BBC

WEEP BABY WEEP

Phil Everly passed away yesterday. It's now official, we'll never hear the sweet harmonies of the Everly Brothers sung live again. Not that there was a possibility to begin with. Between their age and their spats, it's unlikely that we would have. But, shit folks, this is a sad day. Theirs was a pair of voices that has never been duplicated, despite many, many attempts. There was just something so organic about their voices together. I'm no vocal expert, and I know there's some mumbo jumbo about their vocal ranges being ever so slightly different that made them work so well together, but even an untrained ear can hear something intrinsically beautiful about those voices going off at the same time. They were a genre in and of itself. It didn't just work, it was a template for everyone who sang harmonies that came after them, in rock 'n' roll, country, folk, you name it, a sound that transcended cool, other worldly in its balance. And all along the way, they seemed like they were just two brothers singing in a school talent competition in front of their proud parents, two brothers that just ran with it.

The 1983 reunion concert. Timeless.

Phil Everly said it best himself, in 1986, "Don and I are infamous for our split, but we're closer than most brothers. Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not use any kind of suppression. Harmony is the ultimate love."

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Listen:
The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown mp3 at So Well Remembered
The Everly Brothers - I've Been Wrong Before mp3 at Newer
The Everly Brothers - Til I Kissed You mp3 at Internet Archive
The Everly Brothers - Bye Bye Love mp3 at Rocky 52 
The Everly Brothers - Let It Be Me mp3 at Internet Archive
The Everly Brothers - Walk Right Back mp3 at So Well Remembered
The Everly Brothers - All I Have to Do Is Dream mp3 at Keep The Coffee Coming 
The Everly Brothers - Poor Jenny mp3 at Popdose
Oddballs:
Bill Medley, with Phil Everly and Brian Wilson - In My Room (streaming) at YouTube 
The Everly Brothers - Coke commercial mp3 at The Podcast Place
Video:
Everly Brothers Country Music Hall of Fame video at YouTube Highly recommended
The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown at YouTube 1961 
Visit:
The Everly Brothers at Wikipedia
Phil Everly obituary at L.A. Times

DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB

Here's an oddball. The Godfather of Soul and the Georgia Peach appearing together on, get this, Wheel of Fortune, and weirder, playing as a team. I haven't seen that show that much, but I didn't know they allowed teams, but I guess when you're playing against juggernauts Lee Greenwood and Weird Al Yankovic, you get a pass. It's just bizarre seeing James Brown say "Let's take an R". You could lay that line on a JBs track and stretch it out into one of those Parts 1 & 2 45 flips.

Hey, can somebody please tell me why the hell you would buy an vowel when the puzzle, as seen above, still has consonants left? Am I missing something? Chuck Berry would have guessed it right there, on impulse. Jerry Lee would have racked that shit up and used every consonant he could. Regardless, it's great to see these two together. This is just the highlights, all featuring the two all-timers. Ponder their combined discographies. Consider their combined egos. Now see them unguarded and genuine, humbled by the wheel.

WHO WANTS A DRINK?

Were you getting all kinds of nuts last night? Dragging a little today? Spend the day on the couch? That's why seasoned pros call it amateur's night. Pacing is everything. Just don't forget that the next time. Even if you swear there won't be, believe me there will. So, if you are hurting, if I was you I'd duck out of that first song below before it hits the :42 second mark. (If you have a hungover roommate and are one for cheap kicks, play that part loud.) The song is "Hung Over" by the Martinis, featuring Packy Axton, who knew a thing or two about partying. He was the son of Stax Record's co-founder Estelle Axton, and his wooping it up was a determining factor in his not so graceful exit from the Stax stable, and that was a big deal because besides being the son of one of the owners, he was a member of the Mar-Keys, who gave the label one of their first big hits, "Last Night".

The others down there are other post-Stax bands that Axton was in. He died at 32 in 1974, reportedly from cirrhosis of the liver. Consider that a lesson from a dead man.

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Listen:
The Martinis - Hung Over mp3 at Rare Funk On 45
The Mar-Keys - Last Night mp3 at Rock 'n; Soul Ichiban
The Pac-Keys - Dig In mp3 at Office Naps 
The Packers - Go 'Head on mp3 at Public Collectors

The Pac-Keys - Stone Fox mp3 (via divShare) at Burn Wood Tonight Once you get to DivShare, click on the green "Download" button, and scratch your head for fifteen seconds while the timer counts down. When the button reappears, you're good to go.

SWEATIN' TO THE OLDIES

Ever hear something you hadn't heard before and stopped dead in your tracks? Had a "holy shit" moment? It's one of the coolest things about music, it's a damn bottomless pit. As a sign in a long forgotten record store said "You will never know everything. You will never hear everything. You will never own everything. You will never remember everything". That's precisely what keeps the record geezer going. This thing leads to that, and this label leads to a bunch of people you haven't hear before, and that guy used to play with that guy, and so on. It never stops. Kogar the Swinging Ape knows that. He just posted a blues compilation that took him three years to track down after hearing a not-for-sale copy in a record store. It's raw, it's distorted, and it's old. Bob Log probably thinks he owns the only copy, because Jon Spencer slept in that day.

The two single cuts below aren't on the LP, they're just teasers. But dig the LP, it's a quick download and every cut will put dirt under your nails. Note: When you click on the "Down Home Stomp" link at Kogar's, it'll take you to MediaFire, and it may say "permission denied" and try to get you to sign up. Just close the window and click on Kogar's link again. It should take you to the download. Look for the green "Download" button and you're in business.

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Listen: 
Papa Lightfoot - Wine, Women and Whiskey mp3 at Mississippi en Conserve
Little Son Jackson - Ground Hog Blues mp3 at June Berry 78s
The compilation:
Rural Blues Volume 3, Down Home Stomp (via MediaFire) at Kogar's Jungle Download tips above.

STONER SONG TITLES? CHECK.

Yeah, just look at them. Mustaches, a motorcycle, a devil may care attitude and a brick wall to boot. These guys got it going on. They're about two motorcycles and three leather jackets short of a gang. It's Sir Lord Baltimore, a second tier seventies hard rock band. There's one of their songs below, a real screamin' lick fest typical of the period. There's another by Captain Beyond, another second tier hard rock outfit. They probably scored an equal number of chicks. Licks plus dicks get chicks. That's Hard Rock 101. Okay then.

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Listen:
Sir Lord Baltimore - Lady of Fire mp3 at The Cargo Culte
Captain Beyond - Dancing Madly Backwards mp3 at The Cargo Culte

HEY LADIES

Good ol' spit curled Bill Haley, the first old fart of rock 'n' roll. He was in his late twenties and way past teen idol years when he changed the name of his band from the Saddlemen to the Comets. Judging by every photo I've ever seen of him, my guess is that he didn't exactly make knees weak with the ladies, so dumping country and western to become one of the first white rock 'n' roll singers was a leap.

Check the video above, particularly the solo at about :40 seconds. Someone please clue me in to the identity of the guy playing lead. (I don't think it was the original guitarist Danny Cedrone because I think he had already died before it was filmed.) The thing that gets me about Bill Haley and the Comets is how tight they are on record, the solos, even on the overly familiar "Rock Around the Clock". Man, listen to "Crazy Man Crazy". Imagine hearing that for the first time in 1953. All the other white boys were still crooning. Plaid suit or not, dude was wild.

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Listen:
Bill Haley and the Comets - Crazy Man Crazy mp3 at Russ Strathdee
Bill Haley and the Comets - Rock Around the Clock mp3 at Rocky 52
Bill Haley and the Comets - Mambo Rock mp3 at Rocky 52
Bill Haley and the Comets - Razzle Dazzle mp3 at Mp3 Rockabilly
Bill Haley and the Comets - A-B-C Boogie mp3 at Internet Archive
Bill Haley and the Comets - Goofin' Around mp3 at Internet Archive
Bill Haley and the Comets - See You Later Alligator mp3 at Rocky 52
Bill Haley and the Saddlemen- Rocket 88 mp3 at Internet Archive

FUCK 'EM, HE'S IN MY HALL

Link Wray. You know what I'm talkin' about. Rock 'n' roll, right? Okay, we have that established. As you may know, Link Wray was up for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [sic] this year and was passed over. I'm not sure what their criteria is, and I don't care. I know this: any talk about rock 'n' roll, and what is and what is not, has to throw everything out that is irrelevant. Record sales, credits, mass acceptance, era, looks, technical proficiency, output, all that shit goes out the window. All that matters is if it is rock 'n' roll. Link Wray is rock 'n' roll, in all its simple, greasy, badass glory. And those people passed him over.

Want the sting? Just two of the artists that were inducted this year are Cat Stevens and Hall and Oates. I'm not going to waste my breath going off about that, because the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is about as relevant to rock 'n' roll as your granny (unless she's Cordell Jackson). I won't legitimize them with the real lengthy counterpoint the issue deserves. I haven't paid attention to everone who has been inducted in the past, but even if every choice was spot on (which I guarantee you is not the case), this major fuck up should seriously negate any legitimacy they had. Link Wray's in my hall. I haven't figured out what to call it yet, but he's a first year inductee, totally.

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Listen:
Link Wray - Rumble mp3 at Joe Troiano
Link Wray - Run Chicken Run mp3 at A Tumblr (?)
Link Wray - Jack the Ripper mp3 at Joe Troiano
Link Wray - The Swag mp3 at Joe Troiano
Link Wray - Tijuana mp3 at Ray Carram
Link Wray - Ace of Spades mp3 at Ole Miss
Link Wray - Dixie Doodle mp3 at Joe Troiano
Robert Gordon with Link Wray - Red Hot mp3 at Joe Troiano
Link Wray - It's All Over Now Baby Blue mp3 at The Rising Storm

AGAIN WITH THE SWEATERS

You know what I like about the Budos Band? I like that I don't know why I like the Budos Band. But I do, a lot, and they always come to mind for no particular when there's a slight heat wave, which there has been the past few days (high 70s). I don't know why, I just go with it. So there, it's Budos night. I hear that moaning in the back. Yes, Budos again. If you can't be bothered. you can go ahead and start prepping for New Years.

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Listen:
The Budos Band - Budos Theme mp3 at Aurgasm
The Budos Band - Origin of Man mp3 at Ear It Now
The Budos Band - Black Venom mp3 at Acid Conga
The Budos Band - Budos Rising mp3 at Ear It Now
The Budos Band - Unbroken, Unshaven mp3 at Aurgasm

SWEATER VEST WAIVER GRANTED

Yes it's still more holiday music. But, it's the Sonics, and it doesn't matter what the song is about, if it has that drum sound, and that fuzz, I'm buying in. It's their "Santa Claus", which is essentially Don and Dewey's "Farmer John" with different lyrics. I ran into it at The Decibel Tolls, in a holiday oriented post from two year ago, with the Fall, Esquivel, Can, the Ventures, the Blues Magoos, and about twenty other bands that I give less of a shit about. But the Sonics one is a particular favorite because it contains what is perhaps the greatest guitar solo I've heard. A battle of the fuzz box and the whammy bar, thirty fucked up seconds that never seem to go anywhere.

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Listen:
The Sonics - Santa Claus mp3 at The Decibel Tolls

The post:

Holiday Mixer at The Decibel Polls 27 holiday mp3s

(SWOON) "WHO BROUGHT THIS?"

If you've had all you can bear from the obvious holiday songs, Jimmy Smith is the antidote. Seriously, listen to "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman". Wait until the :37, when Smith kicks in. I don't think any holiday song swings more, especially for that particular song. Put it on at the holiday soiree, lean against the wall, and just generally look as swanky as a slob can. Trust me, even the mistletoe will wilt.

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Listen:
Jimmy Smith - God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman mp3 at Panic Stream
Jimmy Smith - Jingle Bells mp3 at Panic Stream
Bonus for the fat man:
Jimmy Smith - Mission Impossible mp3 at AM Then FM

IRONIC BAND NAMES ARE DEAD

These guys were posted last year about this time, but it's crunch time and I'm throwing spaghetti at the wall.  Plus, it's not really Christmas until Blue Star Chorus show up, right? Okay, These guys do look like they could possibly mean business. Possibly. Unfortunately, the photographer couldn't seem to get them all on the same page. He probably said something to the effect of "Now go over there, and hold your instruments in front of that crooked tree. Okay, are you gonna do this to me? You with the ukelele, if you really think sitting on your duff is going to sell records, more power to you. And you, white guitar, you look like my friggin' biology professor. You get in back. Oh jeez, now Mr. Red Guitar is going to sit down in protest. Go ahead do-gooder, John Lee Hooker did it, and you're every bit as hot as he is. What? Drummer, why in hell are you wearing that? You wouldn't wear that when you're playing would you? You do? Man, that must stink at the end of the night. Okay, on three..."

The song is pretty tight, so I should quit with the snarky routine. Group photos are never easy, but really, this was the best of the photo session? Anyway, the whole story can be found at Radio Diffusion International, which also offers up the whitest sitar record ever pressed in India, Jayran Achary's "Santa Clause Is Coming to Town".

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Listen:
Blue Star Chorus - Silent Night at Radiodiffusion International Go there, there's one more song and some good reading.
Jayran Achary - Santa Clause Is Coming to Town mp3 at Radiodiffusion International Dittos comments above.