Took a couple of people on my caseload for their 90 day mental health medication reviews the other day and was sitting in the lobby waiting for their appointments. The magazine selection was pretty slim, mostly women’s homemaking and fashion magazines (I realize that those magazines could be enjoyed by men, but judging by the ads they are made for a certain breed of woman). The only thing that looked interesting was a Time magazine and that was just because the cover article was about a resurgence in interest in the Shroud of Turin, which I had thought was debunked in the late 80s. I read that article, it turns out that some believe that the radio carbon dating on the thing was flawed. Was then leafing through the rest of the magazine, not really paying attention, one my guys (my favorite to spend time with), on top of having developmental disabilities, is very schizophrenic and requires some supervision and plus he just enjoys shooting the shit (in a very random way) with me. Stumbled upon the above page and realized I was a reading a news magazine from April 12, 1998…hahaha. Anyway, a very interesting week in music news. Tommy Lee admitted he was a wife beater, Tammy Winette blood clotted, half of Milli Vanilli ODd and the queen of punk, Wendy O. Williams, blew her brains out. The second two were total news to me and even Wendy I didn’t find out about until years after the event…I was busy drinking a gallon or so of rum a day in 1998. Sad really, it was a bad year for me and obviously it was a bad year for them.
Figured that Antiseen had covered this tune…
antiseen – my god can beat up your god
Then I just found out, the original done by an outfit outta Florida is well worth a listen…
Broken Talent – My God Can Beat Up Your God
Just because I buy records, doesn’t mean I’m a purist, I do still MP3 hunt (but I usually leave at least a comment of thanx…usually). Was on the hunt in the wilds of internetdom and stumbled upon some live John Cale bootlegs over at Viva les Bootlegs. I knew of the Velvet Underground connection, but I had never heard Mr. Cale’s solo stuff. Gotta tell you though, maybe it was just the muddy late generation sound of the bootlegs, but for some reason it reminded me of the Grateful Dead made for heroin junkies. Is it an acquired taste? Did I miss something? I don’t know…here’s the 1st track from CBGBs in ’78…
John Cale – Dance Of The Seven Veils
I’ve been sitting on these rips for quite a while and figured it was about time for something for the soul, Woody Guthrie. Not too many people are as important to music as he is especially outside of the mainstream, but I imagine this early folk stuff is not up too many people’s sleeves. I just love it, it speaks of a different time but it’s still relevant today. Did a mention of his Ballads of Sacco and Vanzetti a while back that are a must for your collection (I got mine), if not your iPod! These next two are French releases from the 60s of much older tunes. I contacted the Woody Guthrie foundation to ask them about these two, but they knew nothing about them and suggested I donate them…hahaha (maybe someday). I guess that makes them old timey bootlegs, sort of. As I said before the guy did not believe in copyrights…”“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.” If you haven’t listened to Mr. Guthrie before, do so now, educate yourself…
Aint Gonna Be Treated This Way
This one I just got the other day, it’s a bootleg of sorts too, limited to 300 copies, not sure why I got it since I already have both tunes on vinyl
Buffalo Skinners (same version as above)























