Thu 11 Jun 2009
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Before I forget, I added a couple of important tunes to the end of the last post on Wanda Jackson, so be sure and check those.
The oldest granddaughter, Lael, and I doing some mowing the other day. Our old mower has been in the shop for over a month so we had to borrow this sweet ride from a buddy,
My instant Stooges 7″ collection I scored in a lot off of Ebay a week or so ago for unbelievably dirt cheap. Lucky score, but actually all I can afford is a few bucks here and there for records. All of these are represses except two and I thought I’d share one of those originals with you. I did a pretty rare live Stooges post at the beginning of the year that you can find here, but as I said in that post the sound quality is not of the highest. I think most of the 5 people who read and listen here know these guys probably better than I do, so I will make this short, but if for some reason your planet didn’t have the Stooges, this is a band you need to check out. I guess I can’t talk because I would have never heard of them if it hadn’t of been for my bro Gage back in college. My favorite tune by these guys is 1969 but these two are right up there. So lets keep this short and you guys can listen to a couple of good ones if that’s what you’re feeling like.
I Wanna Be Your Dog
Real Cool Time
Tue 9 Jun 2009
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I’ve been MIA around here lately and I’m sorry about that. My Grandma died on Friday and the funeral was on Monday so there’s been a lot going on. Not necessarily a sad event as she had been fighting cancer for 8 years with surgeries, almost non-stop chemo, and constant pain. She said it herself, she was ready to go. So I’ve been thinking about what would be a good tribute to her, but most of what I listen to would not be to her liking and would most likely scare, bewilder or anger her. I think her music would do the same to me. Johnny Cash was a maybe but I just did two posts on him and really except for the stuff he did in the Highwaymen, I think I’ve represented him well. To be honest with you I really don’t know what kind of music she liked, whatever old French Canadians born and raised in No Where, Kansas listen to I guess.
What I came up with was Wanda Jackson (that’s Wanda in the picture not my Grandma). The time frame is about right so what the hell, she also just got inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and for the time she was a pretty seriously rockin lady (The Queen of Rockabilly). I don’t know too much about her except for what I’ve read and actually these tunes are just slsk stuff. Out of about 30 songs I picked the ones I liked the best. Not something I would personally go out and buy, and you guys will probably just skip over it, which is okay too, but I can’t deny this lady’s place in rock and roll history and definately her place in the progression of harder and harder music. I did actually really like the tune “I Gotta Know” how it breaks from the Rockabilly into a country riff.
Mean Mean Man
Fujiyama Mama
I Gotta Know
Hard Headed Woman
Funnel Of Love
Man, We Had A Party
Edit: Well Josh a regular visitor and commentor around here, who just always seems to add great suggestions for other tunes related to a particular post, came through big time. He mentioned Funnel Of Love with the Cramps backing up Wanda Jackson and then took it one step further and sent me the tune. Just perfect with that Cramps vibe, check it out.
Funnel Of Love (featuring the Cramps)
Also I found a tune that is something traditional my Grandma may have listened to. Even though it is Cajun it is still Acadian. This tune is from the movie Suthern Comfort (1981), if anyone remembers that great movie.
Balfa Brothers - Parlez Nous Borie (Let’s Talk About Drinking)
Tue 2 Jun 2009
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Mon 25 May 2009
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Okay enough about my feeble brain and my petty concerns, let’s make this short and do some music okay? The Warden, mentioned another somewhat less overplayed Lynyrd Skynyrd tune in my last post that he thought was worth a listen. Gimme Back My Bullets (live) turned out to be a pretty ripping tune that I’d never heard of before and certainly hadn’t heard on the radio. It turns out a stoner sludge outfit did a heavy thing with the tune too that I found when searching for the original. Definately check that out. Weedeater-Gimme Back My Bullets.
Not too long ago I did a Johnny Cash post that was well received, if not for the man himself, then at least for a discussion of “good” westerns. Well fast forward about 35 years from those important Sun Recordings and you get the American Recordings produced by Rick Rubin and released on Def Jam. I’m not going to get too into a discussion about this one except to say that you should not be disappointed by this stuff from a one of a kind man with a one of a kind voice. If anything on these recordings his voice sound haunting and tortured in a way that you don’t hear elswhere. My personal favorites are “Delia’s Gone” (which Kim thought I was nuts when we were dating to have put on a comp tape for her), ”The Beast In Me” and “Thirteen” (written by Glenn Danzig). What an honor it must have been for them to have worked with the man. Anyway give it a listen.
Delia’s Gone
Let The Train Blow The Whistle
The Beast In Me
Drive On
Why Me Lord
Thirteen
Oh Bury Me Not (Introduction-A Cowboys Prayer)
Bird On A Wire
Tennessee Stud (live)
Down There By The Train
Redemption
Like A Soldier
The Man Who Couldn’t Cry (live)
Having trouble just shutting my pie hole and letting the music do the talking. As I usually do before writting a post, I read about the music on Wikipedia (not as if it’s the all knowing authority) to just kind of get in the groove along with listening to the tunes. Well I found out that there is one tune from the American Recordings sessions that you can’t get on a proper Johnny Cash album which is only on the Kill Bill vol. 2 soundtrack. It’s a killer so here that is. The post wasn’t that short after all.
A Satisfied Mind
Wed 20 May 2009
Still not feeling right, it’s a damn chemical imbalance in the brain and just kind of slow on getting things done like this blog. Years of abusing alcohol, I think got my brain used to that particular state in terms of how I operated and now left with just naturally occuring chemicals, I’m having to relearn how to function. You’d think that after almost four years of being clean things would have worked themselves out but I’m having to come to grips with permanent damage. Oh well, nothing to do but keep on keeping on. Anyway, a post or two ago I had mentioned a song that I had heard on our classic rock station, something about “junkie man” but the DJ didn’t give the song title or artist. Well I got through to the station during their request hour and managed to get the info, Lynyrd Skynyrd-Junkie. I love this song and actually to me it sounds way more like the band Cream. Listen to that tune because to me it’s definately worth the listen and also one of their best, plus you won’t find it on the jukebox of a bar in Anywhere, USA, like you will some of their other tunes. The lyrics are about junkies of course but really they fit well with the alcoholic too. I rememeber in the rehabs I had the fortune to spend time in that the alcoholics and the heroin addicts tended to get along much better than they did with people who were there for meth, cocaine or crack. Very similar detox process I guess.
The Warden’s World A cool news related political/social commentary blog that I stumbled upon, or actually the Warden stumbled upon me. He threw up a comment and so I checked out what had going on. Damn the dude really does his research and even though I don’t consider myself a Democrat or a Republican, I’d have to say he paint a really good picture of what’s going on. Truth be told I try not to Pay attention to much in the world of politics because it depresses me, but you can’t deny the power of the blog, music or otherwise.
Someone had commented a while back about wanting the Long Beach Dub Allstars & Friends CD and even though I asked him to comment again to make sure he was serious and he didn’t, I went ahead and uploaded that. Check that original Long Beach Dub Allstars post or just get that CD here.
So after wrtting all that I don’t really have much to say as far as information about this one. I got this from my bro Brian who had played in another band with some of the same members that I’ve already posted, King Jerk, who are another Humboldt California band worth checking out. There isn’t even much out there on the web other than to mention the bands name at sites like Humboldt Music. I did get the band members who are as follows: Gabe Douge-Guitars, Synth. Travis Dyer-Guitar. Arron Eaton-Bass. John McManus-Vocals. Jed Watts-Drums Vocals. Gabe I mentioned before as having him so some engineering for some of the bands I was in and he was also the main cheese I think behind King Jerk. The only thing that Brian had to add was that Jed Watts apparently now plays in a band called Machete who also feature Roshawn from Sake and The Hitch. Well AMB are metal but in that different kind of way that only Humboldt produces. Kind of in the same vein as the almighty Grimace that you can find here (that’s an album that you should definately listen to). So not having too much else to say, these guys rock and you should give them a listen.
Tex
Julias Butthole Flies
Neaderthal In Hell
Looter
I’m Alive
Sabbath Song
Marge
Road Hog
HHHEEEHHH!!!
Charlie Horse
Machaka
The Coming Of The Apocalyptic Ending
Wed 13 May 2009
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This was the first one of the 7″s, that Erich over at Good Bad Music sent me, that demanded playing, ripping and posting. This one took me way back to the days when I would be a guest DJ up at KHSU when I was in college. One of the many records they had up there that I had wished I had for myself and don’t think that stealing many of them hadn’t crossed my mind. I wish now that I had stolen a bunch of those rarities becuase in this digital age I wouldn’t be surprised if they got rid of them all to make room for CDs. Row upon row of incredible records that showed that since the 70’s whoever was deciding what to get for the station had done a damn good job. Somewhere I have a tape of one of the shows I DJ’d and at the end it is the beginning of the set for the next DJ who openned with “I Am A Poseur”. It was funny because she was this really uptight lady that many people in my circle did not like (I could have cared less) and it was funny to hear her announce “I Am A Poseur”, twice because she said “I’m A Poseur” the first time. Maybe not that funny now that I think about it and in reality we’re all poseurs anyway. It was fun doing those shows as it was the middle of the night or early morning (vampire time) so pretty much it was just friends or die hard metal/punk/hardcore fans that were listening and you could play whatever the hell you felt like playing. The crew of people that I hung out with that were also DJ’s ended up being pretty important to music in the Humboldt area during this time in that they formed Night Train Productions. Alot of shows with both local and out of town acts happened because of NTP and for a little while Arcata/Eureka California was a good stopping point for bands in between San Francisco and Portland. I think I’ve mentioned that somewhere else in this blog and I’m already starting to repeat myself so we will leave it at that. Anyway X Ray Spex were a pretty epic band as far as that first wave of British punk was concerned. This single, I believe their second, was released in 1978. Read about them at my usual source here. At the beginning of the article they say that, “were “deliberate underachievers” and only managed to release five singles plus one album”. I don’t know if that’s that small of an output for only being together for three years but what do I know. They were unusual in that they used the saxophone which wasn’t cheeezy and actually made them rock harder. So enough talk, onto the music, thanx again Mr. Keller.
I Am A Poseur
The Day The World Turned Dayglow
I had heard that these guys had done some Peel Sessions, which I don’t know if you’ve noticed yet, but I totally dig recordings done from that show, so I went and found them from here. There is something so awesome about a well recorded live set. I’m not sure if this represents all they did with John Peel, I know they did two sessions, but these are what came with the 2 CD reissue of their Germ Free Adolescents album. Dig on how fast and powerful I Am A Poseur sounds.
Genetic Engineering
Art-I-Ficial
I Am A Poseur
Identity
Germ Free Adolescents
Warrior In Wolworths
Age
Fri 1 May 2009
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I’m stoked because I got a bunch of records in the mail today and I have more yet to come. I’m trying not to be just a downloader of music but also a buyer of music, which I guess I’ve been doing for 30+ years now. Got Kiss’ Hotter Than Hell off of Ebay along with some crust stuff, also from Ebay but from a guy I know from blogging, Nate of True Punk and Metal. Still expecting a 7″ Ive been after for some time from Erich over at Good Bad Music but that one’s coming clear over from Switzerland. Cheers to the guys who make stuff available.
Don’t you wish all your problems could be solved with a simple scratch under the chin?
I was tellin the old lady that it says something bout a person who dresses up their dogs. Their tales were waggin because I had some chunks of meat for treats but they weren’t too impressed with the outfits.
Ghostly on the porch at night. Anyway…
In my searching on the various blogs that you can find in my links I’ve run across all kinds of cool bands and one such is the incredible Bruce Banner. I can’t seem to find any of their stuff to buy so I’m pretty much stuck with what I can find on the blogs. I can’t remember which blog turned me onto them, but it made such an impact that I went and found a torrent that had their discography. If you dig power violence (or are they grindcore, the line is so blurred now) then they are where it’s at these days. In that discography though was this split 7″ and if Bruce Banner blew me away then Sayyadina knocked me to my knees. The drumming alone in this band makes the music well worth sampling. You can get this 7″ in a much better rip from Pabst over at his Am I Mean blog from here along with a lot more of their stuff if you do a search there. Bruce Banner has some web presence here while Sayyadina can be found here and here. Oh yeah my bro Jason over at Lo Res Viscera has one of Sayyadina’s albums here. So if you dig Power Violence or Grindcore then you will dig both these bands and actually if you’re a fan you probably know about these already. Regardless of what music you like you must listen to at least one tune by Sayyadina like “Nothing”.
Nothing
Prozacgeneration
The Revenge
The Awakening
Their Control
Fucked-Up
Don’t make Me Angry
Dead Serious
Ruiner Of All Things Good
Falck Security-Javla As
Love Is The Only Weapon
Mon 27 Apr 2009
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Been sort of out of it lately dealing with my own brand of armchair insanity without losing it. I always make it through but for the most part I don’t deal with stress well and prefer a much more laid back existence. Even other peoples’s problems bother me and unless they are willing to honestly approach things in a solution oriented way, I don’t want to hear about it. For the most part been feeling unmotivated in such a way that I could do absolutely nothing about it. The old lady will be the first to testify on my behalf or is it against me about that, but she manages to make sure I don’t get too far out there. I can’t even imagine what it would be like without the meds. The landlord made a trip up which was kind of a source of stress around here but I took it out on a particularly nasty tall stretch of grass and weeds with the push mower (the riding mower is still in the shop). Not very punk rock mowing the lawn but I have about an acre and half to knock down so that we don’t have snakes right up next to the house. I hate ticks but the old lady hates and is terrorized by snakes. Well the landlord was pretty stoked on how we were keeping things and was talking about doing some upkeep so the stress was unnecessary and short lived. We also had a chance to have supper with a friend of ours from work who’s house sits on about 240 acres, so we did some hiking around the creeks on his property after a properly home cooked meal. Pictures will come next time we go out and I remember the camera. Okay now that I’ve bored you with that.
My Grandfather at 80 has discovered the internet and enjoys passing on all those emails we tend to have gotten a hundred times from all sorts of people but every once in a while he comes through. The latest came with a picture of an old guy sitting in a comfortable chair (not the above image) and read, “I’ve often been asked, ‘What do you old folks do now that you’re retired? Well..I’m fortunate to have a chemical engineering background, and one of the things I enjoy most is turning beer, wine, Scotch, and margaritas into urine.” Funny I don’t think my Grandfather knows that for several years in my life I was an uncontrollable alcoholic, part time addict and probably spent another 15 years working up to that honary position. Well I found humor in what he sent me for a couple of reasons. My grandfather is a very healthy 80 years old because he drank very little and didn’t spend a whole lot of time beating the shit out of his body. The other thing is that for a period in my life that was what I did 24/7, was turn liqour into urine. A miracle.
Oh yeah after that Johnny Cash post that I got such a good response to I had some thoughts. You guys seemed to have liked the flick Outlaw Josey Wales, do you have any other favorites? Billy mentioned Dances With Wolves which is an obvious classic/epic. One of the things that made it so awesome as with any western involving Native Americans is that they embraced the native community with language, actors and so on. And I know we’re talking mainstream Hollywood here which is just as faulty as any big business ventures, but if you can look beyond that like we do the rest of the evil going on in this world (sometimes), maybe we can pick a few others. Little Big Man (a true classic)? Windtalker (all native language)? The Unforgiven? 3:10 To Yuma? Any favorites you guys? Also from that last post my bros Match and Boner had a couple of Johnny Cash tunes that they really liked, so I went and found those two killer tunes.
Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
Cocaine Blues
Cocaine Blues (live)
Well all that babbling up there has got me babbled out, now that we’ve gotten to the band that this post is about. I got this first one when it first came out in about 1983 when I was going through my Crass/Rudimentary Peni faze and I was getting anything on the Crass or Corpus Christi labels. Funny because my two favorite bands at the time were Crass and Slayer. The Used Abused Unamused 7″ is hands down my favorite and subjectively the best of the lot. The other two I think were one of those things where I borrowed them (from Kevin A.) and never gave them back. If you’re reading this dude I can mail them back to you :-) I put them under my hardcore category but what Icons Of Filth really is, is kind of a punky crust meld between the vocals and the music. Start off with the tunes Used, Abused, Unamused or Asking too Much.
Used, Abused, Unamused
A Measure Of Insecurity
Asking Too Much
Virus
Enough Is Enough
Brain Death
Success On A Plate (For Who?)
Sunk Rock
Evilspeak/Vivisector
Mon 20 Apr 2009
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One of my many things I do in working with people with disabilities is coming up with picture lists of job tasks for people who can’t read. So for instance if someone had to clean a toilet as part of a daily routine I might take pictures of toilet bowl cleaner, a toilet brush, a toilet and put them together indicating how and what was needed to get that particular job done. That’s a very simple example but you get the point. When it comes time to do that I search around clip art sites to get images to match the jobs that are needing picture lists. So, long story short I was looking for a clip art image of stairs and found this one, and in my subdued insanity I busted out laughing. Sadistic laughing, finding humor in this cartoon woman’s misfortune. The shoe off, the hands out, the hair back and the look of fearful terror, still makes me laugh. Needless to say I did not use this image for the picture list I was working on because the woman who needed that list would have been deathly afraid that was what was going to happen to her.
Hands down my favorite western is Outlaw Josey Wales. Clint Eastwood at his very best, with two of the best Native American actors in Chief Dan George as Lone Wattie and Will Sampson as Ten Bears, and in a short but very sweet role Madeleine Taylor Holmes as Gannie Hawkins. Eastwood the king of the one liners had some great ones in this one. My favorite was probably “buzzards gotta eat, same as a worm”. Anyway if you haven’t seen the movie you should and be sure and check the Wikipedia article on the movie here. As if you guys cared about that I am interested in what you all think about that movie. So with that movie on my mind…
This is sort of a logical follow up, in my sometimes not so linear mind, to the last post. From Henpecker to Johnny Cash just works in my mind. I will never be accused of being any kind of country fan especially when you consider the pop country that is popular today. The wife and I did see this one big guy with a deep voice who’s playing these days that I really liked and I think she has a crush on but I can’t remember his name (we have satelite and get hundreds of useless channels that once in a while have something good on them). EDIT: Trace Adkins is the guys name, good stuff. There’s a few exceptions I guess but if I had to pick country it would be older stuff like Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson (+ J.C. = The Highwaymen), Patsy Kline and going back a little further Hank Williams. Hell I’ve seen Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Jr., Kris Kristofferson and the on the folk end of it the Weavers, in concert. I guess that’s the direction I head in is that more folk kind of country. A while back our good friend Erich over at Good Bad Music did an awesome Johnny Cash post and since then I’ve been thinking about posting this one. His was a much rarer vinyl thing and this is just a CD but musically what you get is early, raw JC. Here in the not too distant future I will be posting some 7″s of his from the 70’s that I got just recently for a $1 a peice. On top of that I will be posting a thing he did with Rick Rubin on Def Jam that blew me away, but this is the stuff I always come back to, classic.
Folsom Prison Blues
Hey Porter
I Walk The Line
Get Rhythm
Guess Things Happen That Way
Rock Island Line
Home Of The Blues
Luther Played The Boogie
Mean Eyed Cat
Big River
Next In Line
Come In Stranger
Train Of Love
There You Go
Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
So Doggone Lonesome
The Ways Of A Woman In Love
Give My Love To Rose
The Dalton Gang whose hideout museum is a couple hours south of here in Kansas that I went to way back when I was a kid. If you hadn’t noticed they are in the header too. Click on the thumbnail and check out the kid looking through the fence. Definately Mustard Relics.
Before I forget, I added a couple of important tunes to the end of the last post on Wanda Jackson, so be sure and check those.
The oldest granddaughter, Lael, and I doing some mowing the other day. Our old mower has been in the shop for over a month so we had to borrow this sweet ride from a buddy,
My instant Stooges 7″ collection I scored in a lot off of Ebay a week or so ago for unbelievably dirt cheap. Lucky score, but actually all I can afford is a few bucks here and there for records. All of these are represses except two and I thought I’d share one of those originals with you. I did a pretty rare live Stooges post at the beginning of the year that you can find here, but as I said in that post the sound quality is not of the highest. I think most of the 5 people who read and listen here know these guys probably better than I do, so I will make this short, but if for some reason your planet didn’t have the Stooges, this is a band you need to check out. I guess I can’t talk because I would have never heard of them if it hadn’t of been for my bro Gage back in college. My favorite tune by these guys is 1969 but these two are right up there. So lets keep this short and you guys can listen to a couple of good ones if that’s what you’re feeling like.
Fri 8 May 2009
Getting Older
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Once in a while I get self centered or maybe it’s just paranoid and I do a Google or Yahoo search for myself and see what’s out there. There was the usual stuff but this time there was something new. A young guy (goes by the nickname GG Allin) who has commented here and is actually a regular around the Good Bad site had some kind of a journal entry that made mention of me. Check it out.
“i wanted to post this for fucking ever now and now i get to. i want to bring this up. i’ll give some examples of what i’m talking about. justin hrabe. he was the the lead singer of bands such as wd-40 and garden weasel. now he has a wife and lives in kansas. what happened dude? and what about peter from raped teenagers? now where is he? he is now in a pop band called the flakes. erich keller is still cool but what about all the guys who when their bands broke up got a computer job and a fucking bmw. this is what worrys me. what happens to me in a fer years? what happens to the guys in nobody good in a few years? will all the kids lose interest and go back back to school? i don’t want to become that but i’m afrade. i’m afrade for all the punks in the world. don’t lose tuch. don’t stop believing in rebellion and most of all don’t stop just because everybody says you have to! don’t be like the brainwashed masses be yourself! believe in what you want don’t believe what someone tells you to believe and don’t give in until you’ve fucking won! that’s all i have to say. ”
First off I’d say he really needs to work on his spelling but maybe that’s the new texting generation of abbreviations and the lack of focus 0n phonics. Ohter than that I’d say he was worried about ending up like me and some of the older generations of punks and maybe implied that we had changed for the worst. I know that I have changed but I like to think for the better, wiser and yet not forgetting where I came from. How can I do anything but that. As it stands I can never have another drink or do dope because of where I’ve been. Shit that was half or more of what it was all about for me. I still hate government, big business, capitalism, racism, suffering and so on. I don’t know, his words made me think and that is never bad, and actually what I came up with is I’m pretty happy with where I am today, married, who I have around me, my friends and where I’m at. What about you guys, how has growing older worked out for you?
Going back again to my Johnny Cash post, Josh Hansen, another former Humboldt County California resident recomended another great Johnny tune, Highway Patrolman that was actually written by Bruce Springsteen. To be honest with you I don’t think I’ve ever heard a JC tune I didn’t like. Expect another post on him in the near future.
Was listening to the classic rock station that I’ve mentioned a hundred times and heard this one tune that I really dug but the DJ pulled a shit head manuever and didn’t mention the name of the tune or the artist. Something about “Junkie Man”, that sounded a little bit like Cream, but I couldn’t find anything like that on soulseek. Any help you guys? Heard another tune called Dance Little Sister by the Rooling Stones that I’ve heard a million times but for some reason it totally reminded me of 70’s punk. Can you guys here it, especially in the 1975 version?
Dance Little Sister (1974)
Dance Little Sister (1975)
If you made it this far through my ramblings thanx for reading and for hanging in there around here.
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