I know this is really really really weird, but for some reason, sometimes I wake up with Olivia Newton John's "Let Me Be There" stuck in my head. I'm not joking. My mom had it on a mixed tape when I was a kid and who knows what that means. 

Let's hope it's a good tune!

I have to be pretty careful what I listen to right before I go to sleep, because it will typically soundtrack my dreams the rest of the night.

I had this dream recently where I was interviewing these two Rastas, who ran a pirate radio station. During an interview I heard these thumps and thuds, when we were raided by police and Ofcom, the media regulator. As soon as I realised this, I grabbed my notes and ran. As soon as one detective tried to collar me, I said two words: "I'm press". Have you ever had a dream where music featured prominently?

What bands appeared in your reveries and, also what songs?

Just thought I'd let everyone know that Cheap Trick was awesome:)  Saw Adam Ant too, and I didn't care much for him, but Prima Donna put on a great show as his opening band.  CT played on a Wednesday night at Stage AE, and Adam Ant and Prima Donna played at the same venue the following Friday, and Kevin (Prima Donna's lead singer) gave me this very cool souvenir from the Cheap Trick concert. 

There's way too many, but I'd go with Drop Out With The Barracudas!

Mine? See what you think of this:

Ramones: first two albums
Crime's self titled
The Cramps: Off The Bone
The Stooges: Raw Power
I know the last one was recorded in 1973, but pink started in Switzerland in 1916. Only it was called Dada.

hey Mike!

thanks a bundle!! I just saw your message, and it's EXACTLY the song i was looking for! i can't seem to grab it from here, so if you could send me an email with it, that would be awesome.

I sent you a PM with my email, 

cheers, Calle

(Jonah Gold & his Silver Apples)

I just posted to your profile. Wasn't sure how to attach the file to a response in this forum. I'm also not clear wether or not you can download that track I posted. Let me know if you need me to email it to you.

regards

guys, 

i am desperately looking for a song called "martian death ray", by the REAL LOSERS. it's supposed to be a bonus track on cd, but it isn't on the CD i own. can anybody help me out or tell me where to find it?

THANKS A BUNDLE!!

Did another double podcast this week (next week will be the last time I do this).  The first hour and a hafl of music featured a mix of country and blues music.  The second featured many newer artists mixed in with garage and punk music. 

Part One: Revolution Rock (Country and Blues Edition):
1.  Cuff the Duke - Long Road (Sidelines of the City - 2007)

2.  Hank Williams - A Mansion On The Hill (40 Greatest Hits - 1978)

3.  Bob Dylan - House Carpenter (Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait - 2013)

4.  David Lynch - The Ballad of Hollis Brown (The Big Dream - 2013)

5.  Neko Case - Local Girl (The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You - 2013)

6.  Andre Williams & The Sadies - I Can Tell (Night & Day - 2012)

7.  Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs - Nashville (Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs - 2011)

8.  Prehistoric Cave Strokers - Jed's Rap (Unreleased Recording)

9.  Chuck Berry - Downbound Train (After School Session - 1957)

10. Chuck Berry - I Want To Be Your Driver (The Great Twenty-Eight - 1982)

11. Muddy Waters - Tiger In Your Tank (At Newport 1960 - 1960) 1

12. Sonny Boy Williamson - Alice Mae Blues (Country Blues Obscurities - 2009)

13. Little Sam Davis - Goin' To New Orleans (Country Blues Obscurities - 2009)

14. Robert Johnson - Me and the Devil Blues (King of the Delta Blues Singers - 1961)

15. The White Stripes - It's My Fault For Being Famous  (Conquest Single - 2007)

16. Neil Young - Mellow My Mind (Tonight's The Night - 1975)

17. Cowboy Junkies - Working on a Building (The Trinity Sessions - 1988)

18. Deer Tick - Houston, TX (Born On Flag Day - 2009)

19. The Locusts Have No King - Last Ride (THe Locusts Have No King - 2007)

20. Indian Wars - Missippi (Songs From The North - 2012)

21. Johnny Cash - Bottom Of A Mountain (Bootleg Series Vol. II - From Memphis To Hollywood - 2011)

22. Bob Dylan - This Evening, So Soon (Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait - 2013)

Stream/download part one here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/536-TBA-20130917-0900-t1379404800.mp3

Part Two: Revolution Rock:

1.  TV Freaks – Pusher

2.  Jacuzzi Boys – Hotline

3.  The Night People – We Got It

4.  The Canadian Rogues – You Better Stop

5.  The Premiers – Farmer John

6.  The Magic Mushrooms – It’s-A-Happening

7.  Ty Segall – The Keepers

8.  Pokey Lafarge – Pack It Up

9.  Curbside Sofa – Be My Girl

10. Holograms – Meditations

11. Crocodiles – Cockroach

12. Orphan Choir – Broken Upright Piano

13. Contradance – Black Preppies

14. Brazilian Money – Filthy Dreams

15. The Mark Inside – Dead Heart

16. The Mark Inside – Balloons

17. Papermaps – The Hedonist

18. The Beatles – Devil In Her Heart

19. The Beatles – Not A Second Time

20. Young Rival – Lost

21. Undertones – I Know A Girl

22. The Embarassment – Sound of Wasps

23. Link Wray – Dance Party Pt.1

24. Deerhunter - Back To The Middle

Stream/download part two here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/36-Revolution_Rock-20130917-1030-t1379410200.mp3

This week's blog post is on Chuck Berry:  http://revrock.blogspot.ca/2013/09/chuck-berry-trains-drivers-show-473.html

Great Bo Diddley Tribute Dave.  For those who missed it, here it is: 

 http://revrock.blogspot.ca/

I did two podcasts again this week.  The first was all about Bo Diddley and his influence.  The other was a garage, punk podcast featuring rare music from The Mc5, Deja Voodoo, music from The Seeds and more. 

Revolution Bo Diddley Play List:

1.  Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley (single - 1955)

2.  Bo Diddley - Bring It To Jerome (Bo Diddley - 1958)

3.  Bo Diddley - The Great Grandfather (Go Bo Diddley - 1959)

4.  The Juvenilles - Bo Diddley (History of Northwest Rock Vol. 4 Battle of the Bands - 2009)

5.  The Ugly Ducklings - Hey Mamma Keep Your Big Mouth Shut (Somewhere Outside - 1967)

6.  The Gruesomes - I Can Tell (Gruesomania - 1987)

7.  Captain Beefheart - Diddy Wah Diddy (single - 1965)

8.  The Clash - You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At The Cover (Golden Bullets Bootleg - 2001)

9.  Bo Diddley - Surf, Sink or Swim (Surfin' With Bo Diddley - 1963)

10. Bo Diddley - Aztec (Bo Diddley Is A Lover - 1961)

11. Super Blues (Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Muddy Waters) - You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care) (Super Blues - 1967)

12. Bo Diddley - Rock & Roll (Rare and Well Done - 1991)

13. Bo Diddley - Bo Meets The Monster (single - 1958)

14. Light Bulb Alley - Who Do You Love? (The Sound of Things - 2011)

15. King Khan & The Shrines - Crackin' Up (The Supreme Genius of - 2008)

16. Ronnie Hawkins - Who Do You Love (The Roulette Years - 1995)

17. The Pack A.D. - Blackout (Funeral Mixtape - 2008)

18. Jesus & Mary Chain - Bo Diddley is Jesus (Barbed Wire Kisses - 1988)

19. Bo Diddley - Pills (single - 1961)

20. New York Dolls - Pills (New York Dolls - 1973)

21. The Rolling Stones – Please Go Home (Between The Buttons - 1967)

22. Bo Diddley - Gunslinger (Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger - 1960)

Download/listen to this Bo Diddley podcast here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/536-TBA-20130910-0900-t1378800000.mp3

Revolution Rock Play List:

1.  The Seeds – Try To Understand

2.  The Epics – Humpty Dumpty

3.  Actual Water – Ivory & Oak

4.  Gold Country – Carried Away And The Wind

5.  Chad Vangaalen – Molten Light

6.  J Mascis – Not Enough

7.  Robin Tyner & The Hotrods – Till the Night Is Gone

8.  Ultravox! – ROckWrok

9.  The Terminal Sunglasses – Antenna Dilemma

10. The Catch – Competition

11. Chang-A-Lang – Vigilante Man

12. The Forgotten Rebels – Me Generation

13. X – Sugarlight

14. Joy Division – Disorder

15. Vic Goddard & The Subway Sect – Johnny Thunders

16. Fergus & Geronimo – Spies

17. The Howlies – Walk On Home

18. Raised By Weeds – Trip To The Ocean

19. Deja Voodoo – Bo Diddley's Cat

20. Deja Voodoo - My Girlfriend

21. The Fall – Mr. Pharmacist

22. The Hives – Find Yourself Another Girl

23. MC5 – One Of The Guys

24. MC5 – Sister Ann (W Sonic On Guide Vocals)

Download/listen to this podcast here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/36-Revolution_Rock-20130910-1030-t1378805400.mp3

For more info on these shows you can check out this week's blog post here:  http://revrock.blogspot.ca/2013/09/revolution-bo-diddley-show-472.html

Liked the Ty set.  And the Cream song.

The Trip!  Sept. 15th 2013 Show!  

Listen here:   http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/381-The_Trip-20130915-0030-t1379201400.mp3

The setlist:

 

gert wilden- rolf torring
henri rene & his orchestra- hansel & pretzel
the reflections- daydreamer
the shadows of knight- three for love
screaming tribesman- left in the dark
rock n' roll monkey & the robots- put a record on
joe byrd and the field hippies- kalyani
joe byrd and the field hippies- you can't ever come down
savage republic- ivory coast
killing joke- who told you how ?
ty segall- who are you
ty segall- sweets
ty segall- goodbye bread
ty segall- crazy
ty segall and mikal cronin- drop dead baby
cream- i'm so glad
grubstake- no stranger to uzbekistan
hanni el khatib- low
junior kimbrough- meet me in the city
clarence 'gatemouth' brown- front burner
bob log III- all the rockets go bang
pere ubu- lampshade man

Well... I don't know how dependable the source was, or even what it was, all I know is I definitely read it somewhere some time ago.

Never heard that one. I know he was a casino dealer for awhile.

G. Wood said:

I remember rreading somewhere, years ago, that Jan Savage became a LA police officer. 

That's pretty punk

I remember rreading somewhere, years ago, that Jan Savage became a LA police officer. 

Saw them live with Wavves and Cheatahs, they destroyed! Wake, Bake, Skate has to be my favorite

How about "Cambodia Rock Inensified"? Another candidate would be "World Music" by Goat, the sound of Africa on Acid. I'd also go for the Thai Beat A-Go-Go trilogy too, which is excellent.

My favourite pseudonyms? Niagara, Jello Biafra, Nico, Penny Rimbaud, G. Sus, Johnny Thunders, Captain Beefheart, GG Allin, Morrissey, Dinah Cancer, Steve Ignorant, Chicken John, Siouxie Sioux.

I just reviewed this album -- plus the new Black Joe Lewis album -- in my newspaper column

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
Sept. 13, 2013

An actual bubblegum album by a serious grown-up band in 2013?

Yes indeed. Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-blooey is a bubblegum album by The Dirtbombs, long promised by the group’s singer and guitarist Mick Collins.

The Dirtbombs are a serious band, right?

In my book they are. Started by Collins in the ’90s following the demise of his previous group, The Gories — an inspired blues/punk/slop band — The Dirtbombs were the best (if not the most famous, which would be The White Stripes) group to come out of the Detroit garage scene.

But bubblegum? Those of you who weren't around when bubblegum ruled the AM airwaves might not know what the term means. Sometimes “bubblegum” is used to describe any vapid teen pop, but that’s not what The Dirtbombs are doing on this album.

According to the All Music Guide, “Bubblegum is a lightweight, catchy pop music that was a significant commercial force in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Bubblegum was targeted at a preteen audience whose older siblings had been raised on rock & roll. It was simple, melodic, and light as feather — neither the lyrics or the music had much substance. Bubblegum was a manufactured music, created by record producers that often hired session musicians to play and sing the songs.”

The true giants of the genre were Buddha Records groups like The Ohio Express (known for hits like “Yummy Yummy Yummy” — yes, there was love in their tummies — and “Chewy Chewy”); The 1910 Fruitgum Company (“1, 2, 3, Red Light,” “Simon Says”); The Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus (“Quick Joey Small”); and made-for-TV bands like The Partridge Family, The Banana Splits, The Archies, and Lancelot Link & The Evolution Revolution.

Now technically, The Archies weren’t human. They were, in fact, cartoon characters. And the Banana Splits were human, but they were humans dressed like cartoon animals.

But even more out-there is the fact that Lancelot Link and his band were trained chimpanzees dressed in wigs and hippie costumes who appeared on Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, a live-action Saturday-morning kiddie show in the early ’70s. An album of their music was actually released back then, and a video of the Lancelot Link song “Wild Dreams (Jelly Beans),” posted in a recent Ooey Gooey preview piece on Spin.com, shows these chimps indeed sounded a little like the Dirtbombs do on their new album.

Back during the great bubblegum scare, I was a little older than the target age group for this stuff, and for the most part I didn't share Collins’ affection for it. In fact, I hated the stuff. But little by little, I began to see at least a little value in the genre. Wilson Pickett had a hit with The Archies’ “Sugar Sugar.” A few years later, The Talking Heads covered “1, 2, 3, Red Light.” Meanwhile, The Dickies, an L.A. punk group, did a magnificent version of The Banana Splits theme song. And The Cramps covered “Quick Joey Small.”

And now The Dirtbombs have bubblegum on the soles of their shoes. They didn’t do covers of bubblegum hits. Instead, as Collins explained in an interview in Ghetto Blaster, “I wasn’t trying to make a period piece; I was more seeing if I could pick up where bubblegum left off ...”

If nothing else, Collins and crew capture the weird essence of many bubblegum elements. Just look at the song titles: “Sunshine Girl,” “We Come in the Sunshine,” “Sugar on Top,” “No More Rainy Days,” “Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet,” “Hey! Cookie,” etc. I don’t know whether I’m in more danger of sunstroke or a diabetic coma after listening to this.

There are several songs that — apart from the candy-coated lyrics — don’t sound like a big stretch for The Dirtbombs. “Hot, Sour, Salty Sweet” is one of those, and so are “Sugar on Top” and “It’s Gonna Be Alright.” Collins’ guitar is righteously raunchy in these songs, even if the melodies are poppier than your usual Dirtbombs tune. And “Hey! Cookie” sounds like, well, a garage-rock number. It would have fit seamlessly in early Dirtbombs albums.

Mick Collins playing with The Gories Lincoln Center, NYC, 2010

But other tunes sink deeper into the bubblegum goo.

“We Come in the Sunshine” owes a big debt to “Good Vibrations,” but there also are strange components such as the Bobby Sherman-style horns and vocal harmonies that sound closer to The Cowsills than The Beach Boys. “The Girl on the Carousel” is a dreamy slow dance featuring an oboe.

But the biggest leap is “No More Rainy Days,” which, after a minute or so of what sounds like an Oompa Loompa march, goes into a weird interlude featuring the voice of the sun. That’s right, the actual sun, whose droning rumble was recorded by a solar observatory run by Stanford University.

I’ll admit, these tunes all are fun and catchy, even if the childlike lyrics and lollipops and rainbows start to wear down a listener used to grittier themes. My main beef is that this is the second genre exercise in a row for the Dirtbombs — the previous album, Party Store, being a tribute to Detroit techno bands. I just hope the next album by this band I love so much is less gooey and has more ka-blooey.

Also recommended: 

* Electric Slave by Black Joe Lewis. This is the hardest-edged record so far in the short but thrilling catalog of Lewis, an Austin native who, according to a recent piece in his hometown paper, recently moved to Montreal.

Unlike his previous two albums, this one is released under Lewis’ name alone, not with his band The Honeybears. The horn section is still there, but the soul and funk elements of Lewis’ early work are less apparent.

Also missing are any obvious crowd-pleasers, such as the funny spoken-word segments like “Mustang Ranch” from previous albums. I’m not saying crowds won’t be pleased. Electric Slave is raw, punk-infused electric blues rock. Less jive and more wallop.

The album starts out with “Skulldiggin’,” which has such a distorted, fuzzed-out bass that in a just world, every obnoxious kid with a weapons-grade car stereo would be blasting this at every intersection in America.

Black Joe in Santa Fe

“Guilty” is a frantic rocker with tasty guitar-sax interplay. The nearly seven-minute “Vampire” sounds like a stripped-down cousin of Concrete Blonde’s “Bloodletting (The Vampire Song).” Screamin’ Jay Hawkins could have done this one.

Two other standouts are the highly-caffeinated “Young Girls,” which reminds me of Barrence Whitfield & The Savages, and “The Hipster,” a ferocious cruncher built on a mutated “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love” guitar riff and incorporating some lyrics of “Wang Dang Doodle.”

I bet the Electric Slave song that gets the most airplay is “Come to My Party.” I hope a lot of new fans respond to that invitation. Black Joe Lewis always throws an amazing musical party.

Blog bonus: Lotsa videos this week






And a little history for you, kiddies:
Talking Heads liked bubblegum when bubblegum wasn't cool


These chimps rock!

John Battles said:

BUT , ALSO AN EVIL TOM JONES !

ratoonie said:

i absolutly Love that colorful albuum w/ the star on it....i dont have access to it right now.. its in storage..way up in sacramento.. i saw him on the tom jones show... my aunt bought the album 4 me from a bargin bin at the supermarket... its a great record!!!! kinda English version of alice cooper!!!!!

I was reading about his counselling work in Bizarre Magazine, where he would do it with the guitar and make a song with the patient.

Ken Eppstein said:
The Dead Milkmen's "Taking Retards To The Zoo" is one of my favorite completely politically incorrect without ever being vulgar songs.

"A Van Full of Retards" by Anal Cunt is worse!