I will be on the air and the web on Saturday May 31st from 1:00-3:00PM EST.  You can listen at 89.7 WITR-FM in Rochester, NY or streaming live at http://witr.rit.edu 

   ALSO ,  Alice and Michael HAD A BEEF FOR SOME TIME. THEY DID MAKE PEACE , AND PLAY SOME REUNION GIGS AND GO INTO THE STUDIO AGAIN , but , maybe they're on the outs again(?) , and one party refused to be associated with teh other. Just speculating......

I MEANT , Alice does'nt PLAY Chicago , THOUGH I HOPE HE WILL, some day. WE CAN'T ALL GET OUT TO SUBURBS WE'VE SCARCELY HEARD OF. Last time he played here was at Navy Pier Bandshell , probably 10 or 12 years ago.......HE KILLED IT , BUT THE COMPARATIVELY SMALL VENUE WAS'NT EVEN FULL.

The Pygmies,

   ALICE DID'NT GO PUBLIC WITH HIS DRUG HABIT , BUT THERE'S ENOUGH FOOTAGE FROM THE "SPECIAL FORCES" DAYS , HIS FACE LOOKS RAVAGED BY SPEED.  excuse the large caps....

He did deny his having had problems with crack cocaine and other drugs for a long time , but , he went  into detail about it in his "Behind The Music"segment , which had to be at least 15 years ago(?). It was a carefully guarded secret , but , then again , so was Alice , by the early 80's. The surviving members of The Alice Cooper Group were all shown on that program , and , with the exception of Bruce , they looked great , and still do. It sounds like the director was motivated by The Sex Pistols' film , "The Filth and The Fury" to not showthe interviewees' faces. I'll take your word for it that it's a good move , though I'd liek to see them.

OKAY ! ANYONE IN CHICAGO - "SUPER DUPER ALICE COOPER" IS BEING SHOWN AT DELILAH'S , 2771 N. LINCOLN (But , if you're reading this , and live in CHICAGO , YOU KNOW WHERE DELILAH'S IS.), Next Tuesday , 7:00.     It may be our only chance to see this film in a rust bucket ghost town like this. It should have already played here , in a real theater , but , we may have to settle for TV monitors. I've heard nothing about a DVD release , either....... Alice does'nt lay Chicago , anymore , maybe his movie will play in the suburbs.

Dennis Dunaway is featured prominently in the doc and there's a little bit of Neal Smith, but no one else for the original lineup. Unless I missed it. You only hear the interviewees voices, you never see their faces, which I think was a good idea on the film maker's part.

The most interesting part of the doc is Alice coming clean about quitting alcohol but then developing a heavy cocaine addiction. Something he had long denied until now. 

JES , Yes, that's Cooper in all his glory. I lovethe comic book ads behind them , too. THE BAND WAS FIRING ON ALL EIGHT CYLINDERS. There's a great clipof "Public Animal #9" , for the same show , with a very "Velvets" intro and trippy multicolored graphics....

Michael's not in it , at all? I know an ex - member of his band , and , well , let's just day Bruce did some things he should'nt have to someone who helped him.....I don't know why he would'nt seize the opportunity to be outspoken , unless he's in hiding or in jail. He tears Alice a new one in his book , "No More Mr. Nice Guy" , tho' , of course , they made peace and the surviving ACG members have done several reunion gigs, since.

Bruce made a good point , to him , Alice Cooper was the group. But Vince Furnier had his name legally changed to Alice Cooper  and while the others were on vacation , and starting new projcts ,  together and separately (Most notably , Billion Dollar Babies , Flying Tigers and Neal Smith doing a stint with The Plasmatics.). THE IDEA WAS , THEY'D DO THEIR SOLO LPS , THEN REGROUP AT A LATER DATE.

Did'nt happen. Alice had aspirations of expanding on the theatrics that the others were getting tired of.  Alice owned the name , so , naturally , he was going to come back with a slicker version of his earlier show . This , of coure ,was a huge success . Sadly , Glen Buxton's drinking problem was so severe , he often played , unpluged , while Mick Mashbir would play his parts behind a curtain.

Alice was still in denial about his drinking , bu t, he was a pro. HE RECRUIED TO NO - NONSENSE GUITARS , Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter who'd , collectively , put in time wih Frost , Mitch Ryder and Detroit , and Lou Reed. Does'nt mean they were better than Bruce and Buxton , just more dependable.

Cool doc. I just wish it featured Michael Bruce, he wrote most of Alice's early classics. I'd love to hear his thoughts on Alice taking the band name and ditching the original lineup. 

Recentl Revolution Rock expanded to a two hour program.  I did one last show in the 90 minute format.  Here are the play lists and download links for my last 90 minute podcast and first 2 hour podcast!

 

 

The PLay List (May 20, 2014):

 

1. The Chessmen - Time Machine
2. Huevos Rancheros - Raunchy
3. BBQ — I Wanna Be The Only One
4 . The King Khan & BBQ Show - Hold Me Tight
5. Ex-Cult - Shattered Circle
6. The Coathangers - I Wait
7. Dum Dum Girls - Everybody’s Out
8. The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
9. The Horrors - I See You
10. The Delmonas - Comin’ Home Baby
11. The Howlin’ Brothers - Night And Day
12. Eels - Parallels
13. Neil Young - Journey Through The Past
14. Sloan - Dignified & Old
15. Exploding Hearts - Rumours In Town
16. Sonny Knight & The Lakers - Hey Girl
17. Jolly Green Giants - Caught You Red Handed
18. Gentlemen Of Horror - Overhead Projector
19. Lost Patrol - Dead Or Alive
20. Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (1976 Denmark Street Demo)
21. The Adverts - We Who Wait
22. The Undertones - Let's Talk About Girls
23. Beck - Say Goodbye

 

Download/listen to the podcasat here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/36-Revolution_Rock-20140520-1030-t1400578200.mp3

 

Blog post about this podcast can be found here:  http://revrock.blogspot.ca/2014/05/the-chessmen-time-machine-show-509.html

 

 

Play List (May 24, 2014) (first 2 hour program):

 

1. The Bell Peppers - The Hokey Cokey
2. Pink Mountaintops - Wheels
3. Snake River - Hours I: Don’t Hide Things Anymore
4. Chad Vangaalen - Lila
5. Temples - Keep In The Dark
6. Holy Wave - Night Tripper
7. Magazine - Definitive Gaze
8. Iggy Pop - Dum Dum Boys
9. Big Audio Dynamite - Get It All From My TV
10. Klark Kent - Don’t Care
11. Damaged Bug - Gloves For Garbage
12. The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
13. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Clubland
14. Colour Me Psycho - Black Covair
15. The Hentchmen - Virginia Dare
16. Demon’s Claws - It’s Over (Roy Orbison Cover)
17. Ray Condo - Jumps, Giggles & Shouts
18. Takeshi Terauchi & The Bunnys - The Glamour Of The Sun
19. Indian Wars - Denny
20. Ramones - I'm Makin’ Monsters For My Friends
21. Teenanger - Teenanger
22. The Victims -TV Freak
23. The Pagans - Not Now, No Way
24. Deja Voodoo - I Wish That Cat Would Shut Up
25. Deja Voodoo - Rock Therapy
26. Thee Oh Sees - Camera (Queer Sound)
27. Lou Reed - Average Guy
28. Guided By Voices - Shine (Tomahawk Breath)
29. Guided By Voices - Hat of Flames
30. XTC - Science Friction

 

Download/listen to the podcast here:  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/36-Revolution_Rock-20140524-1900-t1400954400.mp3

 

Check out my blog post on XTC's 3D EP here:  http://revrock.blogspot.ca/2014/05/xtc-3d-ep-show-510.html

Hey there! Not sure if here is the right place to ask that, but we're a band from Brazil and we are looking for a nice and not too expensive place to press our next record on 10" vinyl. That could be in the US or Canada, where we would have friends to help us to bring the records to Brazil and stuff.

Can somone help us on that? Thanks!

The Francs will play for beer... if I can find everybody in tyhe band.

I never heard On The Road South before. Ya, it's definitely an extended version of the heavy middle section of Defecting Grey, "night star hangs in blackness...". Very cool. 

Well, I read somewhere on the You Tube that "On The Road South" is a cover version of "Defecting Grey"...

Dead Boy , "Defecting Grey" and"On The Road South" are two of the best freakouts recorded. It does'nt hurt that they sound so much alike.

I was'nt able to get sound on these videos , but , I'll try again , later....No , I'm not familiar with that series. I did , recently , pick up the Japanese version of "Love , Flowers and Poetry" . Great stuff. 

If you haven't heard a compilation "Acid Dreams Testament", I'd recommend!

http://tyme-machine.blogspot.jp/2009/09/va-acid-dreams-testament-75-minutes-of.html

THERE'S SO MANY, BUT , FOR STARTERS -

Cold Sun , Lithium XMas , Peyote Cowboys , Third Bardo , Plan 9 , United States of America / Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies ,  13TH Floor Elevators , Bubble Puppy , Moving Sidewalks , Blue Cheer , ORPHAN EGG , Lollipop Shoppe , Electric Prunes (Especially today !) , MobyGrape / Skip Spence solo , lots of others......

Always looking for new and old psych bands to check out. Love heavy acid drenched garage. Who are some of your favs?

 

...IT DOES'NT SURPRISE ME THAT HENRY would TRY to produce a record on Manson , unless it was after  he witnessed his best friend's murder , and would have surely said "I don't want to get involved with  a serial killer.". If it is'nt true , it is'nt true , as vastly overrated as Henry is , in my humble opinion , I give him props for geting behind actual musical geniuses , like Roky and the monks , that never masterminded human slaughter . IF IT'S TRUE OR NOT , I'll sleep like a baby.

I know GG Allin was a friend of Gacy's, but Henry Rollins producing Charlie Manson? It's the stuff of urban myth, it just makes a good story that, if true, shows that reality reality has eclipsed satire.

Never heard of  The COUNTRY ALBUMS. I know he did a Country EP. Of course "Scumfuc Tradition " was a rewriting of "Family Tradition by Bocephus Williams ( Sorry , in my book there is no Hank II OR III , even tho I found a CD by "III" for a dollar , and it's not bad , though his voice sounds like Dale Gribble.....I saw him , once , in the 90's,  and it was BEYOND godawful.)

and "Outlaw Scumfuc" was a rewrite of "Longhaired RednecK" by David Allen Coe  , whose X-Rated albums probably influenced GG a lot...... 

HE DID "sPOKEN WORD" PERFORMANCES AND RECORDINGS , clearly , the boy was'nt playing it  for laughs.

John Battles said:

GG could be VERY outgoing . He genuinely liked to meet people , especially if they shared his passion for Rock'n'Roll......GG's TASTES WERE A LOT MORE VARIED THAN MIGHT BE EXPECTED.

I'm not defending certain things he did , but , everyone that knew him , back then , agrees that he was just an enthusiatic rock and roller. He spoke of just doing a straight Rock show when he got out of Prison. Would people have NOT gone to his shows if there were suddenly no bodily fluids or violence , mostly self - inflicted , involved?

I asked him how he got Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thompson to play with him. He said "You're the first person who ever asked me that !".He said , basically , Wayne was just jamming in clubs (Gang War had just split up and he was minus a band.) , and agreed to play. Then , he found a classified ad saying Dennis Thompson was looking for a band. Neither one had seen the other for years , so they were VERY happy about this surprise GG laid out for them  . HE DONE A MITZVAH !

GG claimed he almost got Thunders to play , as Gang War was'nt yet in rigor mortis , and Johnny seemed possibly opento playing with Wayne again. Who knows?

He did two country albums, which aren't too shabby, but I'd love to have heard him do a blues album. I can easily imagine the spoken word album he was planning to do being something with innocent silliness, as opposed to the nihilism and misanthropy that was the norm.

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Cassettes... haha!

Hey Guys, 

I'm really not trying to spam here, so feel free to delete this if you feel that I am. I just wanted to share this open opportunity for bands to be part of a Reddit Cassette Compilation that's looking for garage/punk/fuzz bands. 

http://www.reddit.com/r/cassetteculture/comments/259ggw/new_rcassetteculture_compilation_with_fleeting/

I WAS PLEASANTLY SURPISED TO FIND A CD COLLECTION ON HELLO.

HELLO KIND OF BELONGS TO THAT SECOND TIER GLAM CLUB ( Geordie , Mud , Arrows .)  , bands that did have hits , but hardly threatened to knock Bowie , Bolan, Sweet , Slade or Gary Glitter's block off....

I had a few of their songs on comps , but , most of this material is surprisingly good - Locked -in grooves , big, bad  beats (PLAYED ON REAL DRUMS.) and vocals that sound alternately sinister and slightly androgynous. Infectious pop - harmonioes soar over discordant ,  pseudo - futuristitc ,guitar/ keyboard combinations. 

"New York Groove" (Covered in the late 70's by Ace Frehley , and , more recently , by Sweet ! )

is their best known song here in the states. There are plenty of strong originals , but , their unusual reworkings of 'Bend Me , Shape Me" , "ELENORE" (TURTLES.) and even "Hi - HO , SIVER lINING' ARE HARD TO GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD. There's no info on this CD - It was made in France ,though it does say the band became huge in Germany and Japan by the time Britain had written off Glam Rock as a fad. They actually kept going until 1979 , which means , yes, they outlived First Generation Punk.