* Rock N' Roll '50s Blues Essentials This is a generous helping of blues and R&B. and one of those bargains you can find on eMusic that keep me coming back. Just one problem. Many of the tracks were mislabeled. It looks as if there are duplicates of several songs, 11 in all. It's not eMusic's fault. The same album is listed on Amazon and iTunes with the same mistakes. It's probably the fault of the digital distributor. This points to one of the problems with the digital age. Without an actual physical product in hand, it's way too easy to spread the wrong information about an album. And with obscure tracks, who'll know but the fanatics? Using several internet sources, I was able to identify 6 of the mislabled songs. But 5 of them still stump me. I'm not sure of the artists on any of them. They are Track 2 (It might be called "Tommy T"), Track 6, which I'm pretty sure is called "Take the Hint"; Tracks 27, 28 and 37.If anyone has a clue, please let me know. I stumbled across this while searching for some early stuff by Guitar Shorty, who played a benefit in Santa Fe last month for our mutual friend Kenny Delgado. In this collection I found an early tune by Shorty called "Ways of a Man." It's a funny little tune about all men basically being scumbags. Among my other favorites here are "The Hunt" by Sonny Boy Williamson, which is a humorous novelty tune about coon dogs, the two (!) Ligntnin' Hopkins rockers and Jesse Knight's "Nothing But Money." If Big Joe Turner was the Boss of the Blues, Jesse sounds like his thug enforcer. But the compilers might have saved their best for the first here. "Get Your Clothes and Let's Go" by Crown Prince Waterford probably sounded pretty risque back in the '50s. Now it's just crazy fun. (Unfortunately this opening song is one of the mislabled tracks.)

* Calypsos From Trinidad: Politics, Intrigue and Violence in the 1930's  by Various Artists. Another great Arhoolie compilation. What is it about calypso that can even make a song about injustice, poverty and murder sound almost ...  happy? You hear very little outrage or despair in these songs. The singers -- who have cool stage names like Growling Tiger, Roaring Lion, Tiger, Atilla the Hun and The Executor -- skewer their politicians with a wise, sly smile and wicked lyrics. Somehow these singers pull off political protest without the self-righteousness of so many American folkies or the pre-fab poser rage of second-rate rappers. Wouldn't it have been great if we'd had Lord Executor around here in New Mexico to sing "Treasury Scandal" during the whole Robert Vigil /Michael Montoya mess. Of course, politicians in Trinidad often were not amused. In fact "Sedition Law" by King Radio deals with censorship of the calypso menace. (Beware! There's lots of mislabeling on this album too. Among other thins, they took the "growling" and "Roaring" from the Tiger and the Lion. Get it together, e-Music!) * Sanders' Truckstop by Ed Sanders. Here's further proof that I have unhealthy obsessions about music. Back in my early years of college, I remember KUNM playing this funny faux-country song called "Jimmy Joe, The Hippybilly Boy." Sung by Ed Sanders, a founding member of The Fugs, it's about a long-haired country boy who meets a tragic end. I'd looked for this for years but was unable to find it. I'm not sure what made me think of  "Jimmy Joe" recently, but I looked up Sanders on eMusic and lo and behold ... I probably should have just downloaded that song. It's still funny to me. There may be a couple of others -- For instance, "The Iliad," which is the tale of the legendary shit-kicking homophobe Johnny Pissoff. And maybe "Banshee," which is about one of Satan's demon lovers. But most of the rest of the album doesn't hold up. The hippie humor is dated and Sander's fake hick accent gets annoying. If you want to hear really funny, really warped music about rednecks and hippies, check out Twisted Tales from the Vinyl Wastelands Volume 4: Hippie in a Blunder. In Ed's defense though, you could argue that his work was a precursor to Mojo Nixon, Angry Johnny & The Killbillies and maybe even Southern Culture on the Skids (though none of the Hemptones can pick a guitar anything like SCOTS' Rick Miller can.) PLUS: * The 16 tracks I didn't get last month from Soundway Records Presents The Sound of Siam : Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz and Molam from Thailand 1964 - 1975. The Soundways label never ceases to amaze me. It's best known for its compilations of amazing African rock, funk and soul. Now they've turned their ears to Asia. There's some cross-cultural hijinx that would make 3 Mustaphas 3's heads spin. For instnace "Diew Sor Diew Caan" by Thong Huad & Kunpan basically is an Irish fiddle reel gone Siamese. You can find direct influences from Western rock and pop in these grooves. Because none of the songs on this Soundways collection are sung in English, it's not as obvious as the Thai Beat a Go-Go collections where you find Siamese versions of songs like "Hit the Road Jack," "Lady Madonna" and Hank Williams' Kaw-Liga. But on "Sao Lam Plearn," The Petch Phin Thong Band draws straight from "Jumping Jack Flash, " And in the middle of "Kai Tom Yum" by Kawaw Siang Thong, the melody seems to change to that of Leo Sayer's 1970s AM Radiio sap hit "More Than I Can Say." (But since Leo didn't release that song until the late '70s, Thong probably got the tune from the earlier version by Bobby Vee.) For those who don't speak the language, the rueful laughter and dialog toward the end of "Kai Tom Yum" by Kawaw Siang Thong might sound sinister, like foreign mobsters about to commit some atrocity. But it doesn't get anywhere as sinister as The Viking Combo Band's "Pleng Yuk Owakard" The title means "Space Age Music," but with its Dirty Dog bass, shouted lyrics, machine-gun drums and weirdo organ, it sounds like a murder after hours at a roller rink. (This song was included on Thai Beat a Go-Go Volume 1. Except there it's called "Phom Rak Khoon Tching Thing (I Really Do Love You)") * Two songs from Battle of the Jug Bands. I'd never heard of any of these groups on this album, released in 2000. But who cares? The beauty of jug band music is that anyone with the proper spirit (and in some cases, proper spirits) can play it. The album is connected with an actual annual event, the "Battle of the Jug Bands," which takes place in Minneapolis every weekend after the Superbowl. I picked up jug band versions of "Kung Fu Fighting" by a group called Girls on Top and the Rolling Stones classic "Sweet Virginia" -- a natural for a jug band treatment -- by Hoakim Yoakim & The Eggwhites. More on this album next month.

* Rock N' Roll '50s Blues Essentials This is a generous helping of blues and R&B. and one of those bargains you can find on eMusic that keep me coming backing. Just one problem. Many of the tracks were mislabeled. It looks as if there are duplicates of several songs, 11 in all. It's not eMusic's fault. The same album is listed on Amazon and iTunes with the same mistakes. It's probably the fault of the digital distributor. This points to one of the problems with the digital age. Without an actual physical product in hand, it's way too easy to spread the wrong information about an album. And with obscure tracks, who'll know but the fanatics? Using several internet sources, I was able to identify 6 of the mislabled songs. But 5 of them still stump me. I'm not sure of the artists on any of them. They are Track 2 (It might be called "Tommy T"), Track 6, which I'm pretty sure is called "Take the Hint"; Tracks 27, 28 and 37.If anyone has a clue, please let me know. I stumbled across this while searching for some early stuff by Guitar Shorty, who played a benefit in Santa Fe last month for our mutual friend Kenny Delgado. In this collection I found an early tune by Shorty called "Ways of a Man." It's a funny little tune about all men basically being scumbags. Among my other favorites here are "The Hunt" by Sonny Boy Williamson, which is a humorous novelty tune about coon dogs, the two (!) Ligntnin' Hopkins rockers and Jesse Knight's "Nothing But Money." If Big Joe Turner was the Boss of the Blues, Jesse sounds like his thug enforcer. But the compilers might have saved their best for the first here. "Get Your Clothes and Let's Go" by Crown Prince Waterford probably sounded pretty risque back in the '50s. Now it's just crazy fun. (Unfortunately this opening song is one of the mislabled tracks.)

* Calypsos From Trinidad: Politics, Intrigue and Violence in the 1930's  by Various Artists. Another great Arhoolie compilation. What is it about calypso that can even make a song about injustice, poverty and murder sound almost ...  happy? You hear very little outrage or despair in these songs. The singers -- who have cool stage names like Growling Tiger, Roaring Lion, Tiger, Atilla the Hun and The Executor -- skewer their politicians with a wise, sly smile and wicked lyrics. Somehow these singers pull off political protest without the self-righteousness of so many American folkies or the pre-fab poser rage of second-rate rappers. Wouldn't it have been great if we'd had Lord Executor around here in New Mexico to sing "Treasury Scandal" during the whole Robert Vigil /Michael Montoya mess. Of course, politicians in Trinidad often were not amused. In fact "Sedition Law" by King Radio deals with censorship of the calypso menace. (Beware! There's lots of mislabeling on this album too. Among other thins, they took the "growling" and "Roaring" from the Tiger and the Lion. Get it together, e-Music!) * Sanders' Truckstop by Ed Sanders. Here's further proof that I have unhealthy obsessions about music. Back in my early years of college, I remember KUNM playing this funny faux-country song called "Jimmy Joe, The Hippybilly Boy." Sung by Ed Sanders, a founding member of The Fugs, it's about a long-haired country boy who meets a tragic end. I'd looked for this for years but was unable to find it. I'm not sure what made me think of  "Jimmy Joe" recently, but I looked up Sanders on eMusic and lo and behold ... I probably should have just downloaded that song. It's still funny to me. There may be a couple of others -- For instance, "The Iliad," which is the tale of the legendary shit-kicking homophobe Johnny Pissoff. And maybe "Banshee," which is about one of Satan's demon lovers. But most of the rest of the album doesn't hold up. The hippie humor is dated and Sander's fake hick accent gets annoying. If you want to hear really funny, really warped music about rednecks and hippies, check out Twisted Tales from the Vinyl Wastelands Volume 4: Hippie in a Blunder. In Ed's defense though, you could argue that his work was a precursor to Mojo Nixon, Angry Johnny & The Killbillies and maybe even Southern Culture on the Skids (though none of the Hemptones can pick a guitar anything like SCOTS' Rick Miller can.) PLUS: * The 16 tracks I didn't get last month from Soundway Records Presents The Sound of Siam : Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz and Molam from Thailand 1964 - 1975. The Soundways label never ceases to amaze me. It's best known for its compilations of amazing African rock, funk and soul. Now they've turned their ears to Asia. There's some cross-cultural hijinx that would make 3 Mustaphas 3's heads spin. For instnace "Diew Sor Diew Caan" by Thong Huad & Kunpan basically is an Irish fiddle reel gone Siamese. You can find direct influences from Western rock and pop in these grooves. Because none of the songs on this Soundways collection are sung in English, it's not as obvious as the Thai Beat a Go-Go collections where you find Siamese versions of songs like "Hit the Road Jack," "Lady Madonna" and Hank Williams' Kaw-Liga. But on "Sao Lam Plearn," The Petch Phin Thong Band draws straight from "Jumping Jack Flash, " And in the middle of "Kai Tom Yum" by Kawaw Siang Thong, the melody seems to change to that of Leo Sayer's 1970s AM Radiio sap hit "More Than I Can Say." (But since Leo didn't release that song until the late '70s, Thong probably got the tune from the earlier version by Bobby Vee.) For those who don't speak the language, the rueful laughter and dialog toward the end of "Kai Tom Yum" by Kawaw Siang Thong might sound sinister, like foreign mobsters about to commit some atrocity. But it doesn't get anywhere as sinister as The Viking Combo Band's "Pleng Yuk Owakard" The title means "Space Age Music," but with its Dirty Dog bass, shouted lyrics, machine-gun drums and weirdo organ, it sounds like a murder after hours at a roller rink. (This song was included on Thai Beat a Go-Go Volume 1. Except there it's called "Phom Rak Khoon Tching Thing (I Really Do Love You)") * Two songs from Battle of the Jug Bands. I'd never heard of any of these groups on this album, released in 2000. But who cares? The beauty of jug band music is that anyone with the proper spirit (and in some cases, proper spirits) can play it. The album is connected with an actual annual event, the "Battle of the Jug Bands," which takes place in Minneapolis every weekend after the Superbowl. I picked up jug band versions of "Kung Fu Fighting" by a group called Girls on Top and the Rolling Stones classic "Sweet Virginia" -- a natural for a jug band treatment -- by Hoakim Yoakim & The Eggwhites. More on this album next month.

Current surf bands I like include:

The Thunderchiefs 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUzsXvHVTjU

The Mobsmen 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt4tPLo3dxM

The Reluctant Aquanauts 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kixLfULt_FY

Looove Nobunny!

~ Lester

Ha, that's funny. Well played, sir, well played. Goner is just the lucky bastard of a label that scooped him up because they were smart enough to know they were onto something good.

kopper said:

Oh sure, not just because he's on Goner. Riiiiiiight.

Oh sure, not just because he's on Goner. Riiiiiiight.

I am kinda turning into a fan of Nobunny, and not just because he's on Goner. 

 

You might like this article:

 

http://www.goner-records.com/Nobunny/NOBUNNY-THRASHER-March2011-72big.jpg

 

I held out until I could listen to Depp and the English dude read the book to me while I drive around in my truck. Man, does he ever slam Brian Jones. That's where I'm at. I liked the London Blitz childhood shit too.

Oh, and fuck Phil Spector anyway.

BTW, I just finished the next chapter in which Keith writes about the Stones' first American tour, and how he did end up sleeping with Ronnie Spector after all (Good for him!).

 

 

I've read it, and it's quite good. The writer Richards enlisted clearly captured Richards' "voice" throughout the text, sometimes even including a few repetitious verbal tics. Like many biographies of this type, the least well-known details of the subject's life - childhood - are among the most fascinating. Richards also presents himself as more of a serial monogamist than a womanizer, unlike Bill Wyman, whose book "Stone Alone" consists largely of a full accounting of every groupie he ever encountered and every dollar he made (or was cheated out of). For a book of this length, I came away from it thinking it could have been at least twice as long because the most interesting parts to me were Keith's comments on the Stones' own music and recording sessions, and many of these were just treated in passing or ignored completely. As I would have expected, he gives the recording of "Exile on Main Street" a lot of attention because of the major influence he had on that album, but I would have like to read more about many of the other songs. But maybe leaving you wanting more is the sign of a good book, and for the most part "Life" is top-notch.

I just started on it, and I really like it.  I just finished the chapter on when the Rolling Stones toured England with the Ronnettes, and Keith writes about how he was in love with Ronnie Spector.  She liked him too, but nothing happened because she was with Phil Spector at the time (Enough said).  Keith wrote about how Ronnie was practically held prisoner by Phil, and how he would take her down into the basement of his LA home and show her a coffin, and he told her that she would end up in that coffin if she ever left him.  I'm glad Keith wrote about that, because it reminds me not to feel sorry for Spector now that he's in prison.  I don't care how much great music that man made, he is an asshole.

Ooops, if I had waited to reach "conscious competence", I would have never podcasted...(well of course, many think I should have never started but that's another discussion...).

 

I have never had the opportunity to broadcast live but I believe this is the REAL thing : fun, dangerous, thrilling and exciting !

And you can hear this ! When the hosts have fun, I believe the listeners have fun.

(That's why I record my stupid shows LIVE as if it was a live radio broadcast...for the better and the worst !

But, since it's a podcast, I'm able to cheat afterwards, equalize some volumes for example if necessary.)

 

So, as a show "producer", I'd say you can't beat live radio !

 

But as a listener, I'd say this to the radio show hosts : "PLEASE, PODCAST YOUR GREAT SHOWS so I can listen to them when and where I want, even if I live on the other side of the world !!!"

That's why Howie and Michael (and other great DJs and hosts) rule : they do both, record live on air then podcast the show !

As Mr Kaiser said : win-win !

 

 

DammitDave said:

I have reached the point of conscious incompetence with relative ease.  Once I reach conscious competence (maybe in a year or two), I'll consider doing a podcast on a regular basis.

I have reached the point of conscious incompetence with relative ease.  Once I reach conscious competence (maybe in a year or two), I'll consider doing a podcast on a regular basis.

Oh yeah, I love each and every podcast here for different reasons but it's true that some special episodes stand on top of the top of my personal top !

Which ones ? errr...I should have noted...

Oh, I remember an old all instrumental episode of FLYING SAUCER ROCK'N'ROLL or an old HOT SLOP rockabilly special episode for example but that was a long time ago...

I also remember a great episode of THE DESPERATE HOUR filled with wonderful 60s depressed garage tunes only and the surf episode of THE HAUNTED SHACK THEATER (#10) for example. 

And the episodes of THE GARAGEPUNK SURFCAST #12 and #8 hosted by Sharky von Gasser and...

Oh man, there are so many to list ! Once again they're all so great !!! ...I give up...

Anyway, my favorite episode is always the one I'm going to listen. It's so exciting to press play and discover a brand new GARAGEPUNK podcast ! Wow ! That blows my mind everytime !

swt said : "Anyone who listens to ALL the shows has a lot more free time than I do."

 

I usually listen to one show a day (while driving to work or in my bathroom, trying to make myself look like a decent man when I was born as ugly as your worst nightmare) and I'm usually able to listen to them all, even if I'm a bit late !

And I'm glad I can because picking just a few shows would be soooo frustrating since they're all soooo GREAT !

 

One more thing, each show is posted via the podcaster's own blog here in the HIDEOUT. And these blogs are tagged. Could be a way too pick more easily what you're looking for...

 

PLUS: The others are right :)

Yeah, he did the Caveman Digest, too. I'd forgotten about that! I think I have everything except the Dutchess & the Duke record.

I've been trying to snag copies of Thee Flying Dutchmen's LP and the Zombie IV 7" for a few years. I finally had to settle for a burned copy of the former, although I loathe having a mere mp3 copy of anything.

 

Luckily before their demise, I was able to order the Sultanas, some F.F.F. vinyl and a few other things. Such a great label.

 

I found a zine called Caveman Digest that I think they put out, or had something to do with. I have a photocopy of it and would be happy to throw a copy someone's way.

Does anyone know whatever happened to Boom Boom Records? This was a great label that was releasing some killer lo-fi budget rock there for a while, but I haven't seen nor heard anything from Jesse Lortz or any of his bands (The Flying Dutchmen, The Fe Fi Fo Fums, The Sultanas and The Dutchess & The Duke) in a couple of years or so. The label's website is gone and the Boom Boom Party Records' Myspace page shows the last login there was 5/28/2009! I've even tried to email Jesse but never get any reply. It's like he fell off the face of the earth! WTF?

Back in the days when they were bad boys popping speed so they could play those eight hour sets in the clubs of Hamburg, not the cleaned up choir boys Brian Epstein turned them into.  I can understand that.

erin said:

i like the REALLY early stuff, like when they still wore leather jackets and had ducktails and covered chuck berry. i know some of that stuff is included in the anthology.

i like the REALLY early stuff, like when they still wore leather jackets and had ducktails and covered chuck berry. i know some of that stuff is included in the anthology.

This looks interesting to me http://www.yourwaytomusic.com/new-yardbirds-boxset-due-from-easy-action-records/

 

What do you guys think?

oh yeah !!!!

NUMBER 71 monobanda

this guy is really crazy, and i love him

 

tommominollo said:

NUMBER 71 MONOBANDA

is the fkng craziest one man band!

NUMBER 71 MONOBANDA

is the fkng craziest one man band!

Scion paid for them to record the album. Mick's influences are all over the place. This might get them some additional exposure that they deserve for the albums we all love. People like us will talk about it until the cows come home. Back in the mid 90s there was a tribute album to the Smith's performed by a bunch of knucklehead Hardcore bands. That got me to look at the Smith's a little differently. Hopefully if some Techno purists check this out they will like the Dirtbomb's a little more and who knows maybe the Dirtbomb's can convert a skinny jean wearing kid on this site to hit the dance clubs (god forbid!).