Not much to blab about this time. Not due to lethargy or lack of inspiration or work doodies for that matter, but perhaps ALL THREE OF 'EM mooshed together. However, rather'n throw in one of my standby specials so's I could get more time to beef the thing up (and really, it is too soon for yet another "Fanzine Fanabla") I thought I'd toss at'cha what was already on hand and let you pick through the chunks like a crow goin' after smashed up road carrion. There are some tasty bits here I will admit, 'specially the new Stooges live platter which is bound to brighten up any true rockist's week.
The Stooges-LIVE AT GOOSE LAKE, AUGUST 8TH, 1970 CD (Third Man Records)
Yep, this is the infamous Stooges gig that got Dave Alexander fired all done up in pretty good sound if that really did matter to you. It don't to me, in fact I played METALLIC KO just a few days back and still wonder how people could dismiss the rawness of this cassette-quality bootleg which brings out the better, more feral aspects of Stooge music (ditto for NIGHT OF THE IGUANA). Anyway, here's a prime example of the FUNHOUSE tour in all its glory with the noticable musical slip ups, a few tape gaffes here and there and an "LA Blues" that actually gets Archie Shepp r 'n b groove-like at the end, all done up with Iggy sounding as if there are more split ends on his nerves than on his hair. It sums up a whole lot more about what the sixties/seventies cusp meant to many-a-suburban slob than those Bobby Sherman records ya usedta cut outta the back of cereal boxes ever did!
Lloyd Thayer and Jerome Deupree-DUETS (Feeding Tube Records)
Drat it all if the hypesheet that came with this didn't hafta go mention the startling resemblance between these lap guitar/chaturangui ("a gorgeous 22-stringed instrument")/drum duets and those Sandy Bull/Billy Higgins "Blend" tracks that ended up on Bull's first two Vanguard spinners! Sheesh...that's the first thing that came into my mind when I spun this particular effort 'n I was gonna base my whole review around this mere fact! Oh well, maybe I still can...somehow. Let's just say that if you were one of those mid-sixties dorm room dwellers with a portable stereo and a handy connection and wasn't able to go home for the spring break boy, would you be in luck with this platter on your turntable and a haze of smoke around your head!
Thayer does his best to play that Bull-styled "world music" without succumbing to the gnu age tendencies of many a similar chord strummer, while that chaturangui thingie reminds me of one of those Indian music drone instruments...I think the veena if I'm not mistaken...as it bolsters up the guitar sound with a fine harp-like effect. Deupree doesn't quite measure up to Higgins' percussive standards but he does a better than you woulda thought job 'n I obviously ain't complainin'.
A surprisingly fresh effort here that I know won't get out to the masses like it should, but maybe the lucky enough ones to score this'll flash back to their own college days an' if so, lemme know where yer at so I can call the campus cops on ya!
Various Artists- PSYCHEDELIC ILLUSIONS : THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE VOLUME 4 CD-r burn (originally on Mystic Records, Sweden)
Sometimes I wish the entire psychedelic phenomenon of the late-sixties had never reared its trippy head and at others I'm so gosh darn glad it did. This is one of those releases featuring the music where I'm sure glad the likes of Owsley were created inna first place, even if none of the psychedelic sounds here woulda snuggled in well during one of those Grateful Dead "Dark Star" marathons that really got into it after a good two hours or so. (An' yeah, I will admit that I like that triple set 'un where some guy took hundreds of live "Dark Star"s and edited them into a new and rather powerful effort...I can get this way at times even without the lure of hippie worldvisions or lysergic stimuli for that matter!)
Anyway, here are a buncha pretty good efforts ranging from garage band thumpers to commercial pop tossouts, all of 'em worth at least one entry into your psyche during this stay on earth. Nice but I woulda preferred this to have presented in that old Moxie flat sound /worn source vinyl fashion which affected me in a cheap record player stuck inna basement sorta way.
Edison Electric Band-BLESS YOU DR. WOODWARD CD-r burn (originally on Cotillion Records)
Typically flaccid mid-seventies bargain bin stuffer material that manages to take the typical youth kultur musical moves of 1970 (when this atrocity was made) and make 'em sound even more tepid. The hippydippy name of these guys had me expectin' some late-sixties psychedelic swirls here and there but the Edison guys so nothin' but dish out the expected proto-yacht, blooze and rock jamz a whole lot worse'n even them hippies livin' in that old barn you weren't allowed to look at did. I guess back then just about everybody coulda gotten signed which leads to the question...why didn't the Magic Tramps?
The Rich Kids-BURNING SOUNDS CD-r burn (originally on Revola Records)
Hmm, pretty pow'rfull late-seventies English rock 'n roll best known for the bass work of one Glen Matlock, a person who quite a few people seem to hate for one strange reason or another. Usually this breed of power-pop usually doesn't get much spin-time on the ol' BLOG TO COMM turntable but man, it sure does make for a great change from the usual supermarket jive that gets passed off as new and daring in these post-teenage consciousness days. Boy will this bring back memories of those kids razzin' ya for liking that insidious punk rock music ('n I should know!).
Various Artists-TROPICANA SHANGHAI HORNET CD-r burn (Bill Shute)
A sorta mid-tempo "Virtual Floor Sweeping" here with the expected gunk 'n junk one would expect Bill to shovel my way. Good stuff here too from a version of the old GREEN HORNET tee-vee show theme to some old radio ads and surfoid paens to tires. Of course if you miss watching Sammy Davis Jr. singing "Can't Take My Eye(s) Off Of You" on a variety of mid-seventies talk shows you can hear Pepe Jaramillo Latinize it for your dining and dancing pleasure. Or for that matter an unknown act do their faithful version of the Bell Notes' "I've Had It"! Be on the lookout for a rare radio clip featuring future radio legend John Peel back when he was John Ravenscroft on KOMA plugging the likes of Snotty and the Nose Pickers!
***In other news...HERO OF THE YEAR! Well, at least he is until someone out there tops him which I sincerely doubt will not happen for quite awhile. I'm talkin' 'bout Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenbo who had the testicles to mow down three of those precious antifa types who were runnin' after him with the intent to kill and got their just desserts many times over! Stories like this really do warm the cockles of my heart if only because for YEARS people who are supposed to know better 'n the rest of us keep telling us to restrain ourselves whether we're being robbed, beaten or killed lest we make the situation worse, and here comes an everyday sorta kid who proved all those experts wronger 'n wrong with his courage and abilities to take a bad situation and turn the tables on the aggressors. And the people he offed were the kind of miscreants who deserved it judging from their criminal raps---convicted kiddie diddler and violent felon types among their no-longer evolving police records thanks to the courage of Kyle! I sure like it when some guy outta nowhere makes his way into the spotlight and PROVES GANDHI WAS WRONG ALL ALONG!
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| Found this while looking for other things...thought it was good enough to share even if more than a few of you regular readers will probably be offended due it hitting rather CLOSE TO HOME, ifyaknowaddamean... |
***As usual, thanks go to Feeding Tube Records, Bill Shute, Paul McGarry and all of you bright and shining feces who tune in to this blog whenever a new post arises. Sometimes I think I couldn't do it without you, but then again I think maybe I can but I sure as heck don't wanna find out so keep on keepin' on as that old song said!
Yep, this is the infamous Stooges gig that got Dave Alexander fired all done up in pretty good sound if that really did matter to you. It don't to me, in fact I played METALLIC KO just a few days back and still wonder how people could dismiss the rawness of this cassette-quality bootleg which brings out the better, more feral aspects of Stooge music (ditto for NIGHT OF THE IGUANA). Anyway, here's a prime example of the FUNHOUSE tour in all its glory with the noticable musical slip ups, a few tape gaffes here and there and an "LA Blues" that actually gets Archie Shepp r 'n b groove-like at the end, all done up with Iggy sounding as if there are more split ends on his nerves than on his hair. It sums up a whole lot more about what the sixties/seventies cusp meant to many-a-suburban slob than those Bobby Sherman records ya usedta cut outta the back of cereal boxes ever did!
***
Drat it all if the hypesheet that came with this didn't hafta go mention the startling resemblance between these lap guitar/chaturangui ("a gorgeous 22-stringed instrument")/drum duets and those Sandy Bull/Billy Higgins "Blend" tracks that ended up on Bull's first two Vanguard spinners! Sheesh...that's the first thing that came into my mind when I spun this particular effort 'n I was gonna base my whole review around this mere fact! Oh well, maybe I still can...somehow. Let's just say that if you were one of those mid-sixties dorm room dwellers with a portable stereo and a handy connection and wasn't able to go home for the spring break boy, would you be in luck with this platter on your turntable and a haze of smoke around your head!
Thayer does his best to play that Bull-styled "world music" without succumbing to the gnu age tendencies of many a similar chord strummer, while that chaturangui thingie reminds me of one of those Indian music drone instruments...I think the veena if I'm not mistaken...as it bolsters up the guitar sound with a fine harp-like effect. Deupree doesn't quite measure up to Higgins' percussive standards but he does a better than you woulda thought job 'n I obviously ain't complainin'.
A surprisingly fresh effort here that I know won't get out to the masses like it should, but maybe the lucky enough ones to score this'll flash back to their own college days an' if so, lemme know where yer at so I can call the campus cops on ya!
***
Sometimes I wish the entire psychedelic phenomenon of the late-sixties had never reared its trippy head and at others I'm so gosh darn glad it did. This is one of those releases featuring the music where I'm sure glad the likes of Owsley were created inna first place, even if none of the psychedelic sounds here woulda snuggled in well during one of those Grateful Dead "Dark Star" marathons that really got into it after a good two hours or so. (An' yeah, I will admit that I like that triple set 'un where some guy took hundreds of live "Dark Star"s and edited them into a new and rather powerful effort...I can get this way at times even without the lure of hippie worldvisions or lysergic stimuli for that matter!)
Anyway, here are a buncha pretty good efforts ranging from garage band thumpers to commercial pop tossouts, all of 'em worth at least one entry into your psyche during this stay on earth. Nice but I woulda preferred this to have presented in that old Moxie flat sound /worn source vinyl fashion which affected me in a cheap record player stuck inna basement sorta way.
***
Typically flaccid mid-seventies bargain bin stuffer material that manages to take the typical youth kultur musical moves of 1970 (when this atrocity was made) and make 'em sound even more tepid. The hippydippy name of these guys had me expectin' some late-sixties psychedelic swirls here and there but the Edison guys so nothin' but dish out the expected proto-yacht, blooze and rock jamz a whole lot worse'n even them hippies livin' in that old barn you weren't allowed to look at did. I guess back then just about everybody coulda gotten signed which leads to the question...why didn't the Magic Tramps?
***
Hmm, pretty pow'rfull late-seventies English rock 'n roll best known for the bass work of one Glen Matlock, a person who quite a few people seem to hate for one strange reason or another. Usually this breed of power-pop usually doesn't get much spin-time on the ol' BLOG TO COMM turntable but man, it sure does make for a great change from the usual supermarket jive that gets passed off as new and daring in these post-teenage consciousness days. Boy will this bring back memories of those kids razzin' ya for liking that insidious punk rock music ('n I should know!).
***
A sorta mid-tempo "Virtual Floor Sweeping" here with the expected gunk 'n junk one would expect Bill to shovel my way. Good stuff here too from a version of the old GREEN HORNET tee-vee show theme to some old radio ads and surfoid paens to tires. Of course if you miss watching Sammy Davis Jr. singing "Can't Take My Eye(s) Off Of You" on a variety of mid-seventies talk shows you can hear Pepe Jaramillo Latinize it for your dining and dancing pleasure. Or for that matter an unknown act do their faithful version of the Bell Notes' "I've Had It"! Be on the lookout for a rare radio clip featuring future radio legend John Peel back when he was John Ravenscroft on KOMA plugging the likes of Snotty and the Nose Pickers!
***Perhaps some of you readers are wond'rin' why I never received any really heartfelt accolades from the rock screeding set, no awards to proudly place upon my mantle or plaques to hang upon my fart-encrusted walls. Well, buy a few of these BLACK TO COMM back issues and read for yourself why I was voted worst rock writer a good twennysome years inna row! Somehow I believe the tallies were rigged by that's besides the point...
Kyle did nothing wrong.
ReplyDeleteI know...that was the point of my screed!
ReplyDeleteThat "did nothing wrong" may not help him much as he spends the next 20 years being raped in prison, but apparently a lot of Trumpstains are drawn to that fate. A stupid little fat kid whose masculinity resides in his gun and who bought the Deluxe Version of Trump's Bullshit.
ReplyDeleteSad.
You really do have a fixation with prison rape. I do hope it is not some sort of "projection"...
ReplyDeleteWhat do YOU think is going to happen to a 5'3" 17 year old chubster in prison, Stigs? You think he's just going to play video games all day?
ReplyDeleteI'll look into The Rich Kids, Chris! Keep 'em comin'!
ReplyDeleteCheers!
Actually I think he's gonna go free. Smart kid who knows how to handle one of those things.
ReplyDeleteThe fat little dope couldn't get into the Marines. The recruiter probably couldn't stop laughing.
ReplyDeleteAlright then sir. As much as you have said and promoted cool rock stuff, consider me stepping off the BTC train. Kirk Rittenhouse is a sadly diseased, gaslit and idiotly led teenager. Maybe kinda like you in Sharon? I worry if the world were exposed to you holding an AR15. Seriously. Honestly, how much of an asshat can you pre sent yourself as before the real world comes steaming in?
ReplyDeleteYou are a dude with great musical taste, but at the end of the day, honestly... an asshat. Do you think that sad idiot kid with a gun no parent should allow a kid to have knew who was pursuing him? He shot first and said as much,you dumbfuck.They were trying to stop him and after there was shooting at people clearly 30 ft away. Then the cops and tanks let him go.
ReplyDeleteHonestly Chris: I have put up with your contrarian bullshit for years because of your taste. Honestly, I pity you and your earflap hat, and am done. Go give Morrissey a ringing of the doorbell for all I care for your opinions.
Except kill three people.
ReplyDeleteYou really are an asshole, gone into some kind of urinary tract.
ReplyDeleteI'm out. To date to defend the indefensible, the brat with a gun he never should have possessed in the first place. Sorry. You are a man with great artistic taste,and thx for letting us knowabout Clevo, but 99 percent of the people whose music you admire would even walk away from your opinions. Enjoy your basement and hat with earflaps in summertime.
ReplyDeleteBaboon Dooley laughs at you, if he existed. Much like your fanbase.
Sans regardez, ml heath
I love watching the video where Kyle sprays the commie's arm. The little pansy goes even more limp wristed.
ReplyDeleteThen he's crying for his mommy. Awww! Does it hu't? Poor snookums.
"They didn't tell me revolution would be this hard! This isn't like my video games! Wah!"
Poor little faggot... looking for a kiss!
One, two, many Kyles!
The only good Red is a dead un!
Chris, I gave The Rich Kids a listen. Not bad, but, IMHO, not up to, say, The Raspberries, The Records, The Jam, Bram Tchaikovsky, Eddie & The Hot Rods, The Knack.
ReplyDeleteStill, I'll see what's available. Too much power pop ain't enough!
Cheers!
Uh Mike, I guess this isn't the best time to see if I can get any VINTAGE VIOLENCE back issues from ya!
ReplyDeleteAlas, Kyle only ak-shully killed two, not three. The third was, alas, only wounded.
ReplyDeleteStill, good on th' kid! Defended himself from murderous Antifa fags!
YAY!
According to the underrated Jim Goad, Mr. Rittenhouse blew the bicep off the arm the convicted felon was hold his gun with! But I can see how a few misguided souls would have sympathy for those selfless antifa types!
ReplyDeleteThey were going to kill him, FFS! You are allowed to shoot back in self defense!
ReplyDeleteGoodbye idiots, and good on you Chris.
Kyle will go free for sure, if its up to a jury of his peers.
Since Brexit / Trump 2016, a lot of people who I used to admire now seem to have gone batshit insane. It's truly disappointing, but I suppose we're better of knowing who are ensnared in the cult of woke derangement syndrome.
Thank fuck for B2C.
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.
ReplyDeleteGood goin', Kyle!
Kyle cried himself to sleep last night. As Chris Farley sang, "Fat boy in a little cell."
ReplyDeleteI'd be cryin' if I were in a cell...with you!
ReplyDeleteNah, you wouldn't. Sure, I could beat the living snot out of you with one hand tied behind my back, but why would I? Unless I got sick of you singing "The Horst Wessel Song," that is.
ReplyDeleteHowzbout givin' us a verse of "The Internationale" MLJ?
ReplyDeleteIt’s 2020, and Nazi dumbfucks still think anyone to the left of Julius Streicher is a Communist.
ReplyDeleteUsing your own analogy, it's 2020 and leftists still think that anyone right of Rosa Luxembourg is a fascist!
ReplyDeleteNo, but anyone aligned with Trump IS a fascist.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile a video has shown up showing Kyle beating up a woman, which fits in perfectly with the Proud Boys/BTC/incel vibe. Some hero you’ve got there, Stigs.
...and, once the smoke clears and all of what really occurred is brought to light...yes.
ReplyDeleteHey! Homo Larry and Chrissie! Rent a room! Save your passion for a private place!
ReplyDeleteWhy you no have zee review of zee Ritchie Valens?
ReplyDeleteStigs hearts Q!
ReplyDeleteHaven't seen the vid but if the woman got beat up well, I hope she remains in critical condition for a loooong time!
ReplyDeleteIn other news Moe, it looks as if your favorite movie has been released on DVD---https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/friedkin-william-cruising-dvd/AV.309DVD.html
ReplyDeleteNever saw that, Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteI suppose you enjoy beating off to Abu Ghraib porn. You moronic son of a shitbucket and a cumrag... Which one do you call your mom?
A new BTC/Burning Cat Fur/Jewamongyou/KKK "hero" has emerged, folks. He's Michael Cremen, an exceptionally stupid paste-factory from Buffalo, NY. Google Michael and watch his star turn. Just another well-balanced Trumpstain.
Somehow I get the feeling that the BLM guys started it. As if I can trust these news releases written before the actual story comes to light...
ReplyDeleteAnd then one day, for no reason whatsoever, the people of Germany...
ReplyDeleteStigs always blames everything on the black guys or the liberals. Who knew the Klan was so influential in Hermitage?
ReplyDeleteHey Moe, I'm gonna let you have THE LAST WORD! Boy, aren't you proud, you witty little bomb-tossin' proud antifa front line street fightin' example of manliness! Now get lost.
ReplyDeleteCabbage and salt.
ReplyDeleteTHE KKK WAS DEMONRATS!!!
ReplyDeleteDEMONRATS ARE THE REAL RACISTS!!!
FDR WAS A KLEAGLE!!!
MAGA!!! KAG!!!
FIGHT RACISM!!! TRUMP 2020!!!
MLJ, add some corned beef and maybe I'll stay for supper.
ReplyDeleteSo... Homo Larry is the wifey. Stiggy is the hubby.
ReplyDeleteNot that it's a BAAAAD thing! Hey, it is perfectly normal!
Have fun, fellas! But use protection!
Michael Karmo and Cody Smith, two more Nazi genius heroes. Why can’t these dipshits get jobs or girlfriends? How many cigarettes will they be traded for in the Big House?
ReplyDeleteHa fucking ha, losers.
Too bad...they didn't succeed.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, Stigs. Soon they will suck seed many times a day.
ReplyDeleteThat's what fat, stupid white supremacists DO in prison.
Hey, a Curly Howard quote, sorta!
ReplyDeleteWhich reminds me...how many cigarettes were you traded for?
Sheesh.
ReplyDelete