tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481894318711627292024-02-28T18:43:30.172-05:00Robert JazRobert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.comBlogger137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-2135168805573038622019-03-19T00:11:00.011-04:002023-08-16T14:10:01.604-04:00THE FLESHTONES’ THE WHEEL OF TALENT: WHERE EVERY SPIN IS A WIN — An Interview with Peter Zaremba.<h2 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: none; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">The Fleshtones’ <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wheel Of Talent </em> (Yep Roc Records 2014) is an album that has stayed near the top of my favorite sounds pile for the entire first half of this year, and it shows no sign of stopping that spin cycle anytime soon — <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">if ever.</em></span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">As resplendently crafted as albums can be, it still retains all the trademarks of what makes any Fleshtones album worthy: It is a chock-full barrel of potential Top-Ten hit songs and would-be chartbusters, or at least it is in the alternate cultural universe that I’ve chosen to call my listening world.</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">For myself and other fans with similar musical appreciations, this is a world where The Fleshtones truly are the legendary <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Solid Gold Sound</em> hit makers that their own self-labeled title “Super Rock” perfectly describes — a sound that is a specialty brew of <span style="border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">raucous </span>soul, rock and roll, trashy Farfisa organ, garage rock, fuzz punk, and funky glam.</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Into their fourth decade as a band, I have enjoyed The Fleshtones both on record and live for years, and even had a chance to have my band open for them years ago once in New London, CT at the famed <em style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">El & Gee Club. </em>This was a brief period for the band that saw Fred Smith from Television (!) filling in as their bass player. I recall spending most of the night talking to the extremely laid back Mr. Smith and marveling at how he managed to reluctantly join <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The ‘Tones</em> in their typical stage antics such as a human pyramid, spinning around and getting low on the dance floor — standing in those “Cold Cold Shoes” indeed.</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Fans of the band who has seen The Fleshtones live, know that they always have been and <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">still</em> are one of the greatest acts live acts ever, and in my opinion that includes going up against anyone past or present.</span><br />
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Appearing alongside such luminaries as The Chesterfield Kings, The Fuzztones, The Plimsouls and Rain Parade on the essential Rhino box set<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161006010427/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Nuggets:_Original_Artyfacts_from_the_Second_Psychedelic_Era,_1976%E2%80%931995" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="color: black;">Children Of Nuggets</span></em></a>, and in the seminal 1981 concert film <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Urgh! A Music War,</span></em> The Fleshtones have a stellar legacy and continue to roam the planet recording and performing live as if they were missionaries for what I like to think of as a part of the great C<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">aravan Of Cool.</em></span><br />
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #444444;">— Keith Streng: A true <i>Super Rock Living Legend!</i></span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">What Little Steven Van Zandt has since coined <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161006010427/http://undergroundgarage.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #0c9e0a; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Underground Garage</em></a>, this caravan is a vast cadre of musicians, singers, bands, DJ’s, studio engineers and record labels that are dedicated to and continue to carry the torch of everything that is exciting ROCK and ROLL and all the permutations that Rock’s history encompasses.</span><br />
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">While <em style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Underground Garage</em> umbrella term is a perfect match for 60’s originated garage rock and all its related forms, so too does it manage to accommodate other musical styles and genres: great soul and r&b, psychedelic jewels, glam rock, power pop, proto punk, 1st generation punk rock — hell, even a little <em style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rat Pack</em> crooner swagger makes it into the mix. A band as genre defining as The Ramones shares equal space with James Brown and many other musical giants of all sounds and sizes. Along with these legends and unknown legends are the equally gigantic number of songs by decades of various artists that The Fleshtones themselves have covered over the years — a number that reaches into the hundreds!</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">The Fleshtones’<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Wheel of Talent</em> was previewed on Record Store Day’s Black Friday of 2013, with a 7″ for the first single (and lead off song) from the album: a song called “Available.”</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">This Keith Streng beauty showcases a sublime string section and lyrical observations that question how much emotional content actually exists in social media’s omnipresence where every twit has to let everyone else know the minutiae of their day 24/7. Striking me immediately was the song’s departure from anything the band had done before. This was a hint that here would be an album that was not intended to be a mere replication of their music performed live, but a bonafide listening album experience as well.</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">As this first track indicated, my theory was confirmed when I finally heard the entire <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wheel of Talent</em> album and I knew that The Fleshtones were not taking an easy route to album making. Instead, while still capturing their trademark “Living Legends” top shelf live performance excitement, they have delivered the jackpot. Listening to this album as much as I have now, it already seems like a collection of greatest hits, and that is said without any hyperbole, as each track soars like a collection of singles with no misfires from beginning to end.</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">The LP kicks off with the aforementioned “Available,” whirls into the careening tornado rocker “What You’re Talking About,” then gyrates into the autobiographical instant classic, “It is As It Was.”</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">This song is a superbly fitting tribute (and now a bit poignant, especially in light of the last original Ramone, Tommy’s recent passing) from guys who were there in the nascent days of the NYC punk rock scene. Chances are good that it will remain a live staple in every Fleshtones’ setlist.</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Had enough zip by the fourth track? No rest for the weary as it’s time for Keith Streng’s “Roofarama,” an album highlight of incendiary rock and roll that skyrockets the listener into the cosmos with very wild Streng string action. It’s kind of like an atom bomb T Rex.</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">From this point on <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wheel Of Talent</em> showcases a high quotient — <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">make that a brainiac level</em> — in variety of styles and moods: 60’s Carnaby Street fashion eccentricity in “The Right Girl,” a lovingly sentimental sing-along, “What I’ve Done Before,” hauntingly beautiful Baroque art rock elegance on the string laden “How To Say Goodbye” and then it’s deservedly a woman’s, woman’s, woman’s world for the campfire acoustic guitar strumming and bongo delight delivered by Mary Huff (of Southern Culture On The Skids) as she takes a lead vocal spotlight on “Just For A Smile.”</span><br />
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">“For A Smile” was also released as a single, <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Fleshtones featuring Mary Huff</em> although Peter Zaremba preferred it had been released as <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mary Huff and The Fleshtones.</em></span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #444444;">This 7″ was sold on the</span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><em style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mondo Zombie Boogaloo Tour</em><span style="color: #444444;">, a 2013 Fall tour dream come true extravaganza that featured The Fleshtones,</span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161006010427/http://www.scots.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">Southern Culture On The Skids</span></a><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">and</span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161006010427/http://www.straitjackets.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">Los Straitjackets</span></a><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">sharing a bill to support their outstanding Halloween compilation of the same name.</span></span><br />
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Somber frustration, bitter questioning and sadness in what seems to be dealing with the aftermath that comes from the death of a loved one might be a departure in lyrical content from any past Fleshtones song, but in “Stranger In My House” Keith Streng manages to turn the emotions into a powerful original work that reminds me of some of the greatest songwriting that you might find in the brilliant country and western writing of say Johnny Cash or George Jones. Yet another middle finger to all Fleshtones’ detractors who have pigeonholed the band for years as lightweight party, good time Charlies with no sense of depth.</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Another strength the Fleshtones have always had is reworking covers to make them their own, especially when it comes to taking some classic 60’s garage fuzz and giving it the <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rock en Español </em>treatment as they do on the Music Machine’s “I See The Light” which the band has covered for years and now has turned into the fantastic “Veo la Luz.” Who ever said these alchemists can’t turn gold into a diamond?</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">“Hipster Heaven” does indeed recall The Fleshtones of old in its speed trials pep and a healthy dose of snappy sarcasm and the final LP track, “Tear For A Tear,” closes the album with a great early 60’s sounding upbeat chestnut. The song seems to be modeled after something that might have appeared in the Kim Fowley songbook with lover’s revenge lyrics like “I’m gonna make you cry, until your eyes run dry, I’m gonna make you pay, baby baby, tear for a tear.”</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">The Fleshtones are truly one of the greatest bands on the planet. They are still approachable, funny and have an ability to turn out a gem of an album such as <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wheel Of Talent.</em> There are no bad albums or bad live shows by The Fleshtones, just varying degrees of exclamatory, celebratory superlatives. They are a band that brings a smile and a resounding “Wow!! I love those guys!” by countless strangers who happen to see me wearing one of their T-shirts.</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><em style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Handsome Dick Manitoba</em><span style="color: #444444;">, who is none other than the legendary iconic frontman for the seminal CBGB’s band, The Dictators (now touring and recording as </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161006010427/http://thedictatorsnyc.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">The Dictators NYC</span></a><span style="color: #444444;"> ) — an incredible group who always do an outstanding cover of The Fleshtones’ “American Beat” in their live sets as well — gave me some beautiful, admiration filled words about The Fleshtones:</span></span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="border: 0px; color: #3e454c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The Fleshtones to me embody what a truly great rock ‘n roll band should be all about. They love what they do and they’re going to do what they do regardless. They will make records, they will play live, they will travel and entertain the masses. I love them, I respect them, I admire them.”</span><br />
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #444444;">Then there is “The Professor” Mighty Manfred, the microphone stand twirling, tambourine shaking, energy bolt / frontman for the astoundingly explosive rock and soul danceathon foursome from Georgia, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161006010427/http://www.thewoggles.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">The Woggles</span></a><span style="color: #444444;">, who had this to say about The Fleshtones:</span></span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="border: 0px; color: #3e454c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Jon Landau once said something to the effect of ‘The Remains are how you told a stranger about rock and roll.’ To me, The Fleshtones are how you get that stranger to listen to and love rock and roll.”</span><br />
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">I had the honored opportunity to talk with Peter Zaremba a bit about <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wheel of Talent</em> as well as a few other Fleshtones related topics…</span><br />
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<li style="border: 0px; color: #444444; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">RJ: For a year or more you guys have been doing a live <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wheel Of Talent</em> shtick in your shows, where did this originate and how did that become the title of your new album?</span></li>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">PZ: The<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Wheel Of Talent</em> just sort of happened during a show. All sorts of unplanned things happen when we are on stage. We started spinning around and when we stopped, I pointed to who would sing the next song. Hence the <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wheel Of Talent</em>. I think Keith said it would be be a good title for our new album.</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; color: #444444; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">RJ: Instead of individual songwriting credits, all the songs on <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wheel Of Talent</em> say written by The Fleshtones. Is this album more of a group writing effort?</span></li>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">PZ: No song writing credits, really? Well, it’s usually a group effort as far as arranging stuff but these days we usually bring more or less completed songs to the band. We don’t have the time hanging around together like we had at the ‘house’ or the ‘music building’. That said, The Fleshtones’ stamp gets smeared over every tune!</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; color: #444444; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">RJ: I really admire the use of strings on “Available” and “How To Say Goodbye.” Immediately I heard a Roy Wood of The Move (and the first Electric Light Orchestra album) thing going on, where it’s a heavy cello /violin, rock kind of presence. At a live show recently, Keith Streng told me that was in fact, his intention. So is expanding The Fleshtones’ sonic palette, something we can look forward to with future recordings?</span></li>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">PZ: Yes indeed it was Keith’s intention to use strings in the Roy Wood manner, that is as a rock component and not to ‘sweeten’ a song. I think it worked great. It’s fun to finally be able to do things in the studio that we always wanted to do, and have it turn out right! As far as a new direction, We shall see. Perhaps we shall react against this and go super-heavy on the next album.</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; color: #444444; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">RJ: For “The Right Girl” I was trying to figure out your vocal style. I heard a non-monster, wealthy actor Boris Karloff in a smoking jacket, sitting by a fireplace in his home library thing, which is a compliment. You told me recently, it was you channeling early David Bowie, channeling Anthony Newley. I really love the song. Why did you come up with this vocal for that song?</span></li>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">PZ: Haha! I wasn’t thinking of Karloff but that’s great. I WAS thinking of a Spanish-speaking Karloff, or at least a Bobby Pickett, when I did the Spanish vocal for Lost Straitjackets’ ‘Que Monstruos Son’ on the <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mondo Zombie Boogaloo</em> LP, Now, back to ‘The Right Girl,’ yes indeed Bowie channeling Newley as he did on his early recordings, or even more channeling Gene Pitney in his super self-pitying lyric style. For a while we used to play his recording of ‘Back Stage’ after each of our shows, the outer limits of his weepy self pity. We should start doing that again. Anyway, this song just came to me fully-formed while I was dusting our bedroom, fake Gene Pitney/Bowie/Newley voice and all. Maybe I should dust more often. The room could use it!</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; color: #444444; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">RJ: “It Is As It Was” has become the new theme for The Fleshtones, (based on Joe Bonomo’s superb bio, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161006010427/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sweat-The-Story-of-The-Fleshtones-Americas-Garage-Band/114016448682198" style="border: 0px; color: #0c9e0a; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones</em>, <em style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">America’s Garage Band</em></a>). You all must be big fans of the book to celebrate it in song?</span></li>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">PZ: Well, as I tell people who ask me to sign the book, I’m just a character in it, like having Winnie The Pooh sign a book or something. That said, of course I get off on the fact that people write books about me, even if I have to be in The Fleshtones for 38 years for them to do it. It Is As It Was!</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">PZ: Haha, once again, this was something that popped into my head at an unlikely time, in this case mowing a big lawn. By the time I finished the lawn, I had the whole song, after all, it’s just the story of us going to see the Ramones and what that meant to us at the time.</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">PZ: We couldn’t be happier, Yep Roc is the best!! Music fans they are, which is their key to success, if not ours. In fact, we met the Yep Roc guys when they were still in college, They had hired us for an all out ‘Animal House’ style frat party at their school. In the course of the night, Glenn Dicker said his dream was to someday start a record label so he could sign bands like us.</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">PZ: I never noticed that. I thought people were just laughing. They also like the clapping part. But making out? I’m impressed! Anyway, that is from one of my favorite Fleshtones’ albums, ‘<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">More Than Skin Deep.</em>‘</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; color: #444444; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">RJ: In my opinion, bassist Ken Fox’s song “Better Days” (also from <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">More Than Skin Deep</em>) is a classic song and up there with all the greatest Fleshtones’ songs. Could he be the George Harrison of the band, just waiting to break out with a triple album masterpiece?</span></li>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">PZ: He might make that triple album sooner than we think. At any rate, his songs are a great addition to Fleshtones’ LPs. People, me in fact, can only take so much of Streng and myself screaming before they need some relief. He should come up with more tunes!</span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">PZ: Future goals? Now that it’s so much fun to do, we’d like to make more records. Also like to play the many parts of the world that we have yet to perform in like Japan and Russia (although I have </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;">performed</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> twice in Russia with The Cavestompers), as well as return to Mexico. And the box set? Sure, that would be nice. We’ll start with trying to get our Ichiban albums like </span></span><em style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Powerstance, Forever Fleshtones</em><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> and </span></span><em style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">More Than Skin Deep</em><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">, re-issued. That would be a start. Let the wheel of talent spin! Thanks for the great questions and see you…!</span></span></span></div>
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<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">You can also support The Fleshtones at their <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161006010427/https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Fleshtones-Official/177240861436" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">official Facebook page.</span></a></span></div>
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Opening act for the guaranteed great time that is The Raveonettes, which features the incredible talents of Sune Rose Wagner and his partner Sharin Foo, was a band listed with the equally cool and intriguing moniker, Melody's Echo Chamber.<br />
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We had no idea who they were or what they would sound like.<br />
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As Melody's Echo Chamber took to the stage, it was brought to my attention by my girlfriend that the barefooted lead singer/front woman had “really good bangs, but not just bangs—French girl bangs!”<br />
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It turned out that she actually was a French girl named Melody Prochet, and was virtually a solo artist that had put together this band for touring behind her first album, <i>Melody's Echo Chamber</i>.<br />
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In 2010, Melody Prochet had originally released an album in France under the project name My Bee's Garden (her first band was called Narcoleptic Dancers) called <i>Hunt The Sleeper</i>.<br />
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The album is a nice selection of dreamy, hazy psychedelic pop tracks that instantly showcased what a wonderful voice Prochet has. She toured Europe behind the album, opening for Australian psychedelic groove rock band Tame Impala, who had been an out of the box indie favorite, with their early singles and debut album<i>Innerspeaker</i>, also released in 2010 to widespread acclaim.<br />
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Tame Impala is primarily the project of Kevin Parker, who masterminds a masterful accumulation of influences that is at at times Pink Floyd meets Cream meets Krautrock. A blend of acidic space rock that sonically, due to Parker's meticulously brilliant craftsmanship in the studio, whether it be lo-fi or on a larger budget, is among the more exciting listens happening in rock music today.<br />
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Melody Prochet recognized in Parker's sound something she was felt was lacking in her own recorded work, a gritty, effect pedal heavy, fuzzed out, hook-filled sound that jumped off speakers in much the same way that recalled the recordings of The Jimi Hendrix Experience or Pink Floyd.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Melody Prochet's dream becomes a reality.</td></tr>
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Parker collaborated with Prochet on songs she composed that would become her new 11 song debut album project, which she decided to call Melody's Echo Chamber, named after a dream she had where her bedroom was a great echo chamber that could create an infinite delay.<br />
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When I saw Prochet and her band live, it was before hearing the recorded album. There was no drummer, and there was little way of knowing that the opening act before The Raveonettes would be anything to rave on about almost a year later. Nevertheless, I was immediately smitten with Prochet's voice (not unlike another fave singer of mine, Claudine Longet), her exuberant dancing and barefoot stage presence—but above all, how her songs seemed to already be those of a certain top quality, like those of a long established act, and not merely the awkwardly mediocre type that can sometimes, unfortunately, beset the material of an unknown opening act.<br />
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Talking to Melody Prochet afterward the show, while I purchased her debut album at the merchandise table, I had to mention how I heard an underlying Serge Gainsbourg influence in her material.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Melody Prochet: Making the spirit of Serge Gainsbourg proud.</td></tr>
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I wasn't just picking one of the great French musical creators of all time from my <i>Mystery Box</i> hat with my statement, I actually felt that here was material that went deeper than any current musical trends and like Serge, I sensed that Prochet's scope of musical proficiency, growing up with the French “chanteuse” tradition, and doubtlessly, her background in classical training, all lead me to this conclusion.<br />
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Seemed to be on the money, as she happily agreed and said how she liked Serge very much.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><i>Melody's Echo Chamber,</i> the debut album.</td></tr>
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After taking home her debut album, <i>Melody's Echo Chamber,</i> and listening to it on a constant rotation for weeks afterwards, I was convinced that here was the debut of a future superstar that would go on to make many incredible albums.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">The first single from the album, “I Follow You.”</td></tr>
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Not only did the first track, “I Follow You” startle as an instantly memorable sounding single, but every track on the 44:33 minute album rewarded as a superb and special aural statement.<br />
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Utilizing Tame Impala's Kevin Parker as the producer and mixer for the album was something that could have easily overshadowed Prochet's songs and voice, but instead he has helped to create something that does not detract or bog things down into some murky and gray psychedelic stew, but rather creates interesting juxtapositions of sound, spaciously fascinating tonal complexities, and overall leaves you with as colorful and interesting an album of Krautrock/space rock/pop/psychedelia/easy listening music as you will have heard in a very long time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Melody Prochet contemplates the future sounds that lie beneath those groovy bangs.</td></tr>
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Even though many reviews will name-check the obvious groups that have explored similar sounds and styles such as Prochet—Stereolab, Broadcast, Air, Blonde Redhead and My Bloody Valentine—I really feel and hear that Prochet's material on the album has been influenced just as much by Serge Gainsbourg's explorations of musical trends in the great days of '60's Pop Art (for example, his work with France Gall, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin comes to mind) as well as Pink Floyd's exquisite melodicism that they had crafted on some of my favorite pre-<i>Dark Side Of The Moon</i> albums of theirs such as <i>More, Atom Heart Mother</i> and <i>Obscured By Clouds</i>.<br />
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Having an audio collaborator like Kevin Parker at Prochet's side, the pair should be able to continue to come up with work that is as exciting as their that of their many influences and musical heroes.<br />
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Meanwhile, with <i>Melody's Echo Chamber </i>such a stunning debut, Melody Prochet has all the makings of a future filled with high accolades, greater albums and tours and I'll make a guess, some acting future as well.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">For the record, I think Kevin Parker might be her boyfriend these days...sorry guys!</td></tr>
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A great accomplishment and one heck of a magnificent echo chamber indeed.<br />
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<i>Melody's Echo Chamber</i> is available through their label Fat Possum Records on LP, CD and download, and also at all fine purveyors of good music everywhere.<br />
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Robert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.com0Providence, RI, USA41.8239891 -71.41283429999998641.7293166 -71.574195799999984 41.9186616 -71.251472799999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-55297638095615733882013-10-08T00:19:00.000-04:002019-09-05T09:29:36.043-04:00ALL IN A LATHER: The Ritual Of Straight Razor Shaving Revealed!<div class="columns-inner" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; min-height: 0px;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq237ANJacOdutu2uh_UHu3ZwOl9VAL_muWzxkkGOpk-v84K1DPUW_c7FJPvDWzVmlvl-oQTpa3hp8LQsa1lzstMU8EdrbeAYigGX2R-Jnhjui2M6xPJW0JbR3GbR5eMfrjU-ml_bV4626/s1600/Shaving-Icon-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq237ANJacOdutu2uh_UHu3ZwOl9VAL_muWzxkkGOpk-v84K1DPUW_c7FJPvDWzVmlvl-oQTpa3hp8LQsa1lzstMU8EdrbeAYigGX2R-Jnhjui2M6xPJW0JbR3GbR5eMfrjU-ml_bV4626/s1600/Shaving-Icon-.jpg" /></a>It's something I choose to do everyday, and yet, it is also something that everyday fills me with reluctance, dread and contempt—<i>shaving my face.</i><br />
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There once was a time of youth where I could not wait for the day I could imitate my father who, his entire life spent beardless, would repeat his daily and seemingly magical ritual using strange instruments and groovy concoctions.</div>
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Tools and mixtures that belonged to a craft that had also been fueled by years of seeing the practice worked in popular culture, from <i>Bugs Bunny</i> to <i>The Three Stooges</i>, <i>The Flintstones</i> to <i>I Love Lucy, </i>my pop culture references on shaving were long and deeply ingrained.</div>
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For me, the fine art of shaving would at one time seem as desirous as that scene in Mario Bava's <i>Danger Diabolik</i>, where the anti-hero Diabolik swims around atop his bed with his girlfriend in a pool of cash.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">A memorable scene from <i>Danger Diabolik,</i> somehow worked into this piece on shaving.</td></tr>
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Sadly, the reality of years of shaving have never been so sweet, happy, nor fun.<br />
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In fact, it has been one of the daily chores of my life that has led me to seek out ways to get a better, less painful and more efficient shave.<br />
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Over the decades I have tried just about every new razor that technology has offered up.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">No expense spared, and all shaving ideas welcome.</td></tr>
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Everything from pricey electric models (like an equivalent to buying a stylish new sports car) to the latest multi-bladed, single battery operated, souped-up hot rod version. </div>
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Most have walked through my bathroom doorway with great fanfare and left with a humbled, cheap hang-over.<br />
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I know that growing a beard was not a solution to not shaving.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Mike Napoli of <i>The Boston Red Sox</i>. Beards are working well for much of the team in 2013.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">The greatest beard in the history of Major League Baseball belongs to pitcher Brian Wilson.<br />
Pretty great name to have as well!</td></tr>
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I had tried before on several occasions and it never worked out for me. Sure, growing facial hair continues to work splendidly for many folks as it has throughout history, but for myself, after a couple of weeks I always yearn to get back to the blade and the freshly clean, albeit freshly beaten up, feeling that my face prefers.</div>
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I did manage to have some fun when I decided to shave off a couple of weeks of beard though, trying different inappropriate looks and usually ending up with a nice Frank Zappa combination, or a creepy Fu Manchu styled mustache.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">The great Christopher Lee as, and sporting the diabolical <i>Fu Manchu.</i></td></tr>
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At other times I would go full speed down the path of horrific absurdity that leads to the finality of a no longer quite so cool Chaplinesque, simple square above the lip. Comedy is not always pretty.</div>
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Finally however, after years of curiosity regarding a different method of shaving, I was gifted with a "special treat"—my girlfriend offered to buy me an old fashioned, real-life, traditional straight razor shave, as implemented by an old fashioned, real-life, traditional barber in his old fashioned, real-life, traditional, striped barber pole and all, barber shop.<br />
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The shop resides a block away from our home. Owned by a Sicilian gentleman, Stefano, who, according to his web site, learned his trade and honed his skills in Southern Italy, arrived on Providence's East Side in 1966, and opened his shop Stefano's European Haircutters and Barber Salon, right near Mystery Box H.Q<i>.</i> in 1969.<br />
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Billed as "The Gentlemen's Traditional Barber Shop," it seemed like the perfect location for my first visit to a barbershop in decades, as I also have not visited any type of establishment for a hair cut in as many years.<br />
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A bit nervous as to just what was in store for me, assuming he would start in by yelling at me to get a hair cut, just as most of my family had done for years.<br />
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I entered the shop and immediately felt relaxed sitting among the bits of vintage memorabilia and standard Barbershop accouterments like the mad scientist-like cylinder containing the classic blue liquid that combs are dipped into a.k.a. the deadly disinfectant, <i>Barbicide.</i><br />
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For Stefano, a man who has probably seen and cut more hair in his career than home runs hit out of Fenway Park, this was just doubtlessly just another day at the office.<br />
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He sat me in one of his incredible, traditional vintage chairs, threw one of those white barber's capes over my clothes, fastened it at the neck, and asked me what I needed.<br />
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"My first straight razor shave!" I happily pronounced, trying my best not to seem like the complete rube off the street that I imagined I was anyways.<br />
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"Why did you pick now to get a shave?" He politely asked, Ah! I was positive now that I was indeed being set up for the hair cut verbal assault.<br />
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"I have always heard it is the best shave you can get, plus this was a gift."<br />
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He nodded and proceeded to take out one of the steaming hot white towels that he had been preparing in his steaming hot white towel preparation machine and placed it gently over my face.<br />
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I began to feel the vacation begin...<br />
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Next came the hot lather. If ever there was an invention that mankind could be proud of next to the automobile or airplane, it would have to be hot lather.<br />
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The straight razor itself was prepared on a stropping leather belt which is done by a barber before every shave he undertakes—you may have heard of honing, which is the unseen practice involving sharpening the knife on a stone, but stropping, which is usually done in front of a customer, gives the blade that extra-fine edge.<br />
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The shave itself was quietly done in tiny sections, with Stefano, utilizing what seemed like a surgeon's delicate finger technique, would tug a small area of skin and use short strokes.</div>
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As he went about his work, I drifted into a sea of calm relaxation. What probably took around ten minutes seemed like a long stroll in the gardens of <i>Downton Abbey.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>Once finished, Stefano worked a bit of soft talc onto my newly shaven face with little fanfare.<br />
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I felt as if I had been at a spa.<br />
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The cost of the shave was $20 but let me also give you this bit of advice, always remember an extra $5 tip should go to the guy that has held a razor to your throat.</div>
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As the old cliche goes, I know felt as if I had a face as smooth as a baby's butt, and with a spring in my step I headed out the door.<br />
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Further up the road, Emily, who gave me the gift of this shave, said she spotted a person from a distance happily strutting along.<br />
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As she got closer she realized it was me returning home from my special treat.<br />
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As she got even closer a look of horror appeared, it seemed I had cheerfully worn one of my fave shirts and I swear it was without really thinking about what it depicted—the three Hanson Brothers, dripping in blood as depicted in the film <i>Slapshot.</i><br />
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<i><br /></i>Well, at least there was no <i>Sweeney Todd</i> styled ending, and I can honestly say that if you have ever been curious, take the plunge and reward your face with an old fashioned, straight razor shave at a barber shop.<br />
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Oh and lastly, there was a time when our friend attempted to wait for her (now teenaged) son as he was getting a haircut at Stefano's shop.<br />
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As she sat down ready to flip through one of the many magazines piled up on a table, she was sternly chided by Stefano, "No women! No women!."<br />
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At that point an elderly customer arose from his chair and disgustedly stormed out the door.<br />
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For this piece, I decided to only show an exterior photo of Stefano's shop for fear that I might otherwise be intruding on this secret den of men—one never knows when I might need to return to the precise fingers that have the ability to deliver the best shave I have ever known.<br />
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Stefano's Barbershop now has two locations, the original operated by Stefano and his son Nunzio, and a newer location operated by his son, Stefano Angelo.<br />
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Robert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.com0Providence, RI, USA41.8239891 -71.41283429999998641.7293166 -71.574195799999984 41.9186616 -71.251472799999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-29349286688313560132013-10-08T00:16:00.000-04:002019-09-05T09:32:21.641-04:00Celebrating ESP-DISK' : 50 Years of Unimaginable Sounds – Imagined<div class="columns-inner" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; min-height: 0px;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtq3tewhqSmksG-LeqCa4UyqjxIHGzufqgUjOgGFiYrrGanKi8-fnrKMTvQdb3PakIToteIIQXSMYpsan9A0W-Qni34eleIPzJqmG4jDResFy4OKfh5rlmFUL0nDApuClMwqcKu1kCVGjw/s1600/Sun-Ra-1-Icon-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtq3tewhqSmksG-LeqCa4UyqjxIHGzufqgUjOgGFiYrrGanKi8-fnrKMTvQdb3PakIToteIIQXSMYpsan9A0W-Qni34eleIPzJqmG4jDResFy4OKfh5rlmFUL0nDApuClMwqcKu1kCVGjw/s1600/Sun-Ra-1-Icon-.jpg" /></a>In 1963 a record label began on the 12th floor of 156 Fifth Avenue in New York City by releasing its first LP.<br />
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Bernard Stollman, a 34 year old jazz fan with a law background, had been working with some rhythm and blues and jazz musicians, helping them with copyright and contract issues.<br />
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Stollman had also learned the "International Auxiliary Language," <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">Esperanto</a> and recorded an album of songs and poetry all spoken in Esperanto, which he had hoped would further promote the language.<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=448189431871162729" name="more"></a>Titled, <i>Ni Kantu en Esperanto</i>, Stollman decided to self-release his album on a record label that was named after the language itself, ESP-DISK'.<br />
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After the album was released, Stollman, with financial help <i>from</i> his parents, wanted to use ESP-DISK' as a label that could release other forms of non-commercial music, and experimental, little heard music.<br />
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Later in the year he ventured to Harlem and approached Albert Ayler, one of the earliest, most aggressive and primal, free jazz saxophone players of the early 60's about his wish to record him.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Albert Ayler's first masterpiece <i>Spiritual Unity,</i><br />
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Albert Ayler's LP <i>Spiritual Unity</i>, would become the 2nd release on ESP-DISK' as well as one of Ayler's most acclaimed albums. The record would garner attention around the improvisational free jazz world from the likes of Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane and give credibility to Stollman's new record label.<br />
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The flood gates would soon burst open as ESP-DISK' would record and release an astonishing 45 (!!) albums over the next 18 months.<br />
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With this insanely prolific schedule of releases, Stollman was building and giving the music world an empire of free jazz improvisational artists that, with only a couple of exceptions (Paul Bley and Ornette Coleman, who had already gained notoriety in the worlds jazz circles), were heretofore unknown and so far underground it was almost as if they were blasting their saxophones at the Earth's core.<br />
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So many of these early ESP-Disk' releases are now considered incredible classics that should be a part of every adventurous music fan's collection.<br />
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ESP-Disk' would not only embrace their beloved improvisational free jazz, but also release records by a few highly original, underground, experimental rock groups. appearing on the label were The Fugs, Pearls Before Swine, the Holy Model Rounders and The Godz.<br />
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At a time when the Vietnam War was polarizing America, these groups were highly critical of U.S. policies (as well as other average American attitudes) and used their songs as lyrical platforms to get their messages to listeners' ears. These bands quickly gained favor and notoriety throughout college campuses around the country due to this buzz, assuring that a few would even find their way to the top of the hit pop charts. the potential was that their LPs could even began to sell well for the record label.<br />
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During the mid-Sixties, New York City <i>Pop</i> artist Andy Warhol and his Factory studio denizens, especially as showcased by the now revered band Warhol touted, The Velvet Underground, would embrace and promote a polar opposite look, attitude and sound then what was quickly becoming the mainstream—that of the <i>Flower Power </i>hippy<i> </i>children.<br />
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The Warhol/Velvets' scene, which embraced black attire and shades, dark lyrical themes and more of a speed based drug culture rather than an LSD one, found with the ESP-Disk' aesthetic, a kindred spirit.<br />
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A collaboration between artists from the free jazz world, the Warhol crowd, and the earlier Beat scene (Allen Ginsberg) would record an album called <i>The East Village Other</i>, which was to benefit one of the lower East Side's underground newspapers of the same name.<br />
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With their tag line "You never heard such sounds in your life." and a motto that was printed on every LP sleeve, "The artists alone decide what you will hear on their ESP-Disk.", here was a record label that not only released subversive, highly original experimental music, it was also a label that was using business practices that were very different from those of other labels.<br />
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ESP-Disk' did not sign long term contracts with their artists, realizing that should their artists sign major label contracts later, it would benefit the ESP-Disk' back catalog.<br />
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So at a rapid pace, ESP-Disk' was looking like a record label that could become famous and successful.<br />
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Little did I know as a young teenager how much ESP-Disk' would impact my listening tastes later on.<br />
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I first stumbled upon one of their LPs in a used record store. I know nothing of the label, or to be honest the majority of the artists on what was simply entitled <i>ESP-Disk' Sampler: Various Artists (Catalog # ESP 1051).</i><br />
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Taking home this oddly compelling, intriguing record—with its dark, quasi-psychedelic cover art—I listened to what was essentially 2 LPs worth of the vast ESP-Disk' catalog, trimmed down to many shorter edits.<br />
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Included as well was a catalog for the label.<br />
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I was already a huge fan and child of the Lenny Kaye compiled original <i>Nuggets</i> LP, I was a huge fan of the multitude of psychedelic bands, and was well-versed in most of you great 60's and 70's rock bands. Here though, was something that went much deeper, wilder and was far more underground than what I had already heard before. Like experiencing some truer psychedelic inner sanctum.<br />
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A few band names like The Fugs seemed familiar, doubtlessly due to my being a Frank Zappa fan who may have name dropped them once or twice, plus, there were also a couple of familiar author/poet types I had heard of such as William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg lurking on the record.<br />
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Yet, damn if the Marion Brown Quartet, Sun Ra, Gunter Hampel, The Pharaoh Sanders Quintet, Milford Graves, Pearls Before Swine and The Godz did not then and there blow my mind, expand my ears and kick my sensibilities into another dimension.<br />
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Yes indeed, I was exposed, and mightily so, to the ESP-Disk' motto, "You never heard such sounds in your life."<br />
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I was also impacted by those wonderful ESP-Disk' good vibes years later when I was slated to perform at a music festival in San Francisco, but found out my '63 Fender Jazzmaster had a switch damaged on the flight over. Thankfully I was able to borrow the guitar of none other than Tom Rapp, who had headed Pearls Before Swine on all of their incredible ESP-Disk' LP's.<br />
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Thanks to this remarkably talented gentleman who I had been in awe of previously, I was able to perform our band's set. Thanks again Tom!<br />
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Sadly, after ESP-Disk' had such a promising start, by 1968 the label closed shop due to the rise of LP bootlegging of much of their catalog. Sales were impacted greatly, his distributors were purchasing bootlegs to sell, thereby cutting out the original label, and while Bernard Stollman would continue to soldier on by licensing his catalog to overseas record labels, where many of his artists had found larger fanbases, by 1975 things were over for ESP-Disk'.<br />
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Cry not for The Godz however, as the ESP-Disk' story has a happy continuation these days.<br />
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Anti-bootlegging laws, stronger licensing and distribution deals and the resurgences of interest by younger music fans in both vinyl and the artists on the ESP-Disk' catalog have given a new life to the label.<br />
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Bernard Stollman continues to oversee the catalog, and there have been many releases of newer musical artists that work well within the ESP-Disk' aesthetic.<br />
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2013 marks an amazing 50th anniversary reissue campaign that will be ongoing and making available so many of their legendary, long out of print or never released on CD in the US, musical jewels.<br />
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Jerry Moore's <i>Life Is A Constant Journey Home</i>, <i>The Byron Allen Trio</i>, <i>The Burton Greene Trio On Tour</i>, Paul Bley's <i>Closer</i> and <i>Patty Waters College Tour</i> are just several of the reissues that are essential listening.<br />
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The now huge ESP-Disk' catalog, including their original releases (known as the 1000 Series) as well as the subsequent 2000, 3000 and 4000 Series releases, are now available either via there cd reissues or in a downloadable format at the official site <a href="http://espdisk.com/" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">http://espdisk.com/</a> or through the many fine online purveyors of great music.<br />
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The ESP-Disk' label is a fascinating and essential high-water mark for the freedom of expression, the roots of Avant Garde music, and the ongoing exploration of the further adventures in sound that today many music fans take for granted.<br />
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Please give ESP-Disk' your support and tell them Robert Jaz and <i>The Mystery Box</i> sends his improvisational love...<br />
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While the spectrum of pirated or unlicensed items can reach far into the areas of cigarettes, wine, fashion (fake Coach handbags), electronics (fake iPads) and all types of entertainment media (like that pile of DVD's on the table at a flea market which has films just released to the theater!) it is for toys that I have a particular fondness. When you research counterfeit food and cigarettes, believe me, it gets scary.</div>
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Given any chance, I will happily scoop one up should I see a bogus toy for sale somewhere. Seeking out phony Godzillas has always been a dream knock-off toy for me, and I have collected some good ones of the great monster over the years.<br />
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With many of these toys, attention to details are usually thrown out the window, as is any semblance of keeping the individual universes separate. Long before crossovers in comic book storylines, fake toys were mixing it up in gigantic, head-scratching way.</div>
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Here then, are some of the goofier finds that you, dear reader, can seek out and add to your collection.</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=448189431871162729" name="more"></a><i>Caveat emptor</i>—in your particular location, even owning one of these underground baddies, could lead to a fine or even imprisonment. In other words, try explaining your spanking new Specialman when you stand before the judge...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Without a doubt, one of the greatest of all knock-off superheroes would have<br />
to be Specialman. Able to leap parking meters, grab many things with his<br />
giant mitts,and impress the ladies with his tiny Elvis-like head and hair.<br />
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While bootleg toys, and other products are found in all parts of the world, especially throughout Asia and Mexico, one finds that a special and highly creative country when it comes to unlicensed items of all manner will always be that of Turkey.</div>
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The Turkish <i>Star Wars</i> is an infamous unlicensed take on the real film featuring stolen footage and all types of hilarious shoddiness.<br />
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In keeping with those standards, the following are just a few examples from the Turkish 1988 Uzay StarsWar toy collection (From the collection of Joseph Yglesias).</div>
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Robert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.com0Providence, RI, USA41.8239891 -71.41283429999998641.7293166 -71.574195799999984 41.9186616 -71.251472799999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-31655218146218292472013-10-08T00:09:00.000-04:002019-09-05T09:43:11.003-04:00Happy Birthday to the LAVA LAMP: Fifty Years of Cool Wax!<div class="columns-inner" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; min-height: 0px;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2hbQXnBHiRW0PL3oPS0mAHWYPeKHcFsaVkt2MQR4aE5Wm7XjgvxSVXWCyeeD_lb17fcQOhoFUqUn782cWzlpP0_FE0cftmLYt7KCk-kGItbJ0JebdxBlDd9JD1p5UpGdkMEKlHIR7nNaF/s1600/Lava-Lamp-Icon-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2hbQXnBHiRW0PL3oPS0mAHWYPeKHcFsaVkt2MQR4aE5Wm7XjgvxSVXWCyeeD_lb17fcQOhoFUqUn782cWzlpP0_FE0cftmLYt7KCk-kGItbJ0JebdxBlDd9JD1p5UpGdkMEKlHIR7nNaF/s1600/Lava-Lamp-Icon-.jpg" /></a>In the mid-Fifties, a former WWII pilot and post-war British accountant named Edward Craven Walker was at a local English country pub called Queen's Head along with a friend, and found himself staring at a homemade egg timer made by one of the pub's regulars.<br />
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This particular object, which Walker described as a "contraption made out of a cocktail shaker, old tins and things" dated from WWII, and was filled with two immiscible liquids (liquids that do not mix together).<br />
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As the contents, "odd oily globules" were heated upon the pub's stove, the wax rose and signaled that your egg was ready.<br />
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Inspired, he purchased the egg timer/lamp and worked for a decade and a half tinkering with various liquids and containers in an attempt to create a better version. He achieved his goal in 1963.<br />
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Walker filed a patent for a "Display Device" in 1965 and but had already started merchandising his creation in September of 1963 as a company called Crestworth Ltd. using the name Astro Lamp.<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=448189431871162729" name="more"></a>The earliest design featured a two part base and was filled with a liquid wax/oils/chemical formula and later to a solid wax/oil/chemical formula.<br />
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Initially, shop owners were appalled at what they considered such an ugly lamp, but Walker tenaciously continued to market his invention.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">An early Astro Lamp brochure shows that no dinner table or bar is complete without it's presence.</td></tr>
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The Astro Lamp would appear early on in episodes of the legendary British television show <i>The Prisoner</i>, as well early <i>Dr. Who</i>, and this would help to increase the coolness factor for the lamp, and as psychedelia was also rapidly on the ascent, the Astro Lamp would soon become a sensation with anyone tuned in and turned on.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Multiple Astro Lamps used as props in an early episode of <i>Dr. Who</i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"></td></tr>
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Walker would add "If you buy my lamp, you won't need drugs... think it will always be popular. It is like the cycle of life. It grows, breaks up, falls down and then starts all over again."<br />
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The popularity for the Astro Lamp would continue to soar through immeasurable design and style changes, additional models, other associated lighting products and reworked wax-based formulas.<br />
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As this early advertisement below shows , even early on a number of options were available. Later, the floodgates would open to a huge number of various styles, shapes, colors and sizes.<br />
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In 1965 Walker licensed his Astro Lamp creation to an American manufacturer who would market the lamp in the U.S. as the Lava Lite for the Lave Corporation. Hence the name "Lava Lamp" would stick as a name for these lamps for U.S. fans, while throughout the world they would continue to be marketed as Astro Lamps.<br />
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Sales of Astro Lamps was immense during the mid to late Sixties and in the Seventies. It seemed as if every home had one along with a black light and some incense.<br />
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Though Lava Lamps would never go away, they did fall out of the public consciousness in the Eighties. Eventually in the early Nineties, there would be a re-branding of the lamp and a company name change for Crestworth Ltd. who decided on using a name that is still their company name today, Mathmos<i>.</i><br />
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As obscurely compelling a name, as it is mightily groovy, Mathmos was the name of the bubbling lake of lava beneath the city of Sogo in the Roger Vadim/Jane Fonda cult wonder 1968's <i>Barbarella. </i><br />
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Helped immensely by the Nineties revival of all things Sixties influenced with various elements such as Lounge Music, Space Age Bachelor Pad styles, Exotica and <i>The Austin Powers</i> film series playing into the resurgence, Lava Lamps once again became a popular item and to this day have become as iconic as<i> </i>a <i>Coca-Cola </i>sign.<br />
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Strangely enough for the story of the Lava Lamp, though original inventor Edward Craven Walker (1918-2000) made his gigantic fortune via his Astro Lamp creation, his first and most beloved passion was as a Naturist a.k.a. a Nudist.<br />
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Walker was one of the first dedicated Nudists, setting up Great Britain's first and largest nudist camps, Matchams in Hampshire, and became a pioneer in film as a film director of some of the earliest nudist films.<br />
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Working under the pseudonym Michael Keatering, Walker directed <i>Traveling Light</i> (1959), the legendary landmark film that ushered in the entire interest in all things nudist and was the U.K.'s first nudist film to receive a public release. The film is called "an underwater ballet" and was filmed off the coast of Corsica.<br />
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At the time, with his work being so taboo, the censor's scissors and the illegalities of the subject matter was skirted by Walker because he did not show pubic hair in his films.<br />
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Walker's various Naturist films are still available to purchase, if you know where to look!<br />
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It makes perfect sense that the creation of the Astro Lamp/Lava Lamp, such a sexy symbol of all things psychedelic and far out, would emerge from mind of a genius with a passion for nudity...I mean <i>nature.</i><br />
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So Happy Birthday to Astro Lava Lamps everywhere, and a big Thank You! to that visionary of bubbling color, Edward Craven Walker.<br />
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Robert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.com0Providence, RI, USA41.8239891 -71.41283429999998641.7293166 -71.574195799999984 41.9186616 -71.251472799999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-79984687515677819522013-10-08T00:08:00.000-04:002019-04-07T13:18:49.398-04:00THE FINE ART OF FIRECRACKERS<div class="fauxcolumn-outer fauxcolumn-right-outer" style="background-color: white; bottom: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 0px; width: 350px;">
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I grew up near a beach, so in actuality it was the eve of the Fourth, on the night of the Third of July that was the real party, with everyone making bonfires along the beach, and lighting more illegal fireworks than could be imagined.<br />
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The actual day of the Fourth was always reserved more for cookouts, seafood boils, parades and hangovers, with fireworks generally relegated to the larger displays by the local municipalities or baseball stadiums, and whatever scant few firecrackers were still unlit from the night before by the plebeians were casually used—making for an occasional pop and crack here and there throughout the day and night.</div>
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The laws for firework use in the United States has always been a touchy mess of a state by state thing. Sort of like marijuana. I remember that sparklers, black snakes<i> </i>and poppers were always fine to have around, but in many states, for anything larger strict local approval was needed.</div>
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Speaking of black snakes, after you lit them, the payoff was always highly disappointing. Instead of what the artwork depicted you would unleash upon a terrified crowd: a long, fierce and venomous, creepy snake-like object, you usually ended up with a short, harmlessly ineffective, grey turd.</div>
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Stores large and small throughout the state scrambled to stock fireworks for the oncoming 4th, and everywhere you saw hand-made signs happily supplying the punters willing to shell out a few clams, all manner of exploding thrill.<br />
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Me, I have always been drawn to the sparkle and boom of the tiny joy of individual gunpowder delights.<br />
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I even lit packs of them off many times while appearing onstage in a band!<br />
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Having had many a small firecracker blow off in my fingers, I was as comfortable with firecrackers as I was reading comic books. It was not a pleasant experience for the fingers, but seemed to be a one of the rituals of growing up.&nbsp<br />
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We called even the smallest of firecrackers "salutes," especially the small ones that came in packs, but in actually, the term is usually used more for the larger devices that we also often obtained—and believe me, these were not something you want to have explode near your fingers, head or body: cherry bombs, M-80s, quarter sticks, half sticks, and though you would now be getting into serious dynamite territory, full sticks.</div>
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I think about it now I have to say I was extremely lucky that nothing serious ever happened, so please—don't do what I did!</div>
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The earliest use of fireworks are attributed to the Chinese during the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) who had discovered that the air pockets in bamboo would explode when thrown into a fire and left for a length of time.</div>
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The Chinese name for firecracker is <i>Baozhu</i>, which means "exploding bamboo".</div>
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The Chinese retained this name because once you had the invention of gunpowder and used it for a rolled up firecracker, you still had something that looked like a small bamboo-like object. The use of them originally was for scaring off evil spirits.</div>
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Tied packs of these small firecrackers were then introduced, and for the most part until the 80's, were still handmade low tech devices using black powder, and later flash powder, for the explosive part.</div>
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Much of the appeal for myself, was always the artwork on a pack of firecrackers, calling me to a world of strange enchantment filled with danger or exotic travels, with the most famous of all firecracker art being the<i>Black Cat </i>brand. </div>
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Here then, are small few of my favorite jewels of the pyrotechnics industry.<br />
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This is a tiny fraction of the number I could easily share with you. These are mostly of the vintage variety, but some, as you can see, are more recent styles, and the images should speak for themselves. </div>
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So, as you enjoy this delirious art of the "big bang," please sit back and raise a glass of celebration to the multitude of fireworks workers that have toiled since the 7th century, all for our simple fun and merry joy.</div>
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Robert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.com0Providence, RI, USA41.8239891 -71.41283429999998641.7293166 -71.574195799999984 41.9186616 -71.251472799999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-15665053256220683952013-10-07T23:57:00.000-04:002019-09-05T09:46:14.543-04:00SURF ROCK GOES TOO FAR WITH THE RETURN OF SUSAN SURFTONE<h2 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: none; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">
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Nothing goes better in these warm, delightful days of the Sun, than a few road trip adventures motoring off to a little seaside vista accompanied by some wild and woolly instrumental surf rock.<br />
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Simply put, well played surf rock never goes out of style.<br />
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Like many fans of the surf rock genre, I have never actually surfed, but since I was a child, the early <i>Beach Boys</i> records made an indelible impression. Like many other "Kooks," I too have been catching that mythical wave and mentally "getting barreled" for years.<br />
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More recently, I have been digging a superb practitioner of this music,<i> Susan Surftone</i>. She is easily one of the best boss gals to ever sling a guitar and create her own wonderful surf rock sounds.<br />
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Susan Surftone was born in Hudson, NY and began playing guitar, as well as taking lessons on the instrument, as a young girl. After graduating high school, she then graduated from B.U. Law School and proceeded to then became a special agent for the FBI.<br />
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She decided to quit that job and at the time, with the <i>Pulp Fiction</i> soundtrack permeating the airwaves everywhere featuring the original surf guitar god <i>Dick Dale</i> and his "Misirlou," she focused on surf rock with some garage and punk influences. This focus helped her secure a record deal with a German record label, and she then relocated West, eventually settling in Portland, OR—Portland seemed right as a laid back city with a small music scene that fostered other surf instrumental bands.<br />
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From the beginning, Susan has always been a strong advocate of encouraging girls to play guitar and start bands, and while she may be a rarity in the genre of surf rock, she now has a lengthy discography recorded with her previous bands, and including her first solo album, the excellent <i>Shore,</i> for which she played every instrument except the drums.<br />
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Now a second solo record has arrived—and it is equally as enthralling as <i>Shore—</i>entitled <i>Too Far.</i><br />
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Teaming up with her creative partner/Go Go Dancer/cover model Seana Steele, a first glance at the LP's cover photo belies an influence that is as glamorous as it is multi-layered and witty.</div>
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Hearkening back to something out of the school of decadent <i>Roxy Music</i> LP covers, <i>Too Far </i>depicts a purple dressed ingenue Seana, sitting on a seaside boulder alongside a dapper Susan, with Susan sporting <i>Elvis</i> hair and a replica <i>Beatles</i>-styled black collarless suit.<br />
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The first track, "Start Again" immediately sets the album off with a lift, having a jangle that for myself recalls the early Athens, GA days of <i>R.E.M.</i> who at the time were themselves heavily influenced by surf music, <i>The Byrds</i>and many of the early garage rockers. Another groovy track that continues this similar style is "Navy Grog."<br />
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Susan has mentioned that she tries to do something different with each album, and a fine example here features the Theremin played on "Steve Dallas," a sci-fi soundtrack-styled laid back track that is a tribute to the <i>Bloom County</i> lawyer who later briefly became manager of <i>Billy and the Boingers</i>, the fictional heavy metal band featuring Bill the Cat, Opus, and Hodge Podge.<br />
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"Green Light" is a catchy crisp rocker that recalls the early British invasion.<br />
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<i>Too Far's</i> final track, which is incredible, is a country blues meets surf rock ballad, "What A Shame," which turns out to be an early <i>Rolling Stones</i> original. Covering this little known diamond was not only a wonderful surprise as a Stones song I had forgotten, but it solidifies Susan's willingness to take chances with material and surpass any expectations of what a surf rock album can or should be. This is the same type of thinking that will ensure that her music will one day be as classic as those artists of the past that have influenced her.<br />
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<i>Too Far</i> is yet another step forward in making another superlative album in the surf rock genre but also continues Susan Surftone's evolution as an exciting artist willing to take on other styles and incorporate those styles into her music.<br />
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This is yet another highly recommended slab o' wax!<br />
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I mentioned above about the surf rock music scene out of Portland, and a great way to experience some of the bands from that city is a compilation called <i>PDX A Go-Go: Making Waves Up North</i>, a ten song live collection recorded during the summer of 2012.<br />
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The featured bands are <i>WaveSauce, The Surf Weasels, Shade 13, The Outer Space Heaters, </i>and<i> Susan Surftone.</i><br />
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Not only are all of these bands firing on all cylinders as live acts but this comp also perfectly showcases how surf rock has its various styles within the genre.<br />
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Here you can find some spooktacular and eerie elements that lean towards a Munsters vibe, as showcased on<i>WaveSauce's</i> "Phantom Strut," the laid back sci-fi B-movie soundtrack Theremin instro that is <i>Susan Surftone's</i>"Rock Candy" and the Gringo twang Spaghetti Western blast of <i>Shade 13's </i>"Tucu's Law."<br />
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From start to finish the album is a shaker of dynamite!<br />
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<b><i>PDX A Go-Go: Making Waves Up North </i>is available at <a href="https://www.acmebrothersrecords.com/Acme%20Brothers%20Susan%20SurfTone.html" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">www.acmebrothersrecords.com</a></b></div>
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Robert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.com0Providence, RI, USA41.8239891 -71.41283429999998641.7293166 -71.574195799999984 41.9186616 -71.251472799999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-63338134636987904072013-10-07T23:56:00.000-04:002019-04-07T13:24:01.393-04:00THE MUSEUM OF BAD ART<h2 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: none; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">
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<i>"Most people in America think Art is a man's name."</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You’ve heard of </span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Night Gallery</em><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">? The Rod Serling television series that was his brilliant follow up to</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Twilight Zone</em><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and featured a gallery of horrific and nightmarish paintings tied into each episodes’ plot that still resound with an eerie intensity with viewers decades after the show’s original airing.</span></div>
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John Currin's 1991 painting<i> Bea Arthur Naked </i>recently sold for 1.9 million dollars at Christie's auction house.<br />
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While not<i> </i>exactly a work that defines bad art—more like bad taste—the painting of Bea does call into question the intensely subjective nature of the visual arts.<br />
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Is something good if someone is willing to buy it for a large sum of money? Just where are the lines drawn between the great, the terrible, the completely inept and the merely competent works of art?.</div>
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Does something stink if viewers still love it? Can a horrid mess grow into a beloved masterpiece over time? Are certain artists just ahead of their time?<br />
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Can someone purposely make "bad art?"</div>
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Thankfully, many of these questions have been pondered and answered with great consideration by those who I consider expert at the subject.. </div>
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<i><i>The Museum of Bad Art</i> a.k.a. <i>MOBA</i>,</i> resides next to the men's room in the basement of a vintage cinema, <i>The Somerville Theater,</i> in Davis Square, Somerville MA.</div>
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The museum was founded in 1993 and held the first exhibition in 1994 at its original location, the basement of a private home in Boston, MA.</div>
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Since those early days the museum has grown, moved several times, and received widespread recognition as the authoritative voice on the subject of this particular type of art genre.</div>
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As defined by <i>The MOBA</i>, Bad Art is "art that is created with the best of intentions, but gone horribly wrong." "Bad Art cannot be created on purpose."...<i>Real</i> Bad Art springs forth with a sense of hope, one that defiantly states: 'I commit my soul to this creation, one that will make the world weep.'"<br />
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The works in the collection are acquired through various means, with some donated, some rescued from thrift stores or alongside the curb, and some purchased around the world with the intention of giving them to the museum.<br />
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Currently <i>MOBA's</i> collection numbers over 600, and much like any other gallery or museum, not everything can be exhibited all the time.<br />
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However, some of <i>MOBA's</i> collection is available for viewing online, with a few examples chosen here by yours truly.<br />
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While never being a perfect substitute for traveling to the museum, at least here is a chance to experience some of these <i>special </i>works immediately...</div>
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Leonardo (1977)<br />
10" x 9", oil on art board</td><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></td></tr>
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Anonymous<br />
18" x 24", oil on canvas</td></tr>
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Gina<br />
28" x 20", oil on canvas</td></tr>
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Anonymous<br />
4ft x 5.5ft, oil on canvas</td></tr>
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Sarah Irani, 1995<br />
24" x 30", Acrylic on Canvas</td></tr>
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Two bathers' frantic calls for help go unnoticed as another life and death drama unfolds<br />
between the identically colored crab and cat. The artist added real sand into the paint<br />
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Erin Rothgeb<br />
18" x 24", acrylic on canvas board</td></tr>
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Anonymous<br />
16" x 20", oil on canvas</td></tr>
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Julie Seelig<br />
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Many of these and the other works on display, which often are both much larger and more vibrantly bad, have to be digested in person. So whenever you are in the Boston area, you must make <i>The Museum Of Bad Art—</i>their slogan,<i> </i>"Art too bad to be ignored,"<i> </i>one of your key destinations.</div>
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You can visit <i>MOBA's</i> web site at <a href="http://www.museumofbadart.org/" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">http://www.museumofbadart.org/</a> where you can learn more about the museum sign up for their free newsletter, and shop from their store.</div>
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Robert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.com0Providence, RI, USA41.8239891 -71.41283429999998641.7293166 -71.574195799999984 41.9186616 -71.251472799999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-76993129026930761122013-10-07T23:54:00.000-04:002019-04-07T13:25:05.053-04:00Remembering SEAN HARTTER: Awesome Across The Universe(s)<h2 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: none; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">
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On Friday April 27 without warning, the world lost illustrator/comic book artist Sean Hartter at the early age of 39.<br />
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I originally met Sean through our involvement with a local horror convention. From the start he was a one-of-a-kind great guy that was so damn easy to like. His expertise on such subjects as comic books, genre cinema, pulp artists, music and drive-in triple features was astonishing, and I constantly had to remind myself that his young age belied his fantastic wealth of knowledge.</div>
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Constantly seen with a drawing object in hand working on anything and everything that was either off the top of his head or suggested to him, you could look for miles and find difficulty coming up with a more affable and multi-talented soul.</div>
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I once asked Sean if I could commission him to do a logo for my DJ business card and casually I threw an idea I had for it out at him. With hardly a day passing by he came up with brilliance and something I loved immediately. It stills floors me how lightning fast and razor sharp he could be with his turnaround time. Then, he would vehemently accept no payment, much preferring at the very most to barter in exchange for a meal or perhaps some music in the future.</div>
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Working at an seemingly hourly unreal pace of cranking out large numbers of artwork on a daily basis, Sean was the embodiment of a true artist, living out his passion non-stop.<br />
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Over time and a zillion conversations, our shared interests had us making plans for collaborating on art, sadly something that never fully happened, with my procrastinating at fault and thinking I'd always have tomorrow to work up my contribution.<br />
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He was constantly working on film posters (including his "Movie Posters From An Alternate Universe" which I first interviewed him about <a href="https://www.robertjaz.com/2013/10/sean-hartter-film-posters-from.html">here</a>), coloring books, spot illustrations, music and goofy things that made himself, and the rest of us, laugh and smile.<br />
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Humble to a fault, Sean would always downplay his drawing ability, instead saying he was just a simple computer illustrator guy, but he was wrong, his was the talent of a skilled draftsman.</div>
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Ironically, after struggling with various issues in his life, Sean left us exactly at a time when his dreams were coming true—a time when everything was going really well, his tenacity was paying off in his professional career, and he was about to embark on an exciting and successful journey.</div>
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Sean was starting to get large amounts of press, set to design book covers for rock musician turned mystery novelist Greg Kihn, and travel to Hollywood for business purposes, something he was really excited about, as anyone who had worked so hard would be.</div>
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On a daily basis I still feel that I will see Sean online at any given time and be able to jump right into a chat about Jack Kirby, Megalon or some Yokai<i> </i>films with him, and this is a feeling that I have yet to shake.<br />
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Sean Hartter loved his family and his friends and thankfully we are all the better for it than we would have ever been without his grace.</div>
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Sean's artwork will live on, as will his presence and and he is one of those great ones that is...to quote Michael Weldon of <i>Psychotronic Video Magazine</i>, "Never to Be Forgotten."<br />
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Many prayers and blessings go out to Sean's family.<br />
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Rest In Peace, Brother Sean - you were much loved by so many.<br />
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After the jump, you will find links to Sean's sites, as well as a<i> </i>tiny fraction of my favorite pieces that Sean Hartter created.<br />
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Robert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.com0Providence, RI, USA41.8239891 -71.41283429999998641.7293166 -71.574195799999984 41.9186616 -71.251472799999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-55443543196748256872013-10-07T23:49:00.000-04:002019-04-07T13:26:44.418-04:00Yazoo Records delivers us THE STUFF THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF<h2 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: none; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_bTUkLFgZVptKx-jyS0UO4rHtZnldB-duYm0Voge3W9I-ECVHMyNMH9Yxz3nIL-diUo6kYY7FLvDe-lILuvSdSvfcPX0CwxeHMq_WNteTtbOSQKdExB96_lHsNa5r7HsVzwYIE54lVnAl/s1600/Robert-Crumb-Blues-Icon-Template-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_bTUkLFgZVptKx-jyS0UO4rHtZnldB-duYm0Voge3W9I-ECVHMyNMH9Yxz3nIL-diUo6kYY7FLvDe-lILuvSdSvfcPX0CwxeHMq_WNteTtbOSQKdExB96_lHsNa5r7HsVzwYIE54lVnAl/s1600/Robert-Crumb-Blues-Icon-Template-.jpg" /></a>When I think of the most obsessively fanatical collectors that populate our planet, I have to give the prize to record collectors. Even well beyond folks that seek out rare comic books, watches, autographs or toys, it is the passion of music enthusiasts seeking out that rare vinyl LP, forgotten release, or long thought lost recording, that can turn many an individual into a deviously sneaky, frothing at the mouth, crazed addict.</div>
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As evidenced by this past weekend's annual holiday for the record collecting fan,<i>Record Store Day</i>, turnouts around the world were huge, as independent music shops celebrated what has become thier biggest retail day of the year.<br />
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Folks swarmed shops everywhere in an attempt to purchase the many exclusive limited edition vinyl titles that record labels the world over released on this special day.<br />
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Collectors of this format often include those looking for recordings from around the world, early jazz sides or as with the case of these two fine compilation collections—American folk, country and blues from the 1920's and 1930's.</div>
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<i>Yazoo Records</i> has been in the business of primarily reissuing many of these rare 78 rpm records since the late '60s.</div>
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<i>The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of </i>is a two disc compilation of these early records that has been compiled and released by Yazoo.</div>
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Sub-titled<i> "The Dead Sea Scrolls of Record Collecting,"</i><i> </i>here we have a set of what is a thoroughly researched, annotated and painstakingly cherry-picked number of what collectors the world over have deemed to be the rarest, the most difficult to find, in the case of a few heretofore unknown <i>Son House</i> tracks, recordings that were believed to not exist at all.</div>
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There are so many incredible tracks here from the likes of extremely talented acts, some with familiar names,<i>Sleepy John Estes</i> for instance, and some with names that deliriously describe a fruitful period in our country's musical history, <i>The Three Stripped Gears, Freeny's Barn Dance Band, Georgia Pot Lickers</i> and <i>Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1.</i></div>
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I am reminded of the mid to late 60's psychedelic era when band names reached a peak of colorful monikers, as in <i>The Strawberry Alarm Clock</i> or <i>Lothar and The Hand People.</i></div>
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Famed cartoonist Robert Crumb has not only been an obsessive collector of this music for decades, but he also played in string bands that performed this music. So it comes as no surprise that the great genius would have one of his illustrations adorning the cover to this set.</div>
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It seems that the response to <i>Stuff... </i>was so overwhelmingly positive, Yazoo recently released a second volume of rarities entitle <i>Return Of The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of.</i></div>
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Once again, superlatives fall short in describing the aural wonders present on yet another collection of these records.</div>
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These records have been preserved here with all their hiss and crackling intact, a factor that certainly helps retain the original state of the valuable originals from which they have come.</div>
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Adding an eerie, creepy quality that lends itself to the process of rarity and discovery, it also hearkens back to a distant time that seems far removed from our own experiences, yet the subject matter dealt with on this material still resonates for today's listener: Being in love, lost love, looking for love, needing to find love, needing to find liquor and laughs, getting the blues, chickens running around the barnyard, dirty criminals, thinking about religion and eventually shuffling off this mortal coil.</div>
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Americana from the soul, so there is little surprise that this is the music that has influenced and continues to influence countless musicians and songwriters, from <i>Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton</i> and <i>Duke Robbilard</i> to <i>Jack White, Wilco </i>and <i>Mumford and Sons.</i></div>
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Each set has a remarkable booklet that includes stories about collecting obsessions and interviews with the collectors that are drawn into this world.</div>
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The fine folks at<i> Yazoo Records</i> have thankfully undertaken the heroic task of compiling these fascinating and enjoyable jewels for the rest of us—a task which can be savored for a mere micro fraction of the money spent finding the original records, let alone the voluminous hours it takes to track them down in the first place.</div>
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Kudos to Yazoo for bringing these beauties to the marketplace, and kudos for anyone that allows their curiosity to purchase both of these collections.</div>
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Though <i>Charley Patton</i> sings on set two, "Some of these days I'll be gone," it is with a blessing from that great record collector in the sky that these rare records are able to remain with us...<br />
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Robert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-42091751512955482492013-10-07T23:47:00.012-04:002024-02-21T20:49:45.547-05:00THE ROLLING STONES: SOME GIRLS Live in Texas '78<h2 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: none; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">While they certainly made some outstanding albums afterwards — </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tattoo You</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Undercover</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> are both high points — there were none that would be so perfectly complete as </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some Girls.</i><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Released in 1978 and quickly becoming a #1 album, it is hailed as an across the board classic, and one of their all time best selling studio albums.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Recorded in ’77 & early ’78, the writing and sessions were done amidst a time of even more internal turmoil than usual for The Stones, with Keith Richards’ looming Toronto drug bust a concern as to whether he could be imprisoned for years, and the challenge of responding to punk rock’s ground zero take-down of the dinosaurs of many of rock and roll’s giants.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It was the first studio album in years to use more of a stripped down core group of The Stones, which included Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, and—though he had played on the sessions for the </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Black and Blue</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> album (he also appeared on the cover photo and toured with them), he was now one of the official boys—Ron Wood.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The melting pot of New York City’s music and fashion scenes were one of the heavy influences on Mick Jagger as he and the band were crafting the songs that would make up </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some Girls</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Feeding into the styles of <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some Girls</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> would be the nascent rap sounds coming out of the city, the disco that was being enjoyed at Studio 54, the punk, new wave and post punk hybrid music that was a part of CBGB’s and other local new music venues, not to mention the love of American Blues, Soul, R&B and country that had always been such a huge part of </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Rolling Stones </i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">celebrated the 70’s greatest albums: </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Beggar’s Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers,</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Exile On Main Street, Goat’s Head Soup </i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It’s Only Rock and Roll.</i></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Rolling Stones</span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">would tour the U.S. for their new album during June and July of 1978, performing at a variety of venue sizes: stadiums, mid-sized venues and smaller theaters.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A staple of The Stone</span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">s’</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> live tours would usually be that an official live album would follow, however, until this release (and of course the usual bootlegs that would float around with fans) there was no available document of the ’78 tour.</span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The release of </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some Girls Live in Texas ’78</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> remedies that situation beautifully by finally allowing a look at what many fans (myself included) believe is the greatest of all </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rolling Stones</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> tours. Considering the longevity of the band and the years spent touring, that is saying much, but a viewing of this particular show illuminates the reasons ’78 is so highly regarded.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">While so many 60’s and 70’s groups floundered in the late 70’s and 80’s attempting to keep up with the kids, Mick & Company answered those who would take them down with a concise, trash rock, all over the place mixture of Rolling Stone rock and roll dirt.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stripping back from the previous</span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> ’75 Tour of The Americas</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> that was a massive stadium extravaganza which included a giant inflated penis and giant inflated lotus flower, here were The Rolling Stones</span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">appearing almost as a punk band onstage—lean, anxious and devoid of props.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With only the additions of “the sixth Stone” Ian Stewart on piano and Ron Woods’ bandmate from his Faces </span><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></i></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">days, Ian McLagan on keyboards, the group plays it charged up, passionate and grittier than they had in years.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The film was shot on a hot July 18 at The Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas. While The Ramones may have been beating on the brat in NYC, the audience shown attending this show is in their full-on Seventies stoner glory, a fun start to the action that follows once the band appears and rips it up.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Playing a perfect set list that included revved-up rockers from Chuck Berry, “Let It Rock” and “Sweet Little Sixteen” plus selections of key favorites that react well to the super-charged performance, “All Down the Line,” “Star Star,” “Happy” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” to name a few, the set has as its center core seven new songs from <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some Girls.</i> <span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></i></span>“Miss You,” “Respectable,” “Beast Of Burden,” and of course, the inimitable “Shattered” are all dynamically tackled.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In a new interview that is included as a bonus on the DVD, Mick Jagger explains that the band was so new to performing these songs live there was a nervous quality present that perhaps he only picked up on by seeing his bandmates onstage. For the viewer, it translates as a taunt, urgent quality that never once seems sloppy or as if they are going-through-the-motions, traits that The Stones could sometimes fall into on other tours.<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Still though, here is a Rolling Stones show that masterfully embraces a new energy with the comfortable genius of their classic traits. Endearing qualities, both in their stage presence and their performance, that have always made them one of the all time wonders of rock and roll. Missed much since he left the band in the 80’s, it is a treat to also see Bill Wyman in the band, all eye shadow, glam-rock hair and as usual for him, standing completely still as he gifts the music with the same characteristic badass bass playing that he had played since the band’s early days.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">While not thought of as punk <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">per se</i>, now it makes more sense (since The Mekons so brilliantly bridged the gap between punk and country with their classic <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fear and Whiskey</i> period of releases) that there is a lot of slide guitar playing from Ron Wood (who also plays some beautiful pedal steel guitar on Mick’s “Bakersfield country homage,” “Far Away Eyes”) and Keith Richards (one of the original proto-punks anyways), who seems to relish his new freedom with a focused intensity, yet staying true to his love of all American roots music.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Thankfully, while they are still ongoing in celebrating the band’s 50 year anniversary with a new tour, The Rolling Stones have opened up their vaults over the last couple of years and allowed fans and newcomers to actually experience heretofore unseen greatness as you get here. The original <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some Girls</i> album has been reissued with a slew of newer bonus tracks from sessions they recorded at the time, as well as a number of extravagant box sets that cater to any fan’s happy wallet. <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some Girls Live in Texas ’78 </i>is available in a variety of formats, and I found the perfect one to be the DVD or Blu-Ray/CD combo which not only has the beautiful letterboxed concert film, but an additional audio disc of the same concert.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">There are some sweet special features on the DVD that include the hilarious Dan Aykroyd SNL/Tom Snyder,<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tomorrow Show</i> sketch with Mick Jagger as his guest; a newer interview with Mick illuminating the <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some Girls </i>period, and The Rolling Stones performing on <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SNL</i> in ’78.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In so many ways, The Rolling Stones showed that in 1978, they could run with the punks, garage rockers and anyone else that stood in their way, since they were the original dirty, filthy punks bent on taking your daughters down a wrong path since 1962 anyways. Then again, with the likes of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis as some of their mentors, how could they not be experts. As you wade through the many choices of Rolling Stones<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">‘</i> greatest hit collections, studio albums and everything else they put out for sale, the <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some Girls Live in Texas ’78</i> film should be near the top of your list—A highly recommended <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Robert Jaz</em></strong> <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mystery Box</b></i> of treasure!<br /><br />Offcial Trailer for </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some Girls Live in Texas ’78</i></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 56.25%; position: relative;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" src="https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x8hz3y7" style="height: 100%; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 100%;" title="Dailymotion Video Player" type="text/html" width="100%"> </iframe> </div>Robert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-41290321516175850702013-10-07T23:45:00.008-04:002024-02-21T21:24:52.464-05:00THE UNDERGROUND X-RAY RECORDS OF THE SOVIET UNION<h2 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: none; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It’s easy to take entertainment for granted.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In our present day we have the ability to purchase and enjoy so many recreational items: play a video game, listen to whatever it is we want, watch whatever we want, and, though there are still many folks out there who wish they could control our choices, read any books we can find.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Folks happily embrace the technology that has made obtaining our selections quick, simple and affordable, and we think nothing now of versions that exist only on the ether, or rather—on a cloud.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Still others, myself included, like to seek out older formats and what some will call obsolete mediums.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some of these formats such as the vinyl LP have actually increased in their yearly sales and there are constantly new purveyors now marketing records, both for new album releases and reissuing older releases.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The annual April celebration event for small independent record shops around the world, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170324132305/http://recordstoreday.com/" style="border: 0px; color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Record Store Day</i></a><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, has increased popularity and made it a huge success. For many of these brick and mortar stores and the independent record labels that send exclusive items for sale on that day, it is their best retail day of the year.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Long thought dead formats such as 78 r.p.m. records, 8-track tapes, cassettes, VHS tapes and laser discs, still have numerous aficionados and collectors that will readily discuss at great length their obsessions and collections. In fact, there are even record labels, bands and filmmakers that choose to only release their output on some of these “antique” formats.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It wasn’t always this easy though…</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Beginning in the 1940’s and throughout next decades there was the Soviet Union’s ban on all things Western, which to their government was considered decadent, Fans of the nascent rock and roll, pop or rhythm and blues music had no way of purchasing records of the bands and artists that they heard about and wanted to listen to.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">This music would still be smuggled behind the Iron Curtain via the thriving Black Market, or underground economy via records or more often tape recordings, but to own, trade or duplicate an actual album was a costly and highly illegal activity. The real vinyl needed for duplication was too expensive and having these records in one’s home was risky.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">These X-Ray records became known as “roentgenizdat” or “X-ray pressed” records were thick enough for cutting grooves to make the recording, but flexible enough to roll up under a sleeve.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Some of discs would doubtlessly have also been cut using actual, but often simple, record cutting machines owned by the sanctioned record labels and those who might own a home version, once again all as a part of the underground fan base for Western music.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Faust’s self-titled debut a.k.a. “Clear”</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Each “roentgenizdat” is a highly unique object that until recently had been a little known chapter in the story of smuggled underground music during the Cold War decades. In 1959, an official “Music Patrol” was formed by the Communist Party to police those creating and distributing these “roentgenizdat” and many were sent to prison.</span></span></div>
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It was a time of partying and cheering for the end of the previous dark period of World War I, a time where women's suffrage was peaking and was subsequently celebrated with the rise of the independently-minded, adventurously daring Flappers.</div>
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Most notably, it was a glorious time for a musical genre called Jazz that had seen its birth in the African American communities of New Orleans, and was now seen as the dance band choice of the young and young-minded everywhere.</div>
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With radio broadcasts playing a large part in spreading the zest of Jazz, as well as folks flocking to dance-halls to see the bands themselves, Jazz became <i>the</i> rebellious music.</div>
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Bryan Ferry is no stranger to rebellion. Beginning as a part-time art teacher, his band Roxy Music released their stunningly original self-titled debut album in 1972.</div>
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A melding of Pop Art, glittering glamour, and a Post Modern spaced out experimental hybrid, the album, and the musicians in Roxy Music themselves, were something new to behold—Rock and Roll without a precedent.</div>
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As leader, voice and primary songwriter, Bryan Ferry has managed to steer <i>Roxy Music</i> through 40 years that also include a concurrent solo career and a vision that has seen his music evolve, change—sometimes into a much slicker beast—yet always remain importantly vital, fresh and grandiose.</div>
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As if the white tuxedo was designed exclusively for Bryan Ferry, so to does the 1920's instrumental Jazz that he has chosen as his source of inspiration for his latest release entitled <i>The Jazz Age</i> seem as if it was made for his songs and style.</div>
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Operating as <i>The Bryan Ferry Orchestra</i>, Ferry has chosen tracks from 11 of his albums and worked with his longtime co-producer Rhett Davies and his arranger Colin Good to craft an album transforms the songs into the style of the 1920's Jazz bands.</div>
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Not only does the concept work as an idea, but to hear the finished product is to hear one of the more richly vibrant, rewarding albums that has been released by anyone with the legendary status of an artist like Bryan Ferry 40 plus years into his discography.</div>
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Explaining that instrumental Jazz was the music he had discovered when he was a precocious 9 and 10 years old, and using that as a basis for the project, he loved how the musicians would take a melody, introduce solos that would take the piece way out, and then return everything to a recognizable melody.</div>
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With <i>The Jazz Age</i>, the musicians used for the album are so expert in the style of playing, with attention to details so astute, that on first listen you are immediately transported. To know that this is Bryan Ferry covering his own songs, and all without any of his trademark singing, is a risk-taking experiment as bold as the first Roxy Music single, which also appears on <i>The Jazz Age</i>, "Virginia Plain."</div>
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This is not the first time Ferry has conquered pop musical history, he often covered songs by others, and for his 1999 album <i>As Time Goes By</i>, he covered the crooners of the 1930's to great success; yet, here he has mastered his own well loved catalog with a sparkling, as a song from the first Roxy Music album was entitled,<i>Remake/Remodel</i>.</div>
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Never at any time sounding like a cliched novelty album, or a mere genre exercise attempting to move product by offering something supposedly "new," <i>The Jazz Age</i> works well because it is the effort of highly skilled musicians that really know their 1920's instrumental Jazz, along with a bandleader who really knows his way around his own beautiful melodic gems.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><i>The Bryan Ferry Orchestra</i> live <i>with</i> vocals</td></tr>
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<i>The Jazz Age</i> is an album that one can enjoy for entertainment at a surface level (tailor made for National Public Radio fans for instance) or an album that Jazz heads can dive deeper into, For example, from the second Roxy Music album <i>For Your Pleasure</i>, Ferry has picked his ominously creepy song "The Bogus Man" and set it to a Cotton Club/Cab Calloway smokey groove.</div>
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In another sly move that showcases Ferry's astute selection of songs, he also offers Roxy Music's inimitable single <i>Do The Strand</i>, a song that, if one reads the lyrics, almost precisely relates to the impact that the 1920's Jazz had on its fired up fans.</div>
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Knowing that each track a listener studies may recall the various Jazz bands of the era, like Duke Ellington's Orchestra<i> </i>or perhaps some of the prominent British band leaders of the time, places the album in an intellectual context with so many other brilliant Jazz albums of the past.</div>
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It seems that great artists often find a need to push further away from the tepid, watered down mainstream offerings of the less visionary that these days are easily found on the top pop charts, for example Beck's<i> </i>newest album is only available in sheet music form, looking back to a time that predates recorded music for a time when folks exchanged sheet music with each other or performed at one another's home on the family piano for an evening of frivolity.</div>
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I also love how <i>The Jazz Age</i> still is informed, even if subtly, with small touch of the wonderful British wit that the U.K. has always been known for.</div>
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While not an overtly comical album, still <i>The Jazz Age</i> connects me to one of my favorite groups, The Bonzo Dog Band<i> </i>(formerly known as <i>The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)</i> who in the mid 60's were expertly releasing original and cover songs that mined the vocal Jazz pop songs of the 1920's, and along with one of their geniuses, the great Neil Innes, became such a large part of what would then become Monty Python's Flying Circus.</div>
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Another fond line is drawn to the world of P.G. Wodehouse and his fantastic literary creations, <i>Jeeves and Wooster.</i></div>
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<i><br /></i>Bryan Ferry has once again cut a charmer, as <i>The Jazz Age</i> is an exceptional album that should not be over-looked but instead savored and revered—returning the listener to a time that was as vibrant as any in popular music's history.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Directed by amateur boxer/professional model, turned writer and film directer, Jay Bulger<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">—who began his career in journalism by lying his way into writing a piece on Ginger Baker for </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> magazine—the film begins with footage that Bulger had shot while living with Baker and working on his </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rolling Stone</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> piece which was published as “The Devil and Ginger Baker.”</span></span><br />
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Returning to film in the place where he had originally resided with Baker—who for over a decade was living within a high security ranch compound in South Africa—Bulger begins his film with an incident that displays just how cantankerous Baker can be. From that point, the documentary is a journey of unexpected twists, head-shaking decisions on the part of Mr. Baker and deliriously candid anecdotes from both the subject and those that have played a part in his life's story.<br />
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Immediately, you know you are in for a pull-no-punches film experience when <i>Beware of Mr. Baker</i> is introduced by John Lydon, who had worked with Ginger Baker in his band <i>Public Image Limited.</i><br />
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Ginger was born in 1939 as Peter Edward Baker. As a child growing up in South London during Germany's Blitzkrieg of England, Baker had already started to show traits that would direct him towards a musical path, albeit with a special type of personality Unlike most of his peers, he was never afraid of the bombing that was all around him:<br />
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"...the constant blasts of bombs going off overhead in London didn't frighten {Ginger}. Quite the opposite. He liked the constant banging and explosions. And a drummer was born."</blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Louis Armstrong's drummer and Baker influence, Baby Dobbs</td></tr>
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Torn between becoming a pro cyclist and a drummer, his focus changed after wrecking his bike and purchasing a toy drum set around the age of fifteen. He would join a local band, and then by 16 audition and begin playing with The Storyville Jazz Men, where he turned pro, toured and in the process became a better musician. The band's leader <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wallis" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Bob Wallis</a>, would turn Baker onto twenties jazz records where Baker would discover his first hero, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" style="color: red; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Louis Armstrong</a>'s drummer, Baby Dobbs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Ginger Baker in the early '60s</td></tr>
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Dobbs, considered to be the first Jazz drummer in that he married Western drum styles such as military marching band drumming with those of African drummers, would be instrumental in shaping a direction for Baker's playing—a style that could be flamboyantly flashy or delicately restrained, or often both at the same time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><i>The Graham Bond Organization: </i>An early band with Ginger Baker (right)<br />
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Using incredible animation sequences to illustrate the many segments of Baker's life that would have no camera present at the time, Bulger, in this film, deftly brings the viewer remarkable portions of his Ginger Baker biography in a startlingly clever way.<br />
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A segment that portrays the after-hours listening of African drums records at the home of England's great Be-Bop drummer Phil Seaman (who also had severe problems with drug & alcohol), is one of the film's many magically hallucinatory and surreal moments. A moment that would both illuminate Baker's passion for learning the craft of drumming from his inspirational mentors, as well as learning what else was out there to try—the heavy drug and alcohol demons that would haunt him throughout his life.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Phil Seaman</td></tr>
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A musical life that very few could ever match—he had replaced Charlie Watts in Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated<i> </i>(a band which also included Jack Bruce), and Baker claims that once, upon seeing Mick Jagger during an audition, he mocked this young, nervous and effeminate kid.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton</td></tr>
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Viewers will be familiar with Baker's time pairing with Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton as the trio <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_%28band%29" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Cream</a>, as superstardom, wealth and fame greeted the band all over the world, but interviews with Clapton and Bruce are as candid as any by Baker himself and illustrate Cream was a group that was built on a two-sided coin of sublime talent and aggressive madness.<br />
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Then again, that seemed to always be the framework for Baker, as also seen in his time spent previously in the wonderful Graham Bond Organization, and with his post Cream bands such as Blind Faith, which included Steve Winwood and once again Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker's Air Force or the lengthy list of other bands and solo projects.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><i>Blind Faith</i> with Steve Winwood, Rick Gretch, Ginger Baker and,<br />
once again asking how he ended up in yet another band with Ginger? Eric Clapton</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><i>Ginger Baker's Air Force </i>in concert</td></tr>
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One of the stranger and most fascinating parts to Baker's story for me is how after Cream<i> </i>and<i> </i>Blind Faith, he moved to Africa and ended up living and performing with Nigeria's famed Fela Kuti.<br />
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I've long loved the album that was released by them together, <i>Live! Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Africa '70 (with Ginger Baker</i>), but to have more of the back story (Baker also appeared on Paul McCartney's album with Wings, <i>Band On The Run,</i> which was recorded in Nigeria as well) is remarkable, as is how the two fell out of being friends. Without giving it away, it's one of Ginger Baker's other obsessions that doesn't have to do with women, drugs, alcohol or music...<br />
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Even with the many ups, downs and everything in-between swings of a emotional drumstick that Ginger Baker puts his family members, assorted wives and girlfriends though, of which there are plenty of painfully honest interviews here, the film still reminds us that he has always been a musician with a stellar resume that few could touch, and without question, his talent was as large as his intensely penetrating eyes.<br />
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<i>Beware of Mr. Baker</i> is a high-point for well-crafted documentaries, taking a complicated subject who, although he often could be an absolute asshole to those around him, could also be passionately sincere, incredibly naive and as a drummer, called one of the most influential.<br />
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Robert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-59388908078150059132013-10-07T23:40:00.015-04:002024-02-22T09:00:04.682-05:00THE REPLACEMENTS: REUNITED FOR SLIM<h2 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: none; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; display: inline; height: auto; opacity: 0.99; transition-property: all;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" height="169" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170324151201im_/http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/49149/d77e1c86.jpeg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 0.99; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;" width="165" /></span>Formed in 1979 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, </span><span style="color: black;">The Replacements<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> were one of the great groups that merged a love of classic rock, hook-laden bands such as </span>The Beatles<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> ( </i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">they named one of the albums</span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Let It Be ), </i>The Rolling Stones<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">,</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and </span>Badfinger<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> with the proto-punk of </span>The New York Dolls<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and the more recent snap of </span>The Ramones<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, </span>The Clash<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, </span>The Jam<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and </span>The Dead Boys<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</i><br /><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In their early sloppy, alcohol-sopped party rock days, when they weren’t downright terrible, they could be a short distance from their musical heroes, </span>The Faces<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. </i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8PV5zl8wBk_bPF-loK8hr2J-NRRwvjVlDtbu-ZQJnducZKgh2OG4r1acAaWqI1jeS8yWrz8WHl_iDESJseq1SPprFem0druqVVbxptdZgqm6SHvlO1ybRw1GiPyqjnQCtS3UBSBQoVAwklWVDAa5C6MTlmraE1WNTR197vbKLwOqddtlXbwZjN2893qJK/s515/The%20Faces.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="515" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8PV5zl8wBk_bPF-loK8hr2J-NRRwvjVlDtbu-ZQJnducZKgh2OG4r1acAaWqI1jeS8yWrz8WHl_iDESJseq1SPprFem0druqVVbxptdZgqm6SHvlO1ybRw1GiPyqjnQCtS3UBSBQoVAwklWVDAa5C6MTlmraE1WNTR197vbKLwOqddtlXbwZjN2893qJK/w640-h548/The%20Faces.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Through their earlier days the line-up was founder/guitarist </span>Bob Stinson<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> who, in an effort to keep his little half-brother out of trouble, presented </span>Tommy Stinson<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> with a bass. Adding their friend, guitarist turned drummer </span>Chris Mars<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, the new band, </span>Dogbreath<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, would cover </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170324151201/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nugent" style="border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Ted Nugent</a><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, and </span>Aerosmith<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, standard stuff for 70’s kids to play.<span></span></span><br /><span id="more-1922" style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Replacements<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i>continued to tour, party, antagonize and after an unsuccessful club tour supporting R.E.M. in 1983, moral was low and the band was possibly on the verge of a breakup.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Then the triumphant trio of superb albums that I hold as personal faves emerged:<br /><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></i><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let It Be</i> (1984), <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tim</i> (1985) and <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pleased To Meet Me</i> (1987) are as wonderful as anything to have been released during the Eighties.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Filled with masterful songwriting, locked in performance and a bravado that replaced goofy antics with assured connection to the influential bands that they worshiped initially. Here were records that could bring you to tears or soar you into the sky.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trouble is, behind the scenes and onstage all was still not well. all was not well behind the scenes. after </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let It Be’s</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> release, though things were looking up, there was still excessive partying, shambolic live shows, low incomes and finally, a switch from the indie Twin/Tone label to the major label backed </span>Sire Records<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</i><br /><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">After </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tim</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> came out on Sire, the band fired their founder </span>Bob Stinson<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> for too much partying and an unwillingness to perform the slower material. The group soldiered on, changed producers (</span>Tommy Ramone<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> produced </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tim</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">) and became a trio for another remarkable album called </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pleased To Meet Me.</i></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With a classic single “Alex Chilton” that paid homage to the </span>Big Star <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">/ </span>Box<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i>Tops<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> vocal legend as well as having Big Star producer </span>Jim Dickinson<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> at the helm, the album was a wonderful mixture of all the elements that made the Replacements a stellar band. .</span><br /><br /><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pleased To Meet Me</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, as it usually is for the best ones, was not the Top 40 hit the band was hoping for, but this trio of albums, like the early Ramones albums that were also not huge selling hits, will always continue grow in acclaim, influence new listeners, make top 50 best of lists and assure that the band would be immortalized forever in the pantheon of memorable rock bands.</span></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 8px 0px 0px;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3QXDd9k5hTcbanLEhyphenhyphenrLBLsnixYU0uh3s5Vp9l48WgfkfCwelTYLkc2zqjRztBYKETcXtPf0eT6sJQhyphenhyphen77qf1NSw0Jqctabsp4ZSN2ogWZlCnXAFsVt-XQ16kGYtJzJiVZSKn2dIZoPnkAABMU1qptaAi64eqzdgldUPFHCiZebxfGWIr7A0MiclwkIjB/s482/The%20Replacements%20Don't%20Tell.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="482" height="622" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3QXDd9k5hTcbanLEhyphenhyphenrLBLsnixYU0uh3s5Vp9l48WgfkfCwelTYLkc2zqjRztBYKETcXtPf0eT6sJQhyphenhyphen77qf1NSw0Jqctabsp4ZSN2ogWZlCnXAFsVt-XQ16kGYtJzJiVZSKn2dIZoPnkAABMU1qptaAi64eqzdgldUPFHCiZebxfGWIr7A0MiclwkIjB/w640-h622/The%20Replacements%20Don't%20Tell.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The next album, </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Don’t Tell A Soul </i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(1989) was a glossy lackluster album. Westerberg was seemingly running the show and the production reeks of a slick 80’s type that brought an unwelcome sheen to many a good band releasing albums during that period. A tour with </span>Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">didn’t turn out to be the right move.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The final album, </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">All Shook Down</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> (1990) was recorded largely by Paul Westerberg with session musicians. Westerberg realized the end was near and came up with a great album that reflected the finality of the group.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">While </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">All Shook Down</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> sounds more like a solo album, still it has a beauty with it’s emphasis on acoustic instrumentation that the previous album never came near. It would signal the future solo work of Paul Westerberg. </span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Drummer Chris Mars quit, and was replaced by the late </span>Steve Foley<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> for a lengthy 1991 farewell tour after which Tommy Stinson would then quit (Tommy went on to form various bands, play solo and join </span>Guns N’ Roses<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">!) and the band officially ended.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bob Stinson, who long battled drug and alcohol addictions, died in 1995.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In 2006, Mars, Westerberg, Stinson with </span>Josh Freese<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> on drums recorded two songs for a best of compilation, although it was never really thought to be any sort of official long-lasting return.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2013: The Reunion…</span></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This 10″ 5 song vinyl E.P., called </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Songs For Slim</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, was pressed in a limited edition, singed and numbered run of 250 and then auctioned off on eBay.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By the time all the auctions, which included a bunch of rare</span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Replacments goodies, ended the band had raised $100,000 for Slim, with most copies selling for over $300, low numbers selling between $500 – $1000 and 1/250 selling for $10,000.</span><br /><br /><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Song For Slim Project</i> <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">will be an ongoing project that will also release split 7″ singles by musicians such as John Doe, Frank Black, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, NRBQ, Jakob Dylan, Peter Buck, </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Deer Tick</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and others to continue to raise money for Dunlap’s long term care.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Songs For Slim</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> E.P. will be available later in the year for general purchase and the band is not ruling out a new album and tour.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Thoughts and prayers go out to Slim Dunlap and his family.</span></span></div><span><!--more--></span>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The song was simply added without any notifications or press releases.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As I saw the video and listened to the song, with those incredible, familiar sounding chords, I knew that, for myself, 2013 was already off to a great beginning. For here was never expected new music from one of my top 5 favorite artists that I have revered since I was an inquisitive little child staring at the strange alien-like being depicted on the American LP cover for his </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Space Oddity</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> album.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Presented was this fantastic surprise that is truly one the best kept secrets to ever have been tucked away by any legendary mega-selling. hugely influential musical performer long thought to be retired and finished with making music.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now widely regarded as some of Bowie’s best work apart from his early Glam days with Ziggy Stardust, or the cocaine fueled Euro funky Thin White Duke of his previous <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Station To Station</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> masterpiece, it was startling to find that Bowie, who often is not easily interpreted or using his music to reminisce or look back in such personal, on the surface style, would be so honest now and directly hearkening back to any past time in his life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For many Bowie fans including my own friends, “Where Are We Now?” made them cry upon listening and watching the video. Why? Perhaps because he had virtually dropped out of sight for almost a decade, aside from a few musical one-offs, so everyone thought he was retired or gravely ill with perhaps Alzheimer’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now his return presents a frail lilting song, that recalls what was already a painful period both in Bowie’s life and our own living under the Cold War. Bowie himself appears to be a sad survivor, much less glossy, and not at all the fashionable and well presented David Bowie, the rock star celebrity we are used to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After a festival in Germany in 2004 Bowie had suffered heart problems due to a blocked artery and required angioplasty surgery—no surprise for a man who allegedly smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day for how long? So his health issues had been in question, although one must also attribute his hiatus to having a new baby with wife Iman in 2002 and doubtlessly like say, Jay Pritchett who with his second wife Gloria are expecting their first baby on Modern Family, it was a new chance for Bowie to try being a better father than he was the first time around with Angie Bowie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now, having been able to digest the song and video for a few days, after falling in love with them instantly, I am better able to process everything. There have been a few interviews with longtime classic Bowie producer and confidant Tony Visconti, who has said he kept things so secret he could not even tell his own children he was working with Bowie, and the artist that designed The Next Day’s cover, Jonathan Barnbrook (who previously designed Bowie’s Heathen and Reality packages) who explained a little bit of the concept for using and subverting the photograph of Bowie’s original The Next Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This time around, while Tony Visconti has been scratching his head wondering if David’s choice of the single was the right one, “Where Are We Now” debuted at #1 in many countries on the iTunes top singles chart and for a day or two knocked Taylor Swift off her perch. The song has also entered the regular U.K. singles chart at #6 making it his first Top Ten single in twenty years, since “Absolute Beginners.” Not bad for a quiet song about getting low in Berlin in the late Seventies.<br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Given that Bowie’s unveiled secret was this massively successful and made headlines for every major news service as well as every blog and minor news service around the world, one can only imagine the impact that will come when the next single and the new album come out in March, especially if it is as Visconti says “rock.”</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As if I didn’t already, I can now appreciate that much </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">more</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> just how David Bowie, the artist who has seen the heights of commercial success, has also managed to subvert that success.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He has been able to attain the greatest possible artistic freedom of doing what he wants, when he wants and with a dichotomy that is intensely inward and profoundly outward. All this at a time when music and visual art are both at a peak of variation and distribution throughout the world, but it is a world filled with light-weight chart-toppers and run of the mill money grabs.</span></span></div>
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For instance, <i>Happy Days</i> giving us <i>Laverne and Shirley</i> and <i>Mork and Mindy </i>or <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer </i>providing us with <i>Angel</i>, but those are the obvious, things can get more convoluted and far less easy to spot sometimes.</div>
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Some shows that we take for granted as always being around, such as <i>The Tonight Show</i>, with all of the many hosts and longevity that show has had, is technically a spin-off of a show called <i>Broadway Open House</i> which ran from 1950 - 1951, and was NBC's first late night series—with <i>The Tonight Show</i> making its debut in 1954.</div>
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A series may spin-off of itself, as in the case of say Rowan Atkinson's brilliant <i>Black Adder</i>, which would then give the world <i>Black Adder II </i>and <i>Black Adder The Third,</i> etc.</div>
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There are shows, especially of the variety or anthology type, that would spin-off something much greater than the original, with the most famous example of all being <i>The Tracey Ullman Show</i> providing the world with <i>The Simpsons</i>.</div>
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To really get detailed, the fun, goofy comedy anthology series <i>Love, American Style</i> (which ran from 1969-1974) is the show that originally spawned <i>Happy Days</i> (which gave us many spin-offs, mostly terrible, aside from <i>Laverne and Shirley</i>), as well as <i>Wait Til Your Father Gets Home</i> (1972-1974), the first prime time animated series to last more than one season since <i>The Flintstones</i> and before <i>The Simpsons</i>.</div>
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So in thinking about spin-offs, and the complexities involved in sticking to what constitutes a true spin-off (a re-boot of a series such as with <i>Battlestar Galactica</i> is not a spin-off) here, in no particular order, are a few of my faves.</div>
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Unpredictable are some, while others, perhaps not so much.</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=448189431871162729" name="more"></a>I will only be listing television shows that are with live actors, so no animated shows this time around, but I promise that <i>Mystery Box</i> column will come in the near future, and with something to look forward in this column, you would be amazed if you knew just how many spin-offs a few animated series like <i>The Flintstones </i>or <i>The Archie Show</i> spawned!</div>
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Lastly, I'm also not going to mention anything from the <i>Star Trek</i> world on this list, as it would take up several columns to discuss these shows. To put it simply, I worship the original classic series, loved <i>Enterprise</i>, really liked <i>Next Generation</i> and found the other two spin-offs to be a chore.</div>
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After he goes home from his job as a detective at NYC's 12th precinct, this spin-off from the hit series <i>Barney Miller</i> has our lovable hero Phil Fish enjoying home-life along with his wife Bernice and their five racially diverse, and troubled foster kids (in a prescient role, one is portrayed by a pre <i>Diff'rent Strokes</i> Todd Bridges). Laughter, tension, tears and joy abound in what is actually not the greatest comedy I've ever come across, but hey, anything that has Abe Vigoda in a starring role automatically gets a free pass into <i>The Mystery Box Hall of Fame.</i><br />
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A spin-off from <i>Diff'rent Strokes</i> (Todd Bridges shoehorns his way into this column again) that featured the Drummonds' housekeeper Edna Garrett leaving to become the housemother of a dormitory at a private all-girls academy named Eastland School.</div>
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Why do I like this show so much? First off, I was not a big fan of <i>Different Strokes</i>, but giving a starring vehicle to the great Charlotte Rae, an actress I've been a fan of since her days yucking it up on TV shows with everyone from Phil Silvers, to <i>Car 54 Where Are You?</i> and <i>Sesame Street</i>, was the big draw at first.</div>
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Then something strange took hold. There was often so little I could relate to on this all-girl boarding school show, it soon became a balm of comfortable solace as I was caught up in the travails of this mighty comedic three: the snooty Blair, little Tootie the gossip, and of course, the omnipotent Natalie, as so expertly portrayed by Mindy Cohn.</div>
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Their problems became my problems, at least for a half hour.</div>
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Now, after years of many a late night sucked into a syndicated episode, I marvel at the original first season's mess of a cast which included the delightfully small Molly Ringwald, and shake my head at later seasons that included roles featuring the likes of George Clooney, Jamie Gertz and Cloris Leachman.</div>
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This show had tons of "backdoor pilots" that were intended to set up possible future spin-offs, but thankfully none happened.<br />
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A rare game-show spin-off from the superb and still funny <i>Match Game</i>. As a regular celeb on <i>Match Game</i>, Richard Dawson's charmingly British charisma and quick witticisms were enough to give him his own starring show. A gamble that paid off giving us one of the all time great game shows. It might not be as notoriously legendary as <i>Hollywood Squares, Match Game</i> or <i>The Gong Show</i>, but with Dawson at the helm, it comes pretty close.<br />
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Taking place in the same rural land as that of the show it was spun off off, <i>Petticoat Junction,</i> this was also the brainchild of producer Paul Henning, who had struck gold with that show and his blockbuster<i> The Beverly Hillbillies</i>. Henning used the plot of an earlier radio show he'd had with the premise of a well-heeled couple leaving the big city and restarting life in the backwoods.</div>
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The plot might not have worked so well had it not been for such an outstanding cast including the main stars, Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as the determined Oliver Wendell Douglas and his wife, Lisa. The revolving group of outstanding character actors revving up the insanity of the backwoods environment, most notably Pat Buttram as a disreputable traveling salesman, and <i>Arnold Ziffel</i> son to The Ziffels, a nearby elderly childless couple, are what really put the show over the top. Arnold, portrayed by an actual pig, was often a better actor than many human actors have been on television.</div>
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The show lasted a healthy six seasons and could have kept going but CBS and to a lesser degree the other networks, went through their great "Rural Purge" and canceled any show that they deemed no longer accessible to urban and younger viewers. Or as Pat Buttram put it, "It was the year CBS canceled anything with a tree—including <i>Lassie</i>."</center>
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This paved the way for some great shows that would change television, such as <i>All In the Family</i>, yet also cut off some successful and worthy shows such as <i>Wild Kingdom, The Johnny Cash Show, Hee Haw </i>and<i> The Andy Williams Show</i>. Many of the shows canceled ended up having popular new lives in syndication which remains to this day and many have been rediscovered for the incredible musical guests and performances they featured at the time.</div>
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<i><br /></i><i>All In The Family</i> used storylines with characters and subjects that had never fully been dealt with before on television. By using the grey areas of life and dealing with subjects such as prejudice, the independence of women, religion, the Vietnam war, sexual preferences, sexual inadequacies, divisional politics and the generation gap, it broke all barriers and became a huge hit show. The day to day life of the WWII vet, conservative working class stiff, Archie Bunker, along with his family and friends in their Queens neighborhood, presented what television could do with a sit-com by pushing every boundary there was.</div>
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Breaking all sorts of ratings records,<i> All In The Family</i> as you would imagine, gave television some memorable spin-offs, three of which I have chosen.</div>
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I had to pick this show since George Jefferson, while he was Bunker's next door neighbor on <i>All In The Family,</i>was a hilarious integral part of the show and even long before the Jeffersons had moved next door, Michael Evans as George's son Lionel Jefferson, was fantastic. Lionel was introduced early on as friend to Archie and Edith Bunker's Daughter Gloria and her husband Mike.</div>
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George received some money from a car accident settlement and used it to buy a dry cleaning business. What started as one store, turned into five and next thing you know George and his wife Louise, who had been a great friend to Edith Bunker, so there was that tearful goodbye, decided to move to a luxury apartment in Manhattan.</div>
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<i>The Jeffersons</i>, was really not all that great when compared to <i>All In The Family</i> or the following spin-offs I have picked below. It was a fairly safe sit-com, relying on the jokes surrounding cranky George and how he adjusted to his well-off neighbors, his sassy housekeeper and the families' new life.<br />
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So I pick this more out of an obligation and how well these characters were on <i>All In The Family.</i> Damn, eleven seasons is a head-scratcher though.</div>
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On <i>All In The Family</i>, there was perhaps only one character that could ever put Archie Bunker in his place with a smart, calm, verbal smack-down, and that was Edith Bunker's cousin Maude Findley.</div>
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So well received by audiences from her <i>All In The Family</i> appearances was Maude, that she was given her own show revolving around her family living in the suburbs of Westchester County, New York.<br />
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Much of the humor of the extremely liberal Democrat, Maude, was how sharp she was (wonderful acting from Bea Arthur) and her wit in dealing with everyone from her fourth husband Walter, to her Republican next door neighbor, to her seemingly promiscuous daughter Carol (played by Adrienne Barbeau, another reason I watched this show so much). There was just as much topical controversy as on <i>All In the Family</i> with many issues covered.</div>
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Florida proved to be such a big draw for the show that when she learned that her husband James, had been given a big raise at his job, she was able to quit working as a housekeeper and just be a stay at home mom.</div>
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Storylines began to develop other characters for the last three seasons including more of an annoying building super, a young Janet Jackson as an abused child who is adopted by Florida's best friend/neighbor Wilona, and the departure of Esther Rolle eventually (although she would return for the last season, but the damage was already done).<br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">At my youngest age of listening to, and examining Led Zeppelin, there was something about the band that charmed. Something that was different and more mysterious than any other band operating at the time. Perhaps only Pink Floyd also had this aura of the inexplicable, but I always had an inkling that behind the <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Great and Powerful Oz</i> that was Pink Floyd’s curtain, there were still some clever art student stoners who formulated their ideas at a local pub.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Decades before the video game <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Skyrim</i> existed, I felt as if founder/guitarist Jimmy Page had wandered some bleak wintry mountains on a quest in search of <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the</i> perfect alchemical potion that would enable him to craft a super rock and roll group for the ages.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Of course, it didn’t hurt that the factual surroundings of the band included a bit of a cultivation of a mystique that included few to none interviews, little access to the musicians, tales of weird occult fascinations, and songs that conjured up ancient Celtic lore and old spooky blues songs—real Robert Johnson making a pact with the Devil at the Crossroads—mojo type of blues stuff.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Pre-Led Zeppelin, in the early to mid sixties, Jimmy Page had been an in-demand session musician. One of his many recordings included playing guitar on a #1 single called “Diamonds” by Jet Harris and Tony Meehan in 1963. Among the many other sessions he played on, were tracks by The Who, The Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker, The Kinks, Brenda Lee, Van Morrison and Them, on Donovan’s <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sunshine Superman</i> album and Petula Clarke’s huge “Downtown” single. Page was recording up to three sessions a day and over fifteen a week.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Yardbirds with both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page was extremely brief with only a few recordings, but they did appear in a memorable cameo for Michelangelo Antonioni in his film<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Blow Up</i>, always on the list on my fave films. Originally, Antonioni wanted Eric Bruden, then The Who, then The In-Crowd featuring Steve Howe (later of Yes). After all could declined, the choice was to be The Velvet Underground, who were set to do it, but could not obtain the proper U.K. work permits, so it finally came down to The Yardbirds, with Jeff Beck smashing his guitar to emulate Pete Townshend’s early Who antics.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The quartet clicked immediately. They fulfilled a Scandinavian concert obligation as The New Yardbirds, but had to change the name after the tour was completed. Page returned to the joke made by Moon and Entwistle on their aborted supergroup. The band’s manager Peter Grant thought fans might pronounce Lead “Leed” and suggested “Led.”<br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mostly on the suggestion of singer Dusty Springfield and without ever seeing them (!), Led Zeppelin were signed for the then unheard of sum of $200,000 by Atlantic Records. Jimmy Page had recorded </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Led Zeppelin I</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> quickly and at a low cost, having played the material on tour already.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On the basis of the tapes, Atlantic Records was knocked over gave the band complete control over everything from cover art, what songs to release, touring and promoting the band.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The four musicians, vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham created a near perfect discography of incredible studio albums, sell out live tours, an everlasting huge fanbase, and although some may argue with me, an original and highly entertaining in-concert fantasy film that has always given me a maximum rock thrill.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">A December 1980 press statement stated that, “We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were”, and it was simply signed “Led Zeppelin.”</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Unlike some bands, that keep the gravy train a-rollin’ even though they no longer even contain one original member, this was was an admirable and smart decision, and one that sealed their legacy forever.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">So how could Led Zeppelin put a cap on a career that was so profoundly exquisite, one which ran at a nearly 100% quality control standard before losing one of their four key elements which they determined made it impossible to go on?</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">1982 saw the release of the <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Coda</i> album. A collection of a couple of live tracks and some unused outtakes.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In 1985, Plant, Page and Jones reunited for <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Live Aid</i>, although they did not call themselves Led Zeppelin, it was hyped as a Zep set. they added drummers Phil Collins and Tony Thompson and bassist Paul Martinez who had played with Plant in the early Band Of Joy. The performance was poorly rehearsed, and the three felt it highly unsuccessful.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">For their record label, Atlantic Records’ 40th anniversary party, the band now included Bonham’s son Jason Bonham, on drums. Still, the trio once again fared poorly with a lackluster set where Plant said “the gig was foul.”</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">When Atlantic Records’ President and founder Ahmet Ertegun passed away in 2006, the band decided to do a one-off official reunion concert for the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert Benefit held on December 10th, 2007 at London’s massive O2 arena.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXS1ZlVH_34kWRN2qDypJI4cCWhe3i3AyjG0Ix59IystZaPcYBwe_uqcu9M9xYyeqlzMefeD2UMtutu7zXE7V1EOmWBPNFKkUkQe4U4xJ5-RV6m9PEEHmoUbsUiqiA5oY9AG5suQZkABVtTGHqVJUORzoD0Om2bk0E1C79bxC6uk-xWu3vNhie_hTyHFlV/s521/Led%20Zep%20poster.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="369" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXS1ZlVH_34kWRN2qDypJI4cCWhe3i3AyjG0Ix59IystZaPcYBwe_uqcu9M9xYyeqlzMefeD2UMtutu7zXE7V1EOmWBPNFKkUkQe4U4xJ5-RV6m9PEEHmoUbsUiqiA5oY9AG5suQZkABVtTGHqVJUORzoD0Om2bk0E1C79bxC6uk-xWu3vNhie_hTyHFlV/w454-h640/Led%20Zep%20poster.JPG" width="454" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The musicians were mining sacred territory, but there it was, the golden sound once again. Robert Plant’s vocals may not be leaning towards the highs of 30 years ago, but his lower register, prowling voice compliments the material in a way that almost makes more sense now, since from the start the band was so heavily influenced by the older early American blues musicians like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Blind Willie Johnson, Willie Dixon.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYp-TnQZ9etD5wXCLPVHgkeI3IdFO_y23qJwpl7xvdQBmNfmWQ6-YKq4x_rMCRw1-mRjqJ6x8vSluA8PQsECZhCArWgKqNNyLIy8SEzneZzA4tHFd5mwPG0_r5azPMyX26Q3uXqozdw5l5D8eSR7qvtIkVzHvh6LwVEdiHttljKUEaEgdj6BSiWf_nvmrf/s655/Led%20Zep%20final%201.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="655" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYp-TnQZ9etD5wXCLPVHgkeI3IdFO_y23qJwpl7xvdQBmNfmWQ6-YKq4x_rMCRw1-mRjqJ6x8vSluA8PQsECZhCArWgKqNNyLIy8SEzneZzA4tHFd5mwPG0_r5azPMyX26Q3uXqozdw5l5D8eSR7qvtIkVzHvh6LwVEdiHttljKUEaEgdj6BSiWf_nvmrf/w640-h428/Led%20Zep%20final%201.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi33dQxPI2VxpxHEi8rAkFvVyM3VO0ifZ94j0qPzm4H9rzgXlNIiPr_Tc4WXkS1rlAeNyKBSjxvqeezMpGld2TAGD2csb-nzdZSl2I-0GkOor-acefESDDXZtVdOB_JzbFbg-fR-KI_xEmWCqrmZck7SGQ1ww3nUBGTS2v-WMBBJcd3nHHYCUJqwK47ADx-/s660/Led%20Zep%20final%202.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="660" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi33dQxPI2VxpxHEi8rAkFvVyM3VO0ifZ94j0qPzm4H9rzgXlNIiPr_Tc4WXkS1rlAeNyKBSjxvqeezMpGld2TAGD2csb-nzdZSl2I-0GkOor-acefESDDXZtVdOB_JzbFbg-fR-KI_xEmWCqrmZck7SGQ1ww3nUBGTS2v-WMBBJcd3nHHYCUJqwK47ADx-/w640-h390/Led%20Zep%20final%202.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Arial Bold"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It took a few years, but recently released to unanimously positive reviews has come the film </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Celebration Day</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, playing theatrically around the world. Also now </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Celebration Day</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> been released in a variety of formats: from downloads, a 3 LP vinyl set, to Blu-ray, DVD, CD and some sets with an extra DVD of an early rehearsal the band had filmed.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The entire event was pulled off as a success—one last grand celebratory reunion concert, that didn’t falter or come off as just the usual cash cow.<br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Few bands of the stature of Led Zeppelin would ever have done a reunion concert like this with just the four playing alone, instead they would have piled on additional musicians and massive overdubs to sweeten the sound.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As a beautiful cap to the story of Led Zeppelin came recently when the three members were awarded Kennedy Center Honors by President Obama.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There alongside the other 2012 Honorees, David Letterman, Dustin Hoffman, Buddy Guy, and ballerina Natalia Makarova, were Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones presented with the highest award the United States gives out for artists’ lifetime contribution to America through the performing arts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here I present to you, MY FAVORITE MUSICAL ACTS, PART 3 — <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LYRES</em>…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After DMZ broke up, Conolly, a.k.a. "Monoman" (a nickname that has several possible origins including Jeff's obsession with '60s monaural soul and rock and roll recordings and collecting them, as well as a single-minded obstinate determination when it comes to running a band) founded Lyres in 1979, retaining the fiery power of DMZ, but pushing even more of a garage rock and soul 60's sound to the forefront.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The two members of DMZ who stayed on as the first of a billion changing lineups of Lyres would be the always present Jeff Conolly and bassist Rick Coraccio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Following this release would be their stellar debut E.P. in 1981 known simply for its catalog number Lyres<i> AHS 1005. </i>Rick left the band, but DMZ's Peter Greenberg would join on guitar. The E.P.<i> </i>contained 4 songs that would not appear on their debut album "Buried Alive," "In Motion," "High On Yourself" and "What A Girl Can't Do."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This E.P. was released on Ace Of Hearts Records, a label formed by a local Bostonian music fan, Rick Harte. Harte had enough foresight to release singles and albums, and also produce some of the greatest new Boston bands operating at that moment including Mission Of Burma, Classic Ruins and The Neighborhoods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lyres would help to launch a movement. Along with other great bands such as The Fleshtones, Chesterfield Kings, The Fuzztones, Swedish band The Nomads<i>,</i> and one of the many various bands formed by the U.K.'s Billy Childish<i>, </i>it was the start of what would soon become a second wave garage rock revival throughout the 80's. At the time however, many of these bands would simply be called Power Pop and/or New Wave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As a side note, one band that would become heavily inspired and influenced by this revival, and started out largely as a band playing loads of 60's garage rock covers, is the hugely successful group R.E.M.<i> </i>In fact, now that R.E.M. has called it quits, guitarist Peter Buck has largely returned to the love of his garage rock roots both in sound, and by recording his new solo album quickly just like some of the 60's punk bands did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fast forward to 2012 and Munster Records of Madrid, Spain has just reissued the debut full length album from Lyres called <i>On Fyre</i> which was originally released by Ace Of Hearts in 1984, and the band's second album <i>Lyres, Lyres</i> released by Ace Of Hearts in 1984.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Both albums work as an inseparable pair containing not only the greatest songs to have ever sprung from the songwriting canon of The Monoman and his compadres, but they are also peppered with cover songs that have become staples for the band's incendiary live sets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>On Fyre</i> begins with a bang, featuring the two (of three) Conolly songs that have become his masterpieces heard around the world "Don't Give It Up Now" and "Help You Ann." A one in a million pairing of songs that are as important...and hell, I would go so far as to even say better than almost any band's debut album first two tracks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Help You Ann" features guitarist Danny McCormick's pre-digital echo tremolo delay guitar that is as iconic as Dave Davies' opening chords to The Kinks' "You Really got Me". The Kinks are covered on the album as a matter of fact with a soulful rendition of "Tired Of Waiting" and "Love Me Till the Sun Shines" a song from their <i>Something Else</i> album that has always been credited to Dave Davies but, as hearing the magnificent Lyres version will attest, always has been under suspicion that it could in fact be one of Ray Davies greatest songs. Either way, it is spectacular.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The rest of the album completes one of the best garage rock/soul stomping parties you're likely to attend for some time. In keeping with the deep depth of his musical vaults, and his knowledge is<i> really</i> deep, Conolly also resurrects a song from The Pete Best Combo, "The Way I Feel About You." Owing to Pete Best being better known as the original drummer for The Beatles<i>,</i> it is a canny and subtly brilliant selection. Conolly has said that he always gravitates towards the underdogs in music.</span><br />
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With their second and also timeless album <i>Lyres, Lyres,</i> Conolly had many a fan scratching their heads when the second track came on and it was not the same distinctively catchy "She Pays the Rent" single that had been played on local radio stations throughout New England.</div>
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In fact it was yet another way that Monoman had thrown a curveball at expectations proving that he was in it for the music and music alone. As well as an encyclopedia of all things garage rock, he has a large vocabulary of bands that he digs from for cover songs. He has stated that his first band love was The Searchers, and obviously also deeply close to his heart has always been soul music. With this version #2 of "She Pays The Rent" Conolly was able to transform his third best known song into a soul number crooned at a slow James Brown "Try Me" pace. Also as a more practical reason for version #2 being so different, is that Swedish band The Nomads had recently scored an underground hit with their true to the original version of "She Pays the Rent."</div>
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<i>Lyres, Lyres</i> was also a way for Conolly to not merely duplicate <i>On Fyre</i> but to grow his musical vision, not only in expanding his choice of cover songs, decades ahead of the game as always by taking on lesser known tracks that are often unknown by many except the most obsessive of record collectors, as well as increasing the studio production side of things. Lyres would not just be a tribute act to the 60's, they would be able to grow with strong original material using the passion of the early garage acts and create another classic long player that for some, including Rick Harte, is even better than the first album.</div>
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As with all of the material that is done by <i>Lyres</i>, whether an original or a cover song, there is a Lyres sound all its own, and for Monoman to consistently pull off a feat like that over decades, is what makes the band one of the truly great ones and makes Jeff Conolly a musical genius.</div>
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If ever there was a band who put their music where their mouth is, it would be this band. Never a group to care much for fashion—sneakers, shades and jeans are about it— or stage demeanor—a tumbler of vodka and some bottles of beer— Lyres just rip it up on an intense level.</div>
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Over the years I have seen Conolly and his Lyres many many times—from one room basement shows to headlining large venues. As a person that off-stage might be a spin of the wheel to talk with, or in no condition to talk at all—everyone has a cadre of stories to tell about the Monoman—when he is performing onstage he locks it in and is a complete pro...a complete, unabashedly crazed, give the audience everything, pro!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">After DMZ broke up, Conolly, a.k.a. “Monoman” (a nickname that has several possible origins including Jeff’s obsession with ’60s monaural soul and rock and roll recordings and collecting them, as well as a single-minded obstinate determination when it comes to running a band) founded Lyres in 1979, retaining the fiery power of DMZ, but pushing even more of a garage rock and soul 60’s sound to the forefront.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The two members of DMZ who stayed on as the first of a billion changing lineups of Lyres would be the always present Jeff Conolly and bassist Rick Coraccio.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Following this release would be their stellar debut E.P. in 1981 known simply for its catalog number Lyres<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> AHS 1005. </i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rick left the band, but DMZ’s Peter Greenberg would join on guitar. The E.P.</span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">contained 4 songs that would not appear on their debut album “Buried Alive,” “In Motion,” “High On Yourself” and “What A Girl Can’t Do.”</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This E.P. was released on Ace Of Hearts Records, a label formed by a local Bostonian music fan, Rick Harte. Harte had enough foresight to release singles and albums, and also produce some of the greatest new Boston bands operating at that moment including Mission Of Burma, Classic Ruins and The Neighborhoods.</span><br /><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">For myself, the records released by Ace Of Hearts were as important, expertly crafted and classic as anything that might have been coming over as imports from England.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lyres would help to launch a movement. Along with other great bands such as The Fleshtones, Chesterfield Kings, The Fuzztones, Swedish band The Nomads</span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">,</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and one of the many various bands formed by the U.K.’s Billy Childish</span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, </i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">it was the start of what would soon become a second wave garage rock revival throughout the 80’s. At the time however, many of these bands would simply be called Power Pop and/or New Wave.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As a side note, one band that would become heavily inspired and influenced by this revival, and started out largely as a band playing loads of 60’s garage rock covers, is the hugely successful group R.E.M.</span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In fact, now that R.E.M. has called it quits, guitarist Peter Buck has largely returned to the love of his garage rock roots both in sound, and by recording his new solo album quickly just like some of the 60’s punk bands did.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fast forward to 2012 and Munster Records of Madrid, Spain has just reissued the debut full length album from Lyres called </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On Fyre</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> which was originally released by Ace Of Hearts in 1984, and the band’s second album </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lyres, Lyres</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> released by Ace Of Hearts in 1984.</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Both albums work as an inseparable pair containing not only the greatest songs to have ever sprung from the songwriting canon of The Monoman and his compadres, but they are also peppered with cover songs that have become staples for the band’s incendiary </span><span style="font-family: "arial bold";">live sets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On Fyre</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> begins with a bang, featuring the two (of three) Conolly songs that have become his masterpieces heard around the world “Don’t Give It Up Now” and “Help You Ann.” A one in a million pairing of songs that are as important…and hell, I would go so far as to even say better than almost any band’s debut album first two tracks.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Help You Ann” features guitarist Danny McCormick’s pre-digital echo tremolo delay guitar that is as iconic as Dave Davies’ opening chords to The Kinks’ “You Really got Me”. The Kinks are covered on the album as a matter of fact with a soulful rendition of “Tired Of Waiting” and “Love Me Till the Sun Shines” a song from their </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Something Else</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> album that has always been credited to Dave Davies but, as hearing the magnificent Lyres version will attest, always has been under suspicion that it could in fact be one of Ray Davies greatest songs. Either way, it is spectacular.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The rest of the album completes one of the best garage rock/soul stomping parties you’re likely to attend for some time. In keeping with the deep depth of his musical vaults, and his knowledge is</span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> really</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> deep, Conolly also resurrects a song from The Pete Best Combo, “The Way I Feel About You.” Owing to Pete Best being better known as the original drummer for The Beatles</span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">,</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> it is a canny and subtly brilliant selection. Conolly has said that he always gravitates towards the underdogs in music.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With their second and also timeless album </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lyres, Lyres,</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Conolly had many a fan scratching their heads when the second track came on and it was not the same distinctively catchy “She Pays the Rent” single that had been played on local radio stations throughout New England.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In fact it was yet another way that Monoman had thrown a curveball at expectations proving that he was in it for the music and music alone. As well as an encyclopedia of all things garage rock, he has a large vocabulary of bands that he digs from for cover songs. He has stated that his first band love was The Searchers, and obviously also deeply close to his heart has always been soul music. With this version #2 of “She Pays The Rent” Conolly was able to transform his third best known song into a soul number crooned at a slow James Brown “Try Me” pace. Also as a more practical reason for version #2 being so different, is that Swedish band The Nomads had recently scored an underground hit with their true to the original version of “She Pays the Rent.”</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The best songwriters know that their greatest material can easily be transformed into innumerable various versions—just ask Bob Dylan or Neil Young.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lyres, Lyres<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> was also a way for Conolly to not merely duplicate </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On Fyre</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> but to grow his musical vision, not only in expanding his choice of cover songs, decades ahead of the game as always by taking on lesser known tracks that are often unknown by many except the most obsessive of record collectors, as well as increasing the studio production side of things. Lyres would not just be a tribute act to the 60’s, they would be able to grow with strong original material using the passion of the early garage acts and create another classic long player that for some, including Rick Harte, is even better than the first album.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As a companion piece to </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On Fyre,</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> the </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lyres, Lyres</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> album is the exquisite dessert that accompanies the main course.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As with all of the material that is done by </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lyres</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, whether an original or a cover song, there is a Lyres sound all its own, and for Monoman to consistently pull off a feat like that over decades, is what makes the band one of the truly great ones and makes Jeff Conolly a musical genius.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If ever there was a band who put their music where their mouth is, it would be this band. Never a group to care much for fashion—sneakers, shades and jeans are about it— or stage demeanor—a tumbler of vodka and some bottles of beer— Lyres just rip it up on an intense level.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Over the years I have seen Conolly and his Lyres many many times—from one room basement shows to headlining large venues. As a person that off-stage might be a spin of the wheel to talk with, or in no condition to talk at all—everyone has a cadre of stories to tell about the Monoman—when he is performing onstage he locks it in and is a complete pro…a complete, unabashedly crazed, give the audience everything, pro!</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alfred E. Neuman has been associated with </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MAD Magazine</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> since his likeness first appeared with them in 1954. Soon after he was already being touted as a Presidential candidate.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There’s a great site that details all the qualifications for </span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MAD Magazine’s</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> figurehead called </span>Hypocrisy Today<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> with one of my faves written at the time of the election of our 43rd President, “He’s just as smart as the other candidates and twice as popular.”</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Howard The Duck</b></span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;">With his slogan “Get Down America!” Howard ran on his All-Night Party ticket, and while he never did catch a win, the details of his nomination contain a storyline as convoluted and containing as many “interesting” and sordid characters as a real Presidential election (for instance Dr. Angst, Tillie the Hun and The Spanker).</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoXIejp9eytAu5uGEP8Aj0GHy8DafS8V827zzY2TrbrKIQTtJcbFtX-otR43f4Lv3wFojccAEKds6ZFUzjeI50Yl_Y43hMciPU949RcBN_mhnhSNbbdgfd3iqpxjVaPU279IsQSZCqyGiFyJ-qb53pGlwcozYZEPfCdqiZ-b5lrF7EgrNglu3KQFeTn503/s755/Howard%20the%20Duck%20Pres.%20comic.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="508" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoXIejp9eytAu5uGEP8Aj0GHy8DafS8V827zzY2TrbrKIQTtJcbFtX-otR43f4Lv3wFojccAEKds6ZFUzjeI50Yl_Y43hMciPU949RcBN_mhnhSNbbdgfd3iqpxjVaPU279IsQSZCqyGiFyJ-qb53pGlwcozYZEPfCdqiZ-b5lrF7EgrNglu3KQFeTn503/w430-h640/Howard%20the%20Duck%20Pres.%20comic.JPG" width="430" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Plus, how can you not feel some sympathy for a duck that was snatched from his home planet and dropped in the Florida Everglades by Thog The Overmaster?</span><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Truth be told, I would throw my full support behind any of The Three Stooges</span><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Shemp, Larry, Moe, hell, even Joe Besser would bring something to the position.</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Did someone say massive pie fight in The White House?</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Redd Foxx</b></span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As the late, great Fred Sanford would say “I ain’t voting for no dummy!”</span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Here we had a candidate who not only would have been the first black President, imagine having Aunt Esther as his running mate. The first black/woman Vice President smacking shifty congressmen upside the head with her purse.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">W.C. Fields</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitjhCChWABAmPN2Bq5oiChUVi5du9lbkcz-JPq0WDCyYxbgeI1YMa5IK97xkIjo6Di7dXvcLHVP9BcPGJSFglJRUnNE8E_jutr2VWBsVlNcS-ou66lxhmfCuTY2kq4ynRIJgVKIg1VwjOd09BbrC-pV7SX4FnVGNOOlOyS640f8TUP13HpcUkD2KEjXHKE/s774/W.C.Fields%20for%20Pres..JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 400; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="545" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitjhCChWABAmPN2Bq5oiChUVi5du9lbkcz-JPq0WDCyYxbgeI1YMa5IK97xkIjo6Di7dXvcLHVP9BcPGJSFglJRUnNE8E_jutr2VWBsVlNcS-ou66lxhmfCuTY2kq4ynRIJgVKIg1VwjOd09BbrC-pV7SX4FnVGNOOlOyS640f8TUP13HpcUkD2KEjXHKE/w450-h640/W.C.Fields%20for%20Pres..JPG" width="450" /></a></b></span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">To be honest, this still holds up now as a really funny and wonderfully written book<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. </i>Almost seems as if it were written for some of today’s candidates<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i>with lines like “If he knows nothing else, a President should at least understand the secret of success in the business world. For, after all, what is the Presidency but a glorified business – or, at least, a fine racket?”</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Hulk</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVfzNEOyiIL9URf_0IxXQJKgi4dSE5PSuTnV0sLC-hVgs2zhUgJwXhhUATnWf7oHBQYouHQvdaY7TcMUo72l89-lgRGPAXxQ5GApnhiHiSbU28lyJkIKPdw9YyC9AtzTMYUuUgJ68GzteN5DzvC2UMBR8oK007IVYl4oDMPWhha0ozzbZN34ikI808Kumg/s666/Hulk%20for%20Pres..JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="666" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVfzNEOyiIL9URf_0IxXQJKgi4dSE5PSuTnV0sLC-hVgs2zhUgJwXhhUATnWf7oHBQYouHQvdaY7TcMUo72l89-lgRGPAXxQ5GApnhiHiSbU28lyJkIKPdw9YyC9AtzTMYUuUgJ68GzteN5DzvC2UMBR8oK007IVYl4oDMPWhha0ozzbZN34ikI808Kumg/w640-h362/Hulk%20for%20Pres..JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></b></span></span></div>
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Robert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-50348037650545486112013-10-07T23:24:00.000-04:002019-07-02T10:42:28.411-04:00JOHN ENTWISTLE: Halloween's Favorite Bass Player<h2 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: none; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">
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Before Entwistle, pop music fans of all different styles could care less about the bass as an instrument, often not paying that much attention to who was playing it or listening for its sound.<br />
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Playing the bass as a lead instrument with a full on volume, treble and bass attack, and with his very specific selection of type of bass, plus what strings and amplification to use, Entwistle brought an uncompromising new approach to the bass guitar.</div>
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Quick side note: The Horn is commonly referred to by most folks as The French Horn, but in actuality and in orchestras it is only The Horn, as its origins are German and not French. </div>
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Due to Entwistle's strong constitution and an ability to "eat, drink, or do more than the rest of them" he was nicknamed <i>The Ox</i> as well as <i>The Quiet One</i>, when he was described by original Rolling Stones Bill Wyman as "the quietest man in private, but the loudest man on stage."</div>
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Entwistle was one essential quarter of a band with a chemistry that rivaled any to ever make music. Providing a counterpoint to Roger Daltry, the frontman with the dashing looks, powerhouse vocals and swinging microphone, Pete Townshend, the lanky songwriting genius/guitarist with the leaping jumps and windmill arms slashes, and Keith Moon, a.k.a. "Moon The Loon," the <i>L'Enfant terrible</i>; jokester flaying about, all cymbals and spinning drumsticks, on his <i>Premier</i> drum kit.</div>
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Entwistle's onstage stillness and immovable solidity contained a man, with a very black sense of humor and a songwriting style that was often as outgoing, dastardly whimsical and darkly comical, as Pete Townshend's was introverted, deeply introspective and more often than not, dryly serious.</div>
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At this point I could pick out one essential John Entwistle composition (from The Who's album <i>A Quick One</i>), and so wonderfully would it encapsulate the above title for this Halloween piece, that I could almost stop writing and just leave you with some of the song's lyrics:<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(© 1966 John Entwistle)</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Look, he's crawling up my wall</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Now he's up above my head</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Now he's dropped on to the floor</span></i></div>
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According to Pete Townshend, "Boris the Spider" was Jimi Hendrix's favorite song by The Who<i>, </i>and they loved finding a place for the song in their live sets.</div>
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The now commonplace vocal style of so many metal bands often referred to as the "Death Growl" or what I have always termed <i>Cookie Monster vocals</i> can be traced back to Entwistle's "Boris the Spider" growling vocals, and though it probably originated even earlier with the funny shock R&B vocals by the likes of Screamin' Jay Hawkins for instance, it is most likely that the heavy horror rock that is "Boris..." is a song that really made an impact on more modern era death metal bands. There were doubtlessly other heavy songs post "Boris..." such as Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" and King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man," that also acted as an influence on the death growl.</div>
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According to <i>The Who</i> lore, Entwistle's hair was a natural blonde, but he dyed it jet black so that Roger Daltry would stand out more as the blonde singer frontman.</div>
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It was a look he would retain for decades. While happy to take a backseat to the others in the band, and even with his memorable songs like "Boris...", "My Wife" and Whiskey Man" peppering Who albums, he recorded and released the first solo album by a member of The Who, 1971's <i>Smash Your Head Against The Wall.</i></div>
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The album, with a disturbing Egyptian sarcophagus-like cover—it actually superimposes John Entwistle wearing his own plastic "death mask" with that of x-rays from lung cancer patient (parodying anti-cigarette smoking ads of the time—well, I said he had a penchant for black humor!)—is Entwistle's masterpiece.</div>
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Not only does it feel like it could have come from the vaults of The Who<i> </i>as a long lost album, Entwistle's songwriting, production and performances by the band are superb including guest percussion and backing vocals by Keith Moon, The Bonzo Dog Band's Vivian Stanshall,<i> </i>and The Bonzo Dog Band/Rutles' Neil Innes.</div>
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Entwistle's black humor, inner demons and funeral parlor songwriting runs throughout the album with tracks such as "My Size" (where the smashing a bully's head against the wall of the album title comes in), a remake of his own Who song "Heaven and Hell" with more Horn, the "Eleanor Rigby" sentiments of "Ted End," "No. 29 Eternal Youth" and Entwistle as the devil himself in "You're Mine." An expanded version of the album includes many demos such as the unreleased and splendidly titled "The Haunted Can Be Free".</div>
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<i>Whistle Rymes</i> contains a little mentioned or written about Entwistle song as its closer, "Nightmare (Please Wake Me Up)," which is a song that not only reinforces my entire point for this article, but I would easily say that with its long, experimental creepy sound, it probably influenced Hugh Cornwell and his band The Stranglers, and is one of my fave Entwistle songs from any of his albums.</div>
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The next two Entwistle solo albums, <i>Rigor Mortis Sets In</i> (1973) and <i>Mad Dog</i> (1975) sport incredible covers and are truly crazed affairs in that Entwistle was parodying classic early rock and roll music, ala say what Frank Zappa or Vivian Stanshall<i> </i>would often do, with loads of cover songs and sound-a-likes.</div>
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These albums are unusually drunken, very silly (lots of budget money spent on booze) and while not for the casual Entwistle fan looking for the highs of his work with The Who or his first two solo albums, are still really good albums especially when you understand the climate from which they sprang. <i>Mad Dog </i>(released as <i>John Entwitle's Ox</i>) is often referred to by fans as <i>The Son of Rigor Mortis </i>because the two albums really do work well as a pairing. While derided by many and NOT critically acclaimed (once again always something that always draws me in!) fans of Monty Python's Flying Circus<i> </i>or The Bonzo Dog Band<i> </i>might find a companion with these two albums.</div>
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After <i>Mad Dog</i> in '75, Entwistle took a break from solo work until reappearing in 1981 with the power trio album <i>Too Late The Hero</i> featuring Joe Walsh on guitar and Joe Vitale on drums.</div>
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The album displays some powerful bass, some decent songwriting and while it doesn't really match Entwistle's previous work, there the John we all love is still there and the album i something a fan might want to seek out. After this there was a previously shelved album that finally came out called <i>The Rock</i>, with guest vocalists and a slick mainstream metal sound.</div>
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Entwistle continued with some small venue touring in the 80's and 90's, and always managed a great live band and excellent show. He was a big part of The Alan Parson's Tribute: <i>A Walk Down Abbey Road</i> in 2001 and took part on one of <i>Ringo Starr's All Starr Band</i> tours.</div>
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You can find numerous compilations and live recordings from this period until he became another death by misadventure in June 2002 while The Who was on a reunion tour.</div>
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An influence on musicians as wide ranging as Geddy Lee of<i> </i>Rush and Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath to Chris Novoselic of Nirvana<i>. </i>He will always be on top ten lists of the greatest rock bass players of all time.</div>
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One of his final projects was <i>Music From Van-Pires</i>, a collaborative collection of songs recorded and released by The John Entwistle Band for an animated children's TV series in 2000. Featuring Death Growl narrative and songs with titles such as "Horror Rock," Bogey Man," "Darker Side of Night" and "Left For Dead," it is not only a heavy dose of wonderfully dark and creepy John Entwistle fun—perfect for Halloween festivities—and it is certainly a fitting way for this ghost story to end...</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A time when the shadows get a little darker, the wind howls a bit more mournfully, and those creeps that have been lurking and glaring at you from around corners get a bit creepier.</span><br />
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For myself, I am typically not so enamored of the usual slick, CGI film re-make of the moment, and nothing reeks of dull for me as much as most of the re-made horror movies that tumble out of Hollywood.</div>
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I grew up with drive-in double and triple bill schlock and exploitation films from around the world.</div>
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For me these NOT critically acclaimed works are filled with ineptitude, low budgets, Swiss cheese scripts, and often questionable acting, thankfully! They are also often the work of single minded, visionary auteurs (albeit with a tweaked vision) and were made with far fewer cooks in the kitchen making decisions by committee, something that ruins many Hollywood films.</div>
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To use a term coined by the great Michael Weldon, these <i>Psychotronic Films</i> are a few of my favorite things.</div>
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Here then is a fun <i>Mystery Box </i>triple bill Halloween film<i> </i>recommendation for you to enjoy this month.</div>
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It is a recommended program (the first of many I want to share with you) filled with only non-American made films that you will have to seek out yourself (some are mighty rare) and then program into your viewing schedule to enjoy whenever you see fit. Hopefully, there will be at least one you are discovering for the first time. There is no numerical order to listing these films, so you can shuffle them in any order and even look for any sequels or accompanying films...</div>
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<span class="st">Completely amoral and intensely driven by evil, <i>Coffin Joe</i> is one of the more unusual and complicated of all cinematic horror creations. Cutting a striking look in all black with his trademark top hat, cape and long curled fingernails, <i>Coffin Joe</i> is sharply menacing.</span></div>
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<span class="st">The film's plot involves <i>Coffin Joe</i> as a small town's undertaker with a disdain for religion and anything decent who looks for the right woman with which to procreate a "superior" child at any cost. Murder and devious mayhem never seemed so wildly off-kilter then it does in this surreal film.</span></div>
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<span class="st">So atmospheric is the film and so weirdly compelling is <i>Coffin Joe's </i>demeanor and his antics that this was just the beginning of what made <i>Coffin Joe</i> into a national treasured iconic horror legend in Brazil. His popularity continues to this day with more constant films, TV, comic books, and radio appearances. Marins has often used his Coffin Joe character in other worthwhile films, but the actual <i>Coffin Joe Trilogy</i> according to Marins contains <i>At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul</i> (1963), <i>This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse </i>(1967) and <i>Embodiment Of Evil</i>(2008).</span></div>
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<span class="st">Spanish director Amando Ossorio decided that everyone loves to think about how nefarious secret societies can be and took this idea as a basis for this film originally entitled<i> La Noche del terror ciego</i> or <i>Night of the Blind Terror.</i> </span></div>
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<span class="st">Here, debauched Knights Templars (in the film they are called Knights of the East) </span><span class="st">during the 13th Century </span><span class="st">run amok committing atrocities and are eventually captured, executed and cursed. While hanging in the desert, crows pluck the eyes out of their corpses and when the curse kicks them back to life in the Seventies, they arise as <i>the Blind Dead</i> seeking out new victims.</span></div>
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<span class="st">If you are new to Lucha Libre, <i>El Santo</i>, the man with the Silver Mask, is Mexico's legendary all time greatest sports hero and <i>Mexican Luchadore enmascarado.</i> Not only was he a famous wrestler, he was more like a superhero, their <i>Superman</i>, who was never, ever photographed without his mask. In fact he was buried wearing his trademark mask. He was the subject of endless comic books, magazines and wrestling bouts.</span></div>
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<span class="st">The monsters are ridiculously poor variants on the famed Universal Monsters, with a few additional creatures added for the ultimate in head-shaking absurdity. There's plenty of wrestling/fight scenes and the entire film has a quality that makes it <i>the</i> quintessential insanely out there film in a genre that even at its less crazy, was always still pretty out there. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">JET JAGUAR Finally Sees The U.S.A. on DVD!</span></h2>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcK1-Q0omJ5d5YicyLCVc2J_WEuHztsRuvfb2swhAdkCSp92iuRxgo-hv8KKI6rQ5o347B3ahOZ_9GmUX_ilY11jK4MKI56nHbNex9P_GjudXC9bG0_MXFSVFQ6aEsVGHCKHA8VQxBWNgF/s1600/Jet-Jaguar-Post-Icon-Template-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcK1-Q0omJ5d5YicyLCVc2J_WEuHztsRuvfb2swhAdkCSp92iuRxgo-hv8KKI6rQ5o347B3ahOZ_9GmUX_ilY11jK4MKI56nHbNex9P_GjudXC9bG0_MXFSVFQ6aEsVGHCKHA8VQxBWNgF/s1600/Jet-Jaguar-Post-Icon-Template-.jpg" /></a>Despite my hyperbole with the title for this week's <i>Mystery Box</i> column, there is actually a great cause for celebration to the many of us obsessive Godzilla fans. <i> </i><br />
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<i>Finally</i>, an official stateside DVD release for one of the more controversially loved and disliked (and in many cases both) Godzilla films in his entire canon,<i>Godzilla vs. Megalon</i> has appeared.<br />
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This past August, after years of subsisting on via poor quality VHS versions, sad expensive bootlegs and Japanese only DVD copies, then after another long, long wait from the time the rumors started, cover art finally appeared, and there were endless promises and pushed back release dates, the prize finally appeared, arriving in my mail.<br />
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At long last, for the very first time we have the company Media Blasters' Toho approved, official release of<i>Godzilla vs. Megalon </i>as a DVD you can hold in your hand and pop into your player.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Front and back cover for Media Blasters' DVD release of <i>Godzilla vs. Megalon</i></td></tr>
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<a name='more'></a><i>Godzilla vs. Megalon </i>(Japan, 1973)<i> </i>stands alongside <i>Godzilla vs. Hedorah </i>(1971) as one of Godzilla's more misunderstood, most laughed at (<i>Mystery Science 3000</i>) and in many cases most derided films (well, maybe <i>All Monsters Attack </i>wins the award for most derided). It is a part of the early run of Godzilla films (called the <span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Shōwa</span> period in the filmography) which runs from the first Godzilla film <i>Gojira</i> in 1954 to <i>Terror of Mechagodzilla</i> in 1977.</div>
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In its original Japanese released version, the first Godzilla film <i>Gojira</i>, is universally acclaimed as a serious classic of cinema, and for the most part a very grim affair.<br />
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Darkly thought provoking, it deals with the effects of the post WWII atomic blast and its aftermath. After four more Godzilla films were made, all of which kept things for the most part still serious, <i>Toho Studios</i>, creators and owners of the Godzilla franchise, gave Godzilla and his subsequent films more of a lighthearted style, turning Godzilla into a hero that the kids could rally behind.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Toho Kaiju, 1954-1975 (<i>The Showa Era</i>) <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Thanks to <a href="http://www.salcipriano.com/" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">Sal Cipriano</a> for image compilation</span></td></tr>
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When dealing with <i>Kaiju</i> (a Japanese word, translated as "strange beast" but usually connoting "giant monsters," it is associated with Japanese <i>Tokusatsu</i> film and TV entertainment,<i> i.e. </i>using a lot of special effects, superheroes etc.)<br />
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I have always found that a certain acceptance of goofiness and an ability to overlook, or actually embrace, the special effect limitations inherent in the 60's, 70's and even the 80's are what makes the genre so wonderfully entertaining and charming. There was no C.G.I. and instead elaborate small scale models built on giant sets were constructed of cities, vehicles and structures while actors in rubber-based monster suits crashed, stomped and smashed their way through them, the explosion of miniatures and much melting of plastic was involved while things like laser blasts were created photographically in post production.<br />
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The technicians used imagination and the limits of the technology available, sometimes at a very costly expense, to the fullest.<br />
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The Japanese poster for the film</div>
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<i>Godzilla vs. Megalon</i> began life not as a Godzilla film at all, but as a solo film for what was hoped would become a new franchise character for Toho, the humanoid robot <i>Jet Jaguar</i>.<br />
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At the time in Japan, robots were the new craze, with characters such as <i>Ultraman, Inframan, Spectreman</i> and <i>Mazinger Z</i> all popular with the kids. Toho held a contest asking kids to come up with a new superhero. The winning drawing was for a robot called Red Alert, who was then renamed Jet Jaguar and who would get his own film. He even got a theme song written for him. After some thought however, it was decided that Jet Jaguar could probably not sustain a feature film by himself and Godzilla (plus one of the previous Godzilla film nemesis' Gigan) were brought in as stars to prop up the story and rope in more viewers.<br />
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I won't run through the plot of the film here, hoping that instead you will seek out the DVD for yourself, but I will say that Jet Jaguar has huge amounts of mesmerizing screen appeal.<br />
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Though Godzilla really takes more of a backseat to him in the film, there is a grand bonding between the two. There is plenty of really fun giant monster fighting, some great action sequences, lots of lurid color (although not as much as the psychedelically crazed <i>Godzilla vs. Hedorah</i>) and in the long run, Jet Jaguar is the sort of robot that every kid would love to call a best friend— hooray!<br />
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The monster <i>Megalon</i> easily stands out as one of my favorites (also one of the weirder ones, and that's saying a lot) of all the villainous monsters in Godzilla films—if he doesn't top the list he at least places in the top four. His methods of attack are pretty special...<br />
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Upon its release, <i>Godzilla vs. Megalon</i> did not do as well as the previous Godzilla films in Japan, however when it finally was released in the U.S. in 1976, oddly it was a huge success and smashed box office records over previous Godzilla films. At the time it was marketed heavily to compete with Dino De Laurentiis' <i>King Kong </i>remake and many kids flocked to the theaters to see the film, causing it to be one of the better known and cherished of the Godzilla 70's films.<br />
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<i>Godzilla vs. Megalon</i> compete with <i>King Kong</i> on this poster </div>
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Even decades later, there is a giant shadow created by the film. I know someone who told me he was only allowed to have two films (presumably on VHS) when he was a kid in the early 90's, and they were <i>Godzilla vs. Gigan</i> and <i>Godzilla vs. Megalon.</i><i><br /></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;">Different pinback buttons were issued as promos to promote the film, this one features <i>Gigan.</i></td></tr>
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So big a deal was <i>Godzilla vs. Megalon,</i> that for its television debut in 1977, it was given a very high profile prime time slot on NBC with a big ad campaign and a host, John Belushi, who was a fast rising star of the acclaimed hit show <i>Saturday Night Live (</i>still called<i> NBC's Saturday Night)</i>. Belushi, wearing a Godzilla suit, introduced the film and appeared during commercial bumper spots. Fake boulders were thrown at him throughout the bits. Of course, being on network television, the butchers at NBC chopped the hell out of the film to make it fit a one hour viewing slot, still it was the first and only Godzilla film to ever air on a U.S. prime time network.</div>
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For this DVD release the licensee <i>Media Blasters</i> had to wrangle at length <i>Kaiju Big Battle-style</i> with the mighty Godzilla mitt that is Toho in order to make a release happen.<br />
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It took ages and several Atomic breath blasts later, and it was not an easy fight. This release has absolutely no frills, and not even a trailer for the film, however I love the print quality and the sound, you can choose between the original Japanese language track with English subtitles or the very goofy English dub, and best of all, I can now proudly add it to all my other Godzilla DVD releases.<br />
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Why no Blu-ray?<br />
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Well the good news is that Toho has compiled a vast amount of material on <i>Godzilla vs. Megalon</i> that they wanted to keep working on and all of it should be made available on a future Blu-ray edition (fingers crossed) as extra features, but the stipulation was to only allow Media Blasters to first release this no frills edition for now.<br />
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There are only two Godzilla films that have not seen a U.S. DVD release: <i>The Return of Godzilla </i>(U.S. title,<i>Godzilla 1985 </i>from 1984) and <i>Godzilla vs. Biollante </i>(1989).<br />
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With word of the new American Godzilla film in production and slated for a 2014 release things could once again look promising for Godzilla's exposure to new audiences and the delivering of more unseen treasures for his already loyal fans. As far as it being any good, I still wait and will believe it when I see it, but I doubt it would be as <i>bad</i> as the previous American monstrosity. At least this new film has the involvement of the once maligned (you'll never direct Godzilla again!) director of <i>Godzilla vs. Hedorah</i>, Yoshimitsu Banno as a co-producer.<br />
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Until then, I have <i>Godzilla vs. Megalon</i>.<br />
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A film that, though it stands as one of the giants in the Godzilla filmography, is still often under-appreciated, maligned and sadly looked at as a huge write off of a joke or a kiddies film (which I guess I have to admit it is). Still, it is some of the purest entertainment out there, and its existence only adds to the appeal of all things Godzilla—a bizarre journey on a path of strange twists and turns made by his giant monster feet.<br />
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Long live Jet Jaguar, Seatopia, Gigan, Megalon and long live Godzilla!</div>
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Robert Jazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02308479559284375988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-448189431871162729.post-63608353702816867882013-10-07T23:20:00.000-04:002019-04-07T14:10:35.756-04:00"Of Sounds And Something Else": Remembering Music Producer TOM WILSON<h2 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: none; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">
“Of Sounds And Something Else”: Remembering Music Producer TOM WILSON</h2>
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Although his name is not as familiar as those of say, <b>Phil Spector, Brian Wilson</b> or<b> George Martin</b>, his achievements and influence are profoundly important.<br />
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Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr. was born in Waco, Texas in 1931 and played the trombone as a hobby. Transferring from Fisk University, he attended and graduated Harvard University with a degree in political science and economics. While in Cambridge, he was caught up in the local Avant Garde jazz scene, belonging to the Harvard New Jazz Society and working at radio station WHRB.<br />
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It was at the radio station that he gained a business acumen and decided to invest $900 of borrowed money to start up a jazz record label in 1955.<br />
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The label, called <b>Transition Records</b>, was intended to release recordings by jazz musicians that were for the most part on the outer fringes of the genre, and generally ignored. These artists were pushing the boundaries of jazz, and for Wilson, would also point the way towards his own future as a producer...<br />
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<b>Transition Records</b> would release 15 jazz albums (one, a sampler) including the first album by the legendary Saturn-born genius of outer space jazz, Sun Ra, called <i>Jazz by Sun Ra </i>(1956), and <i>Jazz Advance</i> (1956) by pianist Cecil Taylor.</div>
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Due to his skill with producing and running Transition, Wilson landed positions first at United Artists Records, and then at <b>Savoy Records</b>, where he would further hone his skill producing more jazz giants such as <b>John Coltrane</b> and including 1961's <i>The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra</i>, a great album that was the first of Sun Ra's since his relocation to New York.<br />
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Wilson eventually ended up as a staff producer at <b>Columbia Records</b>, where he would take over the production (4 tracks uncredited) for Bob Dylan's second album <i>The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan</i> (1963) after Dylan's manager Albert Grossman's hatred of his first producer John Hammond, led him to take on Wilson. Tom Wilson, an African American hipster jazz cat, was at first not enamored of folk music, especially after recording hep jazz musicians such as John Coltrane and Sun Ra.<br />
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Yet, upon hearing Dylan's lyrics, he quickly changed his mind. Wilson recorded five new Dylan compositions, four of which including "Masters Of War" appeared the album.<br />
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He went on to produce three more Dylan albums, all as celebrated as the next <i>The Times They Are a-Changin'</i>, <i>Another Side of Bob Dylan</i> and <i>Bringing It All Back Home</i> plus Dylan's astounding classic 1965 single "Like a Rolling Stone." In an interview, Dylan has given some of the credit to Tom Wilson for his change from just acoustic folk to becoming the "electric Bob Dylan." Whether it was Tom Wilson's idea alone or more likely a collaborative thing, surely Tom Wilson was the type of producer that encouraged the direction.<br />
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There was still times when Tom Wilson would use Sun Ra and his Arkestra members (in this case John Gilmore, Marshall Allen and Pat Patrick) for session work. One such session was for the 1966 cash-in album entitled <i>Batman and Robin</i>. Attempting to somehow rope in the many fans of the Adam West's <i>Batman</i> series, this album was credited to the non-existent <i>Sensational Guitars of Dan and Dale</i>, and would also include famous Dylan sideman Al Kooper's rock/blues group <i>The Blues Project</i>, another band that Wilson would later produce the great <i>Projections </i>(1967) album for.<br />
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Wilson grew tired of jazz music, sold his <b>Transition Records</b> licensing off, and found that the new underground folk-rock sound, as practiced by <b>The Byrds</b><i>,</i> was more exciting to him. Taking a cue from <b>The Byrds</b><i>'</i> hit cover of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man," Wilson took a track off of an album he had produced in 1964 called <i>Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.</i> by the sparse folk duo Simon and Garfunkel, who had just broken up.<br />
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Without the duo's knowledge, he overdubbed electric rock instrumentation onto the track and released the song as a single.<br />
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In 1966, that single, "The Sounds Of Silence" would become an enormously popular #1 hit single, launch the folk-rock genre everywhere and lead to Simon and Garfunkel getting back together for a long career of best selling albums and fame.<br />
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Tom Wilson would go on to work at <b>Verve Records</b> where he was able to sign and produce experimental, and very <i>out there</i> bands, often at his own risk of employment.<br />
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He signed Frank Zappa's <b>Mothers Of Invention</b> and produced their incredible debut album <i>Freak Out! </i>(1966). Zappa, never a man to offer credit or praise lightly, offered this comment "Tom Wilson was a great guy. He had vision, you know? And he really stood by us...I remember the first thing that we recorded was 'Any Way the Wind Blows,' and that was okay. Then we did 'Who Are the Brain Police?' and I saw him through the glass and he was on the phone immediately to New York going, 'I don't know!' Trying to break it to 'em easy, I guess." "Wilson was sticking his neck out. He laid his job on the line by producing the album."<br />
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Wilson managed to produce (although to be fair, he probably Executive Produced, allowing Zappa a free hand) the equally important Zappa/<b>Mothers Of Invention</b> sophomore release, <i>Absolutely Free</i> (1967) and then (as Executive Producer) their answer to <i>Sgt. Pepper</i>...the masterfully sardonic <i>We're Only In It For The Money </i>(1968)<i>.</i><br />
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<b>Eric Burdon & the Animals</b>, with Burdon's transitional album <i>Eric Is Here </i>(1966), featuring a new Animals lineup from his that of his previously classic r&b one can be added to Wilson's production credits, as can the psychedelic masterpiece (featuring "Sky Pilot" and "Monterey") Eric Burdon and The Animals' <i>The Twain Shall Meet </i>(1968).</div>
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Animals Bassist/Producer Chas Chandler may be best known as the manager of <b>The Jimi Hendrix Experience </b>(he managed the band over the course of the first two albums) while Jimi was beginning to be recognized in the U.K. psych scene and fast becoming a star in America.<br />
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Chandler also co-produced, along with Tom Wilson, the stunning debut for those<i> other</i> experimental luminaries (besides <b>The Pink Floyd</b>) of the British Underground Psychedelic scene—<b>The Soft Machine</b>, who gave music Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers (and previously, Daevid Allen who went on to form <b>Gong</b>), and a long lineage of progressive rock/jazz fusion/psych musicians that would continue to this day under the genre collectively known as the "Canterbury Scene".<br />
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Should all of the above not state a case for Tom Wilson, there is a band that he produced that would rank as seminal to the future directions of underground rock/noise music/punk rock/art rock and, just in case you thought Zappa and his Mothers were <u>the</u> anti-hippy, anti establishment act of the sixties (well they were too, but these folks went even further), a debut album that, while dismal commercial failures at the time, is now regarded as an important work of art, influentially ground-breaking and universally critically acclaimed:<br />
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The debut album by The Velvet Underground, called <i>The Velvet Underground and Nico</i> (1966).<br />
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The album was always mostly credited as "Produced by Andy Warhol," but just as how the many feature films for which Andy Warhol would take a credit for (<i>Flesh for Frankenstein, Blood For Dracula</i> etc.) were usually the work of director Paul Morrisey, so too has the Velvets' John Cale, who acted as musical director acknowledged that it was Tom Wilson who was the real producer, that "Andy Warhol didn't do anything". Well, Warhol did pay for the recording sessions and it was his fame that brought attention to the band, but really behind the scenes Tom Wilson was <i>The Man.</i><i><br /></i><br />
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<i><br /></i>Tom Wilson would go on to produce Nico's solo debut album <i>Chelsea Girl </i>(1967) and the Velvet's second phenomenal album, <i>White Light/White Heat</i> (1968) which has as many fans as the first album who say it is their best work.</div>
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Sadly, as the seventies emerged and moved on, Tom Wilson's profile was nearly absent from music and few interviews exist with him during this period (he died of a heart attack in 1978).<br />
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Luckily though, we have the albums he did produce. So whether it was his hands-on production skills including editing, sequencing, post production or overseeing recording sessions, or whether his role as an album producer was more that of being able to get a difficult to sell musical act past the lawyers and bean counters at a major record label, the legend of Tom Wilson is assured.<br />
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The next time the illustrious producer names of <b>Phil Spector, Andrew Loog Oldham, George Martin</b> and <b>Brian Wilson</b> get bandied about, don't forget to add in <b>Tom Wilson'</b>s name to the discussion—he was a real cool cat who in fact, knew exactly just what <i>cool </i>really<i> </i>was!</div>
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