Playlist Sept 15/2011

 

1. John Schooley....Drive You Faster...from the Voodoo Rhythm LP John Schooley and His One Man Band. A real stomper to get the show started as i was yammering with BradleyBoy at his well attended (ya, right, let's be fucking honest, i was the only one there to see this guy play live last friday night) gig about Voodoo Rhythm Records and how Fucking great this label is. Best record label in Switzerland, probably all of Europe! Maybe the world. Likely the universe! But all who attended the John Schooley show at The Victoria Tavern 2 years back already know that.

2. The Standstills...Blues Radio from their Human Element CD and they will be at The Spoke on the campus of the University Of Western Ontario today at 11PM.

3. catl....Working Man's Soul....from their With The Lord For Cowards You Will Find No Place LP from last year. catl will be in town Thursday Sept 29th at Call The Office. Catl promises he'll phone in during that week's edition of Radio WW to yammer about their brand new drummer. Yep, Johnny Larue has left catl and been replaced by a Deadly Snake. Not literally, but the drummer from In The Red Recording artists The Deadly Snakes.

4. Bradleyboy...Callin' Your Name...from his Salt Gun CD. One man band who has been on many labels, including Transistor 66 and now EMI. He was here last friday at The Brass...you shoulda been there too!

5. Boy From Nowhere...Heart Full Of Soul...from Thee Cave Comes Alive LP on Action Records. Singer Jon Traut is presently in The Oily Birds who were playing with The Polymorphines that evening.

6. Sloan...Underwhelmed...from the Smeared CD from 1992. Sloan are playing at The London Music Hall next friday.

7. The Bon...Hey Suzette...from their Static Electricity CD on Boppa Do Down Records.

8. Midnite Snaxxx...Jackie...from their 7" on Total Punk Records. Finally got this one in the mail and the jury is still out on whether it was worth the long wait. Ya, it's really good, but it's not as good as some of the former bands these young ladies have been in. Tina Luchessi was in the Godlike Trashwomen, Bobbyteens and Tina and The Total Babes; Dulcinea was in The Loudmouths and i dunno what band Renee came from and i'm too lazy to go looking. Ok, maybe i've gotta spin it a couple more times as it does have that early girl group meets 77 punk rock sound...we'll let the jury decide...what did you think of this one?

9. The Beat Killers...Church Of Rock'n'Roll...from the latest garagepunk hideout download called Hidden Tracks.  A genuine asskicker from start to finish. Speedy John plays bass in this combo from LA.

10. The Hook Up...Bad Summer...from their Tomorrow and Today CD. Ya, i keep playing this song as it's sooo good! The Hook Up come back to London on Nov 5th, Brennan's Beer Bistro.

11. Teenanger...Carole Pope...from the Give Me Pink LP and they open for catl on Sept 29th at Call The Office.

12. B5 Blue...Borderline....recorded live somewhere in London. Coupla these guys are in The Oily Birds who played with The Polymorphines at The Black Shire last night.

13. Stupidity...Move...from the Move CD and they are from Sweden.

14. Lord High Fixers...18...from the Is Your Club A Secret Weapon LP on Estrus Records from 1999. Features Tim Kerr on guitar, as i was planning on doing a whole Tim Kerr set as The Polymorphines had Tim produce their latest recordings at Sweatbox Studios down in Austin. Like most bands, The Polymorphines arrived way late and we had to do a quick end of show interview. Luckily, Jeremy Polymorphine and i both talk really fast, so we did a 1 hour interview in 20m flat! Enthusiasm and a love of rock'n'roll will conquer all!

15. The Polymorphines...Anna Lee...from their latest CD, The Slip.

16. The Polymorphines...Constant Reminder...from their Transistor Sister CD...they didn't play this one live last night at the Black Shire...i shoulda yelled out for it, as this is such a great song!!

17. The Polymorphines...Poor Sicko...from The Slip CD.

18. The Polymorphines...Dirty Cop...from their Transistor Sister CD.

19. The Polymorphines...The Clean and The Dirty...from The Slip CD.

20. Invasions...Jewel...from their lateset 7".

21. Teenage Head...Brand New Cadillac...from a live show at The Spoke from the fall of 1980.

Somewhere around here, The Polymorphines arrived...lost on the vast campus of The University Of Western Ontario. Not the first, certainly not the last to get lost here...but i've been told it was a great, yet speedy interview...Maybe next time we'll get to do the acoustic set that we were hoping to do.

22. The Polymorphines...Let Love Fly...from the Transistor Sistor CD.

Big thanx to The Polymorphines for taking the time to come on air prior to their big show at The Black Shire Pub. And it was a great show that evening as some of you know.

And thanx for all of the crazies that called in with requests! Back next week with more noise.

Here's a link to the archived show:

http://chrwradio.com/podcasts/ 94-9CHRWThu1900.mp3

Come and listen to my show every month on Dandelion Radio - the online station inspired by John Peel.

Every month there's an eclectic mix of psych, garage, dub, blues, electronica, grindcore, indie, techno, afro-beat, noise, stuff that doesn't even have a genre. New songs, old songs, exclusive sessions, all bleedin sorts.

The show streams at various times every day for the whole month, so you should be able to catch it if you try hard enough. Here's the times for the current show - and have a listen to the other djs, they're all pretty cool too - lots of details here.

Give me a shout if you hear anything you like - pete@dandelionradio.com

 

 

 

Saw Nobunny at a house party on Tuesday.  Fun!

Great live band is The Jim Jones Revue, saw them 5 times since April and just can't get enough of them! 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUvOTD07BAs

I've seen Beat-Man in America. Right here in Santa Fe. Twice.

 

Beat-Man is a great American, just like Popeye!

 

PS send that Bibliodiscoteque to the secret prison. He sounds French anyway

This is embodies everything that rules about the Beat-Man and friends. I saw some of the clips on the facebook. I so wish I was in Europe instead of stoopid ole America*

 

 

 

*The views of this poster are not the views of Bibliodiscoteque who loves America and does not want to end up in a secret government prison. 

Too cool! I always thought Beat-Man looked like Popeye.

 

But where;s Wimpy?

Beat-Man makes a good Popeye!

Popeye's Godda Blues

 

http://www.popeyetheater.ch/

 

Starring

Beat-Man  

Jackie Brutsche  

Grazia Pergoletti  

Mike Reber

Music by 

 Simon Hari

Directed by 

 Meret Matter

Costumes/Visuals 

Andi Becker  

Renate Wünsch

 

 

Show #341: "The Eggman Collection #102"

Every 3 weeks I do a series of shows called The Eggman Collection, which originally was an old tape/cd collection of songs that I like. Now since I have little time due to work and stuff, I made it into a radio program. It's a big mix of songs I like, no matter what they are, what genre, style, or era...whatever...If I like it, I play it. This provides a big potpourri of music from all sorts of different artists, and also brings out several guilty pleasures you wouldn't expect me to listen to. Tune in tonight (Friday) at 10pm EST for the 102nd installment of The Eggman Collection and hear bands and artists like: High Tide, Los Vidrios Quebrados, Elvis Presley, Bubble Puppy, Sparks, Manfred Mann, Ultimate Spinach, Jody Grind, The Hollies, The Ventures, The Statesiders, The Deviants, The Buckinghams, Led Zeppelin, Grapefruit, John Cale, The Monkees, The Beatles, Those Guys, Ekseption, Donovan, Blops, David Hemmings, Doctors Of Madness, and many many more!!!

***To stream The Metaphysical Circus live, listen to past shows, view playlists, etc…check out my website: eggmanrulez.com/ or wscafm.org (click on "listen live") Friday nights at 10pm EST on WSCA-LP 106.1 FM, Portsmouth Community Radio!

Watch my playlist unravel before your eyes LIVE here: wscafm.radioactivity.fm/

Egg

Thanks, Brian!

Finally got round to catching up on the last months worth of podcasts and listened to this one. Great mix of tunes! I especially loved "Tanzen Gehn" by The Dirtbombs. Great track!

Trio. They had more than "Da da da". This one is cool.

Great track...

Marty Shane, Pacifiction Records said:

The Traits, superb! Exactly what I was hoping existed! Not a big fan of Shazam, but I'll take it!

The Traits, superb! Exactly what I was hoping existed! Not a big fan of Shazam, but I'll take it!

I used the Boss 63 for some time and though the reverb  was great the pedal was colouring the tone waaay too much for my taste. It seems two of the best pedals coming close to the real deal are the Wampler Spring Reverb and Solid Gold's Surf Rider. Has anyone played them?

The Danelectro Spring King is NOT a genuine spring reverb. The reverb on it is actually a digital recreation. The internal spring only serves to make the crashing nose that occours when you hit the pad.

dying slowly said:

if/when i need an outboard id get an original '63 fender one or if i couldn't get hold of a good condition (ie working ,aestheticly i thing scratches and tears and a certain garagey somthhing) id buy the reissue or id look into the danolectro spring king ,whicch is a genuine ,albiet miniturised , spring reverb in a pedal about a standard depth /hieghy and about as wide as 2 or 3 boss pedals ,plus it has kick pad that when you step on it makes the explosive sound you get from kicking a full sized one

FAROUIT :):)

(This is my weekly newspaper music column in Santa Fe)

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican September 16, 2011

 

As Waylon Jennings put it back in the late ’70s, “Don’t y’all think this outlaw bit’s done got out of hand?” A current odious trend in modern country music is the rise of the pre-fab “outlaw.” Chet Flippo lamented this a few months ago in his column on the Country Music Television website:

“Nowadays, country music seems to have recently gotten outlaws again. Gotten outlaws in the same way that some people have gotten ants or bedbugs or cockroaches. We have a new infestation. To be sure, they’re small outlaws, but they are insistent that they are here.”

Who is he talking about? New Nashville hats like Josh Thompson, Eric Church, and a guy named Justin Moore, of whom Flippo says, “If he’s a true outlaw, then Miss Piggy is Dolly Parton.”

 

Flippo continues: “What’s a bit alarming is that we seem to have cultivated a generation of young, male country performers who are preoccupied with displaying Outlaw attitude and Outlaw posturing, as opposed to developing real Outlaw musical content.”

 

What would Waylon think? Well, he’s gone to the honky-tonk in the sky, so we’ll never really know.  

 

But his son Shooter Jennings has weighed in on these would-be honky-tonk heroes namechecking his dad and other outlaw icons. He’s creating a nifty little controversy with a new song and video called “Outlaw You.”

He makes fun of the “perfect boots you got from your record label’s image group,” and he tells the story of his dad, perhaps overstating it a bit when he says that Waylon and Willie and the boys “freed the slaves.”

He’s talking about singers who wanted to record their own songs with their own bands instead of the songs and studio musicians assigned by producers.

 

“Hey, pretty boy in the baseball hat / You couldn’t hit country with a baseball bat,” Shooter sings in the chorus. His conclusion: “They should outlaw you.”

The cool thing is that Shooter was able to get the song played on CMT, where it rose to the top three. He had at least one ally over there — Flippo CMT’s editorial director.

Check out the comments on the CMT site — Shooter succeeded in stirring up the hornet’s nest. He’s got his defenders who say, “About time!” while fans of the Mini-Me outlaws say that Shooter is the real poser.

But in reality, the younger Jennings is following a country and alt-country tradition of songs about sticking it to Nashville’s Music Industrial Complex that’s been going on at least since the ’90s.

 

His 2005 debut album was called Put the O Back in Country. The title song, set to the tune of Neil Young’s “Are You Ready for the Country,” had lyrics like “You know that ain’t country music you been listenin’ to. ... There ain’t no soul on the radio.”

 

Below are some of my favorite Nashville-bashing tunes of this ilk.

 

* “Fuck This Town” by Robbie Fulks. The song was written out of frustration after Fulks’ unsuccessful attempt to make it as a Nashville songwriter in the mid-’90s. Says Fulks, “This ain’t country-western, it’s just soft-rock feminist crap / And I thought things had hit bottom in the days of Ronnie Milsap.”

 

* “The Grand Old Opry Ain’t So Grand Any More” by Hank Williams III. The grandson of Hank Williams talks about how “real rebels” like Waylon, Johnny Paycheck, and Jimmy Martin, as well as Hanks Sr. and Jr. were never really welcomed by the uptight country establishment. Hank III plows some of the same ground on his song “Dick in Dixie” released around the same time as Shooter’s “O Back in Country” (which was a cause of friction between the two).

 

* “Murder on Music Row.” This lament started out as a bluegrass song by Larry Cordell & Country Standard Time. But then it got recorded as a duet by mainstream country traditionalists George Strait and Alan Jackson and received the Country Music Association’s Vocal Event of the Year award in 2000, even though it had lyrics like “Someone killed country music/Cut out its heart and soul / They got away with murder down on Music Row.”

 

Jim Terr in his guise as "Buddy"

* “Oh Brother, Where’s the Hits?” by Jim Terr. The Santa Fe satirist thumbed his nose at Nashville back when the the bluegrass-heavy O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack — for a couple of minutes at least — seemed to overshadow all the sappy dribble Music Row was churning out. “We’ll learn to fake sincerity, of all the details that’s the key / To pullin’ on your heartstrings and your goldurn MasterCard.”

 

Dale Watson and his fiddler

 

* “Nashville Rash” by Dale Watson. The little giant of Texas honky-tonk has done several songs talking about how commercial country music sucks. This one, from his 1995 album Cheatin’ Heart Attack is my favorite. “I’m too country now for country, just like Johnny Cash.”

 

* “Long Time Gone” by Dixie Chicks. Even before the Chicks became traitors in the eyes of many right-wingers because Natalie Maines said that she was ashamed to be from the same state as George W. Bush, they were biting the hand of the industry that fed them. Dumping on the country radio of the day, Maines sang “The music ain’t got no soul / They sound tired but they don’t sound Haggard / They have money but they don't have Cash."

 

* "Let's Go Burn  Ole Nashville Down” by Mojo Nixon & Jello Biafra. Set to the tune of “Old Joe Clark,” this is a classic country/punk romp. This song took on the sad state of country music in the '90s while boldly declaring "Country don't have flutes!"

 

Jon Langford

* “Nashville Radio/The Death of Country Music” by Jon Langford’s Hillbilly Lovechild. Here’s an elegant 11-minute dreamlike medley complete with electric sitar. “Nashville Radio” is a moving account of Hank Williams Sr.’s demise: “I gave my life to country music, I took my pills and lost / Now they don’t play my songs on the radio / Feels like I never was.” This turns into “The Death of Country Music” — originally recorded by the Waco Brothers, another Langford band, it’s a sneer at people “picking the flesh off the bones” of country music. “We spill some blood on the ashes of the bones of the Jones and the Cashes / Skulls in false eyelashes / Ghost riders in the sky.”  

 

 

I will play all these songs on the Santa Fe Opry on Friday night  on KSFR-FM 101.1 or www.ksfr.org

 

Check out the “Outlaw You” video  below:

 

Hey WEIRD WEIRD OHS! click the tittys and start shakin' with the sounds ( . ) ( . )

SUBSCRIBE (RSS FEED)!

What actually happened was that Malcom asked Johnny Rotton to audition with "I'm Eighteen".  He sang along to a jukebox that they had in the store.

Apparently, "Malc" would have them practice at the Sex Shop Alice Cooper songs. So, you might be onto something.

Hey! It's my pleasure to introduce myself and my new weekly radio show / podcast Retro'Spect. Made by an enthusiastic amateur, Retro'Spect is mainly 60s garage, and we've got a bunch of cool Kiwi stuff to mix in with classic Nuggets, obscurities, GS bands, 60s Euro-garage and heaps more.

 

The show airs on the station I manage - a Community Access station in Hamilton, NZ, and we also podcast the show - but it's probably easiest to get them via iToons, or from the Retro'Spect Facebook Wall

 

Retro'Spect is on Twitter too - @RetroSpectRadio

 

I'd love to get some feedback - let me know what you dig [or not] and give me some gentle direction on providing a show that adds some value to the awesoem GaragePunk Hideout.

 

cheers, Phil

You're quite right.  He was much cooler back when he was more of a cult figure.  I especially liked him when he looked like a scuzzy, two bit hoodlum.

John Carlucci said:

 Having grown up in the tri-state area in the 70's, I was aware of Bruce Springstreen before he became a mega star. One thing that most people do not realize is how supportive he was of the original NYC underground Punk movement.  He not only wrote songs for Patti Smith & Robert Gordon, but he wrote "Hungry Heart" originally for the Ramones. He came out of the same club scene, albeit a few years earlier, but Bruce Played at Max's Kansas City, a seminal NY Rock N Roll club that predated CBGB's.

 The Black & White cover of the "Born To Run" lp started a trend as most of the original NYC punk bands opted for no-frills Black & White record covers. Bruce also wore a biker jacket on the cover. The biker jacket was adopted as the most common fashion accessory in the original Punk rock Movement. The fact that Bruce wore one before they became trendy & popular, added to his street credibility.

 

I love that you actually put this entire movie up! I don't think I've watched it in 20 years.