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Saturday, July 31, 2021

Last Episode Series 'From The Vaults with Guy Garvey'

From The Vaults Episode 5

FROM THE VAULTS EPISODE 5

JULY 30, 2021

In the final episode of this series of Guy Garvey’s From The Vaults, the spotlight turns to 1987. It’s a year of farewells as The Tube comes to a close and The Smiths part company. Also featured are memorable performances from John Martyn and Big Audio Dynamite, as well as an early interview with Björk and Einar from The Sugarcubes. 

The show also includes hits courtesy of Julian Cope, Public Image Ltd, New Order, Depeche Mode and The Cure.

Watch on Sky Arts or Freeview Channel 11 at 8pm (Friday 30th July). All episodes are available to sky viewers now. 


Great episode to round off the end to this series with Depeche Mode, Julian Cope's follow up to World Shut Your Mouth, 'Trampoline' and a rare live performance of John Martyn's 'May You Never' brilliant stuff and love Guy's witty if sometimes too spare comments! More please . . . . . . . . 

Friday, July 30, 2021

Harry Roy - Single of The Week! - 1931

      Seeing how it's Friday n all thought of this to cheer y'all up! I guess people are either cat people or dog people but curiously I seem to have turned into a tiresome ole dawg!


Aaah they don't write 'em like that anymore . . . . . 

Thursday, July 29, 2021

George -Treats! - Voodoo Wagon

 

Voodoo Wagon Liquor Store




“In a way, [Dhani] Harrison’s ultimate test for the album’s success was the sob factor: He says the first time he played the remix of the opening song, ‘I’d Have You Anytime,’ he lost it. 'I just cried,’ he says. 'My mum heard it and she cried. We thought, "OK, this is doing the job.” Someone like me, I’m impervious to hearing my dad’s music; I’ve heard it so many times. I have to hear it in business situations and I can’t be sitting there crying every time. But this time I couldn’t prevent it. It was very emotional.’“

- David BrowneMassive George Harrison ‘All Things Must Pass’: Inside New Reissue

WHITLEY HEIGHTS - HOLLYWOOD







Whitley Heights was one of the first Hollywood neighborhoods. Constructed in the early 1920s, it still looks exactly the same. 

Here you will find gorgeous old homes that once belonged to the likes of W.C. Fields, Harold Lloyd, Rosalind Russell, Greta Garbo, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power, Donald O’Connor, and Francis X. Bushman.

The neighborhood has secret tunnels and passageways and many outdoor staircases that are over one hundred years old. They generally lead from one part of the neighborhood to the other - although a few lead to no place at all.


 https://oldshowbiz.tumblr.com

ZZ TOP'S DUSTY HILL DEAD at 72

 


Dusty Hill, bassist and supporting singer of ZZ Top for more than half a century, died today, while sleeping at his home in Houston (Texas), as confirmed in a statement by the other two members of the band, Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard. Hill was 72 years old. "We, along with legions of ZZ Top fans around the world, will miss his steadfast presence, good nature and enduring commitment," they wrote.

The group Hill founded in 1969 has not clarified whether his death is related to a recent health problem. On July 23, ZZ Top posted on its Facebook wall that the bassist was leaving the tour to "fix a hip problem." And they added: "We hope his speedy recovery and have him back soon." But Hill never rejoined live entertainment, he was replaced by Elwood Francis, a regular contributor to the ensemble.
El Pais


TURN IT UP and check out the BASS!
Sharp Dressed Man
 

 No, I said TURN IT UP! . . . . to 11!

La Grange





or . . . . . . . 

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT!


NEWS!

 

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LATEST

MAKE SIR PAUL GREAT AGAIN [MPGA]



Taken from Sir Paul McCartney's most recent album, 'McCartney III: Imagined' - a reworking of last year's McCartney III - the "Find My Way" visuals see a digitally de-aged McCartney dance the halls of a hotel before being transported to various other locations. The colourful, disco-inspired video - which has a big reveal at the end - was directed by Andrew Donoho (Janelle Monae, The Strokes) and co-produced with Hyperreal Digital, which specialises in the creation of hyper-realistic digital avatars.

"The technology to de-age talent and have them perform in creative environments like this is now fully-realised, even with one of the most recognised faces in the world," Hyperreal's CEO Remington Scott said of the technology used in the video.



More 'fake' technology to deal with.




This young woman (Josie Proto - remember the name!) was on Radio Four's Women's Hour this morning and what a single this is! A peon, a plea for safety (yet again . . . ) for women to reclaim the street, the night time and be safe amongst their community . . . . . 

 


THIS WEEK'S WTF MOMENT




ERIC CLAPTON SLAMS VACCINE PROPAGANDA AND, IN TURN, IS CHASTISED


Eric Clapton won't play any venue that discriminates its audience and requires Covid passports as an entry requirement. Here's why.

The legendary guitarist said he had a "disastrous" reaction to the Covid-19 vaccine and blamed "propaganda [that] said the vaccine was safe for everyone" after he was left fearing he'd "never play again."

"I took the first jab of AZ and straight away had severe reactions which lasted ten days. I recovered eventually and was told it would be twelve weeks before the second one," Clapton said in a letter to architect and anti-lockdown activist Robin Monotti Graziadei, which was shared with Clapton's permission.

Clapton, who received the AstraZeneca shot in February, added that he was later offered the second dose after six weeks, which he accepted only because he had "a little more knowledge of the dangers."

"Needless to say the reactions were disastrous, my hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, and pretty much useless for two weeks, I feared I would never play again," Clapton wrote. Clapton noted that he "should've never gone near the needle" because of his "peripheral neuropathy" but added the "propaganda said the vaccine was safe for everyone."

"I continue to tread the path of passive rebellion and try to tow the line in order to be able to actively love my family, but it's hard to bite my tongue with what I now know," Clapton wrote.

Clapton's next scheduled concerts in the UK are at the Royal Albert Hall in London, in May 2022. His remarks sparked a backlash from many who accused him of ignoring the science that shows vaccines significantly reduce risk of infection and hospitalisation from coronavirus, including the faster-spreading Delta variant, which is currently driving the cases surge in the UK.

Here are four reactions from fans and celebrities.

I don't need to hear Dr Fauci play guitar, and I don't need to hear Eric Clapton give medical advice.
- Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) June 14, 2021

Eric Clapton is an asshole.
- Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) July 22, 2021

If you attend an Eric Clapton rally, you are playing Covid roulette. Just saying.
- Star Trek actor, George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) July 22, 2021

This works out quite nicely as I'm refusing to go to venues that have Eric Clapton in them.
- Sam (@SamAnorac) July 22, 2021

In the '60s, Eric Clapton was God.



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COLLECTING DUST

  BOB'S BOOTLEGS VOL 16 'SPRINGTIME IN NEW YORK'
'Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series Vol 16 (1980-1985)' focuses on Bob Dylan's albums 'Shot Of Love', 'Infidels' and 'Empire Burlesque' and will come complete with previously unreleased outtakes, alternate takes, rehearsal recordings, live performances and more. Due from Columbia/Legacy on September 17. It will be released as a deluxe 5CD boxset (with book, memorabilia, photos and more) as well as 2CD and 2LP sets.


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READING ROOM



BEDTIME FOR BEZOS

"Was the conquest of space then a potential chariot of Satan, the unique and grand avenue for the new totalitarian?"
- Norman Mailer, Of a Fire on the Moon

Five planets in our solar system are adorned with rings. The rings around four of these planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune) are composed of dust and ice. The ring that encircles earth is made of trash, the detritus of the launch-it-and-leave culture of the new generation of space junketeers.

We are witnessing the last great enclosure, as the billionaire rocket-set greedily stake their claims on space - once a universal commons, a kind of dreamscape that since the beginning of humankind has been available freely to all, owned by none.

Bezos's rocket looks like it was designed by Barbarella's workshop, a stubby white vibrator, which is the most extravagant manifestation yet of that favorite pastime of the American elite, Ostentatious Onanism.

There can be no doubt that Ham, the first chimpanzee in space, would have made a more evocative and intelligent description of his suborbital flight than the vapid mutterings of Bezos, who didn't even have the sense to hire a professional peddler of pomp, like Jon Meacham or Peggy Noonan, to script a few uplifting lines of homespun doggerel.

Bezos, the US$207 Billion Manchild, blurted out after his 10-minute ride: "I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this. Seriously, for every Amazon customer out there and every Amazon employee, thank you from the bottom of my heart very much. It's very appreciated."

The median salary of an Amazon worker is $29,007 in 2020. The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at the company is 58:1.

By Jeffrey St Clair

Read the rest of his essay at Counterpunch.

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THE LAST WORD on 'REBEL'




"I've been a rebel all my life, against tyranny and arrogant authority, which is what we have now. But I also crave fellowship, compassion and love... I believe with these things we can prevail."

- Eric Clapton about the song 'Stand and Deliver', a collaboration with Van Morrison released in December 2020.







Photo by Roger Perry

So we'll sign out with another Josie Proto . . .this one is called "B-Tech Lily Allen" . . . . . .we like Lily Allen and not sure what she thinks of this but we think its FAB!

Spread the other one as far as you can . . . she just wants to walk home . . . . . . 

Monday, July 26, 2021

SHELLEY DUVALL - UPDATE NEWS 2021 - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

    

 PHOTOGRAPHED BY ERIC RYAN ANDERSON
FROM: FEBRUARY 11, 2021

    And while we mention Time Bandits we have mentioned before the concern for the mental health of one of it's stars in Shelley Duvall and her interviews with the American TV institution that is 'Dr Phil' (2016) and the criticism of how she was portrayed and treated, whether she should even have been filmed at all is a moot point but we have shared the concern since and worried over the wellbeing of a dear and much beloved actor. 

So it comes as a sense of relief to note this article by Seth Abramovitch from The Hollywood Reporter which I confess I did not know and wondered if it wasn't rather similar to the USA's National Enquirer or similar but the article is well balanced and informative, affectionate even and well worth a read. 

Reassuring and even handed the senior journalist goes to some lengths to find Shelley and tracks her down in her beloved Texas. That she is better is a given and it would seem she had the treatment or found the solution to her troubles since the interview and it it should be noted and in fact the article goes to some length to stress that the team behind Dr Phil made an apparently still open invitation for her to receive treatment, counselling etc at the companies expense. 

Searching For Shelley Duvall - The Reclusive Icon on Fleeing Hollywood - The Hollywood Reporter



So encouraging to see the star smiling
 PHOTOGRAPHED BY ERIC RYAN ANDERSON



VIDEODROME: TIME BANDITS - Aquarium Drunkard

TIME BANDITS

From Aquarium Drunkard

Time Bandits (1981) ORIGINAL TRAILER

Videodrome :: Time Bandits

(Welcome to Videodrome. A recurring column plumbing the depths of vintage and contemporary cinema – from cult, exploitation, trash and grindhouse to sci-fi, horror, noir, documentary and beyond.)

“I am Evil. Evil existed long before good.”

Videodrome. A recurring column plumbing the depths of vintage and contemporary cinema – from cult, exploitation, trash and grindhouse to sci-fi, horror, noir, documentary and beyond.

Now showing: Terry Gilliam’s 1981 fantasy-adventure Time Bandits — the first installment in his “Trilogy Of Imagination” series…



a favourite film and often in my top three of all time . . . . . . . . .(Ralph Richardson as God what else do you need?!) reviewed by Videodrome on Aquarium Drunkard


Sunday, July 25, 2021

NAT MYERS! - New Album - 'Hobo Wine & Remedy Blues'

 NEW DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR

I found this young man and discovered him playing his blues on a Leon Redbone facebook group (sic) the style is unique and plain lovely, the age seems indeterminate but young, young YOUNG and the voice sounds like the stylistic workings of an old blues man several hundred years old. I think he must be the reincarnation of Blind Wille McTell! He sum ole soul . . . . . . 

"WILLOW WITCHIN'!"

This is the blues!

His page says:

It’s hard to track down Nat Myers. He’s one of those young solitaires you hear before you see. Here’s what the books know: he was named after his great-grandfather, an Indiana dairy farmer. His father, a revenue man, served in South Korea. His mother is from Pusan, a factory worker since she was thirteen. They met, and married, then moved to Kentucky, where the solitaire was raised.

He calls himself an entertainer, but that’s like a dog calling itself a flea. As a performer, he emits, but doesn’t distill, his secrets. He’s self-taught, and it probably shows. His style’s homemade, unplugged. From the start he was drawn to the falsely believed to be forgotten styles. He found those who knew it, busking as a street performer before working into traditional venues.

His biggest gift perhaps is not feigning some bigger picture, or abiding scholarly abstractions or pedantic classifications. He doesn’t play for purists, his music, like him, is half-breed. He plays to the living as well as the dead, tapping the tradition passed down by those who tell him he has right to make something from it. He brings a new relevance to a rage of music that gets dusty before the old folks.


-Petunia Burch


Nat Myers page . . . . .


WILLOW WITCHIN' 

My darlin got the rod, I got the pick ~ 
Tell me where darling, I'm gonna dig dig dig ~ 
Tell me honey, where to dig my well ~ 
My water diviner honey sure does cure dry spell ~ 

When the new dustbowl come boogie-in in 
My baby gonna make a livin divinin ~ 
Tell me honey, where to dig my well ~ 
My water diviner honey sure does cure dry spell ~ 

When you got no watering hole 
My baby bring it gushin clean & cold ~ 
Tell me honey, where to dig my well ~ 
My water diviner honey sure do cure dry spell ~ 

Well & she willow witchin since the day she born ~ 
First doodlebuggin back at home ~ 
Tell me honey, where to dig my well ~ 
My water diviner honey sure does cure dry spell ~
  

credits

releases July 31, 2021 

Photo Credit: Ari & Zoe Elefterin 

“The folk-blues troubadour wasn't made for these times. But I'm glad he's here.”

Tinnitist

Nat Myers - YouTube

BUY HIS PLATES HERE!
 Boy only askin' three dollar!!!
 




Picture of The Week! - Rico Rodriguez & Jerry Dammers

 

Rico and Jerry!

Jerry what ARE you doing!???

Dammers' people will know he was the brains behind The Specials, google him! (and them if you must!) Rico is a legend. You should know who he is and if you are British you prolly do! The entry in Wikipedia on Rico sums it up but he started out as trombone player per excellence under Don Drummond's influence and went on to play with Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames and started being heavily involved in the British discovery of Ska and Bluebeat to Reggae. From 1996 he featured as a significant part of The Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. Universally loved bu all who found a joy in Ska and Reggae (and Jools' work) he passed away aged 80 in 2015 having been given an MBE for services to music and the Silver Musgrave Medal by the Institute of Jamaica in recognition of his contribution to Jamaican music. Legend!


SOURCE: rebel without applause . . . . .

Saturday, July 24, 2021

DAVID BOWIE - THE GQ AWARDS RADIO CITY NEW YORK 1997 - FRESH & ALIVE!

 

B  O  W ★ I  

EARTHLING!

 
Now as I was visiting Floppy Boot Stomp and Voodoo Wagon as I do (daily) I found myself wandering the side bars waiting for them to post something ( I do get so frustrated if they don't post something everyday! impatient little sausage ain't I?) and wandering about, as I say, I found this . . . . .  has anyone actually listened to this!? Over at Fresh & Alive!

 It is extraordinary in my view Bowie at his most playful and weird, with my favourite line up band and being an awards ceremony he seemingly can get away with the most playfully weird approach I have ever heard! The lead in for The Jean Genie is one of the strangest ever, loose and they start with nursery rhymes ('There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly'!?) and then an Elvis take off 'Baby What You Want Me To Do!? with Reeves starting with a screaming solo intro over David's Acoustic guitar noodling (presumably) and then full into a funky loud and tight JEAN GENIE! This is modern pop, POP! at its peak! Truly a creative set and staggering really in its coverage, 'My Death' (prophetic!?) 'Battle For Britain"?!! Seven Years in Tibet?!?! then Moonage Daydream! check out 'Fashion' here . . . . . . faultless, coke fuelled? possibly! fun? undoubtedly! . . . . . extraordinary!


David Bowie - 'Fashion'  live at The GQ Awards, Radio City Music Hall in New York City, 15th October 1997


David Bowie – Vocals, Guitar & Saxophone Reeves Gabrels – Guitar Gail Ann Dorsey – Bass & Vocals Zachary Alford – Drums & Percussion Mike Garson – Piano & Keyboards



David Bowie

GQ Men Of The Year Awards

Earthling Tour

Radio City Music Hall

New York City, NY, USA

Wednesday October 15th, 1997 

Soundboard Recording

Encoded: 320 Kbps MP3


Track List:

01. Always Crashing In The Same Car

02. Panic In Detroit

03. I'm Waiting For The Man (The Velvet Underground cover)

04. My Death (Jacques Brel cover)

05. The Jean Genie

06. I'm Afraid Of Americans

07. Seven Years In Tibet

08. Looking For Satellites

09. Under Pressure (Queen/Bowie cover)

10. Fashion

11. The Man Who Sold The World

12. Battle For Britain (The Letter)

13. Stay

14. Little Wonder

15. Hallo Spaceboy

16. Moonage Daydream

 

Check it out you won't be disappointed!





Friday, July 23, 2021

SONG OF THE DAY - AMY MACDONALD - 'SPARK'

 "I am the light in the dark, I am the match, I am the spark. Don't worry, I'm OK now . . . . . . . . "

Amy says:

We performed a little set for Independent Venue Week a few months back and I'm pleased to share the performance with you over the coming weeks on YouTube. To kick things off, here's 'Spark'. Hope you enjoy!

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Watch in full here: https://amymacdonald.lnk.to/liveoranmorFA




Bonus track a faultless version of the 4 Non-Blondes cover 'What's Up?'

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Nanci Griffith - Santa Cruz CA 1986 - Big O

    Big O have posted links to a nice late eighties set from Nanci Griffith today which goes some way towards ensuring we don't forget her. As I have said repeatedly Nanci seems to have disappeared and is believed to be somewhere in the South perhaps running a bookshop it has been said. After a blistering angry letter to many Texan newspapers and reviewers claiming abuse and lack of appreciation in some instances to journals that hadn't covered her work (sic) she then seemed to lay low and fans were extremely worried for her. Griffith is a survivor of breast cancer which was diagnosed in 1996, and thyroid cancer in 1998. We always wish her well

Enjoy this a crystal clear soundboard recording . . . . . this is from around the time she wrote Anybody Can Be Somebody's Fool which frankly should be and is a classic of folk country music. She has that rare gift of making most songs her own and her writing often sounds like songs you always thought existed! These are some of them . . . . . . 

Nanci Griffith - Santa Cruz 1986 - Big O





KEVIN AYERS - First two albums - Urbanaspirines


 A great look at the work of Kevin Ayers (yes again!) and Urbanaspirines have revisited the reissue of his first two 'solo' albums Joy of A Toy from 1969 and 'Shooting At The Moon' (with The Whole World) Once again his notes are really worth a read and help the context of Kevin in the panoply of music makers with Eno, Cale, Nico to Soft Machine, Mike Oldfield, Lol Coxhill etc. The Whole World featured Mike Oldfield on bass (no less!) and the ubiquitous Lol Coxhill who played a lot around the free festivals I used to go to and we had him play MOMA under the auspices of Marco Livingstone (art expert curator, gallerists and actually a very fine musicologist who started out interviewing rock and pop people - not a lot of people know that - and they should - he introduced me to Nick Cave but I digress . . .) Coxhill played that time with perhaps one of the finest piano players I have ever witnessed ( I use the term accordingly) Veryan Weston (of Stinky Winkles - still my favourite name for a band! sic) Enjoy!


Kevin Ayers - Joy of A Toy and Shooting At The Moon 69/70 - Urbanaspirines

the intro begins thusly:

Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was active in 


the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with 
Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, Bridget St John, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others.  . . . . . . . . . 


By the late 90s Ayers had become something of a recluse  He died in his sleep on 18 February 2013 in Montolieu, France, aged 68