The Incredible String Band - BBC Sessions Volume 7: In Concert Golders Green Hippodrome London UK 1974 | Albums That Should Exist

 The Incredible String Band - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, Golders Green Hippodrome, London, Britain, 5-17-1974

Paul says: Here's the seventh and last of the BBC albums I'm posting from the Incredible String Band. This one is a 1974 concert.

This concert came near the tail end of the band's first time together. Here's some info from their Wikipedia entry: "The group's changing lineup, adding Stan Schnier on bass, Jack Ingram on drums, and Graham Forbes on electric guitar, reflected moves toward a more conventional amplified rock group. Their final albums for Island [Records] were received disappointingly, and the label dropped them in 1974. By then, disagreements between [singer-songwriters Robin] Williamson and [Mike] Heron about musical policy had become irreconcilable, and they split up in October 1974."

After that, there was a reunion much later, from 1999 to 2006. That seems to have been the final split.

Only two songs from here were released on the band's official BBC album, "Across the Airwaves." Those are "1968" and "Log Cabin Home in the Sky." But everything else comes from a bootleg that sounds so good, you can't tell the difference on the sourcing.

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 Ithkos 
02 talk
03 Log Cabin Home in the Sky
04 talk 
05 1968 
06 talk
07 Jack Straw's Wishes [Instrumental] 
08 talk
09 Maker of Islands 
10 talk 
11 Dear Old Battlefield 
12 talk 
13 Jigs [Good Morrow-Crawley's Reel-Small Coals for Nailers-Katie Hill] 
14 This Moment

 (all songs Incredible String Band) 

Chuck Berry introduces Muddy Waters’ 'Got My Mojo Working'

 introduced  as “the best blues singer to walk this earth” 

Patti Smith - Divine Intervention (Roskilde DENMARK 1996) | Zero G Sound

 Patti Smith - Divine Intervention (Roskilde 1996)

Zero  hat gesagt:

"Three chord rock merged with the power of the word."

So Patti Smith described her music on the 1975 release of "Horses", her celebrated debut album; and so she has continued to blend the spoken and sung arts in incantatory fashion with her latest work, "Twelve". 

Impossible to categorize, moving easily between the literary and musical worlds, always unpredictable and impassioned, she is an idiosyncratically unique performer who has always remained true to her artistic vision.

Born in Chicago and raised in Woodbury, New Jersey, just across the state line from Philadelphia, Patti's mother, Beverly, was a jazz singer cum waitress. Her father, Grant, 

worked at the Honeywell plant; she was the oldest of four siblings: her sisters Linda and Kimberly (the latter plays mandolin on Gone Again's "Ravens,"), and brother Todd. Unable to find her place in high school society, she took refuge in the images of Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, James Brown, and the Rolling Stones. Dropping out of Glassboro State Teacher's College, she headed for the bright lights - big city of New York. 

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"Divine Intervention" (1996, Rupert 9681) is a recording of her performance on June, 30, 1996 at the Roskile Festival in Denmark. The performance and the sound quality are good, so enjoy another Patti Smith bootleg...

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins ‘I put a spell on you . . .’ a Halloween special! | Don’s Tunes

Photo: Ace Records

 

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Screamin' Jay Hawkins originally wanted to become an opera singer; a plan he ambitiously pursued but where he found little success, (though interestingly, he was a boxing Golden Gloves winner in 1947). After learning guitar, he began playing the blues professionally. For several years, he performed as a bluesman until one drunken night changed his world forever, and produced what would become one of the most influential songs in all of music.

“I put a spell on you…” Hawkins demanded back in 1956. His searing undertone demanded attention and was paired with a catchy beat of a percussive brass section and drum, creating, all at once, a crazed drunken tirade, swirling three-ring circus, and a mysterious voodoo ritual. “Because you’re mine”. Released on OKeh Records that same year, “I Put A Spell on You” almost instantly became a hit for Hawkins. Then he had to listen to the song and relearn it, because he was blacked out drunk when he recorded it.

“Arnold Makson was the head of Columbia at the time, and he felt we had to do something different in regards to the song,” Hawkins said in The Nick Tosches Reader. “So he brought in a case of Italian Swiss Colony Muscatel and we all got our heads bent… We all got blind drunk. Ten days later, the record came out on the Okeh label. I listened to it and I heard all those drunken screams and groans and yells. And that’s how I became Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.”

Screamin' Jay claimed he had 57 offspring scattered around the globe - a figure presumably filched from a ketchup bottle. In later life, he reversed the digits, upping his claim to 75. He died, aged 70 in Paris, having spent 10 years in Honolulu and devoted most of his later years to sitting in a chair and smoking cigarettes.

Matt Marshal / American Blues Scene

Don's Tunes 

Screamin Jay Hawkins - "I put a spell on you!”  From ITV’s Granada Television UK

Art of the Week - Don Van Vliet "Untitled" 1989 India ink, gouache, gold pigment, silver pigment on paper

 

Don Van Vliet 

"Untitled", 1989

India ink, gouache, gold pigment, silver pigment on paper

13 1/2 x 20 inches/

34 x 51 cm

Dylan of the Day - It Ain't Me, Babe (Rolling Thunder Revue)

 Bob Dylan - It Ain't Me, Babe (Rolling Thunder Revue)

Somebody posted this on Flickennabokk! a clip and it mesmerised me and didn’t recall where I had heard the arrangement before . . . worth a listen (always!)

But Bass Player Tal Wilkenfeld is always my number one!

  . . . . she played with Jeff Beck for pity’s sake! I mean come on!

Tal Wilkenfeld

I found another female bass player! Blu DeTiger!?

What IS it about those girls and THAT bass!? 

Hell’s Teeth! I found another one!

What IS it about the gals and that bass?!

(Don’t answer that!)

Here she is AGAIN!

a ‘break’ during her DJ set!?

DJing + bass + perc. Disco is back #djset #disco #bass

Curiously her tracks ‘Vintage’ and ‘Bluetooth', 'Hot Crush Lover' and ‘Elevator' are very MOR disco, pop pap and curiously lacking somehow but hey that’s just me!

Solo bass doesn’t quite cut it! Play with a band for pity’s sake!

Captions in the music blogosphere . . . . .

I won’t name the blog suffice to say I HAVE called them on this but it pissed me off 

This was the caption to this picture . . .who said RACISM is dead!

Keep an eye and call it out people

Big Audio Dynamite

#photography

#big audio dynamite

#mick jones

Just me? . . . the picture has two other people in it [l to r] Don Letts, Mick Jones, Leo Williams (then also a member but not pictured Greg Roberts)

Nintendo Entertainment System tunes done Rag Time (I Kid You Not) | Scott Bradlees | THE POSTMODERN JUKEBOX

Hard to believe that the Nintendo Entertainment System was released 40 years ago today! See if you recognize these familiar melodies, played ragtime style 🎹 

Download this piano album: Scott Bradlees - Songs I Know By Heart

Postmodern Jukebox