Speaking of The Rolling Stones . . . . . the Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown

 A fine post but what, my fellow guitarists, what the heck is Brian doing here? It really looks like he is barely there and phoning in his performance here playing lead (ahem) to Keith’s rhythm guitar . . . . . .fellow guitarists what do you reckon? 

Its is a mystery to me . . .was this the start of his decline and is he under the influence here already? It totally looks like he isn’t even there!!

On this day in 1966 the Stones released 19th Nervous Breakdown as a single in the US - having been released 8 days before in the UK. The song was written during the band’s tour of America in late 1965 💫

The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler [LIVE!]

 The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler

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I was going to respond to the Kent State shooting with The Stones’ Street Fighting Man but all the authorities and this involved I hope had nightmares as to their murderous intent and that they were haunted by a midnight rambler . . . . . 

this number was a running gag between me and my dear old pal Stephen Blackman DOP and film cameraman par excellence and this is in memoriam to him with those we lost at Ohio!

FOUR DEAD IN OHIO 1970 : We don’t forget . . . Sandra Lee Scheuer, aged 20, Allison B. Krause, 19, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20, and William Knox Schroeder, 19.

 

I was going to post this yesterday but it gets swamped in all the fey Starwars jokes . . . . but can you recall or even imagine what it was like waking the next day to realise the National Guard (fully armed soldiers after all) had shot four students dead on campus in America!? We don’t forget and as a burgeoning teenager (17) and fellow student, I recall the horror and sheer disbelief that unarmed peaceful protesting fellow students guilty of nought but complaint and organising a sit in of their buildings and classrooms should die that day

Shame on you America!

"On this day, 4 May 1970, the Kent State massacre took place when the Ohio National Guard fired 67 rounds into a crowd of students protesting against the bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam war, killing four and wounding nine others, including bystanders and one person who was permanently paralysed. 

Student John Cleary was there, and recalled how he tried to take a photograph of the soldiers: 

“As they got near the top of the hill, I wanted to get one last picture of them before they went over the crest of the hill. So I was kind of getting my camera, I was winding it, getting ready to take another shot and suddenly, they just turned and fired. It was like this volley of gunshots.

“And then I got hit in the chest. I guess the best way I can describe it is like getting hit in the chest with a sledgehammer. It just really knocked me down. I don't remember too much after that. I don't remember the ambulance ride.”

Cleary survived, but four people were killed: Sandra Lee Scheuer, aged 20,  Allison B. Krause, 19, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20, and William Knox Schroeder, 19.

The repression galvanised anti-war sentiment, with students in New York hanging banners stating "You Can't Kill Us All" and in the next few days millions took to the streets in protest. 

In the wake of the massacre, rather than charge any of the killers, 25 students were indicted. But charges were dropped by the following year."

workingclasshistory.com

Learn more about the movement against the Vietnam war in our podcast episodes 43-46. 

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or here on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/09/23/e43-46-the-movement-against-the-vietnam-war-in-the-us/

unarmed students faced THIS

tear gas and guns

Picture of the Day I - Don Van Vliet . . .and ART: “Whalebone Farnhouse” 1986

 

Don back stage before starting the Bongo Fury Sessions and tour . . .love to see him so happy

A previously unseen photo of Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart, taken by Ken Dorr in April 1975 during rehearsals for the Bongo Fury tour. 

Ken commented:

'I first heard of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band on a compilation album of Straight artists called 'Zapped' not long after TMR came out. Wow it sure developed my listening skills! I saw them after Lick my decals off came out at Boston University for $1.00 admission with Ry Cooder as the opening act. When we were headed to the show, I said to my friends that I will be impressed if he just remembered the words to the songs. He came out on stage with a big book with the lyrics! They blew my mind. Favorite album was Clear Spot. I lived in LA in the mid 70s and had worked my way into doing speculation photography for Zappa at the time of rehearsals for the Bongo Fury tour. Food was being catered in and Don was talking to someone about Clear Spot. I told him it was THE greatest album of all time. He smiled and said "What's your favorite song?" I replied "Big Eyed Beans from Venus" Don said "Mine too! Let's have some lunch!" We had a nice chat during lunch. One of the memorable events in my life!

It was at a college in Cucamonga, I think. I didn't shoot much as Frank spent a few hours at the mixing board, with masking tape between the knobs. He would bring out one or two band members to play certain parts while he color coded the mixing settings and noted them on sheet music. Hence not many photographic opportunities. I was limited on time as I worked a job in the evenings. In L.A. Frank rented the venue for a couple weeks to work out the plan for the tour.  

I got into photographing Zappa through Cal Shenkel. I got to work with him on the cover of an unreleased Discreet album. He actually wanted to use this on the back of the Bongo Fury album, but Frank decided not to use photos on the back.'

Don Van Vliet

"Whalebone Farmhouse", 1986

Oil on canvas

84 1/4 x 60 1/4 inches

214 x 153 cm

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Facebook page

Picture of the Day II - John B Sebastian / CSNY - Wembley 1974 Johnny’s Garden

here in Johnny’s Garden

do you remember that one?

This is who and what it was about

 made better by the fact that this was a concert we were at!

CSN&Y- Johnny's Garden live Wembley 1974

just press play . . . . . . . Pooneil Corners

 

this . . . . . . . . . . . 

 . . . .always amuses me but I am so anally retentive I usually have to work out what the track is what album date and year before I post anything but Pooneil posts like this!

so . . . . no can’t do it 

NEW ORDER

Pooneil Corners

Echo & the Bunnyman In Concert - BBC Live 11/02/88 Liverpool Empire 1988 | Voodoo Wagon

Echo and the Bunnymen - BBC 1988

Echo & the Bunnyman - BBC Live 1988
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Excellent FM Source @320
A SILENT WAY SPECIAL

Silent Way says: "Really strong show. Don't miss this one!"

 

Track List:
01 Rescue
02 Heaven Up Here
03 With A Hip
04 Bombers Bay
05 All I Want
06 Back Of Love
07 Crocodiles
08 Zimbo
09 Seven Seas
10 Bedbugs And Ballyhoo
11 The Cutter
12 Show Of Strength
13 Lips Like Sugar
14 Thorn Of Crowns

Echo And The Bunnymen - Liverpool Empire - 11/01/88 (As broadcast by the BBC)

BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert is a 1992 live album by Echo & the Bunnymen. 

It was recorded by the BBC during the band's concert at the Liverpool Empire Theatre on 11 January 1988 and broadcast on BBC Radio 1's In Concert program.

PLEASE NOTE if this is the same concert [and we think it is?!] the download is CONSIDERABLY BETTER QUALITY than the versions on YouTube and elsewhere!

Echo & The Bunnymen perform Bring On The Dancing Horses on Later… with Jools Holland

 on BBC Two (9 October 2018). 

Illustration Art - Carter Goodrich show NY

NEW EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF CARTER GOODRICH

 If you like good drawing and you're in the vicinity of New York City, 

it would be hard to do better than the Carter Goodrich retrospective at the

Philippe Labaune Gallery. 

 If you're not in the vicinity,  the show is worth a trip.

The exhibition includes an excellent cross section of Goodrich's art, 

including His New Yorker covers, his magazine and book illustrations, 

and his character designs for major animated films.  

It's a rare opportunity to study his beautiful originals up close.

unused New Yorker cover artwork deemed to ‘strong’ we think

Carter Goodrich, Valentines Day - Cover for The New Yorker Magazine, 2003

Watercolor and Pencil on Board, 20 x 15.5 in

Work of Carter Goodrich - Illustration Art

Art of The Day - Don Van Vliet ‘Ocean Backed Bat’

 

Don Van Vliet.

'Ocean Backed Bat'

Oil on board.

121.9 x 99.1cm / 48 x 39 inches.

The first film I ever saw at the cinema . . . . . .