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Friday, July 03, 2026
The Fool - The Fool (1969 Holland, 2005 bonus tracks remaster)
SIMON & MARIJKE
The Fool (1969 Holland, 2005 bonus tracks remaster)
The Fool were a Dutch quartet transplanted to London in the middle ’60s, whose original impact on the rock world was visual rather than musical. They were two women, Marijke Kooer and Josje Leeger – who designed clothes for people like Patti Boyd Harrison (George Harrison’s first wife) – and with Marijke’s husband, Seemon (Simon) and their friend, Barry Finch they became collectively known as “the Fool,” exemplifying the hippie ethic of the mid-’60s.They had a shop off London’s Montague Square, where John Lennon was an early visitor. Brian Hogg’s CD liner notes quote Seemon from the Granada TV documentary, It Was Twenty Years Ago Today: “He walked into our place, and saw our stuff – furniture and posters as well as clothes – and he said ‘This is where I want to live.’” That established the Fool. They did concert posters for Brian Epstein’s Saville Theatre, decorated Lennon’s piano and his Rolls Royce and painted the exterior of the Apple building. They flourished at the height of “flower power” and their distinctive images helped define the era.As artists they did several album covers, starting with the Hollies’ 1966 Evolution and the Move’s debut album, and perhaps culminating in 5000 Spirits On The Layers Of The Onion by the Incredible String Band – all in an instantly identifiable style. In 1968 they recorded their only album, for Mercury Records.I remember that while my friends were getting excited about the Incredible String Band, I – never very fond of folk music – kept telling them, “Yeah, sure, but have you heard the Fool?” When I played the album for them I made a lot of converts for it.The Fool is an album with some of the same English folk elements – including bagpipes! – but it is not a folk music album. So what is it? Good question. In an odd way it reminds me of George Harrison’s very under-appreciated Wonderwall Music: both are early precursors of “World music.” But The Fool is much more.The album opens with spacey psychedelic effects that lead us directly into “Fly,” which has a naοve folksy quality but in turn leads (in a direct segue) to a rippling piano, banjos, and a deep organ accompaniment to the second track, “Voice On The Wind.” Hogg states that Graham Nash, whom they’d met when he was in the Hollies, “acted as producer and he doubtlessly helped sculpt the textured opening two tracks … which served as an atmospheric introduction to the album. The use of bagpipes and other exotic instruments signaled a wish to create something both adventurous and folksy.” (I might add that I rarely enjoy the sound of bagpipes – as they are traditionally played – but they work well for me on this album. Seemon is pictured playing bagpipes on the album’s cover.)“‘Cry For Me,’ with its plaintive banjo, proved the Fool’s grasp of melody, a feature enhanced by their confident vocals and atmospheric seashore sound effects. ‘No One Will Ever Know’ blends pop with a jugband feel feel before a now familiar [bagpipe] skirl grabs the casual listener.“A trumpet, whistles and almost gospel-styled singing inhabit ‘Reincarnation.’ ‘Hello Little Sister’ plays with the riff from ‘Walk Don’t Run’ and more faintly choral voices before ‘Keep On Pushin’ hits a bluesy vein. The piece is underpinned by a Hammond organ, prompting scholars to suggest the presence of R&B veteran Graham Bond who was often photographed with the Fool around this time. The eastern-styled [tenor] saxophone break would seem to confirm it. ‘Inside Your Mind’ is another track hewn from Episcopalia, while ‘Lay It Down’ [which concluded the original album] is full blown intoxicated psychedelia.”When I first got this album I was struck by the nature of its melodies. They seemed to derive in part from old English church hymns – blended with blues, boogie and rock. “Episcopalia” is another way to describe it. Oddly Calvinistic, I thought then. But original: nothing else, before or since, sounds very much like it. And that “eastern-styled saxophone break” turns into a quote from Rahsaan Roland Kirk playing with Charles Mingus (as recorded in 1962) – a nice touch.This album dates to the days before “progressive rock” existed, but prefigures it in its adventurousness and wide-ranging musicality. I always wondered why there was no second album to follow up on this one, but Hogg says, “Unfortunately for the Fool, flower-power was wilting in 1968 [when the album was released] and their efforts herein went largely unrecognized, despite cover art typical of their work. Their designs were now deemed passι – the Apple building was repainted at the behest of residents, and the collective split up at the end of the decade.” Frankly, I was never impressed by their style of artwork – the cover of the Move’s first album never did anything for me – and I miss that aspect of the Fool much less than I do their music.In the early ’70s Seemon and Marijke came to America and made an album for A&M Records, Son Of America (SP 4309). Graham Nash again was the producer (and contributed vocals), and Seemon plays bagpipes in a few spots, but the music is rather pedestrian and ordinary, perhaps the result of using American musicians (including Booker T. on organ), or perhaps the desire for greater commercial success – which eluded it. This album was not a continuation of the Fool. Then the couple returned to Amsterdam and split up. Hogg says that Barry and Josje also returned to Amsterdam, “and, last heard, were still together.”
by Dr. Progresso and Brian Hogg
Tracks
1. Fly - 2:43
2. Voice On The Wind - 5:08
3. Rainbow Man - 2:21
4. Cry For Me - 3:52
5. No One Will Ever Know - 2:53
6. Reincarnation - 4:07
7. Hello Little Sister - 2:00
8. Keep On Pushing - 6:00
9. Inside Your Mind - 2:43
10.Lay It Down - 4:5111.We Are One - 2:3812.Shining Light - 2:40
All compositions by Barry Finch, Josje Leeger, Marijke Koger, Simon Posthuma
Bonus Tracks 11,12
The Fool
*Simon Posthuma
*Marijke Koger
*Barry Finch
*Josje Leeger
Hot Tuna - 1993-04-10 - Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA | Heavybootz | Dr THC
Hot Tuna - 1993-04-10 - San Francisco, CA
Hot Tuna
Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
1993-04-10
Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
1993-04-10
sbd
mp3 @ 320 [408 mb]
sq: EX
mp3 @ 320 [408 mb]
sq: EX
__Set 1__
01 Hesitation Blues
02 Walkin' Blues
03 I'll Be All Right Someday
04 I See The Light
05 Trouble In Mind - San Francisco Bay Blues
06 99 Year Blues
07 Stop Breaking Down *
08 Bring It On Home *
09 Big Fish *
10 I Was The One
11 Third Week In The Chelsea
12 Death Don't Have No Mercy
13 Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out
14 Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning
15 Keep On Truckin'
16 Embryonic Journey
17 It's Just My Way
18 Ode For Billy Dean
19 Junkies On Angel Dust - Wavy Gravy Rap__Set 2__
20 I Know You Rider
21 Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
22 Don't You Leave Me Here
23 Candy Man
24 Uncle Sam Blues
25 Winin' Boy Blues
26 Bank Robber
27 Blue Moon Of Kentucky *
28 Judge, I'm Not Sorry *
29 Folsom Prison Blues
30 Mann's Fate
31 Police Dog Blues
32 Praise The Lord And Pass The Snakes *
33 Let's Work Together *
tt: 2:58:06
Jorma Kaukonen - guitar, vocals
Jack Casady - bass
Michael Falzarano - guitar, vocals*
Pete Sears - piano, keyboards
Harvey Sorgen - drums
Thursday, July 02, 2026
Portishead - Studio 104, La Plaine Saint Denis, Paris, France 2008 | FLOPPY BOOT STOMP
Portishead - Concert Prive Canal
+ 2008
Portishead - Live Concert
Recorded at Studio 104,
La Plaine Saint Denis
Paris, France
May 3, 2008
Broadcast quality MP3
Another class re-boot from the Boss at
Floppy Boot Stomp
Originally posted Aug 21, 2014 and April 20, 2018
Set List:
Silence
Hunter
Mysterons
The Rip
Magic Doors
Wandering Star
Machine Gun
Nylon Smile
Threads
Roads
We Carry
Silence
Hunter
Mysterons
The Rip
Magic Doors
Wandering Star
Machine Gun
Nylon Smile
Threads
Roads
We Carry
Portishead - Silence (Live 2008 - Concert Prive)
Portishead - Silence (Live 2008 - Concert Prive)
Portishead - Silence (Live 2008 - Concert Prive)
We have had this before (that’s how re-boots work) but for fans and anyone
missed it first time around it is fine fine quality
and visit the link at FBS to hear another track [ROADS]
from The Boss at At The Boot!
Simone Simons - Rocker of the Day
Rock chic Simone Simons
BLIMEY!
These gals are getting that ROCKING Down!
Taj Mahal - 1993-04-10 - San Francisco, CA | Heavybootz - Dr Thc
Taj Mahal - 1993-04-10 - San Francisco, CA
Taj Mahal
Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
1993-04-10sbd
mp3 @ 320 [130 mb]
sq: EX-01 Intro by Wavy Gravy
02 Blues With a Feeling
03 Walkin' Blues
04 Stagger Lee
05 Freight Train - Railroad Bill - Wilson Rag
06 Take This Hammer
07 Fishin' Blues
08 Sitting on Top of the World
09 Cake Walk Into Town
10 Diving Duck Blues
11 Blues on the Ceiling
12 Little Red Roostertt: 56:59opener for Hot Tuna
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