Photo of The Day: Bongo Fury cover shoot

Rare photos from The Archive 

Rex Lowe

"This photo was taken at a cheap burger joint on Sierra Highway in Palmdale CA. A buddy’s mom owned it. She was paid a day’s receipts for closing for this shoot. It nor those pictured exist any longer"

BONGO FURY [LIVE!!] - Frank n Don CONCERT OF THE DAY!

Not so much for a Sunday but heck it's Bongo Fury Live! What more could anyone want? 

Poem of the Day - Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) -

 

'Wrought Iron Cactus' - Don Van Vliet 1991.

Sam with the showing scalp flat top,

particular about the point it made.

Why, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper,

this black juice came out on a hard shelled chin.

And they called that ‘tobacco juice’.

I used to fiddle with my back feet music for a black onyx.

My entire room absorbed every echo.

The music was… thud like. The music was… thud like.

I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug.

Opaque melodies that would bug most people.

Music from the other side of the fence.

A black swan figurine lay on all color lily pads.

On a little conglomeration table of pressed black felt.

With same color shadows, and obscene knob knees and what-nots.

The long hallway rolled out into oddball odd.

Beside the fly-pecked black doorway,

that looked closed on the tar-lattice street.

Up a wrought iron fire escape.

Rolled out a tiny wooden platform with

dark, hard, dark rubber wheels.

Roll, skreek! Roll, skreek! Roll, skreek!

Sam with the showing scalp flat top,

particular about the point it made.

Sam was a BASKET CASE!

A hardened dark ivory clip held 

saleable everyday pencils.

I wish I had a pair ‘o bongos!

Bongo Fury! Bongo Fury!

(1975)