Nice Tom Waits set from Big O this morning and it is worth having . . . . again if you ignore the disgusting racist and vile taunts and sophomoric drivel from the trolls in the comments section
Tom Waits - Cleveland 1976 - Big O
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)
Urbanaspirines turns up trumps again looking at the history of eighties band via 3 disc compilation of the work of Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke or YAZOO!
YAZOO - 3 Pieces - Urbanaspirines
It is still commercially available so after you've read about it, go buy it!
Sandy Denny - At the End of the Day (1973)
From Sandy Denny’s third solo LP - that’s former band-mate Richard Thompson on guitar.
again from the wonderful Guess I'm Dumb
David Bowie - Live in Rio 1990 - Fresh & Alive
01. 00:16 REBEL REBEL02. 03:30 PRETTY PINK ROSE03. 07:51 BLUE JEAN04. 10:55 LET'S DANCE05. 15:30 ZIGGY STARDUST06. 18:35 CHINA GIRL07. 23:53 YOUNG AMERICANS08. 27:54 CHANGES09. 30:44 JEAN GENIE10. 35:13 MODERN LOVE
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Henry (1971)
A trip to Mexico, driving down winding mountain road, a drug deal, all delivered in a rollicking country rock tune from the New Riders of the Purple Sage’s first LP. That’s Jerry Garcia on banjo and pedal steel.
What ever are they singing about? . . . . . .rolling down the mountain . . . . . . . .
PAUL: Apart from riding for fun, there were so many jobs having to do with the farm itself. I actually learnt to shear the sheep with hand clippers – not something one sees much these days, and certainly not something that, when I was a kid in Liverpool, I ever thought I’d end up doing. I was able to shear about fourteen to twenty in a day, and my farm manager, Duncan, would do a hundred. Just getting the sheep on its back is a hard enough trick to pull off. An image of me about to flip a sheep ended up as the cover of RAM […]. That was part of Linda’s record of one shearing session. Linda made an individual portrait of each and every one of our flock.
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present.
“Did you know Paul sent a telegram to Margaret Thatcher in 1982? He did. It wasn’t friendly. He lost his temper over her treatment of health workers and fired off a long outraged message, comparing her to Ted Heath, the prime minister (tweaked in “Taxman”) felled by the 1974 coal strike. McCartney warned, “What the miners did to Ted Heath, the nurses will do to you.” This controversy is a curiously obscure footnote to his life—it seldom gets mentioned in even the fattest biographies. He doesn’t discuss it in Many Years from Now. I only know about it because I read it as a Random Note in Rolling Stone, not exactly a hotbed of pro-Paul propaganda at the time. (The item began, “Reports that Paul McCartney is intellectually brain-dead appear to have been premature.”) But the telegram was a major U.K. scandal, with Tory politicians denouncing him. In October 1982, Thatcher was at the height of her power, in the wake of her Falkland Islands blitz. Many rock stars talked shit about Maggie—Elvis Costello, Morrissey, Paul Weller—but Paul was the one more famous than she was. He had something to lose by hitting send on this, and nothing to gain. What, you think he was trying for coolness points? This is Paul McCartney, remember? He was in the middle of making Give My Regards to Broad Street. He could have clawed Thatcher’s still-beating heart out of her rib cage, impaled it on his Hofner on live TV, and everybody would have said, “Yeah, but ‘Silly Love Songs’ though.” Why did he feel so intensely about the nurses? He didn’t mention his mother in the telegram, but he must have been thinking of Mary McCartney’s life and death. So he snapped, even though it was off-message. (He was busy that week doing interviews for the twentieth anniversary of “Love Me Do”—the moment called for Cozy Lovable Paul, not Angry Paul.) He didn’t boast about it later, though fans today would be impressed that any English rock star of that generation—let alone Paul—had the gumption to send this. You can make a case that it was a braver, riskier, and more politically relevant move than John sending his MBE medal back to the Queen in 1970. Still, John’s gesture went down in history and Paul’s didn’t, though his fans would probably admire the move if they knew about it. He couldn’t win. He was Paul. All he could do was piss people off.”
— Rob Sheffield, Dreaming the Beatles. (2017)
Lovely set from Voodoo Wagon worth boosting this morning of Lyle Lovett from the Westwood series courtesy of draftervoi
Lyle Lovett Live From Gilley's/Westwood One - Voodoo Wagon
The notes say:Lyle LovettWestwood One Presents and/or Live From Gilley'sShow 88-26For broadcast the week of June 20, 1988Recorded at The Roxy, West Hollywood, CA March 24, 198801 Intro - Jim Duncan02 If I Had A Boat03 If I Were The Man You Wanted04 L.A. County05 Break06 Commercials07 God Will08 This Old Porch09 Give Me Back My Heart10 Break11 Commercials12 An Acceptable Level of Ecstasy (The Wedding Song)13 Break14 Commercials15 M-O-N-E-Y16 Stand By Your Man17 Break18 Commercials19 Cowboy Man (with Larry Carlton)20 Commercials21 Cowboy Man20 She's Hot To GoWhile the cue sheet says Westwood One Presents, the disc labels are still "Live From Gilley's Pasadena, Texas". Jim Duncan's Intro says he's the "host of Live From Gilley's", but on the show Outro he says it's Westwood One Presents. The name varied like this from 1986 into 1988, when they finally settled down and the disc labels and announcements changed once and for all to Westwood One Presents.Lovett did three shows for Westwood One:LG 87-25L 88-26 (Roxy, L.A.) two unique tracks (Give Me Back My Heart and An Acceptable Level of Ecstasy)L 89-26 (Roxy, L.A.) two unique tracks (Here I Am and She's No Lady)L 88-26 and L 89-26 are sourced from the March 24, 1988 show at the Roxy in West Hollywood. Tracks are the same, except for two unique tracks not on the other show.I already digitized L 89-26 and that's still here in our archives. I almost got the 87 show on Ebay a few weeks back but I was beaten by a bid of $136.00. Stick with the Voodoo Wagon and eventually I'll win a copy!Tracks from this show were bootlegged on Royal Sound Music – RSM 015 SQ "The Lights Of L.A. County" in Germany in 1994.You get a 300 dpi scan of the cue sheet, both disc labels, and a pdf of a review of the show from the local newspaper. This version digitized from the original syndicated radio LP in November 2021.
LYLE LOVETT 'CLOSING TIME' 1988 live concert; Kentucky Educational Television's "The Lonesome Pine Specials";
recorded at the Kentucky Center for the Arts