These Are A Few Too Much of My Favorite Things Syndrome

If I have to attend one more holiday party, I may burst.

I might have a touch of "These Are A Few Too Much of My Favorite Things" syndrome...which can lead in only one direction, likely GOUT.

I will though anoint thee with an invite to attend the Bay Area's Xmess party to end all X-mess parties...

I'll be kicking down some holiday mixes for the gathering, and if ya ask nice, will give ya a disc to keep as a stocking stuffer...

Greetings and Happy Holidays,

On Sunday, December 23rd, at San Francisco's Make Out Room, GIBBSMO is proud to present The Parker Brothers Christmas Spectacle. Please join us for a night of rocking holiday classics performed by the Parker Brothers and including their very special guests: Beth Lisick, Chuck Prophet, Stephanie Finch, Kelley Stoltz, Mark Eitzel, CVS, Tom Armstrong, Ralph Carney, Marc Capelle, Brian and Sandra Mello, Eric Moffat, Phil Crumar, Tippy Canoe and Spiral Stairs ( formerly of Pavement).

Also featured will be the hilarious (and bawdy!) comedic stylings of Johnny Megget and Chris Portfolio, as well as classic holiday reading by Pete Simonelli.

There will be someone bi-polar dressed as Santa, a snow machine, decorations, a tree, elves, drink specials and some other festive crap. The only thing missing will be your drunk uncle, and trust me, I will be channeling him all night.

A portion of proceeds will benefit the SF Food Bank and there will be a raffle featuring fabulous prizes from DEMA, Open Mind Music, Cha Cha Cha, Savers, RubyDolls, Event Magic, Lil Tuffy and anything else I can clean out of my garage and slap gift wrap on.

Tickets are available in advance thru the Make Out Room's website at: www.makeoutroom.com, or you can risk getting them at the door.

Santa and Gary the Magical Jewish Unicorn informed me it's probably going to sell out... or maybe not. But still, better safe than sorry suckers...

Uh, This is a dressy event, so act like you are appearing in court.

Thanks everybody.

Happy Holidays and I hope to see you all there!

Cheers,

GIBBSMO & friends...

What: Parker Brothers Christmas Spectacle

Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd St, SF CA, 94134

When: December 23rd, ( that's two days before Christmas, and one day before you are calling in sick to work.

Why: To benefit the SF Food Bank and to spread holiday cheer.

Watch: Doors at 8pm. Show begins at 8:30

Cost: $10 with 2 cans of food. $15 without.

Please forward this notice only to people who like to get their Santa on.

www.gibbsmo.com

I will be there, and hopefully still standing...

I've found myself in bars a lot lately, and nothing unusual there I suppose.

This past week, I was at two different tiki bars on opposite sides of the bay Thursday & Friday night.

Thursday's find was a delightful oasis I spotted on a basically bland stretch of Oakland residential surface streets...

Check out the Kona Club if ya find yerself near the intersection of Piedmont & Pleasant Valley Ave. I guess it's been there for exactly two years, but no one tells me these things...



It's apparently the product of the vivid imagination's of Crazy Al Evans & Bamboo Ben, two dudes who obviously made this joint a labor of love. They took a ratty run down english pub and painstakingly transformed it into a tiki heaven. The place is kept tropically cozy, even clean & tidy. The staff I met is friendly, drinks are exceptional, and exceptionally cheap when one compares what I spent at the Tonga Room the next night.

Yes that very same Tonga room in the Fairmont Hotel where a cheery cheesy cover band comes out on a party barge in the middle of a man made indoor lagoon . It rains every 15 minutes, and last call is at midnight, even on a Friday night go figger...

Then, needing extra libation, I was swept up into a cab, and ended my evening traversing the streets of the mission district between the 500 club, Kilowatt & Benders, finally shutting the dawn down at home with a cold bottle of Fernet and some roommates...

The next night, high in the east bay hills, far from the tropical concoctions, I entered the red wine zone. At a house party I was privy to a lot of very fine red wine drinking. Some Italian stuff was popular at first, but then a double magnums of 1996 Chateau St. Jean Reserve Cabernet was opened. That was a nice 3 liter black cherry and cassis burst, but then several bottles of mid 1990's "Cinq Cepages" went down rather quick as well.

For those not anal about grape juice, those 1996 Cinq Cepages were rated wine of the year by the Wine Spectator upon release, and are actually made of a blend of five red Bordeaux grapes, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot and Petite Verdot. I suppose a couple bottles these days are going for about $300-500 and all the wine we drank down on Saturday night would collectively be worth about at least a couple grand easy, if you could find any of this stuff at all...

Then again back when I lived in Sonoma in the mid 1990's, I was getting a lot of Chateau St. Jean product out the uh, "back door" for as low as $50 a case...

But those were the uh, good ol daze, and still money don't matter to me... Since I ain't ever had much. I'm all about da music...

And that's what I'm livin for this week again I suppose...

I gotta end this posting nonsense so I can get back to planning my holiday getway to L.A and then Las Vegas where I can see the one and only Cheap Trick playing on Dec 27th.

Cheap Trick - The Magical Mystery Tour

Tomorrow night, I'm apparently headed to see the legendary retired pimp & soul meister named Darondo at the Rickshaw...

Compared to contemporaries like Sly Stone & Al Green, Darondo walked away from the biz decades ago, and was only recently rediscovered for reissue by Ubiquity label. So they put together the album "Let My People Go", and brit DJ Gilles Peterson also got in on the action for his "Digs America" series.


Apparently Darondo had moved to Sacramento and is making a one night sorta appearance back in SF after decades away from the scene. So we hope it goes down boffo, should be funky, soulfully slick if not downright awesome...

Darondo - Sure Know How To Love Me


Darondo - Let My People Go


I hope he's aged as well as the wine I had on Saturday...

Anyhow...

Hope to see some folks down at the holiday party on Sunday at the Makeout Room


If not, we'll see ya in the coming months next year I assume...

Here's some additional happy holiday tuneage to close out this post fer the needy amongst us...




Ian Anderson ( of Jethro Tull) - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Bootsy Collins - Sleigh Ride

Southern Culture On The Skids - Merry Christmas Baby

James Brown - Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year


Daniel Johnston - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

See Ya'll...

Road to Pepperland

I hate to disappoint the 1600 or so lost souls that stop by in a given day at this URL but folks, I'm outta here this weekend, and on the road to Pepperland. I don't mean the land of those delicious New Mexico green chiles either.

I'll have a bit of net access here and there I suppose from hotels & whatnot, but don't count on any dastardly daily updates until I venture back north.

I'll be heading down to La La Landia, and on the agenda is my 1st visit to it's renowned Hollywood Bowl to catch a show by quite possibly my fave band over the past 30 years, Cheap Trick.

It ain't just any show though, it's the 40th Anniversary of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...and Nielsen, Petersen, Zander and Bun E Carlos will be kicking out those particular Beatles tunes with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. The venue opened in 1922, and when full like this weekend's shows, holds about 18,000 people.

All the good up front, & box type seats were taken, but I'm sure I'll be happy just to be there in my bench seat at the venerable Hollywood Bowl...







So for all of ye here today, while I'm brushing up on my Pepper knowledge, in honor of this road trip, I'll toss in some Beatles related rarities, some Beatles cover tunes and mash ups...and mixed in are a smattering of random road songs to tide thee over until my return...


Amongst the other special guests helping bring this landmark album back to life include Joan Osbourne, Aimee Mann and Ministry's Al Jourgensen. Jourgensen will join Cheap Trick onstage at the Hollywood Bowl on August 10 and 11 to perform the Beatles' "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," considered by many to be among the most complex songs recorded by the Fab Four. One of the other guest vocalists is Ian Ball of Gomez.

You may recall their Beatles cover tune was their version of "Getting Better", part of a popular tv commercial used by electronics giant Phillips in 1999.

Gomez - Getting Better



DJ Scott Westerman - Sgt. Pepper's US Radio Ad For 1967 Album Release


While I'm fairly familiar with the Sgt. Pepper's concept LP, I don't think I actually ever owned a copy. I better brush up on the track listings I suppose...

Maybe the folks in this next LA newsclip clip can help us remember it properly...

The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds ( rare alt mix )

The Beatles - Octopus's Garden (LOVE Version)
[from George Martin's Cirque De Soleil remixed collection "The Beatles - Love" Cd 2006]

The Beatles vs Blondie - Dj Lobsterdust's Glass Octopus

Adrian Belew - I'm Down[ from: Adrian Belew - Desire Of The Rhino King]

Astrobleme - When I'm Sixty Four

Unite The Beastie Boys & Beatles - Cosmo Kramer United Paperback Mix

Paul McCartney - Nod Your Head
[From McCartney's new solo album]

Amos Milburn - Down The Road A Piece

Bob Marley & The Wailers - And I Love Her[ from the Bob Marley & The Wailers: Studio One Sessions ]

Bon Jovi - Lost Highway[ [from: Lost Highway]

Buju Banton - Not An Easy Road [from the album Buju Banton Til Shiloh]

Cheap Trick - Daytripper ( live )
[from CD / DVD : Cheap Trick Silver]


The Crosstops - road boner blues>[ [from: The Crosstops - Cloverleaf Fandango ]

Dolly Parton - Help!>[ [ from: Dolly Parton - Great Balls Of Fire]>

The Doors - Queen of The Highway [ from Rhino's compilation "The Doors : Essential Rarities"]

The Duals - Stickshift

Fleetwood Mac w/ Christine Perfect - No Road Is The Right Road [from : Fleetwood Mac- Albatross]

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Born to Run mp3 ripped from an old 12" single B side, but now also remastered & included on the ZTT retrospective that eMusic has for download as well "Bang!... The Greatest Hits Of Frankie Goes To Hollywood"

Jah Wobble - "On The Right Road" (mp3)
[from "Alpha One Three"
by Jah Wobble]
(30 Hertz Records)
Download more at iTunes Music Store
Buy at eMusic
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More On This Album



Lowell Folson - Why Don't We Do It In The Road

Claudine Longet - When I'm Sixty Four

Rita Lee - With A Little Help From My Friends[From Best of Rita Lee


Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - The Road to Rock & Roll
[from Joe's first Hellcat release: Rock Art and the X-Ray Style]

Loo & Placido's - Black Beatles ( vs BEP, Ludicris & Kelis )

that sure seems like a lot of tunes to tide ya over...

but I'll toss in a few more...

but that's it ya greedy punters

"My House Has Wheels" (mp3)
from "Ditch Diggin'"
by Southern Culture on the Skids
(Safe House)
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Voicedude - Falling In September [ Beatles vs Earth, Wind & Fire]

Wille Nelson - One After 909 [from: Come Together - America Salutes The Beatles - released on Capitol in 1995 ]




Robert Mitchum - Ballad of Thunder Road

Alice Cooper & The Bee Gees - Because The World Is Round

Bill Cosby - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [from : Wonderfulness on Warner Bros. Records 1967]

The Pete Best Combo - Rock N Roll Music
[from: The Pete Best Combo - Beyond The Beatles 1964-66]

Anyhow...

Enjoy yer weekend y'all...

Imagine There Are Some Clever Turkeys

Here's an interesting story... about the piano John Lennon wrote the song Imagine at...

One of the more interesting side notes is that George Michael ( yeah the guy from Wham who passes out in his car) is the guy who donated the piano, which he'd bought a few years ago for a little over $2 million bucks.

Maybe he just forgot where he parked it...

Here's a couple songs associated with Mr Lennon

First up here's Lennon's aforementioned Imagine, as done by A Perfect Circle, the side project group featuring Maynard of Tool.

There's a bit of a serial killer fronting Led Zeppelin feel to it ... but, why not?

A Perfect Circle - Imagine


I'm catching this next act next week when they roll into the Hollywood Bowl to do tribute set built around the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

The occasion is the 40th Anniversary of the discs release, and I hope it's as grand an occasion as the ticket price. I'll report back to y'all on this one for sure...

Many people have heard Cheap trick do Daytripper, or even Magical Mystery Tour, which was tacked onto an "unauthorized" Greatest Hits collection by Sony awhile back. So interest of keeping it fresh, here's Cheap Trick doing a Lennon solo number from a 1995 tribute disc. Perhaps you were unaware that Bun e Carlos & Rick Nielson also played on Mr. Lennon's last album?

Bun E has mentioned before in an interview that Lennon smoked a highly unusual for the times, but exceptionally potent sticky sort of marijuana, that these days would be known as "the dank".

Here's Lennon offering the blind Stevie Wonder some Cocaine through the PA at a 1974 Jam Session, since I guess Stevie couldn't likely "hear" what was going on...

John Lennon - Would You Like a Toot?


Lennon had dabbled in myriad drugs since his mop top daze, hence the all too realistic song Cold Turkey.

The slightly wicked, but somewhat wholesome midwestern boy Robin Zander does fine with the tune here, but one never imagines him as quite as depraved as Mr. Lennon likely was in his "lost weekend".

Cheap Trick - Cold Turkey

Ironically, the track that Bun E & Rick played on at the 1980 Double Fantasy sessions was called "Losing You". It was rejected for the album because it seemed out of character with the rest of the songs, and perhaps a little too much like Cold Turkey.

Here's Cheap Trick in a montaged video clip with Lennon doing the Losing You song, but shot in the mid 1990's along with Tony Levin who also played on the song. This is from around the same time as the Cold Turkey tribute track was released...



I expect the rest of today's post will be more flaky. less focused and far more worthless...

I promise!

anyhow...

Paul McCartney, Lennon's friend/co-writer/nemesis who was not one any Lennon tributes I know of, but also present for that 1974 jam session mentioned above, also later contributed to a tribute album to the late Mr. Ian Dury.

McCartney sang "I'm Partial To your Abracadabra"...

I don't have that McCartney version of the track, being a flake, but I do have the original from Mr. Dury himself that I'd like to post...

as well as some others...

I can commit to that...so let's dig into da Dury shall we?

While McCartney & Lennon were in LA partying it up with Stevie Wonder, Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman and May Peng... Ian Dury was roughing it out on the pub circuit with a band on either the verge of breaking out or breaking up.




It turns out Dury's band Kilburn & The Highroads despite a slot opening for a Who tour in the UK were essentially doomed, and called it quits circa 1975.

Kilburn & the Highroads - Rough Kids(1974 demo version?)



Here's a slightly more polished studio version with a bit less hiss, and more trademark Dury growl from their debut/only real album Handsome recorded in 1975 for Pye Records label subsidiary Dawn. I got this version off a great, but now likely out of print CD compilation called "Pub Rock : Paving The Way For Punk", that documented the mid 70's U.K indie rock scene, including Dr. Feelgood, The Kursaal Flyers, Eddie & the Hot Rods etc.

Kilburn & High Roads - Rough Kids ( LP version )


The slightly condescending term 'Pub Rock' was never something these bands sought, but what else can ya say about a low brow scene that rarely left the small halls & clubs of the English cities & countryside. The music was basically roots rock revivalism, inflected with a more casual 70's flair & simple sensibility. It's laidback boogie style portended to be less about backstage passes, the pomp & circumstance of stadium rock, and more about downing brews and enjoying a good time.

Other bands in the London / Essex pub circuit included jazz vet Joe Strummer's 101ers, Barry Richardson's Bees Make Honey, Paul Carrack's band Ace, NME writer Charles Shaar Murray's band Blast Furnace and Eggs Over Easy with Austin DeLone. A young Bon Scott had emigrated temporarily from Australia to work the U.K pub scene with his band Fraternity before heading back to start AC/DC in 1974. One San Francisco area act who ended up playing the U.K's pub rock scene was Clover, a fore runner of Huey Lewis & The News, and they were asked to back a guy named Declan MacManus on his debut album after leaving his previous group Flip City. You of course know him better as Elvis Costello.



Kilburn & The Highroads were a somewhat popular pub rock combo, but gained no traction outside London with their debut disc and soon broke up. After venturing forth on his own as the punk fad was breaking out in 1976, Dury had considerable trouble getting noticed on his own. Despite help from several well connected music biz friends including Peter Jenner, he was rejected by nearly every label his demo had been submitted to. Fortunately his management company, Blackhill, also handled Joe strummer's new band The Clash, and rented in the same building as a new record company that might take a chance on a very rough looking, and not entirely commercially palatable bloke in question.

After all this same company was getting traction with a skinny guy pub rock vet of the band who wore glasses, named Elvis Costello, why not a cockney accented Ted with a little showman flair?

It was renegade indie Stiff Records that came to the rescue, they leased the masters and helped assemble his band The Blockheads, and put him on the road as part of the Live Stiffs 77 tour...

Stiff was on a roll, and had arguably released Britain's first punk rock record in 1976, The Damned's "New Rose", helping spawn a movement, with a simple single produced by ex- Brinsley Schwartz "pub rocker" Nick Lowe.

Ian Dury was along for the ride, to old to be entirely "punk", but he was definitely a misfit who seemed an unlikely candidate for the mainstream, much less the burgeoning disco craze or metal scenes. Known for his natty thrift store threads, and distinctly Cockney personality, he eventually made several Cockney reggae crossover hits on the Stiff label with his band The Blockheads starting in the late 1970's.


Here's Ian Dury & the Blockheads from a 1977 performance of Sweet Gene Vincent on the Old Grey Whistle Test programme.



And here's another from the debut releases "New Boots & Panties", whose album title came from Dury's preference for wearing eccentric vintage suits, paying top dollar only when scoring new under garments & footwear.

Ian Dury - I'm Partial To Your Abracadabra.mp3


Amongst the most remembered Dury tracks are "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll," "Spasticus Autisticus" "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" and "Reasons to be Cheerful".


Dury, a lifelong smoker of "fags", died of complications from colon cancer and emphysema at age 57 in March of 2000. After his musical career mostly subsided in the late 80's, he'd appeared in a few flicks, including the cult classic film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. He made rousing appearances at occasional U.K festival and club dates up until his health failed. Dury was a childhood polio victim and had recently visited war torn Sri Lanka in 1998, on a campaign to rid the county of polio. He toured refugee camps with Robbie Williams and helped give children oral vaccinations against the disease.

Here's his biggest stateside hit, a song he wanted to remain a single, and insisted be left off of his debut album.

Ian Dury - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

This next track is from an old Stiff records 12" I had laying about...or maybe a CD reissue of the 12", anyway..it's the so called "version" dammit!

Dury liked the music of the Caribbean islands, and fell in love with Jamaican Reggae & Dub like his Brixton bred contemporaries in the Clash...

Ian Dury - Spasticus Autisticus ( Version)

Here's one more, a lesser known track, from Dury's 7th album, that was not released in the US when it originally came out circa 1992 called The Bus Driver's Prayer & Other Stories. It's now reissued as a pricey DBL CD import set. It featured a lineup that reunited most of the original Blockheads, including co-songwriter & occasional Clash keyboardist Mickey Gallagher.



Ian Dury - Poor Joey

One more Dury bonus treat:

Here's Dury reciting his Bus Driver's Prayer years before the album was recorded on the British TV show "So It Goes"...

Ian Dury- busdriver's parayer

and so we find the stray trails of my random thoughts and attempt to lasso whatever they may be into something further for you to dig through...

I know that this treasure trove can provide riches one day

and then not much the next...

It all depends on my mood I suppose

and right now...

the mood

is uh...

good question...

I suppose teetering somewhere on the ledge of despair & contentment as usual...

So in the interest of escaping whatever malaise that that brought me here to this juncture...let's get into some more music shall we?

Since this post sorta starts with the Beatles, it should finish with The Stones eh?

Or at least something related...

Here's one Stones tune from a defunct act that I remember sold shirts for real cheap, I think I paid a couple bucks or was it maybe $5 for mine...

They just spray painted cool thrift store scores with their cartoon logo, and I'm sure my gas station attendant job is still in a heap or something in my closet somewhere.

I was looking through a folder of Rolling Stones stuff, and came across one random cover...She's A Rainbow, by the band that "i tunes" dare not speak their name.

If yer wondering what the f*ck i'm talkin 'bout, I'm talking about

Fuck - She's A Rainbow

This came from a session supposedly done for John Peel at the BBC...it was released on their Gold Brick CD circa 2001...

Speaking of rainbows...

Another bit of unfinished business would have to be some Rainbow...

I posted a few tracks from them the other day, and then by golly, I forgot about this one...

It's not particularly crucial, but since I meant to stick it into the piece I wrote about 'em earlier this week... here goes...

From their first album circa late 1974, listen to the elfen hippie lord known as Ronnie James Dio get all mystical Lord of The Rings & sh*t on yo azz...


Yo y'know what bro, scratch that, for more Rainbow, of the delectable Dio era head here but no more today...

I think I'll just move on...


it's pretty late / early and i've got to get some shut eye before I tackle a lot of work ahead of me today...

Wild Women & Duh Monday Mix

Other than waking up to the concept of Monday in general, veering into the mindless mainstream is one of my least favorite activities...


I hate the mainstream Hollywood movies with more violence than plot, the music with more studio chicanery than songs in it...


The news programming with no no news in it... It's like mainstream food, all sugar, fat & chemicals with no nutrients...

Last night I had a house guest over who wanted to watch hours of crap TV including Nancy Grace ranting about Lindsay Lohan's "problems"

My only problem with Lindsay Lohan is having to hear about her endlessly...

Like anyone should give a flying f*ck!!!

Then every once in awhile, I pay attention to the random mainstream radar just so I can know what everyone's obsessed with this week...

It might be American Idol contestants, or someone's rehab stint, or some athelete's problem/triumph/salary dispute...

one of the one's that popped up earlier this summer was Akon, and his supposed "controversy"


I'm highlighting an interesting new track from Akon today. You may remember we last saw our hero in a concert clip of him mounting, grinding and smackin' the ass of a young girl onstage in Trinidad. The resulting uproar stretched to the boardrooms of Verizon, who pulled a 2 million dollar sponsorship deal for Gwen Stefani's tour with Akon off the table in a NY minute.

Boycotts, and much bad press followed.
including this incident in June where he was clearly seen physically tossing a teen fan off the stage....

Well he's back with what his label & management are hoping is some damage control...

In what may be a first in the Hip Hop world, the artist actually begs forgiveness, and apologizes for all the trouble he's caused. Of course, he's not all about eating humble pie, and attempts to explain his side of the story. This includes the somewhat schizo effect as he also addresses his baby momma, and the nation, and while we're at it Gwen Stefani. He then puts responsibility for the nasty sex act he performed on stage at the girl's daddy for letting her out of the house. A wonderful attempt all in all to set himself up as a musical martyr. All within a tuneful 5 minutes.

We'll see if mainstream radio wants to get back on board the Akon train...

Akon - Sorry, Blame It on Me




Some lyrical excerpts, for those who can't bear to download & listen:

As life goes on I’m starting to learn more and more about responsibility
I realize everything I do is affecting the people around me
So I want to take this time out and apologize for things I have done
And things that have not occurred yet
And the things they don’t want to take responsibility for



I’m sorry for the wrong things that I’ve done
I’m sorry I’m not always there for my son
I’m sorry for the fact that I am not aware
That you can’t sleep at night when I am not there


(Bridge)

I’m sorry that it took so long to see
They were dead wrong trying to put it on me
I’m sorry that it took so long to speak
But I was on tour with Gwen Stefani
I’m sorry for the hand that she was dealt
For the embarrassment that she felt
Just a little young girl trying to have fun
Her daddy should never let her out that young
I’m sorry for Club Zen getting shut down
I hope they manage better next time around
How was I to know she was underage
Enter 21 you know the club they say
Why doesn’t anybody wanna take blame
For rising back out disgracing my name
I’m just a singer trying to entertain
Because I love my fans I’ll take that blame
Even though the blame’s on you (3x)
I’ll take that blame from you

I've seen the Akon video that caused the uproar, as i'm sure many have, and the guy's tasteless & retarded dance moves more resembled the acts of a depraved rapist, but it wasn't as horrific as watching a news report from Iraq.

I never saw Verizon step up and complain about any of the activities of our soldiers overseas who've been involved with rapes or other even more heinous acts. Go figger...

Instead ... Like Akon, or followers of christianity, muslims in general, and the whole wide world of pickled penis brand misogyny.

I think we should just always blame women...

those damn wild women...

Always tempting men with their infernal ways...

Alien Sex Fiend - Wild Woman

also available on



Shane MacGowan - That Woman's Got Me Drinking





Minor Threat - Bitch

Cheap Trick - Scent Of A Woman

From the album Special One available at



An I Tunes only version is also available at I Tunes as well



Iron & Wine - Woman King

From



Brian Hyland - Gypsy Woman

From



Bedouin Soundclash - Waiting for My Ruca





NWA - A Bitch is A Bitch


from




anyhow

to continue on the bad women theme...check out this trailer for a 60's film I found at Easy Dreamer's site that exposes this problem in a very thorough manner. It's basically the 60's sexploitation equivalent of a "Fair & Balanced", scientific survey of a relevant and important gender issue confronting modern times...

Sexploitation "trailer"
Uploaded by gregwallace

that's all fer now...

just wanted to get the Monday Mix up...

I have...

and now I must move on to other tasks

hope ya enjoy da tunes...

Fate, Porn Kings, Preacher's Wives, Dive Bars & Dueling Saxophones

Of Story of Fate, Porn Kings, Preacher's Wives, Dive Bars & Dueling Saxophones



I just got back from a sojurn around the Napa Valley wine country where I tend to drink more beer than grape juice, and made a stop for Margaritas in Vallejo at an artist friend's pad whose now exiled from his former life in the Mission.

Upon returning, I saw that manic mascara matron Tammy Faye died, a woman you can either ignore, deride mercilessly, or empathize & adore...

and i suppose I'm guilty of all of the above...

She went from being married & in cahoots with preacher sleaze Jim Bakker, and then while he rotted in prison, she hooked up with his still solvent best friend...

Last time I saw her, it was in the same room as John Waters & Jello Biafra, and I guess that says something there...

This 30 second video obit can hardly tell a teensy bit of her tale...

Apparently poor lil Tammy faye had withered to just 65 lbs and was ravaged by the colon cancer that had been killing her for close to ten years. She shocked viewers with an appearance on Larry King just days before her passing.



R.I.P Tammy Faye, here's a tune that's sorta unrelated... but whatever...

Tammy Faye Starlite - Highway 69 ( from the album Used country Female )


It's been a week since I posted and i just thought I'd toss up some more tunes quickly, since it's late at night and in the morning I have to go to a wake/party in honor of...

a patron of the arts / a porn king / political rabble rouser/ redneck rebel / fratricidal white trash scrapper...

and last of a breed...

It's a long story, and I hope you'll understand if I don't have a ton of time to go into a million details...

While the media have their own spin to sell ya, let's just say this guy's life was twice as dramatic as Tammy Faye's, and hardly can be encapsulated as easily as this piece here attmpts to do...

Anyhow...

he always knew how to throw a helluva party, I've been to quite a few, and found we had similar taste in clothes...once we were both sporting the same shirt...

I can only wonder where that photo is...

Here's some tunes...

I'm generally not a big fan of Clapton, but this song captured to tape by the late Tom Dowd is such an overwhelming & passionate piece of work I'm gonna lead with it...

It's simply one of the greatest most frenetic recordings of the 70's, or any era...and really can't be stopped...it rips, it tears, wounds & heals...and is as fiercely rocky as life & love itself...

I dedicate it to our two late friends... who had seemingly little in common but actually felt some all too similar sensations of both joy & strife in their lives I'm sure...

All under the public eye... the nastiest gaze of all

Derek & The Dominos - Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad ( from Layla )



Another guy who I noticed died recently but received very little fanfare in the media was Boots Randolph. He was king of the sax in the 1960's, a regular on Hee-Haw and put out dozens of albums, as well as numerous stints as a studio session man in Nashville and elsewhere.

Here is Boots randolph with New Orleans legend Al Hirt goofing on a version of Dueling Banjos from the movie Deliverence... done well ... you guessed it... for saxophones.

Boots Randolph - Dueling Saxophones ( with Al Hirt from "Country Boots")

At least it seems these dead folks lived into their 60's... heck, Boots made it all the way to 80 before he caved in to the grim reaper.

I certainly seemed to know a lot of folks that didn't get all the way around the bend in life, many who died unnecessarily young it seemed...

Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died ( 1994 remix from Basketball Diaries OST)

The other night was my birthday, and other than a relatively quiet dinner at an Italian restaurant in North Beach, and a modicum of bar hopping, the latter portion of the evening into the wee hours was spent cavorting around the joint mentioned in this song by some old pals of mine I first met some 20 years ago...

Steelpole Bathtub - The 500 Club ( from "Scars from Falling Down")

I do believe the activity in question involved an attempt to become exactly what late great Specialty records recording artist Mr. Jimmy Liggins refers to in the tune below...

Jimmy Liggins - Drunk


Upon reflecting that I actually managed to survive through a lot of nonsense to get to this sort of anti climactic point in life, I'll toss in some songs that seem sorta appropo into this mini mix ...

Cheap Trick - I Never Had A Lot To Lose
( from "Lap Of Luxury")


Although the one precious thing we all have to lose .. is our loved ones...

Somebody pretty darn special to me is moving to New Orleans next month, and it's not necessarily their choice, or in their ultimate best interest as far as I can tell... and it's definitely a heartbreaker...

In a melancholy time such as this, an instrumental from Nawlins' own piano playing legend Allen Toussaint makes sense...


Allen Toussaint - Cast Your Fate To The Wind ( from "A Whisper to A Scream")

see y'all next time...

Memory Almost Failed...

Tuesday as you may have realized, is Paul McCartney's first as an indie act...




At least since the Beatles were on Vee-Jay briefly stateside in the early 60's...

He even played a record release party at a small-ish 500 head venue called the Electric Ballroom in London to celebrate the occasion

Of course his indie label is owned by Starbucks...so that's not exactly selling discs from the truck of a car...

I was looking around on Emusic today and noticed that they had got on the new Paul McCartney album release bandwagon as well today...

No $16 digi-pack CD , but high bitrate DRM free mp3s, the whole album for about what a drink at Starbucks sets ya back...while I-Tunes is jacking .99 a song, and is not offering this release DRM free go figger...

The album is produced by David Kahne, who brought you Sublime's major label debut 10 years back that had the "What I Got" single. Kahne has also worked on hits for Sugar Ray, Tony Bennett, Cher, Shawn Colvin, Bruce Springsteen, The Bangles, Fishbone, The Strokes, Sean Lennon and got his start as a producer at SF's Hyde Street Studios, and at 415 Records.

My fave Mac track so far was the short lil' howling rabble rouser tacked onto the end

Nod Your Head...

Paul Mc Cartney - Nod Your Head



I got on the bandwagon a bit late for Cheap Trick's 40th anniversary Tribute to the Beatles Sgt Pepper's album...

All the good up front, & box type seats were taken, so here's my bench seat at the Hollywood Bowl this August. I'm sure I'll be fine with it...





I'm really excited to see the Sgt Pepper album performed live, and figure who needs Paul McCartney, when ya got Robin Zander. I'd post some Cheap Trick doing stuff from Sgy Pepper but it looks like I've got them doing Daytripper, Magical Mystery Tour, John Lennon's Cold Turkey and just can't find anything from Rockford's finest from the Beatles landmark psychedelic '67 masterpiece...

so here get these instead...

First my 7 yr old niece singing Strawberyy Fields Forever with the Ventures

Arianna vs Ventures - Strawberry Fields Forever

and a track ya can get off of Amy Winehouse's debut CD "Frank"

Amy Winehouse - There Is No Greater Love

it's a $25 or so import here until Universal gets it issued without import tariffs stateside finally in the fall...

Pssst...If ya want Frank by Amy Winehouse now, I suggest the Canadian import version for just about $12 right now here

oh and don't forget...

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