Crash Premonition Data Disaster Mix

It's been a trying week for Windows and me

Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (live)



During the course of attempting to burn some routine and suggested "Backup Discs" for my lately unstable year and a half old HP laptop, I came upon a missing Hal.DLL layer error...

Armored Saint - Unstable

After spending a few days in DOS hell trying to poke around, recoup, learn and wonder...

Foo Fighters - Long Road To Ruin



The next thing ya know, and using the tips helpfully supplied by HP and the $30 recovery disc set they charged me for, I ended up destroying all my stored data.

So not only was I was unable to restore my operating system partition, but a good year and a half of data was lost...countless hours of whatnot.

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

I'd have a funeral for these bits and bytes... but fuck If I even know what the proper ritual should be...

I was feeling kinda sick to my stomach about this, but was grateful and took some solace that I at least had my 500 gig backup drive working...

Sure the ol bitty had lost most of it's installed software,personal files, settings etc

But at least we were up and booted, and given a few hours of tinkering things could be working eventually...

Compute - Brand New Start (hageus mix)

But on Thursday, while this agonizing process was happening, some clod hopper dusting the living room knocked my backup drive to the floor... and then I lost everything...

Thursday - The Other Side Of The Crash (demo)

the last thing I saw was an error message and I went to pick up the drive off the hardwood and it would only make a whirring buzzing sound...

There went everything...

All the remaining files I had managed to back up that weren't destroyed off the laptop were on that drive... and it was now dead...

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU****************************************KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!


There goes my ability to earn a living this summer...

and 40,000 song music collection, video files, personal photos, work projects etc

Oh Well...


The Honorary Title - Everything I Once Had


The Cowboy Junkies - A Common Disaster ( live 1996 Vancouver)

Soon - Everything's Ruined


Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch



Gwen Stefani crash instrumental



Vector Lovers - Crash Premonition



Skin Contact - Reset (System Crash Mix)

Guess I'll go get fucked up...

nice...

There aren't a whole lotta other options on my list...

It's just where... i've got an invite to a house party down south a few miles in Pacifica, and another to a punk show right here in the city...

I think I'm probably safer on my own turf, less commute issues...


See ya in da pit...


but I will say this before I go...


This kind of disaster/problem is not for the faint hearted...



Seems every 500 days or so ( sometimes less ) I lose everything and have to start over...

But two catastrophic data deletions in one day is a bit much...

I keep comparing & contrasting and buying windows machines and keep getting spanked...

I know the Apple faithful are chomping at the bit to say I told you so...

But I can't join their cult just yet, especially when I'm always a grand or so shy of their glory...

Windows toys always seem cheaper, and perhaps because Bill Gates was the only guy to send me a Christmas card one year...maybe i'm sentimental.

So I guess I'll keep plugging along...

or unplug this pesky beast and get my ass outside...

i'ts beer thirty-ish for sure

Kraftwerk - Home Computer (live)

Fall Out Boy - You're Crashing But You're No Wave

Taking Back Sunday - Your Own Disaster

From Autumn To Ashes - I'm The Best At Ruining My Life

Donnie Iris - Do You Compute?

Increasing Signs Of My Aging & Domestication

While I Sit here waiting for Fed Ex to deliver a much needed package wth a key component to restoring my laptops operating system I use a different box keyboard whose spacebar issticking. Thiscauses most all the wordsI typetojumbletogether andbecomeillegible.

This in turn creates further frustration and makes me ponder world affairs, voting in Today's California election, the prospects of what awaits us in musicon this new release Tuesday, and ever more Increasing Signs Of My Aging & Domestication.

While I'm no John McCain, I have noticed a pattern of old man-itis creeping in.

Take Sunday For Example :

A Friend Offered To Get Me In Free To An Outdoor R.E.M Concert At The Greek Theater in Berkeley... with free beers included.

I opted out to go grocery shopping & buy potting soil at the local garden center. I just imagined it wouldn't be as intimateas the time I wasin aposse that woke Mike Mills up at his house in Athens and had his wife make homemade bloody marys, Or having drinks with Peter Buck or Scott McCaughey at bars in SF.

Maybe my reluctance was due to earlier readinga snarky review of the previous day's show that said the crowd was 80's retro refugees worshipping Stipe who looks like a cancer patient, (but when he takes his hat off, it looks like it's in remission).

Being an oldman, who bought the Radio Free Europe 7" single becauseof a review in Trouser Press before I'd ever heard it,I would be wise to stay away... I suppose'd I'd take the band's advice and stay home becuase living well really is the best revenge.

From the 2008 R.E.M release Accelerate

R.E.M - Living Well Is The Best Revenge

R.E.M - Houston ( Accelerate version )



Fuck the crowds though...I suppose despite themarketing putsch, I'd rather be listening to tracks I downloaded from the Murmur tour from an old R.E.M set in Toronto, but kids today uh, they like the Akon.

Here's a mash up...

Akon vs R.E.M -Smack That Religion


On Saturday: I was invited to a warehouse party at the same location where I had a great, pleasantly debauched timeon the last visit I made. Plus on this paricular occasion, my pal's band was playing their last show, and I had no good reason not to attend. Instead, I went out for a dinner at a quiet Mediterranean-Turkish joint in Alameda and drank vino, afterwards I watched a Chritian Slater movie from Netflix.


A week or so before I was at a big outdoor rock festival thang with backstage access and I hung out with kids instead of Hollywood hoohahs and left at dusk before the last beers were finished in the hospitality tent...

Last Week: I flaked on attending a bowling party with some hot chicas including the band Ladytron who were celebrating their new album Velocifero...

Ladytron - Runaway



This week's new release tuesday sees the world getting a chance tograb some Daptone 45 collections in digital form. as well as some key reissues of classic jazz releases from the Riverside label.

All these remastered reissues have the original & new liner notes from the now 85 year old producer Orrin Keepnews, the man behind the legendary Riverside & Milestone labels...

COLEMAN HAWKINS: The Hawk Flies High (1957),

Orrin's commentary (from his new liner notes):

"Before [Coleman] Hawkins, the tenor saxophone-which has come to be one of the basic instruments of jazz-simply did not exist, a fact that would be disputed by neither Lester Young nor Ben Webster-his most prominent immediate successors-nor by Sonny Rollins or John Coltrane or anyone you might choose to put near the head of the line thereafter. This was not my only studio experience with Hawkins, although it was the only opportunity to deal with him strictly on his own terms, which is certainly the only appropriate way to approach a great artist."

SONNY ROLLINS: Freedom Suite (1958),

Orrin's commentary (from his original liner notes):

"Because Sonny Rollins is as passionate, talented, multifaceted and variable as this album (and many others over his many years of activity) would lead you to believe, I am glad to be able to say that this remarkable artist remains one of the greatest and most creative of all tenor saxophone players and improvisers, and that he also happens to remain a valued friend."

Sonny Rollins - The Freedom Suite


NAT ADDERLEY: Work Song (1960)

Orrin's commentary on this album that featured Wes Montgomery (from his original liner notes):

"There are two very good reasons why this album, which at this writing is just a couple of years short of being a half-century old, remains one of my warmest recording memories. Undoubtedly the more important reason is that this really represents the coming of age of Nat Adderley, a man I will always consider among the most adventurous and intelligent players and leaders I have ever worked with. But to step back and evaluate this album in a very personal way, it is half of what must be one of the most complicated and most rewarding weeks of recording activity I have ever experienced."

WES MONTGOMERY: Incredible Jazz Guitar (1960)

Orrin's commentary (from his new liner notes):

"I began constructing the 1960 definitive presentation of [Wes] Montgomery by recognizing the need to keep things as clear-cut and uncomplicated as possible. There were at least three unique aspects to his performing style: he played with his thumb, never using a pick. And his solos almost invariably included two elements routinely referred to as 'impossible'-his use of octaves and of pianistic block chords. Self-taught (his first 'lesson' had involved heavy listening to Charlie Christian records) and never able to read music notation of any kind, he somehow possessed an unfailing command of the blues and of ballad tempo and was an impressive composer."

pssst- Bonus track from the incredible Wes Montgomery from The Complete Riverside Recordings Collection...

Wes Montgomery - Body & Soul


McCOY TYNER: Fly With the Wind (1976)

Orrin's commentary (from his new liner notes):

"Although I had been very much impressed by his work with [John Coltrane], listening to [McCoy Tyner] in New York clubs in the years that followed made me aware of how remarkably he was developing. He was, and still remains, one of the most powerful pianists I have ever heard; many years ago having learned to merge that strength with a very personal form of lyricism-an unusual, unique combination. To me, it is this linking of power and beauty-in both the writing and the playing here-that distinguishes Fly With the Wind and makes it possibly my personal favorite among the 17 albums that I worked on with this extraordinary artist during our eight years together at Milestone."

Here's an mp3 preview selectionofother Keepnews collection downloadsthat are currently available via Amazon




So anywho, my fed ex package from South Carolina has arrived and I must get back to working on about a thousand other more pressing other affairs. Like paying rent,or even voting...oooooh...

I'm old...

Late Night Random Mix

I am gonna be working all night and well into the Saturday afternoon, doing everything from demoing new MP3 players in an SF nightspot to a predawn setting up of a giant tent in the dangerous Iron Triangle zone of Richmond CA.

Named for the railroad tracks that delineate its three pronged edges, the Iron Triangle west of city center, is 1 1/2 square miles dominated by gov't housing projects where 13 were killed last year, seven within a block of the park I'm headed too. So far this year though, only 71 recorded police interventions have been reported at Nevin Park, but no outright murders...

Although last Saturday, a man driving a gold minivan pulled up to the intersection of Macdonald Avenue and Fourth Street and let out a burst of automatic gunfire into the park, wounding one man in the leg.

Sounds promising...

So anyways, here's some tunes for ya to check out , and I'll post a few more than normal in case i ain't coming back anytime soon...

Howlin' Wolf - All Night Boogie

Ray Charles got his start playing in the road band of this artist, the man known as Lowell Fulson, but also recorded under the name Fulsom. Born on a Choctaw Indian Reservation in 1921 he left the US army in 1945 and began recording music, first for Bob Geddins in Oakland CA. He stayed on that same musical road road for decades, making records for Big Town, Gilt Edge, Trilon, Down Town, Swing Time, Aladdin and eventually Chicago's Chess/Checker where his most lasting recording relationship was. He also recorded for Kent, Jewel and in the 1990's the Bullseye Blues label before dying in 1999. He was one of several black artists whom Elvis used as fodder for his climb to the top, covering Fulson's R&B hit "Reconsider Baby" in 1960 and taking it places this chitlin circuit act never had a shot at. Here's a song that bemoans a certain pending sense...in fact, it's so bad, he bemoans it twice in a row...

Lowell Fulson - Trouble, Trouble

A lot of people associate the Beatles career with Capitol, the EMI subsidiary that was founded and built on the success of Nat King Cole & Frank Sinatra. Well , Capitol did have quite a bit of success with the Beatles catalog, but they weren't the first to bring them to US shores....

That would be Vee Jay a tiny label out of Chicago, who also had the original version of The Twist. Vee Jay's twist though was done by Hank Ballard, a singer with a less than perfectly palatable image. Dick Clark smelled money on and took the top of the charts with his protege', the squeaky clean Philly act Chubby Checker...

Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Twist ( Vee Jay Records version )

Dinosaur Jr have been on the comeback trail for awhile, releasing their first new material in awhile via Fat Possum, but here' some stuff from a 2005 TV appearance.

Dinosaur Jr - The Lung ( live 2005 on Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show)

The Wu Tang Clan recently released over 200 free mp3s for their fans at their official website , and amongst them was this track, a collab with Alicia Keys...

Alicia Keys - You Don't Know My Name ( ft Raekwon & Polite )

Ladytron have been on tour as of late, and here's a remix to satiate that certain sensation if you were left out...

Ladytron - "Soft Power (Vicarious Bliss Gutter Mix)"


I guess we could segue into some hardcore electro from the album Badlands by puritan UK purveyors Jackal & Hyde formed in 1998 by partners Scott Weiser, and Todd Walker .

Jackal & Hyde - Freaks Come Out At Night ( Night of Living Basshead Mix)

David Byrne has collaborated with the NYC-based yet Brazilian pop band Forro In The Dark, who are doing something here that sounds vaguely New Orleans brass IMHO... dig it or don't...

Forro In The Dark w/ David Byrne) - I Wish (Bundle of Contradictions )

These kids just rolled through town late last month, and I can say I missed them, although I did hear their radio interview last year...and I do note that the arrangements are getting a wee bit more ambitious... For folks looking for the missing link between Herman's Hermits & Baby Shambles...

Arctic Monkeys - Flourescent Adolescent

In the past few years Ravi Shankar's daughter has put more people to sleep than decades of her dad's sitar playing ever did... but it's not too late for you to get on the bedwagon...

Norah Jones - Not Too Late

Wake up to the sounds of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, the Bay Area based band that isn't afraid to take thrash metal to the dramatic dungeons of meter and emerge with an omnipotent math rock successor to the crown of thorny musical hellscape...

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Headless Corpses Enactment



Their long awaited new album comes out later this month on The End Records, and here's a sneak preview followed up by some don't miss tourdates...

Sleepytime Tour dates:
05/24/07 Thu @ The Phoenix Theater - Petaluma, CA (w/ Sex Goddess)
05/25/07 Fri @ Aladdin Theater - Portland, OR (w/ Subarachnoid Space)
05/26/07 Sat @ Neumos - Seattle, WA
05/28/07 Mon @ Triple Rock Social Club - Minneapolis, MN (w/ Stinking Lizaveta)
05/29/07 Tue @ Todd Wehr Center - Milwaukee, WI (w/ Stinking Lizaveta)
05/30/07 Wed @ The Abbey Pub - Chicago, IL (w/ Stinking Lizaveta)
05/31/07 Thu @ Radio Radio - Indianapolis, IN (w/ Stinking Lizaveta)
06/01/07 Fri @ Magic Stick - Detroit, MI (w/ Stinking Lizaveta)
06/02/07 Sat @ Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH (w/ Stinking Lizaveta)
06/03/07 Sun @ The Middle East - Cambridge, MA (w/ Stinking Lizaveta)
06/04/07 Mon @ Northstar - Philadelphia, PA (w/ Stinking Lizaveta)
06/05/07 Tue @ The Black Cat - Washington, DC (w/ Stinking Lizaveta)
06/06/07 Wed @ Warsaw - Brooklyn, NY (w/ Stinking Lizaveta) *CD RELEASE PARTY*
06/08/07 Fri @ The Earl - Atlanta, GA
06/09/07 Sat @ Cell Block - Mobile, AL (w/ Cheer Accident)
06/11/07 Mon @ Emos - Austin, TX (w/ Cheer Accident)
06/12/07 Tue @ Wreck Room - Ft. Worth, TX (w/ Cheer Accident)
06/14/07 Thu @ Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA (w/ Cheer Accident)
06/15/07 Fri @ Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA (w/ Cheer Accident)
06/16/07 Sat @ The Catalyst - Santa Cruz, CA (w/ Cheer Accident)







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