Bone Cootes & West Coast Weekend Chill

Bone Cootes & West Coast Weekend Chill

We're chilling here on the west coast, and the winter weather seems real for once...

They say we got a cold front...

well I ain't frontin... but old man winter sho nuff is...

It ain't exactly like Buffalo or rochester where i grew up... but them Bones be Chilling

I had to drag all my succulents indoors by midnite so they wouldn't freeze & die as we go below 30...

The snowman seems alive and speaking of chilling Bones...I now reach for a bottle and a blanket and some Bone Cootes

Last night I had some drinks with this fella, and his producer/engineer/bassist, the brilliant analogian legend and keeper of the ribbon microphone flame Kevin Ink.

Typically they are self effacing, relatively humble cats , but their works speak volumes...

Especially since ya can crank their works up...

handy indeed...

San Francisco based singer/guitarist Bone Cootes has released two full length self released albums. His first effort was the bluesy bangin' & twangin' Son of Dave, followed a few years later by the moody and evocative Mock Piehole.

Bone generally records in an analog mode & Kevin Ink has been known to provide the knob twiddling & sonics that make the experience seem extra special.

Lyrically Bone mines the whiskey soaked gutters of the dark side of rock & roll/caberet life. Creating a sonic circus-like atmosphere, Cootes spurts out blasts of bluesy bluster that teeter somewhere between psychotic and serendipitiously seedy. Cootes has a vocal delivery reminiscent of fellow carnival barkers & alley way travellers like Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All of which could indeed be his influences, but then you'd have to throw in Lee Dorsey, Son House and a litany of role models from the wayback machine.

He's a rock n roll luddite, and has never appeared on MySpace and i doubt I'll ever get an email from him either, although it is rumored his wife once bought him an I-pod Shuffle, I 've never actually seen it. He has though appeared on compilations such as San Francisco Song Cycle Vol. 1, and collaborated with a variety of artists including a Swiss production of the music of Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill under the direction of noted conductor Urs Leonhardt Steiner.

Most popular as a fixture on Mission District bar jukeboxes, Bone takes his music as a live experience into SF watering holes where he's utilized a cast of rotating Bay Area band members like pub rocker & keyboardist Austin DeLone (Commander Cody,Nick Lowe), and previously noted knob twiddler Kevin Ink (Kelley Stoltz, Mofro). As a composer, Cootes has occasionally collaborated with fellow San Francisco based songwriters like Pete Simonelli of the Enablers, Chuck Prophet, and Klipshutz.

Check him out...

here's some MP3'z

From Son of Dave CD

Bone Cootes - Paging Mr. Babylon

Bone Cootes - Clown Fight

From Mock Piehole:

Bone Cootes - No+More+Flowers

Bone Cootes - Cursed

if ya wanna know more... bug me and I'll drop some more tunes off here in the shallow end of the kiddie pool...

Open Secrets of Lily

Secrets?

The late Yvonne De Carlo knew about the Secrets of Love...


and below a unique organization is trying to keep secrets out of Washington DC

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK: WATCH WASHINGTON'S 'REVOLVING DOOR' With the way over rated switch of party in power in effect congress, it'll of course be interesting to see how much really changes. One way to monitor the changes is via OpenSecrets.org's website. In fact this monitoring is now even more interesting with aid of their new lovable Revolving Door Database. The site helps track which former elected officials & federal regulators are now working for the industries they once oversaw. "There's a back story to every law, regulation and government contract, and OpenSecrets.org's Revolving Door Database helps tell those stories," said the Center's Executive Director, Sheila Krumholz. Thanx to the Center For Responsive Politics for keeping K street on the public's map. OpenSecrets.org

For Ex.

Didja know: that John Ashcroft now does lobbying for E-Bay ?

That ex-Louisian congressman Billy Tauzin accepted over $5,000,000 from pharmaceutical co.'s within a year of leaving the house?


That new Oakland Mayor Ron Dellum's had far bigger paying gigs lately lobbying for AT&T & Rolls Royce?

Anyhow, do y'all miss dear old Lily Munster...

She was amazing wasn't she?

and I betya that Herman packed some serious Munster dawg to keep a babe like her around...

She was the original goth goddess, no doubt about it...

The Who - Pictures of Lily


David Bowie - Pictures of Lily

Yvonne DeCarlo - Secrets of Love

Day 10

It's been ten days into 2006 and I haven't posted a peep since just before New Years Eve

It ain't been like nothing happened recently to warrant a post...

Just the opposite I suppose...

There's been plenty of personal & political shenanigans, sports world what-not, celebrity scandals, and tech whirled blips of note...

But nothing really made me wanna rant back at ya yet so far this year ol' world...

maybe I just been busy...

or have blogger malaise...

or was busy spending my end of year blogging residual checks...

or just having to go to work so early in the dang morning that my party all night & work all day strategy is imploding...

So I guess i'll my feet wet...

Locally here in SF Bay Area, we gots issues...murder & mayhem from the Mission on down to the Oakland flats... plus pedantic politicians scrambling, squabbling and even crying over spilt cop blood.

On today's radar:

I'll note that Western Union, who spun off from First Data last fall, has since successfully stopped Arizona from interfering with cross border money transactions into Sonora Mexico. Seems Arizona law enforcement were getting over zealous and had filed a warrant to allow AZ state bureaucrats oversight of any transactions over $500, in a broad far reaching oversight that affected 28 US states. AZ's aggressive LEO's assumed authority to monitor deals made over the border, forcing hesitant immigrants, many not doing biz in AZ and likely of dubious legal stature to explain via phone to AZ officials what their money was moving for. The judge sided with Western Union and said the company

``may be immediately and irreparably harmed by, among other things, loss of confidence and trust of Western Union's clients, loss of goodwill, and loss of business reputation.''

The ruling states Arizona violated Constitutional guarantees of due process and clauses that prohibit states from regulating interstate and foreign commerce.

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`Western Union is a trusted friend of the Latino community, and we're very pleased with today's ruling,'' Chief Executive Officer Christina Gold said in a statement. The company will continue to work ``cooperatively'' with Arizona in ``meeting its law enforcement needs,'' she said.

The Five Americans - Western Union

AZ says it ain't over & will appeal...




+/- (plus/minus) - Steal The Blueprints


from "Let's Build a Fire"
by +/- {Plus/Minus}
Absolutely Kosher
Buy at eMusic

don't know what else I woulda , coulda, shoulda been posting about...

So Later on I'll be back with

at least Ten Tantilizing Tracks to share with y'all for 2007...