What are you listening to? The world really needs to know.

[mjp]

No, no - I love it when the French do it. It's perfect for them.

 

[Johannes]

Now, if there is one guy who is sucking decaying beaver balls about 90% of the time it sure as hell is Falco and especially since he is dead and made holy by the Austrian media circus. But at his best he showed some rather bizarre humor and self-irony and although this song may not be much, the video is very funny and especially if you come from a place where they torture you with Falco and The Sound of Music all the time.

 

[nervas]

The Clash - Sandinista

 

[Ponder]

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[Stavrogin]

Just a bunch of followers. No opinions of their own. They couldn't possibly dislike the same things I dislike. They are just repeating my sentiments like lemmings, in order to win my glorious approval, is that what you're suggesting?

You flatter me! But worse, you insult them, you humorless bastard, you. Come here and give me a kiss!

What I'm suggesting is your anti-French clown act is getting stale and tiresome. Them deep in their hearts know I wasn't truly insulting them - now that you can kiss.

 

[Stavrogin]

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And after the last words I'll end this on a positive. Buk is right - people just are not good to each other.

 

[mjp]

What I'm suggesting is your anti-French clown act is getting stale and tiresome.

See, now that just tells me it's starting to get good. After another year or two imagine how tired you will be!

Them deep in their hearts know I wasn't truly insulting them

Now that's funny. In an ironical way, as Bugs Bunny would say.

 

[hank solo]

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next (Brel)

 

[nervas]

My mom, though she didn't take much care of her nearly 1,500 45's(I think 1 of 1,500 has a cover), has about 11 boxes of these. My dad, after finding out some of their worth - was very reluctant at letting me take these home. So I had to convince him, in their present condition, they're just not worth what eBay or anything else says they're worth and with that he let me take one box so far(little does he know, he'll never see it again, however I would never sell any of these anyway.) I have now found that about 99% of them play pretty flawlessly, minus pops and hisses, so I've been listening to these all night.



So far, I think I have replayed this one about 15 times.... And since the only one on eBay that is not scratched up is listed for 75 bucks, maybe I'll sell them all daddy! Just kidding, I'd never sell any of these.

 

[mjp]

You can get plain paper sleeves for those pretty cheap.

Some nice wah pedal work here, though the dirty hippies didn't even bother to comb their hair before the taping. Shame about that sweet Les Paul Special all fucked up and customized, but the sound is still there.

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

Fender guitar with this one. Redd Volkaert gave me a handful of guitar lessons back in the early 1970s when his Dad owned a music store in Cloverdale, BC. He was trying to learn the opening riff of "I'm Going Home" by Ten Years After from the Woodstock soundtrack (hello Chronic!) by slowing the vinyl to 16 from 33. I lost track of him after seeing him at a Johnny Winter/James Cotton/Alvin Lee concert around 1974. Read a Georgia Straight story on Redd a dozen years ago and went "hey, I remember that guy!" Now, if I had only applied myself on the guitar...(and other things). Cindy Cashdollar is great as well.

 

[Black Swan]

Digney! I still have a Georgia Straight 1976 with Bim (Roy Forbes) on the cover.

Was reading: CROSBYSTILLS and SMASH_After a number of aborted recording sessions during which C.S.N.& Y. were supposed to be reunited, Graham Nash has expressed his disgust quite publicly concerning Stills and Young, by saying "I'll thump the fucker right up the nose when I see him again." I supspect he means Stills, since Young is a semi-invalid!
I do not know who wrote this.

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

Not sure who wrote the Crosby, Stills and Smash item. 1976? Bob Geldof's stint at the GS was around 1974. Maybe Tom Harrison who moved to the daily Province years ago.

And good old Bim (Roy Forbes). My brother brought him up recently while we surfed youtube.

This one I remember:


And this more recent one (takes 30 seconds before music starts) features Shari Ulrich (Pied Pumpkin) and Bill Henderson (the Collectors, Chilliwack) backing Roy's song. Nice mullet (if a mullet can ever be considered nice) Roy!


Both are okay driving tunes.

 

[Black Swan]

It's nice to see Shari Ulrich! I wonder what happened to Rick Scott and Joe Mock. I'll look them up online.
I often saw them at the Soft Rock.

 

[Ponder]

And this more recent one (takes 30 seconds before music starts) features Shari Ulrich (Pied Pumpkin) and Bill Henderson (the Collectors, Chilliwack) backing Roy's song. Both are okay driving tunes.

I never liked Chilliwack.
Here is a song of the second and last album of the Collectors.

 

[Black Swan]

Digney, Roy reminds me of Bubbles. Nice guy!
Also nice song, Stavrogin.

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

I never listened to Grass and Wild Strawberries much. Must have been the literary connection (playwright George Ryga) that had me shy away from it. I am much more pedestrian in my psychedelic likes. Lydia Purple for instance.

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Chilliwack was part of my high school soundtrack from Lonesome Mary to, I dunno, There's Something I Like About That. Then there's the transition year that produced a trio of drums, bass and flute. I listened to a recent interview with Bill Henderson and I get the idea he liked improvisation best. But hit songs pay the bills.

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If you want more Vancouver psychedelia look for some b&w footage of My Indole Ring and Mock Duck on youtube.

(I was trying to find an old picture of Bim from the 1970s. He had the thick glasses and was even more Bubbles-like then.)

 

[Black Swan]

Bim (Roy Forbes in 1976)

 

[Ponder]

I never listened to Grass and Wild Strawberries much.

I posted "What's Love" in the IPOD thread a while ago.
I also prefer their debut album.

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

Right, I do remember the posting in the IPOD thread, and searched it out again. Shows what my memory and cd collection is that I thought you had put in a segment of the "What Love (Suite)" (19 minutes or so). I'm wrong of course. Always am. Always will be. Your posting was, of course, track one off the first Collectors lp. The cd collection should be sorted because it's a mess spread out all over the place

But I've gotta go to work (where I am always wrong and always will be). Buss me on the bus.

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[nervas]

It's Friday the 13th - Woooooo Hooooo!!!!!

So in honor of that....

The Murderdolls - Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls

and once it's done moving on to lead singer Wednesday 13's solo stuff!

 

[mjp]

Double play; Black Uhuru Vampire and Emotional Slaughter.

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These sound so thin in these videos that I hesitate to post them. But the moderators won't let me upload high quality MP3, so what can we do. Imagine the bass is really prominent and you can feel it in your chest. Use your imagination. Or better yet, go out and buy the records and listen to them on your amped up subwoofer dolby thingy you got in your house there.

 

[nervas]

Those were both good, and now I want to hear them with some bass pumping through my chest! You know, I spent so many years idolizing Marley and everything he did, I really missed out on a lot, well probably all reggae. I have always collected anything Bob ever did, then sometime in the 90's starting collecting everything his kids did. I've also got everything that anyone associated with him ever put out, like Tosh, Wailer, etc. However that's pretty much it, that's my reggae collection. Sad, those two Black Uhuru songs above, prove I really was a teenage idiot, when I'd go around telling all my friends, if it aint Bob, or somehow related to him, screw it, I don't wanna hear it! Oh well, there's time for me yet!

And at 10:15 am on this Sunday morning, I'm listening to Devendra Banhart.

 

[mjp]

I've also got everything that anyone associated with him ever put out, like Tosh, Wailer, etc.

You think so? ;)

There are so many recordings by the Wailers as a group and by Marley Tosh and Bunny separately I don't think I'll ever hear them all. Especially since so many of them were Jamaican 45s pressed in tiny amounts. Check out Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Definitive Discography to see what you're missing. Then spend the rest of your life trying to track it all down.

The Hip-O/JAD box sets will get you halfway there (if you don't already have them): Hip-O 1, Hip-O 2, Hip-O 3, JAD 1, JAD 2, JAD 3. They are a little bit primitive sounding compared to the Tuff Gong/Island recordings, but they are the shit. This is how the world (Jamaica and England anyway) heard the Wailers before America even knew they existed.

But as far as reggae in general, yeah, there's a whole universe out there beyond the Wailers.

 

[nervas]

Oh yeah, I hear ya. I should have said all the stuff that was readily available in the U.S. No doubt I'd probably never be able to track it all down. I do have all 3 JAD sets, and the Hip-O 1, but don't have 2 or 3. I'll have to pick those up. I was just looking through my cds to find one of the JAD sets to throw on and I came across a bunch of these live CD's I'm sitting here and wondering where in the heck did I get these live CD's? I'm positive I didn't get them through the internet? I vaguely remember mail order of some sort? But now it's bugging me. This one is Live @ Lyceum in London. Hmmm, they were made in Japan. Any thoughts on where these may have come from? Well wait a minute, the disc says it was made in 1997... I've been an eBay member since 1998, so maybe I did get them on there.It's listed on Amazon, but says currently unavailable.

 

[mjp]

Seems like that Lyceum concert has been released about a hundred times. Live at the Roxy is probably the best live recording. The later live stuff tends to be a little too similar from show to show.

 

[Curly Pubis]

But as far as reggae in general, yeah, there's a whole universe out there beyond the Wailers.

And it all sounds the exact fucking same.

I agree about the French bullshit, though. About time someone said it, even a prick like mjp.

OK...rebanned in 10...9...8...7...wait for it...6...5....

 

[nervas]

Yeah, Live at the Roxy is sweet. Looking at my Cd's, it seems it was officially released in 2003. I have one of the Japanese bootlegs, with the exact quality and set list that I got in 1998. Another funny thing, the original Bob Marley & The Wailers: Live!says it was recorded on July 18th 1975 at the Lyceum and has 7 songs on it. Well mine has 7, the re-issue shows 8. The Lyceum bootleg I showed above has 18 songs on it, but does not list when it was recorded. I thought maybe it was the whole show recorded in July of 1975. However not one of the songs on the Japanese CD are on the official CD release. So I guess it was another date, another performance. But all of these Japanese bootlegs have great sound quality, so at least there's that. And in the end, this discussion made me pull out a CD I bought earlier this year, and listened to maybe only two times. As I listen to it right now, eh, I can kind of see why I only listened to it 2x. I saw Ziggy at the House of Blues in Hollywood in 97 or 98, can't remeber. The opening band was called Ghetto Youth's, which was basically every Marley son except Ziggy. I remember thinking it was the greatest thing I had ever seen. It was basically hip hop/rap/reggae all mashed together. I always wanted them to put out a real release, and the Ghetto Youth did, but not with the same line-up. Actually if I remember it was a compilation of songs with other Jamacian artists. I have the album, but it is nothing like that performance back in the day. I mention this because listening to the Nas/Damian CD, it's almost in the same style, but doesn't grab me as much, probably cause I'm not a fan of Nas.

Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives



For a sample, the first and only(???) single and probably the best song on the album: As We Enter

I preferred Damian teaming with Cypress Hill, much more than Nas.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Some nice wah pedal work here, though the dirty hippies didn't even bother to comb their hair before the taping. Shame about that sweet Les Paul Special all fucked up and customized, but the sound is still there.

SOB playing the Precision has got some stones too. Ah, the Old Midnight Special; the days of wondering what real boobs looked like and getting baked for the first time. No overdubs either.

 

[chronic]

I'm not really listening to this, but I love the cover.