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The Flamin’ Groovies - “Slow Death” : Very cool live clip from French TV 1972.
Posted on May 23, 2010
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Plays: 5[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
The 13th Floor Elevators - “Roller Coaster” ( live on “Sumpin’ Else” tv show, Dallas 66’) I read that Syd Barrett was a big fan of the Elevators, and surely their fates seem twisted in the stars. The only difference is that after years of illness and hospitalization, Roky is now playing again…and really damned great at that. Sadly that wouldn’t be with Syd. See if you don’t hear the germs of “Lucifer Sam” in this number…
Posted on April 14, 2010
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Posted on April 13, 2010
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Plays: 4[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
The Pretty Things - “Can’t Stand The Pain” : The Things first 3 albums are for me as good as anything the Stones did in their first few years, and were/are considered by many to be on equal footing in the early days of Brit blues punk. No coincidence, their guitar player Dick Smith was not only a early (the first?) bass player for the Stones, but also a guitar slinger for class of 77 alum The Mekons during their mid 80’s cowpunk era.
Posted on April 13, 2010
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Love - Arthur Lee was a strange and talented paradox. A black man singing like a white Brit singing like a southern black, his band Love was one of rocks first multi racial groups. Equal parts Byrds folk-psych, Stones styled rock, and L.A. flower punk, they produced 3 great 60’s albums culminating with 1967’s Forever Changes. Lee was a creative enigma, often compared to Syd Barrett or Brian Wilson. Like both of them he was fueled by a certain madness that never quite allowed him to make good on his 60’s promise. That aside, Forever Changes stands right along The Velvet Underground and Nico, Revolver, or Beggars Banquet as one of the decades seminal and thoroughly original original rock and roll albums.
Posted on March 22, 2010 with 1 note
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Plays: 7[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Love - “A House Is Not A Motel” : A great rocker from 1967’s Forever Changes. A very cool fuzz guitar propels this song along L.A.’s streets of gold.
Posted on March 22, 2010 with 2 notes
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Come on in and make yourself comfortable. The paths I follow sometimes tend to be non-linear and diverge into other altogether different places. I'm still not sure if this is a pop culture blog with art, or a historical one with nature or really what it is. In my mind it somehow works. I will tell you however that I do hate the dull, predictable, and the common...and if we share that as a common ground, then we'll have some fun.
That being said, many of these posts are photos that I have acquired over the years. When possible I will post credits or re-blog them if from another point of origin. If there is something of yours that needs to be credited or removed, I will be happy to do so if it is your creation or copyright. Otherwise, please just let me spread the love.
I am also a guest blogger on the super "Fuck Yeah Lou Reed" page here on tumblr. There I'll be putting up the odd live/rare/unheard Lou tracks, as well as whatever cool photos-videos-and of course anecdotes that I may have. So do come on by.
