January 20, 2006
Turn Up the Volume
I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry. Is that enough for you bums? Yes, I took a few weeks off with minimal posting so that I could indulge in some unspectacular adventures: got depressed, visited family, got a promotion, went to Vegas, played around with my ex, got more depressed, started working out again and decided to return here and give you rocking fools some more tidbits of street knowledge.
What’s crackin’? Between games of Sudoku, I watched quite a few music presentations on the home screen, such as:
Alison Krauss & Union Station: Live DVD
A very cool, “family friendly” concert by this sweet modern bluegrass quintet/sextet, filmed in Louisville 3 1/2 years ago. I venture to say that most music fans would probably like to have sex with Alison Krauss, but that could just be projection on my part.
Black Oak Arkansas DVD
This disc is a bootleg that Sfumato sent me off of a VHS tape, which includes an amazing full performance from Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert, the horrifying 1980s Ready As Hell video and a brief tour of the Arkansas redneck commune conducted by Jim Dandy and the boys. Totally inbred and awesome; I hope to present some clips here after I get past the technological hurdles.
Inside the Sensational Alex Harvey Band DVD (UK import)
Pretty much useless. Mike Desert showed me this one, and he claims that the Kinks doc made by the same company is even worse! There’s some decent SAHB footage that, unfortunately, you can’t fucking hear because of nonstop voice-over jibber jabber from random self-styled rock critics and the doddering remnants of the Band who still survive. Honestly, this is a terrible job: half-assed editing and interviews that barely go past “Hmmm, how did that song go? Let’s see – doot doot doola doo…”
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If I still lived in NYC, I’d want to go out and see local treasures the Little Killers playing every other night, but who’s kidding who – I’d probably just take ‘em for granted and stay home like most everyone else these days.
Andy used to be in the Sea Monkeys with Dave the Spazz. He has a unique chugga chugga guitar sound that really hits the spot and talks his lyrics out with a compelling, sloppy swagger.
Sara and Kari are a dynamite rhythm section, reserved onstage, but cool people… not to mention real nice to look at. The Little Killers were one of the first new bands in forever to come out on Crypt Records, a label not known to have a craving for flavors of the month. Dean Rispler produced their first album (from whence these two songs), and it oughtta just blow you away.
The Little Killers – “Butterfingers”
The Little Killers – “How Do You Do It?”
...also, check out the live video!
UPDATE 2-4-06: Mister Sfumato kindly redirects us to some primo clips that someone posted on YouTube of Black Oak on Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert that I mentioned up yonder.
Rick at 12:35 am
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In case Rick or anyone else cares, Gern Blandsten Records will be releasing the next Little Killers album, entitled A Real Good One, in April 2006. I heard a few songs from it and it kicks ass, looser and somewhat wilder than the debut. If you want an MP3 to check out, get in touch with me.
Comment by Artie Ñ January 20, 2006 @ 1:42 am
” Does anyone really know what time it is, does anyone really care?” can i get a film of black oak and alex harvey having sex with alison and the rest of union station? that would be very hairy!
Comment by wi11iam13 Ñ January 20, 2006 @ 4:10 am
RT Philie. Smooth operator.
I don’t like it when you put your depression right after a mention of moi, but hey. Thanks for a heads-up on the Herpes thing! Gives me a chance to beat the burn. Knowing is half the battle.
Comment by michelle Ñ January 20, 2006 @ 10:30 am
Artie: So you’re gonna be one of those guys down on Canal Street the day before the record comes out, selling scratched boot CD-Rs? Cool!
Michelle: It’s not you, baby, it’s me. ...Wait, I guess it is you. Whoops. My bad.
Comment by Rick Ñ January 20, 2006 @ 6:40 pm
Good call removing the all caps on rt’s comment. What a douche!
Comment by michelle Ñ January 20, 2006 @ 6:43 pm
Rick, you keep turning me on…to the good music…and the good books: I’ve been reading Big Dead Place on your recommendation on this site, great stuff. But I keep waiting for him to mention The Thing!
Comment by Ivan Lerner Ñ January 21, 2006 @ 8:18 am
Would very much like to acquire the Black Oak Arkansas “Ready As Hell” video as the only one we have in the archives if of extremely poor quality, generation wize!
Comment by Les Roediger Ñ August 12, 2006 @ 3:21 pm