Author: garypiggold

Just Say YES !!

    Time for another round of Virtual Musical Word Association!

Wherein we join Mr. Fandango himself Jason NeSmith as he and main cookie Kay S. Stanton, d.b.a. Casper & The Cookies, spend Some Time in gray New York City and live to return to Athens to sing and play for us all about it.

Yes, The Optimist’s Club is the name of this most positive disc in question;  but Hurry and order your very own copy so as to grab the accompanying limited-offer mini graphic novel, overly optimistic bonus CDR, sticker and button set and maybe even tasty CookieShirt to boot (mine was an absolutely Tee-rrific 100% heavy cotton Honduran Fruit-o-the-Loom in stunning day-glo green and pink!!)   

so Let the Crumbling begin…..

1.  KRÖTENWANDERUNG…..makes Sheryl eat crow!

2.  KISS A FRIEND…..You Boettcher Life, to be perfectly curt.

3.  BARKING IN THE GARDEN OF ILL REPUTE…..Great Title!!

4.  DuCHAMP’S CAMERA…..the better to capture all the subway’s shooting stars…

5.  SID FROM CENTRAL PARK…..”Ring tha bell.  Hold it up to ya ear.  Now make ya wish.  You’re learning bell music – any language.”

6.  HEY MR. SUPERSTAR…..How To Succeed In Music Business, in a mere five-minutes-twenty-four!

7.  LEARN HOW TO DISAPPEAR…..coz Some people really have to go…

8.  THE OPTIMIST’S CREDO…..L-u-v means never having to say No.

9.  NEO DADA HEY DAY…..Friends, busy doin’ nothin’, went to sleep with a little bird at my window as radio plays wind chimes

10.  SEA FINGERS…..T. Hex !

11.  THINGS TO DO BEFORE WE DIE…..Casper’s List.

Corwood 0786

                                     JANDEK

                              AUSTIN SUNDAY
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                                   DISC ONE

1.  THROW ME AWAY                                               (9:13)
2.  UGLY MAN                                                          (7:12)
3.  LITHE BODY                                                       (9:25)
4.  THE POLICE                                                       (7:21)
5.  RUN AWAY                                                         (5:32)
6.  IF I WANTED                                                      (5:45)

                                  DISC TWO
1.  WINE YOU DEVIL                                               (8:50)
2.  YOU HOLD ME UP                                               (5:37)
3.  YOU JUST ABOUT KILLED ME                              (6:53)
4.  LITTLE WHILE                                                    (5:36)
5.  LONELY DOG                                                      (6:51)
6.  LET ME TRY AGAIN                                           (12:54)

RECORDED LIVE:  SCOTTISH RITE THEATRE  AUSTIN TEXAS
AUGUST 28, 2005
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(C)(P) 2006 CORWOOD INDUSTRIES
                  P.O. BOX 15375
           HOUSTON, TEXAS 77220
                          U.S.A. 

  

The Next Big Rave

What ever happens
when the Dave Edmunds of Canada
reunites with, yes, the Nick Lowe of Canada
right there On Stage again ?

In order to kick straight off
the Sixth annual New York
International Pop Overthrow
Festival to boot ??

For the answer to these,
and oh So many other merry musical questions,

simply Meet Us at around 11 PM
on the night of Thursday, November the 9th
within The Baggot Inn,
right there at 82 West 3rd Street
in Greenwich Village.

MANY splendid Seconds of Pleasure are guaranteed for all !!
 

Thenceforward

   Those sorrowfully not as fully aware as they certainly should be now of those two most undersung American musical heroes known still as Rick Harper and Tom Staley at last have one fabulous chance to meet them both, right there squarely together again for the next time, on this single great CD from our friends over at HiVariety Recordings.

Namely,

 1.  INSIDE OUT…..NRBQ head headstrong crosstown atop the (Guess Who?) “Bus Rider.”

 2.  RHINO IN THE ROOM…..startlingly, so subtly so very very R. Harperesque.

 3.  TIME BOMB…..sets every single one’a Jerry Reed’s kissful cousins straight off.

 4.  A THING CALLED LOVE…..Byrds, Buddy, Burritos even Beat big-time!

 5.  THE CANYON IN THE HEART…..If Chris Isaak’s dogs ran free…

 6.  BRAND NEW DAY…..one absolutely pitch ‘n’ picture-perfect three-minutes-forty-eight.

 7.  ONLY TO LOSE YOU…..the more we hear, the more we know.

 8.  WALKIE TALKIE ROAD…..taken wordlessly towards Papa Nez’s true magnetic southlands.

 9.  MR. SUIT…..and there’s two L’s in Halliburton, just remember… (he’s so heavy)      

10.  EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK…..Magic City music !!

11.  WE NEED LOVE…..if they only knew…

12.  WAITING…..trippin’ round the good day sun.

13.  CALLING YOUR NAME…..while your song gently fades…

More Required Viewing !!!

    There was a time,

believe you me,
long ago and far, far away,
when all the best boots were Beatle,
trebly white Vox six-strings cooly matched your best gurl’s plastic mini,
and the words “Garage Band” had not yet become just another registered Apple trademark.

Well, it isn’t only those Hives who care to dwell to this day in such defiantly monophonic, tight-legged times:  
Coz, believe it or knot, those otherwise empty Eighties and Nineties were positively littered as well with Levi and Rickenbacker-clad mopheads singing and playing up wholly frug-worthy storms for all who would listen

…whilst, alas, the vast majority of mankind were told to dig Hall and Oates or even that Fred MacMurray of “rock and roll” [sic!!] instead, I must most sadly recall.

But if you’d really like to hear and see what all the fuzz SHOULD’VE been about back then
(not to mention trace the socio-musical routes of either White Stripe straight on down),
simply take the next eighty-odd minutes to sit and spin with Purple Cactus/Dionysus’
utterly woofer-rattling Knights Of Fuzz DVD + ROM.

Yep, it’s all here, now, and forevermore:
Classic, cutting clips full of wholly-living-colour Cynics, Fuzztones, and tons more Untamed Youth
including vintage (1983!) Cheepskates,
their upstate New York brethren The Chesterfield Kings
(always the out-of-their-headed Stones to the C-skates comparatively tamed Fabulous Four);
why, even K of F mastermind Timothy Gassen dons his very own psilocybin-dipped Marshmallow Overcoat for not one but – count ‘em! — two vibe-riddled vids.

Lo, lest we neither forget Toronto’s towering 10 Commandments
featuring our sweet James Lord on Crampy-indeed lead vox
…..and Speaking of O Canada,
Montreal’s groovy Gruesomes are more than fully represented via their Monkees-on-methamphetamine “Hey!”
(very personally speaking, one of my fave pure pop clips OF ALL TIME).

But that’s still not it !!

Besides all this anarchic archival footage also comes hours more read-only memory content, including 300-plus pages of Tim’s criminally out-of-print Knights Of Fuzz encyclopedia-lysergic, twenty-six full ‘n’ frantic audio clips, and tons upon anti-trendy tons of additional articles, photos, reviews and data galore both old and retro-new!   

You can get completely fuzzed up right now if you’d like,
by dragging it into the virtual garage for your fully day-glo all-media preview.

But I heartily recommend taking the whole paisley plunge
by grabbing the real thing
right here
right now.

So!
Ready?  Steady?

Then GO Already !!!

Ox Populi

It’s true:
The one and only Chief Beatle would’ve actually hit 66 today. 

Ugh.

But lest we EVER forget
that other great big, loud, solid (yet stolid) John

who once made those Sixties swing,

who too was born on 9 October,

and Who is as well, most unfortunately indeed,
nowhere around anyway anywhere anyhow anymore.

And just when we could use him
the very very most…..
 

Introducing Litter and Leech !

Direct from the quite-legendarily Unsound Home CD Series, in the above-grand tradition of the magnificent Mungo Jerry, with all the semi-fi glory of the more Scoop-sublime Pete Townshend, and harkening straight back to those distant daze when People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair comes my old media and genre-hopping pal Lord Litter alongside his lifelong right-hand guitarzan Lefty Leech. 

Now together these two raving folkabillies, armed with a mere twelve strings strung up two acoustics between them (plus the odd dash of keys ‘n’ beat here and then there), slap-happily produce a rhythmic revue as wholly unhinged as it is simply unplugged.  And not surprising at all, is it, with just one look at their choice of source material – Marriott/Lane, the Young Springfield, Edmunds and Cash and even John and Paul – decisively proving L & L are more than extremely out on the right channel throughout this bold new socio-musical mission of theirs.

So if you have ever for one moment wondered exactly what those silvery Beatles might sound like if they were still today playing Sunday matinees at the Kaiserkeller or Star Club, Introducing Litter and Leech is the closest any of us may ever truly get to revisiting then recreating, as these two surely have, the rockin’ way the roll used to be …before it became content to wear stars on its brow, that is.

Introduce yourself today then, I say.  Being sure to tell ‘em Gary the Pig sentcha, of course.      
 

 

Required Viewing Too !!

 

There is nothing wrong with your computer screen.

Do not attempt to adjust the picture.

Latin Lewis is controlling the transmission.

If he wishes to make it louder, he will bring up the volume.  If he wishes to make it softer, he will tune it to a whisper.

He will control the horizontal.  He will control the vertical.  He can roll the image; make it flutter. He can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity.

For close to an hour, sit quietly and Latin Lewis will control all that you see and hear.

I repeat:  There is nothing wrong with your computer screen.  You are about to participate in a great adventure.  You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to …..the Latin Quarter Films.
 

Required Viewing !

 

sUite Slice of poP Pie

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

 

 1. SLEEPY HEAD  (2:24)   Acid-eating Ramones 

 2. IT’S LOVE  (5:17)   Bangles open The Doors

 3. TREE HOUSE  (3:45)   extremely Electric Prunes

 4. DON’T GET FOOLED (by the man)  (3:56)   wholly Boyce & Hart-felt

 5. JUST ANOTHER RAINY DAY  (2:16)   Cliff Richard and the Shadows of Knight   

 6. MAYBE SOME OTHER DAY  (2:58)   The Association of Herman’s Hermits

 7. WHY I CRY  (4:24)   Dino, Desi, and the Billy Cramps

 8. WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES 13  (4:22)   The Count 5ive be Damned

 9. LIGHT OF THE SUN  (2:02)   Raquel’s Beach Boys

10. STILL LOVE YOU  (5:14)   The Lemon Jefferson Pipers

11. I DON’T KNOW ABOUT LOVING YOU  (2:40)  Harper’s still Bizarre !!

 

All songs written, recorded, produced and performed by Bill Rogers
Copyright 2004

www.480music.com

Frank Words From Hell


    To all intents and counter-purposes as those Sixties suddenly became Seventies, the hitherto diabolical music of Frank Zappa somehow entered the denimed underground mainstream via that bitchy little largely instrumental brew known, to this day, as Hot Rats.

Now, maybe it was its utterly polarizing – not to mention polarized – cover art, its hotcha buncha proto-fusion guitar solos, or maybe even (as I’d like to think) the fact that none other than Captain Beefheart scored a Billboard album chart placing courtesy of his magnificent Rats showcase “Willie The Pimp.”  Yet whatever the cases may be, this album’s opening three and a half minutes, “Peaches En Regalia,” quickly became a hep FM staple throughout those glorious Nixon years (before becoming totally co-opted as late night chat show breaks thanks to Paul Shaffer and his ilk), and before he could say “hmmmm,” FZ found himself on the road to eventual artistic Stadium Rock ruin and, as a direct result, the disintegration of his first, classic, and BEST-ever batch of manic musical Mothers.  Pity…

Still, despite its current digital sheen (wherein such essential elements as Ian Underwood’s mightily majestic “organus maximus,” not to mention “Peaches’” concluding Hare Krishna finger-cymbals, seem to have been all but obliterated during remix by FRANK’S LEAD GUITAR), Hot Rats still recalls to what’s left of my mind glad-happy High School daze spent with partner-in-teen-mischief Richard, crashing the local stoners’ TV parties and serving them up mayo-on-catfood sandwiches …all to the hot-rockin’ accompaniment of “The Gumbo Variations,” y’know.

“Memories”…..