Category: Music

Saturday Matinee – OMC, Dr. Feelgood & Rory Gallagher

OMC (Ōtara Millionaires Club) was an Aukland NZ success story until the premature deaths of Phil Fuemana in 2005 and his brother, frontman Pauly Fuemana, in January 2010.
[h/t Tony McG. for indirectly reminding me of the song.]

The UK R&B band Dr. Feelgood took their name from a 1964 recording by Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, a cover of the song written by Will ‘Piano Red‘ Perryman, aka Dr. Feelgood.

You ever woke up with them bull frogs on your mind?
Roots blues rocker Rory Gallagher jammed William Harris’ 1928 song Bullfrog Blues in 1979. I can’t understand the words even after reading them.

Three day weekend is here, don’t forget what Memorial Day is all about, and we’ll see you tomorrow at the usual place (porch) at the usual time (porch thirty).

Belomancing Hot Links

This Is Ska Live, Bad Manners (1997)
Bad Manners hooked me with their cover of Millie Small‘s 1964 hit My Boy Lollipop (a cover of My Girl Lollipop credited to Robert Spencer of The Cadillacs and recorded by Barbie Gaye in 1956).  Bad Manners also recorded one of the prettiest reggae love songs ever: Samson and Delilah.

The diner.

That line…

BBQ Salad.

That Hertz.

Three bears.

Clothing time.

Bushman Beach.

Carnival of Souls.

Norty Blues Episode 64.

Australian beach worms.

Everyone needs a little space.

Bump It Up [via Feral Irishman].

Class photos [via Mme. Jujujive].

A collection of weaponry memes.

Fruity Oaty Bars [via Memo Of The Air].

Stoic, serious, and pragmatically practical cows.

The 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Carbon Footprint Awards finalist [via Bunkerville].

Feeding 1st Responders after recent storms. (It’s Stalecracker, dood!)

[Top image: 1983 Bad Manners 45 rpm all clean and shiny.]

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Saturday Matinee – Steve Arvey & Stumpy Joe Sweckard, Sean Webster & the Dead Lines, and Kid Anderson w/ Frankie Ramos

Steve Arvey and Stumpy Joe Sweckard cover Robert Johnson‘s The Last Fair Deal Gone Down (1936).

Sean Webster & the Dead Lines.

Chris ‘Kid’ Anderson with (the late) Frankie Ramos.

Oh, man I’m SO out of steam and SO out of time to write anything even remotely coherent. See you tomorrow.

Mothers Day Hot Links

Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City. July 1939.

You Didn’t Try To Call Me, The Mothers of Invention (1968) Track 8 of TMOI‘s debut album Freak Out! – a double record set of songs composed by Frank Zappa that won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, and ranks at No. 246 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2012 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

[CORRECTION: Taminatorpgh noted that this version of You Didn’t Try To Call Me is from the  1968 album Cruising With Ruben and the Jets. The original version from Freak Out! is here. More in the comments below.]

Tourons.

Drill fight.

The Pylon Men.

Magpie smarts.

The end of sleep.

Sticks and stones.

Recycling styrofoam.

Norty Blues Episode 63.

Nice collection of rat rods.

A chair of geometric solids.

Fun machines [via Mme. Jujujive].

Zinaida Portnova [h/t Charlene J.]

Look at this moth [via Bunkerville].

Where to go over summer vacation.

Put this girl in charge of everything.

35 Flapper Fotos [via Memo Of The Air].

The 50 most commonly prescribed drugs.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge Gap.

Re-enactment of the 17-year cicada’s lifecycle.

There’s a live video “portal” between Dublin & NYC.

Uber driver with Tourette’s picked up passenger with Tourette’s.
[h/t Kirk W.]

[Top image from Shorpy, cropped and colorized: “July 1939. ‘Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City.’ Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.”]

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Saturday Matinee – Nina Simone, The High Numbers & GA-20

1987 claymation video by Aardman Animations features the voice and piano of Eunice Kathleen Waymon, aka gospel / jazz / R&B / soul singer Nina Simone, with a song from 1958. She changed her name to elude family members and play “the devil’s music” in an Atlantic City nightclub. The management told her that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, and that launched her career as a jazz vocalist.

“What’s your band’s name?”
“The High Numbers.”
“The who?”
“Yes.”

The Detours, a British group formed in the early 1960s, changed their name to  The High Numbers and recorded a few tracks before reverting to a previous band name, The Who. That’s a young Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon covering Jesse Hill‘s Ooh Poo Pah Doo (1960) and The Miracles‘ I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying (1963).

GA-20  covers Hound Dog Taylor‘s She’s Gone (1971). Great authentic electric blues cranked out with respect.

Too far south to see this weekend’s aurorae, and I hope everyone who can survives the EMT barrage. I’ll take the event as a good omen, and yet another damn good reason to do some porch sitting tomorrow.
See you then.

Cinco De Mayo Hot Links

Crackin’ Up, GA-20 (2023) One of the best roots rock blues bands to come out of Boston (or anywhere) in recent years, GA-20 consists of Matt Stubbs / guitar, Pat Faherty / guitar, lead vocals & gofro, Tim Carman, drums. The song is a cover of a 1959  Bo Diddley recording.

Old trucks.

Bouncing China.

The longest road.

Leveling dominos.

Daddy’s little placebo.

Norty Blues Episode 62.

24 Femmes Per Second.

Best ways to use Orbeez.

Put the Orbeez in a balloon.

“If it’s true, is it still propaganda?“

Shadow and Light: Sergiu Ciochină

Bouncing lessons [via Bunkerville].

Live Music Is Good Part 2 [h/t Gord S.]

Improved Ferris Wheel Goat. Related posts here.

Morse Code Receiver Chart is clever [via Memo Of The Air].

The Penguin goes “pew pew“ [via The View From Lady Lake].

¡Feliz Cinco De Mayo!

[Top image: Face Plant courtesy Pam M. via FB.]

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Saturday Matinee – Taj Mahal w/ Clive Barnes & Eric Bibb, Cory Wong w/ Victor Wooten, and Anna Scionti

Following a performance in France in 2010, Taj Mahal and Clive Barnes joined Eric Bibb to play his song Needed Time.

Cory Wong with Victor Wooten and band lay down some funky groovidity.

Anna Scionti won the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society’s (MBAS) Blues Performer of the Year 2023 (Solo/Duo Category) and represented the MBAS at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee in January 2024.

Outta time, outta steam, see you tomorrow.

Belemnoidal Hot Links

Ain’t No Big Thing, The Original Spontanes (2011) In 1966, The Spontanes (aka Joey Ray & The Spontanes, The Original Spontanes) recorded a cover of The Radients‘ Ain’t No Big Thing (1965), then reprised it at a the Carolina R&B Reunion, Gastonia NC in 2011.

Stealth.

Kid hacks.

Nice people.

Screw bikes.

24 Godesses.

Nudie branch.

Eternal Ascent.

Trucks & Lorries.

How to steal stuff.

Bees can do math!

When dots connect.

Norty Blues Episode 61.

Stopping self-driving cars.

Concept cars [via Mme. Jujujive].

Damascus goat [via Bunkerville].

You Can’t Park There, Sir. [Sound up]

The Positive of the Negative [via The View From Lady Lake].

Digital porcelain sculptures of celebrities kissing themselves.

The Management Secrets of Genghis Khan [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Space Suits Playing Cards found here via This Isn’t Happiness.]

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Saturday Matinee – The Courettes, The Holophonics & Dan Patlansky

Dubbed The World’s Greatest Two Person Rock ‘N’ Roll Ensemble, Flavia & Martin Couri, aka The Courettes, make retro new again. Hop hop.

The Holophonics are a ska punk reggae band with members from New York City, Dallas/Ft. Worth & Southern California. At least they have a Facebook page.

This trio consists of Dan Patlansky / guitar & vocals, Tom Schwan / bass and Ben Matthews / drums. Patlansky is a blues guitarist from South Africa, was voted the No. 4 Best Guitarist in the world. He’s the only artist with two worldwide No. 1 and two No. 2 Best Blues Rock album awards as voted by Blues Rock Review.

Been another week full of Time Flies and I still haven’t figured out how to slow them down. I plan to be up at the crack of noon tomorrow for porch time and we can discuss our options then. See you when you get here.

Parbuckled Hot Links

The Colour of Don Don, The Cactus Channel (2012)
The Cactus Channel is/was a hip hop funk & soul group from Melbourne AU. Nice Stax/Volt influence. The 7-10 piece group has apparently disbanded to pursue other projects.

The Doggos.

Negative space.

Diddy Wah Diddy.

Fugu [via Bunkerville].

Homage to GMC trucks.

Norty Blues Episode 60.

Drawing a Phénakistiscope.

Another movie I haven’t seen.

“People have raised concerns…”

Asteroid City [via Mme. Jujujive].

In ’71, after I graduated high school…

“What’s your source?” [via Mogadishu Matt].

The last Woolworth’s Lunch Counter [h/t Paul Y.]

Carnival of Venice, Mosé Tapiero on ocarina, 1908.

Making ocarinas in South Korea [via Memo Of The Air].

California’s 3rd largest city is a ghost town [h/t Paul Y.]

Beautiful rendition of the Theme to Titanic [h/t Charlene J.]

[Top image: 1954 Hubley’s Atomic Disintegrator. A weapon like this may fetch $300 or more at auction.]

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