The Blimp, Captain Beefheart (1969)
Category: Music
Ochlocratic Hot Links
I Wanna Know, Ruben & The Jets (1974) Founded by Rubén Guevara Jr., this is not the Frank Zappa / Mothers of Invention alias band of 1968. Guevara’s Jets recorded two albums, For Real! (1973) and Con Safos (1974).
This is awkward.
[via Mme. Jujujive]
The Dance of the Zaouli.
[via Memo Of The Air]
The Dance of the Ostrich.
[via Bunkerville]
The Dance of the Corn Dog.
[via Bits & Pieces]
The Dance of the Jelly-like Siphonophores.
[Top image: István Csurka, founder of the Hungarian nationalist MIÉP party, 23 October 2003. Image found here.]
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Saturday Matinee – Ren Gill, Mocca Garden & Laid Back Country Picker
Ren Gill is a Welsh musician / performance artist who tells heavy (and often dark) stories in his songs and videos.
I was about to categorize him as merely a talented multi-media character actor until I read his horrific story in the Daily Mail. In 2009 he woke up severely ill with what he described as the worst hangover he’d ever had, but it didn’t go away. After years of misdiagnoses that included physical and psychological treatments, specialists eventually identified the culprit as chronic Lyme Disease in 2016.
Mocca Garden is a ska / reggae band from Thailand. Can’t find much about them, but this (translated) page explains what to wear to their shows.
Laid Back Country Picker (LBCP) is guitar slinger LB, Honey Bun on drums, and that’s about all anybody really needs to know.
[h/t Gorehound]
Have a great weekend folks and we’ll deal with the balloons tomorrow.
Interlucational Hot Links
Oh My Lover, The Chiffons (1963) “Throughout rock and roll history, vocal groups have spent entire careers in search of hit bound melodies and captivating lyrics. In the reverse of that equation, the Chiffons garnered their greatest success because a hit song was in search of a group.” That song was not it. Their cover of Tonight’s The Night was.
The Forger [via Mme. Jujujive].
Hubert Sumlin’s guitar lesson.
34,000 year old lunar calendar.
Ribs and corsets [via Memo Of The Air].
US Army Corps of Engineers Cat Calendar.
Precision trucking in Japan [via Bunkerville].
R.I.P. Gerard Vanderleun (1945-2023).
[Top image: Sketch of unknown ANZAC Infantryman by David Barker, Gallipoli, 1915.]
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Saturday Matinee – Glenn Marshall / Fractal Forest, The Ramones, The Brothers Comatose & Sue Foley
AI meets Mandelbrot, and the results are beautiful, serene – and distubing. Computer artistry by Glenn Marshall, based upon a 3D Appolonian fractal animation by Inigo Quilez.
Here’s a palette cleanser. The Ramones.
The Brothers Comatose crank out denim trenchcoat bluegrass.
Think premium leaded Fabulous Thunderbirds with SRV. Sue Foley is an amazing blues rocker out of Austin, Texas.
Got a lot going on these days, and even more to worry about if I really wanted to bother, so maybe I’ll just have fun instead. See you tomorrow.
Fescennine Hot Links
Our Deal, Best Coast (2010) Cool 1960s reverb retro sound. The music vid for the song applied a West Side Story motif, and there’s a Dylan-ish live version here.
Sinkhole [via Bunkerville].
“I said drop it.” [via Mme. Jujujive]
20,000 year old Farmers Almanac?
The World Kitchen Knife Finals [via Memo Of The Air].
In 2007 a deep sea squid was filmed at 1-1/2 miles down. [h/t Paul Y.]
[Top image: Mysteregg jar by Kurimayai given to me by Bunkarina. She said it reminded her of Gord’s Cueball Man.]
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Saturday Matinee – Postmodern Jukebox, MONSTER TAI-RIKU, and Victor Wainwright & The WildRoots
Postmodern Jukebox did a good ‘un with this U2 cover in soul / R&B style featuring Rogelio Douglas, Jr. (2019). No comment on the, um, harmonica solo.
Excellent Buddy Guy cover by MONSTER TAI-RIKU (and that is how to play blues harp). Formed in 2012 and comprised of young session musicians, the band took a leave of absence in March of 2020.
Currently recording as Victor Wainwright & The Train, it’s Dr. John meets Roomful of Blues.
“Victor Wainwright, winner of this year’s Pine Top Perkins Piano Player Award at the BMA’s, is a force to be reckoned with on a piano. He IS honky-tonk and boogie, with a dose of rolling thunder. Wainwright’s playing is simply beautiful madness.” -American Blues Scene
Got some free time to mess around this week, and gonna mess around tomorrow too. See you when you get here.
Maculomancing Hot Links
Ain’t Misbehavin’, Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli (1937) Founded by Grappelli (violin) & Reinhardt (guitar) in 1934, Le Quintette du Hot Club de France included Louis Vola (double bass), Joseph “Nin-Nin” Reinhardt (rhythm guitar) and Roger Chaput (rhythm guitar). Ain’t Misbehavin‘ was co-written and first recorded by Thomas “Fats” Waller in 1929 for the comedy musical Connie’s Hot Chocolates.
More cool woodcuts by Brian Reedy.
“Uber’s arrived, luv.” [via Bunkerville].
Driving on clear ice [via Mme. Jujujive].
The Corvelotubraguar, aka The Daedalus.
Seeing the Digital Future (confusion in 1961).
Making a sea monster [via Memo Of The Air].
Brünnhilde is in the Library of Congress. Twice.
How the CIA weaponized art against the Soviets.
[Top image: Wallmartmuppet found here.]
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Saturday Matinee – Cyriak Harris, Hubert Sumlin & Sunnyland Slim, and Scott H. Biram
Cyriak Harris strikes again with a music video for the band Light.
[via Ms. Cellanea].
Hubert Sumlin & Sunnyland Slim (with Willie Dixon on bass & Clifton James on drums) from The Stars of the 1964 American Folk Blues Festival, a German television program. Sonny Boy Williamson II did the introduction.
Scott H. Biram is a one-man ass-kickin’ rock machine. (Reposted from about ten years ago).
I’m yawning, gotta go, see you back here tomorrow.
Quangocratic Hot Links
Leave Me Alone, Nathaniel Mayer & The Fabulous Twilights (1962)Nathaniel “Nate Dog” Mayer was 18 when he recorded his first (and biggest) hit, Village of Love, in 1962. The members of The Fabulous Twlights are unknown. After a six year stint with Fortune Records, he disappeared into the East Detroit ghettos, only to resurface years later. Apparently he’d had a rough time, too – in 2009 he recorded The Puddle.
Hoghat.
Doghat.
Froghat.
Groghat.
Cool bucket stove.
“Do you know Linda?”
[h/t Danny D.]
THIS is how you peacock.
Turning wine into water.
[via Bunkerville]
“Run Reba! RUN REBA!!!”
[h/t Serafina D.]
How to get arrested. (NSFK, NSFW)
A New Guinea tribe met their first white guy.
Dropping metallic paints and inks into a fishtank.
[via Memo Of The Air]
This sound preservation archive reminded me of Ken Nordine.
[via Mme. Jujujive]
“You got peanut butter on my chocolate…. YOU got Chocolate on MY PEANUT BUTTER….” IT’S ON.
[Top image of a mac-n-cheese-n-dog found somewhere in the Twitter. I’d eat it.]
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Tacky Raccoons 