Category: Music

Farraginous Hot Links

Mama Can I Go Out Tonight, Jo Ann Campbell (1959) Before you roll your eyes, Bo Diddley wrote that song – that’s him on guitar, with King Curtis on tenor sax and Jerome Green on the maracas. It was recorded for her 1959 album I’m Nobody’s Baby. Campbell had a promising career as a dancer when she transitioned to rock and roll. Promoted by Alan Freed (and appearing in his showcase movie Go Johnny Go!) she had a successful recording career, charting hits in the UK as well as the US.

Audi do.

When Worlds Collide Department: The Mastodon home invasion.

This cow.
[via Bunkerville}

Bibi & Fritz.
[via Mme. Jujujive]

Seatbelt safety flaw.
[via Feral Irishman]

The House of Taste.
[via Memo of the Air]

“Stop licking this toad.”
[h/t Suz P.]

One disorienting thing.

The Jimmy Dugan Story.

You get what you pay for.

4th century B.C. cat sculpture.

The Day After The Night Before.

Name 50 States in 17 seconds. Go.

When Worlds Collide: The Mastodon home invasion.

[Top image: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Zhenjiang San Francisco. found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – The Platypus Conspiracy, Messer Chups, Tito & Tarantula and Rory Gallagher

The Platypus [h/t Gord S.]

From St. Petersburg, Russia,  Messer Chups is listed under vampire space zombie surf rock, and their version of the Bondage theme is the best I’ve heard. Recorded at Brin de Zinc (Chambery-France) 2014
Oleg Gitaracula – guitar;  Zombierella – Bass; Rockin Eugene – Drums.

Ten minutes of a bluesy Doors-ish groove. Tito and Tarantula were filmed for an episode of Texas Roadhouse Live (hosted by Kinky Friedman) in 2010. Tito Larriva played Radio Head in the movie TRUE Stories (1986) and was a founding member of The Plugz.

Rory Gallagher slides all over the place at the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1977. Five years earlier he was crowned International Guitarist of the Year. He died in 1995 at the age of 47, from liver failure caused by prescription drugs; his grave marker is a replica of the award.

That’ll do for now. Have a great weekend, see you back here sometime tomorrow.

Adynatonal Hot Links

Go! Go! Go!, The Coconut Monkeyrocket (2010) Uptempo electrokitsch surf rock /cartoon funk. Gotta slip it into the Christmas mix.

Prothesis.

Twiter [sic].

Punch Clock.

Worth doing.

Deadly hypnosis.

PAY ATTENTION.

Talivara pumpkins.

How asparagus grows.

Forgive and forget? Nah.

Pineapples. [h/t Bunkerville]

Kwang Toong! With oyster sauce! [h/t Memo of the Air]

[Top image: Gillian Anderson found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Mario Wienerroither, The Reverend Peyton’s Bid Damn Band, and Johnny Winter w/ Edgar Winter & Rick Derringer

#klangberlins: Konzerthausorchester Berlin pays tribute their city.

Mario Wienerroither‘s (mostly) unplugged Rolling Stones. [h/t Pam M.]

It’s hard to tell, when the devils look like angels and angels look like hell.
The Reverend Peyton’s Bid Damn Band has an appropriate message for the upcoming elections. 

Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer, Rockpalast 2007.

I have big plans to sleep in tomorrow, but stop by anyway and help yourself to the cooler on the porch. I’ll be out soon enough and we’ll do stuff.

¡Feliz Día de Los Muertos!


Pillco Canto Ritual (Bolivia), Los Folkloristas (2014)

[Source images here and here. More in the Día de Los Muertos Archive.]

Nictitating Hot Links

Jungle, The Nite Cats (1962) No information about this group, but the song is suitable for Halloween ambient neighborhood music. The Nite Cats recorded this wonder on the CPM (Consolidated Music Publishing) Records label, and it appears in several “jungle rock” compilations. The flip side of the 45rpm is Skip School Flu.

A Prayer.

踊ってみた

Dog gets it.

Reeperbahn.

Biddy Boys 1972.

Do the monster mask.
[h/t Mme. Jujujive]

Funeral greeting cards.

Halloween Safety (1977).

Someone ran over a bird.

Throat singer on the intercom.

“A day in the life of a Twitter employee” is NOT a parody.
[h/t Bunkerville]

[Top image: No idea what that’s all about but I like it. Might be a still shot from a Netflix series that I haven’t watched. Found here. h/t Charlene.]

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Saturday Matinee Halloween Edition – Rebooted, David Lynch, Tom Waits & Alabama Black Snakes

“It’s not easy for a movie-star to age – especially when you’re a stop motion animated skeleton monster. Phil, once a terrifying villain of the silver-screen, struggles to find work in modern Hollywood due to being an out-of-date special effect.”

Article with “the making of” video here.

David Lynch does the creepo.

Who needs Halloween music when you got Tom Waits.  Little kids wouldn’t come near our house once they got within earshot of Bone Machine.

Alabama Black Snakes fit in with the theme.

Gonna be some pumpkin sacrificin’ around here, even if Halloween comes on a Monday this year. Have a good one, see you tomorrow.

Castrametational Hot Links

Safe European Home, The Clash (1978) The song is about a trip to Jamaica gone wrong, hence the lyrics “I went to the place where every white face is an invitation to robbery.”

Singer Joe Strummer and guitarist Mick Jones were sent to Jamaica for two weeks in December 1977 to write songs for their upcoming second album. “We must’ve looked like a strange pair to the locals… I’m surprised we weren’t filleted and served on a plate of chips” noted Jones. “We went down to the docks and I think we only survived because they mistook us for sailors.” 

Sound up.

Noah’s Ark.

Getter done.
[h/t Bunkerville]

Bollards never give up.

Age-appropriate chores.

Kitty’s birthday surprise.

Louie’s going down tonight.

Cars designed to be trashed.
[h/t Mme. Jujujive]

Baby elephants and their trunks.

Biblical angels were scary. More about them here.

[Top image: Belgian goat with Doppelbock found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Felix Semper, The Two Man Gentlemen Band, Batmobile & Hillbilly Moon Explosion

Felix Semper‘s paper sculptures are trippy as all heck, and the reason for it is even better. [h/t Suz P.]

Andy Bean & Fuller Condon, aka The Two Man Gentlemen Band, got some damn hot licks for having such clean hands.

Batmobile was founded in 1983:
After several months of covering Elvis Presley, Johnny Burnette en Gene Vincent songs, Jeroen Haamers (vocals/guitar), Johnny Zuidhof (drums) and Eric Haamers (double bass) decide to start writing their own material.
Best part happens at 1:17.

Hillbilly Moon Explosion is done with that truck but keeps driving anyway.

Okay, that’s it for now, gotta save something for then. See you tomorrow.

Vapulatorial Hot Links

Stormy Weather, The Spaniels (1958) Pookie Hudson & The Hudsonaires formed in 1952 at Roosevelt High School, Gary, Indiana. The following year they scored a top 10 hit with  Baby It’s You. as the Spaniels. Two years later they recorded their classic Good Night  Sweetheart, Goodnight and became one of the most successful R&B groups of their time.

And Darwin giggled.

Nature can be brutal.

Dishbrain plays Pong.

About biting the hand…

Hand of God – Belgrade.

The House of Doodle [via Mme. Jujujive].

Another contender for the IDGAF Award.
[h/t Bunkerville]

Hands around the world [via Memo of the Air].

[Top image: Russian photoshoot for photoshop found in here.]

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