Category: Retro & Vintage

Saturday Matinee – Маричка, Lucero, Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones

“Blaxploitation style soviet funk! Фрагмент из музыкального фильма Софии Ротару – Песня всегда с нами 1975 года.”
Hit teh goggle translate. [via]

Lucero‘s “I Want Your Love.” Ben Nichols & Company rocks at the Memphis  Sun Studios in 2012. Jump to 1:10 for the good stuff. There’s a lot of influences in that song, something for everybody, and it reminded me of The Blasters.

Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones “Harlan County Line” is pure badass grinding blues, and it’s just what’s needed to wrap up this episode of The Saturday Matinee.

Have a great weekend, folks and don’t sweat the weather. We’re working on it.

300 A.D. Roman Swiss Army Knife

GR.1.1991

Yeah, you think I’m kidding. Check it out.

Hotlinks LIVE In Arturo’s Loft

Ramones 1975

Urban graffiti sculpture.

Awesome balancing act: Gravity Glue.

“As we gazed into each other’s eyes, Athena encircled my arms with hers, latching on with first dozens, then hundreds of her sensitive, dexterous suckers…. Athena’s suckers felt like an alien’s kiss—at once a probe and a caress.”

Dogs on Skype.

Thomas Sowell Dismantles Racialism and Feminism in under 5 Minutes. (ca. 1979)

Beer can pinhole camera with 6-month-long exposure photo.

The horse is approaching the gate. And it’s off…

40 years in the taiga wilderness.

The Amazing True Odyssey of the Paskowitz Family.

Story time: The background of  “Never Mind The Bollocks” the Sex Pistols’ debut album from 1977.

Top image: Early Ramones, live in Arturo’s loft 1975.

1931 Ford Model A 6-Wheel Snow/Mud Track Coupe

1931 Model A Snowcar 3

1931 Model A Snowcar 1

1931 Model A Snowcar 2

1931 Model A Snowcar 4

Images found here via here. Bottom image, with the snow skids mounted but without the additional spot lights, is from an Ebay advert. Video here.

BRAAAAAINS

LLLLLLAAAAAAA

[Found here.]

Opportunist WIN

Opportunist WIN

Dorothy’s talking out her arse again. What a crackup. While the others moved on down the Yellow Brick Road, she was always just a little behind.

[Found here. Speaking of hindsight, related posts here, here and here.]

Saturday Matinee – Pete Candoli & Red Nichols & Al Hirt; Scott Biram, B.B. Chung King and Leon Redbone

Red Nichols, Pete Candoli & Al Hirt playing “Hot Lips.”
If that video wasn’t so entirely bitchin’ we’d never have posted it – Every decent link on the U-Toobage we found had “embedding disabled.” Some anusbrain copyright jerks don’t understand the concept of free advertisement. Let’s move on.

Scott Biram is a one-man ass-kickin’ rock machine.

“Mumbo Jumbo” by B.B. Chung King & The Screaming Buddaheads 2007. The Tail Gators did a song by the same name in 1988.

Here’s some fun etymology: In Japanese American slang, a “Buddahead” used to mean a Japanese American from Hawaii (h/t Osprey 1) and “Mumbo Jumbo” (Mandingo, West African in origin) was a bugbear who appeared at night to resolve marital disputes. Mumbo Jumbo was not nice. He’d beat the crap out of wives who disobeyed their husbands.

Let’s lighten it up a bit. Here’s Leon Redbone, one of the few folks I can think of (besides you, of course) who is welcome at my doorstep any time.

That’s it for this episode of The Saturday Matinee. Have a great weekend and be back tomorrow for more nonsensical oddities.

Meet The Flintstones

Fred & Wilma Flintstone

That looks like a young Tommy Chong to me. The one on the right, I mean…

[Found here.]

The Hampers

The Castro Sisters

Okay, that’s not the name of the trio, but that was the first name that came to mind when I saw the album cover.  Looks can be deceiving when we’re talking about crappy album covers. These lovely ladies are The De Castro Sisters, and you can hear them rocking out here.

[Found here.]

Rockin’ Wanda

Rockin' With Wanda

“A collection of great country songs in the rhythmic singing style of WANDA JACKSON.” I thought it might be a ripoff record of Wanda Jackson covers due to the subtitle. Apparently not. This was her 2nd album, recorded in 1960, and she was featured on yesterday’s Saturday Matinee as well.

[Found here.]