What is hip? Tokyo Groove Jyoshi is. They’re a groove band formed in 2018 by three session musicians:
Juna Serita – Bass
Emi Kanazashi – Keyboard
Yuriko Seki – Drums
w/ Shinobu Kawashima – Shamisen
[h/t Feral Irishman]
Blind Boy Fuller‘s Step It Up and Go (1940) as covered by blues roots historian Edward Phillips.
New York retro-rockers The Raunch Hands were underrated and overrated at the same time. [h/t Gord S.]
Hope you have a wet weekend and we’ll check the rain gauge tomorrow.
Freddie’s Boogie, Freddie Mitchell And His Orchestra (1953) Saxophonist Freddie Mitchell was among other things “a session musician and bandleader for multi-artist rock shows held by Alan Freed. Mitchell had previously recorded Moondog Boogie named in honor of the disc jockey and the two of them appeared together in the 1956 film Rock, Rock, Rock.”
Rock, Rock, Rock was the first video cassette tape I ever bought; spotted it in a bargain bin for a couple bucks. My next purchase was a video player.
Icecoasters [via Mme. Jujujive].
The Celtic sport of ferret legging.
R.I.P. Wayne Shorter (1933-2023).
Um, better stay out of Earl Orkin’s room.
The angels’ share and the devil’s fungus.
This cheeseburger costs over $21 per ounce.
Czar Peter the Great, Amateur Dental Surgeon.
[via Memo Of The Air]
Meerkats. Cutsey little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.
[h/t Bunkerville]
[Top image: Mao money mockery found here.]
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All I Need Tonight (Is You), Gentleman Jesse & His Men (2019) Live at Fuzzville #5, L’Albir, Valencia, Spain. 1970s garage punk for the ears of today.
Up the turbine via Bunkerville.
George and Mabel (The Real Story).
Invasions de Ballons via Mme. Jujujive.
Nobudtaka Aozaki made a map h/t Gord S.
One-room roller coaster via Memo Of The Air.
A simple request: A friend posted this video on Youtube. You don’t have to watch it, just click the like button. That’s it. 😀
[Top image: Spotted in Puerto Rico and captioned here.]
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From St. Petersburg, Russia, Messer Chups is listed under vampire space zombie surf rock.
Oleg Gitaracula – guitar
Zombierella – Bass
Rockin Eugene – Drums
Kevin Ayers with Ollie Halsall, 1981 Barcelona. Nice groove, too bad he had to sing. British rock journalist Nick Kent once wrote: “Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett were the two most important people in British pop music. Everything that came after came from them.”
Idiot Wind is a Bob Dylan classic, pretty much my favorite, and it doesn’t have to do with weather, even though it’s blowing like hell around these parts.
That’ll do for now. See you tomorrow if we don’t get blown away.
Bourbon Street Parade, Al Hirt (1993)
Here’s some more Fat Tuesday stuff. Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Cadillac Boogie, Jimmy Liggins and his Drops of Joy (1947) Precurser to (and influence of) Jackie Brenston’s Rocket 88 (1951).
Jimmy Liggins – guitar & vocals
Charlie “Little Jazz” Ferguson, Harold Land – tenor sax
James Dedmon – alto sax
Glen Willis – trumpet
Eugene Watson – piano
Jonathan Bagsby – bass
Leon Petties – drums
1997 interview with Buddy Guy.
Bags of Wonder [via Mme. Jujujive].
The Endless Zip-Line [via Bunkerville].
The GREATEST bollard soundtrack in history.
Just another fat and blushing girl from Chelsea.
[via Memo Of The Air]
Hydraulic Press Channel is a fine collection of things being destroyed with a hydraulic press.
[Top image: Economy anti-scratch collar found here, via Feral Irishman.]
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Farr Away Blues, The Farr Brothers (1947) Texans Hugh & Carl Farr were both performing before they were in the double digits of age. They were the most influential fiddle-and-guitar duo in the history of country & western music, and were long-time members of The Sons of the Pioneers. More about the Farr Brothers here (.pdf download).
Lil’ Wally [via Memo Of The Air]
Pet parrot left home and learned Spanish.
Resurrecting the Photobooth [via Mme. Jujujive].
Someone doesn’t want amish the game [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: NFL logos for Philadelphia Eagles (1933) & Kansas City Chiefs (1963).
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ZeFrank educates because it’s what he does, behbeh.
Yoann and Marie Bourgeois – The One Who Falls
Performances presented on October 22, 2022 on the occasion of the pre-opening of Hangar Y, the new cultural and event center of the city of Meudon.
Amazing dance / performing artists [h/t Memo Of The Air].
Walter’s Blues (1967).
Little Walter – Harp
Hound Dog Taylor – Guitar
Dillard Crume – Bass
Odie Payne – Drums
Straight Outta Loveland:
GA-20 covers Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers. Great authentic electric blues with respect, these guys ain’t posers.
Lotsa stuff to do: stuff that I need to do, stuff that I probably oughta do, and stuff that’s a total waste of time. Seems I’m doing a lot of the third type of stuff these days, but at least it’s fun. Have a Superbowl weekend, and we’ll be back tomorrow. For stuff.
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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Tacky Raccoons 