Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James, WTBS-FM, Cambridge, MA, October 1964
Very casual but very amazing broadcast featuring these two American heroes, shortly after they were “rediscovered.” Must’ve been a fairly bizarre experience for them, after having been ignored for 30+ years, to suddenly be on the radio, interviewed by fawning fans. James, in particular, seems to be taking it all in a stride, though — as if he expected it to happen all along. Al Wilson, later of Canned Heat, pops up too. A very worthwhile listen via Midnight Cafe.
MONOSHOCK and LIQUOR BALL, live at San Francisco’s Chameleon around ‘93 or so. The Mummies had to cancel for some long-forgotten reason.
I’ve been in a giving mood this week. First there was this FLESH EATERS tape. Then I bestowed upon you this 1976 PERE UBU tape. Then I gave you the blessed gift of my podcast/radio show. Now I would like to present you with a top-dog live tape of THE LAZY COWGIRLS, playing at Maxwell’s in Hoboken NJ on November 5th, 1988.
I wasn’t there, but this was in the era in which I saw every one of the band’s west coast shows. They were hitting especially high gear around this time, after they’d put out “Third Time’s the Charm” but before “How It Looks, How It Is”. The Cowgirls were such a juggernaut of a live band. I’m not sure how well it translates for people now; I’ll always be tainted by memory and by the formative nature of the years in which I saw them play a couple dozen times.
Anyway, I want you to hear it, for it is good.
Download THE LAZY COWGIRLS – live at Maxwell’s; Hoboken NJ 11-5-88
From the KCSB-FM “Live Wire” magazine, circa 1988. My first band. Picture taken at 6639 Sabado Tarde in Isla Vista, aka my garage.
I spent the better part of a quiet Tuesday evening holed up in a room creating the mix you can now download here – DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO PODCAST, Edition #13. I’ve been putting these together about every two weeks or so for the past five months, but if this is your first one, well – welcome to the show. I play songs I like, play-act at being a “DJ”, mix-n-match songs on my Mac, talk into a computer, and generally try to keep all the shows to about an hour. You can download all 12 of the past editions here.
This one’s got new stuff from RAW PRAWN, THE DELPHINES, CANDY HIGHWAY, SOCK PUPPETS and COLLEEN GREEN, along with super sub-underground weirdness, punk, garage, pop & more from The Moodists, Electric Eels, Icky Boyfriends, The Fall, Solger, Crash Course In Science and a bunch of other winners.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio Podcast #13
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Track listing:
ASBEST – Family Care
THE DELPHINES – ‘71
RTFO BANDWAGON – New Jack
INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FORCE – Over The Credit Line
ELECTRIC EELS – You Crummy Fags
COLLEEN GREEN – You’re So Cool
THE URINALS – I’m White and Middle Class
HANDGRENADES – Demo To London
SALLY SKULL – Bride of Frankenstein
DESPERATE BICYCLES – The Medium Was Tedium
CANDY HIGHWAY – Mad Glad
SOLGER – American Youth
RAW PRAWN – Wrong Place Wrong Time
HIGH TENSION WIRES – High Note
THE STITCHES – Cars of Today
ICKY BOYFRIENDS – Pay N Pak
LOLI & THE CHONES – Nazi Death Camp
VICIOUS VISIONS – I Beat You
SOCK PUPPETS – Hey Honey
CRASH COURSE IN SCIENCE – Kitchen Motors
SCORCHED EARTH POLICY – Too Far Gone
THE MOODISTS – The Disciples Know
THE FALL – I’m Into CB
PERE UBU certainly haven’t shied away from putting their archival material online, and there are some fantastic sets available for you to purchase here. I’ve had this tape for many years of their May 5th, 1976 show at The Mistake in Cleveland, Ohio – and it looks to me like it’s not something available online anywhere else.
If you believe this page, it may have only been their 7th show ever. Another recording from a month earlier at the exact same venue came out as the CD “The Shape of Things” – and it’s tremendous. As is this. It’s early, raw, primal Ubu inventing a blend of punk rock and modern art never before or since seen. Enjoy.
Download PERE UBU – Live at The Mistake, Cleveland, 5-5-76
Track Listing:
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Check out this sloppy spirit-of-‘78 punk rock from Minneapolis’ THE SLEAZE, released on a new 12" on – that’s right – “Total Punk” Records (!).
Outstanding CRIME-like guitar, mushmouth vocals and a lackadaisical aimlessness that stands far above the punk rock pack in 2013.
With the express written consent of Byron Coley and Chris D, I’m posting an outstanding, well-recorded 45 minutes of THE FLESH EATERS, practicing new and recent songs in 1983, right before they broke up. I’ve had this on tape for a number of years, and it’s a not only a ripping set of “heavy punk thunder from the lake of burning fire” (to coin a phrase), it’s a fascinating look into what the band might have evolved into had they continued. As it was, they’d hit their proverbial limits, and shortly after this, Chris D put together his acoustic “Time Stands Still” album before getting a full-blown band together again with his wife Julie Christensen, THE DIVINE HORSEMEN.
After a few well-oiled, blowout “Hard Road To Follow” numbers (their album which had come out earlier that year), you get to hear sketches of songs Chris later put out with other bands, like “All I Have” with Stone By Stone, and “Love Call” & “Stone By Stone” with The Divine Horsemen. Fantastic stuff. Download it and share your Flesh Eaters stories in the comments – because, alas, I never saw ‘em until they’d started up again seven years later.
Download THE FLESH EATERS – PRACTICE TAPE, 1983
Tracks:
1. Every Time I Call Your Name
2. Buried Treasure
3. Poison Arrow
4. Hard Road To Follow
5. Father of Lies
6. Louie Louie
7. All I Have
8. Down In The Ditch
9. Stone By Stone
10. Love Call
AGONY SHORTHAND 