I never cottoned all that much to the solo stuff from HOLLY GOLIGHTLY, but this track “I Can’t Be Trusted”, which originally came out in 1996 on Super Electro Records, is a real scorcher. A swirling psych-fuzz pounder of the highest order.
First issue of a Patti Smith Group fanzine, devoted to her bootleg recordings & other ephemera, called ANOTHER DIMENSION.
Hey folks, sorry it’s been a week since my last outbound communication. I was fortunate enough to have been in London this past week, and even more fortunate to have found time to wandered to the SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE record store in Soho.
This is the store affiliated with the Soul Jazz record label, responsible for helping to popularize a crate-digging aesthetic centered around diverse genres like dub reggae, 60s soundtracks, worldwide psych, postpunk, no wave and experimental trippiness from the 60s & 70s. I got caught up in the moment, and bought “Khana! Khana”. billed as “funk, psychedelia and pop from the Iranian pre revolution generation”; and “Psych Funk Sa-Re-Ga!”. a compilation of Indian psychedelia funk music from India, circa 1970-83.
It’s not hard to lose yourself in their world at this tiny store. It’s packed with things you’ve absolutely never seen before. I’ll post a full report on my findings from these two discs once I actually listen to them. I’ll give them a 50/50 chance of still being in my collection three years from now.
Louder, Faster, Shorter
Video comp put out by Search & Destroy featuring
UXA
Dils
Avengers
Sleepers
Mutants
A classic. Check out the drive into 1978 San Francisco that starts this out, featuring the long-gone waterfront freeway.
Whoa – look at Jeff McDonald there on the left. Little Opie Cunningham!
Remember when we were talking about Chris D.’s STONE BY STONE the other day? Check out this June 24th, 1989 show in LA, and the band order. I moved out of Southern California back to San Francisco the week before this, where I continue to live to this day, but you best believe I would have been at this show had it been two weeks earlier.
Later that summer I saw Nirvana third on a bill, before Vomit Launch and Mudhoney, in San Jose. As it turned out, posterity will record the best band on this LA bill as being Claw Hammer, totally at their peak in mid-year ‘89.
(Flyer photo courtesy Chris Bagarozzi of Claw Hammer)
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I don’t know a ton about LORETTE VELVETTE – frankly I barely know anything about Tav Falco & Panther Burns, with whom she’s played – but I do know that her cover of Bowie’s “Boys Keep Swinging” from 2000 is better than the original. It hits like a ton of over modulated bricks from the start, and keeps hitting while remaining a pretty faithful interpretation of the original (one of the dozen or so Bowie songs I truly dig).
It’s from an album called “Rude Angel”. I heard the rest of that album around that time and reckoned that this was the only one worth holding onto.
This is a smoking early piece of Texas punk in the “KBD” style from a lost band called BOY PROBLEMS. I found it on a 7” bootleg comp I bought many years ago called “Sacred Cattle”, and if you believe what you read here, the track is not even called “Participation” at all, but rather “Precipitation”.
I’d date it at about 1979 or 1980, tops. What do you think?
77 or 78. the band featured future members of huns and inserts, the former of which had a record out by 79. i don’t think either band formed until after boy problems were done
i know the ncm song was 81. i actually have a pdf somewhere with every ncm song and when/where they were recorded. there were a total of 20 or so, including alt-takes of some of the songs from the singles
This is a smoking early piece of Texas punk in the “KBD” style from a lost band called BOY PROBLEMS. I found it on a 7" bootleg comp I bought many years ago called “Sacred Cattle”, and if you believe what you read here, the track is not even called “Participation” at all, but rather “Precipitation”.
I’d date it at about 1979 or 1980, tops. What do you think?
AGONY SHORTHAND 