Mance Lipscomb & Lightnin' Hopkins

Performances originally recorded for the Seattle Folk Society in the late '60s.

Texas guitarists Mance Lipscomb and Lightning Hopkins share another tape. Lipscomb was a songster; he did rags, polkas, and vaudeville numbers as well as blues. Despite a heavily bandaged picking-hand finger and some 70 years of age, he turns out an easy-flowing set of nine tunes, in a rolling fingerpicking style. He plays to the audience, mixing anecdotes and music is a nice rapport. Lightning Hopkins has charisma of a different sort. A full-time bluesman/traveler, he's smooth and dapper is shades and turtleneck, capable of charming juke joint and white college audience alike. He melds simple, rocking guitar with an expressively plaintive voice to move and groove you, as on his Top-40 hit, "Mojo Hand." Though an expressive head shake at song's end causes him to lose his upper plate, his dignity remains intact. Hopkins was an ingratiating boogie stylist, but he could communicate matters of the soul as well. He wasn't a guitar wizard, but he didn't need to be - his personality makes you watch him. Yazoo Records

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The Peel Sessions (1989)

Put it this way; I used to listen to this cassette on mornings I had to get up at the asscrack of dawn to go to work at a job I hated, and it woke my sleepy ass up faster than caffeine ever did. Within the first few blasts of noise, I mean songs, yet. And I mean blasts of noise in the best possible way, as this is grind at its purest and most undiluted. The late, great John Peel somehow managed to capture the rawest of the raw in aural form, as this album sounds like it was recorded in a garage, with trashy drums, ultra-grungy downtuned guitar and obscenely fuzzed-out bass, and Lee Dorrian's vokills right in your ear like he's screaming and roaring right next to you. And it is a brilliant representation of what Napalm were about "back in the day".

From blasts of sound only a few seconds long to (slightly) more coherent attempts at songs, alll the great classic ND stuff is here on display; "The Kill", "Lucid Fariytale", "Instinct of Survival" (featuring Mickey's most deranged whirlwind screams ever), their choice cover of Siege's "Walls", "Deceiver" (which blatantly rips off the intro riff of Repulsion's "The Stench of Burning Flesh") , it is all here, all good, and all GRIND. Lee sounds like he's demonically possessed here on every tune (he has never done it for me in Cathedral, I have to say, after hearing all this especially), and Mickey's trademark bloodcurdling "whirlwind screams" will make you cringe in terror.

Many (if not most) of these songs sound alike, but at this insanely, impossibly high level of energy and intensity who cares? And this album WILL get your blood rushing, your heart pounding, and you ecstatically screaming your head off every second of the roughest ride you will *ever* experience. Who cares if you can't understand a word they're saying, this is the best representation of ND you will get at their noisiest and most sense-obliterating and cardiac-arrest-inducing before they toned it down a little in favor of a more metal-influenced direction musically. Get this and know what true devastation is. Metal Archives



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California Roll

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Here's a little (now) historical gem I've been carrying around on VHS for 18 years. After rediscovering it in a long lost box, I've digitized it so the whole world can enjoy.

Originally broadcast on public cable access, I caught part of the show late one night in June 1995 and was inspired enough by what I saw to email the station requesting a rebroadcast. This recording was a result of that email -- my own personal rebroadcast and instructions per the station to "set your VCR."

California Roll
Fresh Stand-Up Comedy at Maplewood Community Center
June 15, 1995

Featuring:
Mitch Hedberg
Brian Malow
Chard Hogan
Doug Stanhope

The audible buzzing during parts of Mitch Hedberg's set is an artifact of the old VHS tape. It only happens on certain camera angles where his shirt creates a moiré effect. Thankfully, most of the show doesn't have this audio glitch.

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Mitch Hedberg's movie - Los Enchiladas! [wiki]

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Filmed predominately at the Jemaa Al Fna in Marrakesh Morocco, 'Musical Brotherhoods of the Trans-Saharan Highway' captures an assortment of spectacular musical dramas presented live and unfiltered on the home turf of the world's most dynamic string and drum specialists performing and manifesting the ecstatic truth. Ancient mystical brotherhoods have been flourishing for centuries in and around the cities of Marrakesh and Essaouira in Morocco where the trade caravans have gathered from their long journeys across the Trans-Saharan Highway. This is some of the last great street music on Earth. A must see for string aficionados looking for inspiration as electric ouds, banjos, mandolins and the Gnawa sentir peel flesh from bone right before your eyes!

MONKEYBITE

In regards to the post below, if you like hardcore, grindcore or powerviolence you'd be a fool to bypass Monkeybite zine, this first issue was a beast and so were the others!!

Monkeybite #1

Monkeybite #2

Monkeybite #3

CxA live Flexidisc 8" (Rebound Records, 1990)...

Their bio:
CITIZENS ARREST was a Hardcore band from New York that existed during the late 80's / early 1990's. The band members all met and grew up in the old NYHC CBGBS scene eventually ending up as a band on the lower east side at Abc No Rio. We played tons of shows, kicked ass, recorded a demo, 7" ep and a full length album. Unfortunately the band split up for good due to musical differences but the legend of CXA remains. Members of Citizens Arrest went on to other bands like Taste of Fear, , One Sided War, Funebrarum, Forced Expression, Hell No, Moses etc.... KEEP HARDCORE PUNK ALIVE!

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Also go read an interview with CxA in this zine from 1989, In Memory Of #4

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if you fancy it, read this mammoth interview on New York Hardcore 1986-1993 (featuring Daryl Kahan of Citizens Arrest)

The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988-1989)

10 part series originally made for Polish television... one-hour dramatizations loosely based on the Ten Commandments. In either dosage, Mr. Kieślowski's ambitious fresco offers a profound vision of human fallibility. Each film is a self-contained whole, but because of the interlocking structure major characters from one episode pop up in the background of others. The films are further linked by locale (all take place in the same Warsaw apartment complex); a haunting score by the composer Zbigniew Preisner; and an unnamed young man who appears silently, momentarily and inexplicably in each episode.

A good description of The Decalogue is it’s a larger examination of smaller unsolved issues we all carry around in ourselves. Most of the problems could have been avoided if the character's had made different decisions. Kieslowski gives cinematic voice to ethical problems in a way perhaps that no other director has. The Decalogue series debates with itself, a discussion of fundamental life issues, which only ideologists and moralists have bow-tied solutions for, but which people in general can agree on are extremely complicated dilemmas.



"It comes from a deep-rooted conviction that if there is anything worthwhile doing for the sake of culture, then it is touching on subject matters and situations which link people, and not those that divide people. There are too many things in the world which divide people, such as religion, politics, history, and nationalism. If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all. And there are so many things which unite people. It doesn't matter who you are or who I am, if your tooth aches or mine, it's still the same pain. Feelings are what link people together, because the word 'love' has the same meaning for everybody. Or 'fear', or 'suffering'. We all fear the same way and the same things. And we all love in the same way. That's why I tell about these things, because in all other things I immediately find division." Krzysztof Kieślowski

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SONIC YOUTH - GILA MONSTER JAMBOREE (1985)

This was a concert video released thru Sonic Death, filmed on January 5th, 1985 in the Mojave Desert. This was SY's first west coast excursion, and one of the first shows performing the Bad Moon Rising material. It was filmed on 2 cameras by a couple guys from Flipside. It's actually not quite the entire show -- "Ghost Bitch" is missing between "I Love Her All The Time" and "I'm Insane" (you can see Lee w/ the acoustic guitar momentarily).



Lee's write-up:
GILA MONSTER JAMBOREE: This gig, January 5, 1985, 100 miles out into the Mojave Desert, was our first "L.A." gig, first time we'd played on the west coast, part of an airplane tour from Seattle on south. That picture of us "in the back of a Chevy" on the Death Valley '69 12-inch is also from this trip. The gig was organized by one Stuart Sweezy, now of Amok Press (check it out!), who had this penchant for strange locations -- Minutemen and Meat Puppets on a barge on the S.F. Harbor, another desert gig with Einsterzende Neubauten... your ticket entitled you to a map to the gig site which was not handed out until the morning of the show (to prevent scans). Else you could buy a place on one of the buses hired to transport those transported souls with better things to do than cope with the road. The gig started early in the day with Psi-Com, which featured a barefoot Perry Farrell skanking in the sand and waxing poetic. Redd Kross followed, and by the time we went on it was about twilight. These songs were mostly brand new at the time, from the as-yet unreleased Bad Moon Rising LP. We'd waited a long time to make it west, and this was a pretty perfect introduction. Bob Bert was on the drums with us at the time. The cover photo, by someone named Alan Peak, all trails and blurr, sums up the occasion quite well. Band portrait by Naomi Petersen. This video was shot by the folks at Flipside Magazine. After us came the Meat Puppets, who played on into the night as the desert cold set in, under a big ring around the moon.

Peace! LR*

1. Brother James
2. Kill Yr Idols
3. Brave Men Run
4. Death Valley '69
5. I Love Her All The Time
6. I'm Insane
7. Flower
8. Burning Spear

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Re-post: THE SHOUT (1978)

The Shout is a 1978 British film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, based on a short story by Robert Graves which was adapted for the screen by Michael Austin. Starring Alan Bates as a mysterious travelling man who invades the lives of a young couple, played by Susannah York and John Hurt. Hurt is a composer, who experiments with sound effects and various electronic sources in his secluded Devon studio. The couple provides hospitality to Bates, but his intentions are gradually revealed as more and more sinister. He claims he has learned from an Aboriginal shaman how to produce a "terror shout" that can kill anyone who hears it unprotected.

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Edgar Froese - Sobornost (1981)

BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie (1988)

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Aaron Kenyon on the origins of West Coast Power Violence



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Trans Siberian Railway (2007)

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An unseen gem from the past! All aboard an abstract ride of culture, comradere, and skateboarding. Take a ride with Kenny Reed, Keegan Sauder, Jack Sabback, and Van Wastell as they travel through the heart of Europe and Asia by train. Film by Michael J. Fox and Brian DeGraw. Dedicated to Van Wastell.

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NEGATIVE APPROACH (1982)

Why Be Something You're Not was a public access show run by punks in Detroit on cable TV. There were two known episodes filmed, the first featuring interviews and performances by the Necros, Negative Approach, and The Displaced, and the second with interviews and performances by the Crucifucks, Fate Unknown, and the Misfits. Negative Approach do a fucking great set with material from the EP and LP plus a few unreleased songs.

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Jack The Tab/Tekno Acid Beat (1990)

Jack The Tab/Tekno Acid Beat is an album of material by Psychic TV released under the guise of a various artists compilation album.

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Empire of Noise

Documentary based on the book Jamming (written by Pleikys in 2006), tells the story about the practice and political importance of radio jamming in the 20th century. Based on archival research and sources from various archives in many Eastern European countries, the film traces the technology and various forms of radio jamming as an instrument of political and ideological warfare in Cold War Europe.

Roky Erickson

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Intro to Big Black's The Last Blast (1987)


Interview from 1982


A Hope to Live (1990)

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Children Underground

This modern tale ventures below the streets of Bucharest, Romania, to introduce us to five members of a "family" of orphaned, abandoned or runaway children living in the Piata Victoriei subway station. Ranging in age from nine to the mid-teens, the children beg and steal to buy food and Aurolac, which they sniff to get high. ...more

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The first discovered footage of Robbie Basho live

"Cathedrals Et Fleur De Lis" and "Kowaka De'amour" on KQED TV (1971)

Thanks to Robbiebasho.com and Bernard for uploading to youtube!