Bob, seemingly, finds himself in some sort of Kafkaesque cold-war nightmare, being chased through the streets of a cold Moscow with a case full of roosky nuclear secrets ... or yankee candy bars.
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Friday, 9 September 2016
Moments In Time - Cold War Blues
Bob, seemingly, finds himself in some sort of Kafkaesque cold-war nightmare, being chased through the streets of a cold Moscow with a case full of roosky nuclear secrets ... or yankee candy bars.
Monday, 5 September 2016
Moments In Time - Nights of the Round Table
Bob & Sara Dylan Chill With Mason Hoffenberg & John Sebastian
Sunday, 4 September 2016
The Song - Primal Scream's “Velocity Girl”
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splendour in silver dress; velocity possessed ...
Here's a nascent Scream with the beautiful bijou lead track on the seminal C86 tape - a compilation of jangly guitar-based indie (featuring important bands like the Scream, Pastels, The Wedding Present, The Soup Dragons, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Half Man Half Biscuit, The Servants etc.) released by NME Magazine; one that became so influential that its title became synonymous with an entire musical genre.
Velocity Girl", was originally the b-side to the 1986 single "Crystal Crescent". It later appeared on the wonderful 2004 collection of rarities and B-sides, "Shoot Speed – More Dirty Hits."
Being included on the now legendary C86 compilation - which led to their being associated with the scene of the same name - didn't exactly please Bobby Gillespie, who hated many/most of the bands in that milieu; a scene as described by Gillespie in an Uncut magazine interview as containing bands who "can't play their instruments and ... can't write songs"!
Being included on the now legendary C86 compilation - which led to their being associated with the scene of the same name - didn't exactly please Bobby Gillespie, who hated many/most of the bands in that milieu; a scene as described by Gillespie in an Uncut magazine interview as containing bands who "can't play their instruments and ... can't write songs"!
Influenced by ill-fated socialite / actress Edie Sedgwick - who got truly mangled by the machine and Warhol's fucked-up Factory freakshow - it's a gorgeous and restrained (especially by later Scream standards) dark meditation on drug addiction.
With a delicious jangly melody, its' a short-sharp-shock song about "velocity" - which, as well as obviously referring to speed, also - more broadly - seems to refer to that all so temporary state of being high; feeling elated and forgetting the pain for those very few moments when "the world was her's again" ... but, of course, all too soon, "it fell apart again."
Opening with a nod to the Velvets' "Femme Fatale" (a sublime song, again about Sedgwick) with the seminal lines "here she comes again", the song reflects upon Edie's lifestyle (addicted to speed, and heavier stuff, and, at all other times, seemingly hanging on to a drink and a cigarette) ... a girl "with vodka in her veins ... playing with a spike."
Though such "splendour in silver dress", she was soon deserted by her so-called friends (including, allegedly, Bob Dylan, with whom she was romantically involved in the period just before his marriage to Sara) and doomed to early death ... "my so-called friends have left me and I don't care at all."
Though such "splendour in silver dress", she was soon deserted by her so-called friends (including, allegedly, Bob Dylan, with whom she was romantically involved in the period just before his marriage to Sara) and doomed to early death ... "my so-called friends have left me and I don't care at all."
Art of the Cover - Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (1963)
Sailor Bob adorns the nice, simple, effective artwork to the single "The Times They Are A-Changin'".
On this date (October 23) in 1963, 'Protest Bob' recorded the seminal "The Times They Are A-Changin" at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City.
A momentous song that truly influenced a generation.
A momentous song that truly influenced a generation.
Dylan recalled writing the song as a deliberate attempt to create an anthem of change for the moment when speaking to muso/director Cameron Crowe for Rolling Stone in 1985:
"This was definitely a song with a purpose. It was influenced of course by the Irish and Scottish ballads ... 'Come All Ye Bold Highway Men', 'Come All Ye Tender Hearted Maidens'. I wanted to write a big song, with short concise verses that piled up on each other in a hypnotic way. The civil rights movement and the folk music movement were pretty close for a while and allied together at that time."
The song has since been covered by countless renowned artists, including the Byrds, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, Joan Baez and Bruce Springsteen.
Phil Collins did a cover version too!
Phil Collins did a cover version too!
"The Times They Are A-Changin" was ranked #59 on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Friday, 2 September 2016
Art of the cover - Wonky Tonk's "Stuff We Leave Behind" (2015)
Looks like blondie's crash diet really worked.
Nice work, babe.
Art of the Cover - Neil Young's "A Letter Home" (2014)
Love the artwork on this beautiful collection, released a few moons back on Third Man Records.
Yap, Young does his best Dr. Who impersonation in this minimalist, delightfully decorated, stylised shot of himself recording in Jack White’s 1940s-style vinyl recording booth.
And there's definitely no need to have the words Neil Young anywhere!
And there's definitely no need to have the words Neil Young anywhere!
Yap, Neil relocated to a phone booth to record an album of sparse lo-fi cover versions of songs he loves.
The eclectic A Letter Home features covers of songs from the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, and many others.
The album features White on a number of the songs.
Young recorded all of the album in the vinyl recording “Voice-o-Graph” booth at Third Man - a 1940s-style straight-to-vinyl recording setup that seems guaranteed to leave plenty of warm crackles on the actual record.
Talking to Kamps recently, Young called the album “retro-tech” and then clarified:
“Retro-tech means recorded in a 1940s recording booth. A phone booth. It’s all acoustic with a harmonica inside a closed space, with one mic to vinyl.”Neil also said that the record sounds “like Jimmy Rogers or something.”
Interestingly, later in the interview, he mentioned that he regrets the digital mastering he used for some of his older records, most notably the classic Harvest Moon and Freedom LPs.
Tracklisting
01 “Changes” (Phil Ochs)
02 “Girl From The North Country” (Bob Dylan)
03 “Needle of Death” (Bert Jansch)
04 “Early Morning Rain” (Gordon Lightfoot)
05 “Reason To Believe” (Tim Hardin)
06 “On The Road Again” (Willie Nelson)
07 “If You Could Only Read My Mind” (Gordon Lightfoot)
08 “Since I Met You Baby” (Ivory Joe Hunter)
09 “My Hometown” (Bruce Springsteen)
10 “I Wonder If I Care As Much” (Everly Brothers)
Thursday, 1 September 2016
Art of the Cover - Eddie Kendricks' "People ,., Hold On" (1972)
For his second outing People…Hold On, back in 1972, former Temptations leader Eddie Kendricks expanded his horizons, dabbling with communally conscious soul and making initial forays into dance music that would predate disco.
He also spent a lot of time sitting gloomily with a big-ass spear on a creepy, piece of occult art masquerading as a giant chair, while flashing a few masonic signals.
Art of the Cover - Eddie Kendricks' "People ,., Hold On" (1972)
For his second outing People…Hold On, back in 1972, former Temptations leader Eddie Kendricks expanded his horizons, dabbling with communally conscious soul and making initial forays into dance music that would predate disco.
He also spent a lot of time sitting gloomily with a big-ass spear on a creepy, piece of occult art masquerading as a giant chair, while flashing a few masonic signals.
Art of the Cover - Barb Wire Dolls' "Desperate" (2016)
Desperate music, indeed.
If you thought Greece was totally fucked before, listen to this thing!
The Music - The Mighty Diamonds' "Danger In Your Eyes"
or maybe you're just lonely ...
A mighty moment from The Mighty Diamonds - a neglected nugget from the mighty Trojan Records catalogue.
Yap, it's the supendous version of "Danger In Your Eyes", released by the boys back in 1978 via Gussie Roots Sounds.
Dig that fucking horn!
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Hot Popper - Splitsville
The demure Nicks, backstage before a show, in the mid '70s -- again devoting time to concocting a new sexual position.
The Word - And fiddles every noon
A fiddler on the roof, a most unlikely sight; it might not mean a thing - but then again it might!
- “Fiddler on the Roof” by Bock and Harnick
Moments In Time - Tears Of A Clown: 'Bobo' Dylan Hits Montreal (1975)
"In that period of time, I took 13,750 photographs. Every night, Bob and I after the show or a party would sit down and he would go through all the contact sheets and when we were finished, we'd have to project the color, and he'd say yay-nay. We had no signed contract, this was just a handshake. That's what we did every single day."
- Photographer Ken Regan
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Art of the Cover - Greg Laswell's "Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet" (2016)
![Greg Laswell – Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet (2016) [MP3]](http://web.archive.org./web/20171110123454im_/http://img.boredbee.net/imager/w_500/h_/4f2e38b0f5766a5eccea2db9d2ec84af.jpg)
Tracklisting
02. Lifetime Ago 03:40
03. Out Of Line 03:50
04. And So I Tried To Sleep 03:32
05. Watch You Burn 04:26
06. Not The Same Man 03:58
07. Birthday Wish 05:25
08. Take It Easy 04:58
09. Play That One Again 04:10
10. Not Surprised 03:56
Sunday, 7 August 2016
The Music - Elvis Costello does MTV Unplugged {Full Show} (1991)
the pretty clothes are scattered round the room, and it's so like Candy ....
A great piece here where Hippy Elvis Costello and The Rude 5 perform on MTV Unplugged back in June 1991..
Surprisingly, Elv's scruffy beard and gay pony-tailed, unwashed, crusty look here didn''t last long!
And this is the full show!
Some great music here but only five of the songs here made it to the broadcast version!
The douches at MTV, apparently, didn't want to air a bunch of songs from their then-unreleased wonderful covers album, Kojak Variety.
Hippy Elvis begins with a fragment of "Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head" and then blasts out "Deep Dark Truthful Mirror", "So Like Candy / I Want You", "The Other Side Of Summer", "Must You Throw Dirt In My Face", "Hidden Charms", "Everybody's Crying Mercy", "Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)", "Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4" and "Bama Lama Bama Loo."
Setlist
01. Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head (incomplete)
02. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
03. So Like Candy / I Want You (broadcast)
04. The Other Side Of Summer (broadcast)
05. Must You Throw Dirt In My Face
06. Hidden Charms
07. Everybody's Crying Mercy
08. Hurry Down Doomsday {The Bugs Are Taking Over} (broadcast)
09. Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4
10. Bama Lama Bama Loo (broadcast)
Musicians
Elvis Costello
The Rude 5 ....
Marc Ribot - lead guitar
Jerry Scheff - bass
Larry Knechtel - keyboards
Pete Thomas - drums
Saturday, 6 August 2016
Art of the Cover - Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem's "The Girls Won't Leave The Boys Alone" (1968)
they knock at the door and they ring at the bell saying "oh my true love, are you well?"
A quartet of sweater-clad (very fetching!), late-sixties crazy Irish proto-feminists / groupies / nymphomaniacs prepare to descend upon poor Tommy and the boys!
Down girls! .. DOWN!!!!
Tracklisting
A1 The Beggarman
A2 Kitty Magee
A3 Whack Fol The Diddle
A4 The Jug Of Punch
A5 The Parting Glass
A6 Rosin The Bow
B1 Paddy Doyle's Boots
B2 The Risin' Of The Moon
B3 Connemara Cradle Song
B4 The Moonshiner
B5 Whisky You're The Devil
B6 The Foggy Dew
Friday, 5 August 2016
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