Sunday, December 6, 2015
Bloodstains on the Wall: The Real Nitty Gritty tonight at 7
Whig Out with Brian Poust, dj Agent 45, and Georgia Garage 'n Soul!
Brian Poust is probably best known for his Georgia Soul website where he writes about his favorite Georgia soul sides, and his adventures in record collecting. Although recently re-locating to San Antonio Texas, Brian is still working his Georgia angle, and has a feature article in Oxford America Magazines' Georgia Music Issue 'Atlanta's Sweet Auburn Soul' coming out in mid-December. Brian talks about the artists he spotlights in his article, plays some of his favorite Atlanta Garage 45's and gives us the low down on some of his best Georgia finds. Join us at 8pm, right after the Real Nitty Gritty. Tune in here! -> https://wfmu.org/playlists/WT
Friday, December 4, 2015
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Psychotronic Movie of the Week: Johnny Cash in Five Minutes To Live (1961)
Five Minutes To Live (aka Door to Door Maniac) was a 1961 thriller starring Johnny Cash and Vic Tayback. They hatch a scheme to rob a bank by taking the branch vice president's wife hostage and giving him five minutes to hand over the money or she'll get it. Only hitch? He was about to ask her for a divorce, throwing a monkey wrench into the plan. It's a well paced, fast little potboiler, and Cash is great in his first acting role as a cold blooded killer with a guitar. He performs the title song and is shown pickin' and singin' a few times in the film.
Tayback is suitably sleazy as his partner in crime, and the movie also stars Donald Woods as the bank executive and Cay Forester, who also wrote the screenplay, as his wife. Director Bill Karn previously did a lot of tv work, most notably Gang Busters, and also helmed Ma Barker's Killer Brood the previous year. Sutton Pictures handled the original 1961 release, but AIP got a hold of it in '66 and gave it the Door to Door Maniac title.
Timi Yuro & the girls at 7 tonite!
Timi Yuro is our Girl of the Week! She sings along with the Shangri-Las, Anna King, The Jewels, Judi & The Affections and Patti Drew! Listen Here! https://wfmu.org/playlists/CE
and make sure you tune in the next two weeks as the Atomic Jukebox fills in for Crayons to Perfume! Jon Von Zelowitz will bring you the best in French 60's girl pop, swingin' Mademoiselles, Ultra Chicks .... ye ye girls! Ohh, la la! I'll be back again on the 23rd of December...but the fun doesn't stop there! The Real Nitty Gritty Tania is going to help kick of the Crayons to Perfume! new year in style so keep your dial tuned to WFMU's Rock'n'Soul Ichiban!
Monday, November 30, 2015
Goin' Back AGAIN to Swamp Guinea! (Part Five)
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| There are large gaps in my Athens phonebook collection, so this 1976 listing is the earliest I can provide. |
| Many of you folks out there in Ichibanland are probably a bit mystified at this blog's longtime obsession with long-defunct Athens, GA-area restaurant the Swamp Guinea, but we're going there again, so you'll just have to accept it! |
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| Thee Original. |
The thing that drives most folks' interest in the restaurant is this record, which has intrigued and confused record hounds in this region for decades. You may listen to it here. I've had a fair number of them pass through my hands over the last quarter-century– maybe as many as a dozen. Knowing my interest in the subject, the noted record collector/dealer Kurt Wood recently presented me with a surprise– a heretofore unknown Swamp Guinea record! It's not as fascinating as its predecessor, but it's a perfectly fine bluegrass tune. Its worst sin is that it's not as focused on the particulars of the restaurant, but I've gotten the word from composer Tony Pritchett that this is not happenstance. Asked to recall what had could about this, he responded:
Hi, Devlin. I was mentored by a man named B.W. Coile back in the early 1970s. He asked me to write a song with Swamp Guinea in the title and in the song. I asked him did it have to be "about the restaurant" or could it be just a song...so I thought about the name, Swamp Guinea, and it reminded me of my daddy telling me not to believe everything I read or hear. Because, it wasn't a swamp and it wasn't a guinea hen. So, I just wrote. Then B.W. took me in to the studio to record it. That's pretty much all I remember about it. He also asked me to write a commercial for Golden Pantry. That got some radio airplay. I've been an "Athens musician" for a very long time. Played almost every club there was to play. Now, my guys and I just do a little Jimmy Buffett cover show. Called Sons Of Sailors. You can access that here: www.sonsofsailors.com
BONUS! Go here to read an account of a 1978 visit to the Swamp Guinea by famous author William Least Heat-Moon, from his 1982 NYT bestseller, Blue Highways!
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Whig Out! Opens the Doors of your Mind! 8pm tonite!
Psych Out with the Whig Out! tonight at 8 with Doors impersonators and off-the-wall psychedelic wackiness! click here to listen -> http://wfmu.org/playlists/WT
GRADE A!!! THE REAL NITTY GRITTY tonight at 7PM on WFMU'S Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban Stream!
GIT WITH THE GRIT! https://wfmu.org/playlists/RG
Friday, November 27, 2015
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
The Fringe Factory goes COLD TURKEY this Thanksgiving Eve!
Tonight The Fringe Factory goes COLD TURKEY for it's 8th Annual Night Before Thanksgiving Show! All Psychedelic, Garage and Hard Rockin' songs from the 60s Underground about food & drink... and all guaranteed to make you hungry & thirsty for more! Tune in at 8pm ET and view the Live Accu-playlist right here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/FY
Psychotronic Movie of the Week Returns! Spend your Thanksgiving with BLOOD FREAK!
I'm bringing the PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIE OF THE WEEK back to the Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban blog and I'm kicking off version 2.0 with my own favorite Thanksgiving cinematic tradition, Brad F. Ginter's BLOOD FREAK.
Ginter's filmography as a director includes just five titles, and it's three that he's primarily remembered for today - the awful biker flick DEVIL RIDER (1970), the bizarre Veronica Lake swan song FLESH FEAST (1970), and today's feature, BLOOD FREAK (1972).
Steve Hawkes, whose previous acting resume was highlighted by two low-budget, shot in Florida Tarzan movies, co-wrote the screenplay with Ginter and stars as Herschell, a Nam vet biker who gets invited to a party by a beautiful young lady and well, one thing leads to another and before we know it, Herschell is addicted to the pot! He ends up eating some chemically altered turkey and when he wakes up he's become a monster with a giant turkey head who needs to feast on the blood of drug addicts to satisfy his cravings. In the end, the only thing that can save him is turning to God - the film was described by Shock Cinema's Steven Puchalski as "the world's first Christian, anti-drug splatter movie!" And if that plot wasn't enough of a trainwreck, wait until you get a load of Ginter himself as the narrator, sitting at a desk in front of faux wooden paneling, talking about "the human body as a mixing bowl," spewing Reefer Madness-style anti-drug rhetoric while smoking a cigarette. At one point he breaks into a coughing fit that only adds to the delicious (unintentional?) irony. You would think they would have done another take, but I guess it wasn't in the budget.
BLOOD FREAK was released on VHS in the 80s by Video Treasures, which promised "A Dracula on Drugs!" Something Weird Video released the ultimate special edition DVD in the early 2000's which is now out of print but can be found on Amazon and eBay. I highly recommend seeking it out, but in the meantime, here's the entire movie as posted on YouTube, DIG!
EDIT: YouTube has already removed the video I originally posted, but you can still watch it broken down into six parts.
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