Monday, October 17, 2011
Request Line
Listener Alex requested Midnight Blues by Charlie Rich, first heard at the WFMU/WMBR Friars Club DJ night.
H.M. Subjects
There's a pretty good chance that, as the sort of person who reads this blog, you're aware of Miami, Florida's legendary Montells. It's also not unlikely that you're aware of their cover of the Pretty Things' "Don't Bring me Down," which was reissued as part of the Montells/Evil split compilation released on Corduroy in 2002 (apparently out of print). It's at least possible that you own the 45, and if you do, it might look like this:
...or it might look like this:
My copy, however, looks like this:
...and it sounds like THIS (i.e. pretty scratchy). Any of you record hounds seen one like this before? This copy just has the "censored" version on both sides with loud bleeps over the mildly suggestive lyrics, which makes it sound a million times dirtier. The gimmick, as well as the new, more "British" name (shades of the Sir Douglas Quintet!), was the brainchild of their manager, local WFUN DJ "Doc" Downey. Say what you will about the late Morton Downey, Jr (and there's plenty that you could say!), he knew a few things about getting people's attention.
Rarely Seen Music Video 1962-1970 - Tuesday, October 25 - Toms River, NJ
Music Video collector Spike Priggen (of the Bedazzled.tv and Scopitones.com blogs) will present a program of rarely seen music video clips from his collection.
First up is a program of "Scopitones", the almost forgotten pre-cursor to the modern music video, shot on 16mm film and shown on an early type of "Video Juke-Box". Scopitone machines were usually located in bars and lounges, allowing for a slightly more "risque" feel than one could see on TV or in the Movies at that time. Scopitones became a sensation in France in 1962 and quickly spread to the US, but by 1967, after a racketeering trial and fortunes lost by both Francis Ford Coppola and Debbie Reynolds, Scopitone was over.
The 2nd hour of the program will feature newly unearthed footage originally broadcast on French TV, including early live footage of bands such as The Kinks, The Who, The Yardbirds, Them, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Otis Redding, The Moody Blues, The Pretty Things, & The Spencer Davis Group as well as clips of Nancy Sinatra, The Shirelles, Dion, Screaming Lord Sutch, Dusty Springfield, Sonny & Cher, The Electric Prunes and much much more. Link to event page
JASON WILLIS SUPER GENIUS PART ONE
Jason Willis, proprietor of the great blog Scar Stuff (still up but not quite as functional as before), last year on Halloween did an animation that is so massively mindblowing to me. It coincided with the release of a book I thought could never happen about the history of Eerie Publications. Eerie Pubs (not to be confused with Eerie Magazine pubished by Warren) was a super sleazy publishing house with a long dirty history of Myron Fass' weird one shot magazines (exploiting just about ANYTHING of the moment from Son Of Sam to Elvis & Test Tube babies from Outer Space). Eerie Pubs did a long series of the lowest rung horror comic mags with the sickest most insane covers ever! I was so obsessed with these as a kid that i almost never noticed how crappy the insides were. Redrawn cut up & put back together old comics that Fass did in the 50's with loads of extra gore dumped on the top, with some good new stuff thrown in as well. These were looked down upon forever & you could buy 'em up till about 10 years ago for about a quarter. Suddenly people started appreciating these magazines (Weird, Tales of Voodoo, Witches Tales, Horror Tales, Tales From The Tomb, Terror Tales, Weird Vampire Tales, etc...haha) and prices went up & up which was as bizarre as the magazines themselves. The good folks at Feral House Publishing did a gorgeous book about these magazines & the history of Mr. Fass. Jason Willis did an animation made out of dissected images from the covers of these mags. Seeing them move, even this much is total magic to me as these images are burned into my brain from a lifetime of staring at these magazine covers.
Here is his animation (best to watch on YouTube as the right side seems to be clipped here):
here is a link to his blog entry & description of this animation:
http://scarstuff.blogspot.com/2010/10/cast-of-eerie-publications-perform.html
and here's a link to the book:
http://feralhouse.com/the-weird-world-of-eerie-publications/
They even made a commercial for the book! haha..
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
La Pelicula
El Rock 'n' Roll En Peru
Starring: Los Shain's, York's, Belking's, Drag's, Holy's, Saico's, Jaguar's and more!!
Punishment Poll
Have a little mercy and make a pledge during our "silent fundraiser" that's going on now thru the end of October. The goal for Ichiban is $3000 and we've only raised $300 so far!!! If you dig the blog or listen to the stream, please kick in some change to make it possible for us to keep doing it. Thanks!!
Thank you to Joe, Richard, Jimmy, Carmen, Greg, Kogar and Michael for pledging to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban!!
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