Wow! How about that Planet Mondo? Mondo Insane-O!!!
Excuse me but I'm a bit tardy on my current events, as I've had a bit of the blogging blues, but in light of semi-new news news I'm sending this post out to the woman who had her face ripped of by a mad monkey named Travis: for anyone out of the loop, read about it here:
The Monkey or Chimp to be exact was shot dead by the fuzz after ripping the eyeballs out this woman's head.
And while I don't think it's particularly funny that this woman got hurt severely, you gotta ask yourself, do i REALLY want to go hang out with a 72 year old woman and her monkey? Let this be a lesson to everyone, monkey's aint hip, they don't want to wear a diaper, smoke cigarettes, fetch your fucking newspaper or clean out your drool cup; they just want to swing from trees in the jungle with other monkeys and rip your ugly face off!
So like, if yer pals have a 200 pound chimp and they invite you over for some "fun" maybe you should stay home....
Ok all you devil’s disciples out there, we have a very special guest mix for you all from Mr. Planet Mondo himself today and this (Good) Friday.
It’s something we been kicking around for a good long while now when me and the JJB strung together a few little ditties for him on one of his Funky Fridays!!!
When I 1st started this goofy @ss blog Mr. Mondo was one of the 1st few folks that would stop by and check out what we were dishing out over here and with high praise from someone who knows his music, as he does, his taste is impeccable, well; it gave me all the more incentive to keep it up! So many thanks Mr. Mondo!
And with any out further ado, here is the guest mix we’ve all been waiting for!
Before anything I must thank Devil Dick for the invite to rustle up a mix for his hot-rocking blog, following DD and Lady DD's swinging trip to Planet Mondo last year - and his patience in waiting for so many months for me to get it together.
So the essence of today’s mix, and the moment I'm hoping to capture with this patchwork of tracks, is that hair-bare era from 67-71 when mods became rockers, rockers turned hippy and hippies got heavy. With the mood of the tunes being one of frizzy hair, fuggy clubs, open-air freakouts and underground festivals. Topped off with a revved-up ‘Easy Rider’ attitude, dressed in suede tassle jackets, (maybe with patches about 'Pollution' and 'Peace'), granddad shirts - or for some Wild Things, perhaps a run out to a few 'scene' boutiques like Granny Takes A Trip, Mr Freedom (later the site of McClaren's proto-punk Sex/Seditionaries shops), I Was Lord Kitcheners Valet or The Chelsea Drugstore as referenced in the Stones lyrics and seen in Clockwork Orange......A few points worth watching out for on this trip around the tracks are... The Pretty Things in disguise as Electric Banana
The Spencer Davis Group in mufti as The Murgatroyd Band
Prog-God Vangelis and man-mass Demis Roussos hiding in Aphrodite's Child
Norah Jones cousin Anandar Shankar,giving it some sitar hero twang on Jumping Jack Flash..
As well as influences on rock and punk's heaviest-hitters from The Creation - whose tune Through My Eyes was a sometimes Sex Pistols live number, and guitarist Eddie Phillips guitar bowing technique was later borrowed by Jimmy Page.
And finally The Pink Fairies - a hairy bunch of biker-rockers, that gigged with their biggest fans The Damned, at Punk's first recorded Festival, an event where the Fairies rechristened The Damned's Ray Burns as Captain Sensible..
But, for now that's quite enough pyshco-babble from me. So bloggers, blogettes, rockers, rollers, strummers and stoners, please - unlock your ears, free your mind, turn on, tune in and R.O.C.K out to...
Hold On - Ipsissimus The Kettle - Colosseum Blows Your Mind - Electric Banana Towards The Skies - The Gods Father's Name Is Dad - Fire Coke Ad' - The Who How Does It Feel To Feel - The Creation I'm Not Your Stepping Stone - The Flys Crying Shame - Frijid Pink The Battle Of The Locusts - Aphrodite's Child Instant Whip - The Tremeloes Jumpin' Jack Flash - Amanda Shankar Bad Trip - Bo Diddley Hey Big Brother - Rare Earth Magpie - The Murgatroyd Band That's The Life - The Good Earth Fire - Pegasus I'm A Man - Wynder K. Frog Magic Mirror - Aphrodite's Child Get Out Your Rock And Roll Shoes - Crocheted Doughnut Ring Shake 26 - Underground Set Walk Don't Run - The Pink Fairies
PS There's a couple of cuts that didn't quite make the final edit on today's Funky Friday posting - should you fancy getting the full set...
Ok, i took a few days off from posting but i have the day off today in honor of a bunch of dead assholes... So today you get you get something i plan on doing a little bit of on my day off from work, “Sittin’ And Drinking” by Rose Davis.
“Sittin’ And Drinking” is blues number witth some good guitar work. It's a cover of a Christine Kittrell song. This was 1st issued in New Orleans on the "Play" label and later picked up after it became semi popular by Excello.
The flip is a little funky number with some strange horns and then shifts into a 50's kind of shuffle. Cool but strange tune.
A few cover songs strung together for the 6th devil's music mix:
I make no bones about it; I'm a rock guy @ heart. Here is a little thing i threw together w/ some Rockin' cover songs i happen to dig. I think I'm gonna take a little break from posting for a while. I'm kinda bored & burnt out on this shit and i think i need a break...
Till next time, dig the tunes...
Colosseum:Theme for an imaginary western - English Rock Jazz, Prog band do Mountain.
Neil Merryweather:8 miles high - Neil was some sort of funky space alien guitar god, here is his take on The Byrds classic.
Slade:Move over -Good time glam boys and their take on Janis Joplin classic. ( i like this one more)
McPhee:I am the walrus -Australian psych/prog band doing the boys from Liverpool.
Juicy Lucy:Willie the pimp -Saucy blues-rockers give us some Frank Zappa.
Leslie West:This wheels on fire - the great fatsby does some folkie gone electric.
Houston Fearless:Mr. soul -Don't know shit about Houston Fearless - i picked this record up for .99 cents about 15 years ago. Cool take on Neil Young's tune.
Taste:I'm moving on -Before the boogie guitar god of Ireland was a solo lad he was in a "Blues" rock band. Here he is in Taste and a version of a Hank Snow cut.
the cramps - human fly
stooges - little doll
u-boats - street tough
peter & the test tube babies - banned from the pubs
black flag - i've heard it before
overkill - hells getting hotter
stains - revenge
blitz - someone gonna die tonight
husker du - real world
dk's - kill the poor
the partisans - police story
demob - no room for you
DOA - human bomb
GBH - race against time
robert ashley - comic strip rock and roll
frankie baldo - strange guitar
neil burris - the sissy song
bobby williamson - i need everything
little jimmy dickens - truck load of starving kangaroos
teddy randazzo - be kitten little chicken
the spats - gator tails and monkey ribs
len barlow - hades highway
dick kent - backin up the devil
bobby moline - devil get behind me
bintangs - demons
comus - diana
country joe & the fish - not so sweet martha lorriane
tonny dee - velvet acid
allman joys - i'm snding you back
jackie lomax - eagle laughs at you
evil - whatca gonna do about it
lincoln st exit - sunny sunday dream, half man, time has come time to die
mimi & richard farina - reno nevada
sweetwater - windlace
clease - weird one
crying wood - blue eyed witch
Aubrey Wilson Mullican (March 29, 1894 - January 1, 1967), known as Moon Mullican, was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist. However, he also sang and played jazz, rock 'n' roll and the blues. Indeed, Mullican was one of the main influences on the formation of rock 'n' roll, he predated what would be done in rock 'n' roll by 20 years. He was associated with the hillbilly boogie style which greatly influenced rockabilly; Jerry Lee Lewis cited him as a major influence on his own singing and piano playing. Moon Mullican - I'll Sail My Ship Alone
Devil month is up, i hope you enjoyed the Devil tunes @ the Devil's Music for the 1st month of 2009...?
Something a bit different today on some fancy green vinyl:
Pee Wee King, born Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski (February 18, 1914 – March 07, 2000), was an American country music songwriter and recording artist. He was born in Milwaukee to a Polish American family and lived in Abrams, Wisconsin, during his youth.
King learned to play fiddle from his father, who was a professional polka musician. In the 1930s, he toured and made cowboy movies with Gene Autry. King joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1937.
In 1946, while the bandleader of the Golden West Cowboys, King, together with the band's vocalist, Redd Stewart, composed "The Tennessee Waltz", a song inspired by "The Kentucky Waltz" by bluegrass musician Bill Monroe. King and Stewart first recorded "The Tennessee Waltz" in 1948, and it went on to become a country music standard.
King's other songs included "Slow Poke" and "You Belong to Me". His songs introduced waltzes, polkas, and cowboy songs to country music.
He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1974. He died of a heart attack in Louisville, Kentucky, at age 86.
This aint the Tennessee Waltz or the Kentucky Waltz but the "Waltz of Regret"
Short-lived outfit from 1971 but innovative prog band from Illinois with ex-Gonn members Gerry Gabel and Craig Moore. "We were heavy as hell, anti-war, pro-drug hippie all the way", remembers Moore. Without Gabel the group turned into Smokehouse, now presenting their progressive styles with glitter and make-up.
Formed in 1969 by the Tieken brothers from Quincy, Illinois. They'd previously been in the long-lived Freddy Tieken and The Rockers who'd been going at it since the late fifties. As The Gonn disintegrated in 1968, first Slink Rand and then Craig Moore joined 'The Rockers. Craig:- "Fred changed the name to The American Music Band, stealing it sort of from The Electric Flag. We played EVERYWHERE... Then when the horn guys all quit, we became Ilmo Smokehouse, heavy as hell, anti-war, pro-drug hippie all the way. When that eventually ended Slink, Dennis and I became 'Smokehouse' as a really heavy progressive trio. Later on we had Micki Free on guitar (later with L.A. soul group Shalamar). We wore glitter and make-up before Kiss, but they made it we didn't. It's all nuts, convoluted, insane, I can't believe I did all of this crap!"
Their album was recorded in Memphis at 'Beautiful Sound' Studio, owned by Dan Penn of Box Tops fame (as a songwriter producer). He engineered part of the session, with his partner Jim Johnson.
Extra nugget of useless info: Steve Gaines breifly played with the group before joining and then dying with Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Some mid week light psych garage pop music for you with the fifth order from Columbus Ohio via 1967.
Their 1966 garage classic Goin' Too Far b/w Walkin' Away was a tremendous regional success, at the time becoming the biggest selling seven-incher from Columbus, Ohio. Their second local hit, A Thousand Devils (Are Chasing Me) b/w Today I Got A Letter, was picked up by Laurie for national release. These two records have long been recognized as sterling examples of Ohio's vibrant mid-60s garage rock scene. But the story of the Fifth Order has remained untold, until now...
From the Lotti Golden Motor-Cycle album released on Atlantic Records in 1969 and produced by Bob Crewe, which is a weird soulish psych album that i find intriguing.
Starts off mellow and kinda goes big band girl group with some psych moves and fuzz guitar.... strange little record and a strange little song.
There is not a lot of info out there at least that i could find so if you know this chicks deal drop the knowledge...
i got a few more devil posts if ya'll can handle it?
Gonna stick with the "country" vibe here by way of Hollywood? California and the M.S.R. label.
M.S.R. was one of those record labels where folks would send them their words or "songs",(along with about a few hundred bucks) these records are often called poem songs, and M.S.R. would then turn it into a song using their studio musicians and then send a box of this crap to the "writer" so he/she could bore his friends with it. Not unlike most bands do today...
So good old Dickie here or was it Perry H. Hopkins? paid good hard scratch to have his "poem" turned into this little dittie for your listening pleasure now!
witch mountain - come to the mountain blood farmers - bullet in my head circus 2000 - when teh sun refuses to shine hellhammer - triumph of death aphrodites child - the four horseman silver apples - ocillations banchee - child of the universe
morgen - welcome to the void poobah - mr. destroyer power of zeus - in the night rare bird - hammerhead silberbart - head tear of the drunken son
Yesterday's Children - Sad Born Loser Eire Apparent - The Clown J.D. Blackfoot - Epitaph For A Head Kanibal Komix - Neurotic Reaction Serindipity - I'm Flying The Orange Bycicle - Trip On An Orange Bycicle The Smoke - Utterly Simple D.R. Hooker - The Sea The Move - Baby Blue SRC - A New Crusader SRC - Midnight Fever
What we have here is a really great song by a man i know nothing about but when i saw that Park Ave label and Devil in the title i knew i had to be good and man was i right. There is some really great guitar playing in this tune and it sounds as if good old Mr. Moline is truly haunted and trying to make amends here. A search on the interwebs told me that this is from 1964 but not much else was to be had about Bobby.
You can buy a copy here: on ebay for $112.00 if you so desire or get it from the devils music for free!
Shortly after this lp was released Doors fans caused quite a stir claiming the mysterious lead singer of Phantom's Devine Comedy was none other than the fat bloated and drunk corpse come back to life of Jim Morrison...
Think The Doors with a much heavier sound and a more polished singer and you have Phantom's Divine Comedy Part 1. An album steeped in mystery due to the un-credited musicians and of course, Phantom himself. Yes, the similarities to Jim Morrison are uncanny. The lyrics are also Doors/Morrison territory. Released in 1974.
Either way this rather rare lp for a major label "Capitol" is a nice slice of Doors inspired psych rock even if it ain't the Lizard King...
A cool and smooth rockin' instrumental number here, The Ramblers on Addit Records - 1257 - Doing Devil Train from 1960. If this is what the devil's train sounds like (and it does from time to time)I'm sure you'll want to climb aboard!
Here is a fairly rare mild rockabilly type country number on a rare label, Granite Records G560 out of Mt. Airy, NC from 1965.... blah blah blah... '65 seems late for this but whatever... i read that on the very acurate internet...
This one goes out to the devil's actual sweetheart; the one, the only, the angelic JJB.
Don't ask me how the devil wound up with an angel but i ain't complaining. (least not today) :)
There is noting better the devil likes than some funky satanic soul about people fucking up and burning in hell for it, it just warms the devil's heart...
fatso jetson - she's so borg the ribeye brothers - we became snakes raven - can't you see hawkwind - motorhead josefus - i saw a killin' flower travelin' band - map blues creation - atom bombs away chocolate watch band - medication cactus - feel so bad
the nice - rondo brave new world - corn dance hard stuff - sinister minister the frantics - the whip guinea worns - box of records cyanamid - support butthole surfers - lady sniff 45 grave - schools out Stetz - kids habits the mad - i hate music
fresh blueberry pancake - hassles fudge tunnel - teeth tiger b. smith - tiger rock trouble - run to the light q65 - love is such a good thing speed, glue & shinki - ode to bad people
One time before his death i split a bottle of wine and a few joints with Carl Sagan and we got to talking about life and death and the universe and the existence of the actual devil and although Carl couldn't vouch for the actual existence he did explain that "Everybody's Got A Little Devil In Their Soul"...
