Best New Cool Toy Of The Day

John Peel's ........ record archive: notes, pix, shows, cool nav & Spotify - still growing - go be there virrrrrtually.

I know, it's only rock and roll …

French singer Nadine Expert performs "I Wanna Be a Rolling Stone" on Italian TV (see her Musik Laden performance here).
This medley is a little bit new wave, a little bit disco, a little bit glam and all European.
If that wasn't enough, here's her cover of "Miss You."

Jet Harris R.I.P.

First electric bass in England. Apache. R.I.P. OBIT HERE

Ataque de los Fantasmas

Wrong Side of the Art

Smash It!

"Here he is! A superstar! The demented! The dangerous! The disgusting! Deacon Dark!"

Deacon Dark / Sonny Bono - "SMASH IT" (on The Love Boat 1978)
Big thanks to Joe Lacey!

Don't Say You Weren't Warned.

[via the Monkeys4Helping tumblr.]

Shake, Rattle and Rock!

In its entirety courtesy of AMC's B-Movie viewing site.(Haha I'm Bibi again!)

Big Joe Turner! Yeah! Margaret Dumont and Sterling Holloway! uh, yeah!, again....
Lots more there - full sizable, too.

Del Fi Records Founder Obit

Bob Keane's interesting NYT obit here and at pic

Nashville Pussy - A review

NASHVILLE PUSSY

What can I say?
Nuthin.

Oh well- yes I can.

Last year we walked in late to their opening set at that Horton Heat show. We vowed then & there that we'd see 'em again.

Parade magazine will never feature them. Wayne Cochran is your mother compared to them. Wait, Stiv Bators is your mother compared to them.
They will never be lying on their death beds asking themselves "What was that all about?"
Their show is a full-on 100% Screaming Mimi (or screaming Meemie) assault on the very existence of rock n' roll. If they worked in a grocery store, You'd be greeted at the door, every item would be exactly where it belonged with the right prices, the floors would be immaculate and the produce fresh, and you would zoom through checkout. That's how hard they work. Like hard workin' bastards, who are forestalling their executions by playing for the Governor.

The staging is flawless: they look at each other, and blast! things happen right on cue. The drama don't stop. It's intuitive but looks well thought out.

The last song, Ruyter tore the strings off her guitar - when I asked Blaine how she manages to do that, he replied, "Hey she's got great chops."

Amen.

Phonecam doesn't do it justice, obviously, & I lost 2 closeups while talking to band members (forgot to hit save) so I have adulterated, to give an impression. Maybe successful.






Special show treat: Blaine sings Ace of Spades with Reverend Horton Heat



Go.

Digital Meltd0wn.....

....has been working hard to provide rich Hallowe'eny goodness:
Poe read by Rathbone & Price-
Arch Obler's Lights Out-
Psycho and Hellraiser soundtracks-
Roky Erickson's The Evil One-
White Zombie albums-
-and what I like to refer to as ASSLOADS more.

Rock'n'roll Train

ACDC Rock'n'roll Train (High Quality)
Uploaded by Sacripan

So, why not join the Rock'n'roll Train?

4,000 Hours of New Meek

Totaling over 4,000 hours of music, they contain previously unheard songs by Billy Fury, Tom Jones and David Bowie's first band, the Konrads, as well as forgotten 60s stars as the Honeycombs, John Leyton and Heinz, all of whom had UK No 1s with Meek.

Hey who wants to hear a new world? One can only hope that some selfish don't-touch-my-records,-man completist jerkoff doesn't get 'em......

But let's do the math:
300,000.00GBP is $534,606.67 ....today
divided by 4000, it's about $133.00 per hour of music or $100.00 per LP's worth of tunes!

So even if it's 2,000 hours of Bowie's drummer farting, production costs to release the releaseable stuff is pretty much zilch.

Via the Guardian
and hey- read my Guardian clippings!

What Iggy Wants ,,,,,,,Iggy Gets!

The Smoking Gun has a very funny concert rider for the Stooges tour.

Excerpt:


It's not that it's just funny, one gets the impression that Iggy's a good boss, and it also provides insights as to how all that stuff gets set up, and why some concerts can really suck.

Ain't felt this good for an hour

Added by EdvezR

Great Balls of Fire

Dolly live in London 1983.

Added by nichopoulooza

That's entertainment.

The pinnacle of Rock and Roll

The Cramps Live in 1986, in Rennes, France doing "People Ain't No Good" and "You Got Good Taste" with a short interview in the middle.

Uploaded by blob83000

REVEVEREND ORGANDRUM

I gotta tell ya - I LOVE the Reverend Horton Heat. He's my fave, and every year, I go see him play, with dedication to the task, creativity in the set, and cool radiating off him like the stink waves on a cartoon cat's ass. Jimbo, too!

Brian Setzer can shove his stilted view of rockabilly up his precious little swing-dancing-at-Christmas-ass. *puke*

Now, the Rev has put together this new album of hits with two friends that have formidable accomplishments in the fields of drumming and organ playing. A little shift to the left that provides friggin' deliciousness of the first order.

Next, I want say I fucking HATE MySpace - it's shit for the clueless, on a platter of stupidity. UnfortunatEly, it's also a valuable tool for musicians trying to seduce the half-witted Rubes into tasting their wares.

HAVING SAID THAT, the Rev has got a MySpace for the entity known as Reverend Organdrum, this collaboration that showcases not only his, but his organ player's and drummer's skills as well. So I linked it because it's got cuts. I also am linking to his Yep Roc Records page as well as his OFFICIAL web page to allow you to listen to some other cuts as well as gain insights.

"A Shot In the Dark" "Ain't That a Kick In the Head" "Time is Tight" and "route 66" are all there.

All I can say is..............fuck.

With Much Love,
Lex10

Yeah, I'm gushing......jealous?

Go listen, saddle pals.

Skeets McDonald's Tattooed Lady

Skeets McDonald's Tattooed Lady - Plus Eleven Other Sizzlers available in the TWILIGHTZONE!
Hang out with Rufus Shoffner when he's out having fun like any other normal bald-headed man:
boomp3.com

RYP is 2

Twilightzone! is zwei, heute. Happy Birthday.



Rockinest selections around, Present company excepted, my 13 co-contributors.

Plenty o' Tav Falco & Fleshtones, more than one could conceive existed, in fact.

It's a fave of mine, hence the respectful referral.

You're not too old to rock & roll

To all my good old friends out there....

Deep river boys - your not to old to rock & roll - 1957
Uploaded by mickeynold