'Shindig'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Fuck.
Bert Jansch dead of cancer at the age of 67.
I am genuinely cut up about this. I saw Jansch live on a number of occasions: solo twice, with the "fake" Pentangle in the mid-1990s, and (thank goodness) with the reformed Pentangle proper a couple of years ago. A genuinely nice bloke and, of course, a genius guitar player. RIP.
ETA: full Guardian obituary here:
Wow, so young still. Truly one of the giants in British folk and folk rock.
Here's Pentangle doing "Hunting Song" which is absolutely gorgeous and haunting.
Here they do "Light Flight" which shows off their jazzy chops.
John Waters on jazz and heroin:
Even when people took downers… I tried them and thought “God, sitting around itchin’ and scratchin’ ain’t my idea of fun.” You know, it’s good for jazz to take heroin, because jazz is the sound of heroin. You can’t really hear jazz unless you’re on heroin. I have listened to jazz on heroin and it does sound a lot better, but I only took heroin twice and I thought, “This isn’t worth it just to listen to Coltrane.”
So, so tempting: [link]
Shit. Thurston and Kim are splitting: [link]
That's so sad. 27 years.
Fooling around with 8-Track I put up the Horror of Disco Halloween mix.
Not sure I like this platform since the second time you play this mix they have to scramble the order. Dude! I spend a huge amount of time working out the sequencing!
Anyway, if you need some Halloween Disco, you can start there.
I'll see about putting up some of my other Halloween mixes.
Trailer for the 2-cd retrospective set from R.E.M. coming out on on my birthday!
There are no good biography books on The Damned, are there? I'm stuck with websites to brush up on my info?
There are no good biography books on The Damned, are there?
I don't think so.
But their early formation-of-punk history is covered in Jon Savage's book England's Dreaming.
The Damned's first tour of America was also very important in the history of American punk, as it basically paved the way for hardcore. They just played sooooo much faster than anybody else that they blew people away.