CG/KPOO/KCDX etcetcetc for the week of 5/11/09

[RGMike]

Paper Lace are on "the East side of Chicago" -- methinks they're lost. Someone should do an update:

"when a man named Blagojevich
tried to make that town his bitch"

[Tinka Cat]

pirate cat radio is getting loud:

Current Song: Bauhaus w/ Brian Eno - Third Uncle
Past Songs:
1. GG Allin - You Hate Me And I Hate You
2. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
3. The Deep Eynde - deepEynde deadAlive
4. Dead Milkmen - Bitchin Camaro
5. Templars - No Rhyme, Nor Reason

[RGMike]

Dead Milkmen - Bitchin Camaro

OMG -- haven't heard that in ages!

[Tinka Cat]

Pirate cat keeping it real:

Billy Bragg - The Price oif Oil (2002)
John Lydon & Afrika Bambaataa - World Destruction

[RGMike]

I'm back to the Funky 16 Corners podcasts and I'm listening to one that's primarily covers, including a reggafied "Down by the River" by someone named Ken Boothe, a jazz guitarist named Grant Green (NTM) doing "Never Can Say Goodbye", Low Rawls s-s-smokin' on "Season of the Witch" (!), Rhetta Hughes' soulful "Light My Fire" (Jose F. eat yer heart out), and OMG, Tony Joe White doin' "Witchita Lineman"

[Tinka Cat]

I'm back to the Funky 16 Corners podcasts and I'm listening to one that's primarily covers, including a reggafied "Down by the River" by someone named Ken Boothe, a jazz guitarist named Grant Green (NTM) doing "Never Can Say Goodbye", Low Rawls s-s-smokin' on "Season of the Witch" (!), Rhetta Hughes' soulful "Light My Fire" (Jose F. eat yer heart out), and OMG, Tony Joe White doin' "Witchita Lineman"

thanks for the tip, I'm listening now.

http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/funky16corners-podcast-archive/

[RGMike]

I'm back to the Funky 16 Corners podcasts and I'm listening to one that's primarily covers, including a reggafied "Down by the River" by someone named Ken Boothe, a jazz guitarist named Grant Green (NTM) doing "Never Can Say Goodbye", Low Rawls s-s-smokin' on "Season of the Witch" (!), Rhetta Hughes' soulful "Light My Fire" (Jose F. eat yer heart out), and OMG, Tony Joe White doin' "Witchita Lineman"

thanks for the tip, I'm listening now.

http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/funky16corners-podcast-archive/

Vol 43 "Unquiet Storm" is the one we're talking about -- the real find for me is an amazing 10-1/2 minute political ballad called "To the Establishment" by the NTM Lou Bond. Gaz would dig this, methinks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYT4gZHaqnw

[Tinka Cat]

I'm back to the Funky 16 Corners podcasts .... Low Rawls s-s-smokin' on "Season of the Witch" (!)

a few years back Donovan sold out several nights at Cafe Du Nord in SF, and Stacy attended.. She got to sit up front at Donovan's sister's table.  She said Donovan pretty much sang Season Of The Witch to their table.  heheh

About a year later, Donovan did an in-store at Tower on Columbus & Bay for his just-released box set, and I rode my bike down there to check it out.  It was fab!  He did a bunch of his hits, just with his guitar.   There were maybe 50 people there, and I feel very lucky to have been one of them.

[Tinka Cat]

(Theme to) Get Carter is such a groove.

See the orig movie w Michael Caine if you haven't.

[urth]

another fine retro-chart on CG this week: June of 1982. Sure hope we hear Capt. Sensible as one of the "bubbling under" extras.

 
01.   Charlene - I've Never Been To Me

ah, yes... "the subtle whoring that costs too much to be free..."  Charlene is the guest this week (and her life story is rather interesting, actually).  No wonder this song ended up a drag queen classic.

TANC: I've Never Been To Me was cowritten by Ron Wilson, who also wrote a bunch of Stevie Wonder hits incl. For Once In My Life and was just discussed over in the Obituary forum.

[RGMike]

Funky 16 Corners scores again with a total OMGWTF: his newest podcast has Doc Severinsen (yes, Johnny Carson's bandleader/trumpeter) doing a jazzy instrumental take on "Court of the Crimson King" (!!!)

http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/

sez Mr Funky 16:

Doc manages to remove the song from its super heavy, glue sniffing prog bombast, and refit it with a snappy new set of threads, making it a lot less “arena full of stoned grad students”, and a lot more “slightly cheesy version of the Concierto di Aranjuez”. When I say slightly cheesy, I only do so because there’s a certain loss of, how do they say “authenticity” when the leader of the Tonight Show band decides to try on this kind of material. That said, it’s very groovy in an LA 1970 studio jazz kind of way, which isn’t surprising when you take a look at the serious players on the session. I’ve been picking up Doc’s late 60’s/early 70’s stuff when I find it, and I have to say that most of the records have something cool to offer.

[RGMike]

Listening to Magic 98 in Wisconsin's "Saturday at the '70s" (which culminates in Casey Kasem tonite) and they're playing "Dy-no-mite" by Tony Camillo's Bazuka from 1975. Can't remember the last time I heard this one.