What's Spinning?

right now i'm listening to 'Death in June'

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	Crusader Tom wrote:
	right now i'm listening to 'Death in June'

What is "death in June" Tom?

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It was just an innocent gas pump fight...who would know it could be dangerous?

At the moment...Culture's "Two Sevens Clash: The 30th Anniversary Edition" includes a few 12" remixes and a few dub versions of a couple of the original tracks.

I've been recently expanding my Reggae horizons. As great as Culture are, and as pivotal as they were (both in the reggae and punk movements of the late 70s), I'm surprised (if not a bit remiss) that I haven't gotten in to them sooner.

"...a historic reggae recording which literally brought the city of Kingston, Jamaica to a standstill...and inspired a whole generation of punk rockers."

"...an apex of collaboration of musical forms and subcultures and shared audience that made for a most entertaining group of hit records surrounding the fated year, 1977. Both breakaway sects of their musical "religions" - roots reggae and punk rock - were ready to grasp hands over a cultural divide...the musics were so deeply committed to an apocalyptic view of their relation with the world, a spirit of disenfranchisement and confrontation mixed with a messianic fervor, a series of ritual communions (ganja and speed) and distinctive fashion (dreadlocks and spikes, redgoldgreen and black), only added to the solidarity." from the liner notes from the 30th Anniversary Edition.

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Sounds cool Beetle, I need to check that out. I tried to get a little deeper into the reggae last year but got a little burnt out. I think I am back in a place where I could dig some fresh angled punk reggae.

Right noe I am listening to the "Jackie brown" sound trck. It's a nice mix and I've liked the Tarrantino sdtrcks ever since I got the Res dogs And Pulp Fiction back in the day. You know, the little dialogue clips between the songs add to the vibe.

Samuel Jackson (Ordell) , "You smoke too much of that shit, it's gonna rob you of your ambition."

Bridget Fonda (Melanie), "not if your ambition is to smoke pot and watch T.V." Laughing

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It was just an innocent gas pump fight...who would know it could be dangerous?

I've always dug Tarantino's soundtracks too, although it's been hella days since I've heard any of them.

Culture is mos def roots reggae, but I guess the connection with the punk scene comes not so much in musical style, but the message..."the disenfranchisement and confrontation".

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2005 Chetak

50 Worldwide Gold Hits- Elvis Presley

R.I.P. Big "E"

January 8, 1938- August 16, 1977

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It was just an innocent gas pump fight...who would know it could be dangerous?

...'Echo & the Bunnymen'

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cowboyrob wrote:

	Crusader Tom wrote:
	right now i'm listening to 'Death in June'

What is "death in June" Tom?

...check 'em out: www.deathinjune.net
they're a very "dark" folksy/techno band... hard to explain

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I put an old cassette on the desk last week to upload onto the PC so I could burn a CD so I'm spinning it. It's as good as I remember when I heard it the first time. Here's the story:

A few years ago my sis called and said "get the boombox out, I'm coming down to drink some beers, sit in the creek and get a fish pedicure. I got some John Prine and something you ain't never heard that you are gonna LOVE!!!!".

Well, John Prine (as well as Jerry Jeff Walker) are favs of mine, but the B side cassette with Run C & W kicked my hiney. Part 'tongue in cheek' humor, all great pickin' and singin'. I've covered all the tunes below during my days on the road. Great rhythm & blues and Detroit City soul played in a way that you have never heard it before.

	Spoken word intro wrote:
	Played just like we did in front of Craig's Chicken Pit, in Left Hand, Missouri. Carryin' that great message to the world. Playin' that great soul music the way God intended, Bluegrass Style!

Album Song List:

Walkin' the Dog
What'd I say
Superstition
STOP in the Name of Love
My Girl
Sweet Soul Music
Hold on, I'm Coming
Workin' in a Coal Mine
Midnight Hour
Loving You Too Long
Itchy-Twichy Spot (ok, this ain't soul music Wink

it's a comedy take-off of Achy-Breaky Heart. It's the only song I ever heard about a skeeter bite.)

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"I see a big market for designer tin foil head gear..."

"Grow up and stop posting like a 14th Century Vatican Flat Earth Zealot."

Sounds like some great stuff...

My dad's got a blues band together and he (bass, guitar, vox), my brother (drums) and I (bass) all went into the studio to record an album. One of the songs we did (that my dad so generously invited me to play bass on) was Walkin' the Dog...great tune...especially because my dad's got a little white, fluffy lap dog that he takes walkin' around the neighborhood.

So much fun!

Rock on!

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2005 Chetak

Totally cool, you're like the Partridge Family or something Shocked

I'd love to hear some of the recordings you did, maybe we can swap CD's when I get the album loaded up?

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"I see a big market for designer tin foil head gear..."

"Grow up and stop posting like a 14th Century Vatican Flat Earth Zealot."

ARTIST: CAT POWER
ALBUM: THE GREATEST

If you haven't heard it you might like to. Sounds kind of like the velvet underground teamed up with the cowboy junkies and recorded an opiated lo-fi soul album with a slight country twinge. Only the musicians playing on this are a hell of alot better than the velvet underground.

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It was just an innocent gas pump fight...who would know it could be dangerous?

When I started this thread I was inspired to do so while listening to "Maggot Brain" by Funkadelic. I am listening to that again right now, and I got to say, if you aint heard it yet go get a copy and listen to it. If you like Hendrix, Sly, and of course P-funk/ George Clinton then prepare to have your mind blown out your ass.

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I have been spinning hurricane and nola music all day.

Called my old room mate that now lives in memphis and talked to him and his relatives that are staying with him to escape the storm. They are from Houma, thats further south then New Orleans.

I had grown used to a visit from different folks every hurricane season, and now I feel a little left out when the cajuns don't invade my living quarters for 3 or 4 days when a hurricane rolls in.

Good hurricane New Orleans music that has hit the turntable today:

Levon Helm- album American Son- Specifically the song- Hurricane

Robby Robertson- Storyville- Great album produced by Daniel Lanoise and written about the famous New Orleans district by the guitarist for "The Band".

Jelly Roll Morton- Library of Congress recordings.

Proffessor Longhair- House party new orleans Style.

boozoo Chavis- Paper in my shoe

Next - I am not sure yet........ I am at that point in the celebration where my brain stem is starting to have pains from my liquor intake, and I am not sure if I am drinking to slow and too little or too fast and too much. Its so much harder to gauge where your buzz is at when you walk to get the next drink after you lose your first leg.

Rob

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It was just an innocent gas pump fight...who would know it could be dangerous?

Another hero of mine bites the dust. A gentleman at that. A guitarist that was as funky as a Georgia man can be. A great songwriter and a damn fine actor. I remember as a kid my older brother always got to be Burt Reynolds and I would play Snowman, but I liked it that way cause Snowman was cooler to me. This really sucks. I hate mortality.

Now Jerry is watching our backdoor looking out for Smokies in the sky. ~Damn the Double-Nickel~

R.I.P. Jerry Reed 1937-2008

JIVE TURKEY!

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It was just an innocent gas pump fight...who would know it could be dangerous?

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	Totally cool, you're like the Partridge Family or something I'd love to hear some of the recordings you did, maybe we can swap CD's when I get the album loaded up?

haha...yeah kinda like the Partridge Family, but way cooler, IMHO...but I'm biased Very Happy

Pops has been getting some more work done on that album, he's pretty stoked about it. When it's finished, I'll see about posting some songs up somewhere...

There's a file hosting / sharing service called esnips.com. You can upload music there, and embed players in websites and such. As long as copyright laws aren't being broken, it's all good...

This is a great thread, btw, I love reading about what everyone's listening too!

Cheers,
Brother Beetle

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Springsteen's The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle has been playing alot lately. Old Springsteen gives you goosebumps and newer Springsteen (post Nebraska) gives you the dry heaves.

It's always fun to revive this thread and find a few gems.[/i]

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...New Order -Temptation.

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beetle94707 wrote:

At the moment...Culture's "Two Sevens Clash: The 30th Anniversary Edition" includes a few 12" remixes and a few dub versions of a couple of the original tracks.

I've been recently expanding my Reggae horizons. As great as Culture are, and as pivotal as they were (both in the reggae and punk movements of the late 70s), I'm surprised (if not a bit remiss) that I haven't gotten in to them sooner.

"...a historic reggae recording which literally brought the city of Kingston, Jamaica to a standstill...and inspired a whole generation of punk rockers."

"...an apex of collaboration of musical forms and subcultures and shared audience that made for a most entertaining group of hit records surrounding the fated year, 1977. Both breakaway sects of their musical "religions" - roots reggae and punk rock - were ready to grasp hands over a cultural divide...the musics were so deeply committed to an apocalyptic view of their relation with the world, a spirit of disenfranchisement and confrontation mixed with a messianic fervor, a series of ritual communions (ganja and speed) and distinctive fashion (dreadlocks and spikes, redgoldgreen and black), only added to the solidarity." from the liner notes from the 30th Anniversary Edition.

im a huge ska/reggae fan and im really dissapointed you pointed this out to me and i never heard it before. its aweseome. thank you.

fav bands right now are

Vampire Weekend
The Exit
The Very Best
The Streets
Immortal Technique(talk about pissed off disinfranchised)
Common
MIA
Lady Sovereign
All my classic stand by ska...
des dek, king django, wailers, black uhru, lee perry..etc

but this might be easier.

http://www.deezer.com/track/2431

click linky. go to community and search for me. it will throw up my profile scroll down for playlists.
Doin Ben's Mom is the master playlist. peruse that. it may blow your mind. so be careful.

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Thats a sweet bike.

H-Burg Hooligans.
Harrisburgs Toughest.

http://harrisburghooligans.freeforums.org/

I listened to Mark Lanegan today on my way to work.

That guy has got the coolest voice evar.

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	rufusswan wrote:
	Totally cool, you're like the Partridge Family or something I'd love to hear some of the recordings you did, maybe we can swap CD's when I get the album loaded up?

Rufus,
Because you asked...Here's the first song from that blues album my pops, bro and I started on some months ago...
Dad is singing, and maybe playing guitar, I don't remember who ended up doing guitar on that track. My brother on drums, I'm on bass, Ira Kamin on Piano

Walkin' The Dog

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2005 Chetak

Beetle,

I'll review this later today ... at 8.8mb it'll take an hour or two to bring it down Mad

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"I see a big market for designer tin foil head gear..."

"Grow up and stop posting like a 14th Century Vatican Flat Earth Zealot."

hmmm...it doesn't just start playing in the website when you click on the link?

I was hoping that's what it would do.

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2005 Chetak

Beetle,

I'm on a dial-up link not a hi-speed link, so no, I can't stream music over this internut thingy. I get about 3/4 of a second of music every 40 seconds. Email the MP3 of the tune.

[scene fades in over the sound of daybreak in the Ozarks]

..... so I get up early ... got a steaming cup 'o hot joe ... a cig ... lot''s of interesting stuff to do this week (not to mention more 70' weather) so I walk into the front room - wake up the Mac - and sitting in the "Inbox" is an MP3 with a big, shit-eatin' grin on it's face. Control-Click to play the Mac says Cool

I'm ready to play but I hesitate. I cut my drummer teeth on these old blues tunes, and I've heard this tune arranged badly. This ain't one of those sad, pedantic, slow blues tunes. This should be jive, happy, kickin' stuff. Ok, I'm prepared to say nice things to Beetle no matter how this plays out and that grin is beginning to look like a Cheshire cat. I check the volume levels on the stereo, take a deep breath and click in a controlled manner Rolling Eyes

The snare rolls up the pickup beats with zest. Right hand up onto the 'bell' of a big ride cymbal, left hand folds over the stick (Roy Haynes 10A) for that muted snare/woodblock sound, bass drum comes in counter to all. Stage left bass and guitar jump right onto that oh so familiar bass line, guitar twinning it an octave higher. Then in rolls the piano. This has pace, the right pace. Tight too, James Brown Revue tight.

You have walked my dog, Beetle Wink

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"I see a big market for designer tin foil head gear..."

"Grow up and stop posting like a 14th Century Vatican Flat Earth Zealot."

Thanks for the wonderful review...it'll make pops super happy...

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

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