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I think Tarpit sounds interesting and ethereal and I like it a lot. It feels compressed and spare and still has some of the expansiveness of the original song. In the early 1980s KROQ did a great show called MV3 on non-cable TV that played videos by Soft Cell, Devo, Romeo Void, The Specials, Modern English, Human League, Falco, Billy Idol, Malcolm McLaren, Men Without Hats, Musical Youth, Wall of Voodoo, Oingo Boingo, etc. This remixed Tarpit could play on that show if they made a video of it with lots of eyeliner, asymmetrical hair, and triangles.
I’ll check out the Crooked Jades again, thanks essgee. Eddie Gale also played with Sun Ra and Coltrane. Pat Thomas, Erik Pearson et al are lucky to’ve played and made an album with him, he’s pretty great.
Interesting Crooked Jades clip; they get some nice press here. Erik Pearson plays with them, though I didn’t see him in the video–Erik also played sax, etc. in an early lineup of Daevid Allen’s University of Errors in the late ’90s and still plays in Mushroom.
The Crooked Jades are good, very much about the songs. I like the older shredders—Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, and the next generation–Tony Rice, The Seldom Scene, David Grisman, Peter Rowan–I don’t follow much new old time music.
If you like bluegrass, you’ll like The Seldom Scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk9vhhGyRyo
And since Bill Hicks mentioned evolution, entheogens, and space, here’s Erik Pearson and Mushroom with Eddie Gale:
Spokennerd’s cover of The Wagon (nice!) reminded me of the Casio Lady’s many great covers. She was a street musician who wore a winged mercury helmet and played a casio keyboard on Telegraph Avenue and downtown SF in the 1980s and 90s. Apparently her official name is Space Lady; me and my friends always knew her as The Casio Lady. I liked her version of Summertime Blues best, but her cover of Peter Schilling’s Major Tom is just great:
Not too many shuffleboard videos on youtube yet but here they are playing Mountain Man on deck, greatness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QJQuv5NNXI
‘I’m on a boat motherfucker take a look at me
Straight flowin on a boat on the deep blue sea
Bustin five knots, wind whippin out my coat
You can’t stop me motherfucker cause I’m on a boat’For Eggwater–
re. Aprhodites Child, it’s not J but here’s The Two Dimensions playing The Four Horsemen:
Glad you like Lhasa’s Leonard Cohen cover; it is great.
Also great were Thin White Rope. I saw them once and they were incredible. Here they are covering Lee Hazelwood’s Some Velvet Morning:
I work in Special Ed. with severely handicapped kids and I’m not offended. Hope it’s alright if I comment/free associate here on Sweet Apple’s show in San Francisco Friday night.
The show was great, the room packed; no snow, just lots of CHP’s on the drive home.
We got there a few minutes after Carlton Melton started. They played a 30 minute jam that sounded and felt awesome, like sitting in a jacuzzi, only instead of water jets it was an Orange amp sound wave massage. Some great playing overall, cascading doom dirge, endless sustain, and some wailing guitar from J Mascis, who sat in at some point, continuous melting fever music, not much stage banter but lots of fist raising and drumstick twirling by Rich Millman, many killer grooves and immense sound.
As for Sweet Apple, I thought they were a lot of fun and John Petkovic is a brilliant singer and front man. They played some rockin, rowdy tunes, pretty loose at times but great overall. The songs were way more structured than Carlton Melton’s but there was still some good jams. They opened with Flying up a Mountain and Do You Remember, after which I don’t remember. John P.’s stage manner consisted of pacing and jumping around while goading the crowd with witty, antagonistic comments peppered with appreciation of local culture/places. Highlights included his rap on love as related to death metal, desperation, "Dirty Fuckin Harry" (points to John for discussing film w/the crowd), appreciative nods to Li Po Lounge, Flipper, and meeting a member of The Flaming Groovies that day, which brought the topic back to how SF hipsters don’t appreciate local culture (probably true, as most SF residents are from somewhere else). He cracked us up with his ‘fuck yalls’ and overt and oblique crowd insults. I really needed some rocknroll catharsis after a long challenging day of work and Sweet Apple and Carlton Melton delivered.
Dead Meadow closed the show, and for me anyway, were just okay. All the momentum and energy built up by the musical juggernaut of Carlton Melton and Sweet Apple slowly dissipated like the mist from their fog machine during Dead Meadow’s set. They weren’t too musically interesting to me, though it seemed the crowd was way into it. Overall, two horns up, go hear Carlton Melton and Sweet Apple, preferably in a redwood forest, if you get the chance.
A few years ago Monks of Doom did a whole album of covers of great musicians/bands–Steve Hillage, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Richard Thompson, Quicksilver, Roy Harper, Bert Jansch, Soft Machine, etc.
I saw them play I think with Young Fresh Fellows and Sage around 1991 or so and I remember they did a blazing "Oh Well".Here they are doing Steve Hillage’s "Light in the Sky":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38vmBzmihbY 38vmBzmihbY
Que viva Mingus!
Another cool Mingus cover by SKB (not too shabby for a bunch of dirty pot smoking hippies):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTWtgHcyid8 HTWtgHcyid8
Lhasa de Sela covers Leonard Cohen’s "Who By Fire":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGwaP_8Qk-o iGwaP_8Qk-o
Lhasa passed away a year ago this week. Like Sandy Denny’s death, a huge loss. !DEP Lhasa and Sandy!
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy cover DK’s California Uber Alles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkKDlfSApQU
Re. Carla Bozulich and covers, a while back Evangelista was offering to play private gigs for a minimal fee and travel expenses, and part of the gig involved the person hosting giving the band an mp3 of any song they wanted them to cover and Evangelista’d learn it and play it at the gig. Carla rules.
I don’t know how to link it but there’s a great video up at Amoeba’s in-store concert archive of Evangelista doing Pissing, Truth is Dark Like Outer Space (!!), Hello Voyager, Smooth Jazz, and a bunch of other great songs off Hello, Voyager. The video quality’s way better than the Two Foot Yard clip, the playing is incredible, and the videographer (R. Crumb?) has a serious shoe appreciation going on with Carla.
That is a nice collection of decks/swag. I want.
Empire2, have you picked up the You’re Living All Over Me board that came out a little while ago? I bought an old school YLAOM deck for my kids that was on the wall at a Berkeley skate shop a few months ago, ‘s nice.
Tony: it’s set up w/ Krooked Zip Zinger wheels (55 mm) and Thunder trucks.
I got a Farm deck for my 10 year-old when it came out and just recently got around to putting grip tape, OJ III’s, and Independent trucks on it. I bought another Farm deck w/ the cd for my 17 year-old nephew who is a big Dino Jr fan and a great skater. I don’t know how he set it up but he was stoked.
