OnThe Radio, in The World 30/9/10

ON THE RADIO

Will be playing some sweet soul music from the Valentinos cause we got soul a go go this saturday, some rockin r'n'b from Wynonie Harris and such cause our CD O THE WEEK we givin away is 'Keb darge and Lil Ediths Rockin r'n'b', some frantic jazz from the very square lookin earl bostic cause I am feelin him, some fresh to def 80's Hip Hop cause I'll have a heap of it in my box to play at Mr Hyde later on, and some other stuff too!

GIG GUIDE

FRI oct 1st
Archer @ Pure Pop Records
Stroke It radio DJ's @ Mr Hyde in geelong from 6-10, then Richie1250 from 10-1
The Rebelles @ Anytime Place

The Once Overs @ Cherry
SAT OCT 2nd
SOUL A GO GO @ The Johnson
Steph Brett 2 the Builders Arms (4pm)
Bushdance fundraiser for the Darebin Community Legal Centre @ Preston Shire Hall ft Sal Kimber and The Thornbury Drovers
Michael GT Blair & The Funkadelic Side @ The Vineyard
Benfit Gig for Sean Jeffrey, Kiwi who busted his leg in the pub footy competition and has a family to support @ The Marquis Of Lorne ft. Clinkerfiled, Dan Brodie and other stuff
SUN OCT 3rd
Fatti Frances @ YahYah w/ The French, Friend and Dud Pills

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ANYTIME RADIO! Live radio plays with live sound effects and everything @ Anytime Place from Fri Oct 1st till Thurs Oct 7th, with special guest bands playing each night, including Fri: The Rebelles, Sat: Plague Doctor, Sun: The Once Overs

COMING UP:
BRANCHES MUSIC FESTIVAL in a forest near healsville. Benefit to provide solar lighting to the entire East Timorese village of Besilau. 27 & 28th of November. Google it for linup and details...

git on out there
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LAST WEEKS PLAYLIST

DOWWWWN BOOUUUUUUND TRAIN 24/9/10

Stone Love : Playlist for Wednesday 29 September 2010
Artist | Track/Song Name |

RAY LEWIS - I STILL LOVE YOU
LEE MOSES - I'M SAD ABOUT IT
JANET AND THE JAYS - WITHOUT A REASON
BOBBY BLUE BLAND - HOW DOES A CHEATING WOMAN FEEL
CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS - STORMY MONDAY BLUES PT 1 & 2
CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS - REELIN AND A ROCKIN
THE PRETTY THINGS - COME SEE ME
MOTORHEAD - WHITE LINE FEVER
POLKA DOT SLIM - A THING YOU GOTTA FACE
CHUCK BERRY - DOWN BOUND TRAIN
HAROLD JACKSON AND THE JACKSON BROTHERS - THE FREEDOM RIDERS
HAROLD JACKSON AND THE JACKSON BROTHERS - TRAVELLIN
ROLAND KIRK - A HANDFUL OF FIVES
OUTKAST - SHE'S ALIVE
BJORK - AURORA
KELIS - TRICK ME
OLD DIRTY BASTARD FT KELIS - GOT YOUR MONEY
RODNEY P - RIDDIM KILLA
MICHIGAN AND SMILEY - DISEASES
FITZ AND THE COOZERS - COVER ME
ITALS - DAWN PATROL
TV SLIM - LOVE BOUNCE
THE COASTERS - LET'S GO GET STONED
JOHNNY PAYCHECK - COLORADO KOOL AID
ROGER MILLER - KANSAS CITY STAR
GEORGE JONES - RAGGED BUT RIGHT
THE SUPREMES - THIS BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING
GENEVIEVE WAITE - BITING MY NAILS
THE SHANGRI-LA'S - GIVE HIM A GREAT BIG KISS

CHARLIE RICH ON HI RECORDS

I love Charlie Rich. He's a Charmer.

His time at Hi Records in the mid sixties was brief and not particularly significant for either party, but i've always found the records they made rather charming.

Charlie probably cut his goldiest bricks at Sun in the late 50's but his best stuff always had more of a roly poly barrelhouse piano storytelling vibe than the standard psychotic knife-weilding energy of his label mates. He'd finally hit on some big silver haired Nashville country mega stardom recording for Epic in the seventies, but for the most part that stuff sounds pretty staid.

Hi was still searching for an identity, presently halfway between the hokey instrumentals they'd started with and the soupy smooth memphis soul they'd hit with in the early 70's, desperately searching for a star vocalist. Charlie wasn't it, the records didn't do shit, and within a year he had his walking papers, but I kinda wish they'd stuck with it a few more years. The records aren't really classics, but there was some real potential in the sound they were getting. Charlie always wanted be a jazz pianist (and spent the late forties working supper clubs in Mel torme mode), he had a great country crooners voice, and he always had a natural feel for for r'n'b, and I guess that all comes together nicely on the Hi Stuff. He did a whole album of Hank Williams songs which is a bit patchy, but I love his dreamy rendition of Wedding Bells. Pass On By is classic memphis country soul coming from the country side, and Can't Get Right has that nice mid period Hi strutting organ funk I could listen to all day.

All Charlies Hi stuff was collected on a CD in 2000 that's still pretty easy to find, so if you dig these, git out there and cop you some silver haired country soul...

Wedding Bells
Pass On By
Can't Get Right

ANYTIME RADIO

The tireless Steph Brett is putting on a week of live old style radio plays at anytime place. I'm going to be voice acting in the detective one on sunday, and possibly some more next week. We'll see!

Different guest band performing each week too, dig the lineup here...

http://www.myspace.com/anytimeradioshow#ixzz10JzYs8EF

On The Radio, In The World... 23/9/10

ON THE RADIO

Ooooooh, got this great deep soul thing by Ray Lewis called "I Still Love You" (the sequel to "getting over you", He was wrong!) that I've been after forever. Man it's good. Got that Johnny Brantley stamp of weird intensity all over it. Also some early Chris Farlowe and The Thunderbirds (he was neck and neck with Tom Jones as the ballsiest singer in the early brit r'n'b scene, but instead of becoming an international pop star he became britains leading collector of Nazi war memorabilia...), plus more from Motorhead, The Pretty Things, Brownie Mcgee, Louis Jordan, plus other stuff too...

GIG GUIDE

Fri 24th
Love and Theft Records showcase @ YahYahs with The Bowers, Dynamo and more! + Andrew Young on the late night DJ'ing, 12-5am
Richie1250 DJ'ing @ The Old Bar 12-3
The Bombay Royale @ Bar Open
Ken Eavel DJ'ing @ Corner Hotel front Bar 11-3
Sat 25th
Midnight Woolf @ YahYah w/ The Once Overs and Murderball + Anto Mantooth on the late night DJ'ing 12-5
Sun 26th
"Psychedelic Barbecue" @ The Tote ft. The Grand Rapids + Mass Cult + Death Valley Band
+ Plague Doctor from 6pm
Thurs 30th
PBS Presents Lotek @ The NSC

NEXT SAT OCT 2nd
Bushdance fundraiser for the Darebin Community Legal Centre @ Preston Shire Hall ft Sal Kimber and The Thornbury Drovers
NEXT SUN OCT 3rd
Fatti Frances @ YahYah w/ The French, Friend and Dud Pills

git on out there
lurve
richie1250
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LAST WEEKS PLAYLIST

HENDRIX IS DEAD! LONG LIVE HENDRIX! 17/9/10

Playlist for Friday 10 September 2010
Artist | Track/Song Name


BILLY GAYLES - I'M HURTIN
LONNIE YOUNGBLOOD - AFRICA TWIST
BILLY LAMONT - SWEET THANG
JIMI HENDRIX - EXP
JIMI HENDRIX - UP FROM THE SKIES
JIMI HENDRIX - RAINY DAY DREAM AWAY
JIMI HENDRIX - RED HOUSE
JIMI HENDRIX - CATFISH BLUES
JIMI HENDRIX - DRIVIN SOUTH
JIMI HENDRIX - MANIC DEPRESSION
JIMI HENDRIX - SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC
JIMI HENDRIX - HOUSE BURNING DOWN
JIMI HENDRIX - THIRD STONE FROM THE SUN
THE ATLANTICS - MONKEY TREE
THE MOVING SIDEWALKS - 99TH FLOOR
DEAD MOON - GOING SOUTH
BLACK SABBATH - SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH
BUFFY SAINT MARIE - LYKE WAKE DIRGE
CHOSEN GOSPEL SINGERS - PRAYER FOR THE DOOMED
BIG MAYBELLE - NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I'VE SEEN
CLIFF GOBER - A POOR WAYFARING STRANGER
OFS UNLIMITED - MYSTIC
OFS UNLIMITED - MR KIDNEYS
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - TIME
GHOSTFACE - IRON MAIDEN
THE ROOTS - ADRENALINE
EL-P - DEAD DISNEE
BJORK - HIDDEN PLACE
JEHST - HIGH PLAINS BONUS BEATS

TOM JONES / CHRIS FARLOWE

I. JUST. CAN'T. STOP. WATCHING. THIS.

Tom Jones Circa 1964. The crowd, the singing, the rockin combo behind him, the part where he points at the camera, but most especially, The crotch thrusts...



Around the same time, a young man named Chris Farlowe was neck and neck with Tom for the title of ballsiest, brassiest singer in the London R'n'B scene. He made some great records, and had a no 1 hit with the jagger/richard produced "out of time", but while Tom went on to become an international pop star and underwear collector, Chris went on to become Britain's foremost collector of Nazi war memorabilia. Make of that what you will...

On The Radio, In The World... 16/9/10

ON THE RADIO

Buffy Saint Marie, Big Pun, Roger Miller, Redman, Black Sabbath, Bjork, Dead Moon, Coasters, Ghostface, and other stuff too... Oh yeah, and lots of Hendrix! cause it's his deaths birthday on saturday...

GIG GUIDE

Thurs 16th
Ron peno's RSVP's @ Grace Darling w/ Sonic Scout
Fri 17th
Agents Of Abhorrence @ Bar Open w/ Useless Children, Scul Hazards and Collapsed Toilet Vietnam
Richie1250 late night DJ'in at Yah Yahs (12-5am)
Splatterheads @ The Tote w/ Midnight Woolf
Jacky Winter @ Penny Black
Sat 18th
Moon Lantern festival @ Richmond Housing Estate
Brian Hoopper @ yahyahs w/ billy mccabe (sailors and swine)
acky Winter Trio @ The Prague w/ Legends Of Motorsport Bakelite Age
Sun19th
Michael GT Blair & The Funkadelc Side (SL PATRONS) " A James Brown Tribute" @ The Transport Hotel (3pm)
Baptism Of Uzi @ YahYahs w/ Losers and Late Arvo Sons (from 5pm)

Tuesday 21st
Trivia with leaping Larry L @ Pure Pop Records
Thurs 23rd
Ron peno's RSVP's @ Grace Darling w/ harry Howard

git on out there
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richie1250
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LAST WEEKS PLAYLIST

I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT BABY 10/9/10

Playlist for Friday 10 September 2010
Artist | Track/Song Name

GROVER MITCHELL - I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT BABY
WILLIE MITCHELL (DON BRYANT ON VOCAL) - EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE ALRIGHT
THE SOUL PRESIDENT - GOT TO HAVE IT
ETTA JAMES - ALL THE WAY DOWN
BUDOS BAND - BLACK VENOM
ADOLPHE PARILLON - COUNTRY
LOUIS JORDAN - RUN JOE ('56)
JOE HIGGS - I'M THE SONG MY ENEMIES SING
THE RUDIES - TRAIN TO VIETNAM
ALTON ELLIS - LA LA LA MEANS I LOVE YOU
JOHN HOLT - LEFT WITH A BROKEN HEART
THE SOUL FLAMES - MINI REALLY FIT DEM
THE COASTERS - BESAME MUCHO PT 1 & 2
THE DRIFTERS - RAT RACE
BIG MAYBELLE - DO LORD
SWAN SILVERTONES - MY ROCK
ARCHIE CAMPBELL - THAT'S GOOD THAT'S BAD
LEE HAZELWOOD - I HAD A FRIEND
THE ROLLING STONES - SWEET VIRGINIA (LIVE)
LULU - SURPRISE SURPRISE
TOM JONES - THUNDERBALL (LIVE AT THE TALK OF THE TOWN)
ROLAND KIRK - THE INFLATED TEAR
MELVIN VAN PEEBLES - THREE BOXES OF LONGS PLEASE
GHOSTFACE - ALL THAT I GOT IS YOU
GHOSTFACE FT THE FORCE MD'S - THE SOUL CONTROLLER
NAS - ONE LOVE
RALPH MCDONALD - THE PATH

Geneive Waite - Romance is On The Rise (1973)

I love this record. I love the lyrics. I love the way Genieve squeals in that weird childlike breathy marilyn monroe voice and gets totally wild and off key on things like White Cadillac but it's just magic all the way. I love the Fleetmood Mac / Broadway type arrangements that are totally west coast session muso slick but completely tasteful and idisynchratic at the same time. I just love it all!

John Phillips (he formerly of the mama's and the papas) wrote some of the material for an aborted broadway show, but ended up folding it into this record he produced for his third wife, actress Genevieve Waite. It was a critical success but a commercial stiff and quickly dissappeared. Phillips blamed poor distribution, but it managed to get itself distributed in Australia by Festival, where my mate Teo's mother Jan came upon it (I think Henry from the black cat put her onto it when it came out) and proceeded to annoy him by playing it every day of his childhood. When I started doing the radio show she kept saying I should hear this genevieve waite record (to which Teo strongly objected), and several years later she finally managed to play it to me. Thanks, Jan. It a real treasure.

The whole record is great, but heres a couple of faves to get you hot on the trail...

Danny

White Cadillac

Trashy Rumours

It was reissued on Cd a few years ago but now seems to be out of print again. You don't see the LP too often and people usually want a fair bit of money for it, but I found a copy just yesterday for $15, so don't give up hope!

On The Radio, In The World … 9/9/10

ON THE RADIO
Soooooooooo much good stuff at the mo. Got this Grover Mitchell record with the most wondrous tone (the horns sound like buzzsaw guitars), this amazing drifters thing called "Rat Race", great coasters version of "Lets Go Get Stoned", this awesome old LP of rocksteady stuff on the Pama label (the actual label of the record feels like leather or something too, it's rool cool...), this killer big Maybelle gospel record, some great hilbilly comedy numbers, wonderfully scratchy record of "Miles Ahead", and mo mo mo.... Also we got a couple of the new Budo Band record to give away to some lucky PBS member...

GIG GUIDE
Fri 10th
Archer @ Pure Pop Records (6pm)
Ken Eavel DJ'in @ Corner Hotel Front Bar 11-3am
The Night Terrors @ The Tote
Richie1250 DJ'in @ The Retreat, 12-3am
Sat 11th
You N UR Music (SL PATRONS) @ John Curtin
Chant Down babylon presents "More Fire" @ Deep 11
Miss Goldie late night DJ'in @ YahYah (Mess Around 60's party upstairs)

WED 15TH
Fatti Frances @ Bar Open w/ Barrage + Toecutter
Fri 17th
Agents Of Abhorrence @ Bar Open w/ Useless Children, Scul Hazards and Collapsed Toilet Vietnam
Richie1250 late night DJ'in at Yah Yahs (12-5am)
Splatterheads @ The Tote w/ Midnight Woolf
Sat 18th
Moon Lantern festival @ Richmond Housing Estate
Brian Hoopper @ yahyahs w/ billy mccabe (sailors and swine)

git on out there
lurve
richie1250
to get off this list, reply saying: “Put down your shotgun, papa, everythings gonna be alright...”

LAST WEEKS PLAYLIST

THEY CAN'T STOP IT 3/9/10

JOE LUTCHER - OJAI
WYNONIE HARRIS - SONG OF THE BAYOU
MAHALIA JACKSON - I'M ON MY WAY TO CANAAN
JOHNNY MORRISETTE - BLACK KNIGHT
THE SOUL STIRRERS - SAM STUDIO CHATTER
THE VALENTINOS - IT'S ALL OVER NOW
THE SIMMS TWINS - I GOPHER YOU
SAM COOKE - JUST FOR YOU
ETTA JAMES - MARKET PLACE
CHAMPION JACK DUPREE - HOUSE RENT PARTY
HOWLIN' WOLF - CALIFORNIA BLUES
Elvis Presley - Stranger In My Own Home Town (dirty)
Elvis Presley - Drug Story
Elvis Presley - Polk Salad Annie (dirty)
Radio First Termer Broadcast (edit)
JOHN FITCH - ROMANTIC ATTITUDE
THE MUSIC MACHINE - MASCULINE INTUITION
ECSR - NOISE IN MY HEAD
ECSR - YOU LET ME BE HONEST WITH YOU
PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS - I CAN'T STOP IT
PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS - DO THAT DANCE
ASYLUM - TV EYE
PATTI SMITH - 25TH FLOOR (LIVE)
THE PARTICLES - THE TRUMPET SONG
OMD - WAITING FOR THE MAN
SLICK RICK AND DOUG E FRESH - THE SHOW (LIVE)

THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1959)

Been watching the original series of The Twilight Zone for the first time. Amazing! The quality of script and direction in each episode is just sterling, comparable to great films of the time, and the voice overs by series creator Rod Serling are just to die for! And then at the end of each episode you actually get to see the voice! He's got some kind of weird lip thing and seeing him talk and that voice coming out of him just makes me quiver with delight...

Here's a classic episode in three parts (with a nice Serling outro at the end of part 3...)

On The Radio, In The World … 2/9/10

ON THE RADIO

A couple of special treats this week! Got a couple of unbeleiveably great uncensored Elvis recordings where he and the band get loose as hell and he lets rips with the expletives like Al Sweringen from Deadwood, as well a recording I found on the The Hound Blog of a pirate radio show done by a GI in Vietnam named Dave Rabbit circa 1970. "We bring the truth to the first termers here in the republic of Vietnam. We also bring you Hard Acid Rock Music, the up to date music of todays american youth..." The music, from the likes of Sugarloaf, Bloodrock and Three Dog Night, is pretty painful, but Dave Rabbit's announcing is just hilarious, so I've edited it so that each 12 minute acid rock masterpiece only goes 20 seconds or so...

Aside from that, got some great r'n'b from Joe Lutcher and Wynonie Harris, a bunch of things form Sam Cookes SAR records label, some 80's australian stuff from The Primitive calculators, the Particles and Asyluum, and some other stuff too...


GIG GUIDE

Fri Sept 3rd
Primitive Calculators @ YaYa w/ The Paul Kidney Experience
Stroke it Soundsystem @ Mr Hyde, Geelong from 5-10pm then Richie1250 from 10-1am
The Once Overs @ The NSC w/ bob log III and money for rope
Sat Sept 4th
Vanda And Young Book Launch @ Yaya w/ DJ Roy, The Frowning Clouds and The Golden Screws
Toot Toot Toots Album Launch @ The Tote w/ Digger & the Pussycats + Mother & Son + YIS + Jack on Fire
The Once overs @ The Grace darling w/ The Yard Apes and Matt Sonic
Barbarion @ Pany 2AM
Soul A Go Go @ The Johnson
Sun 4th Sept
YaYa's 2nd Bday w/ Digger & the Pussycats, Eagle and The Worm, + many more

git on out there
lurve
richie1250
to get off this list, reply saying: “If I ever find out who you are that said that about me, i will pull your goddamn your tongue out BY THE ROOTS!”

LAST WEEKS PLAYLIST

MUCH LITTLE WILLIE JOHN - 27/08/2010
No. Song Name Artist
1 CALDONIA ('56) LOUIS JORDAN
2 LONG SKIRT BABY BLUES T BONE WALKER
3 LITTLE RED ROOSTER FENTON ROBINSON
4 PO BOY WALK TOUSAN
5 ONE KISS LED TO ANOTHER THE COASTERS
6 BRAZIL THE COASTERS
7 TAKE MY LOVE LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
8 YOU GOT TO GET UP EARLY IN THE MORNING LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
9 LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO ME LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
10 I'M SHAKIN LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
11 HEARTBREAK LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
12 MR GLENN LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
13 THE PLACE THE JOHNNY BRANTLEY ALL STARS
14 NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
15 PARDON ME WHILE I CRY LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
16 LIFE LOVE & MONEY LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
17 YOU HURT ME LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
18 UH UH BABY LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
20 SPASMS LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
21 FEVER LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
22 TALK TO ME LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
23 HURTING OVER YOU BOY JANET & THE JAYS
24 OLD MAN TROUBLE OTIS REDDING
25 PRETTY WOMAN AL GREEN
26 GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME ULTRAMAGNETIC MC'S
27 CHECK 1, 2 DIAMOND D
28 40 ACRES AND MY PROPS SHOWBIZ AND AG
29 WRATH OF KANE BIG DADDY KANE
30 MEN AT WORK KOOL G RAP
31 BAD SISTER ROXANNE SHANTE

"Vinyl", A documentary by Alan Zweig

Thanks to Simon Grounds for putting me onto this great homemade documentary about record collecting. Director Alan Zweig, who sees his own collecting obsession as a mental affliction that has basically sabotaged his life, interviews other obsessos in their houses and casually slips in questions like, "So, do you ever think, maybe I collect all these records because I hate myself and need to fill the void of my meaningless life?"
The collectors he interviews are a mixed bunch, some definietly more likeable or amusing than others, but this guy here is by far my favourite...

Zweigs endless maudlin monologues about wishing he had a daughter and obsessively collecting easy listening records he doesn't even like get a little trying, but many of them are very funny too, and it's all part of the sense of mental unhealthiness that's at the heart of the film.

As a record collector, it certainly made me assess my own habits and motivations, and as a documentary I found it utterly compelling! Well worth a look...

SOUL A GO GO SEPTEMBER!

This Saturday at The Johnston (next to The Old Bar), 9 till 3am. Will be JUST. LIKE. THIS.