On The Radio, In The World … 29/7/10

ON THE RADIO
DJ Jim Dandy’s Dumpster Delights! Part 2! Once again I have swooped by the dumpster out back of Jim Dandy’s house when my spidey senses started tingling and telling mere there was fresh meat inside, and boy howdy I found some gems. They may be a little busted up, but they sound goooood. That’ll probably take up the first hour or so, and then, well, I’ll just keep on playing all the new records I’ve scavenged from other places. I got this great old bootleg LP called East Side Story Vol 1 of all those seventies vocal group sounds that Mexican Gang members in LA love, with a fab picture of just such a gang and great amauterish drippy lettering on the front. You gotta see this thing, its just so Ghetto…

IN THE WORLD
Thurs 29th
Plague Doctor @ Old Bar
Fri 30th
Exotics @ yaya w/ the jackknives
Super Wild Horses LP Launch @ The Victoria Hotel
Sat 31st
Eagle and The Worm @ Ding Dong w/ Bridezilla
Richie1250 late night DJ’ing @ Cherry from 12-5am
"Michael GT Blair & The Funkadelic Side" (SL PATRONS) James Brown Tribute @ Tony Starrs Kitten club
Lilith lane @ The Edinburgh Castle
Fri Aug 6th
Minibikes supporting The Models @ The Espy
Richie1250 DJ’in @ Mr Hyde (Geelong)
Sat 7th
Soul a Go Go @ The Johnston
Comin up:
THROB. THE 60s BEAT HAPPENING! Aussie, British, American, European... you got it all!... a 60s vinyl freakout. Fri Aug 20 @ The Johnston w/ DJ’s Pierre Baroni, Electric Mudcat, Emma Peel and Richie1250



git on out there
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LAST WEEKS PLAYLIST

SKIPPIN SOUL STIRRERS - 23/07/2010 Playlist

1 NEARER TO THEE THE SOUL STIRRERS
2 SOMEBODY REV RH HARRIS AND THE GOSPEL PARADERS
3 LET'S STRAIGHTEN IT OUT O.V. WRIGHT
4 FEVER ELVIS
5 COLORADO KOOL AID JOHNNY PAYCHECK
6 MOVE LIKE A MUMMY GRAVEYARD TRAIN
7 DRAG YOU DOWN THE EXOTICS
8 CAUGHT YOUR SMILE THE BOWERS
9 PUTANANNY TWIST THE PUTA MADRE BROS
10 STORM WARNING MAC REBENNACK
11 GEORGIA GRIND HERMON AND THE ROCKIN TONICS
12 ROCK N ROLL BABY MERCY BABY
13 TRY THIS LIL OLE HEART OF MINE TONY HARRIS
14 I CAN'T STOP CRYING SAM HUTCHINS
15 A LOSING GAME JAMES CARR
16 HERE WITH ME PEGGY SCOTT & JOJO BENSON
17 FROZEN WORLD ANGIE PEPPER
18 WALKING ON THIN ICE YOKO ONO
20 DANCING IN HEAVEN Q FEEL
21 CHINA GIRL IGGY POP
22 MY PAL GOD
23 SPERM DONOR RIFOKI
24 AGENTS SPLIT TRK 1 EXTORTION
25 HEY MUM EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING
26 QUESO Y COONES PUTA MADRE BROS
27 RAPTURE BLONDIE
28 ROCK THE BEAT JAMAICA GIRLS
29 CATCH THE BEAT T SKI VALLEY
30 CHECK ONE TWO DIAMOND D
31 WOO HAH (WORLD WIDE REMIX) BUSTA RHYMES FT ODB
32 LOVE L.O.D. KEITH MURRAY

How Ghetto is this record cover?

Was grinning from ear to ear when I found this at The Searchers yesterday. There's this whole wonderful culture of mexican gang members in LA being obsessed with this kind of smoochy seventies vocal group soul. There must be a million dodgy looking bootleg compilations with names like "Lowrider Gangsta Oldies Vol 11", but if the notes on the back are to be believed, this is the first! It's certainly the most lovably ghetto looking one i've come across, from the pic of the 'gang' to the crappy drippy letters to the tape holding it together to the earnest spiel on the back about 'the essence of the way of life of the Low Rider'. I lurve it...

PS Note the appearance of last weeks post, "I'm Just An Average Guy" by The Masqueraders on Volume 5! You can't get more smoochy lowrider than that...

McHouston "Mickey" 'Guitar' Baker

My old lady is house sitting for my buddy Rodrigo and I have had a great old time sitting here in his loungeroom in my underwear, warming by the electric fireplace and digging through his spectacular library of compact discs. Rodrigo is hilariously ignorant of white music, but he has a wall of blues, jazz, ska and whatnot so jam-packed and extensive it is almost obscene at points. He has, for instance, not one but FIVE different 4 disc Fats Waller box sets. “Fifteen discs of Fats Waller enough? Are you mad? Get out of my house!”



My favourite find so far has been this disc of Mickey Baker’s records from the early 50’s. I knew his rep as basically the number one r’n’b session guitarist in New York, playing all those tasty licks on records by Little Willie John and Big Maybelle and The Coasters and everybody else, and his records with Sylvia Robinson as Mickey and Sylvia (most of which I never liked much, save for No Good Lover), but I had no idea he’d cut all these cool sides under his own name. Of course, looking at the notes, a lot of the coolest ones never even got released and sat in the can for 50 years until this CD came out, so thank God it did. Real nice succinct but flavorful telling of his story too, check it out…





I love his guitar tone, real clean but so valvey and rich. Here he is cutting up on a thing called “Guitar Mambo” (though even he gets cut by Ram Ramirez on the funky organ), here’s one of the boss unreleased numbers on the CD called “Down To The Bottom” and here he is ripping on Big Maybelle’s “Ocean of Tears”, which also criminally sat in the can for 40 years (you can find it on The Complete Okeh Sessions). And here he is today!



Dig this article about the photographer Jim Herrington meeting up with Mickey in France (it also has some more detailed background on him), and cop the aforementioned anthology here. There’s also another CD done by Rev-O-La last year that combines a bunch of the solo stuff with other hot records he played on as a session man called "Mickey Baker In the '50s: Hit, Git & Split”. Looks tasty…

PS I find it amusing that he was at first McHouston "Mickey" Baker and then Mickey moved up to official status and he was then Mickey "Guitar" Baker...

On The Radio, In The World … 23/7/10

ON THE RADIO
Soul Stirrers, RH Harris, Sam Hutchins, Johnny Bond, Johnny Paycheck, and more!

IN THE WORLD
Fri 23rd
Graveyard Train LP launch @ The Corner
LIONEL LEE'S CURSE Album Launch, w/ Nathan Porter, Weeping Willows @ WESLEY ANNE
Richie1250 DJ’in @ Mr Hyde in Geelong, 10-1am
Sat 24th
The Exotics @ The GB w/ The Golden Screws
Sun 25th
Wash winters willies… w/ clinkerfield and others @ Tote
Plague Doctor @ NSC w/ Mike Noga
Fri 30th
Exotics @ yaya

git on out there
lurve
richie1250
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LAST WEEKS PLAYLIST

ARCHER LIVE, AFRO BLUE - 16/07/2010

No. Song Name Artist
1 I'M JUST AN AVERAGE GUY THE MASQUERADERS
2 I DON'T HAVE TO SHOP AROUND ANY MORE THE MAD LADS
3 OOH BABY BABY THE MIRACLES
4 I HAVE NONE O.V. WRIGHT
5 DEAR BOBBY BOBBY BLUE BLAND
6 JUST A FEW FEET FROM THE GUTTER THE ASCOTS
7 LOVE SLIPPED THROUGH MY FINGERS HERMAN HITSON
8 I AM NOTHING AL WILLIAMS
9 BLUE TEARS LC COOK
10 BABY DON'T YOU WEEP WILSON PICKETT
11 BLUES IN THE NIGHT JOHNNY TAYLOR
12 AFRO BLUE OSCAR BROWN JR
13 O YES MY LORD VOICES OF CONQUEST
14 MY STORY MAHALIA JACKSON
15 GHOST DANCE TRUETT AND GEORGE
16 ARCHER LIVE IN STUDIO SONGS ARCHER
17 THE BLUES SINGER FROM ALABAMA EMMET MILLER
18 THE LION TAMER EMMET MILLER
20 I GOT A WOMAN CRAZY FOR ME EMMET MILLER
21 ISRAELITES DESMOND DEKKER
22 SOMETIMES I WONDER JACKIE OPEL
23 FREEDOM SONGS TOMMY MCCOOK
24 FREE FOR ALL TINY BRADSHAW
25 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE ROOTS
26 MAD CREW KRS ONE
27 BRING THE PAIN METHOD MAN
28 IT'S SO COLD IN THE D T BABY
29 TAKE U 2 DA MOVIES BANGS

"I Can't Stop Crying" - Sam Hutchins / The Masqueraders

Sam Hutchins - I Cant Stop Crying

The Masqueraders - I'm Just An Average Guy


I'm a huge fan of the soul group The Masqueraders, and I was very happy recently to come across what is kind of a lost, sideways piece of their canon I had never heard before. A journeyman vocal group from Texas, The Masqueraders tried and failed to make it in Detroit during the mid sixties (though they cut some wonderfully atmospheric lo-fi jams for Lou Beatty's LaBeat label), but really hit their stride artistically when they wound up at Chips Moman's American Recording Studio (home to recent hits like The Box Tops "The Letter", Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds" and Joe Tex's "Show Me") in 1968, cutting a string of aching but oh so rich and creamy soul ballads with the dynamite American Group house band backing them up.

What really sets the 'Raders apart from many of their contemporaries, besides the ripping lead vocals of Lee Jones, is that they wrote almost all their own material. Somewhere along the way they picked up a buddy from Texas named Sam Hutchins, who became almost the sixth Masquerader, opening their shows and filling in when members drifted out of the group for a while. Chips signed him up too and he cut three singles which the ‘Raders wrote and backed him up on; including today’s number, “I Can’t Stop Crying”. That falling over hi-hat thing that Gene Chrisman goes into about half way through just slays me!

After 40+ years with only fleeting hints of success, The Masqueraders are still performing on Beale St in Memphis today (repping for Texas in big cowboy hats), sometimes joined by their old buddy Sam Hutchins.

You can read an excellent
interview with them here, and you can buy the excellent
The Masqueraders: Unmasked anthology heree. It’ll make you feel real warm and creamy…

On The Radio, In The World … 16/7/10

ON THE RADIO
Some Eric B and Rakim, some Yoko Ono, some Emmit Miller, and a couple in studio live songs from this guy named Archer me and Pierre discovered playing old timey 20’s blues stuff in the back room of Cherry at 6am after last soul a go go. He’s grouse! Probably about 5:45 for him… And probably about 6:30 a little section of youtube internet heroes both sublime and ridiculous! Tune in…
Also, if there are any non actors out there who might like to do some, the dude who made that film “Bastardy” about jack charles is doing open casting for non-actors to be in his new film. If you innarested, lemme know and I’ll forward you the details…

IN THE WORLD
FRI 16th
Baprism Of Uzi @ Tote w/ Teen Archer
James Brown tribute @ Idgaff
Mohair Slim late night DJ’in @ yaya
SAT 17th
Gentle Ben and His Sensetive Side @ The Tote w/ romance
Jackknives Cd launch @ Cherry w/ toot Toot Toots and MIDNIGHT WOOLF

Fantapants late night DJ’ing @ yaya

Open casting (non actors) for Amiel
Courtin-Wilson's (Bastardy) upcoming feature film Hail @ 6/650A Nicholson Street, North Fitzroy, btwn 10am 9pm

WED 21st
My Birthday!
THURS 22nd
Grindhouse @ The Astor
Friday 23rd
Richie1250 DJ’in @ Mr Hyde in Geelong, 10-1am
Sat 24th
The Exotics @ The GB w/ The Golden Screws
git on out there
lurve
richie1250
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LAST WEEKS PLAYLIST
STONE LOVE 09 /07 /10

5 YEAR B'DAY! EXOTICS PLAY LIVE - 9/07/2010

No. Song Name Artist
1 CLIFFHANGER BLACKALISCIOUS
2 SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND PINK FLOYD
3 KID A RADIOHEAD
4 TRUE BLUES THE LAST POETS
5 HIGHER GROUND STEVIE WONDER
6 SMALL CHANGE TOM WAITS
7 THREE OF US KLUTE
8 5 MILLION WAYS THE COUP
9 CABRON RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS
10 VENUS DI MILO TELEVISION
11 ONE WAY OR ANOTHER BLONDIE
12 DRACULAS WEDDING OUTKAST
13 IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH BOB DYLAN
14 THERE SHE GOES THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
15 SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC JIMI HENDRIX
16 EXOTICS LIVE TO AIR SET THE EXOTICS
17 SPIES IN THE COFFIN TASK FORCE
18 DEAD AND LOVELY TOM WAITS
20 STEAMBOAT OPERATOR MITCH HEDBERG
21 LETTER TO THE OLD SCHOOL PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS
22 EGO TRIPPIN ULTRAMAGNETIC MC'S
23 MURDER MYSTERY EDAN
24 ECHOES OF HARLEM DUKE ELLINGTON
25 ST JAMES INFIRMARY LOUIS ARMSTRONG

THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES!

I went to the library intent on getting something stupid to watch, and boy did I succeed with The Abominable Dr Phibes! Starring Vincent Price (in his big 100th film!) as the fabulous Phibes, a becaped, pipe organ playing superghoul who's never too busying with his crazed murdering to enyoy a waltz with his undead bride or a nice dry martini, poured down the hole in his neck from whence his croaky proclomations of doom doth utter!

The deal is, a team of nine eminent surgeons and one perky nurse fail to save a concert organists beautiful young wife, and he prompty drives his car off a cliff in a frenzy of greif. Some years later, they come back from the dead to inflict a fabulous revenge on their wrongdoers, with each mind boggling murder inspired by one of the ten plagues visited on the Pharoahs in the bible. It's frogs, locusts and rats a go go, baby!

The production design is all done in wonderfully colourful, London '69 style, and the pacing is bracingly brisk! Unlike most B movies, which dole out the action sparingly between oodles of yawnsome line reading, this is basically one fiendishly ingenious supermurder after another, with occasional interjections from big-nosed cockney policemen saying 'he's a queer one that Dr. Phibes, inni?', and nice scenes of Phibes and his wife lamping in their ghost mansion, romacing to the sound of his life size tin wind-up big band. Price has some wonderful latex outfits and his glowing red pipe organ is a thing to behold, as is his fabulous hair and trademark ham.

I squealed with delight the whole way, and I wait with baited breath for evening when Dr Phibes Rises Again!

On The Radio… + SL 5th BDAY BASH! … 8/7/10

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ON THE RADIO
This week is Stone Love’s 5th bday! I will be having a sweet show with my fave band The Exotics playing live in studio 5 and spinning tunes off my last ten years worth of Christmas CD’s, all of which I will be giving away to some lucky punter in the famous STONE LOVE SACK OF CRAP, along with a boss fake beard, a vampire costume for your baby, a copy of Crime and Punishment, and various other crap!
Everyone who comes to my 5th birthday bash at the Arthouse on satddee gets a raffle ticket and goes in the draw. And I’ve also made a special commemorative mix cd of late night deep soul, in an attractive green sleeve, for the first 50 payers. BBQ from 6, bands from 8, See ya’ll down there if I do…

Also, brides is playing at the POW in St Kilda, with Little Red next thurs, which is the last gig for both our Katungan drummer and our Iranian keyboard player, come down if you on the southside!

IN THE WORLD
THURS 8th
Mikelangelo and the Tin Star @ NSC
The Fckups @ Yaya
FR 9th
“Grouse” queer party @ The Bendigo (actually is quite grouse)
Darren Sylvester @ The Workers Club w/ Scott and Charlenes Wedding
NEXT SAT July 10th
More Fire @ deep 11
EATW 7” Launch @ NSC
Stone Love 5th BDAY BASH @ The Arthouse ft. The Exotics, The Once Overs, Richie1250 and The Brides Of Christ, Romance and DJ’s Kim Walvisch, Ruari1240, and Ken Eavel, free BBQ from 6pm, bands from 8, commemorative mix CD for the first 50 payers, raffle for the famous Stone Love Sack O’ Crap, and all proceeds go to PBS!
SUN
Tanya Lee Davies @ Grumpys, 2pm
THURS 15th
Little Red @ The Prince Of Wales w/ Brides Of Christ
FRI 16th
Baprism Of Uzi @ Tote w/ Teen Archer
SAT 17th
Gentle Ben and His Sensetive Side @ The Tote w/ romance
git on out there
lurve
richie1250
to get off this list, reply saying: “Why Stalin? Why Stalin” Elvis asked, his voice breaking. “Of all people, what’s he doing up there?”

LAST WEEKS PLAYLIST

SL 04 07 10

HOW TO PICK A WINNER... - 2/07/2010 playlist
1 PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS MORE THAN YOU KNOW
2 TUPAC SHAKUR TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA
3 RAEKWON THE CHEF VERBAL INTERCOURSE
4 GOODIE MOB DECISIONS DECISIONS
5 NINE WATCHU WANT
6 KING HANNIBAL I GOT THAT WILL
7 LEE MOSES HEY JOE
8 THE VOICES OF EAST HARLEM NEW YORK LIGHTNING
9 DIAMOND JOE HOW TO PICK A WINNER
10 THE TAMS TAKE AWAY
11 LEE JONES AND THE SOUNDS OF SOUL THIS HEART IS HAUNTED
12 SAM HUTCHINS I'M TIRED OF PRETENDING
13 LABRENDA BEN AND THE BELJEANS THE CHAPERONE
14 LONNIE YOUNGBLOOD AFRICAN TWIST PT 1
15 BILLY LAMONT SWEET THANG
16 THE EXOTICS BUTTON ON THE DASH
17 PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC ELVIRA
18 SPIRIT MR SKIN
20 TOM JONES HOLD ON I'M COMING
21 DION LOST FOR SURE
22 JACQUE BREL LES PAUMES DU PETIT
23 GENEVIEVE WAITE DANNY
24 SCOTT WALKER THE GIRLS FROM THE STREETS
25 ELVIS PRESLEY DON'T CRY DADDY
26 BOB DYLAN I'LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT
27 JIMMY TAIT INNOCENT

TAKING A WHIPPET FOR A WALK

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I was charged this week with writing an article about taking a whippet for a walk for 3000 magazine. Check it out here!

Be sure to click the hyperlinks. I though 8 hyperlinks in a 250 word article was pretty good going!

THREE STIRRING VIDEOS

Which stirred me this week...

This one I found very stirring in a broadway / proleteriat sort of way


This one mad me double over with laughter until i couldn't breathe...


And this one stirred up all sorts of indescribable, wonderful emotions...

On The Radio, In The World… 1/7/10

ON THE RADIO

Some some some some a this in a bun…

IN THE WORLD
Soul A Go Go Saturday night! I also DJ’ing at Ding Dong from 12-3 Friday night, free entry…

THURS July 1st
New War @ Bar Open

FRI July 2nd
War Inna Babylon free Burma Fundraiser @ Noise Bar
The Beards @ DingDong w/ Richie1250 DJ’ing 12-3am

SAT July 3rd
Black Jesus Experience @ Bar Open
Soul A Go Go @ The Johnston
You n Ur Music (SL Patrons) @ Pony

SUN July 4th
Death Of A Scenester Zine Fundraiser @ 591 High St, Thornbury ft. Jimmy Tait, Little John, Julia deans and Raul Fuzz of Midnight Woolf, starts at 3pm
Romance (Nathan Hollywood’s new thing) @ The Empress w/ fatti frances and darren sylvester

THURS 8th
Mikelangelo and the Tin Star @ NSC

NEXT SAT July 10th
More Fire @ deep 11

Stone Love 5th BDAY BASH @ The Arthouse ft. The Exotics, The Once Overs, Richie1250 and The Brides Of Christ, Romance and DJ’s Kim Walvisch, Ruari1240, and Ken Eavel, free BBQ from 6pm, bands from 8, commemorative mix CD for the first 50 payers, raffle for the famous Stone Love Sack O’ Crap, and all proceeds go to PBS!

git on out there
lurve
richie1250
to get off this list, reply saying: “…by 1935 Leroy Carr's body proved incapable of handling the amount of liquor he poured into his face during his brief years of fame…”

LAST WEEKS PLAYLIST

JESUS MUST BE QUITE A GUY... - 25/06/2010 playlist

SL 25/06/10

1 BROTHER LONNY DEBERRY AND THE GOSPEL PERSUADERS JESUS IS THE SWEETEST NAME I KNOW
2 UNIVERSAL JUBILEERS CHILDHOOD DAYS
3 MASONIC WONDERS I CALL HIM
4 THE SOUL STIRRERS PEACE IN THE VALLEY
5 CLAUDE JETER AND THE SWAN SILVERTONES A CHRISTIANS PLEA
6 MAHALIA JACKSON MY STORY
7 BIG MAYBELLE OCEAN OF TEARS
8 O.V. WRIGHT I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU
9 O.V. WRIGHT I'LL HATE MYSELF TOMORROW
10 GROVER MITCHELL I'M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU PT 2
11 LILITH LANE LIVE IN STUDIO SONGS
12 LILITH LANE WHEN YOU FIND YOUR TREASURE
13 THE BREEDERS OFF YOU
14 MEAT PUPPETS THE MIGHTY ZERO
15 IGGY POP NIGHTCLUBBING
16 ANTHONY RED ROSE TEMPO
17 DIAMOND D STEP TO ME
18 SHOWBIZ AND AG REPRESENT
20 GANGSTARR DWYCK
21 SIR MIX A LOT BEEPERS
22 ROXANNE SHANTE LIVE ON STAGE
23 BIG DADDY KANE WRATH OF KANE
24 DJ HYPE SUPERSHARPSHOOTER