THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE (Oscar Hijuelos, 1989)

A million thanks to Amanda Roff for passing this book onto me before she went to America. Truly one of the most delicious things I've ever read...

It's basically an old Cuban musician holed up in the New York hotel room where he used to fuck innumerable pretty ladies, drinking himself to death and looking back on his life, particularly the times when he and his brother Nestor moved to New York in the late forties and became "The Mambo Kings". As the story takes it's ups and downs, his memories digress into other characters and we get their back stories too.

The writing is so rich it's basically poetry all the way, that sumptuous lusty Latin kind of poetry, and the constant mouth watering, brain fizzing descriptions of food and sex and mambo music had my dying to indulge in all three at once. A very frustrating novel to read on a cramped bus!

Here's a couple non-sequential pages to give you a feel for it...

On the radio, In the world... 1/12/11

ON THE RADIO

No guests this week, just lotsa cool records! Got some from harvey scales, louis x, billy miranda, the gardenias, jim ford, tino contreras, la brenda ben, bobby lewis and heaps more i is dying to play...

IN THE WORLD

I'll be playing a few sets at SOUL A GO GO at the trades hall this Saturday (be sure to turn up well before 10 or after 12 to avoid the lines), and on Sunday i'll have a stall down at the yahyahs record fair with garry7 from 12-6pm. Come down a buy our doubles for cheap! I'll have LP's 45's, CD's and books...

GIG GUIDE

(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)

Thursday dec 1^st

PBS PRESENTS “ROCK A BYE BABY” ft Judge Pino & The Ruling Motions @ Fitzroy Town Hall, 11am (bring yo babies, free for PBS members, $5 otherwise)

Made for Chicken by robots @ Old Bar w/ becky lee and Drunkfoot + BJ morrisonkle

Dr Strangelove screening @ The Astor Cinema, runs every night till Sunday

Fri 2^nd

Jack On Fire EP launch @ Phoenix Club

CW stonking @ the corner

Guitar Wolf @ The Tote

Sat 3^rd

SOUL A GO GO @ Bella Union (trades hall)

Sxifthick @ tote

Sun 4^th

Crate diggers record Fair @ Yahyhas, 12-6

Gentle Ben + Sixfthick + Brian hooper + More @ The retreat, starts 3pm

Mon 5^th

Guitar Wolf Live Set On Firewater, 5-7pm on 106.7 PBSFM

Next Fri 9^th

Major tom & The Atoms @ the retreat

grouse Party 4^th Bday @ Roxanne ft Big Freedia + Macromantics

Next Sat 10th

SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY @ the gem ft. MOAN INDUCING CREOLE SPICED PORK SPARE RIBS + DJ's Richie1250 & Pierre Baroni

COMING UP:

SAT 17^th

Harmony single launch @ Phoenix Public House

SUN 18^th

Graveyard train + Cash Savage @ Wheelers Hill Hotel

git on out

lurve

richie1250

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BODDIE BOX, PRISON SPECIAL

ARTIST | TRACK/SONG NAME | ALBUM TITLE | LABEL/DISTIBUTOR | COMMENTS

BODDIE BOX SET SELECTIONS:
KING JAMES VERSION - HE'S FOREVER
RL HUBBARD - CHILD OF THE KING
HARVEY & THE PHENOMENALS - DARLENE
THE HEADLINES - HE'S LOOKING FOR A LOVE
INTER CIRCLE - THE PLAYERS
JACKIE RUSSELL - DON'T TRADE LOVE FOR MONEY
THE VICTORY 5 - HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE POOL

HARMONY - GRAND DESIGNS
ROYAL HEADACHE - HONEY JOY
ROYAL HEADACHE - PSYCHOTIC EPISODE

PRISON SPECIAL WITH TOM LYNGCOLN:
THE PRISONAIRES - WALKING IN THE RAIN
THE MANSON FAMILY - IS THERE NO-ONE IN THE WORLD
ANDRE WILLIAMS - JAILHOUSE BLUES
NATHANIEL MAYER - I WAN'T LOVE AND AFFECTION (NOT THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION)
THE BAD BRAINS - SACRED LOVE
OLD DIRTY BASTARD - SHIMMY SHIMMY YA
KOOL G RAP - RIKERS ISLAND
THE FAT BOYS - JAILHOUSE RAP

RICHIE SINGS "WHAT'S UP" FOR PENTRIDGE D-BLOCK INMATES OF 1993

THE STICKMEN - ???
ARKADY SEVERNY - ???
BESSIE SMITH - SEND ME TO THE 'LECTRIC CHAIR
CW STONEKING - JAILHOUSE BLUES
MAYHEM - SOMETHING IN NORWEGIAN
THE RAMONES - HAVANA AFFAIR
GIL SCOTT HERRON - I'M NEW HERE

EDDIE BOYD - THIRD DEGREE
JIMMY SCOTT - ON BROADWAY
NAT KING COLE - CACHITO

KING JAMES VERSION - "HE'S FOREVER"

Spent the day listening through the latest big box set from The Numero Group, this one focusing on things recorded at the Boddie Recording Company of Cleveland, Ohio.

http://www.numerogroup.com/catalog_detail.php?uid=01313#

Lotsa great stuff on there, fuzzed out psychedelic jams and sweet vocal group soul and messy funk skronkers, but an immediate favourite is this joint "He's Forever" by a couple of guys who had a kind of old testament bible stage show, where they dressed up like Methuselah (see pic above) and worked it with a hard funk band. They just did one single, recorded live on stage, the B side of which is this intense vamp on the "midnight cowboy" theme. They laugh, they cry, they praise his name! The Lord's, not John Voight's. Enjoy, and if you got the scratch, buy the whole boxset!

DOWNLOAD HERE

On The Radio, In The World 24/1/11

ON THE RADIO

Goodness, so much record, so little time. Have just got new Numero 5 LP box set of clevelands Boddie recording Company, so probably a bunch of things off that, plus some unreleased bo diddley and maybe this amazing louis x muslim rant I still havent played yet, and then in the second half we have tom lyngcoln coming in to do a special on Prison Music

IN THE WORLD

If you down geelong friday night come visit me at mr hydes, i'll be spinning hip hop and reggae from 10-1am after the Stroke It DJ's, and on saturday i'll be dj'ing at yahYahs from 2-5 (simon laxton filling in from 12-2).

Oh yeah, and if you round the city tonight (thurs), Chook Race are playing at Pony at 9pm and i'm gonna get up with 'em and sing Rebel Rebel!

GIG GUIDE

(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...) (and apologies for the messed up formatting)

Thurs24th
Fatti frances @ Grace darling
puta madre Bros @ Cherry
BJ Morrisonkle + heaps more @ NM Town Hall (not the pub)
MMW Gig @ Pony ft. SuperWild Horses, harmony, Chook race and heaps more
Fri 25th
The Congos Instore Performance @ Northside Records, 230pm

Fatti frances @ Grace darling

The rebelles @ LuWow w/ Dj Mohair Slim

Cash Savage @ Old Bar
Richie1250 DJ'in 2 Mr Hydes )geetown). 10-1am
Sat 26th
ready Steady Go! @ Grace Dungeon w/ Mohair Slim, Emma Peel & Buddy Love
Gareth Liddiard @ Tote
Plague Doctor 2 The old Bar w/ The Velocettes
Richie1250 late night DJ'in @ YahYahs
Metropolis screening @ the Astor

Digger & The Pussycats tote front bar arvo reso w/ bad aches

Sun 27th

Ruby Koomen (reso) @ Blue Tile Lounge w/ special guests (6pm, 2 sets)

Chook race @ The Gasometer (reso) w. Braineaters + The Great Outdoors

Thursday dec 1^st

Made for Chicken by robots @ Old Bar w/ becky lee and Drunkfoot + BJ morrisonkle

Fri 2^nd

Jack On Fire EP launch @ Phoenix Club

CW stonking @ the corner

Guitar Wolf @ The Tote

Next Sat 3^rd

SOUL A GO GO @ Bella Union (trades hall)

Sxifthick @ tote

Next Sun 4^th

Crate diggers record Fair @ Yahyhas, 12-6

git on out there

lurve

richie

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potatoes with vegan margarine, and vegan apple pie with
non-dairy ice cream. "We are insulted," said one Turkey
resident. "We like Turkey. We are proud to be Turkey."

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Stone Love: Friday, 18 November 2011

CONGOS IN THE STUDIO!

ARTIST | TRACK/SONG NAME | ALBUM TITLE | LABEL/DISTIBUTOR | COMMENTS

JOHNNY TAYLOR - AIN'T THAT LOVING YOU
ALTON ELLIS - LA LA MEANS I LOVE YOU
THE TARTANS - COMING ON STRONG
THE CONGOS - FISHERMAN

THE CONGOS LIVE IN STUDIO INTERVIEW + ACCAPELLA FISHERMAN

MULATU ASTATKE - EMNETE
BIG JAY MCNEELY - NERVOUS, MAN, NERVOUS
THE STEPKIDS - SUBURBAN DREAM
TEETH & TONGUE - VASELINE ON THE LENS

TEETH AND TONGUE INTERVIEW

TEETH & TONGUE - COME FROM NOWHERE
TOTAL CONTROL - THE HAMMER
PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS - DO THAT DANCE
PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS - I CAN'T STOP IT

THE HARPOONS INTERVIEW

THE HARPOONS - KEEP YOU AROUND
DICK DIVER - NEWSTART AGAIN
CHOOK RACE - SUMMER LOVIN
DEEP HEAT - WHEN IT HUMS
ROSS DE CHENE'S HURRICANES - SHEILA
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - BOY CAN I DANCE GOOD
PUTA MADRE BROS - GRANDES PANTELONES
HERMAN HITSON - SHOW SOME SIGN
HARVEY SCALES & THE 7 SDOUNDS - LOVE-ITIS
J WALTER NEGRO & THE LOOSE JOINTS - SHOOT THE PUMP PT 1

SCREAMING SOVIET HEATER

Caught up with my old chum Martin Kay aka Mountian Black and dug some of the stuff he'd been doing during his recent 6 month stint in Armenia and surrounds, teaching kids about sound and making recordings off all sorts of crumbling soviet junk with his magical underwater microphone.

There was lots of cool stuff, you can dig it all at with great pictures at

http://mountainblack.net/

but this recording of the noises his old soviet heater would make when he turned it on each night was the highlight of my evening!

This recording of a melodica played in a giant derelict oil tank is another favourite

Big Jay McNeely

Seeing Big Jay play at the corner to a scant hundred people three years ago was one of the greatest experiences I've had. These kids don't look silly to me, cause I was there on my knees with my head in the bell of his horn, getting my brains blown out and making that same face. There something about big jay's sound, he's playing the same instrument as every other tenor saxophonist, but the way he blows it, it just sounds bigger and louder and richer and honkiner than everybody else.

A lotta the time when you see these older acts, you kinda taking your chances on what they gonna be like, but I can testify as your taste tester that Big Jay still got the honk to drive you into a transcendental frenzy. So don't stooge yourself and miss out! The guys 84 years old, so he's probably not gonna tour THAT many more times...

He plays Sat Nov 19th at The Corner

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152987304794837

and Sunday Nov 20th at Caravan Music Club in Oakleigh

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132969833472948

I'll be airing an interview I did with him on the show tomorrow and playing a bunch of his music, but in the meantime here's a couple of his honkers to groove on

Nervous Man Nervous

3-D

And here's a clip of him on the Ray Martin show back in '89! Dig the part where he sits on Tom Cruises lap...

on the radio, in the world 10/11/11

ON THE RADIO

First hour i'll be airing an interview with Big Jay McNeely and playing a whole bunch of his records to try and ensure as few of you miss out on seeing this legendary indestructible honker as possible.

Then in the second hour Woody McDonald, booker of the Golden Plains festival and doer of the excellent RRR show Primary Colours will be coming in to play a bunch of the acts from next March's Golden Plains.

And around those two things i'll try to play some of the groovy records i found up in sydney on the weekend, including the great Patti Palladin & Johnny Thunders version of 'crawfish' from '85. It's junktastic!

IN THE WORLD

Friday night I'll down in geelong at mr Hydes, and Saturday night me and G& be doing SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY at The Gem. Lotsa other stuff on too. if you get a chance, go see Royal Headache on Friday night, i saw 'em last weekend in Sydney and they were bloody amazing!

GIG GUIDE

(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)

Thurs 10th
Celibate Rifles @ the Tote
Richie1250 DJ'ing @ Luwow (closing party for Japanese Film festival)
Fri 11th
Royal Headache LP launch @ John Curtin Hotel

Northern Soul Weekender @ Roxanne Parlour
Richie1250 DJ'ing @ Mr Hyde (geetrot), 10-1am
Sat 12th

Twerps LP launch @ The Tote w/ Darren Sylvester
Chantdown More Fire! @ Deep 11
Brous EP launch @ Phoenix Club
Becky lee and Drunkfoot @ Old Bar w/ Puta Madre Bros
SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY @ The Gem ft. Creole Spiced Pork Spare Ribs + Richie1250 + Garry 7
Sun 13th
Chook Race @ Gasometer (reso) w/ Bad Aches + Bits Of Shit
Ruby Koomen (reso) @ Blue Tile Lounge w/ special guests (6pm, 2 sets)
Dolly Parton tribute Night @ YahYahs
BJ Morrisonkle @ the evelyn w/ Canary (lp launch)
Northern Soul Weekender @ Banana Alley (arvo)

Mon 14th
"Enter The Void" screening @ The Astor
Thurs 17th
Stranger Cole with MSO@ AWME launch party @ The HiFi Bar

Next fri 18th

Charles Walker & The Dynamites, The Public opinion Afro Orchestra, Kylie Auldist, Bobby Alu + DJ's Chriss Gill, manchild and Vince Peach

Next Sat nov 19th

Big Jay McNeely @ the Corner! w/ the Rebelles and the rechords!
Dick Diver LP launch @ Phoenix Club w/ The Harpoons
Sun 20th
Big Jay @ Caravan Music Club
Chook Race @ Gasometer (reso) w/ Pop Singles + Deep Heat
THE CONGOS @ AWME closing party @ HiFiBar

git on out there

lurve

richie

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delayed the release of his Greek-folk-influenced album, "True Love,"
over concerns about the European financial crisis. Available online
was the lead track, "Music," which begins, "Listen to these songs,
they are for you/ Listen to them when you have a thirst for
caresses/ Sing them when you are hungry for tenderness."

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Stone Love: Friday, 4 November 2011

listen here

http://www.pbsfm.org.au/taxonomy/term/176/2011-11-04

COUNT VON BARONI WAVE OF TERROR

Playlist for Friday 4 November 2011

Artist | Track/Song Name | Album Title | Label/Distibutor | Comments

king coleman - lookey dookey, pt.1 - 45

the revels - comanche - 45

larry bright - mojo workout - 45

steppenwolf - sookie sookie - 45

mike sharpe - spooky - 45

the first edition - just dropped in to see what condition my condition is in - 45

strawberry alarm clock - incense and peppermints - 45

bobby fuller four - the magic touch - 45

clairy browne & the bangin' rackettes - love letter - l.p. 'baby caught the bus'

richie 1250 & the brides of christ - whippet walk - 45

the loved ones - sad dark eyes - 45

traffic - hole in my shoe - 45

brigitte bardot - harley davidson - 45

jane birkin - jane b - 45

lord sutch & heavy friends - thumping beat - 45

simon stokes & the nighthawks - voodoo woman - 45

the troggs - I can't control myself - 45

pretty things - rosalyn - 45

nick drake - way to blue - l.p. 'five leaves left'

nick drake - hazy jane I - l.p. 'bryter later'

nick drake - river man - l.p. ' five leaves left'

nick drake - northern sky - l.p. 'bryter later'

nick drake - which will - l.p. 'pink moon'

nick drake - the thoughts of mary jane - l.p. 'five leaves left'

nick drake - poor boy - l.p. 'bryter later'

nick drake - fruit tree - l.p. 'five leaves left'

lightnin' rod, jimi hendrix & buddy miles - doriella du fontaine - 12" 45

the last poets - when the revolution comes - 12" 45

LIL B - 'JUSTIN BEIBER'

I like this guy. I find his rampant, ever smiling publicity seeking opportunism rather amusing. He names his songs after mega-celebrities to get more web search hits. He called his album "I'm Gay" just to get attention. And he is the king of the 'cooking' dance craze where one mimics the actions of of cooking. Stirring, mixing, flipping and so forth. Most of his actual music is resolutely awful, but I am rather taken with the dubbed out quality of his latest youtube hit, "Justin Beiber"...

Woody mcDonald hipped me to another pretty dope one he did a while back with his teenage hyphy group The Pack. Nice bassline...

Oh yes, and here he is with his cooking dance instructional video. Get cooking!

On The Radio, In The World 03/11/11

ON THE RADIO

I be away this week but the evil count Pierre Von Baroni will fill in for me. Beware of his evil Nick Drake records, they will have you hacking away at your wrist before you know it I tell you!

IN THE WORLD

GIG GUIDE

(Double check these listings before going to the gig! Sometimes I screw up the details...)

I haven't had time to make one this week, but don't forget:

COMING UP

Sat nov 19th

Big Jay McNeely @ the Corner! w/ the Rebelles and the rechords! He was absolutely brain melting last time, so don't stooge yourself...

git on out there

lurve

richie

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Stone Love: Friday, 28 October 2011

NOSFERICHIE AND THE AWFUL ACHES

DUANE EDDY - STALKIN'

BARON DAEMON & THE VAMPIRES - GHOST GUITARS
TARANTULA GHOUL & HER GRAVEDIGGERS - GRAVEYARD ROCK
KAY MARTIN & HER BODYGUARDS - SWAMP GIRL

COUNT VON BARONI SELECTIONS:
RONNIE COOK & THE GAYLADS - THE GOO GOO MUCK
CURTIS & THE CREEPERS - THE THING PT 1
BETTY LAVETTE - WITCHCRAFT IN THE AIR
CLASSICS IV - SPOOKY

THE CHAMPS - SUBWAY
GIN GILETTE - TRAIN TO SATANVILLE
CHUCK BERRY - DOWNBOUND TRAIN
FREDDY & THE HITCHHIKERS - SINNERS
IKE TURNER - SHE MADE MY BLOOD RUN COLD (CLAYTON LOVE VOCAL)
THE CHAMPS - 3/4 MASH
THE SATANS - MAKING DEALS
THE BOSWEEDS - FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL
THE REVELS - INTOXICA
THE THINGS - DEMON STOMP
THE LIME SPIDERS - SLAVE GIRL

BAD ACHES LIVE IN STUDIO 5 SET

MEAT PUPPETS - LAKE OF FIRE
OUTKAST - DRACULAS WEDDING
SUICIDE - GHOST RIDER
IRON CURTAIN - TERROR STORY

GRAVEDIGGAZ - 2 CUPS OF BLOOD
GRAVEDIGGAZ - 360 QUESTIONS TO ASK A GRAVEDIGGA
GRAVEDIGGAZ - 1800 SUICIDE
GRAVEDIGGAZ - DIARY OF A MADMAN
BIG L - RETURN OF THE DEVILS SON
BIG L - DEVILS SON