JIMMY SCOTT: IF YOU ONLY KNEW (Matthew Buzzell, 2004)

I've been really into Jimmy Scott recently, particularly his 1969 album "The Source", and this beautiful documentary really gave me a deeper insight into him as a person and an artist. It features extensive interviews with the man himself, his friends and family and his biographer David Ritz, as well as lots of fantastic footage of him performing in Japan in the early 2000's. I highly recommend it. It's out on DVD (I rented it at The Movie Reel in Westgarth). Without laying his whole story out, I'll simply say that Jimmy Scott has had a hard row to hoe, and his resilience and depth of character is nothing short of remarkable. And his voice and phrasing only to seem to get more beautiful with age.

Here's a couple video's to hopefully peak your interest.

This is a short that director Matthew Buzzell made on Jimmy (I would image as a way to get funding to make the feature. it comes as an extra on the dvd).

Here's Jimmy's appearance on the last episode of Twin Peaks

And here's his revelatory take on "Unchained Melody", from "The Source"

PS

You should listen to the audio commentary on the DVD, it has great extra stories on it, including one hilarious one about the REAL Caldonia a teenage circumcision on the road...

On The Radio, In The World 26/01/12

ON THE RADIO

More 40's pachuko boogie, more Tom Jones, more Cambodian garage psych, More More, More, how do you like me, how do you like me, Moe Moe Moe, why don't you like me? Nobody likes me...

Sunday i'll be filling in for miss goldie again on Boss Action, from 1-3pm...

IN THE WORLD

GIG GUIDE

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

Fri 27th

DJ Jim Dandy @ Strange Wolf from 6pm

Sat 28th

Ready Steady Go! Mod record party @ Grace Darling Dungeon, ft DJ's Mohair Slim, Buddy Love, Emma Peel

Cambodian Space Project @ Grace darling Upstairs

The Stepkids @ EBC

Sun 29th

Eugene Holcombe @ 303 w/ The Weathermen and Jess Moussi & The Songbird Orchestra

Thur 2nd

jimmy tait @ the Retreat

git on out there

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richie1250

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Stone Love: Friday, 20 January 2012

COUNTRY BOYS AND GIRLS

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

JOHNNY OTIS SHOW - COUNTRY GIRL

ALVIN ROBINSON - DOWN HOME GIRL

BIG TINY KENNEDY - COUNTRY BOY

THE STONE CRUSHERS - TADPOLE WIGGLE

B BUMBLE & THE STINGERS - MASHED NO 5

JOHNNY OTIS ORCHESTRA - MAMBO BOOGIE

DON TOSTI'S PACHUCO BOOGIE BOYS - WINO BOOGIE

MARGA BENITEZ - WINOS ON PARADE

MAHALIA JACKSON - MY STORY

KAY MARTIN & HER BODYGUARDS - FEVER

SANTO & JOHNNY - CARAVAN

SANTO & JOHNNY - SUMMERTIME

PAUL ANSELLS NUMBER 9 - I GOT A FEELING

JD MCPHERSON - WOLF TEETH

LEW WILLIAMS - CAT WALK

CHUCK MILLER - HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS

TOM JONES - BREATHLESS

TOMMY SCOTT & THE SENATORS - BABY I'M IN LOVE

HAMILTON WALKER - YOU MUST BE THE ONE

ROY COLUMBUS & THE INVADERS - YO YO

NORMIE ROWE & THE PLAYBOYS - AIN'T NECESSARILY SO

YOL AULORONG - WHISKY

THE EXOTICS - DOWN ON THE STREET

THE PUTA MADRE BROS - EL TORO BRAVO

THE HARPOONS - HEY GIRL

CHOOK RACE - SUMMER LOVIN

JIMMY WAYNE - I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

SVEN LEIBEK - DARK WORLD

RODRIGUEZ - I WONDER

JOSE FELICIANO - WORK SONG

ODETTA - TROUBLED

SWAN SILVERTONES - IS GOD SATISFIED WITH ME

THE GOSPEL FABULATORS - READ IT IN THE BIBLE

BO & THE METROS - MOVING ON

ANITA MOORE & THE TSU JAZZ ENSEMBLE - COMPARED TO WHAT

THE AFRICAN SOULS - HALLALOUIA TWIST

HUGH MASKELA - GRAZING IN THE GRASS

JOHHNY BRANTLEY'S ALL STARS - THE PLACE

ICY SPICY LEONCIE

Thanks to Fatti Frances for introducing me to the world of Icy Spicy Leoncie!

There's a bout a thousand more songs where that came from, just follow the youtube links!

On The Radio, In The World 19/01/12

ON THE RADIO

Some weird calypso from marga benitez, some flaming garage from hamilton walker, some 40's pachuko boogie from don tosti, and some other stuff too...

IN THE WORLD

I'll be DJ'ing at The LuWow friday night from 9 till 3, with a set in the middle somewhere by hanks jalopy demons. Come down and get cocktailed!

Oh yeah, and on sunday i'll be filling in for miss goldie on Boss Action. Soul slowies from 1-3pm...

GIG GUIDE

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

Next Fri 20th

Hanks Jalopy Demons @ Luwow w/ DJ Richie1250

The Once Overs @ the retreat

Quang Dinh solo @ The Birmingham, 9-11pm

Next Sat 21st

Nick Curran benefit gig @ St Kilda Bowls Club ft/ the exotics, benny & The Fly By Nighters, Ska Vendors + Chris Russells chicken walk

Keggin @ Pony 2am

Judge Pino @ Bar Open

Dead Farmers @ The nash (geelong) w/Bad Aches

Next Sat 28th

Ready Steady Go! Mod record party @ Grace Darling Dungeon, ft DJ's Mohair Slim, Buddy Love, Emma Peel

git on out there

lurve

richie1250

To get off this list, reply saying: "Television chef Paula Deen, creator of the glazed-doughnut hamburger, was revealed to have type 2 diabetes."

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Stone Love: Friday, 13 January 2012

SEAN BONNIWELL R.I.P

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

THE SURFARIS - CHICAGO GREEN
JIMMY HENDRIX - STONE FREE
BILLY LAMONT - SWEET THANG
CHUBBY CHECKER - GYPSY
THE MUSIC MACHINE - DOUBLE YELLOW LINE
THE MUSIC MACHINE - MASCULINE INTUITION
THE MUSIC MACHINE - TROUBLE
THE MUSIC MACHINE - ADVISE & CONSENT
THE MUSIC MACHINE - THE PEOPLE IN ME
THE MUSIC MACHINE - EAGLE NEVER HUNTS THE FLY
THE MUSIC MACHINE - YOU'LL LOVE ME AGAIN
THE MUSIC MACHINE - ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY
THE MUSIC MACHINE - COME ON IN
POOR PEOPLE - FINGER AND THUMB
POOR PEOPLE - PHREEEX
SONIC YOUTH - TEENAGE RIOT
THE REAL KIDS - JUST LIKE DARTS
THE PAGANS - BOY CAN I DANCE GOOD
THE CHOIR - IT'S COLD OUTSIDE
ARIEL PINKS HAUNTED GRAFFITI - IMMUNE TO EMOTION
TOTAL CONTROL - THE HAMMER
TOTAL CONTROL - RETIREE
JESUS & MARY CHAIN - PSYCHOCANDY
THE ODDBALLS BAND - EAT THAT SHIT, PUNK ROCKER
THE ODDBALLS BAND - WADE IN THE WATER
THE THROB - THE FORTUNE TELLER
THE MARTINIS - HUNGOVER
PAUL SIR RAGGEDY FLAG - SHOO FLY PIE
MASKMAN & THE AGENTS - MOON DREAM
MASKMAN & THE AGENTS - PRICES IN CRISIS
MITCH MITCHELL & GENE KING - NEVER WALK OUT ON YOU

SEAN BONNIWELL R.I.P

I freakin' love The Music Machine. They had just the right combination of brilliantly thought out arrangements and thuggish punk beat, of brooding dark lyrics and sly humour. So much to love, so much evil fuzz guitar and and brain slicing farfisa and brilliant propulsive basslines and weird turnarounds and great echoey claps... And their all black with one black glove uniform is equally cool and stupid and endearing.

The buzzing brain behind The Music Machine, Sean Bonniwell, blinked out from lung cancer on the 20/12/11. I'll play a whole bunch of his work on the show this week, but here's a few faves for now...

GREAT MOMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY #1: THE ITALIAN COFFEE MAKER THING

I love these things. You have three chambers, one on the bottom filled with water, one in the middle filled with ground up coffee beans, and one on the top filled with nothing. There's pipes connecting the bottom and top bits to the middle. As the water boils some kinda pressure forces it up the pipe and into the coffee chamber, where it smooshes all into the coffee and gets all coffeed up, and then as more water comes up the spout, it has to get out the dang way and make room ("quit hogging the coffee chamber" says the next bit of water, "how long you been in there?") and goes shooting up the next pipe and out into the top chamber. I love sitting there with the lid open waiting for the coffee to start spurting out the top of the pipe, and if you do it just right and keep the heat low, it doesn't spurt at all, it just comes over the lip of the spout and runs down the side of the pipe at such a perfect steady rate you can barely see it moving, you just see your pot of coffee filling up. It's like sacrificial blood running running down the altar in some kind of mayan virgin murder ceremony or something. I love making coffee with my italian coffee maker thing.

On The Radio, In The World 12/01/12

ON THE RADIO

Cor! Got a whole a whole bunch o' new singles to spin this week, including the excellent b-side of The Monster Mash, "Monster Mash Party"! Plus others by the surfaris, the throb, sonny & cher, don hart & james shorter, chuck miller and more. Maybe some tango music too! Oh yeah, i just found out about two weeks late that Sean Bonniwell died! Some definitely a bunch o' Music Machine cuts... Oh yeah, and Erica from POOR PEOPLE will be coming in to talk about their new LP their launching at about 5:45...

IN THE WORLD

Saturday Night Fish Fry @ The Gem! With me and DJ Jim Dandy. Be sure to get there before the you know what sells out...

GIG GUIDE

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

Thurs 12th

Dad Horse Experience (from GERMANY, backed by puta madre bros) @ Old Bar

Fri 13th

Teeth & tongue @ EBC w/ Sons and daughters (UK) + Pearls

Becky lee & Drunkfoot @ Penny Black w/ Velocettes

Valley girls @ gasometer w/ Cobwebs, cannon, pop Singles and + ross de Chene Hurricanes

Funky soul shake @ the pinnacle w/ Garry 7

Richie1250 DJ'ing @ Mt Hyde (geelong)

Sat 14th

Raw Record fair @ Raw Gallery south melbourne, from 10am

Stella Angelico & The Wilhelm Scream @ Fitzroy Gardens, 630 pm (next to pavillion cafe)

BOB LOG III @ NSC w/ Dad Horse Experience (from GERMANY, backed by puta madre bros) + Becky lee & Drunkfoot

Becky Lee & Drunkfoot @ Pony (2am)

Chantdown more Fire @ Deep 11

Black jesus Experience @ Bar open

Sugar Mountain festival @ the Forum

Poor people LP launch @ Gasometer w/ White Woods + The Stevens

SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY @ The Gem, w/ Richie1250 & Jim Dandy

Sun 15th

Major Tom & The Atoms @ The Workers Club (4pm) (doing TV detective show theme song medley!)

Garry 7 @ The pinnacle, 4-8pm

Dad Horse Experience (from GERMANY, backed by puta madre bros)

Next Fri 20th

Hanks Jalopy Demons @ Luwow w/ DJ Richie1250

Next Sat 21st

Nick Curran benefit gig @ St Kilda Bowls Club ft/ the exotics, benny & The Fly By Nighters, Ska Vendors + Chris Russells chicken walk

git on out there

lurve

richie1250

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BROKEN MAN MAKE RADIO

Playlist for Friday 6 January 2012

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

ALVIN ROBINSON - FEVER
THE COASTERS - SHOPPING FOR CLOTHES
DR HORSE - JACK THAT CAT WAS CLEAN
SAMMY DAVIS JR - THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
TINO CONTRERAS - EL HOMBRE DEL BRAZO DO ORO
BUD POWELL TRIO - A NIGHT IN TUNISIA
MELVIN VAN PEEBLES - HEH HEH (CHUCKLE) GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE
GIL SCOTT HERON - PIECES OF A MAN
JAMES KNIGHT & THE BUTLERS - COTTON CANDY
MICHAEL LIGGINS - BLACK & BEAUTIFUL
THE MASQUERADERS - THAT'S THE SAME THING
THE HEADLINES - HE'S LOOKING FOR A LOVE
AL WILLIAMS - I AM NOTHING
MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS - UNDECIDED LOVER
LITTLE WILLIE JOHN - YOUNG GIRL
EARL BOSTIC - LESTER LEAPS IN
THE STONE CRUSHERS - CRAWFISH
TERRY & JERRY - MAMA JULIE
THE COASTERS - BESAME MUCHO
THE AFICAN SOULS - HALLELIJAH TWIST
SE ROGIE - TWIST WITH THE MORNINGSTARS
SE ROGIE - A TIME IN MY LIFE
LOS ROBINS - TI SOLO A TI
CA QUINTET - I PUT A SPELL ON YOU
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - WINTERS WARM
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN - THE HARDEST WALK
THE CURE - LET'S GO TO BED
JAPAN - GHOSTS
WU TANG CLAN - CAREFUL, CLICK CLICK
MOBB DEEP - GIVE UP THE GOODS

STEVIE WONDER DRUM SOLO THAT IS ACTUALLY FUNKY

My cousin blew me out with this the other day. A rare drum solo that is actually funky and musically enjoyable to non drummers!

On The Radio, In The World 06/01/12

ON THE RADIO

Some spooky northern and some gil scott and some psychocandy maybe?

IN THE WORLD

DJ'ing at yahyahs, till laaaaaaaaaate tonight. Fish Fry Next Sat!

GIG GUIDE

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

Fri 6th

Richie1250 DJ'ing @ yahyahs, 12-5am

Extortion @ the bendigo

Evil dead @ Astor

Taxi driver @ Astor

git on out there

lurve

richie1250

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Stone Love: Friday, 30 December 2011

BONEHEAD QUIZ AND MORE

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

TYRONE DAVIS - KNOCK ON WOOD
OTIS REDDING - STAND BY ME
AL GREEN - LIGHT MY FIRE
SAM COOKE - LITTLE RED ROOSTER
WYNDER K FROG - GREEN DOOR
THE CHAMPS - 3/4 MASH
EUGENE BLACKNELL - JUMP BACK
JIMMY NOLEN - JIMMYS JIVE
SMOKEY JOHNSON - I CAN'T HELP IT
C.A. QUINTET - AIN'T NO DOUBT ABOUT IT
COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH - FLYING HIGH
THEE MIDNIGHTERS - I FOUND A PEANUT
THE CRAMPS - DRUG TRAIN

ECSR LTA 2008

ROYAL HEADACHE - DISTANT AND VAGUE
THE REAL KIDS - SOLID GOLD
THE 5678'S - BOMB THE TWIST
YOKO ONO - WALKING ON THIN ICE
J WALTER NEGRO & THE LOOSE JOINTS - SHOOT THE PUMP
CYPRESS HILL - HOW I COULD JUST KILL A MAN
ICE T - THE HUNTED CHILD
SIR MIX A LOT - SEMINAR