A track for...(darkness fish)

[fonz]

Can someone change the thread title. It’s G’s turn now- upthread.

[Stacy Heydon]

Sept 27, 2023 19:20:05 GMT fonz said:

Thanks Fonz.
I can enjoy Miles playing pretty much anything, so I enjoyed this more or less. That said, it's not up there with the Miles I love because it lacked variation a bit and I got a little bored. I prefer him when he's painting colours, if that makes sense. I don't know the album it's taken from though, so it was good to be made aware of it.

[Stacy Heydon]

Here's some wild UK street rock from the 70s. I heard it used in a documentary a few years back and it captured my attention and spent ages searching for it.

For Fearless Freap (sorry it's so long, it could probably do with an edit!)

'Street' - Egor

[fearlessfreap]

I really liked that - like an unhinged Pink Fairies. I've never heard of them before, but I'll be looking for that.



For Fange
I was playing this album this morning on the way to work. Sonny Stitt one of a long line of "next Charlie Parkers" with a mid 70's jazz funk song.
"Slick Eddie" - Sonny Stitt

[fange]

Sept 29, 2023 15:28:48 GMT fearlessfreap said:

For Fange
I was playing this album this morning on the way to work. Sonny Stitt one of a long line of "next Charlie Parkers" with a mid 70's jazz funk song.
"Slick Eddie" - Sonny Stitt

Oh yeah that's up my street, ff, cheers. I don't know Sonny's 70s records very well, clearly something i need to rectify. This one has a feel similar to what Byrd and the Mizell Bros. were doing so well at the time, or Esmond Edwards with the Cadet Records releases. Lovely.

[fange]

Ok, a track for fonz - Phil Upchurch - 'Electrik Head'

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

Sept 25, 2023 21:56:33 GMT Charlie O. said:

For davey:

I’ve been listening to the lp this is from (Daddy Who?) which is totally charming, but I keep coming back to this tune. I can’t help but think it could’ve easily fit into Neil Young’s ‘Ditch’-era repertoire. It’s quite surprising how good it is in its simplicity.

[neige]

Sept 30, 2023 21:31:45 GMT Half Machine Lipschitz said:

Sept 25, 2023 21:56:33 GMT Charlie O. said:

For davey:

I’ve been listening to the lp this is from (Daddy Who?) which is totally charming, but I keep coming back to this tune. I can’t help but think it could’ve easily fit into Neil Young’s ‘Ditch’-era repertoire. It’s quite surprising how good it is in its simplicity.

I've got hold of said album in the meantime and "totally charming" nails it! The covers are also all good in an unpretentious sort of way. A lot is a bit pastiche-y though, Come Back Again really stands out.

[fonz]

Sept 30, 2023 0:49:08 GMT fange said:

Ok, a track for fonz - Phil Upchurch - 'Electrik Head'

Pretty good. Echoplex craziness combined with Wes-style jazzy lines.
A dude in thrall to his equitment

I’ll try and come up with something tomorrow for someone else

Thanks Fange

[fonz]

This one is for Rayge.
I like the brutal rhythms,, unforgiving guitars, and the quite moments that you just know won't last.

Homme is a Marmite character, but this is the best he's done since SFTD

[rayge]

Oct 8, 2023 12:24:04 GMT fonz said:

This one is for Rayge.
I like the brutal rhythms,, unforgiving guitars, and the quite moments that you just know won't last.

Homme is a Marmite character, but this is the best he's done since SFTD

Well, I rather like JH, doncha know - paid out real money to own some Kyuss CDs as well as one or two QotSA, but I gave up after Songs for the Deaf because it was all starting to get a bit samey, all power and no nuance...I prefer the Kyuss albums, really, although don't play much of anything any more and haven't actually unpacked my CDs from the house move more than four years ago.

That said, THO, there was an agreeable crunch about much of this - for me, the 'quiet bits' went on for far too long - and I liked it well enough, cheers. the video was pants, though, wasn't it - detracted from the track, rather than added to it.

Twenty years ago I got on-line friendly on imdb with an LA musician called D. C. Brown (posting name WayneNewtontheRedneck), who, among other things, wrote the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme. He was there as a fan, though, and one of the things we talked about was what could be considered the first psychedelic record (as in a record to trip out to), and we both came up with the same one, the title track of the Butterfield Blues Band's East-West, which had much the same effect on me aged 16 as Eight Miles High had done - changed the way I heard guitar music.

It occurs to me that some of the younger members of the aggregation - those who were kiddies, or not around in 1965 - may not have heard it, so I'm opening it to Riggers, although anyone else is invited to chime in, especially if you haven't heard it before and can imagine how extraordinarily out-there it sounded then. Apart from anything else, with Elvin Bishop and Mike Butterfield, they were the first band I heard to feature twin-lead guitarists. Butterfield is more famous, but D.C. Brown, a guitarist himself, rates Bishop much higher. He takes the second guitar solo.

Oh, and a special note to Darkness Fish - I know that they have Blues in their name, and the leader plays a mouth organ, but give it a try, anyway.

The Butterfield Blues Band - East West

[adamcoan]

I only played the album a couple of days ago myself. I bought it a long time ago , during a Dylan associated frenzy along with Ochs and Guthrie, a couple of Baez albums though, i bought two too many as Charles Bronson once remarked.

Great album. It's a wild ride alright.

[riggers]

Cheers for drawing me back in Ray.
When I was posting on the Mojo forum, I had a desk job and chipped in every day. Harder to find time for here, but it's still a great board, so thanks for the invitation to listen and comment on this.

I'm pretty familiar with it already, but not to the same extent as things I grew up with. I remember reading about this and a lot of other music besides. As a teenager growing up in the 80's and obsessed with the 60s, there was a lot more reading than listening. Well, at least until I turned 18 and joined the record library.

My first exposure to Butterfield was on the 'Woodstock 2' LP, which I got when I was about 15 and I heard this-



I was very happy to see that the (I think) full version was posted in 4K on YT the other year. So evocative, playing at daybreak on Monday, just before Sha-Na-Na. I'd never heard a harmonica played like that before. So rich and throaty. Real precision and expression, with that hint of distortion, which I now know probably came from Little Walter.

Round about the same time, I got a book called 'The Rock Primer', which had chapters devoted to each genre of popular music. There were maybe a dozen albums in each chapter, chosen to represent Rock n'Roll, Girl Groups, Country, Reggae etc.. I devoured this stuff, I'd never heard of the MC5 or the New York Dolls at this point, but their chapters in the 'Proto-Punk' section made me really want to hear them.

The 'East West' album was mentioned in the electric blues chapter and I remember being very taken with the description of this track. Along with The Byrds, the first band to incorporate raga influences into their music. I'd also become aware of this guy Mike Bloomfield, who I'd first heard (and been knocked out by) on 'Tombstone Blues'. I really liked (and still do) Buzzy Feiten's fabulously raw sound and playing on the Woodstock recording, this Bloomfield guy was something else. Just pure, out of left field, attacking blues but with a wider reaching take on it all.

Over time, as I was incorporating more genres, including contemporary stuff into my listening, mid 60s electric blues seemed a little passe, so it fell off my radar until the streaming era and I was able to fill in the gaps.
I immediately took to the album. The straight blues stuff is faultless, but the title track raises the bar and steps into the unchartered.

Listening again now, there are passages where it builds on the trancey, eastern feel with Butterfield's harp honking atonally that wouldn't be out of place in the NYC No Wave scene.
Then it flips into something more conventionally R & B based and just swings, but it all works and I think it still stands up remarkably well.

A couple of years ago, I watched this documentary on Amazon Prime and this track appearing as a recommendation for me sent me looking for the trailer. I was made up to find that the whole thing is up on youtube.
It's well worth a look.



It seems appropriate that his instrument is referred to as a horn. His playing has more range, depth and precision than most others on the instrument. It's a million miles away from what I do when called upon to parp on a harp, which essentially involves finding the right key and then frantically blowing and sucking, occasionally doing my one trick of bending a note.

Butterfield's approach by comparison is orchestral. It's astonishing when you think that it's one of the few instruments where you can't really see what you're doing. He gets so much power and feel out of it.

Thanks again for sending me back to this wonderful music, Ray.

How about this one for DayoRemix.

White Noise-'Here Come The Fleas'

[neige]

It's not destined for me, but I'll chime in anyway to say that I've loved every millisecond of these glorious 2:12 minutes since I first heard them, 50-odd years ago, including the pixie accelerando and the corny ending! Classic.

But the whole album is great.

[Stacy Heydon]

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