Todays choice is this wonderful offering from Michael Chapman - a genuine charity shop find from a while back, it has become a favourite of mine. Great songs, eastern inflected acoustic drones enhanced by Mick Ronson.
1. It Didn’t Work Out
2. Rainmaker
3. You Say
4. Thank You P.K. 1944
5. No-One Left To Care
6. Small Stones
7. Not So Much A Garden - More Like A Maze
8. No Song To Sing
9. One Time Thing
10. Sunday Morning
11. Goodbye To Monday Night
Just a quickie, only thing of note from the weekends digging a nice promo copy of Major Lance - Without a Doubt/ Open The Door To Your Heart 7″ on Warner Promo
Major Lance - Open The Door To Your Heart - Straight from the 7
Been fairly slim pickings recently but there is always a treat here or there. Of note is the Electra Glide in Blue (UA 1973 UAG 29486) soundtrack which is a mix of tracks by James William Guerco that have a library funk feel to them, cut with a couple of old doo-wop tunes and some greats sound clips.
The funkiest moment comes with the chase scene. Set yours Wah-Wahs to stun.
Also worth a listen is a lovely tune by the Marcels - Most of All.
This is the ‘real deal’ hippy record. With some of the greatest track names and tripped out sounds. An absolute must.
DON’T GOOF WITH A SPOOK
Studio Album, released in 1970
Songs / Tracks Listing1. The Answer (5:15)
2. Don’t Goof with a Spook (7:23)
3. I Can’t Remember (10:42)
4. I Don’t Want to Go Home (5:15)
5. Let’s Get It On (6:39)
6. Homage to the God of Light (13:33)
Line-up / Musicians- Pete Bardens / Organ, Piano, Vocals
with
- Steve Ellis / Vocals
- Andy Gee / Guitar
- Reg Isadore / Drums
- Linda Lewis / Vocals
- Alan Marshall / Percussion, Vocals
- Bruce Thomas / Bass
- David Wooley /Vocals and “Antiques”
- Peter Green / Guitar (not credited on sleeve)
Releases informationLP Transatlantic records TRA222 (UK)
LP Verve 1970
CD Breathless 2005
I have chosen ROCK BOTTOM BY ROBERT WYATT. One additional track to bring along by A RECORDING ARTIST THAT HAS ENJOYED BETTER SUCCESS THE SECOND TIME AROUND. Plus anything new you want to show-off.
Choc’s theme to support his Zep 11 choice was music that was inspired by or led from the album. For me, it made me want to hear the original or other versions of the blues songs that Zeppelin draw from. So, I though the Sonny Boy Williamson ‘Bring It On Home’ - a low key shuffle of a blues that it mimicked on Led Zeppelin 11 and then detonated. The second choice was the Jimi Hendrix Live At The BBC Version of Howlin Wolf’s ‘Killing Floor’ (as covered on Zep 11 as The Lemon Song) This is a brutal reworking of the solid Wolf original and Hendrix ups the ante a notch past the Claptons and Townsends and Greens. Legend has it that Clapton and Townsend saw Hendrix perform this in a London club and realised that the game was up! Me, I like to think that Jimmy Page was standing in the shadows at the bar - not remotely intimidated - thinking, nice work amigo but let me bruise that motherfucker by another step…
But I can’t help but see Zep 11 at more of a 60’s album than a 70’s rock monster …..was released in 1969 after touring constantly in US so I think of their contemporaries as The Doors, Grateful Dead, The Byrds, Love, Moby Grape et al. And for me Robert Plant’s vocal - although I’m not suggesting a direct influence - draws from the same blues shriek pool as Janis Joplin. Also they share the same hairdresser and tailor…So I have chosen the very soulful ‘ Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)’ by Janis Joplin.
Following the whimisical selection from young Patrick, the charity shop offered up this crazy ‘beat’ artifact. A mix of poetry and psyche goodness, definately worth a listen.
. And for me Robert Plant’s vocal - although I’m not suggesting a direct influence - draws from the same blues shriek pool as Janis Joplin. Also they share the same hairdresser and tailor…So I have chosen the very soulful ‘ Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)’ by Janis Joplin.