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Ember tervez, James Leg végez
FEBRUÁR 12-én a Kino Session szervezésében PÉCSett
játszik a JAMES LEG soul-blues-punk duó.
Más magyarországi koncert nem lesz, csak ez.
A JAMES LEG elektromos orgona + dob kettős aztán jött létre, hogy Reverend James Leg – született John Wesley Myers – előző zenekara, a Black Diamond Heavies feloszlott. Az szintén billentyű + dob felállású banda volt, de mivel az orgona nem volt betorzítva, így hagyományos hangzásúnak mondható, ellentétben a James Leggel, ahol sokszor hihetjük azt, hogy gitár vagy basszus szól éppen, pedig nem. Az énekhang miatt sokaknak juthat eszébe Tom Waits, viszont vele ellentétben James Leg legtöbbször egyszerűen rock’n’rollként definiálja muzsikájuk:
John Wesley Myers egy texasi kisvárosban született egy baptista prédikátor fiaként, aki nagy gondot fordított gyermeke harmonikus lelki fejlődésének zavartalanságára. Zenei nevelést is szigorúan vallásos alapon kapott. Egy napon apja, mikor rájött, hogy 14 éves fia szülei távollétében a családi lemezgyűjteményben meglapuló három darab világi zenét hallgatja (például ezt és ezt), tüzet rakott a kert végében, és a lángok közé hajította mindhármat.
Ezzel szinte egy időben érkezett a városba egy keresztény vándortársulat, mely műsorában a rockzene és a sátánizmus kapcsolatát firtatta. Apai utasításra Johnnak is mennie kellett. Az előadáson Ozzy, AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Prince, Van Halen és Rolling Stones számokkal rémítették a közönséget. A Queen “Another One Bites The Dust” című számát visszafelé is meghallgatták, mivel akkor a refrént így is lehet érteni: „marijuana, marijuana, decide to smoke marijuana”. A felvilágosító előadás után John természetesen rákapott a fűre és a rockzenére, és 17 évesen elköltözött otthonról.
Talán még érdekes lehet, hogy tagja volt a ritka állat blues punkot játszó Immortal Lee County Killersnek is a zenekar utolsó periódusában. Ha jól tudom ezen a nagylemezükön játszott.
És külön Hammer Zsaninak mondanám, hogy közreműködött ez a jóember Scott H. Biram 2009-es nagylemezén!
3 punks and 1 tennis teacher
3 punks, 1-1 from Japan, France and Spain, together with
a Caribbean tennis teacher,
who unlike the others was not in a band before,
but was chosen for singing because he is a frenetic dancer, well,
they met at first at a Billy Childish gig at Dirty Water Club in London,
and soon they formed the
KING SALAMI & THE CUMBERLAND 3
influenced by the 50-60s rhythm and blues, rockabilly, rock and roll and soul,
like Andre Williams, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Bo Diddley, Sonics, Trashmen, Link Wray, James Brown and more. They play it with punk attitude in an exceptional manner.
New album Going Back To Wurstville on Dirty Water Records (Europe), Off The Hip (Aus) and Disk Union (Jap)
Andre Williams 80
„If you go fuck three girls in one week, you fuck all three of them good! You know what I mean? If you do a song, put you heart in it! Don’t come up with no bullshit lyric! Come up with the real lyric! If the word is „Take it out, let me see it”, then say it! Don’t say stuff like „Ooh, you look kinda mysterious to me.” That ain’t sayin’ the same damn thing!”
ANDRE WILLIAMS is a wonder. Not just because of his oeuvre, but also because he is not just alive, but active up to this date. He made many songs in various styles as rock and roll, blues, soul, funk, rap or garage rock, and not just for himself. In the first chapter of his career he worked together e.g. Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Ike and Tina Turner, George Clinton and more. In the second chapter which started in late 80s he worked with Jon Spencer, and members of such garage rock bands as The Oblivians, Dirtboms or Gories. Yestarday our black godfather turned into his 80th.
His career has started with a fraudulent enlistment in 1950. When he was 14 he joined the US Navy with his brother’s birth certificate, because the age limit was 17. But not long after this his brother got drafted.
I’m moving marines on the USS Compton Destroyer from shore to a hospital ship, under fire every fuckin’ night! Boom! Boom! I’m a trainee on the 40 mm. Fifteen motherfuckin’ years old, OK? These motherfuckers fly me back to Washington, give me a general Court Martial and send me to the penitentiary for a year! Fraudulent enlistment! On the Court Martial board, I’m sitting with five fuckin’ admirals. All stiff, bold, big motherfuckers, you know.
My lawyer said „Send this kid home, he’s a child!” Then they came back and said „One year in Fort Levenworth, and a dishonourable discharge” and I said [adopts slow dramatic tone] „Kiss-my-ass-mother-fuckers!” So they appealed the case and they sent me back from Fort Levenworth after 6 weeks for a retrial. I go back on the retrial, thinking they gonna cut me-a-loose. Them cocksuckers made the year stick and give me a bad conduct discharge. All they did change was the discharge. You get a red corduroy coat, a Ben Hogan cap, a pair of black pants, twenty five dollars and a train ticket with your choice of destination.
He didn’t go back to Chicago. He feared that would be send to a reformatory school, so he went to Detroit. It was a Tuesday when he arrived. There he found a theatre where on every Tuesday evening was a talent show. 25 USD was the first prize. Afternoon he wrote his first song and won. And next week won again, and then again and again, and finally got a contract from a little record label Fortune Records. His break trough hit was the „Bacon Fat” in 1956. He said about
When I came up with „Bacon Fat” I was travelling from Detroit to Memphis. That’s when I knew that I had to come up with a gimmick. So I stopped in Memphis and I got an egg and bacon sandwich – on toast! I’m driving and a lot of places where we used to travel, it was only a two lane highway so you’d see the cotton pickers on both sides and I’m driving and [starts tapping a beat on his thigh, starts humming] „Down in Tennessee… and the name of the dance is…” and I had the sandwich in my hand and there it came, „The Bacon Fat!”
He was there when Motown came alive, and also produced recordings for another little label Chess Records (Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf). Worked together with Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gay, The Contours, The Supremes, Ike and Tina Turner, Edwin Starr, Parliament, Funkadelic and many more. But in the 80s he slipped into poverty because of his alcohol and drug addictions, and even he lived as a homeless in Chicago too. His comeback album „Directly From The Streets” in 1990 refers to this tract. It was a funk rap album. Since then he made many fantastic albums with different bands and musicians, for example:
soul band The Diplomats of Solid Sound, jazz-funk-rock band Morning 40 Federation under pseudonym The New Orleans Hellhounds, Canadian country rock and roll band The Sadies, Chicago garage rock band The Goldstars, members of The Oblivians, Dirtboms, Dirty Three, Crime & City Solution, Cheater Slicks, Gories and same ones.
This is his greatest hit. Originally it was written for The Five Du-Tones in 1963.
His brand new album released this summer on Bloodshot Records
Quotes from this interview
Roy & The Devil’s Covers
We have been waiting for 11 years for this day: 26 SEPT 2016
Swiss psych garage blues rock and roll cult band
ROY AND THE DEVIL’S MOTORCYCLE
in BUDAPEST at RNR666 PARTY!
The band was founded 25 years back by three countryside brothers after they went to a Spacemen 3 show in the nearby big city. Their music is distorted rock and roll of the 50-60 years with a big spoon blues and dub technique in highly psychedelic manner. They’ ve only released 3 three albums on Voodoo Rhythm Records. In 2014 they made music for a documentary Tino – Frozen Angel about legendary Swiss counter-culture hero Martin „Tino” Schippert (1946-81), who was the president of Swiss chapter of Hell’s Angels. Because of a rape the Angels became a target of prosecution, he escaped from Switzerland. He lived in Lebanon, where he worked as a hashish farmer. But finally he went to Bolivia, and died there in a small village Tutilimundi, it means All Worlds.
On their albums there are some covers. Now you can listen to the original and the cover ones too
About the songs
Johnny B. Goode is a 1958 rock-and-roll song written and first recorded by Chuck Berry.
Little Anthony and the Imperials is an American rhythm and blues/soul/doo-wop vocal group from New York City, their first single was Tears on My Pillow in 1958.
The song It Hurts Me Too is a blues standard. First recorded in 1940 by American blues musician Tampa Red. Elmore James (1918 – 1963) who was an American influential blues musician, recorded his own versions in 1957, and in the early 60s.
David „Junior” Kimbrough (1930 – 1998) was an American juke joint blues legend. Whose first single was released in 1967, but his first album came out just in 1992 by Fat Possum Records. The song Baby Please Don’t Leave Me taken from his last album Meet Me In The City (1999). In 2005, a tribute album was released with such artists as Iggy Pop, Mark Lanegan, Jack Oblivian, Black Keys, Spiritualized or Blues Explosion. Even Daft Punk also made a 15 minutes long re-edited version of a Kimbrough’s song I Gotta Try You Girl in 2016. Reputedly he was survived by 36 children.
The Ballad of Casey Jones is a traditional song about railroad engineer Casey Jones. It tells of how Jones and his fireman Sim Webb raced their locomotive to make up for lost time, but discovered a freight train ahead of them on the line, and Casey tried to stop the machine and save the passengers. His body was found lying under the cab, with his skull crushed and right arm torn from its socket. The fireman jumped just in time to save his life. The express messenger was thrown against the side of the car, having two of his ribs broken by the blow, but his condition is not considered dangerous. The train was only two minutes behind schedule.
Soon after Casey’s death (30 April 1900), the song was first sung by engine wiper and friend of Casey to the tune of a popular song of the time known as „Jimmie Jones”. As railroaders stopped in Canton, Mississippi they would pick up the song and pass it along. American country blues guitarist Walter E. „Furry” Lewis (1893 – 1981) recorded his version in 1928. Anyway he was a street sweeper for the city of Memphis, he held this job until his retirement in 1966.
Red Foley (1910 – 1968) is one of the greatest country musicians. He was an inspiration to rock ‘n’ roll, in particular Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, who both covered many of his songs. Will the Circle Be Unbroken? is a popular Christian hymn, was written in 1907. The Red Foley version was published in 1958.
Are you intereseted in revolution?
The Civil Rights struggle has gotten this treatment in particular. Its now been ossified as a series of marches and sit-ins which led to the overturning of the most glaring US racial inequalities, and which culminated in the the martyrdom of Martin Luther King Jr. With the riots following MLKs assassination, and the malaise following his death, „the movement” lost its hope, drive, and focus.
But Civil Rights was never just the monolith of angry Malcolm vs. peaceful Martin, and the history channel wants the population to forget that the „movement” was radicalized beyond what is generally understood.
In the 60’s therefore, the nation stood on the precipice of some kind of revolution. In many ways, the country experienced a civil war.
The INVADERS of Memphis were like an intellectual street gang with incredible style, who devoted themselves to justice and confronting white supremacy. A group or „gang” of organizers, they were on the front lines of the struggle in the South, and experienced extraordinary harassment, violence, and imprisonment. They conducted the last meeting with King at the Lorraine Motel before he was murdered, and yet their story is almost unknown.
THE INVADERS, a fast-moving re-telling with a funky soundtrack produced by King Khan and Jack Oblivian
Two soundtrack 7″ singles from King Khan and his band
on limited military marijuana green vinyl:
mixed and mastered by Nene Barratto (Movie Star Junkies)
Are you interested in pop music?
The Ballantynes are a seven piece Canadian garage soul funk band. United by the common goals of dancing, drinking, and reveling in each other’s company.
A tribute to Dale Cooper’s dreams & David Lynch
from the album Dark Drives, Life Signs on La-ti-da Records
La-ti-da interview on RNR666
OUT NOW! 2
This set has been made like the first broadcast of a weekly radio show for a Hungarian radio station, but it didn’t play this, and the plan of a weekly radio show with various songs just from brand new records stayed in my head. So I’m looking for an internet radio station for my show. If you want it please write: magazin AT rnr666.hu.
1. Experimental pop by Chinese American guitarist and Japanese j-pop diva: Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa – Dimension Dive part 3: Deep Sea Dance (Thrill Jockey Records) 2. Keith Richards’ daughter’s favorite: Natural Child – Don’t Time Pass Quickly (Burger Records) 3. Aussie electro Nun – Evoke The Sleep (Aarght Records, Avant Records) 4. Aussie seagaze Rat Columns – Pink Mist (R.I.P. Society) 5. Canadian chaos brigade: Odonis Odonis – Mr Smith (Buzz Records) 6. “It’s noisy, with keyboards, you wouldn’t like it”: Gentle Friendly – Cloudbusting II (UK, Fat Cat) 7. Atlanta king of garage soul: Curtis Harding – I Don’t Wanna Go Home (Burger) 8. Mix The Fall with Velvet Underground: Parquet Courts – Black and White (What’s Your Rupture Records) 9. Hungarian historicist and liturgical garage rock: Gustave Tiger – Mary of the Seas 10. San Franciscan eclectic pop: Deerhoof – Exit Only (Polyvinyl) 11. Swiss-Canadian art punk or not: Peter Kernel – High Fever (On The Camper) 12. Swiss funeral folk: The Dead Brothers – Black Train (Voodoo Rhythm) 13. A Tasmanian poet with keyboards: Peter Escott – I Believe in Devil World (Bedroom Suck Records) 14. Notorious English art punkers: The Fat White Family – Touch The Leather (redux) (Hate Hate Hate Records) 15. Parquet Courts’ side project: Parkay Quarts – These Boots (What’s Your Rupture) 16. Traditional Columbian jazz punk chaos: Ensamble Polifonico Vallenato – Son (Staubgold) 17. Poet, playwright & rapper: Kate Tempest – Lonely Daze (Big Dada Records) 18. English countryside doom surfers: The Wytches – Gravedweller (Heavenly/ Partisan/ Dine Alone) 19. American traditionalist Luke Winslow King – Levee Man (Bloodshot Records)
Another sample The „out now” is just a temporary title.
From New Records
Soul Power, debut album of Curtis Harding (ex-Cee-lo Green), member of Night Sun, Black Lips’ garage soul side project. Black Lips members took part in making this album too. Soul, 60’s RnB, easy 70s disco feeling, garage rock. I know two who flew to Seattle from New York to see him
Burger (US) and Anti-Records (EU, AUS)
Euro Tour Nov Dec
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The Miseries, dutch singer’n’songwriter Tim Knoll‘s punky garage rock band, debut single
Excelsior Recordings (NL)
From New Records
„The mechanisms of protection are all around us, but do you feel safer?”
’77 is eternal & indestructible, because punks not dead (just all the Ramones)
Hard Left – 7″ lathe cut and digital on Future Perfect Records (US)
Hard Left is a hard mod band from members of #1 Smash Hits, Boyracer and Manatee in Oakland. Class war, Marxism and all that jazz, but I swear that listen to it so good, but I can’t do it without laughing.
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It’s not easy pop music, rather pretty brutal, miraculous haunted gospel folk trip-hop soul by 26 years old Canadian singer songwriter Al Spx, who is working with her 6-piece band under the name of Cold Specks. Many of her songs are based on junk- shopped old photos and postcards. „It’s insane how many people throw away their old photos. Some of them are absolutely stunning and I just wonder what made these people throw them out – What is their story? Why is this woman doing that? Why is there a creepy man standing in the background?”
Neuroplasticity – LP/CD/digital – order here. Michael Gira (Swans) appears on a track. The collaboration started with Spx singing on Swans’ last album.
She dropped out of school, but hadn’t told her parents and secretly began worked at a call center. Around that time, she handed a collection of songs to a friend of hers, who passed it on to his brother, who happened to be a record producer in London.
„Call centers… I always say it’s the worst job in the world. It’s just hell.”
A King Is Coming
Berlin based Indo-Canadian notorious garage rocker Arish Ahmad Khan aka King Khan and his big band The Shrines
in BUDAPEST at KUPLUNG on APRIL 27 with a Brazilian one-man-blues-trash-rock’n’roll band XTREME BLUES DOG and WATTICAN PUNK BALLET.
Before the show XTREME BLUES DOG will playing on the air at Bang Bang Radio Show on Tilos Radio from 3pm.
About Herr KHAN Facebook event
There are some dates for France, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Holland.
Sunday Funny Sunday
Berlin based Indo-Canadian notorious garage rocker KING KHAN and his international big band THE SHRINES
in BUDAPEST at KUPLUNG on APRIL 27 with a Brazilian one-man-blues-trash-rock’n’roll band XTREME BLUES DOG and WATTICAN PUNK BALLET.
Before the show XTREME BLUES DOG will playing on the air at Bang Bang Radio Show on Tilos Radio from 3pm.
About KING KHAN
There are some date for UK, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Holland.
For Record Store Day # 4
Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) was an Afro-American poet and musician. He made his music in jazz, funk and soul, and exerted huge influence on hip-hop with his spoken words. His last album „I’m New Here” was recorded in 2008. During the session he recorded stripped-down new versions of some of his songs. Accompanying himself on piano and with no overdubs. This is „Alien”
from the album „Nothing New”. It will be released only on 12″ vinyl, limited to 3000 copies, and available exclusively on Record Store Day, 19th April 2014 by XL Recordings. The original Alien
On his first album (1970, produced by Bob Thile) he named as influences Richie Havens (singer/songwriter, the opening act in Woodstock), John Coltrane (one of the greatest jazz saxists), Otis Redding (soul and blues singer/songwriter), Jose Feliciano (Puerto Rican guitar virtuoso), Billie Holiday, Nina Simone (jazz singers) from musicians. From activists: Langston Hughes (poet, writer, human rights activist), Malcolm X (while was imprisonment owing to lacreny concverted to Islam, became black superiority activist, then would be human rights activist) and Huey Newton (was a controversial person, co-founded the Afro-American left-wing organization, Black Panther Party, he killed a 17 years old girl becuse he very didn’t like if somebody called him by his nickname „baby”, the eyewitness changed her testimony after some Black Panther members tried to kill her, a man who known too many things about this case would be buried alive in the desert. He was shot to death by a drug dealer Black Guerrilla Family member shortly after Newton left a crack house. Black Guerrilla Family is a gang which was founded at San Quentin State Prison and based on Marxist and Maoist ideology.)
Record Store Day will be on 19 April. Participant stores on your location.