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You'll know Shean from his iconic portrayal of Bond Jamesh Bond in such blockbuster movies as In Like Flint and Murderers' Row, but did you know he was an enthusiastic collector of vintage psych and had to get stoned out of his mind in front of the camera? Shean dropped by th' Isle O' Foam© yestiddy and we relaxed in the Conversation Pit O' Sound™ whilst Kreemé [18 my ass - Ed.] served her signature lox n' licorice smoothies.
SC I've been growing my chesht hair.
FT3 Right! So tell us about your famous sauna sessions!
SC The girlsh and me shtrip down and shweat it out to the latesht pshychedelic shoundsh. It'sh a groovy shcene.
FT3 Which yez brung us an album awready?
SC Yeahsh. It'sh quite a rare dishc. The original configuration of Jeffershon Airplane'sh After Bathing At Baxtersh. With a Japaneshe cover [below - Ed.]. In my opinion it'sh an altogether better album than the one that got releashed. More Marty, for one thing. And Shpare Chaynge was alwaysh jusht a not very intereshting jam, sho no great losh. Apparently it wash a band deshision to go with a more adventuroush line up, but I imagine Marty wash none too pleashed. It'sh a more coheshive and enjoyable album, shtart to finish. More shong-orientated, without shacrifyshcing the pshychedelic. I don't lishten to the releashed vershion any more. Thish ish Baxtersh, ash far ash I'm conshcerned.FT3 I'm surprised it isn't better-known, and has never been officially released. For anyone who wants to like the album more than their good sense will let them, or is just tired of pretending they like Spare Chaynge to look cool, this is a revelation. It would have sold shitloads, too. But that's what they didn't want, the rascals.
SC Shay - would Kreemé enjoy a shauna?
FT3 I'm afraid she's busy right now curating my sock drawer. But please do drop by next time you're passing!
SC Well, fuck you very much, Farq.
FT3 (laughs)
SC (laughs)
That track list in full:
This post made possible thru th' ægis of Rodvi at Albums Forgotten Reconstructed, and whose word I have to take, because a little searching on the internet throws up no corroborative evidence. If you know more/better, leave a comment!
Who was the best Bond? Worst?
ReplyDeleteBest David Niven
DeleteI read somewhere, Ian Fleming wanted David Niven instead of Sean Connery. I've always liked the first Casino Royale.
DeleteI was a project supe in Malibu and worked on Brad Grey RIP, former CEO of Paramount....cool guy and made a great martini.....awd....after work drink. Next to Brad lived Kaly and her husband Pierce Brosnan, an ubermensch as Myra calls him. My favorite was Sean Con...Worst...? Timothy Dalton, theatre trained with so many advantages, was boring as f. I think we expected him to class up the act after those "zany" Roger Moore years.
ReplyDeleteBest: Sean Connery
ReplyDeleteThe worst: It's a tie between Roger Moore & Timothy Dalton. Not a big fan of Daniel Craig either
I wore out my first LP of "Baxter's", and had to buy another. Funnily enough, I didn't buy the CD.
I think they're nearly all unwatchable except Connery. Moore's Bond benefits from being in a handful of good movies in spite of him, but he has no balls at all. Craig doesn't look like Bond, he looks like a thug. Dalton overthinks, way too grim. Brosnan exudes self-adoration, Niven too old and stiff. Connery inhabited the part like no other, like it was his by right, which it was.
DeleteI find them hard to watch these days - they just seem so dated apart from the Craig ones, and they're nothing special.
DeleteAnd they all use the same bloody plots - a quirk of the movie rights, I believe.
Yes, they are dated, but so are we.
DeleteYou're right, of course...sigh...
DeleteI downloaded this more-or-less on the 16th Aug, with "Don't Let Me Down" and "Two Heads" swapped positions. Ah, cunning google from the blurb, from Rodvi who put it up on 28 Feb 2019 and still available.
ReplyDeleteNeil Kinnock in a speech many years ago left a lot of people totally nonplussed when he said something to the effect that people shouldn't have to die for their country nor should their country die for them. Channelling Grace, or maybe James Joyce, the only Jew in the room.
what exactly does that mean?
DeleteAbout Grace and James Joyce, I mean; thanks
DeleteI love Neil's rants on Joe Biden. He as spot on as you can get and still be somewhat civil. Grace certainly had an acid wit and dedication to nonviolence as did we all, except for Charlie and his harem I suppose. Grace channeling Joyce, I mean there is rejoyce. I simply must find this Kinnock speech. He is totally right on that. Great comment if I may be so presumptuous as to exclaim in Gentleman Farq's Mahogany library.
Deletehttps://www.newsweek.com/neil-kinnock-write-new-speeches-joe-biden-without-attribution-1546021
Delete"About Grace and James Joyce, I mean"
Delete"Rejoyce" on this album has lyrics by Grace pertaining to James Joyce's novel "Ulysses". "Mulligan stew for Bloom, the only Jew in the room" etc.
Buck Mulligan and Leopold Bloom are major characters in the novel. You should read it. Everybody should read it.
Further on it goes "Love your country so give your son, but I'd rather have my country die for me.."
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ReplyDeleteMystery Baxter's!
Here's Rodvi's piece on the album. I've asked him about it in the comments.
ReplyDeleteObviously Connery owns it but I like Daniel Craig. After a succession of pretty boys who looked good in the tux but were utterly unconvincing as dangerous secret agents Craig's different approach is interesting and refreshing.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I love the JA and Spayre Chaynge is indeed disposable.
You'll love this version, Mr. Fan. I hope we get some more information about its provenance.
DeleteMore Airplane coming up.
Definitely a wise move getting rid of Spare Chaynge.
DeleteI found George Lazenby’s Bond movie very watchable. I barely noticed George himself of course, because I’d been in love with Diana Rigg since I was 12. Does that count?
ReplyDeleteI think it's rigged in your favour, Del.
DeleteI had a yard of hard pipe for her too.
DeleteI think it's fair to say she troubled me in the trouser department.
Deletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/08/play-whos-in-my-box-with-tvs-emmal-peel.html
DeleteEmma Peel...in leather...
DeleteAnyone wanna look at my Telefunken U47?
*backs slowly away, avoiding eye contact*
DeleteLate entry: Found Craig a refreshing change at first (I hadn't seen any 'Bourne' films at that point) but have come to loathe his sullen stroppy "wounded" mardy rogue thug in a tuxedo act. And the last 2 films...insufferably solemn portentous bollocks.
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