Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated.
Even if you're a Beau Brummels fan, the chances are you missed 2013's Continuum, a legit release from the original band with original songs. "And we're wearing our original duds on the cover!" laughed Sal [Valentino - Ed.] yesterday. It's swell!
This post made possible thru' the patronage of Tremelo. Muchachas graniolas, compadore!
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ReplyDeleteWatching Australia and England play cricket. Have been working my way through the new Brummels box set over last week.
Deletenothin'. and i'm stickin' to my story... so i should probably wash my hands.
Deletelistening to bradley's barn
ReplyDeleteWhat are the chances of that?!?!?!
DeletePost-evening meal, watching ridiculous videos on YouBoob...
ReplyDeleteWatching my favorite Alec Guinness movie: The Horse's Mouth
ReplyDeleteI suspect aspects of Gulley Jimson in our cyber friend Farq.
DeleteGlenmorangie
ReplyDeleteI used to know her well. I've moved onto neat Cuervo, works for me now, but I know I'm in a minority.
DeleteI'm a patron of Patrón Extra Añejo
DeleteThat one's quite expensive here in the uk. However I may give it a go, a bit like single malt whiskey, you get what you pay for.
DeleteOMG, correction Patrón Extra Añejo is very, very expensive in the uk, I was looking at normal Patrón. I could buy 11 bottles of Cuervo Tequila for the price of one Patrón Extra Añejo. When I win the lottery maybe Babs.
DeleteYou must be some classy lady. What are you doing hanging round with us no-good freeloading bums? (ok I speak for myself here, with my lowdown cooking tequila ways).
I know how expensive booze is in the UK. I've never fully understood, how I can buy 14-year-old Oban, cheaper in Manhattan thank in the UK.
DeleteAlso, if I'm making Margaritas, I'll use Jose Cuervo. Patrón Extra Añejo is sippin' Tequila.
Yeah you're a bunch of no-good freeloading bums, but lovable no-good freeloading bums.
Glenlivet...hic....
DeleteDoing the laundry. (I'm Mr. Excitement.)
ReplyDeleteA step up from being Mr. Excrement, though ...
DeleteThere's an Ella Fitzgerald joke in here somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look.
DeleteScat singing?
DeleteGive that man a Stogie!
Delete... thanks, but I just put one out. So to speak.
DeleteAuditing music files....some fun!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous..not really. I just didn't want anyone to know who I am.
Listening to a Bowie broadcast, drinking tasty beer, and playing Angry Birds 2, aka "My Stupid Game™." Tomorrow, I pick my wife (no, the other one) from KU Med, where she spent Thursday morning having lasers shot at defective neurons inside her heart. Science is so fucking cool.
ReplyDeleteUh....rock chalk, jayhawk?!
DeleteEither cleaning my teeth or having a dump.
ReplyDeleteThe two have become synonymous, eh?
DeletePretty much a morning ritual - not simultaneously, I hasten to add.
DeleteHaving only been vertical for an hour or so, made pink porridge (porridge with summer fruit berries in), eating now, and listened to a radio discussion about population demographics. Had a dump an hour ago, so enough time has passed so its safe to brush my teeth now.
ReplyDeleteMo' Brummels.
ReplyDeleteWashing my dainty parts.
ReplyDeleteSitting at this very desk, paying bills and listening to Bunnygrunt's ever-wonderful Karen Hater's Club elpee, and I'm going to guess I'm the only one dong that right here right now. But I could be wrong; it sold at the very least in the HUNDREDS. Shoulda been millions, but whatevs.
ReplyDeleteHalf an hour ago I was having a mug of tea and a jolly interesting discussion with my wife about the merits of our washing machine: with The Association's Waterbeds in Trinidad lightening my mood and winding up the missus.
ReplyDeleteThe unfeasibly lovely Waterbeds album FoamFeatured© antecedently here:
Deletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2019/09/tl-dr-dept-elegies-for-sixties.html
It is a fabulous album.
DeletePlaying it right now. Not one sub-par track. Restraint creating real emotional power. Perfect arrangements, production. Why this isn't on any best album list is a puzzler, isn't it?
DeleteIt was 4:20, does that answer you? lol!
ReplyDeleteYou lasted until 4:20? Kudos.
Delete30 minutes ago I was twirling a stick up my nose to confirm, a few minutes later, that I'm on my 9th Covid day. I then found Bunnygrunt's "Karen Hater's Club" on Spotify, a short album which reminds me of "Mid Thirties Singles Scene" by Scott & Charlotte's Wedding. I then poured a glass of red wine and ate seven Pringles.
ReplyDeleteWhy are you gathering all this data on me (and why am I providing it)? Will there be a prize?
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
As an initiate, I understood the reference to the Seven Pringle Sacrament, but your secret is safe with me.
DeleteHere's some useful screed fracked from the Steve Huffman forum:
ReplyDelete"The Continuum album by the Beau Brummels is a legitimate release through Bay Sound records produced by Lou Dorren of quadraphonic fame. I was involved with it and played guitar on some of the tracks. I can assure you that all four surviving members were involved with this project. They played together in the studio and all the members played on the record. One of the songs even features a drum loop of John Petersen. Ron Meagher and Ron Elliot played on every track. Their are some guest vocals from Butch Engle of Butch Engle and the Styx and Susan Harlow. The post on CDBaby is incorrect about the songs being demos. They are not repurposed demos. Ron has never stopped writing songs. He presented these songs and the band played them from scratch. Stay tuned as there may be some more Beau Brummels music coming down in the future.
Sal sang on three or four of the songs but the vocal chores were also split up between Declan Mulligan, Ron Meagher, Ron Elliot and Butch Engle. Elliot wrote all the songs. Some are older songs but most were written over the past several years. We started the project in September 2011 and finished in March 2012."
Jacques Gautreaux [Fr. - cake - Ed.]
Cold, foggy night in the Inner Richmond...which makes it probably mid-July to early August... (Eric Burdon's "warm San Francisco night" doesn't turn up but once or twice a year). Sal Valenino is playing the Abbey Tavern...about as small a bar as you can find in the City. I got to hear "Just A Little" but no "Laugh Laugh." The Abbey: https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x80858739368a70ad%3A0x520663d44413b919!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOrONZGbf-4bh4KcIHVHiI61ef2Stp_-0lnrhP2%3Dw284-h160-k-no!5sabbey%20tavern%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCgIgAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipOrONZGbf-4bh4KcIHVHiI61ef2Stp_-0lnrhP2&hl=en&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwj3tsX0o6H1AhUIGewKHbMaBjgQoip6BAg2EAM
ReplyDeleteStrange how some bands made it in the US, but not the UK (and vice versa, of course).
ReplyDeleteThe Brummels meant zilch in the UK, although I did know about them back in the mid 1960s. Same with Paul Revere & the Raiders.
Of course, the opposite situation could include the Hollies - very big in the UK and not in the US - but then there's Herman's Hermits who the US lapped up.
Likewise The Association, and vice versa The Dave Clark 5 who were not cool in the UK but appear to be much revered in the USA in much the same way as Helman and his Helmets.
DeleteIt would be interesting to hear if any of the Isle's US contingent have any insight into this DC5 and HH phenomenon.
Peter and Gordon did well on both sides of the Atlantic for a while, and then rather better in the US for a while.
DeleteI wonder what it was about them?
Apart from The Stones (whom you could dance to), I didn't listen to much of what was termed "The British Invasion".
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I ever saw Herman's Hermits and cool in the same sentence.
Phew am I glad to hear that, my faith has been restored. So you American chicks had some taste and weren't all Mrs Brown's luvverly daughters?
DeleteYou think Herman and his Helmets were bad...?
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALR13MJLAs4
My word, that was bad, probably worse than Hermans Helmets.
DeleteBabs, just a point of grammar here, but it should of been "(to whom you could dance)".
DeleteWatching Australia and England play cricket. Have been working my way through the new Brummels box set over last week.
ReplyDeleteThis comment is giving me déja vu. Not CSNY's best album.
DeleteWasn't there a several disk set of Brummenls on here the other day? Which page would that be? I did always wonder why those eagles didn't take the 'Bored of the Ring' crew with him.
ReplyDeleteIt was a Blink And You'll Miss It feature, which you did and did.
DeleteThe eagles would have been very visible to the Nazgul, and weren't capable of long load-bearing trips. Makes sense to me - coming down they dropped them off pretty quickly.