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It's Saturday! [uh ... Ed.] And what does that mean, subscribers? That's right - it's Cagefight Time! [synth theme by Flock Of Seagulls, ironic cheers] This week it's strictly "gloves off" as we pit heavyweight swinger Count Basie against one-hit wonders The Count Five! Who'll be "out for the count"? Why, that's for you to decide! One thing you can "count" on [please make it stop - Ed.] is some swell music!
Will the plucky punks from San Jose beat the seasoned slugger from Red Bank? Make your vote "count" by placing your bet in the comments! The contender with the most votes not only garners the coveted Veeblefetzer Trophy being held aloft by leggy lovely Rholonne Deodoranté [above - Ed.] but a cheap-ass loaddown of their long-playing L.P. rekkid! Oh boy!
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No count-test, err...contest! Count Basie slays the San Jose caped-gang with one hand behind his back!
ReplyDeleteCount Basie does not even get up off the piano bench...
ReplyDeleteI have "Li'l Ol' Groovemaker...Basie!", and had "Psychotic Reaction".
ReplyDeleteThis is how it will go down:
Count Basie will have a psychotic reaction, go ballistic and open a can of Whoop-Ass. In the first round, he'll take out the rhythm section of bassist Roy Chaney and drummer Craig "Butch" Atkinson (looking anything but butch) with a "Double Clothesline".
In the second round, hell "Fist Drop" lead guitarist John "Mouse" Michalski, "Elbow Smash" rhythm guitarist John "Sean" Byrne, and give lead vocalist Kenn Ellner a "Running Forearm Smash".
So, there we have it: Count Basie in two rounds.
In a post fight interview, Count Basie will jokingly exclaim "Moe, Larry Cheese!" and explain that women are from Venus, and men are from New Jersey.
I doubt we'll see a better prognosis, but let's wait for some deluded soul - very possibly the "don't like jazz" OBG - to put money on the Count Five.
Delete(Love yer icon, toots!)
Where's the box "none of the above"?
DeleteAs you can see from my nom de plume, I ain't gots no monies to put on no ac-counts, basie or otherwise...
DeleteAs I grew up on Big Time Wrestling, televised live from the Cow Palace, my money's on the boys from the South Bay. A wrestler needs a gimmick, and the Count Five dressed in Dracula capes and posed in front of the Winchester Mystery House! What's this Basie guy got? He's like fake English royalty, like the Duke of Earl?
ReplyDeleteHe's got a muthaflipp'n captains hat, that's what! What else does he need to stomp those indulgent and delirious teenagers?!? The Count's going to count to five as he stomps on each of their melons!
DeleteWho the hell does he think he is, King Kong Bundy?
DeleteCount Basie looks like a very nice man, however I think if provoked he and his band would go 'atomic' on the Fives ass. The Five would be out of the ring, 'they're NOT gonna get Basie', their only 'reaction' will be a lie down in a darkened room, with their silly costumes in tatters.
ReplyDeleteAt One O'Clock the Count's going to jump and take a Moten Swing at the not-so-famous Five. He's going to plough through them like a Lil' Pony and Lester's going to leap in and kick everyone's bottom!
ReplyDeletewhat's to fight about?
ReplyDeletechops?
there are lots of musicians with great mechanical skill and no idea what to do with that skill. alvin lee comes to mind.
one great song is still a great achievement. psychotic reaction is a great song.
basie had god-like chops and the ability to use them to create lots of great music.
Psychotic Reaction is a great song, a real 24kt nugget. The album is what The Young People are calling "meh".
DeleteThat's pretty much par for the garage-rock golf course, innit? With few exceptions, if you buy all the LPs from the singles whence NUGGETS was panned, you've got maybe four to six LPs that are average, everything is else is filler. Let's see....the 13th Floor Elevators, Amboy Dukes, Sagittarius, and the Nazz had a few tracks besides the single....oh yeah...also the Blues Project. A case could be made for the Standells, too. But the Third Rail? While Psychotic Reaction wasn't on the original 2-LP set...it would have fit right in...other notable "miss" was they should have included "Talk Talk" by the Music Machine....
Delete... and A Question Of Temperature by Balloon Farm, and ... and ... 99th Floor, by The Moving Sidewalks ("Flash" is a great album) ... and ... I think the Sagittarius album is swell, tho' ... and ...
DeleteI sense a Nuggets-style post coming up.
There was a brief moment after the wave from the Britain crested and rolled back, a moment where 10,000 teenage bands sprung up from the cities, the suburbs...even places like Iowa. And it was at the exact same time that acid flowed into the culture, still legal. So we got a lot of records, most of which are of interest only to genre specialists...but we also got a solid 100 or so wonderful records like Psychotic Reaction. That virtually every other note they pressed to vinyl is unremarkable is normal. There are similar gluts of doo-wop and punk rock. One great thing about the future is that you don't need to listen to 10,000 shitty records to find the 100 gems; the Internet makes sorting it all out far easier than it used to be.
Deleteif there is one thing i do not trust to be my guide, it is the future.
DeleteThe sheer scale of output from the US between about 1965 and 68 should not be underestimated.
DeleteI have almost 18 000 tracks of psych, garage and punk from that period. Obviously there are duplicates, but not as many as you'd think. There are still many for me to discover. And yes, there are many gems to be found.
Every neighborhood seems to have had a band...ours had EARLY MORNING FOG. We were 11 or 12, these guys were 15 or 16, pounding out Hendrix and Cream covers, on the next block over. Great name, as here in the Bay Area, virtually every television and radio weather report would include "early morning fog along the coast, clearing inland by midday, with hotter temperatures in the inland valleys..."
DeleteHere's a comp just taken completely at random from my collection - first file I clicked on. I've never heard of any of these guys, but there's some great stuff on there.
DeleteTeenage Shutdown Vol. 4 - I'm A No-Count
https://workupload.com/file/5VjMBrjsvKM
How the hell do you have time to listen to all this music?!
DeleteI'm retired - it's bloody great!
DeleteI'm with SteveShark...the sci-fi future of atomic powered vacuum cleaners and vacationing on the Rings of Saturn didn't happen, but I can put 18,000 psychedelic garage rock songs on a flash drive smaller than a tube of ChapStick®, and in a matter of seconds "go deep" into a band I'd never heard of five seconds before. This week's find: the Boswell Sisters. :)
DeleteWhat's time for, if it's not to be filled with music? It's not like I can bungee into active volcanos anymore, or rock a windowless van full of screeching Iron Curtain crack whores off its springs. Thos days are gone.
DeleteI'm 65. I have been eyeing the challenge of my youth: bike riding up Mount Diablo one more time.
DeleteEyeing it while you still can (eye it) is the best option. You don't want to pedal into your own Jodorowsky movie at this late stage.
DeleteBasie rearranged for vocals - solos transcribed and all that sort of stuff.
ReplyDeleteOne of those albums I never get tired of hearing. Annie Ross' voice is the absolute best on this.
Lambert Hendricks & Ross - Sing a Song of Basie
https://workupload.com/file/pcTzAWdwNdM
Terrific album. Thanks for sharing. Gbrand
DeleteThe Best Of Lambert Hendricks & Ross:
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/3Y69F7tYNRG
Annie Ross - A Handful of Songs. Low bitrate and a bit patchy in its choice of material, but worth grabbing just for her stunning take on "Love For Sale".
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/pcTzAWdwNdM
Put up your Duke's (Place.)
ReplyDeleteI refuse to play your (cut the baby in half game)! One vote for Each!
ReplyDeleteHah!
John
This isn't "not playing", John. Not playing would be not voting. Each of your votes was decisive in determining the winner.
DeleteAh, yeah...Basie wrote more, Basie's a better musician, I've got far more Basie songs in my 16,000 song (and counting...) flash drive that's playing in the car right now...but for me, it comes down to a mano-a-mano straight up contest between the one moment of (accidental?) genius (or luck?) on the part of the Count Five. In every single case, matching "Psychotic Reaction" against...."One O'Clock Jump," or "...Woodside.." or "Lester Leaps In" (obviously a wrestling reference there...I picture Lester doing a diving ax handle off the turnbuckle...)...in each case, if I only get ONE song to take with me to that mythical Desert Island...I pick "Psychotic Reaction."
ReplyDeleteLittle known fact, the Count wrote 'Thunderball' for his sister Shirley and provided the numbers 5 and 11 for Sesame Street.
ReplyDeleteHe also invented a device for stopping restaurant tables from rocking - a small tapering piece of wood he'd insert under the short leg.
DeleteHah! The fight's rigged anyway - this is wrestling, after all.
ReplyDeleteIt never ceases to amaze me, that some people swear it's real.
DeleteOf course, just don't tell the wrestlers that, as TV reporter John Stossel found out the hard way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrX9Ca7LSyQ&ab_channel=h888vids
Wrestling aside, in any physical confrontation if you're not prepared to be hit, it's usually a more effective blow.
DeleteDid anyone see that movie with what's-his-name, "The Wrestler"? Jeez, that was one depressing movie. Wotta bunch of shitheaded meatbags.
Deletewrestling's not the same without Two Ton Baker.
DeleteI could watch John Stossel getting bitch slapped all day long!
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/62GFFwFnrtE
ReplyDeleteSix albums from Basie here. including some swell comps.
As much as I admire Ellington (you'd be a fool not to appreciate his virtuosity and compositional near-genius), when it comes to the aristocracy of jazz bands, it's Bssie. Basie and Billie, not Ellington and Ella.
Bravo! Fine collection.
DeleteYou're welcome, Clar!
DeleteFor the Bassie curious, this is a fine introduction.
DeleteI had The Bosses, and somehow misplaced it.
This album should be better known: Chairman of the Board.
DeleteAround 1959, KGO radio in San Francisco boomed north into Vancouver at night. Al Jazzbo Collins used "Blues in Hoss's Flat" for a theme. Turned me onto jazz.
https://workupload.com/archive/NSXKkhrp
Mmm ... nice!
DeleteGreat stuff - many thanks.
DeleteAnyone up for The Atomic Mr Basie?
Ah...the ATOMIC DEATH DROP...I remember that wrestling move. I'd pay money to see Count Basie execute it...
DeleteI have an LP by Count Basie called "Kansas City 5".
ReplyDeleteBUT, the sleeve layout makes it look like it's "Kansas City" by the Count Basie Five:
https://www.discogs.com/release/2763861-Count-Basie-Kansas-City-5/image/SW1hZ2U6MjE5MzA5Nzk=
I can draw no conclusions from this observation.
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.