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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" - P.T. Barnum. Eudæmonia out th' ass! Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat Camp for the Mind! "Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost."
@ SNORKY: My copy of Sitarswami's "Beatlesque" got culled in a vicious Beatles clean out (leaving only "Aloha"), so perhaps another 4/5g© can oblige?
ReplyDelete... and on Ariel Pink: "MAGA musician Ariel Pink, spurned by fans, complains to Tucker Carlson: ‘People are so mean’" Another surprise Trumpster is gay immigrant Michael Quercio (The Three O'Clock, und andere).
Buffett High Cumberland Jubilee, to go with the spiffy cover? (re---up?)
DeleteOh, and also in addition with added to and more: Rolly Maidens from Outer Space?
Delete... see comment waaaayyyyyy below ...
DeleteThanks...yer swell! But..couldnt find the Firesign Roller Maidens.
DeleteThat's right!
DeleteWe need some Mary Lou Lord (who doesn't believe the story that Elliott Smith stabbed himself to death. Here they are on the Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_sA25YyFU
ReplyDeleteAnd here's Mary Lou busking: https://workupload.com/file/UD3j5E4tB4p
Mary Lou Lord, covered Lights are Changing, here's an extended acoustic version by Bevis Frond.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63-uBdg5hcE&list=RD63-uBdg5hcE&start_radio=1
That was Brandi's comment above and here sayin' "You cant get enough Ween"
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/3n8V9qBm5rC
Brandi
The Fugs - Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings
ReplyDeleteFor the uninitiated (most of you freeloaders), The Fugs are an underground rock band from Manhattan's East Village, who formed somewhere around late 1964, early ’65 by Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg and Ken Weaver. They’re a bunch of lewd, tree-hugging Hippies who take lots of drugs, don’t bathe regularly, and make Psychedelic/Folk/Garage Rock, Proto-Punk, Protest music about sex, drugs, war…you name it…that will make you laugh, and more importantly, think. If you’re thinking, “Frank Zappa” think again.
“The thing you have to accept about the Fugs is that they'll never sound as good as you hope” - Robert Christgau
“…the most vulgar thing the human mind could possibly conceive” - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (no, really)
“The Fugs were what the 50s deserved. The 50s created the Fugs, I think - the enforced hypocrisy and the hubris and the just - stalking all over the world and knocking off people and just, all these little adventures and things. They kinda stun me because, the politicians don't ever seem to put the people first. Never. America created us.” - Ken Weaver
“Buying records by the Fugs was like buying some Sun Ra records, you had no idea what you would get. One record would sound pretty slick – well, as slick as they could sound – but slick as in recorded in a studio with a band that stopped and started at the same time. Then you’d pick up another release, and it sounded like it was recorded by a tomato can telephone on the end of a broom handle” - Bob Dylan
“Blasphemers!!!” - Billy Graham
Fun Fact: The Fugs took their name from a Norman Mailer novel called ‘The Naked and the Dead’. When The Naked and the Dead came out in 1948, censorship rules at the time forced Mailer to substitute the word fug for fuck.
https://workupload.com/file/VF43PwpPTCy
When I first started buying albums I would see "it crawled into my hand, honest" in the racks and wonder what could it possibly sound like. Still one of my favorite jackets ever.
DeleteSwell screed, Babs! "FUCK YOU - A Magazine About The Arts" has been antecedently FoamFeatured™.
DeleteNeal T here; what if I don't want to be included (we're all individuals here; "I'm Not")
ReplyDeleteYou are included in the "not included" category. Please pick up your ID from reception.
DeleteDeliciously Orwellian...
DeleteThis is what I always add when his name comes up - 1984 was really a satiric swipe at the existing state of affairs in 1948, not an SF novel about the future. At least, I think I read that somewhere, and it sounds plausible. Never liked the book, nor Animal Farm. As dreary as Lord Of The Flies, which he could have written. But I have just finished Arthur "C." Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama, which I enjoyed a lot, and which has possibly the greatest last line ever written.
DeleteThe Ramans do everything in threes
DeleteSPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!
Deleteplease spoil
DeleteI'm reaching out to the usual gang...anybody gots, "Beatlesque Sitarswami"?
ReplyDeleteA slightly amended, hopefully improved, version of Beatlesque (with the original cruddy artwork! -- before FT3 waved his magic art wand): https://www.imagenetz.de/eZZXF
ReplyDeleteSwamarSity?..did I mangle that? Thanx for Esque!
DeleteFrom Torgo (posted in Aloha comments - d'oh!):
ReplyDeleteBut in the meantime, for anyone who somehow hasn't been subjected to it before, here's the "Dick's Picks Vol 8" version of the Grateful Dead's show at Harpur College, May 2, 1970.
https://workupload.com/file/CMXXBsUVhdY
From Hugh Candyside, who continues the long tradition here at th' IoF© of not reading the screed (Steve Shark, bless his heart, was master of the art):
ReplyDelete"5 by Monk by 5" remains by favorite Monk album. I'd loaned my copy to a friend back in the early 60s and he returned it on the hottest day of the summer. We went to cool off by skinny dipping at the local rock quarry while the album warped itself into a pretzel. It took me 10 years to find a beat up but playable copy in Toronto. I bought the CD as soon at it was released. Charlie Rouse, man."
Here's Charlie Rouse's "Unsung Hero". Nice cover!
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/SG64dT2vkux
But Mr Internet he say no.
DeleteForbidden: IP blacklisted
Works fine for me - anybody else with a problem?
DeleteHere's 'We Paid Our Dues!' an unusual album, in that it is split between Charlie Rouse and (the criminally little known and underrated) Seldon Powell.
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/q2VYnQ8R2nk
Here's Seldon Powell's 'Go First Class - The Complete Roost Sessions'
https://workupload.com/file/eQvH2j7pshW
No problems with "Unsung Hero" here.
DeleteI think the best advice we can give Nobby is to live abroad somewhere that's not sinking.
Delete@Nobby, I had that "Forbidden: IP blacklisted" w/ Workupload a while back. If you contact them and and ask pretty please it'll go away. They now about the glitch. Rekkin' they were hacked.
DeleteThanks all for your concern and helpful comments. As ever, in this mysterious world of internet, it just started working again. I therefore now have shitloads of freeloaded music to get through. Life's a batch innit.
DeleteAlright, here is my first mix attempt, not perfect I know but we all gotta start somewhere: Thirty Minutes Of Mystical Grooves
ReplyDeletehttps://mega.nz/file/XZMFmQrS#os_Of05jHa3nTxVOHhEXB81aFJ_pb8zfyoMXkhhd2gY
I hope Delta Del still drops by - he'd love the blues songs. Great first album, Koen!
DeleteUnfortunately no fancy prizes, but do let me know if you recognize any of the artists / songs!
DeleteNice one Koen, that opening piece is pretty 'far out'. I recognise a few of the songs, but not the versions used.
DeleteThe opening piece is Jona Lewie - After We Swun (a 1977 obscure b-side), from before the 'You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties' & 'Stop The Cavalry' hits. In those days Jona was a member of Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts / Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs playing keyboards in oddball blues & jug band style and singing his heart out to usual great effect!
DeleteWow Jona Lewie, that is a surprise, I knew he had done stuff before Kitchen At Parties, but not like that, thanks.
DeleteNice, thanks art58koen!
DeleteWelcome Babs! Here's the remaining info:
Delete1 Jona Lewie: After We Swun
As explained earlier to Bambi, my favorite weird artist
2 Humble Pie: Black Coffee (feat. The Blackberries)
Several years ago I watched Humble Pie performing this on The Old Grey Whistle Test: Live DVD, with some highly suggestive interaction between Steve Marriott and the Blackberries…
3 Ellen Mcilwaine: Can't Find My Way Home
Last time in Holland I bought a copy of MOJO magazine which had an article on Ellen which mentioned her killer version of this Blind Faith track…
4 Cyro Baptista: GatoMorto...GottaMove
From his latest album, just released.
5 Michael O'Gara: Mystic Rider
This unknown artist was mentioned in the comments at https://onebuckrecords.blogspot.com/ first post. A quick check on YouTube made it clear that he was something special indeed.
6 Barry Reynolds: Outsiders Point Of View
Early 45 vinyl 1974 (never issued on CD) from my favorite Compass Point All-Stars guy, definitely worth listening.
7 Melody Gardot: Preacherman
I bumped into this song on YouTube, love it!
8 Tommy Guerrero: Que S'est-Il Passe
Another YouTube discovery, he has released several instrumental albums, cool!
Thanks for the track info Koen. I've played this a few times now, and really like it. I can't believe I didn't spot that it was Marriott singing Black Coffee, it's obvious now.
DeleteGlad you like it Bambi, it encourages me to put a follow-up together!
DeleteYeah, do it. I've been meaning to do another too, but haven't got round to it yet.
DeleteBlack Coffee was on Humble Pie's studio lp, Eat It (double lp that also had 1 live side). Wasn't a big HP fan but really liked this lp since it had much more of a soul bent than their prior releases.
DeleteAs an addendum to Babs' Artiness yestiddy, here's Watermark with the addition of the track that was replaced by Wonderful World, Jimmy Webb's Fingerpaint, and his previous album Breakaway, with the terrific non-album B side Second Avenue. All at an insultingly cynical 192. Larvely!
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/zYMh8grfRQz
And here's his first album, Angel Clare, with the edit of Second Avenue that was the B side of the single. Breakaway has the full length version. Yes, I'm confused.
DeleteAs I grow older I value this sappy shit more than I ever could as a drug-scarred cosmic revolutionary. I could listen to it all day. In fact I have been. You don't care, because you like Chrome's Half Machine Lip Moves.
https://workupload.com/file/JkfaZD8GcNy
If anyone wants
DeleteArt Garfunkel Original Album Classics 5 CD boxed set
Angel Clare
Breakaway
Watermark
Fate For Breakfast
Scissors Cut
https://workupload.com/file/gUwP2zH98Vx
Here’s Nina Simone’s “new one”, her legendary 1966 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, titled ‘You've Got To Learn’. This is the first-ever release of this specific Newport set. It also contains the often talked about, but seldom heard revamped version of “Mississippi Goddam”, which I’ve had on a bootleg for years, but doesn’t have this fidelity.
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/v3dy5ASKree
Also, here’s Nina’s ‘High Priestess of Soul’ album. If you don’t have this, you should.
https://workupload.com/file/VwjWTHCbHbW
A pity, but five days later both files have been "banned" by Workupload.
DeleteThey're starting to get strict, I think. I always give my uploads a meaningless file name, which seems to work.
DeleteHot off the presses: Miles Davis Quintet – In Concert at the Olympia,Paris,1957 @320
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/CegpHg8v932
Sweet!
DeleteHere's the 24bit-44.1kHz hi-rez version
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/YpEWA86aEJE
Did the Hoffman Audiophool A/B thing. Worth it...
I'm sure it is. That is, if you're not listening to it on either earbuds or a cheap TV speaker set stuck directly behind the monitor or an even cheaper bluetooth speaker hung from the towel rail in the shower room.
DeleteI think it's time to show us your rack, Babs.
Thanks!
DeleteYou're welcome, MrDave.
DeleteCute Farquhar....cute.
I get that a lot. C'mon, Babs - what's yer hi-fi set-up?
DeleteThanx for the Miles in Paris '57...That guy may have a future!
DeleteHis future is right here, "Anonymous":
Deletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2022/05/this-is-it.html
"....what's yer hi-fi set-up?"
DeleteOK, first things first, I live on the top two floors (with roof rights) of what was once a four floor button factory, it was very close to “The Knitting Factory”, a much missed Jazz club, such is life in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan. The space is a duplex, with what real estate folks call a “great room” that has a kitchen, dining room and a living room in one large space, on the top floor and four bedrooms below. It has eighteen-foot ceilings, with arched windows that go floor to ceiling and three foot thick brick walls. Yes, it’s a large space for little old me, but my husband I raised three children here. Also, we bought for a relative song, long before it became an “It neighborhood”. Paul Motian, had a pied-à-terre, on the second floor.
In the great room, I have a Luxman L-507Zi Integrated amplifier, that’s modestly rated at 110W (8Ω) or 210W (4Ω). Bear in mind, high-end audio companies rate amps conservatively with headroom, so if say Sony rated it, they’d say it was at least 250W(8Ω). For discs, I use a Denon DCD-A110 SACD/CD Player. A McIntosh MB20 Bluetooth transceiver. For vinyl, I use a Rega Planar 78 for my 78rpm collection (yes, I play them, I mean, what’s the use of having them?) and a Rega Planar 1 Plus turntable for albums (I like Rega). For speakers, I use Bowers & Wilkins 703 S3 Towers.
In my bedroom, I have a Rotel A12 MkII Integrated Amplifier, a Rega Saturn R CD Player and Bowers And Wilkins 706 S3 Bookshelf Speakers.
For portable audio (I walk twice a day), I use an Astell&Kern A&norma SR35 DAP, with Shure SE846 Gen 2 IEM.
In my defense, my father and older brother were both audiophiles, and then I met my husband who (you guessed it) was also an audiophile. Truth is, once you get used to good audio, you can’t go back…
Bought that same turntable a couple of years ago, and absolutely love it. Have a Cambridge amp and a streamer/dac from the same company, with a pair of Elac speakers. While the amp is 85 watts, I rarely get to push it since the walls in our complex aren't the greatest in terms of sound proofing. But, our maintainence guy loves our music and routinely borrows lps (and also lets us do likewise).
DeleteI live in a raised bungalow (how they build them out here) designed by moi. My wife was site foreman during construction, and sourced the materials. It's open plan living/kitchen, opening out onto the deck which overlooks (but not by much) the mighty Mekong river, with the jungle of Lao PDR on the far side. It's a well-known crossing point for drug runners smuggling filthy amphetamines from government-run factories in Burma. Strangely, the presence of a Thai Navy river force seems to have little deterrent effect. Hmm. There was once a running gun battle across the thin strip of land that separates us from the river, but other than that it's been very peaceful. Apart from the strings of UFOs. But they're quiet, too.
DeleteI have a No-Brand TV speaker set-up, a couple of tweeters and a bass box with a sock stuffed in the baffle. MP3s on my Mac iTunes (it's that old) get tweaked by the awesome Boom 3D app and sound just swell. I have Mac earbuds and a W-King bluetooth speaker which outperforms my old JBL, whose battery couldn't take the heat and literally broke out of the casing. I have no close neighbors, so can play as loud as I want, which isn't very.
Back in Paris, I had a high middle-range (or low high-end) separates set up and a wall of vinyl, and I don't miss it at all.
Once we relocated, I had to start from scratch with a system and was shocked at how inexpensive good, high end, speakers had become. Mind you, those "savings" were offset by the ridiculous pricing on amps, streamers/dacs and turntables, but when I gave up blow for 6 mos, I was able to afford it all. Sniff.....
DeleteIncidentally, Babs' story of having to live in a disused factory really got to me - is there any way we can alert the authorities to her plight? I know it's a step up from sleeping in a box under the High Line, but an old doll like her should be allowed to live out her life with a little human dignity, fercrissakes ...
DeleteMy hi-fi set-up is pathetic, low-fi would probably describe it better. I got a cheapo Chinese CD/DVD disc all-zone player and an old OS X El Capitan Mac desktop with a single harmon/kardon speaker, somehow it works and occasionally produces a lot of noise (when my wife is not around AND our new kitten hasn't bitten any cables to shit)... Our living conditions are a bit better: we live in a semi-detached 2-storey townhouse in a typical Thai style mooban, way down in the boondocks of Nonthaburi...
DeleteKarmon Hardon, eh?
DeleteMy spelling is getting irritating... harman/kardon of course...
DeleteI used to be a bit of a hi-fi snob, in the 80’s bought goodish quality separates, including a Rega Planar 2 turntable (still got it all - if it ain’t broke etc). When I plugged my redundant 20+ year old Apple i-mac G4 into my hi-fi, it sounded very good for playing mp3’s, and I now play more music from mp3 than either vinyl or CD. As with many of us I expect, tinnitus has reduced my hearing ability quite a bit. I still prefer the ‘feel’ of vinyl, but lets be honest sometimes a playlist or random is just great.
Delete'Fuck my old boots!', I've just look up Babs' Bowers & Wilkins 703 S3 Tower speakers, hardcore hi-fi porn. "Don't look Ethel!"
DeleteCan thoroughly recommend Boom 3D as an audio enhancer for Mac. It's like night and day. Basically it's a very clever graphic equaliser. There's a bunch of unwanted and stupid "features" that I never use, but the core of its functions is both easy to use and startlingly effective. I found it lying around on an internet, but it's worth paying for if you have to.
Deleteshould be looked up. The CD player ain't too shabby either.
DeleteThere seems to be some free downloads of Boom 3D on the interwebs, I might give it a go.
DeleteKarmon Hardon sound like a 70s guy with a mustache, who does porn, with black socks on.
DeleteHe made Clambuster 2 with Juicy Clitfinger in '73.
DeleteAbout Miles' "future is right here, "Anonymous":
Deletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2022/05/this-is-it.html" ...
the link leads to a 404 message. I know that there's plenty for you to do, but if you happen to have the time to post it somewhere, I'd be interested. Thanks, and (as ever) thanks for the quality dialog and art.
D in California
https://workupload.com/file/QFvQ4AjKXJq
DeleteGiven Miles' lack of leadership/creative input (apart from overdubbing solos, which he does as well here as anywhere), this "album" is as official as any of the barrel-scraping "last album" exercises, and plays a lot better. I was really proud of this one.
These Charlie Rouse and Seldon Powell albums. Just WOW!!! New discoveries for me. Very exciting stuff. A million thanks to FT3 and Babs for their most generous deliverables.
ReplyDeleteSeldon Powell is new to me, too. Obsessing on the "new" - or being restricted by it - just because it's "new" is being distracted by marketing initiatives. The entire music business - what's left of it - is smoke and mirrors. Make your own "new".
DeleteThe above Miles post has Barney Wilen on tenor sax, whom not unlike Seldon Powell is criminally little known and underrated.
DeleteHere's Barney's Un Témoin Dans La Ville / Jazz Sur Seine, which is two albums on one CD
https://workupload.com/file/EnaCdjrWSXS
In 1968, Barney fronted a Rock band called 'Barney Wilen And His Amazing Free Rock Band' and recorded a tribute album to Timothy Leary titled 'Dear Prof. Leary’, which will be forthcoming, tomorrow. Tonight I’m going to the late show at the Village Vanguard with some friends to see the Bill Charlap trio with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington, whom are famously unrelated.
In more unrelated news, Jerry Garcia plays on Art Garfunkel's "Angel Clare" album. That has to be his most surprising session date!
DeleteI always tighten my headband for an extra rush during Jerry's guitar solo, you should too!
DeleteHere's Barney Wilen's 'Dear Prof. Leary'
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/X8CSWKpdWXg
I am still digesting the "Dear Prof. Leary" but am really glad you shared it Babs. Thanks! I don't know what I expected - but it really caught me off guard but in a really GOOD way. After the other Barney Wilen you shared and that I liked a lot, what Barney was cooking up with "Leary" is something else entirely. Have never heard an Ode to Billie Joe cover quite like the one presented here. Fantastic! I appreciate your sharing and hope the Village Vanguard show last night was top notch.
DeleteBREAK MY MIND and OUTA MY MIND are the first two volumes of the “Country on Your Mind” series released on the Don’t Be Square label (not available in finer record stores anywhere). Sixty of your favorite country, western, bluegrass, folk & gospel artists sing about what’s on their worried mind: tales of sin, regret, remorse, unrequited love and, on the rare occasion, happiness. But don’t confuse this with your mother’s Gentle on My Mind collection, rather, to quote Loretta Lynn, it’s “a world (where) the lonely go insane.” Could that be a young Gram Parsons singing lead for the Christian Troubadours?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.imagenetz.de/dJsvA
*dusts off stetson*
DeleteYes, indeed, Gram before all those grams...
DeleteShould youse bums be desirous of a bingeworthy audio book, here's Rob Inglis reading The Lord Of The Rings (and definitively). It's a hefty deliverable, so be patient.
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/WuMs32kfajW
STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI've been away from The Isle for a day and return to all these albums, most of which I've never heard of but of course must have when they are recommended by you lot. My only hope is this sinking island will not let me at 'em.
And, to toss a few crumbs to my fellow bums, here's a Stan Getz bossa nova live recording from '66 (featuring Astrud) in 24bit, together with a nice booklet (from the Lost Recordings company): https://mega.nz/folder/A7BGWIBS#7ND17bpRShq3fX69NmjE4Q
ReplyDelete24 bits? What the actual? Please provide records in one piece, not broken up. Gee whiz.
DeleteOh - and pmac lives under a Federal Witness Protection Program, a false name, and a Red Skelton toupée.
DeleteMy good sir, I'll have you know that I now have the Red Skelton hair implants!
DeleteLittle warning, this is a massive 4+ GB post and downloading it as 1 zip was too much for my poor old Mac, had to restart it... Downloading it now track by track, better!
DeleteIts a huge file, overall. But, the sound quality is amazing. I have two other 24 bit recordings from that same company; a previously unreleased Errol Garner date and a Donald Byrd/Dexter Gordon duo recording. Both are fantastic. But, Farq has warned me about over feeding us bums (something about giving Cristol to the Miller Lite heathens), so I'll post them during the upcoming week.
DeleteA question for the Rules Committee:
DeleteIs it ok to give Cristal, to the Miller Lite heathens?
The Lost Recordings company puts out an excellent sounding product, of mostly radio broadcasts.
DeleteA few words regarding 24-bit/192kHz sound.
Apples to apples, if listen to the same exact recording on the same equipment, and compare the 24-bit/192kHz version to 16-bit/44kHz version; the 24-bit will sound better.
That said, I'll take a 16-bit/44kHz CD with good mastering over a poorly done 24-bit/192kHz any day.
Getz Au Go-Go (w/ Astrud) was one of the prizes I copped from my parent's vinyl collection (they were both spooks who met in Rio in the early 60s) but I don't think I've heard this one. Thanks pmac! Looking forward to the others
DeleteHere's Astrud and Walter Wanderly's beautifully cool but relatively little-known album A Certain Smile A Certain Sadness, with a unique cartoon cover (not mine!):
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/SSUfDZbdynP
Astrud and Walter are perfect together!
DeleteHere's the 2014 expanded release of the classic Getz/Gilberto album. This has really nice fidelity.
https://workupload.com/file/L3qe49bFpje
Astrud's 'Look To The Rainbow'
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/C5PQhAuQNhm
I think some Antônio Carlos Jobim, is in order. So here's a 3CD set of Jobim himself, titled 'The Man from Ipanema'
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/tcvMmCsuU5K
What's everyone's favorite Jobim song?
Mine is 'Aguas De Março'
I can't pick a favorite song of his but lately I'm partial to the album he did with Frank Sinatra.
Deletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2019/09/sunday-sin-job.html
DeleteThanks for the bossa, Babs. My favorite Jobim song is Dindi. Love the way that Gal Costa sang it. There was a Jobim live lp from the Hollywood Bowl that was released in the 80s I believe, called Rio Revisited, that has a lot of great performances of Jobim songs on it.
DeleteHere’s a nice Sunday kind of record.
ReplyDeleteThe soundtrack to Hal Ashby’s 1971 film, ‘Harold and Maude’. This is the expanded version that has twenty-seven tracks. This much more than just Steven Demetre Georgiou, or Cat Stevens, or Yusuf Islam or The Artist formerly known as all of the above. Ruth Gordon’s version of 'If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out' steals the show.
https://workupload.com/file/vXZLcJV5gDD
Mmm, larvely!
DeleteNo music, but if you have ten minutes to spend reading, I propose this interview with Bernie Taupin.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.avclub.com/bernie-taupin-scattershot-interview-elton-john-1850835660
I mentioned it on my blog mainly for an inadvertently funny moment (you'll know it when you read it...), but it makes some really good observations on the line between pop and country music (and other interesting tidbits).
It's also a sad reminder that The AV Club was once my first-stop for everything pop culture before they let go all real journalists and became a slideshow-clickbait-y rag. Interviews like this were once the norm there, but are now the absolute exception, unfortunately...
So, here's a different trio of albums. Two are from Richard Davis, a renowned bassist who recently passed. A good friend who is a professor in the school of music at the U of Seville, considers Davis to rank alongside such luminaries as Ron Carter. While his career was firmly rooted in the jazz idiom, Davis was perhaps best known for his amazing work on Morrison's Astral Weeks album. Also have included an oldie, but goodie, from Carmen McRae - Carmen Sings Monk, which should be a university level discourse on jazz vocals.
ReplyDeleteRichard Davis - Fancy Free
https://mega.nz/folder/A7Z21bxZ#yJtCfnxaE0DphTVrHZyuLA
Richard Davis - Way Out West
https://mega.nz/folder/p2wUlDRQ#rdWVDX7y8C2g9rWc61gXCg
Carmen McRae
https://mega.nz/folder/Iqp2yLrb#Jhc0UHFie9hA9fgLfa0gew
Will these burst my internet trousers, Mr Mac, or are they digestible mp3s?
DeleteMorrison wasn't present at the track recording, and overdubbed his vocals; yet another astonishing fact about That Album - another being that he hated the string arrangements!
You're going to need a bigger pie hole, Farq - they're not as large as the 24 but wee bit more than mp3s. Yeah, Morrison disliked Atra Weeks and Veedon Fleece as originally recorded, and started out doing a live concert tour of various albums back in the early 2000s, during which he re-arranged the songs more to his liking. The Astral Weeks (re-imagined) concert at the Hollywood Bowl was filmed and recorded. While he had announced similar plans for VF, he apparently grew tired of those plans and those concerts were scrapped. Now he just records anti-vax and anti-woke screeds. Sigh.....
DeleteCarmen McRae is fantastic, thanks!
DeleteTwo wonderful classics, pmac.
DeleteHere’s a nice live set from Richard Davis, and a four CD set from Carmen McRae, both are 320 kbps.
Richard Davis & Friends ‘Dealin' (Live At Sweet Basil)’
https://workupload.com/file/N5V66LJdzEQ
Carmen McRae - The Singles & Albums Collection 1946-58
https://workupload.com/file/WLLKqLwKHR4
I pulled those together for my friend Manuel Bono, the music professor, who also is an amazing acoustic bassist. He also produced and directed a documntary about jazz in Seville, focusing on the period after Franco's death. Its been uploaded to you tube (with his blessing) and is subtitled in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro5kYuUo78k
DeleteOh, y muchas gracias por Davis y Carmen, amiga!
DeleteDe nada!
DeleteCoincidence? I just found this: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/09/14/five-for-richard-davis/
DeleteIt's more of a coincidence that Davis died just before this sudden internet interest. What are the chances of that?
DeleteYou're right, didn't realize he was that much respected. Oh well, learned something new again...
DeleteI knew who he was, due to his playig on Astral Weeks, and a few lps with Freddie Hubbard. But, like art, had no idea how widely acclaimed he was.
DeleteAnd now for something completely different…
ReplyDeleteThe other night, I had dinner with my old college friend, Jennifer. You can read about two of our “adventures”
Here:
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2021/08/babs-true-thanksgiving-day-1967.html
and here:
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2021/09/babs-spits-in-th-eye-of-authority-dept.html
Over dinner, the conversation (as it usually does), turned to our time at The California Institute of Technology in the late 60s. We were remembering concerts we saw together, and Jennifer asked me if I remembered a Sly and the Family Stone show, and the opening act. Neither of us could remember the name of the opening act, but with the help of our i-phones we figured out it was ‘Linn County’ who were a San Francisco based band, originally from Linn County in Iowa. They are described by Allmusic as “An unusual late-'60s band that combined horn-embellished soul-rock with more interesting material utilizing jazz-colored arrangements and somewhat spacy songwriting.” It occurred to me, I had an album reissued on CD of theirs titled ‘Fever Shot’. After dinner, we went to my place, Jennifer rolled a spliff that would have made Lee "Scratch" Perry say, “You must be joking, Mon!” and we played ‘Fever Shot’.
You, too, can play ‘Fever Shot’
https://workupload.com/file/A5R5YUQ4zVK
Yup. I am cognisant of Proud Flesh Soothseer, with its Rick Griffin lettering.
DeleteI looked at Newspapers.com and found several listings for the band. The one that struck me, based on your description, Babs, was in the May 19, 1970 SF Examiner: "Country Rock - Linn County, tonight and tomorrow night at 9:30 at the Matrix, 3138 Fillmore St."
DeleteI also found a "The World Of Jazz In 1968" column by Ralph J. Gleason that said "1968 was the year Shorty Rogers did arrangements for the Monkees and Linn County..."
Please convey to Manuel Bono my regards for producing a wonderful piece of soical and musical history about Jazz in Seville and Franco.
ReplyDeleteIrony is part of the catalyst for Jazz was 7000 USA servicemen with a natural liking for Jazz mostly who stationed in Andalusia...also protecting the B52 Nuclear bomber arsenal one bomb of which accidently fell on Spain I recall correctly.
January 17th 1966: B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain’s Mediterranean coast, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and one in the sea. It was not the first or last accident involving American nuclear bombs.
One thing the auto subtitle translates Duende throughout as elf or goblin (an alternative reading) that not the Duende that Lorca knew :-)
ReplyDeleteAttention Cap'n Beefheart fans.
ReplyDeleteHere's the Japanese limited edition 24bit/88,2 kHz version of Captain 'Ice Cream For Crow'
DSD flat transferred from the original analogue master tapes. Edited in DSD by Manabu Matsumura at Universal Music Studios, Tokyo, in 2015.
https://workupload.com/file/GtjEQmdmkPt
... and voilà the album @ a no-bloat sustainable 192, as stipulated by the Petrine See of Rome, blister-packed with No Vox - the tracks for the album sans the Captain:
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/SkxarEZgPAk
A smartarse would then calculate that The Vliet voice is the bloat..surely shum mistake ed? I will go back to my hole in the desert now..
DeleteTh' IoF© is a broad church, tolerant of all opinions about music, even batshit crazy ones like yours. Keep yer head down - there's some Whac-A-Mole© experts here spittin' into their palms ...
DeleteI don't know why Americans can't bring themselves to use the word "died" any more, preferring "passed" which is better associated with water or driving tests, but Jimmy Buffet actually died recently, becoming dead, so good for him. Here's his first two albums - the first a surprisingly inventive slab o' late sixties pop (is that a sitar in there?!) and the second a fully-formed blend o' Buffet with a swell new cover. In response to the Chief Grifting Officer here at th' IoF©, Snorky.
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/72Napc5HXRM
I've always been a fan of "croaked" "bought the farm" and "kicked the bucket".
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFBNjWrXF1I
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AMWPO4Bup8&ab_channel=PatrickConrad
DeleteGreat song! As ever, youtube comes up with expert analysis in the comments:
Delete"when I listen to this tune, I think of fallen friends and family( who passed to soon."
Fallen, passed - he misses the point of the song completely.
Here's The Paris All-Stars' 'Homage To Charlie Parker'
ReplyDeleteRecorded June 15, 1989, at La Grande Hale - La Villette, Paris
The Paris All-Stars are:
Jackie McLean and Phil Woods on Alto Saxophone
Stan Getz on Tenor Saxophone
Dizzy Gillespie on Trumpet
Hank Jones on Piano
Milt Jackson on Vibraphone
Percy Heath on Bass
Max Roach on Drums
The first track, labeled as "Birks Works" by Dizzy Gillespie, is actually "Steeplechase" by Charlie Parker. [Dumbasses. - Ed.]
https://workupload.com/file/MSyhPRFRPHW
Holy crap! What a line-up, Babs. To bad so many have:
ReplyDelete1. kicked the bucket
2. passed
3. morphed to worm food
4. shuffled off this mortal coil
ReplyDeletePushing up the daisies
ReplyDeleteAn ex-parrot
Snuffed it
ReplyDeleteare taking a dirt nap
DeleteMy late wife (passed) was from the not green side in Northern Ireland where a favourite expression was 'Tatty Bread i.e. Potato Bread = Dead ...
DeleteMy mother was born in Marseille, France, and moved to Québec City, Canada as a little girl, used to say:
Delete“Casser sa pipe” (broke his pipe)
“Avaler sa son extrait de naissance” (swallowed his birth certificate)
“Boire le bouillon de onze heures” (drink the eleven o'clock broth)
All phrases were followed by a snicker.
Bought the farm
DeleteCashed in their chips
Do we have any Jackie McLean fans in the house?
ReplyDeleteYebbut.
DeleteJackie McLean ‘The Complete Blue Note Recordings 1964-66’ from Mosaic records
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/RxV7bkRPhzj
The only way to improve this boxset is to include Destination Out and One Step Beyond from 1963. Of course, they'd have to rename the box then.
Delete"File banned as it violates our terms of use" - could be that you used an explicit file name, using words from "Jackie McLean ‘The Complete Blue Note Recordings 1964-66"? If you re-up, change the name to something meaningless and add an image to the file to change its size. If it's exactly the same "weight", even under a different name - it may get hooked.
DeleteOK, let’s improve it!
DeleteAll files are Hi-Rez.
PW for all is: Babs
‘One Step Beyond’
https://ulozto.net/file/Wvujb0WEATfh/jackie-mclean-one-step-beyond-zip#!ZGIxLwR2ZJEyLJV2LwV3LGqvZ2AwMzuzIRR2LacRsxuZDwN2ZN==
‘Destination Out’
https://ulozto.net/file/Ve2KiPvT8NMJ/jackie-mclean-destination-out-zip#!ZJIwLmR1MzL5BQH5LzVkAzR3LmDjFx1BBQEYnzxgEl5XL2Hm
And as added bonuses:
‘Let Freedom Ring’
https://ulozto.net/file/r44iBdPSypot/jackie-mclean-let-freedom-ring-zip#!ZJSyLGR2AGVlZGp1BQp4LGyyL2SzA3EipUyPoKVlGJ1bGGH3LD==
‘Demon’s Dance’ (not Hi-Rez, but FLAC )
https://ulozto.net/file/w16g4Xeo3jGP/jackie-mclean-demon-s-dance-1967-flac-zip#!ZGRkZwR2AzMyLwL1L2D1Awp1AzD5LIOUnwAfnl1mFzyOrzH0BN==
Blue Note set here
Deletehttps://ulozto.net/file/buVBvikkV7vG/jackie-blue-zip#!ZJL0ZmR2AmD1Lmx4BGD5ZQxlLmSwMxq2A1MAnmM5MSuJFTVkLt==
Here's the Blue Note set for those who prefer their Jackie lean - all of the music, none of the baroque frills; @192 files for th' workin' stiff, the ordinary Joe who'd take an honest wage for an honest day's work and be grateful for a cold beer on the porch while they kick back and lissen to this:
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/4GCGrGCTxCB
ReplyDeleteThe Afro-Cuban All Stars - ‘A Toda Cuba Le Gusta’
As they used to say on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand, during the Clearasil™ sponsored segment called 'Rate A Record', "It's got a great beat, and you can dance to it!”. Oh, and some guy named Ry plays guitar on a track or two.
So grab your favorite wife, girlfriend, husband, boyfriend, transgender, Ovis aries; whatever blows your hair back. Don’t worry, For Th' Four Or Five Guys© won’t judge you (much). Hold your favorite whatever close, and start dancing. You’ll be thanking me quicker, thank you can say: Doctor Ruth Westheimer, if you know what I mean…
https://workupload.com/file/wn5pfAJVdNP
Here's their harder-to-find second album, "Distinto, Diferente", which I remember sourcing for pmac back when he could get work:
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/RVxzrTSwRLZ
Now, I'm relegated to holding up a hand painted sign, that reads: Expulsado de la isla, funcionará para la marihuana.
ReplyDelete*turns on windshield wipers, avoids eye contact*
DeleteLove - "Forever Changed"
ReplyDeleteThe reverence for this album obscures its failings: clumsy sequencing (the second side drags) and the inclusion of songs that shouldn't have made the cut:
"Bummer In The Summer" is a throwback to their earlier punk/Dylan style. It doesn't fit, regardless of its quality.
"Live And Let Live" is a wretched song, way overlong, with a truly terrible guitar solo. So if you really want to hear again how the snot has caked against Artie's pants, look elsewhere.
The studio outtake "Wonder People" is a much better fit than either (fight me), and in this version leads off the album - the minor hit single they cleverly avoided. Thirty-nine-minute album, five songs a side, with the two "soft" songs in the middle of each to help the pacing. Finishes with the epic "You Set The Scene", as on the original. And there's a subtly amended cover.
https://workupload.com/file/3HGZgUghfyt
Here's some of Loves, demos and outtakes recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, between 1966 and 1968. Plus two from Dick Clark's American Bandstand, 1966. All are in excellent quality.
Deletehttps://www.mediafire.com/file/mwikfvouf95lxcg/Love_Last_Wall.zip/file
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, November 21, 1970
https://www.mediafire.com/file/phc2rs63cjof6cd/Love_Fillmore_West_1970.zip/file a
Here's another 24bit recording from Lost Records - an Errol Garner session from 1966, recorded in a studio in Germany. Backed by a trio, which includes an extra percussionist. Only about 35 min in length, so its not the massive download the Getz file was. Your typical Garner outing (I love the guy's work), with a bit more backbeat courtesy of the congas. Booklet included. https://mega.nz/folder/p7wlABiZ#pgHnBhC_G92aqZ4PFZjVDA
ReplyDeleteExcellent! I had a reel to reel of this show, and haven't heard in a long, long time.
DeleteThanks pmac, listening to Garner now, excellent!
ReplyDeleteWow, I've been catching up after the past few days -- thanks to pmac and babs in particular for all the great shares!
ReplyDeleteAnd, as promised, the 3rd (and last) Lost Recordings lp, a 1966 studio gem by Donald Byrd and Dexter Gordon. This was apparently recorded for a radio broadcast, but its very short (clocks in at about 30 mins) which is ashame, since the band really cooks on this one. While its in 24 bit, given the short playing time, its only 1.25 gb.
ReplyDeleteGot all dls out today, since I'm spending the rest of the week playing 24 hour nanny for our (read - my better half's) dog, who had 6 teeth pulled yesterday (and now most def has a bark worse than his bit). I've been advised that I have 2 options when it comes to feeding him in her absence (she's off on an all gals trip to Madrid): act like a momma bird and pre-chew the food for toothless Joe, or use my beloved blender for his canine cena. Hoping Amazon delivers that new blender soon.
https://mega.nz/folder/JqZXnbpR#n3HrazLVHrl5FpgcRrYG-g
Wolfgang Dauner / Et Cetera megapost. From 1969-1974 Dauner released (at least) nine albums: Fur (69), The Oimels (69), Output (70), Rischka's Soul (70), Rischka's Light Faces (71), Et Cetera (71), Knirsch (72), Etc. Live (73), Kunstkopfindianer (74). Krautrock meets the avant garde. Lie back and enjoy it.
ReplyDeletethe first five: https://www.imagenetz.de/bNU85
the next four: https://www.imagenetz.de/ag5t8
This looks interesting, thanks Sitarswami!
Delete"Lie back and enjoy it."
Said the actress to the bishop...
In 1958, before Michel Legrand won Academy and Grammy Awards, he went to New York City to make a Jazz album with the best Jazz musicians he could find. Unfortunately, they were all busy, so instead he made do with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Ben Webster, Hank Jones, Herbie Mann, Phil Woods, Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Sheldon Powell, Teo Macero, Milt Hinton, Jimmy Cleveland and others.
DeleteWhy this recording isn’t better well known, I do not know.
Judge for yourself
https://www.mediafire.com/file/bhtnmceul02gc30/Legrand_Jazz_.zip/file
Serves him right for making an album with a bunch of unknowns.
DeleteThat's a handy package of WD's glory years. 'Output' is one of the best things I've heard in the last 15-20 years thanks to the sharity-blog world. I also have a great straighter trio date, again from 1970, title escapes me.
DeleteHowzabouta re-up on the "Fake WatchBand deal?
ReplyDeleteCatching up with the backlog of Snorky's re-up requests:
ReplyDeleteBeach Boys "20/20 Redux"
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-lawn-boys-twenty-twenty-vision-for.html?showComment=1695164958768#c9174868552224337682
https://workupload.com/file/xCYCYCQYAvk
Firesign "Roller Maidens" edit
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2019/08/phillibuster.html
https://workupload.com/file/Lu7KgdhrWGY
Dennis Wilson "Brother"
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/09/dennis-wilson-brother-songs-of-beach-boy.html?showComment=1695165566533#c6237762755313834411
https://workupload.com/file/YuMpqCgTRsN
The Fake Watch Band "Dark Side Of The Mushroom"
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-fake-watch-band.html
https://workupload.com/file/8k3NxKNKSVW
(Snorky, what with bandwidth problems - my own, as well as the internet's - this took me close to an hour this morning. Enjoy the music, pass it around, but give me a break, okay? Thanks!)
Thanx for the Firesign! I pretty much quit after Bozos, too. But always remember: If you dig a hole deep enough, sooner or later everyone will jump in...
DeleteYou're welcome, notBob! That album is a weird one, even by Firesign standards, but it's vastly improved by editing out the go-nowhere do-nothing vanity project songs. Maybe Phil was hoping somebody at the rekkid company would recognise his huge talent and commission an album?
DeleteAnyway, those songs do not move the narrative along (a bizarre claim by someone on the internet), they're stop lights.
Here's Cal Tjader's 'Latin + Jazz = Cal Tjader', featuring Armando Peraza.
ReplyDeleteRock fans may (or may not) know Armando, from his work from 1972 to 1990, as a member of Santana. He's also backed Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Art Tatum, Machito, Josephine Baker, Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, Jaco Pastorius, Linda Ronstadt, Frank Zappa and Rick James, and others.
Armando Peraza is the percussionist's percussionist. Cal Tjader is no slouch on the Vibes, either....
https://ulozto.net/tamhle/CZo9R1aYTP2Y#!ZGIwZwR2AJRlBQWvBGtlLzL1BGt5AyxlHSEIpSSRryEkDGDjLt==
It's always interested me that Santana, who was able to get the best musicians in the business working with him, never gets credit as a truly great bandleader. I think it may be down to snobbism - he's not a virtuoso player in the jazz sense, and his roots are in the blues and Mexican music. And I have the faint suspicion that an anti-Mexican attitude may have had an effect.
Delete"He's not a virtuoso player?"
DeleteStruggle through the entire sentence before reacting to it. Please.
DeleteActually, I agree. Great bands & classic albums. I'm waiting for Borboletta 2, but his stuff with Wayne Shorter proves his jazz element to me, and I totally agree with your last sentence above.
DeleteOh yeah, he could play alongside the best jazz musicians (https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2023/02/shapeshifter-of-delight-dept.html) and not disgrace himself - let's face it, they wouldn't have sat in with him had they not respected him - but anyone making an argument that he's as adept around the fretboard as, say [ANY ONE OF YOUR TOP ONE HUNDRED JAZZ GUITARISTS] is in for a tough time.
DeleteIf you want Borboletta II, this comes close:
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2022/10/hidden-in-plain-sight-dept-santana-again.html
Last album you listened to? Me - The Feelies "Crazy Rhythms". Playing as we speak. Insanely likeable.
ReplyDeleteThe Crusaders - 'Chain Reaction'
DeleteMm. Nice.
DeleteBacheando by Plinio Fernandes. Just released classical guitar album.
DeleteLast night after attending Tubular Bells re-imagined by Robin A Smith and band at a nice local theatre, I got home, poured a glass of something nice and played Mike Oldfields Hergest Ridge, followed by Zappa Sleep Dirt before falling asleep.
DeleteNeal T, all Feelies likable :)
Deletenew Devendra Barnhart
DeletePeter Erskine Trio 'You Never Know' (ECM 1993). A very refined and airy piano trio.
DeleteAquarium Drunkard had an interesting piece on Michael O'Gara, a forgotten 70s artist who just made 1 album which finally seems to be attracting some attention: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/category/michael-ogara/
ReplyDeleteI managed to find all tracks and some info, give it a try: https://mega.nz/file/KMVTnBKL#yOqH3t3rcIcNGYpxp0dPmScKOBKnAIBfHx4KoK1AQQg
Thanks art, I will give it a try.
DeleteI’m currently on a Lou Donaldson kick, so here’s two from Lou.
ReplyDelete‘Blues Walk’
To my ears, this is Lou’s finest recording
Lou Donaldson on alto saxophone
Herman Foster on piano
Peck Morrison on bass
Dave Bailey on drums
Ray Barretto on congas
https://we.tl/t-DtjFnZcIPn
‘Lou Takes Off’
Lou Donaldson on alto saxophone
Donald Byrd on trumpet
Curtis Fuller on trombone
Sonny Clark on piano
Jamil Nasser on bass
Art Taylor on drums
https://we.tl/t-uzNpPAhRHi
Tx Case Sensitive Babs! I have Blues Walk and look forward to the other.
DeleteLALOMIE WAHBURN!!! - another "new to me". Discovered her through the last incarnation of HP Lovecraft, as Love Craft. A definitive mid-seventies album with no connections at all to that great psych band other than the very fine drummer Michael Tegza. Keeping the band name - sorta - is a mystery as it's basically a Lalomie Washburn album. She wrote the songs, and she belts 'em out. This is full-on rock/funk with the added surprise bonus of NO disco.
ReplyDeleteHer solo album "My Music Is Hot" is just that. Both included in the deliverables, and you might go here:
https://louderthanwar.com/lalomie-washburn-my-music-is-hot-album-review/
for a valuable and nicely appreciative bio.
https://www.imagenetz.de/bzsyV
Uh - "WASHBURN".
DeleteI saw Probyn on Brian's Smile tour, in Paris. What a night that was.
ReplyDeleteIn the early 70s, I was part of a circle of Grateful Dead tape traders. We’d trade, make duplicates of the Dead’s live shows for each other, and then send them to each other through the United States Mail. Many traders, myself included, would make tapes for folks with nothing to trade, they’d send us what we used to call "B+P", which stood for blanks and postage. There was a lot of trust involved, but most Deadheads are kind and honest folks. Once, I sent B+P, to someone in New Mexico for studio outtakes, after two months, I thought I was ripped off, but two weeks later the cassette arrived with an apology letter, no less, for taking so long.
ReplyDeleteThe other day, a friend and I were talking about the art work some of the traders made and put on their cassettes. So I pulled out a box of cassette tapes (that probably are not capable of playing) from my tape trading days, so we could look at the art work. Going through them, I came across a non-Dead tape. Side A, was the first (self-titled) Marshall Tucker album, and Side B, was the first (self-titled) Ozark Mountain Daredevils album. Both from 1973, and made on my beloved Nakamichi 700 cassette deck from the same year.
Both albums are different, but have that early 70s laid back Country Rock vibe in common, and are classics.
So, here they are
https://we.tl/t-XlZUB1CGDL
Glad to see the old place is still rockin' and may I say that as a substitute for the sharp wit and insights of our good hosts formalised 'interviews' these open threads provide some comfort. Far too many great blogs have bitten the dust in recent years.
ReplyDeleteHowever there is bad news for one among us. @Babs have you checked your workupload account? They seem to be on to you as an awful lot of the great links you've posted on this thread now have banned notices against them
Where did I fail? I don't know, I think it was the taxi driver. Something told me I'd seen that face, someplace, before. He was the one in Tangiers...
DeleteI think that your file names are a red flag, Babs, as I suggested before. It's one of the reasons I rename my compressed files as something meaningless/stupid.
Delete@Phantom - I thank you for those kind words. The amount of work (or play) that went into the signature IoF© Curated Posts was significant:
Delete1 Something I thought worth listening to
2 An idea - or concept, if you will - for the blog piece to hang it on
3 Deftly Witty And Allusive Screed:
- gag in title
- boffo laffs in text
- new gag for last line/sponsor
4 Illustrations
- Foam-O-Graph© animation
- Sourcing other material (album sleeve whatever)
- Creating new album sleeve
Very labor intensive. I didn't want to just shutter the place and walk away, so this YOU DO THE FUCKING WORK YOU LOUSY FREELOADING BUMS concept will last as long as you do. It seems a humane and elegant way of winding the thing down. Thanks for your continued support, ya cheap slobs!
Farquhar, please re-up Imaginos (Mindmelt Edition) , one of my first tastes of Foam.
ReplyDeleteBrandi
With pleasure. See next non-post.
DeleteFarq, it looks like it will be necessary to start “Grandson of Aloha.” Gbrand
ReplyDeleteThis Wondermints was gotten from The dBs rePercussions blog: https://workupload.com/file/rjzyzThfam8
ReplyDeleteBrandi