Dan Hicks. Winner of Okayest Dude award six years running. Swell musician, songwriter, great pinochle player. Inventor of Pickleball®, and First Cowboy On The Moon. What more need be said? He was the most talented original Charlatan (a pretty low bar), and pioneered the use of oleomargarine in contract flooring. His portrait, by Leonard Nimoy, hangs in the Vatican. September 3rd has been named Dan Hicks day in Spitoon County, Colorado. He owned the world's largest private collection of Oil Rigs, and kept axolotls.
But enough of this dry historical encomium. The important thing is, fun.
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ReplyDeleteIf you need motivation to swing into the mosh pit of the comments, tell us about your last physical media purchase. We promise not to laugh.
Michel Waisvisz – Crackle. I wanted it to make an avantgarde mashup and I came across this item at a record fair, reasonably priced and it is as fresh as it sounded all those years ago
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me - I should finish that 30 mins of avant garde thing. Sometime.
DeleteWhenever I see a shelf of CD’s in a charity shop I have a look, last week a CD of A Farewell To Kings by Rush to replace the copy I lost last century.
ReplyDeletePhysical media is being virtually given away, a sign said “TEN DVDs for £1”.
As for vinyl records, I have no room for any more, I blame Bevis Frond for this situation, most of their output are double albums and I bought a lot in the last thirty plus years.
Coltrane's My Favorite Things - remastered and in mono (vinyl). Brought to you courtesy of those fine people at Rhino.
ReplyDelete"I had that on the original vinyl." No, really. Probably my favourite John album. (All true jazzbos call him "John", and Miles Davis "Davis.")
DeleteRhino did a remaster and mono only box set of 6 Coltrane lps, but is also releasing the lps individually. Waiting for the individual release of Giant Steps and that will be the only 2 I really want from that set. Only other lp by him that I could see myself purchasing is his classic one with Johnny Hartman on vocals.
DeleteAs a punk rock guy, it's always "louder, faster, shorter" with me. Which begs the question of "the single edits?" I see that there was a Record Store Day reissue of the single "My Favorite Things" in 2018; "US Only and Limited to 1000 Copies Worldwide."
DeleteGiven the expanded time of a CD you'd think they could just drop in the various single versions at the end. Yeah, most jazz fans probably loathe truncating works of genius in pursuit of a chartbusting pop hit but I hate drum solos and most of this stuff (like prog rock) has a drum solo about six minutes into it.
I've been trying to remember the last CD (or vinyl) I bought - it must be over twenty years ago. Ditto for books and *cough* DVDs.
ReplyDeleteJohn Scofield & Dave Holland - 'Memories of Home'. Nice ECM pressing.
ReplyDeleteGabrielle Cavassa – 'Diavola'.
I used to frequently see Gabrielle perform when I lived in NO. She was a fixture at the clubs on Frenchman Street. Wasn't a big fan of her 1st lp, but looking forward to the new o ne based off of the 2 cuts they already released.
DeleteI'm seeing Gabrielle at Birdland in May.
DeleteSee That Girl, the eight CD box set by Kirsty MacColl. It's pretty wonderful. I downloaded a mp3 of it, but I had to have it in better quality. The book is pretty goo, too.
ReplyDeletei've been shoplifting since i was 5 so it must have been a howdy doody 78. pretty sure i used my milk money.
ReplyDeleteTikiyaki Orchestra & The Hawaiiana Brass, "Weekend in Waikiki" It should arrive early May.
ReplyDeleteI'm a geeky academic; books are a professional hazard...Uncle (well, OK, distant cousin at best) Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver; The Revolutionary Organisation: Armed Struggle from the Late 18th Century to the Present; The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s; and, wait for it, Fernando: A Song by ABBA,to my amusement and appreciation cites my first book on Latin American revolutions...who'd a thunk in a book about Abba? Save me...
ReplyDeleteAlso a used Elizabeth Mitchell CD, You Are My Little Bird, for my grandkids basically so I could get a 4 year old & a 2 year old singing her disturbingly twee version of the VU's What Goes On. Mission accomplished. Gateway drugs. Next up, Rock & Roll & then White Light/White Heat. Their father keeps playing them all Beatles all the time.
I bought three Juice Newton radio shows; Live At Gilley's, Westwood One Presents, and a StarTrak Profile/Concert. I've got the StarTrack done already but have some cleaning/restoration work to do on the other two. All will eventually go up over at Voodoo Wagon. I'm not a big fan but we used to do "Queen Of Hearts" (although we got it from Dave Edmunds' version...).
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Mr. Throckmorton, I also have a live Pousette-Dart Band show that's Side One of a "Rock Around The World" syndicated LP (Atlanta Rhythm Section on the flip....) When it's done, I'll put up a link here. IIRC you like their work and there's not a lot of live shows by 'em.
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Recently got Steppenwolf - Monster & Parlor Greens - In Green/We Trust, both vinyl purchases, 1 online & the other from a local shop.
ReplyDeleteA Peter Tosh box-set going cheap in my 'local' HMV. Never even heard him but I'm a sucker for those Original Album Classics. And many other series with uniform "collect them all" packaging.
ReplyDeletePeter Tosh was the goofy one in the Monkees.
DeleteTosh. You're thinking of Peter Lorre in Island of Doomed Men
DeleteYou're thinking of "O Superman" hitmaker Lorre Anderson.
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ReplyDeleteOne of the Dan Hick's Lickettes...Naomi Ruth Eisenberg - passed away a few weeks back. There's a memorial page at: https://everloved.com/life-of/naomi-eisenberg/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRKfChleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFrSlZZSVgyTEkwQjAzS0RLc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHt6949HfbRT87uBQEs2MROrr2WfSJBNvC0-qBm58PgmlgI-s3XFNyZcPMskU_aem_plsicaznA6bNFywJ37QX2w
ReplyDeleteI have a couple of brief, tiny connections with her. She did a record with Ellen Neutron, who was dating my roommate in '83...and once I went over to my drummer's house in the Sunset District and she was writing a song with him.
I have a Dan Hicks cassette from 1971 that I digitized at: https://mega.nz/file/aMITQCwY#qoIbu1Zo2B_mPDpzDUxBXh-jzY3wGXnnqBk4ptcW-bw
Thankyouverymudge.
DeleteI've got one more local mention of Mr. Hicks. In the late 1990s my old roommate was taking a class in recording tech and Thomas Dolby was the guest speaker. After the lecture there was a meet n' greet, and I asked him about his cover of "I Scare Myself." From the perspective of the Bay Area...Hicks BARELY got any airplay in the '70-73 period locally and I was curious about how a London guy had even heard of him. Mr. Dolby said there was definitely a "cult" audience in England for Dan Hicks.
DeleteSo...I gotta ask Mr. T....how did you hear about Hicks?
I was part of a hip group of record buyers who listened to John Peel (the fount of all knowledge back then - he was like a human internet) and hung around record shops and read Rolling Stone (newsprint foldover version) and picked up on everything pretty much as it happened. So we were familiar with Him And His Hot Licks, although The Charlatans made little impact (I remember hearing that Phillips album and being unimpressed).
DeleteI'm younger, born in '56. Locally, Rolling Stone wasn't all that easy to find in the "fold over" days...in spite of us being just 25 miles east of "The City." There were copies at a local...shoppe...Ming Quan...which existed until just a few years ago...they sold local crafts. I sold pottery there in the early 70s. In '70, 71... they were the only place that we knew that had Rolling Stone...the only other option wasn't a place, it was a guy named Pink Cloud, who would hitchhike with a stack of magazines for sale.
DeleteYeah, different times. Yes, we bought magazines from hitchhiking hippies because the stores didn't carry them.
Now...these days, Americans know of John Peel...but he wasn't anyone we knew, say...prior to the 1980s. His name cropped up later on reissues where a "Peel Session" might get issued. Here's where geography enters into it.. in the USA, a FM station was limited to a specific urban market, and each market was an island. While DJs did move between cities, the "market" didn't know what the heck was going on in the next conurbation. Here...KSAN was hugely influential in the 1970s but ended DEAD STOP in 1980 when it "went country." But the loss...was only felt in about thirty mile radius around San Francisco. Yes, we lost locally but Northern California? It didn't miss station.
So...here's the question: was John Peel "local" out of London, or did he reach a broader audience, with his shows going out all over the British Isles?
He was on Pirate Radio, broadcasting The Perfumed Garden from a ship, before the BBC, so anyone could theoretically pick up Radio "London", and certainly the BBC was nationwide. Can't overestimate his influence. He seems to have been "cancelled" by the Woke Brigade (a long-established "John Peel Tent" at Glastonbury was terminated), but he was undoubtedly the main, and sometimes only, conduit of new music.
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