Marble Sheep: Ultra Man saves the day!! 2 Marble Sheep youtubes!!!

I am absolutely
tripping
on "Ultra Man"
by Marble Sheep...from Whirl recorded 1989 released 1993
this song epitomizes my fav "rock" music...the kind of music that
GRABS
you by the
BALLS
and takes you on a hallucinatory journey
to places
where you feel at home
at peace
at ease
ready to take on anything
with confidence and an attitude
that screams:
"Look out Motherfuckers!!!"
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...leading me to a thought:
Are the depressed more susceptible to fall to the allure of "rock" music?
It is an escape...and if you're happy where you are (mentally more than physically), you don't appreciate escape.
You have no need to
escape...

"Ultra Man" is still whirling inside my skull,
enveloping the brain
massaging the tempral lobe.

Dammit!! It's MORE than an escape!!!
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2 Marble Sheep youtubes:
after 1 minute of before-show hijinks, this kicks in with 6 minutes of aural guitar bliss...thanks TokyoMarble!!!


A recent one! thanks again TokyoMarble!!

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youtubes: Shawn Phillips, Grobschnitt!!

Shawn Phillips. Midnight Special, 1973. thanks ShawnPhillipsDVD!!

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Grobschnitt. Rockpalast 1978...Eroc on drums. thanks PsychoShine!
Do you hear
So-lar Music?
Do you hear
So-lar Music?

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Bob Bell's Necropolis, Fushitsusha, Audience and youtube: German Oak / Robert Mueller!!!

there can be sharpness to a dull facade

bob bell - necropolis - 1978 - canadian dude - cant remember what he's about - must have looked interesting at the time - [here: mutant sounds] - wow - nice fuzz psych guitar - high musicianship - [later] - that was a short album - now it's some awesome sparse japanese jazz psychedelic stuff from the 70s - no - wait - after a quick glance at the walkman - who is it? - what? - still bob bell??? -this guy is great - and versatile - 2.57 from 13 ratings on rate your music?????? - wrong - i disagree - im giving it 5 - right now - moved it on up to 2.78!

you cannot solve problems based on the first level

many more levels

why did i assume bob bell's jazz shit was japanese? and not american?

fushitsusha is now blowing my mind up and tossing it in the air letting the pieces fall where they may - time is nigh - 1997 - keiji haino has to be one of the most important musicians / composers / creators of the past 40 years - his music is like a sheet of glass - and all that entails.

no drinking in the car george!!!

enjoyed an audience with audience - 1969 self-titled release - house on the hill is a great song -
the turtles
audience
kevin coyne have all created classics using this title - audience? - rock with brass - like his voice - im a sucker for BIG rock - audience are back.

I can take a small piece of plaster and make a mountain out of it...

hahahaha

ya gotta know thats bullshit...im just joshing...
joshing?? haven't used that word in (decades?)

bintangs rule
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check out this incredible video - german oak providing the music to robert mueller's chilling play: the night conspirators - WOW! thanks suburbanbatherson!!
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youtube: Keiji Haino, Yamatsuka Eye & John Zorn & Fushitsusha explore sonic possiblities...

man, I've been slow on updating the blog!!
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Keiji Haino
Yamatsuka Eye
John Zorn
I think this is genius
brilliant
intense to the
inner core...
the emotion
overwhelms you
intoxicates you
...
let it in
...
do not be afraid
...be terrified
find
inner peace...
the only way...
peace through hell! thanks necrosifilis!

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boring is someone thinking i give a shit where they put their dresser...
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fushitsusha
with keiji haino 1991
wailing away on everything
and the band following suit...
shit - i love this shit!!!!!! thanks hellomarkrodriguez!

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ah...i shouldnt be hard on the boring people..they're just as fucked as we all are...
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Thin Lizzy & Springsteen not particularly liked, Oh What a Feeling discussed, Teenage Head on youtube!!!

Question: Why don't I like???

a) Thin Lizzy more? I'm listening to "Vagabonds" disc 3 right now, and it's good..."Parissiene Walkways" is fantastic - what's on right now...really good...but, there's something about his voice that just doesn't quite do it for me. I mean, I love non-singers...singers with no range...fuck, I'm one myself! It's like with...

b) Bruce Springsteen. No matter how much I've tried (and I've tried too hard) I just don't get it. I don't get all the hype...

I don't get all the praise...

I don't get it at all...I mean there are some songs of his I really really like, but when it comes to albums they leave me feeling cold. The River (1980) is probably my fav...I guess...Like Phil Lynott someone I can't get past the voice.

c) I would give the nod to Thin Lizzy actually.
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OK...I was going to edit the above, but fuck it.
Let it stand shouted the editor across the room buzzing flies lingering over shit looking for an edible...

let's move on to today...

driving to Masset and back, listening to Oh, What a Feeling! A Vital Collection of Canadian Music (1996)
4 cds of canadiana and i'm a proud canadian!!

of course, i recognize pretty much everything and it looked good at a glance
BUT
after listening to the first disc and a half
my verdict is: disappointment

I was all ready to travail in nostalgia, and for the first bit,
yeh
it was pretty good...a nice mixture of classics with cool one-hit wonders ("Roxy Roller"), but by the second disc...
well...i mean
Loverboy, Bryan Adams then Corey Hart????
That stuff sounded like shit back in the day to me, and...it still does! No revision for any of these guys! The Payola$ sounded pretty great coming after this unholy trifecta!

Then Honeymoon Suite came on with their 1 crappy hit, and I said to the Guru: "What's next? Glass Tiger?", and sure enough --- here came Glass Tiger with their slightly better lameass hit. We finished with Maestro Fresh Wes letting his backbone slide, and that was alright...looking at the songlist, it looks like disc 3 is "not bad", but disc 4 looks downright abysmal!! [aside: hey, did I ever tell about the time JK and I were almost in fights with Honeymoon Suite and Glass Tiger! Of course, on different nights. We might have been drunk...]

They should have gone back farther (pre-1968) and taken in all types of music - not just based on AM plays or sales...where's early Paul Anka? That happy Polish polka dude who's won 76 junos? No punk? No Canadian jazz? Is there absolutely no quality avante-garde, experimental shit from Canada? I'm listening to Harmonium's 1 st album from 1974, and it's sounding pretty beautiful to these ears and they're nowhere to be found, either.

Hahahaha...I just gave it 2 1/2 ** on Rate Your Music and it dropped it's rating from 4.11 to under 4 (3.97)...hahahahaha...the power of the internet!!
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Here's another band that didn't make it on to Oh What a Feeling! Teenage Head doing a great song: "Infected" in 1982. I saw Teenage Head tons of times growing up, and they were always great. thanks bobzmyuncle!

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Music Mumblings: Plastic People of the Universe, Fushitsusha, Marble Sheep, Harm's Way & Arthur Lee and Love!!!

Music Mumblings from the past few days...

Plastic People of the Universe: Lazy Love (2001)
Wow and double fucking WOW!!!
I was rocking my ass off - I knew it was the Plastic People of the Universe - and thinking, hey, the sound on this one is pretty great...then I looked it up, and it's the 1st album of new material made by the 1997 reunited PPOTU...

They did not fuck around...
vital
dense
deep and rockin' avante garde jazz
going into some very
powerful dimensions...

The power of "Snake Dream" changes to the experimental spacey poetry recital of "Dear Mr. K"...these revolutionaries are incredible and are more than worthy of our respect!

--- oh yeh --- I really dug the drumming on this...

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Fu-shit-sus-ha are another Japanese "noise" band led by the mercurial Keiji Haino on guitar and vocals...that I absolutely think are - quoting Mel Torme - "the tops!"

What the fuck is a "noise" band you may ask?
A band that uses "noise" as it's driving force???
Using "noise" as an instrument????
Not really sure myself...

anyhow...

Besides Fushitsusha, I also loved the first Marble Sheep album. There's a lo-fi purity in this music. As a comparison, I'm digging Harm's Way: Oxytocin (2006) on the headphones now, and it's a pretty hard rockin' slab of retread (but the good parts!) metal. Well-played, heavy and rockin' crashing...not bad at all!

however...

it's so well played, and well produced that there's a "sterility" about it. Maybe, that means it's NOT well produced. I don't know - I would think these guys could be a driving force live, but modern recording techniques seem to remove the "earthiness" out of the recording. Is this the difference between analog & digital?????

Call Neil Young!!!!!

He seems to be up on all the technology...and he seems to think that blu-ray is the new thing. Is it? Until the next NEW technology?

Maybe...

Ya see....Harm's Way just finished and Pebbles, vol. 7 was cued up next, and immediately I appreciated the "earthy" production of these garage rock gems. It's not sterile...you can almost see the music and sweat bouncing off the concrete walls!!!
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Thoughts while listening to Love: Live at the Fillmore 1970:

"arthur lee was a true fucking punk!!"
"if only he and (maybe) sly could have kept it, just a little bit, more together...imagine..."
"this album keeps getting better as it goes along - or maybe I'm just getting more stoned?"
"now this is fucking earthy!"
"i wanna play live...right now...dammit!!"
"wow...wow...wow...signed d.c is absolutely blowing my mind right now - i mean - right now - dammit!!"
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Here's some youtubes of Arthur Lee & Love

1) This one is from 1970 Copenhagen and is really high quality...excellent! thanks tkskott!

2) This one looks like it's from the early 90s and shows that Arthur Lee was still a punk! And drunk!!...great performance...great energy...what a guy! thanks arthurlovelee!!

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youtubes: Rufus Zuphall, Frank Zappa and The Hated Uncles!!

I was turning the dial on my youtube last night and came across some very cool videos. Here are 3 of em - 1 krautrock, 1 zappa and 1 hated uncle...

1) There is something about krautrock that really penetrates my inner being. It's got the right amount of prog, rock and avante-garde elements that appeals to my creative side. It would be so cool to have a couple of like-minded freaks...get high hi hi and experiment away...get into a state of mind...let ideas flow with no inhibitions...
fuck restrictions
loud quiet
high low
who cares????
no put-ons...no uniforms...
Today, I was listening to Pendragon's "Believe" from 2005. They call it neo-prog on Prog Archives [aside: great site btw] and while there are some ok moments, overall it sure doesn't turn my crank. It's not gritty enough. Too controlled...too earnest at times...a lack of humour. I don't find that with krautrock.
I continue to explore German rock from the 70s, and continue to find some incredible music from that geography and period. A recent fav discovery [aside: for me anyway!] has been Kollectiv, but I couldn't find any vids on youtube of them! So here's another recent fav - Rufus Zuphall: "Portland Town" from 1971 - including kids and war toys! thanks molestik!

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2) When I first started getting high and drunk at 15 we would listen to "Billy the Mountain" constantly (hey - we were in high school!) and I've been a massive Zappa fan since. I have pretty much most of the official releases and tons of live shows (shhhh - don't tell the Zappa Family Trust) and while he released some stinkers in his life (Man From Utopia or Tinseltown Rebellion anyone?) I always feel right at home when Zappa is on my mp3 player or turntable or cd player or just running through my brain for no apparent reason.
Here's a weird one I hadn't seen until last night. Frank Zappa on Australian tv with Norman Gunston - whom I had never heard of before. It's from 1975 and is pretty cool with FZ on acoustic and Norman on harmonica. thanks royism!

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3) JK's been hard at work again and added another Hated Uncles to youtube. It's probably my fav of the 5 he's done yet. It's "A Night in the Alley" and from 1992. thanks jkubu0!

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youtube: The psychedelia of Bruce Haack on Mr. Roger's Neighborhood!

Wow!!! This was a blast. Bruce Haack on Mr. Roger's Neighborhood! Haack was a pioneer in electronic music and his versatility and freedom of expression is inspiring. Here's a neat little bio from allmusic. I have Electric Lucifer and think it's very cool, but am not all that familiar with his other works. Needs some investigating. thanks discoprotection!

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youtube - The Guess Who: Tin Soldier 1968 & The Turtles: Outside Chance 1965

youtube late 60s TV Pop Delights

I've always loved this song...here's the late 60s Canadian version done by The Guess Who. thanks 69Lovett

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Since we're in a "classic" pop mode, here are The Turtles doing "Outside Chance" from 1965. A very very early Warren Zevon song. Check out "Battle of the Bands" (1968) & "Turtle Soup" (1969 - and produced by Ray Davies of The Kinks!) for some tasty listening pleasure. thanks joehilllouistwo

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