Dazed And Confused - Yardbirds French TV 1968

 Yardbirds perform Dazed And Confused on Baton Rouge French TV show March 09,1968.

This song was to be part of the repertoire of Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page was taken to counrt by the original composer. See wikipedia.

PJ Harvey and Harry Escott - An Acre of Land (Official Video)

 This is for those of you who thin my music choices too raucous. This is for them. Music for a film I watched last night called 'Dark River'. 

Quick Joey Small The Mud dogs 2006

 Filmed in our garden many years ago. Done off the cuff. Sue had a new camera and Rich turned up so we filmed a song. A duo we mostly played in Rich's kitchen but we did a few gigs. We won the Kilmersdon Village Day busking competition in 2000. We played a wedding and cleared out the Hall - they all went over to the pub. Very bad.  Played the Tyning a few times. 

Carmel - More More More 1984

 Directed by Lindsay Anderson. Another great video and song.

Last Chance To Turn Around Gene Pitney (1965)

 Encountered this first when the Fall covered it. Also known as the Last exit to Brooklyn. 

Celia's Place - a comic shop in Midsomer Norton

 

My daughter has a hair salon 'Celia's Place' on Midsomer Norton High Street that also doubles up as a comic shop. Posters, action figures fanzines and an ever-changing selection of comics. Drop in to see. It doesn't smell bad like a hairdressers as Celia does not use awful-smelling chemicals. So whether you like Marvel, DC, Tank Girl or anything else drop in. 

Here is Sue outside 

Red Dawn Trailer (1984)

 Such a great film. In a not serious way of course. I remember getting my son to watch it as I knew he would love it what with Harry Dean Stanton and Patrick Swayze in it and all that. If you have never watched it its up in parts on Youtube. 'AVENGE ME!' I really like John Milius' work though and you can't say it's not a  good film. Wiki

Billy Boy Arnold & The Aces ~ She Fooled Me

 The Devil's Music - a BBC series from about 1976 - very big deal for me as it was the first time I had seen or heard some performers. This was one of the best clips. Stellar backing band.

BBC

Scars - All About You (1981)

 Another Edinburgh band we liked were the Scars. They got on the OGWT and we saw them live but they never quite made it. Their finest moment was the debut 45 Horrorshow/Adult-ery on Fast. 

Hey! Elastica This Town/Eat Your Heart Out

 Another 80s band that we liked was this band from Edinburgh. They were on Virgin. One of our friends worked at Virgin so we used to get free records. They got on the Oxford Road Show (a TV show for youths) in about 1982. Never made it like many others but we still have their records. 

RIDE the SOMERSET & DORSET line in 1963

 Radstock is about at 4.40. You see a glimpse of Lower Writhlington colliery. 

Heinz - Live it Up 1963

 Some clips from the 1963 movie Live it Up with the Smart Alecs, featuring Heinz Burt, David Hemmings, Steve Marriot and John Pike. Another song from the below film. Shame no film exists of Heinz doing 'Just like Eddie'.  Watch Live it Up here

Temptation Baby, Gene Vincent 1963

 Gene from the film 'Live it Up' musical director Joe Meek. Traction engine is the Iron Maiden apparently. 

Carmel - Willow weep for me 1984

 I used to really like this band at the time though Susan wasn't so keen. This video is really good - set in a hair salon and there is a cameo by the great Orlando. Directed by Derek Jarman too. Carmel also had a video by Lindsay Anderson -  will post that another time.

The Trip / 1967

 Interesting movie. Music Electric Flag. 

The Trip (1967) is a counterculture-era psychedelic film released by American International Pictures, directed by Roger Corman, written by Jack Nicholson, and shot on location in and around Los Angeles, including on top of Kirkwood in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, and near Big Sur, California in 1967. Peter Fonda stars as a young television commercial director named Paul Groves.

The Leather Boy 'Shadows' 1967

 

This is a record by the Leather Boy, It's a great spooky bit of garage.  Early American Gothic rock.  Hear his hits I'm a Leather Boy and On the Go if you don't know them. 

Anna Karina "Sous le soleil exactement"

Anna | ORTF | 13/01/1967

Anna Karina's birthday today so let's play one of her best. 

White Riot UK Official Trailer | In Cinemas 18 Sept

 Rubika Shah’s award-winning and energising film charts a vital national protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell.

White Riot blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation’s youth, RAR’s multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. As co-founder Red Saunders explains: ‘We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika’. The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978’s huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR’s message to the masses.

Jimmy Reed I'm Gonna Ruin You 1954

 'Send you to get butter, you bring me lard - woman what makes your head so hard'.

Veejay record A-side. A Carter-Reed composition. Magic.

How Green was My Valley 1941 Full Movie in HD

 One of the best films ever made. Made in California but set in Wales.

Wikipedia

The script was written by Philip Dunne. He later recalled reading the original novel "in horror, turgid stuff, long speeches about Welsh coal miners on strike."^[7]

William Wyler, the original director, saw the screen test of McDowall and chose him for the part. Wyler was replaced by John Ford. Fox wanted to shoot the movie in Wales in Technicolor, but it was impossible to do so during World War II. Instead, Ford had the studio build an 80-acre authentic replica of a Welsh mining town at Brent's Crags^[6] (subsequently Crags Country Club) in the Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu, California.^[8]

The cast had only one Welsh actor, Rhys Williams, in a minor role.^{[citation needed]}

"L'Arc de Triomphe - Centenary celebrations" 1937

 Interesting short clip of a pre-war parade.

To Sir with Love 1967

This song and a film were hits in 1967. Number one in the USA the song only appeared on a b-side in the UK.

I Just Can't Make it - the originals of Hound Dog Taylor

 I made this playlist with the best self-penned songs of Hound Dog Taylor. They are very good. I love them. He did a lot of covers of Elmore James songs which I don't like so much so I made this list. The songs are to me brilliant and I wish he had recorded more.

Rolling Stone: Life And Death Of Brian Jones

 Haven't watched this yet but it looks good. I think it's on Amazon prime. 

'24 hours from Radstock' The Tripes (with Big Rich)

 My mate Big Rich and his band of the time the Tripes at the Tyning Inn Radstock a few years ago. 'Dark side of the Batch, that's where it's at'. Filmed by us. 

Party time at Lower Whitelands Radstock 1992

 When we moved in to this rank of miner's cottages it was lovely. It got slowly worse as it became more gentrified. This is my son's second birthday. He has his own son now. You didn't hand out invites - word just got around if you were having a party and that was the same for grown up parties.  All those kids we knew well for many years. In the background is Braysdown batch. A batch is a mining spoil heap that has been grown over with trees. Local phenomenon. Good place to walk the dog. 

Here is Lower Writhlington Batch with Whitelands in the distance. Here you can see them growing trees on the batch. It's an old photograph. It's like woodlands now. Tyning batches in the distance.

New takeaway for Midsomer Norton High Street

 It seems to be part of a chain of places around. Looks great.

Wool Hall article in Frome Times

Recording studio at Beckington near Frome.

Godfrey And Friends Down Whittier Blvd 1967

 Great piece of 60s Trash. Whittier Boulevard is in East L.A. Ideal song for cruising in the sunshine.

Godfrey Kerr Dj from KTYM am radio station near Los Angeles. was also friends with the group Thee Midniters.

Zaccaria Pinball

 Our kids are really good at looking after us. They clubbed together to get us a games console so we could play online games on. Mostly Sue plays pinball on it. There's one game Zaccaria Pinball which is based on the tables of an Italian manufacturer that I had never heard of before Zaccaria. They are really difficult but in a good way. 'Primitive' says Susan. Fun

Adam & The Ants Various Demos 1977 to 1979

 So one of my mates is buying a record player so he can listen to his old Ants bootleg again. The pain is real. You won't find anything on Spotify or similar. We find YouTube to be a good place for old Ants and - let's not beat about the Bush - it's the good stuff. This one has quite a few good ones on. It's 43 minutes long. But it's good.

Physical 0:00 Friend 3:07 Boil in the Bag Man 6:24 Christian D'or 9:02 Song for Ruth Ellis 12:21 B-Side Baby 16:20 Rubber People 18:39 Red Scab 21:58 Fall In 26:21 Whip In My Valise 27:51 Juanito the Bandito 31:33 Bathroom Function 35:39 Catholic Day 37:35 Never Trust a Man with Egg on His Face 40:35

Monkeemobile

 Wasn't a Monkees fan but I was aware of the Monkeemobile. Seemed a little like a marketing ploy. And how were seemingly jobless musicians afford a car like that?Still it looks fine in this clip from the 60s

Wiki entry

Battle of Britain theatrical trailer 1969

 As it is 80 years since the Battle of Britain and today is the set aside Battle of Britain day I thought I would post this trailer. Great groundbreaking movie. Wiki. 

Andy James had the Dinky Spitfire and Stuka - found them on ebay - 365 quid!

 He also has Battle of Britain bubble gum cards.

Xenopus

 When we first got married not only did we have 2 pinballs we also had Brigitte an African clawed toad (Xenopus). We had her in a large tank. She eventually went to Rode Bird Gardens in their reptile section.

the Boys - Brickfield Nights 1978

 Loved this. Still do. Reminds me of Power Pop which was around at this time. Youth clubs, coffee bars all the world we used to inhabit.

Slaughter and the Dogs - Do It Dog Style (Full Album)

 This album is great. All fast and simple thrashes that we now understand as punk. It's getting the reissue treatment soon so if you don't have a copy that can be rectified.

01 - Where Have All the Bootboys Gone 00:0002 - Victims of the Vampire 03:12 03 - Boston Babies 06:0704 - I'm Waiting For the Man 09:19 05 - I'm Mad 12:55 06 - Quick Joey Small 15:31 07 - You're a Bore 18:57 08 - Keep on Trying 21:49 09 - We Don't Care 24:33 10 - Since You Went Away 28:2411 - Who Are the Mystery Girls 32:07  12 - Dame to Blame 35:12

3rd rehearsal of 2020

 

THE SLITS - 1977 Live Footage (Original audio) Punk

 This is good viewing. It's how I remember the Slits. I think they do 'New Town'. 

Metal Urbain - Les Hommes Morts Sont Dangereux (1981)

 This compilation came out after they had split up so it's a kind of best of. I love it. It might not be to everyone's taste but give it a  try. 

1. Hystérie Connective

2. Ghetto (Peel Session)

3. Clé de Contact 4. Lady Coca Cola 5. Panik 6. Futurama (Peel Session) 7. Snuff Movie 8. Numéro Zéro 9. Paris Marquis 10. Pas Poubelle 11. 50/50 12. Ultra Violence 13. Anarchie au Palace 14. E 202 15. Crève Salope 16. Hystérie Connective (Mix 2) 17. Atlantis

Howlin' Wolf - Shake for Me, I'll Be Back Someday, Love Me Darlin (Live)

 More Youtube Gold. The Wolf and Hubert Sumlin rocking up a storm.

From the dvd The American Folk Blues Festival (1962-1966). 11 minutes so enjoy while it's still up there.

John Lee Hooker - I'm Leaving - "The Beat Room" Show (1964)

 Some great footage here. Turn it Up! Saw John Lee Hooker in London many years ago. 

Radstock Museum's Print shop

 

Have you been to Radstock museum? It just isn't only about mining - other occupations get covered. They have a nice letterpress set up if you know what that is. My apprenticeship was involved with this technology. Apparently Museum's exhibit was originally Joe Tanner's (of Butler & Tanner Frome).  I believe he had it at home as a hobby. I remember Joe Tanner.  He was the boss but I don't think I ever spoke to him or had any contact with him. He used to talk to my Dad about print but that's all I can say. 

Floyd Jones - Stockyard Blues 1970

 Floyd Jones performing Stockyard Blues, from the movie Chicago Blues, in 1970.

Hornby (Triang) Davy Crockett

 

When I was a child I had a train set and this was it. Made in the 60s my set used to feature in battles with Airfix civil war figures. Made smoke by putting drops into the stack. My version had coaches which survived to be sold on ebay a few years ago. See more pics here

If you are thinking spoilt best you maybe right but they got lucky with this set - it was reduced as it had been discontinued. If you have an interest in Civil War railroad tactics there is an interesting Osprey. 

So

Stephenson's Rocket model

 I am not a railway fan but I like the look of this. Hornby details

Rolling Stones Hide Your Love 1973/2020 reissue

 Been listening to the Goat's Head Soup reissue. This song I had forgotten about but is a great little tune.

Live On Air 66-68 The Troggs

 This is a fun album,

The Style Council - A Stones Throw Away (1985)

 Not a big Style Council fan but I heard this on WFMU yesterday and it was dedicated to the Yorkshire miners. Kudos. 

Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee · Adge Cutler & The Wurzels 1968

 

West Country's poet laureate Adge Cutler. I saw this band in the 60s at a bonfire firework display in Frome. If you don't know Adge Cutler give this a spin. It is philosophy and humour combined.

Sarah Vaughan - September In The Rain (Live from Sweden) Mercury Records 1958

 "September in the Rain" is a popular song by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, published in 1937. The song was introduced by James Melton in the film Melody for Two. It has become a standard, having been recorded by many artists since.

Canned Heat & Jefferson Airplane in Monterey Pop Festival, CA 🇺🇸 (1967)

 Rollin' and tumblin' / High Flyin' Bird - Today

Basically posted this for the early Canned Heat footage. Coming up to the 50th of Alan Wilson's passing. Here they are all young looking and fresh-faced.

My brother is a Jefferson Airplane fan - has been for a long time.

Van Morrison - Wavelength - 2/1/1979 - Belfast (OFFICIAL)

 I didn't use to like Van Morrison. I liked his stuff with Them but lost interest after. But my brother Neil got me into him. He lent me the album ;Irish Heartbeat' which was an album he did with the Chieftains who I did like  After that he lent me the 'Van Morrison In Ireland' VHS which this is from and I really liked it. Seen him a couple of times now. 

The terraplanes - Out West Bristol Granary 1981

This is us at the Granary Bristol in about 1981. It was a battle of the bands organised by the local What's on magazine then called Out West. You had to do three originals and one cover. There was about 5 bands. We didn't even wait for the end so I couldn't tell you who won. One thing that was good was the video - if you paid a few quid they would video your performance which was in the days before people had camcorders. So here we are in our youthful glory.