Coming up to 40 years old. Susan was a fan. Wiki
Ralphadeus. Music movies comics feature in this look at life from Somerset.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Blank Generation - 1980 movie with Richard Hell
Richard Hell, one of the most important and influential figures in the late-'70s New York punk rock scene, stars in this gritty look at the underground art and music community, directed by German filmmaker Ulli Lommel.
Billy (Richard Hell) is an up-and-coming musician and poet who meets Nada (Carole Bouquet), a journalist from Europe who has come to New York to do a story on him. Billy and Nada soon fall into a troubled relationship, and Billy has to choose between his career and his feelings for Nada. Andy Warhol appears as himself (being interviewed by Nada); Richard Hell plays three songs with his band The Voidoids, shot live at the legendary club CBGB's. In a nutshell, it isn’t a good film by any stretch of the imagination but it is worth your time for the concert footage alone – especially, if you are a fan of Hell. The scene where he is performing live in CBGB is special, considering the recent demise of that historical and cultural landmark.
Pere Ubu - Final Solution 1976
I didn't know about this in 76 - I first heard it in 77 or 78 but we were just kids in Somerset.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Liars Beware
This is really good.
Playing at CBGB From Ulli Lommel's 1980 movie " Blank Generation"
The Fall Gentlemen's Agreement 1992
I saw them do this at Glasto - the crowd erupted as it speeds up at the end.
Fellini's Casanova (1976) Trailer
My library has this so I ordered it. Haven't seen it for years. I remember it as bizarre.
Monday, April 28, 2025
28 April 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
I really like this song by Bob Dylan. The movie is great too if you get a chance to watch it.
Eddie Cochran Cotton Picker 1957
Love this song and clip. First encountered this on a jukebox in France on the flip of Summertime Blues.
Sunday, April 27, 2025
The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar, 05/01/75, Flatbed Truck on 5th Avenue, NYC
What the Stones were doing in 1975.
Sky Saxon & The Seeds - "Satisfy You"
A compilation video featuring clips from all known Original Lineup Seeds videos - played to the obscure alternate take of the great "Satisfy You" from 1968.
11 REBELS Official Trailer (2025)
First movie trailer for 11 Rebels starring Yamada Takayuki
From the wiki
11 Rebels (Japanese: 十一人の賊軍) is a 2024 Japanese samurai, period action film directed by Kazuya Shiraishi, starring Takayuki Yamada and Taiga Nakano.[2][3] The film had its world premiere at the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival as opening film with screening on October 28, 2024.[4]
Synopsis
[edit]The Shibata clan's historic betrayal in Niigata occurred during the intense Boshin War, Japan's most ferocious conflict. The story follows an 11-member suicide squad on a desperate mission to defend a fortress. As the Shibata clan, the old shogunate, and the new government clash, their heroic struggle unfolds.
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Black Emanuelle (1975)
This film starring Laura Gemser is 50 years old this year. I was 15 so of course I saw it. Theme music is a 50 year old earworm. Wiki
Guitar Wolf 『ジェットジェネレーション "Jet Generation" (Official Music Video) 1999
We saw this band. Great. Bea is a fan. Great stuff. On tour again this year.
THE HOLLYWOOD FLAMES - "BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ" (1957)
One for this time of year. Covered by Jonathon Richman.
Brix Smith Waiting for the 205
Looking very elegant and sophisticated. Using public transport. Respect.
The Pogues - A Pair of Brown Eyes 1985
Shane MacGowan composition. Wiki. Bizarre video.
The music video for the single, filmed in 1985, was directed by Alex Cox. It is set in a Nineteen Eighty-Four-esque Britain, now a police state, with Margaret Thatcher in the place of Big Brother as a supreme, god-like authoritarian figure. The video stars English singer Kirsty MacColl, who is annoyed by an old man on a train. It features roles played by band members as well as a cameo by the record's producer Elvis Costello. Images of eyes abound, with most characters in blindfolds or wearing goggles, and one official wears an eyepatch.
Diggin' My Potatoes Sonny Terry
Susan is doing spuds at the allotment. This is good. Not sure of the date.
A Pair Of Brown Eyes - The Pogues, 1985
So 40 years ago I think I was digging the Pogues. Rum Sodomy and the Lash Lp came out in August.
Friday, April 25, 2025
New Kogar
Get PRIMITIVE and SAVAGE and BLOW YOUR MIND to the WILD sounds of Kogar’s Jungle Juice episode #103! I’m back after a week off for Lux Lives! This episode features artists like; The Teen Beats, The Trashmen, Lee Maye The Knockouts, Cora Woods, Etta James, Richard Berry, Big Boy Groves, Eddie Cochran, Hasil Adkins, Reverend Charlie Jackson, Frankie Lee Sims, Bob Arlin, Big Sambo, Oscar Boyd and Pop Corn and the Mohawks! Full set list over at the Boss Radio 66 blogspot!
Cadillac Baby's Bea and Baby Records Definitive Collection Vol. 1
Great collection of Chicago blues which includes interviews with Cadillac Baby telling about his name and his club. Read about him and the record here
Bristol Punks: Sound and Fury
My bro sent me this - ir's new.
Bristol Punk documentary tracing the raw, rebellious energy of the 1980s punk scene and its lasting effects on the city in 2025.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Pere Ubu - Final Solution 1976
Brilliant early single by Pere Ubu. Originally released in 1976 on Hearpen Records.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Elmore James and Mary Rogers
I was able to put a name to the lady when her Grandson contacted me about this photo.
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in L.A. (Official Music Video) 1997
Another great tune. We bought this single. Had it in my head when we were drinking in L.A.
Drinking Boddingtons rather strangely.
Primal Scream - Damaged (Official Video) 1991
On the Screamadelica lp. We had a VHS of this album that came with a free badge. This was on it. Bobby Gillespie was in print - in SOGAT.
Sonny Boy Williamson II The Real Folk Blues
A compilation that came out in 1965 or 1966. All good stuff. Genius at work.
Bring it On Home Sonny Boy Williamson recorded 1963
A Willie Dixon composition. Not released until 1966 after Sonny Boy's death. Led Zep did a cover of this but I have never heard it not being a Zep fan. I have the 45 depicted.
Monday, April 21, 2025
Magic Sam & Shakey Jake Harris - Call Me if You Need Me
Great Cobra blues.
Shakey Jake Harris - Vocals Magic Sam - Guitar Willie Dixon - Bass Syl Johnson - Bass Guitar Odie Payne - drums(?)
Chuck Berry Viva Viva Rock 'N' Roll
Recorded in April 1966 and released in 1971 on the album San Francisco Dues.
These are the Damned Intro (w/"Black Leather Rock") 1962
This is Weymouth Dorset. What's not to like? Shirley Ann Field, Oliver Reed, and director Joseph Losey - no wonder Lux and Ivy liked it.
Adam Ant - Vive Le Rock (Live Aid 1985)
40 years ago this summer. We saw this bit but ignored the rest of it. The jacket Adam is wearing is from Johnson's I believe. In hindsight it wasn't a good idea to play a song that no one knew but I can see where he was coming from.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Sonny Boy Williamson II - "Trying to make London my Home"
This video honors the 50th Anniversary of Sonny Boy Williamson participating in the American Folk Blues Festival European Tour 1963 / 1964 and at the same time the men behind the tour,
The songs (all with live performance on video except No. 1):
- I´m Tryin´ To Make London My Home
- Bye bye Bird (several versions)
- In My Younger Days
- Keep It To Yourself
- Gettin´ Out Of Town
- Nine Below Zero
- Got My Mojo Workin´ (Muddy Waters) - SBWII on harmonica
- Black Snake Blues (Victoria Spivey) - SBWII on harmonica
- Careless Love (Mae Mercer) - SBWII on harmonica
- My One Room Little Cabin
- I´m A Lonely Man
- Your Funeral - My Trial
- What Will Happen When I´m Gone
- You´re My Baby
- Goin´ Home / It´s Only A TV Show (likely an ad hoc performance)
- Bye Bye Baby, Good Bye (Allstars)
'Where Has Poor Mickey Gone..?' from Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964)
Performed by Ottilie Patterson Written, composed and sung by Ottilie Patterson accompanied by Chris Barber - bass, Eddie Smith - banjo, Graham Burbridge - drums and Sonny Boy Williamson - harmonica.
Friday, April 18, 2025
Eddie Cochran - Twenty Flight Rock 1956
This scene in the Girl Can't Help It was originally meant for Elvis as a cameo but Tom Parker asked for too much. Did you know that Tom Hanks has never seen this film. What?
Radstock Morris
LEARN TRADITIONAL ENGLISH FOLK DANCE
Next rehearsal this Wednesday, 23rd April
Help us build a new side for Radstock and the Somer Valley, no previous experience necessary
I Can't Control Myself - the terraplanes 2017 audio
This is when we rehearsed in the back room of a charity shop.
Tribute to the late great Reg Presley. Recorded at Sounds Involved Midsomer Norton. Line up is Susan Wells and Celia-Jade vocals Dave Mackay bass Andy Payne drums Ralph on guitar. Recorded Dec 2017 Photos Joe's Image Works
Eddie Cochran - Somethin' Else
Co-written by his girlfriend Sharon Sheeley and his elder brother Bob Cochran, and released in 1959.The song was written on the back of a match book. Veteran studio drummer Earl Palmer played the same drum beat on "Somethin' Else" as Charles Connor did on Little Richard's "Keep A-Knockin'". However, Eddie Cochran was unaware that Sheeley wanted to duplicate the drum sound of the Little Richard recording.The song peaked at No. 22 on the UK Singles Chart,but only reached No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.
THE CADETS - ''STRANDED IN THE JUNGLE'' (1956)
Susan and me requested this on Bernie Keith's Rock and Roll Heaven which is a great show on BBC Sounds. 4 hours of classics.
[On The Street Of] New York City Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds 1963
Heard this on Boss Radio 66 this morning.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
I Just Don't Understand (Live At The BBC For "Pop Go The Beatles" / 20th August, 1963)
They knew a good song when they heard it.
Breakfast at Tiffany's Audrey Hepburn Moon River (1961) HD
We had a neighbour who used to play Wonderwall on the guitar when he got home from work. You can't win them all.
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Dirtbombs - Cedar Point 76 1999
Very rare song that was included free with the pinball fanzine Multiball.
The Fall - F-'oldin' Money (1999)
Cover of "F--Olding Money" by Tommy Blake, released on The Marshall Suite album in 1999
The Secret History of Georgian London by Dan Cruickshank
Been dipping into this book. Very good. Did you know lesbian sex was called the Game of Flats in the 18th century? Strange.
Shimmy She Wobble · Othar Turner · The Rising Star Fife And Drum Band Gangs Of New York
Probably the most famous piece of Mississippi fife and drum music is this used in the film Gangs of New York (2002)
Sally Got A Big Leg · Fife And Drum Band Of The United Sons And Daughters of Zion Chapter Nine
I love this blues Fife and drum music. This is the first I ever heard.
Part 1 of 11: Picnic with Napoleon Strickland & Como Drum Corps (1978)
This is great. Fife and Drum music in situ.
Friday, April 11, 2025
30 Seconds over Tokyo (Live) Rocket from the Tombs 1975
Around now RFTT broke up and Pere Ubu were formed. This was their debut single December 75 but I thought we could have the first version.
New Kogar
Get your Jungle Juice Fix as show #102 Streams your way! 2 hours of 50’s and 60’s Instrumentals, rock n’ roll, rhythm and blues, and 60’s fuzz! This week we prepare for Lux Lives 2025 and I feature the new BLONDE ON A BUM TRIP soundtrack on Modern Harmonic/Something Weird! This show features artists like; Del Saint and the Devils, The Tempests, The Kidds, The Metronomes, Ba Ba Thomas, Calvin Frazier, Clyde Stacey, Don Head, Jack Scott, Harold Burrage, Jimmy McCracklin, The E-Types, The Vagrants and the Bit-a-Sweet! Full set list over at the Boss Radio 66 Blogspot!
Matt Monro - On Days Like These (The Italian Job,1969)
My parents loved this film. I remember them coming home from the cinema full of it and making us go see it too.
The opening scene for the film "The Italian Job" (1969) featured Monro singing "On Days Like These".
Music by Quincy Jones and lyrics by Don Black.
Junior Wells - "Come On In This House" 1960
My favourite Junior Wells song. I think it's Earl Hooker on guitar. It is a standard song but the playing elevates it.
Totally Spies! | Season 7 Intro Song!
Totally Spies are back. We used to watch this in the 2000s. New animation style and theme tune.
Wednesday, April 09, 2025
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