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My life was saved by rock 'n' roll.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-60436979510160105812015-06-17T17:47:00.000-07:002015-06-17T17:49:45.901-07:00Heidi Lynne Gluck - The Only Girl in the Room (Lotuspool), courtesy of Deli magazine (KC)Hello.<br />
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Despite a clamoring for my free/cheap labor among the rock writing fraternity, my work has been slow forthcoming of late. Oh well. Sometimes I get inspired, though. If you're me (not that I'd wish that on anyone), you hear a lot of music, some of it by local musicians. Ya wanna be all supportive of the scene and all that shit ... but ... sigh. Anyway, it's really swell when you hear music by a "neighbor" and it's really fucking good. Say hey to Heidi Lynne Gluck.</div>
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Gluck's <i>The Only Girl in the Room </i>is really fucking good. I wrote a review of it for the Deli magazine (KC). </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-66825824321928237072015-05-05T20:41:00.000-07:002015-05-06T09:57:55.906-07:00Reverberations: Rambles, Rants, and Raves (05-05-2015)Everyday I listen to music. And think about music. Today I was listening to the Real Kids, specifically their eponymous debut album on Red Star, a label started by Marty Thau. Marty was a good egg. Got to know him a little by correspondence toward the end of his life. Let's put it this way, he managed the New York Dolls and started a label that introduced the Real Kids and Suicide to the world outside the Northeastern United States. The fucking Sam Philips of St. Mark's Place, I tell ya.<br />
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That Real Kids album is a masterpiece. John Felice is a true believer in rock 'n' roll - as form, process and heart. His Real Kids were not exactly original. With every stud showing, you could see the materials from which they built their church. But it was in the mixing and personalizing of these materials that Felice and crew put their own stamp on the music they love. "All Kindsa Girls" - there are few better rock songs - a lot of Chuck Berry, a wad of Beatlegum, those heart tugging strains teased from Them's "Brown Eyed Girl" on the coda. Whether it was instinct or craft, it was surely inspiration, the inspiration of a kid (Felice) for whom Rock 'n' Roll was a way of life, not just an entertainment.<br />
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"Reggae Reggae" gives Felice a second opportunity on the record to diss homosexuals ("she thinks I'm a fag") to complement "the guys are all faggots" from "Do the Boob." So, no - political awareness wasn't John's strong suit. Appalling? Sure. But in the context of Boston-rock in the Seventies not to be wholly unanticipated from a working class Italian kid with fucked up teeth. The guitar sounds on "Reggae Reggae" are so great you just don't care, anyway. A weaving groove of Velvets (think "Foggy Notion") and Paul Revere (early, garage-y), the track is powered by drummer Howie Ferguson's uncanny, unconscious blend of Mo and Ringo. It's tribal, a clarion hip-shaker. The lyrics are ridiculous. What the fuck does it have to do with the Jamaican musical idiom, reggae? Fuck-all as far as I can tell. Apparently it's a - dance? But ultimately it's about drive and thrust, and the 'text' don't mean shit. When the words ("Reggae Reggae") are sung with such exhilaration it sounds revolutionary, just because joy and release always sound like liberation.<br />
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Oh, I was listening to <i>The Magic Whip,</i> Blur's reunion album. Am I wrong or is Britt Daniel<br />
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Have a great tomorrow.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-56847245006346023392015-05-04T20:09:00.000-07:002015-06-17T23:43:35.794-07:00Reverberations' Picks for Best of 2014, Blurt magazine and Blurt online<br />
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Well, well, well - It's been a long time. Maybe someday we'll talk about the reasons for the hiatus.<br />
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Anyway, I did get off the couch long enough to muster up a top 10 for my friend Fred Mills at <b>Blurt </b>to kiss 2014 goodbye. A link to my list, and everyone else's, is immediately below.<br />
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And further below that is my part of the "Writer's Revenge" feature excerpted for your quick digestion.<br />
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These are all good records. I don't regret my choices. But I probably do regret not including some other titles, chiefly the Reigning Sound's <i>Shattered</i>. I love that band. It's a great record. I was clearly in a fog.<br />
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Sloan – Commonwealth (Yep Roc) Their eleventh album finds the Canadian quartet giving a “side” to each of the four musicians. While their individual proclivities and qualities emerge, it’s clearly Sloan – the best pop band in the world (since Super Furry Animals, who contested the crown, are no more).</div>
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Vashti Bunyan – Heartleap (Fat Cat) It took her 35 years to record a sophomore album, after releasing the (eventually) influential sleeper<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another Diamond Day</em>; <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lookaftering </em>was a lovely song suite with gorgeous arrangements from composer Max Richter. <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Heartleap </em>follows<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lookaftering</em>by a mere nine years. A self-produced affair, recorded privately and quietly for private, quiet listening.</div>
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Felice Brothers – Favorite Waitress (Dualtone) The studious, earnest “New Basement Tapes” have their moments, but the Felices are closer to the loose, ragged spirit of the original “Basement Tapes,” and a lot more fun.</div>
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Ex-hex – Rips (Merge) From Helium’s density, to Wild Flag’s super-woman jam rock to this – Mary Timony’s new band delivers a straight up pop-punk album. Just when Timony’s vocals start to sound a little too Smith College she flashes signs of Patti Smith inspiration, and her Thunders-esque guitar, plus the drumming of Laura Harris, keeps the music rocking.</div>
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War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian) Before I got lazy and preoccupied with life I wrote this for Blurt (but now I’m back!):<a href="http://blurtonline.com/review/war-drugs-lost-dream/" style="border: 0px; color: #9f9f9f; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">http://blurtonline.com/review/war-drugs-lost-dream/</a></div>
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Blurt (blurtonline.com) just posted my review of <i>Somewhere Else</i>, the latest Bloodshot release from Lydia Loveless. Click the link below to read the review, eh? ...<br />
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Also, enjoy this video clip of "I Really Want to See You Again."Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-4463964419777714832014-05-15T19:49:00.003-07:002014-05-15T19:49:46.269-07:00THE DANDY WARHOLS/KANSAS CITY/RIOT ROOM/FRIDAY, MAY 9TH (Show opened by the Warlocks)<div class="MsoNormal">
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capacity of Kansas City’s Riot Room is 240. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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early days of the new century Portland’s Dandy Warhols looked like the last of
the rock stars. Their best record, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thirteen
Tales from Urban Bohemia</i> (2000), earned critical plaudits and scored a hit
of sorts with “Bohemian Like You,” while its successor, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Welcome to the Monkey House,</i> further expanded their audience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
underground success of the 2004 documentary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dig</i>,
an unsparing look at the love/hate relationship between the band and their
mentor-antagonists The Brian Jonestown Massacre, narrated by the Warhol’s
singer Courtney Taylor-Taylor, also increased the band’s profile. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the band has been marginalized by critics and seen its audience contract some.
Earlier trips to the area included stops at larger venues like Lawrence’s
Granada Theater and Liberty Hall. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, the
audience that packed the Riot Room on Friday night was enthusiastic and
receptive. Live, the Warhols continue to pack a punch. Their performance on
Friday night was tight, at once driving and relaxed. Built from the pieces of
1968’s ultimate jam – equal parts Velvet Underground, “Satanic Majesties”
Stones, and early Syd Barrett vintage Pink Floyd, and super modified by jolts
of everything from Hawkwind and Spacemen 3 to Chic, the group’s seductive
grooves and pop built tunes hold up well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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those in attendance were clearly fans, singing along and dancing, which took
commitment since the club felt like a stuffed phone booth inside of a sauna.
Front man Courtney Taylor-Taylor made frequent references to “freezing.” The
Dandy Warhols have always oozed irony, so go figure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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flattered the Kansas City audience as he noted the positive response to their
cover of a Desmond Dekker song (“Intensified”), suggesting that previous dates
on the tours had featured less astute fans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dekker’s “Intensified
“ was good fun - not exactly ska, but certainly a nice change of pace from the
band’s sparkling drone. Audience favorites from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monkey House,</i> like “We Used to be Friends” kept the energy level
high, but the fans saved their full rock out fervor for the trio of songs from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thirteen Tal</i>es, that climaxed the show -
the band’s best-known song, the Stones-inspired “Bohemian Like You,” drawing the
most enthusiastic reaction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zia McCabe’s
keyboard playing is both bed of drone and chief instrumental voice.
Taylor-Taylor and lead guitarist Peter Hellstrom, the band’s founders in 1994,
lock in to a distinctive psych-groove with drummer Brent DeBoer, who in
addition to driving the band is Taylor-Taylor’s chief harmony foil. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The band’s
set list called for more songs than the band ultimately performed, the
magisterial “Godless,” and “Boys Better,” an early favorite from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dandy Warhols Come Down</i> were omitted. I
guess Mr. Taylor-Taylor really was freezing. The band played “Get Off” and did
not return.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">San
Francisco’s Warlocks, veterans trafficking in Warhols-complementary
garage-psych and bluesy shoegaze, opened the show. The band was tight, assured
and well received by the audience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This review was intended for the Kansas City Star's <i>Back to Rockville</i> blog. Traffic issues intervened. Sad to see good writing go to waste. So, here it is ...<i> Reverberations</i>-ized.</span></o:p></div>
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<b>Blurt</b> has recently posted my review of the new album from The War on Drugs. It's called <i>Lost in the Dream,</i> and this link takes you there:<br />
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You can hear and see a sample of Adam Granduciel and company's work here:<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-88798664979589277312014-03-05T14:55:00.003-08:002014-03-05T14:55:55.612-08:00Ran Blake - Plays Solo Piano (ESP-disk) - courtesy of blurtonline.com<br />
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The linked review is of <i>Plays Solo Piano,</i> the 1965 solo debut of the remarkable jazz pianist Ran Blake.<br />
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Fred, my editor, gave me the green light. The nice folks at ESP Records sent me the disc. I listened, enjoyed, ruminated, and then wrote. I've long been a fan of Ran Blake, and it gives me great pleasure to promote his music. Here's the link:<br />
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The video below is not from <i>Plays Solo Piano</i>, but it gives you a taste of Blake's singular work.<br />
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<b style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EXCAVATIONS*</b><br />
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<b style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Magnetic Fields – Realism (Nonesuch)</b><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By my count, “Realism” is the ninth record from the Magnetic Fields, an
ensemble that’s essentially a vehicle for the songwriter Stephin Merritt.
Merritt is a busy guy, sitting around in gay bars writing songs all day. Hey,
that’s what he says. He sure is prolific. Between Magnetic Fields, The Gothic
Archies, the 6ths, and Future Bible Heroes, heck, he barely has time to eat,
although he is fond of Scandinavian dairy products. But I digress.<br />
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Glad to be unhappy (Rodgers-Hart reference – Merritt would like that), Mr.
Merritt lives in a world of melody and wit. And by golly if you relish such
qualities Magnetic Fields is for you. Having made his masterpiece, the
sprawling “69 Love Songs” in 1999, Merritt amuses himself with varying the
sonic textures of his work — he's completely abandoned the synth-pop that
established his work. The Magnetic Fields' last record, “Distortion,” lived up
to its name, avowedly something of a tribute to the Jesus and Mary Chain
(although Merritt is capable of the glibly facetious), the song craft was still
pure Merritt. “Realism” dials back the decibels, eschewing electric
instrumentation almost entirely and employing diverse instrumentation (how
about flugelhorn, Cajon, accordion, banjo, etc.) well beyond the usual folkie
palette. Both, the volume dial-back and the acoustic instrumentation are
perfect for these hurt, bitter, but oddly blithe songs.<br />
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One could spend the day quoting from Merritt’s dour, witty songs. I shan’t.
Vaguely comparable: Stuart Murdoch’s writing for Belle & Sebastian and God
Help the Girl, although Murdoch is a sad humanist and Merritt is a borderline
misanthrope — albeit a lovable one. Neil Hannon’s work with the Divine Comedy
has a kinship with Merritt’s, but Hannon is a morally ambivalent European
flatterer while Merritt is something of a New England scold for all his love of
personal liberty. What else can you call the author of a jolly, but scathing
putdown like “You Must Be Out of Your Mind?” It’s hard to imagine any other
contemporary songwriter producing a Rudy Valli-like, Twenties homage/parody
with the nod and a wink ambivalence of “Seduced and Abandoned” — Randy Newman,
maybe?<br />
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Finally, Stephin Merritt is a post-rock Stephen Sondheim in search of a new
Broadway, perhaps a Broadway for smarter people, indeed smarter people than
those who typically support Broadway. Such is his dilemma. He’s too
blisteringly direct for polite set. And he’s too literate for ninety-percent
of, well, college rockers. The gentleman sure has a way with words and tunes,
though, and a lovely, refined recital like “Realism” makes a fine case for his
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<b>EXCAVATIONS*</b><br />
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<b>Max Richter - <i>24 Postcards in Full Color </i></b><br />
A collection of (mostly) short pieces (the composer jokingly refers to them as 'ringtones'). There are solo piano compositions, compositions for strings, ambient pieces, even the odd guitar thrown in. I first became aware of Richter as the producer of Vashti Bunyan's beautiful 2005 release <i>Lookaftering</i>. Then backtracked to check out Piano Circus who covered the noo-classical canon of work by Arvo Part, Steve Reich, and the like. <i>Postcards</i> is in the same vein. If you enjoy the works of the those guys, or Philip Glass e.g.(although M.R. isn’t sooo repetitive), Richter should please you. The variety of instrumentations, textures and tempi makes for an enjoyable listen. There's something melancholy and autumnal about this record that somehow suits the coming season. Some of these short works give you something to chew on, others are basically thinking man's easy listening, but that's not such a bad thing at all. A perfect record with which to close a busy day.<br />
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I covered the opening night of the Winter Psych Storm! tour, featuring the Black Angels, Roky Erickson, and the Golden Animals for Blurt. The show took place on Friday, January 31st, at the Granada Theater in Lawrence, Kansas.<br />
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The Black Angels were terrific. But it was Roky's performance that seized my attention, and my heart. Besides, I've given the Angels a lot of ink over the last three years.<br />
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Roky's set list<br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome to <b>Reverberations</b>, point of entry for all things Steve Wilson, rock writer. The link takes you to my review of <i>It's Flamin' Groovy</i> by long-time Flamin' Groovies singer-guitarist, Chris Wilson.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Back in the day - Chris Wilson with the Flamin' Groovies, performing "Slow Death."</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-76412837366681852712014-01-12T11:51:00.002-08:002014-01-12T11:51:33.777-08:00Frankie Rose - Herein Wild (Fat Possum) - courtesy blurtonline.com<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The good folks at Blur have posted another of my reviews.<br />
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In this case of Frankie Rose's latest release <i>Herein Wild. </i><br />
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This magic link takes you there: <a href="http://blurtonline.com/review/frankie-rose-herein-wild/" target="_blank">http://blurtonline.com/review/frankie-rose-herein-wild/</a><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-42368553030292930042013-12-17T10:05:00.000-08:002013-12-17T10:05:10.276-08:00Liminanas - Costa Blanca (Trouble in Mind Records) - courtesy of blurtonline.comNewly posted at blurtonline.com, my review of <i>Costa Blanca </i>by the Liminanas.<br />
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Previously, I reviewed their <i>Crystal Anis </i>album.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-89326007292271548432013-12-16T10:27:00.005-08:002013-12-16T10:27:54.987-08:00Ezra Furman - Day of the Dog (Bar None Records) - courtesy of Paraphilia Magazine<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello!</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-19683076591356160992013-11-13T17:38:00.000-08:002013-11-13T17:38:05.266-08:00Crossing Boundaries: Those Darlins ... courtesy of Blurt Magazine and blurtonline.com<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Blurt has published, both online and on paper, my feature/interview with Those Darlins. You can read it here:<br />
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Jessi warmed up to this interviewer as soon as I helped her identify some albums she was making reference to, like Patti Smith's "Wave." That's how this game works. Mostly artists talk to the naive or idiotic. Prove you're neither, they warm up some.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-44494843678603864052013-11-08T13:36:00.001-08:002013-11-08T18:36:15.860-08:00Barrence Whitfield and the Savages - Dig Thy Savage Soul (Bloodshot) ... courtesy blurtonline. com<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My editor Fred just added this review to blurtonline.com. Isn't that special?<br />
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Barrence gets it. I got it. You can read about it.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At last write I recalled my
attachment to “I’m Set Free,” a track by Lou Reed on the third Velvet
Underground (s/t) album.I failed to mention the guitar solo. It too arrested
me, with its beautifully, pitch-warped authority. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gradually, the whole album sunk in. ‘Murder Mystery’ baffled
and amused me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> "Pale Blue Eyes" a revelation. "Story of my Life," glowed with bittersweet acceptance. Each song an unraveling. </span>“Beginning to See the Light” especially grabbed me … “I met myself in a
dream, and I just wanna tell you everything was alright.” The conversational,
grace note quality of his phrasing, cramming words while maintaining the tune,
struck me. Little did I know then that this would be a set closer for a band I
helped conjure a few years hence called Thumbs. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">pictured: The Sunshine Company (ha, ha!)</span><br />
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myself. I was the kind of kid who befriended anyone who was welcoming, smart
and/or funny. I didn’t care what tribe you came from, what race you were,
nothing of the kind. But in 1969 the ‘respectable’ kids and jocks would
ostracize you if you started befriending ‘freaks.’ At first I was just
dumbfounded, nonplussed by such bullshit. Then it made me mad. As much as I
enjoyed my freak friends I wasn’t interested in signing any contracts. But
damned if the straights kids’ intolerance didn’t make my decisions for me. Make
me a freak – fuck you, I'll be a freak. But like the Velvets, a band that never fit into the hippie paradigm, and abhorred the West Coast acidsunshinedayglohappyfreakout, I felt like I came from an earlier bohemian world, looking askance at the kids frolicking in the aquarian expectation - loving them, and shaking my head. </span></div>
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date in my senior year of high school - enough to actually ASK her. I fell in love; I think she loved me too, but I know she wasn’t as consumed as I was. Anyway, she
goes away to college while I stay in Lawrence at KU (like I had the money to imagine otherwise). Our love begins in winter, grows through spring and summer, endures for the better part of a long
distance fall semester, then she dumps me and breaks my heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to remember those days, idle afternoons with friends, hard work in stainless
steel kitchens, bit and pieces of something called college, playing in my first band (Eddie Haskell) second floor
apartments, bad jug wine, early morning hangover breakfasts, characters on the
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semester, into the summer and well ... since. One had been out for a full year, the
early 1970 release of The MC5’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Back in
the USA.</i> It was joined by February 1971’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Love it to Death </i>Alice Cooper, and November 1970’s<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Loaded</i> by the Velvet Underground. And it was<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Loaded</i> that I played more than any record for the next year or so. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Compared to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">White Light White Heat </i>it
was pop, fuck<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- by comparison to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">WLWH</i> it was country-rock. A failed </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">attempt at making the Velvet's palatable to radio and wider audience, it was also a beautiful, melancholy capstone to a great band's career. Lou Reed and company had made
the Manhattan equivalent of a Beach Boys record with </span><i style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Loaded.</i><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> “Who Loves the Sun," a pop hit in an alternate universe, with its Randy Newman-like mix of lyrical lamentation and sunny sound kicks the album off. Doug Yule is the singer, as he is on three other of the album's ten tunes. And those performances are part of the beloved fabric of</span><i style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Loaded</i><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Although, guitarist Sterling Morrison contended it would be a better record with Lou's lead vocals throughout. The original sleeve distributes songwriting credits to the band, since corrected - however much Yule contributed, these are unmistakably Lou's writing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the first time I heard “Sweet Jane” I didn’t know it would be the
one song that traveled with me everywhere. I have sung it so many times with
bands, and heard so many other versions of it that it has attained the elastic
status of a standard. But when I go back to the original performance I am
struck by the in the pocket ease of the band, the relaxation of the
performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These albums (with bit of <i>Plastic Ono Band </i>and in April '71, <i>Sticky Fingers</i>), especially <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Loaded,</i>
were part of the after school, between school and work, downtime hanging with
friends - soundtrack of eighteen and nineteen. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We thought we were clever to figure out the ambiguous mix of
doo-wop homage and parody in a line like, ‘as I walk down life’s lonely
highways, hand in hand with myself,” from “I Found a Reason.” And “Rock and
Roll” suited my emerging sense of self. Faced with the draft, the vagaries of
picking a career (“then they expect you to pick a career” – “Working Class
Hero,” John Lennon), and living hand to
mouth, I was already finding a sustenance, resonance and home in the music that
I wasn’t finding anywhere else. And that's why <b>Reverberations </b>borrows from Lou for its credo (i.e. "My life was saved by rock 'n' roll").</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course all this time I was doubling back to the first
album, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Velvet Underground and Nico,</i>
which by this time sounded both dangerous and familiar, not yet realizing that for
me, like hundreds of young musicians, an entire sensibility, a musical template
was being established. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But more about that as we move along.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So thank you Lou (Mo, Sterling, Doug ...Adrian, Geoff, Billy).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For spring afternoons. nights of cheap wine
discoveries, good friends, bonding over outsider blues. Oh, and of course
for helping chart part of my own musical course. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have many more stories to tell, and shall. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... part II evokes fond memories of Karl, Doug, Jane, Randy, Rick, Rick, Becky, Hector, Mary, Charla, Kevin, Kevin, Stuart, and so many ...</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-35764140312827265072013-10-28T12:12:00.000-07:002013-10-28T17:10:15.463-07:00Memento Mori, Lewis Allan Reed, entry no. 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was at a high school basketball game of all things.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The day I first laid eyes on the ‘peel slowly and see’
banana cover, designed by Andy Warhol, of the first Velvet Underground
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An acquaintance was
roaming the balcony of the Lawrence High School gymnasium, pausing occasionally
to show his new acquisition to anyone who might be impressed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is real time, folks – mid-march, 1967. I was fourteen years of age.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This may sound strange. But I well remember walking the
streets of downtown Lawrence with “Are You Experienced” under my arm, recently
released, newly purchased, enjoying the commentary of friends and acquaintances
who stopped me and asked me about this new artist and phenomenon named Jimi
Hendrix. There was no world wide web, only a handful of rock magazines and
underground newspapers spreading this subterranean culture to a few of us with
our ear to the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This acquaintance later become a friend. Then he was a year or so older. That’s a big
deal when you’re fourteen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He explained the whole drugs, whips, furs, demi-monde
exceptional-ism of this new band, a teenage wasteland attempt to provide
context. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I filed the information away, curious but anxious. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I heard <i>White Light, White Heat</i> somewhere, some other avant-friend's house. "Sister Ray" freaked me out to tell you the truth. Intrigued,
unsettled by what I heard; I was fifteen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I saw the third album, the self-titled record, in the
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reason. That shop is long gone. But that music plays so very often, not just from
my computer, stereo and car speakers, but also in the jukebox of my mind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first song that sunk in was “I’m Set Free.” The jangle
reminded me of the Byrds. The lyrics were a quiet rapture and revelation. The
chorus was rousing and dour. And in summation: “I’m set free to find a new
illusion.” Words that would raise my spirits and trigger some sadly absurd
sense of life’s cycles and shortages … over and over again. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>1st in a series of Lewis Allan Reed memories and rhapsodies. </u></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-41523508387616292412013-10-14T18:56:00.000-07:002013-10-14T18:59:23.419-07:00King Khan and the Shrines - Spiritual Salvation (courtesy Blurt magazine and blurtonline.com)<br />
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blurtonline.com just posted a feature I did for them on King Khan and the Shrines. Soon to be included in the print edition, No. 14.<br />
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My review of Richard X. Heyman's new album ... <i>X</i></div>
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<i><br /></i>The link takes you to the marvelous Paraphilia Magazine, where you should hang out and groove even after reading my stuff!<br />
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No video snips from the new album yet, but enjoy this Heyman classic:<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-46879154817422788172013-09-10T16:32:00.004-07:002013-09-10T16:35:30.313-07:00Ty Segall - Sleeper (Drag City) / courtesy blurtonline.com<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This review of the new Ty Segall release, <i>Sleeper</i>, on Drag City was just posted at blurtonline.com. The link below takes you there (that and the Staple Singers).<br />
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Hey, since you're in the neighborhood enjoy "West" from <i>Sleeper</i>.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-35243981795358336342013-08-29T08:04:00.000-07:002013-08-29T08:09:32.090-07:00Elvis Presley - Elvis at Stax: Deluxe Edition (RCA Legacy Recordings), courtesy blurtonline.com<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Please enjoy this new review, ladies and gents:</b></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-11390156365123284502013-08-05T19:09:00.001-07:002013-09-03T20:02:47.106-07:00Sam Phillips - Push Any Button (Littlebox Recordings) / courtesy of Paraphilia Magazine<span style="color: #660000;">The good people at Paraphilia magazine just posted my review of the new album from Sam Phillips.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599276472484380325.post-83511912938301998632013-07-03T11:47:00.002-07:002013-09-03T20:03:20.393-07:00Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record (Merge), courtesy of blurtonline.com (Blurt)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey. Reverberations Readers ... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, and while you're hanging around "Reverberations" enjoy this video ...</span></span><br />
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THANKS!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570824463744081340noreply@blogger.com0