Fuck the RIAA

Don't know if any of you have seen this piece, but apparently the RIAA and record labels have not been giving any money to any bands or artists. They've received hundreds of millions of dollars from the various suits, and bands have yet to see any money. The artists have received NOTHING. Finally, the artists might be filing suit against them. So fuck the RIAA.

READ THE ARTICLE!!!!

The horizon

My parents brought the remainder of my CD collection to me today, so I will be rifling through them (there's several hundred) and find some killer stuff to post for my adoring fans.

Also, I need to find some way of transferring vinyl to digital format, because I have a few killer records that have never been released on CD that I want to post on here badly. One of them is a 7" by a guy named Magic Michael. He released a single called "Millionaire" with a b-side called "My Friend And I." The vocalist is the aforementioned Michael, but the backing band is none other than The Damned, circa the Machine Gun Etiquette era. So basically, the best punk rock backing band one could ever hope for!

I also have SWA, The Wandering Five, a Kinks bootleg (I think it's a bootleg), and Rikki & The Last Days. I'll get those up here eventually.

The Boys - Live in Retford (10/18/1977)

1. Sick On You
2. I Don't Care
3. Contract Hustle
4. Not Ready
5. Tonight
6. What She Gonna Do
7. Cop Cars
8. USI
9. No Money
10. Trouble With Me
11. TCP
12. Teenment Kids
13. Soda Pressing
14. Box Number
15. First Time
16. Living In The City

Taken from the Running Riot blog, this is a very rare early live recording from the underrated punk band. I've been looking forward to posting this, because RR has tons and tons of rare live recordings, but almost all of them are just one file, which can be frustrating sometimes. So I will be taking the liberty of breaking them up into their respective tracks and reposting them here, but I won't let you forget where they came from. It's really amazing to me that some of these recordings even exist, but this is one reason I love the internet. The quality is a little better than on their one official live release of the same time period, Live At The Roxy, and it's got a better setlist than the BBC Radio 1 session. The split with The Vibrators, that is; there is another BBC album out there, but Lord knows where you can find it and for how much. It's on the discography on their official website, but I haven't been able to find a single place to get a CD copy of it. If you find one, please send a message along to me. Enjoy this! CLICK HERE!

Bo Diddley - Go Bo Diddley

1. Willie And Lillie
2. Bo Meets The Monster
3. I'm Sorry
4. Oh Yeah
5. Crackin' Up
6. The Great Grandfather
7. Say Man
8. Clock Strikes Twelve
9. She's Alright
10. Say Man, Back Again (alternate take)
11. She's Alright (undubbed)
12. Bo's Guitar
13. You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
14. Don't Let It Go (Hold On To What You Got)
15. Little Girl
16. Little Girl (alternate take)
17. Spend My Life With You
18. Blues Blues

I typically like to say a little about each post, which usually involves me looking some stuff up before I post it, but I don't really have time to this time, nor will I any time today. I at least wanted to get this out there before I procrastinated any longer. This is the sophomore effort by rock 'n roll history's missing link. While it's not quite as amazing as the first album, it's still a solid record with one of my top 5 all-time Bo songs, "Say Man." A lot of Bo's stuff is getting increasingly more difficult to find, so get it while you still can, go see him play live while you still can. He may be relatively immobile on stage, but he can still kick out the jams like you can't believe. He is just one of the examples that rock 'n roll isn't just for the young. Rock 'n roll is something that gets preserved into your very soul. Get this by CLICKING HERE.

Endorsements

I have two for you.

First, I formally endorse Barack Obama for president. I think he shows more promise than any other major candidate in years.

Secondly, I formally endorse this radio show: The Art Factory

Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley
1. Bo Diddley
2. I'm A Man
3. I'm A Man (alternate take)
4. Diddley Daddy
5. She's Fine, She's Mine
6. Pretty Thing
7. Bring It To Jerome
8. Bring It To Jerome (alternate take)
9. Heart-O-Matic Love
10. Diddy Wah Diddy
11. I'm Looking For A Woman
12. Who Do You Love?
13. I'm Bad
14. Cops And Robbers
15. Down Home Special
16. Hey! Bo Diddley
17. Mona (I Need You Baby)
18. Say Boss Man
19. Before You Accuse Me
20. Hush Your Mouth
21. Dearest Darling
22. Hush Your Mouth (alternate take)
23. Dearest Darling (alternate take)

As far as I'm concerned, rock 'n roll's beginnings come down to Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and our man seen above: BO DIDDLEY. Elvis was a white guy playing black music, Chuck was a black guy playing white music, but Bo was not crossing racial lines as he was cultural lines. He started bringing the African sound to rock 'n roll, which would have a huge impact on blues music in the years to come. He also laid the ground work for pop music that would follow, and even punk rock. He was writing songs stripped down in ways that people thought couldn't be done, but he did it, and he made amazing music out of it that influencing people even to this day. This is his unprecedented debut, and check back tomorrow for his sophomore effort. One of my favorite vocal performances of all time is on this album on the song "Dearest Darling." I think you'll know what I mean. Get some Bo by CLICKING HERE!

The Boys/The Vibrators - BBC Radio 1

The Boys
1. First Time
2. Rue Morgue
3. Kamikaze
4. Cop Cars
5. New Guitar In Town
6. Brickfield Nights
7. Worm Song
8. Terminal Love
9. Living In the City

The Vibrators
1. Wrecked On You
2. London Girls
3. Stiff Little Fingers
4. Wake Up
5. He's A Psycho
6. Baby Baby
7. Flying Duck Theory
8. Whips and Furs
9. I Need A Slave
10. Keep It Clean
11. Feel Alright
12. Sex Kick
13. Bad Time

First, I must say thank you to everyone who commented on the last blog. I hadn't received very much feedback, so I wasn't sure if anyone was even coming, and it's because of you all that I am doing this. I love sharing music with people who are open-minded, as I know all of you are. So thank you, you make this worthwhile.

Now, this is a joint release of The Boys and The Vibrators playing BBC Radio 1, which I believe was John Peel's show. That guy had so many cool bands play, this world was lucky to have someone like him around. I don't know if the two bands recorded these the same day, or if they just happen to both fit onto one release. Either way, this is a killer collection of live tracks. I tend to like The Boys more than The Vibrators, but the latter absolutely shreds on their half, they do an amazing job. The Boys, on the other hand, do a good job, but they chose songs pretty much all from the later part of their career and most of those aren't as good. The Boys had a very underrated vocalist, Duncan "Kid" Reid, and one of the most underrated guitarists of the entire punk explosion, "Honest" John Plain, but went widely unrecognized because their song writing went downhill after their second album. The highlight of The Boys' performance is their cover of The Lurkers' "New Guitar In Town," somewhat of a punk classic. They say at the beginning of the song "It's not a bad single.... for another group," but it's an inside joke, because Plain played with The Lurkers on the single New Guitar In Town/Little Ole Wine Drinker Me, which could very well be their best single because Plain was such a cool guitar player, and he brought a lot of attitude to that single that would otherwise have been missing. Just for the hell of it, I've separated the two bands just in case you want one and not the other. The album itself is going for $300 on Amazon right now, I kid you not. So just get it right here!
The Boys
The Vibrators

Is anyone out there?

Could I just get a holler from any one who comes here?

That is, if you check here regularly, would you just reply to this post and let me know that you're out there and that you've been checking back?

If there are such people, please forgive my lack of posts, it's just been busy trying to keep up with school and work and all.

Expect a post tomorrow afternoon.

Hank Williams III - This Ain't Country

1. Hellbilly Joker
2. Hang On
3. Life Of Sin
4. Mark Fuckin' Jane
5. Now He's Dead
6. Tennessee Driver
7. Runnin' and Gunnin'
8. Ten Feet Down
9. Pistol Packin' Mother Fucker
10. Drink It And Drug It

Sorry for the delay in a new post, I've been busy. And when I haven't been busy, I've been lazy. So sue me. Anyway, this album was completed long ago but has yet to see the light of day as far as getting an official release is concerned. I believe that it's all tied up in legal issues with his record company, because they want him to be a mainstream country artist, and he wants to be anything but that, and this album is an incredibly far cry from that. It's his "hellbilly" album, which is essentially country/rockabilly with tinges of metal. It's a really good album, and deserves to be released. Maybe it will... someday.
I'm too sleepy to type much else, just get the album by CLICKING HERE.

George Bush hates America

Don't know if you've all heard this, the story broke about an hour ago:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/04/AR2008020400493.html?hpid=topnews

Essentially: The Bush administration has introduced a $3 trillion spending plan to go towards defense (the "War On Terror") and his signature tax cuts for corporations and the upper 1% of citizens.

This is just a continuation of the recklessness and idiocy that has been ongoing for this administration for seven years, and now they want to dip into Social Security and Medicare in order to make this spending plan work, which would send us into the worst deficit in history.

What's worse is that if the spineless fuckheads in Congress have shown us anything, it's that they are not willing to stand up to the Bush administration and tell them NO.

So you all know where I stand, but whoever is reading this, I want you to make sure you vote. Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, and there are primaries coming up too. Make sure you vote. I'm not here to tell you how to vote, all I ask is that you vote. Less than half of American citizens of age to vote actually vote. American Idol gets over twice as many voters as any presidential election, and that just says so much to me about the sad state of affairs we're in. If you're not registered, quit thinking about it, quit putting it off. Get registered and vote!