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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Syd's Pink Floyd - Ten Great Nights

Mark Jones from the mapcaplaughs yahoo group at: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/madcapslaughing/ has been scanning Syd Barrett articles from Record Collector Magazine. Today, we re-post the parts pertaining to Syd Barrett from an article from February 1998 chronicling Pink Floyd's top live performances...

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Record Collector: PsyFreakOut May 2003 - 2 pages/20 Singles PF Jul 2004 - 2 pages

Mark Jones from the mapcaplaughs yahoo group at: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/madcapslaughing/ has been scanning Syd Barrett articles from Record Collector Magazine. I'll re-post a few here...

Record Collector: PsyFreakOut May 2003

Record Collector: 20 Singles PF Jul 2004 - 2 pages

My Friend Syd - Record Collector/Mar 2002 - 2 pages

Mark Jones from the mapcaplaughs yahoo group at: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/madcapslaughing/ has been scanning Syd Barrett articles from Record Collector Magazine. I'll re-post a few here...

My Friend Syd - Record Collector/Mar 2002 - 2 pages

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Syd's Gear

From: julianindica on the madcapslaughing Yahoo group here: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/madcapslaughing/

Syd's Gear - for all the guitar maniacs on the list

By the end of 1966, Barrett used a 50-watt Selmer Truvoice Treble n' Bass 50 Mk II with matching `All-Purpose 50' Speaker Cabinet with 2X12 speakers. Onstage, the Pink Floyd used Selmer Goliath cabinets and Stereomaster guitar amplifier heads, with four Selmer TV/100 PA amplifier heads, for a tremendous roar.

A perfect gig amp with clean tone, Syd's Selmer combo excelled at two things – treble and bass. Channels had clean tone to about four on the volume dial. Turning volume up, bass channel had vigorous crunch, with blues and jazz overtones. A bit higher and Syd's dark expansive proto-metal sound rumbled through. Even with treble control down, treble channel had knife's edge sharpness. As Syd turned treble higher and pushed the amplifier hard, he got into extreme noise and feedback. His Selmer amp had an effects loop wired to pre-amp valve, an echo send return on the back Syd utilised with Binson and a Selmer Buzz-Tone fuzz pedal.

(from dysale67)

An early solid-state distortion unit Selmer introduced in September 1966, a three-stage transistor circuit gave Buzz-Tone much smoother distortion than other fuzz pedals. Barrett was an expert manipulator of effects, used with restraint. Barrett's Buzz-Tone fuzz had stinging bite at high volume, with great sustain. (`buzz a while...sting! ')

Syd put Buzz-Tone on maximum setting then rolled guitar volume knob down for overdriven parts and back for distortion. Like Gilmour or Hendrix, Syd set fuzz and volume at maximum level and used guitar volume to control gain and fuzz. Fuzz pedal boosted and clipped sine wave input from guitar into square waveform. Buzz-Tone's germanium transistors were notorious for wonky tone in hot clubs, an interstellar overdose of flat sine waves. As Buzz-Tone clipped, intermodulation caused signal heavy with extra harmonics, often distorted.

(from dysale67)

Syd's Esquire proved versatile for every gig. With all 21 frets clear of the cutaway, Syd howled right up the neck with superb sustain. The single coil bridge pickup was heavy, with strong mid-range, and much power at high volume. Playing live, Syd flicked the three-tone selector switch, with resistors and capacitors altering frequency response.

In position one, or bridge-setting, tone control was disconnected and wired direct to output jack. Here, Syd got crisp treble lead tones, setting Selmer at four or five gain, for leads more scalding than Telecaster. In position two, standard volume and tone control arrangement allowed Syd to darken and brighten passages. Turning tone knob to the centre gave Syd good Telecaster-like mid-range to vamp while Rick soloed. Syd could mellow tone a bit by strumming past where neck pickup would be, or diving to the bridge with Zippo flashing across the bottom E string for his signature sustain violin-like tone. In position three, tone control was again disengaged.

A unique Fender tone capacitor rolled off treble and some bass, producing muted dark tone the rhythm player in Syd thrived on. Here he could drop into Waters' bass range and thicken rhythm.

(from andrej10220)

Esquire enthusiasts rave about so-called `cocked wah' in the third position, where signal highs and lows swooped and dipped for pronounced hard-hitting tone. Barrett relied on barré chords to reduce dissonance, damping with his thumb over E string. Applying effects to amplified signal after distortion by preamp, echo and fuzz sounded better. Syd tweaked Binson volume input for overdrive and ran the loop in parallel with dry amp signal, boosting Binson's maelstrom undertow as signal waned. Syd would raise volume on fading echoes, capturing decay, decentring rhythm. Using different pedals in effects chain, plugging ends into the amplifier, Syd got repetitive feedback signal he modulated with effects; filtering with Binson, adding gain with Buzz-Tone; modulating wave forms with swell.

(from dysale67)

By the Games For May concert, Syd was experimenting with a Fender Stratocaster and Vox Tone-Bender pedal, also using a foot switch to tap in and out of Binson echoes. By the end of the summer, Syd was further using a Selmer wah pedal, one of the very first British guitarists to do so.

Friday, December 18, 2009

As Promised, A Few, Forgotten, Good Images Still Hanging Around (18 of Them)

From: http://janitoroflunacy.tumblr.com/post/193176644/totem-poles-southern-alaska

Totem Poles, Southern Alaska

From: http://nickdrake.tumblr.com/post/203553613/syd-barrett

syd barrett.

From: http://awoade.tumblr.com/post/204702211/fredericks-sun-strippers-via-what-makes-the-pie

Frederick’s Sun-Strippers (via What Makes The Pie Shops Tick?)

From: http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com/post/242451091

From: http://gladtoseeyou.tumblr.com/post/261895179/marie-prevost

Marie Prevost

From: http://bukowski.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6542

Bukowski flip flops

From: http://scandyfactory.tumblr.com/post/271329192/mega-vhs-scan

mega VHS scan

From: http://atlasobscura.com/places/fountain-fallen-angel-skb

FOUNTAIN OF THE FALLEN ANGEL
Though Spain may have loaned its name to one of the most famous Christian witch-hunts in human history, the country's capital city holds unique bragging rights for having what is commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself. Located in the gardens of the expansive Parque del Buen Retiro, the statue of the Fallen Angel (Ángel Caído) is set atop a marble pillar in the midst of a fountain. Lucifer is depicted at the moment he is cast out of Heaven, as inspired by a passage in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Sculptor Ricardo Bellver cast the statue in bronze for the third World's Fair in Paris, after which point the piece was acquired by the Museo del Prado. The statue was later donated to the city of Madrid and inaugurated at its current location in 1885. The statue is renowned equally for its discordant subject matter, as well as Bellver's ability to imbue a sense of tension and anguish in his rendering of Satan.

From: http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/281347748/bettina-rheims-monkey-portrait-1982

Bettina Rheims Monkey Portrait 1982

From: http://thisworldwemustleave.tumblr.com/post/287560930/dennis-hayes-http-www-myspace-com-7teen

Dennis Hayes http://www.myspace.com/7teen

From: http://ffffound.com/

(via Black and WTF)

From: http://pignouf-vintageposter.blogspot.com/2009/12/la-belle-et-le-monstre.html

Affiche signée Félix Labisse (1905-1982), datant de 1947.

From: http://thisworldwemustleave.tumblr.com/post/284960608

From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/281978922/ive-been-on-a-gene-krupa-kick-lately-via

I’ve been on a Gene Krupa kick lately.. (via mitchum)

From: http://dannyhein.tumblr.com/post/285260633/tony-fitzpatrick-the-day-saints-mixed-media

Tony Fitzpatrick ( http://tonyfitzpatrick.wordpress.com/ ) The Day Saints mixed media / 2007 / image 6” x 9” / SOLD

From: http://fastpunkclub.tumblr.com/post/286789141/question-mark-and-the-mysterians

QUESTION MARK and the MYSTERIANS

From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24635180@N07

Every Inch a Sailor (via death becomes her)

From: http://bebelestrange.tumblr.com/post/288606640

Alice Neel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Neel ) “The minute I sat in front of a canvas, I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do as I liked in it … I go so out of myself and into (my subjects) that after they leave I sometimes feel like an untenanted house.”

Friday, November 27, 2009

Stash de Rola: The Dandy Aesthete of Swinging London

http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1025064,1026166

BBC Radio 4 programme on Stash de Rola
Posted by: Green Lady ()
Date: February 2, 2009 00:05

BBC Radio 4, Tuesday 2nd February, 11.30 a.m. GMT: if you can get past the silly title this might be an interesting half hour:

Stash: The Dandy Aesthete of Swinging London
Listen:
Next on:

03 Feb 2009, 11:30 on BBC Radio 4
Synopsis:

Music journalist Mark Paytress tracks down the mysterious Stash, or Prince Stanislaus Klossowski de Rola - friend of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, exotic dandy and lover, actor, musician, aristocrat and son of the controversial artist Balthus.

Mark examines Stash's close association with Stones guitarist Brian Jones and other leading lights of the music scene in 1960s London, the interest he developed in alchemy during a period living in Sri Lanka, and visits him in his Italian castle to discuss his life and experiences.

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Here come the bus ... Where's my dime? I know I gotta dime here somewhere...

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Re: BBC Radio 4 programme on Stash de Rola
Posted by: Deltics ()
Date: February 2, 2009 00:45

From the new issue of Mojo:

"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Re: BBC Radio 4 programme on Stash de Rola
Posted by: Deltics ()
Date: February 4, 2009 00:18

If you're interested, you can listen to and/or download it here:

Stash.mp3 - 38.72MB
http://www.zshare.net/file-404.html

Features Chris Jagger and Phil May (Pretty Things) at the beginning.

Re: BBC Radio 4 programme on Stash de Rola
Posted by: jlowe ()
Date: February 7, 2009 18:42

Actually, quite an entertaining listen.
A charmed life. No 9-5 drudgery.
Mansions/castles.
No tabloid intrusions.
Sleeping with Marianne + Anita + 1000 other unamed beauties.
Obviously believes the 67 Jones bust was a trumpted up charge, but then goes on to admit "if they'd visited any other time they would have found " etc. Strange logic.
No mention really of Keith or the 73 bust in London (Cheyne Walk).
Chris Jagger was interviewed -sounds a bit like Mick, without the forced cockney drawl.
Anita and Marianne declined to be interviewed.
Stash tried to get it on with the producer of the documentary. She declined.
But of course.
YCAGWYW

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(Thanks to Raphael S for the referral...)

Friday, October 30, 2009

A double dose of late October few, good, borrowed images; most Halloweenie, some not...

From: ???

Lab Partners

From: http://thesweetestpsychopath.tumblr.com/post/214944360/humphrey-bogart-in-the-return-of-dr-x-warner

Humphrey Bogart in “The Return of Dr. X” (Warner Brothers, 1939) via Heritage Auctions

From: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2005/12/12/license-plates-now-with-more-skulls/

Special License Plates Tag Careless Drivers Special license plates for traffic violators are being considered as a safety measure by Cliff Davis, commissioner of public safety in Memphis, Tenn. If the measure is adopted motorists who persistently break traffic laws will be required to run in their regular licence plates for special tags, similar to that shown in the photograph above, bearing a skull and the words “traffic-law violator.” - Popular Science Mar, 1939

From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajourneyroundmyskull

Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943)

From: http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/myg2001/view/156303?page=0

Авторизуйтесь, чтобы оставить свой комментарий или оценить фото. (via trixietreats)

From: http://janitoroflunacy.tumblr.com/post/180723511/via-nononoknow

(via nononoknow)

From: http://monstercrazy.tumblr.com/post/189083320/monster-public-service-announcements-by-rob-kelly

Monster Public Service Announcements by Rob Kelly http://robkellyillustration.blogspot.com/

From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/202617421/screamin-jay-hawkins-crazy-man

Jalacy Hawkins, best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins (July 18, 1929 – February 12, 2000) was an African-American musician, singer, and actor. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I Put a Spell on You" and "Constipation Blues," Hawkins sometimes used macabre props onstage, probably making him the first shock rocker. From Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamin%27_Jay_Hawkins

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins — I Put A Spell On You “Hawkins originally envisioned the tune as a refined ballad.” The entire band was intoxicated during a recording session where “Hawkins screamed, grunted, and gurgled his way through the tune with utter drunken abandon.” The resulting performance was no ballad but instead a “raw, guttural track” that became his greatest commercial success and surpassed a million copies in sales. Listen here:
http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/202616070/screamin-jay-hawkins-i-put-a-spell-on-you

From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/210203654/maria-montez-aka-the-queen-of-technicolor-in

Maria Montez aka “The Queen of Technicolor”, in black and white. They named an airport after her in the Dominican Republic, you know. Maria Montez International Airport. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Montez

From: http://janet-r-olunacy.tumblr.com/post/209035021/dali-barcelona-sphinx

Dali ~ Barcelona Sphinx

From: http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/220640287/robert-mapplethorpe-louise-nevelson-1986

Robert Mapplethorpe Louise Nevelson 1986

From: http://extranuance.tumblr.com/post/221263337/ad-for-a-widow

Ad for a widow

From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/220885438/hannes-bok-mambaloa-1947

Hannes Bok, Mambaloa, 1947. Hannes Bok, pseudonym for Wayne Woodard (July 2, 1914–April 11, 1964), was an American artist and illustrator, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry. He painted nearly 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction magazines, as well as contributing hundreds of black and white interior illustrations. Bok's work graced the pages of calendars and early fanzines, as well as dust jackets from specialty book publishers like Arkham House, Llewellyn, Shasta, and Fantasy Press. His paintings achieved a luminous quality through the use of an arduous glazing process, which was learned from his mentor, Maxfield Parrish. Bok was the first artist to win a Hugo Award. - from Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Bok

From: http://pignouf-vintageposter.blogspot.com/2009/10/cocorico.html

Cocorico était un journal bi-mensuel humoristique, littéraire et artistique. "Artistique" c'est peu dire lorsque les signataires des couvertures ont des noms prestigieux ; Mucha, Kupka, Widhopff, Steinlen, Grün, Wély, Roubille, Wilette, Kienerk...
Une fois n'est pas coutume, j'ai glané sur le net l'ensemble des couvertures présentées.

From: http://amanoutoftime.livejournal.com/1248018.html

Members of The New York Dolls stroll up theChamps Elysées toward the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, November 1973. © Alain Dister. Rock n' roll photo ops trump traffic regulations and common courtesy. That's covered in Rock Entitlement 203. This Dister shot was probably staged like a 1000 other shots on the Champs, but when I was holed up in the Hotel Astrid down at the end of avenue Carnot (off camera to the right) back in '06, it never occurred to *me* to do such a thing. I mean negotiating the traffic around and approaching the Arc is not for the faint of heart.

From: http://nickdrake.tumblr.com/post/221860548/audrey-hepburn-chopping-wood

Audrey hepburn chopping wood.

From: http://community.livejournal.com/adski_kafeteri/1450921.html

Koo Koo The Bird Girl (via a Contessa)

From: http://bebelestrange.tumblr.com/post/227693008

arthur brown via gocontinental.com

From:http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2009/10/treading-boards-3.html

Treading the Boards #3-Photos of Bela Lugosi (then Bela Lugossy) in The Passion Play, 1909.

From: http://drakecaperton.tumblr.com/post/212946782/ghost-breakers-2-december-1948-dr-neff-breaks

Ghost Breakers #2, December 1948
Dr. Neff Breaks the Voodoo Hoodoo
From the Grand Comic-Book Database: http://www.comics.org/

From:

Ezra Pound by Richard Avedon.

From: http://bebelestrange.tumblr.com/post/218640132

Yinka Shonibare

From: http://crappytaxidermy.com/post/219872520/photographed-by-jadeeey

Photographed by Jadeeey from CRAPPY TAXIDERMY (I think the cat is unstuffed & alive)

From: http://community.livejournal.com/adski_kafeteri/1430944.html

straus

From: http://www.sydbarrettpinkfloyd.com/2009/10/syd-barrett-opel-magazine-button.html

Check out this Octopus pin that was an addition to the Syd Barrett Opel fanzine. The button was only available to the subscribers of the Syd Barrett 'OPEL' Fanzine. The year of this was 1984. The name 'OPEL' came from the name of an unreleased song from the Madcap Sessions. The button has the Octopus logo from the song of the same name released 11/14/1969 on the Harvest label.

From: http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2009/10/poets-are-both-clean-and-warm-and-most_28.html

George Sterling The San Francisco poet who wrote about "My cool, grey city of love." If you're looking for a precursor of the psychedelics, look for his long poem "A Wine of Wizardry." Killed himself at the Bohemian Club in 1926. There is a nice website dedicated to him: http://www.george-sterling.org/

From: http://tartanspartan.tumblr.com/post/228001247/iceberg-antarctica-joan-myers-2001-whos-up