Kevin Ayers - Abbey Road Tape Archive Pt 1

From: "David Parker" with the whatevershebringswesing Yahoo group at:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/whatevershebringswesing/

Kevin Ayers - Abbey Road Tape Archive Pt 1

Hello Folks,

Part 1 of a (very) occasional series re Kevin Ayers...

This is from a 1/2" thick pile of A4 pages that the Abbey Road computer
generated for me back in 1997.

You'll have to decode the plain text version as best you can, but the format
is:

Tape Number / Tape Format / Record Date / Track Title

The plain text means that where there is more than one track title on a tape
you'll have to do some eye-juggling to follow it - I'm afraid that this is
the best I can offer.

I've included all of the relevant information from the print-out (I'm sorry
but I couldn't face typing in the shelf location reference number for each
tape:-) + any comments noted. The tapes are listed in (pretty much)
alphabetical order - so that's how you'll be getting them.

No promises as to when the next bit will be along:-)

All the best

David

Report 003: Tape Report – Full Details
EMI Music – Music Master Archive System
Abbey Road Studios Tape Library
09/04/97
11:11

E093997 4-Track 3/10/69 All This Crazy Gift of Time (remake)

107022 ¼” Stereo 19/9/72 Don’t Let it Get You Down (LP)
When Your Parents Go to Sleep
Don’t Let it Get You Down (single)
Don’t Sing No More Sad Songs
Crystal Clear
(Bananamour LP Tracks)

TL22603A ¼” Stereo --/--/-- Don’t Let it Get You Down
Shouting in a Bucket Blues
When Your Parents Go to Sleep
Interview
(Banana Amour LP S1)

TL22603B ¼” Stereo 10/10/72 Decadence
Oh What a Dream
Hymn
Beware of the Dog
(Banana Amour LP S2)

(Missed out a couple of long but not very interesting compilation LP master
tapes)

101427 ¼” Mono 3/11/71 Bubbling Brook (Sound Effect)

E098408 1” 8-Track 28/8/70 Butterfly Dance (First and Second Parts)

E099343 1” 8-Track 28/8/70 Butterfly Dance (Sec Part 8T to 8T)

01121A 2” 16-Track 29/3/73 Caribbean Moon (TK 1-2)

13846 ¼” Stereo 17/5/76 Caribbean Moon (Master)
Sea Shore Tape Loop
Caribbean Moon (Original Master O/TS)
Intro/Solo/Last Chorus

E101472 ¼” Stereo 29/3/73 Caribbean Moon (Edit Piece)

13958 ¼” Stereo 24/5/76 Caribbean Moon (7” 'A' master)
Caribbean Moon (1-1 copy with sea noises)

01121 2” Session Tape --/--/-- Caribbean Moon (06:18)
Final Line Up (06:10)

100286 ¼” Stereo 6/8/71 Champagne Song (from ST4 on E103844)

103844 1” 8-Track 4/8/71 Champagne Song

E105417 1” 8-Track 14/3/72 Clarence in Wonderland (original master)

AR36569 ¼” Stereo 1/12/73 Irreversible Neural Damage
Invitation
Once Chance Dance, The
Dr Dream Theme
Two Goes Into Four
(‘Confessions of Dr Dream’ Production master)

AR36568 ¼” Stereo 1/12/73 Day by Day
C U Later
Didn’t Feel Lonely
Everybody’s Sometime and Some People’s
It Begins With a Blessing/Etc
Ballbearing Blues
(‘Confessions of Dr Dream’ Production master)

107751 ¼” Stereo --/--/-- Decadence (Original end at end)

E107585 2” 16-Track 7/11/72 Decadence (TK 1 Best 08:15)

E106672 1” 8-Track 12/8/72 Don’t Let it Get You Down

E106673 2” 16-Track 9/8/72 Don’t Sing No More Sad Songs (TK 4 03:01)
Don’t Sing No More Sad Songs (TK 8 Best 03:35)
Crystal Clear (TK 6 Best 04:43)

107422 ¼” Stereo --/--/-- Don’t Let it Get You Down
(Single version/Edited 03:19)

00803 2” 16-Track 9/4/73 Fred (TK 10 Best) (“Possibly wrong title”)

75944 Umatic 12/5/89 Gemini Child (Master) ‘Production Master’

AR58235 ¼” Stereo 8/5/89 Gemini Child (Master 03:16) ‘Original Master’

E092596 1” 4-Track 17/6/69 It Song, The
Circus (Remade 23.6.69 on E92610 (4T))

103873 1” 8-Track 27/7/71 Jolie Madame (03:10)
There is Loving

TL20322A ¼” Stereo 3/10/69 Joy of a Toy
Town Feeling
Clarietta Rag, The
Girl on a Swing
Song for Insane Times
(‘Joy of Toy LP S1)
(Original tape mixed from 8-Track)
(Tape characteristic CCIR)

TL20322B ¼” Stereo 3/10/69 Stop This Train (Again Doing It)
Eleanor’s Cake Which Ate Her
Lady Rachael, The
Oleh Oleh Bandu Bandong
(“Please cut 2db @ 64 B on cutting”)
All This Crazy Gift of Time
(‘Joy of a Toy LP S2)
(Original tape mixed from 8-Track)
(Tape characteristic CCIR)

E094134 1” 8-Track 15/7/69 Stop This Train
Oleh Oleh Bandu Bandong
Song for Insane Times
Joy of a Toy
Town Feeling
Miss Clarietta
(‘Session Tape’)

E094135 1” 8-Track 15/7/69 Eleanors Cake
Lady Rachel
Girl on a Swing
All This Crazy Gift of Time
(‘Session Tape’)

E104547 2” 16-Track 9/4/72 Lady Rachel (TK 1-3 B/D)
Lady Rachel (TK 4 Comp 06:27)
Lady Rachel (TK 5)
Lady Rachel (TK 6 05:30)

E105038 ¼” Stereo 4/2/72 Lady Rachel (06:36)
(“Not for Production – Don’t Use”)

E105121 ¼” Stereo 16/2/72 Lady Rachel (“For USA LP”) Edited
Lady Rachel (“UK single version”) (04:48)

E104548 2” 16-Track 4/1/72 Lady Rachel (TK7 F/S)
Lady Rachel (TK 8 Best) (06:38)
Crazy Gift of Time (TK 1-5)
Crazy Gift of Time (TK 6 Best) (04:13)

E099107 1” 8-Track 4/8/70 Live – Hyde Park: R3 “Untitled”

E099108 1” 8-Track 4/8/70 Live – Hyde Park: R4 “Untitled”

End of Part 1…

The Records That John Peel Loved The Most!

From: http://fuckyeahrocknroll.tumblr.com/post/244150201/the-records-that-john-peel-loved-the-most

The Records That John Peel Loved The Most!

These were the records that were found in john peels favourite box. A collection that he took with him to gigs, and kept aside from his main collection. The ones that no one else was allowed to touch!

Al Casey – Surfin’ Hootenanny/Easy Pickin’
Al Ferrier – I’m Not Drinking More/Don’t Play Blue Eyes
Alan Price Set – I Put A Spell On You
Andy Capp – Popatop Reco/The Lion Speaks
Anemic Boyfriends – Guys Are Not Proud/Bad Girls In Love
Ann Peebles – I Can’t Stand The Rain/I’ve Been There Before
Anti-Social – Traffic Lights/Teacher Teacher
Arthur K. Adams – Wildwood Flower/I’ts A Wild Wild Wild Wild Wildwood Flower
Big Stick – Drag Racing/Hell On Earth
Bill Oddie – Harry Krishna/On Ilkia Moor Bah T’at
Boards Of Canada – Aquarius/Chinook
Bobby Lee Trammel – If You Ever Get It Once/Don’t You Know I Love You
Cat Power – Headlights/Darling Said Sir
Charlie Feathers – Deep Elm Blues/Nobody’s Darling
Cheese – Dancing Queen/Direwolf
Clague – The Stride/ I Wonder Where
Clefs Of Lavender Hill – Stop! – Get A Ticket/First Tell Me Why
Cleveland Crochet – Sugar Bee/Drunkards Dream
Don Covay – It’s Better To Have/Leave Him
Don French – Lonely Saturday Night/Goldie Locks
Dreamland Express – Groovy/Ufo
Easy Teeth – Car Noise/Her Blade
Eddie & Ernie – Time Waits For No One/That’s The Way It Is
Electro Hippies – Mega-Armageddon Death
Elmore James – The Sky Is Crying/Standing At The Crossroads
Fireman – Old Smokie/Louies Theme
Freshman – You Never Herd Anything Like It/Bombing Run
G.L. Crocket – It’s A Man Down There/Every Hour, Every Day
Greater Davis – For Your Prechious Love/Wrapped Up In You
Gene Dozier & The United Front – Give The Woman What They Want/The Best Girl They Ever Had
Gollnski Brothers – Bloody/Toy
Green Horns – Stayed Up Last Night
Hooten 3 Car – Danny/Numena
Soledad Brothers – Sugar & Spice/Johnny’s Death Letter
Idle Race – Here We Go Round The Lemon Tree/My Fathers Son
Izzy Race – Coronation Street
James Bond And The Undercover Men – Hot Rod Lincon/Come On Up
Jerry Byro – Memories Of Maria/Invitation
Jody Reynolds – Endless Sleep/Western Movies
Johnnie Taylor – I’ve Been Born Again/At Night Time
Johnny Adams – You’re A Lady/I Wish It Would Rain
Johnny Fortune – Dragster/Soul Surfer
La Peste – Black/Better Off Dead
Larry Bright – Mojo Workout/I’ll Change My Ways
Laurie Anderson – O Superman/Walk The Dog
Lee Perry – Baffin Smoke Signal/Black Smoke Signal
Lightning Hopkins – Mojo Hand/Glory Be
Marc Bolan – Marc Bolan Talking To Stevie Dixon 1973
Mary Monday – Gave My Punk Jacket To Richie/Popgun
Max Romeo – Sipple Out Deh/Revelation
MC5 – Looking At You/Borderline
Medicine Head – Cost To Cost/All For Tomorrow
Mel And Tim – Starting All Over Again/It Hurts To Want It So Bad
Meow - Kat Nip/One Night Stand/Anthem/Kill Kill Kill
Mickie Lee Lane – Tuitti Fruitti/With Your Love
Mike Spencer And The Cannibals – Good Guys/Nothing Takes The Place Of You
Nice – Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack
Nilson - Everybody’s Talkin’
Nilson – Without You
O.V. Wright – That’s How Strong My Love Is/There Goes My Used To Be
Paul Blake & The Blood Fire Possie – Every Possie Gets Flat/Flat Out
Paul Revere And The Raiders – Him Or Me-What’s It Gonna Be?/Legend Of Paul Revere
Pavement – Demolision Plot J-7
Pocket Fisherman – Yr Story/The Leader Is Burning
Quads – You’ve Gotta Jive/There Must Be Thousands
Ray Martin – Blue Tango/Bell Of The Ball
Revelino – Step On High
Rod Bernard – This Should Go On Forever
Roshell Anderson – The Grapevine Will Lie Sometimes/Such A Beautiful Thing
Roy Head – Treat Her Right/So Long My Love
Sam And Dave – I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down/Sooth Me
Sacha Caro – Grade 3 Section 2/Little Maid’s Song
Scrugg – Will The Real Geraldine Please Stand Up And Be Counted/Only George
Sheena Easton – 9 To 5/Moody
Siphon Bhengu – Tickay Dopies/I Saluti
Some Chickens – New Religion/Blood On The Wall
Spit Out – O From I/Tan/Riot ‘N Roll
Stanly Winston – No More Ghettos In America/It’s Alright
Status Que – Down Down
Super Sister – No Tree Will Grow/She Was Naked
The Beatles – Come Together/Octopuses Garden/Something
The Big Three – You’ve Gotta Keep Her Underhand/If You Ever Change Your Mind
The Factory – Path Through The Forest/Gone
The Galatic Symposium – Ymca/Money
The Legion Of Super-Heroes – The Great Name Dropper Pt1/Pt2
The Mark Four – Hurt Me If You Will/I’m Leaving
The Mighty Avengers – So Much In Love/Something They Say
The Misunderstood – I Can’t Take That To The Sun/Who Do You Love
The Move – I Can Hear The Grass Grow/Wave The Flag, Stop The Train
The Negatives – Love Is Not Real/Stakeout
The Nightcaps – Wine Wine Wine/Nightcap Rock
The Ramrods – Zig Zag/Riders In The Sky
The Smoke – My Friend Jack/We Can Take It
The Squirrels – Oz On 45/Alone Again
The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldn’t Have
The Upholsters – Makers Of Hight Grade Suits
The Upsetters – Bucky Skank/Yucky Skank
The Upsetters – Key Card/Domino Game
The Users – Sick On You/I’m In Love With Today
The Versalites – Cutting Razor/Black Belt Jones
The White Stripes – Lafayette Blues/Sugar Never Tasted So Good
The White Stripes – Party Of Special Things To Do/Ashtray Heart
The White Stripes – Merry Christmas From….
The White Stripes – It Take Two Baby/Fell In Love With A Girl
The White Stripes – Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
The White Stripes – Hand Springs
The White Stripes – Hotel Yorba
The White Stripes – Lord, Send Me An Angel
The White Stripes – The Big Three Killed My Baby
The White Stripes – Hello Operator/Jolene
The Henchmen Feat. Jack White – Some Other Guy/Psycho Daisies
2 Star Tabernacle – Rambling Man
The Wildbunch – Danger (Feat. Jack White)
Travis Wammack – Fire Fly/Scratchy
Various Artists – Surprise Package Vol. 2 (Feat White Stripes, Rocket 455 & The Blowtops)
Various Artists – Surprise Package Vol. 3 (Feat. The Real Pills, Mhz, The Dirtbombs)
Xl-Capris – My City Of Sydney/Dead Bugies
Yami – Richer Than Cory
Yardbirds – Happenings Ten Years Time Ago/Psycho Daisies


From: http://fuckyeahrocknroll.tumblr.com/post/244149391/john-peel-hero

John Peel Hero!

John Peel
Hero!


From: http://redredwineonasunday.blogspot.com/2009/11/john-peels-record-box.html

English DJ John Peel passed away in 2004 and about a year later his private stash of 45's was uncovered and a BBC documentary was made about the box. Here's a clip from it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjqR8gt8ZYI


John Peel's Record Box - The Fall

Biba Kopf Kevin Ayers Epiphany

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/8GgBS8PJb3lvelHbbvx6YBhJ6ojaqk32tNipB_WwBZqDgj_ppmG_PfR_Mp8AYldg-N7MK5nJHpP01zYpaciXAumLYj92zg0n5cmgM8Leeq3F0A/KAWire.pdf

From richardbrunoelliott at the whatevershebringswesing yahoo group: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/whatevershebringswesing/


The Wire
epiphanies
Biba Kopf has his life changed by a
mysterious noise in the night


During one of their habitual tirades against the
evils of Western music, party leaders in Beijing
once unfavourably compared the oeuvre of Elvis
Presley with the Chinese revolutionary hit "The Faeces
Collectors Descend From The Mountain". Had the
venerable cadres been more familiar with Yukio
Mishima's startling literary debut Confessions Of A Mask
(1949), in which a four year old Yukio recounted his
sexual arousal at the sight of a youthful night-soil man
coming down the slope, they might have have been
more careful about the selections for their youthpurifying
revolutionary jukebox. For Mishima's encounter
was, he wrote, a presentiment that "there is in this world
a kind of desire like stinging pain". So who knows what
unusual longings Beijing's injudicious cultural watchdogs
unleashed in the hearts of young China?

A kind of desire like stinging pain... In musical terms
such a desire manifests itself through disharmony, dirt in
the ear, the spillage of noise. Pardon my pretension, but
my Christmas holiday reading of Deadly Dialectics: Sex,
Violence And Nihilism In The World Of Yukio Mishima,
accompanied by a video of a childhood favourite Tom
Sawyer—well, it was a holiday — unreeling in the
background, triggered a memory of the first time I was
really aroused by noise. It occurred during the following
Sawyer scene: a barge loaded with a cannon floats
downriver, intermittently firing salvos with a view to
raising the corpse of the hero, presumed drowned. The
blast, the recoil, the sonic boom rolling across the
surface of the water in this instance failed to bring up a
bloated body. But it did conjure for me the image of a
six-foot plus British blond, with a voice as deep and
resonant as that unfolding sonic boom. Inevitably, I
heard it first through the darkness of a late-night John
Peel show back in 1972, the voice naturally preceding
the name of its bearer. It was shrouded in a dense fog of
sound, consisting of depth charge bass and a knot of
indistinct, yet squealing lead noises, which slowly and
inexorably ricocheted across the song's watery base.
Maybe I should have gotten out more, but back then I'd
heard nothing like it, especially not the voice. Its very
English baritone defied the period predilection for mid-
Atlantic accents, just as the song cleared itself of rock's
usual drab, denim debt to 12 bar blues. I flipped on the
bedroom light and carefully noted the details of this, to
my fresh ears, unearthly performance. The singer? Kevin
Ayers. The track? "Song From The Bottom Of A Well".



As an arousing icon of transgression Kevin Ayers
hardly bears comparison with Mishima's night-soil man,
but you have to remember things were more innocent
then. (Or perhaps it was just
me — I can only imagine the
jolting pleasures of coming of
age to, say, a group like Coil.)
Naturally enough I sought to
repeat the experience and searched
out the song on the LP,
Whatevershebringswesing. The
anticipation was great but getting it
home was an immense disappointment.
Far from being an album spilling over with
dirty noises akin to "Bottom Of A Well", it
began with some orchestral idyll called "There
Is Loving", followed by a collection of dotty
ditties and a totally daft take on Velvet
Underground's "Sweet Jane", called "Stranger
In Blue Suede Shoes" (my George Washington
complex impels me to admit I made that last i
connection long after the fact). I mjght have shelved, it in
disgust, but economic factors dictated I couldn't afford
to play the thing just once. So the true pleasures of
Kevin Ayers's music surfaced slowly: his very Englishness
(probably preserved by a childhood largely spent in
some Far Eastern colony); his awry wit and lazy charm,
which manifested themselves in the countercultural
equivalent of a Noel Coward song; and a yen for
experiment that dated back to his experiences in
Canterbury during the early 60s, when he partnered
Australian gonzo Beat alchemist Daevid Allen in the first
version of Soft Machine.


Indeed, the two finest pieces on Soft Machine's debut
album are credited to Ayers. The first is a lengthy stiffriffed
workout on a track with a passing resemblance to
The Kinks' proto-Metal masterpiece "You Really Got
Me", called "We Did It Again". Legend has it that Ayers
wanted the group to hammer away at the single,
unvarying title phrase for as long as they could stand it,
with no changes or embellishments, but the others
buckled long before he did. The second is the great,
cod-philosophical wake-up call "Why Are We
Sleeping?", in which he dramatised the teachings of his
guru, Gurdjieff (in the 60s everyone needed a guru).

The fact that he quit Soft Machine after their first, by
all accounts gruelling US tour with Jimi Hendrix was the
first indication of Ayers's proto-slacker tendency to
escape to the Balearics at the first whiff of the kind of
serious hard work that prefigures commercial success.
He continued to escape there throughout what you
might charitably call a career of missed chances,
throughout which the dividends became frustratingly
more erratic as it progressed to his present invtsibftty Cr
you could read his laziness as his means of preserving
the fragile, but very precious qualities that set him apan
from his contemporaries. Though not without their
strong moments, Ayers's later albums became more
straitjacketed inside the usual rock expectations. But he
first three are all wonderful mixes of wistful, summery
(no, I can't believe I'm writing this either), vaguely
philosophical songs like Joy Of A Toy's "Lady Rachel",
harder edged locomotive pieces such as "Stop This
Train", and alternately hazy or Spike Jones-y
experiments. In addition, they are about as far rerrc. =:
from rock as you could then stretch while still being
somehow part of it. No real surprise, given that they are
performed by bizarre ensembles of noted fringe players
including his former partners in Soft Machine — most
persistently, Robert Wyatt — composer David Bedford
(also responsible for Ayers's off-the-wall arrangement
saxophonist Lol Coxhill, and... a very young Mike
Oldfield, whose double tracked bass and guitar parts ori
the title track of Whatevershebringswesing amount to
the loveliest two minutes in the entire Kopf collection.

Whereas by current standards "Song From The
Bottom Of A Well" now sounds positively creaky rather
than Big Noise creepy, the Whatevershebringswesing SB.
remains my single-most transgressive disc. Just watch
your friends recoil in horror when they discover they're
falling for an album with Mike Oldfield on it.

The Moving Sidewalks saga (with Hendrix & more)

From: http://thesweetestpsychopath.tumblr.com/post/236155437/the-moving-sidewalks-founded-by-billy-gibbons-in



From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Sidewalks

The Moving Sidewalks was an American psychedelic blues rock band, most notable for giving future ZZ Top guitarist, Billy Gibbons, his start in the music business. The band consisted of Gibbons on guitar, Don Summers on bass, Dan Mitchell on drums and Tom Moore on keyboards.

Gibbons founded the Texas psychedelic group in the mid-1960s and quickly drew a large following, especially among the Houston "teen scene". They recorded several singles and one full-length album, Flash. Their single "99th Floor" was well received and topped the charts at No. 1 in Houston for six weeks. The success of this record led the Sidewalks to sign with Wand Records which then released "Need Me", also a Top 10 Hit for the band. The group was asked to open for many rock tours, including Jimi Hendrix and The Doors.

After Tom Moore and Don Summers were drafted into the United States Army, Gibbons and Mitchell added Lanier Greig and formed the original ZZ Top. They recorded the first ZZ Top record, “Salt Lick”, which was released on London Records.

While attending Warner Brothers' art school in Hollywood, California, Gibbons engaged with his first bands including The Saints, Billy G & the Blueflames, and The Coachmen. By 1967, Gibbons returned to Houston and went forward forming an artfully designed band, conceptually inspired by friend and fellow musician, Roky Erickson and The 13th Floor Elevators. The "Moving Sidewalks" name was chosen and shortly thereafter 99th Floor. Around this time Gibbons had developed quite a camaraderie with the legendary Jimi Hendrix. As a guest on The Dick Cavett Show, Hendrix would later be quoted as saying that Gibbons was slated to be the next big thing as a guitarist. The Moving Sidewalks continued to appear along with the 13th Floor Elevators at the short-lived yet legendary Houston psychedelic venue, Love Street Light Circus at Allen's Landing. The Elevators set was cut short by Houston Police who arrested the band's lead singer Roky Erickson for marijuana possession.


From: http://thesweetestpsychopath.tumblr.com/post/236220997/the-moving-sidewalks-only-album-flash-1968-a


The Moving Sidewalks only album ~ Flash (1968)
A Texas psych/garage monster !
Billy Gibbons ~ guitar, vocals & harmonica, Don Summers ~ bass, Dan Mitchell ~ drums and Tom Moore ~ keyboards.


From: http://thesweetestpsychopath.tumblr.com/post/236422595/the-moving-sidewalks-pose-for-a-portrait-with-jimi

The Moving Sidewalks pose for a portrait with Jimi Hendrix whom they had just opened for at the Municipal Auditorium on February 15, 1968 in San Antonio, Texas. Jimi Hendrix gave the Pink Fender Stratocaster he’s holding to Billy Gibbons. Gibbons told Guitar World in 1985, ” He said the color pink was not conductive to burning, so he gave it to me and said, Play on brother…”


The Moving Sidewalks ~ 99th Floor (2:17 ~ 1967)
The Billy Gibbons penned single “99th Floor” was a hit and topped the charts at #1 in Houston for six weeks. With Gibbons doin’ two lead guitars, vocals, a killer scream, and harmonica solo at the end, it’s a certified psych classic.

The Moving Sidewalks ~ Pluto - Sept 31st (5:13 ~ 1968)
A Hendrix influenced rocker featuring Billy Gibbons doin’ some cool backwards guitar and a groovy scream too !!!

The Moving Sidewalks ~ Flashback (4:46 ~ 1968)

The Moving Sidewalks ~ Scoun Da Be (2:07 ~ 1968)

Céline on the human race (plus more quotes)

Louis Ferdinand Céline

Louis Ferdinand Céline , 1894-1961, French author, whose real name was Louis Ferdinand Destouches. Céline wrote grim, scatological, and blackly funny novels. His first and best-known work, Journey to the End of Night (1932, tr. 1934) is based on his service at the front in World War I, his travels through Africa, and his service as a League of Nations doctor. Looking back on his Paris childhood, Death on the Installment Plan (1936, tr. 1938) introduced Céline's stylistic innovation—the regular use of ellipses and apostrophes to capture the rhythm of everyday speech.



Céline on the human race:

"There is nothing inside them… they are like bulls, wave something to distract them; tits, patriotism, the church, anything in fact, and they will jump. It doesn't take much, it is very easy… they want always to be distracted."

From: http://countrad.blogspot.com/2009/11/celine-on-human-race.html


(here are a few more quotes from Céline I have run across recently)

“Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's 'yes', all's well. That is enough.”

“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”

“We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.”

13 Images, Hopefully Lucky, Definitely Good & Borrowed, Returned with Thanks...

From: http://community.livejournal.com/adski_kafeteri/1445968.html

Vikki Dougan - Nicknamed "The Back" because of her dresses that were more than backless - they were cut down to just above the gluteal cleft, causing quite a commotion. The Limeliters wrote a song titled "Vikki Dougan" to commemorate this phenomenon, in which they sing of her "callipygian cleft" ("callipygian" meaning "having shapely buttocks") and beg her, "Vikki, turn your back on me". Measurements: 36-20-36 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)



From: http://lpcoverlover.com/2009/11/01/time-and-space/

Sun Ra and his Arkestra featurig John Gilmore on Tenor Sax I don’t have any information about this as I don’t have the disc, just the cover, which is “homemade.” The back is all pasted over with gold foil and the front has hand-coloring and some stickers. I think that this covered one of Sun Ra’s records on Saturn. Any Sun Ra followers out there that can shine some light here?
#1 philipp says:
November 1st, 2009 at 7:10 am
It’s Super-Sonic Jazz, Sun Ra’s first record on his Saturn label. The title has been covered by the blue tape in your scan. The record originally came out in 1957 with a different cover. This one is the 1968 edition. Details, plus lots more Sun Ra minutiae, found here — http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/sunra.html. Look about half-way down the page for a minty fresh scan of this record cover.
#2 Carl Howard says:
November 1st, 2009 at 7:42 am
All of that is right, and this is also a fairly early release on El Saturn, with the band still in Chicago. For most of his career, Ra favored private releases and even favored raw, primitive recording conditions – even though, being the consummate jazz outsider, these conditions were as frequently motivated by finances as by design.
Because records like this were sold by The Arkestra at shows, and because they were hand covered like this, copies and track lists varied widely for years, making documentation sometimes quite difficult.
#3 lpcoverlover says:
November 1st, 2009 at 9:17 am
Fantastic! Thanks Phillipp and Carl. Carl, so perhaps the hand-crafted cover with the foil and stickers was sold this was at a concert? (Vs. the god-forbid thought that some kid at home defaced his dad’s valuable record?



From: http://violaviolet.tumblr.com/post/237199027





From: http://wfmuichiban.blogspot.com/2009/10/apes-in-bikinis.html

MOST BEAUTIFUL APE? -- Dominique Green, contestant No. 2, won the title of Most Beautiful Ape and a role in "Battle for the Planet of the Apes," the 5th "Apes" film for 20th. Gary Owens crowned the winner at Century City ceremony. (1972)



From: http://www.lostateminor.com/2009/10/07/geordan-moore/

I don’t really have a preoccupation with death, but for some reason I am endlessly compelled by the image of a skull. That said, most artistic renderings of skulls can be quite cliched. Illustrator Geordan Moore is the first person in a while who I’ve seen draw a skull in a way that I’ve never seen before.



From: http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/221266548/robert-mapplethorpe-grace-jones-1984

Robert Mapplethorpe - Grace Jones - 1984



From: http://nickdrake.tumblr.com/post/232020625/verushka

verushka.



From: http://tartanspartan.tumblr.com/post/234780101/robert-crumb-baron-wolman-1969

Robert Crumb — Baron Wolman, 1969



From: http://txwldflower2.tumblr.com/post/233538308/incredible-shadow-art-created-from-junk

Incredible Shadow Art Created From Junk - More art/photos at: http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/incredible-shadow-art-created-from-junk/12265



From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/6514909/Science-Photo-Library-photos-of-the-week.html?image=9

Human tongue surface, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). The tongue is covered in many backward facing projections called filiform papillae, which sense pressure
Picture: SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY



From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/235096059/wrestling-ladies

Wrestling ladies.



From: http://crappytaxidermy.com/post/237037833/rat-kings-are-phenomena-said-to-arise-when-a

Rat kings are phenomena said to arise when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails, which become stuck together with blood, dirt, ice, excrement or simply knotted. The animals reputedly grow together while joined at the tails. The numbers of rats that are joined together can vary, but naturally rat kings formed from a larger number of rats are rarer. The phenomenon is particularly associated with Germany, where the majority of instances have been reported. Historically, rat kings were seen as an extremely bad omen, particularly associated with plagues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king_(folklore)



From: http://benjaminhilts.tumblr.com/post/237653880/personality-manifestations-in-psychosomatic

Personality Manifestations in Psychosomatic Illness - Heart: Emotions can affect heart rate and rhythm. (via Kroninger)

Can't Help My Feelings (I Also Can't Help Wetting My Bed, But I Don't Write Songs About It)

This morning I got my latest installment from:
USELESS INFORMATION (The Move Mailing List Digest-Issue #715-November 5, 2009)
Here's some good stuff from today's list. If you are a fan of Roy Wood & The Move, I suggest you consider signing up at:
http://www.eskimo.com/~noanswer/movelist.html


The Dutch 7" of Rattlesnake Roll (unlike the UK or German singles) has a subtitle on the B-side.
The full song title on the Dutch single is...
I'm not joking...
Can't Help My Feelings (I Also Can't Help Wetting My Bed, But I Don't Write Songs About It)
Bob Coulter
Bobcaygeon, Ont



From: Rob Caiger...
"Can't Help My Feelings (I Also Can't Help Wetting My Bed, But I Don't Write Songs About It)"
This was a working title written by Roy on the original session tape reel from 26 February 1975. Along with 'Are Your Rattlesnakes Ready To Rock?' and lots of other titles, some incredibly filthy and rude, some less so... 'Eddie Cockpit (Hey Mama, There's A Dead Rat In The Fridge)', 'Rhino Yoghurt', 'Human Debris', 'Screamin' Tony And The Dead Bees', etc...

From: "Martin Kinch"...
Thanks for that reminder Bob,
I thought some of you may want to see the label of this single

http://www.cherryblossomclinic.freeserve.co.uk/feelings.jpg



Also an interesting sleeve - seperate pics of Roy and the other Wizzard guys (possiblly a picture taken for the unreleased album they did without Roy ?) Rick has an Eldorado T shirt on !!

http://www.cherryblossomclinic.freeserve.co.uk/feelingssleeve.jpg



From: Rob Caiger...
This is from a series of photos taken by Robert Ellis at De Lane Lea Studios, Wembley during August 1975 for sessions for Mongrel's 'Bathe Your Feet' album, basically, Wizzard without Roy.


Plus here's a nice video mash Martin did for Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6it9zWyLc0


Can't help my feelings / Saxmaniacs - Wizzard - Roy Wood

"Can't help my feelings" was the B side to "Rattlesnake roll" by Wizzard and was sung and written by Bob Brady.
"Saxmaniacs" was the B side to Roy Wood's "(We're) on the road again" single and was also a track on the Wizzard 'Main Street' album - Which was an album that was originally recorded in 1976 but not released untill 2000 - This track features The Midland Horns (Roy Wood - Mike Burney and Nick Pentelow)

Released as two seperate tracks, this is a mix of how they sound joined together - the audio that I edited has been added separately over the top of the video

Vivian Stanshall - Crank (BBC2 Late Show obit in 3 parts)

1995. BBC2 Late Show obituary special for Vivian Stanshall in 3 parts. Introduced by John Peel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewuDdatWsXc


Vivian Stanshall - Crank (Part One)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSeJ58P9XvI


Vivian Stanshall - Crank (Part Two)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadpBnyVfpY


Vivian Stanshall - Crank (Part Three)

General Smedley Butler (USMC, Ret.) - "War is just a racket."

From: Robrt Chrysler's The Master Meets The Mugwump blog
http://thisworldwemustleave.tumblr.com/post/232908970/war

War

“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses[…]

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

- General Smedley Butler (USMC, Ret.)