This is little Ike Chalmers, the coolest kid I've seen in my life. His parents are Jon Chalmers (Church Keys, Sato & Johnny) and Masayo (Plungers, Sato & Johnny). If there was ever a natural it's this little duffer. Playing behind him are Jon [...]
Lost Crusaders: Wasted On Broken Wind....
Posted by rockindomp3
I first met Chandler several centuries ago at a place called the Club 57 on St. Marks Place. It was an impromptu nightclub and bar without a liquor license in the basement of a church that was a CIA front staffed with Ukrainian [...]
Kelly Keller and Bill Pietsch RIP
Posted by rockindomp3
Today marks the fourth anniversary of Kelly Keller's passing. I posted about her in August, check older posts on the right. Sunday was a year since Bill Pietsch bought it. You can read about him below. Just thought [...]
Women, I love 'em.
Posted by rockindomp3
I love women. Except maybe Republicans. Man, I hate that Sarah Palin. Her voice has the same intonation as every asshole teacher that ever sent me to the principal's office. But the rest of 'em I love. Here's three of my [...]
The Evening Redness In The West (West 19th St. that is...) or Scalphunting for fun and profit
Posted by rockindomp3
I’ve been obsessed with Cormac McCarthy’s book Blood Meridian (Ecco,1985) for a good twenty years now. The late actor Rockets Redglare turned me onto it--- “James, you gotta read this one, it’s right up your alley....can [...]
Today's Special- Free Rolling Stones Outtakes!
Posted by rockindomp3
The first LP I ever owned was the first Rolling Stones album, got it for Christmas in '64, I was five years old and even then, I knew this is good shit. I still play it, the same copy. I drew a mustache on Bill Wyman on [...]
Bill Peitsch 1962-2007 The Last King Of Rock'n'Roll
Posted by rockindomp3
Sunday marks the year anniversary of Billy Peitsch's death. I knew him for twenty years and I can safely say he was the coolest person I've even known. His death, coming so soon after the deaths of my close friends Bob and [...]
Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks
Posted by rockindomp3
Not much to say today, but I love this Scopitone clip of Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks.Yes, the big eared blond on drums is Levon Helm. Not their best tune (for that, try this one-- their version of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love from 1960 [...]
The Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf, James Burton & Dope
Posted by rockindomp3
I remember seeing this when it first aired, I must've been five or six years old and I worshipped the Rolling Stones the way my older brother worshipped the Beatles.My asshole stepfather (who voted for George Wallace in '68, if you're still alive out [...]
Etta James Rocks The House
Posted by rockindomp3
"First thing I saw was Bo Diddley making movies. Bo's been making movies--private movies--for over thirty years. Child, Bo's got him some movies wouldn't believe. So there he was, going from room to room with his camera, aiming his lens at all the juiciest [...]
I'm A Schaapy happy pappy
Posted by rockindomp3
Ever since they took the Teletubbies off tv at 8:30 am I've gone back to listening to WKCR's Bird Flight every morning. I forgot what a great morning ritual this can be. I mean, I think I own almost everything Charlie Parker [...]
Duh....
Posted by rockindomp3
Let me explain, I messed up the first post today by inserting the links to the discussed tunes wrong, then it took a few tries to figure out why I had messed up but I finally got it right. So today's post is Meanwhile Back In The Jungle (scroll down) [...]
The Voice Within (click right here)
Posted by rockindomp3
click the title for the Percy Mayfield, click the title of the last post for the Al Ferrier, seem to be the only way I can get 'em to work tod [...]
try try again
Posted by rockindomp3
not sure why these links aren't showing up let me try again:Percy Mayfield is at: The Voice WithinAl Ferrier is at: I'm The ManIf these don't work I'll try and figure out what I did wrong and fix 'em by Friday 9/12 so check ba [...]
addendum
Posted by rockindomp3
for some reason the hyper links to the two tracks didn't make it onto my last entry, let me try again (I'm new at this folks):the Al Ferrier tune is here:the Percy Mayfield tune is here:also, I guess I should ad a photo [...]
meanwhile back in the states.....
Posted by rockindomp3
First off I wanted to post the two tunes I talked about in my first post your anyone who wants to hear em, the Al Ferrier tunes I'm The Mancan be heard here: , the 45 is on Excello (the b-side of "Hey Baby", you can get it on the excellent ACE CD The [...]
