This week's five pack are all from the sixties which isn't my usual area of interest. I started collecting garage records around the time of the original Nuggets ('72) and the Sonics' Explosive (Buck Shot) re-issue, but [...]
5 45's (from the sixties section)....
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Antoinette K-Doe Empress Of The World 1943-2009
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The top photo is Ernie and Antoinette K-Doe's wedding photo. It hangs over the fireplace mantel in our bedroom. It was a wedding present from the late Kelly Keller. It was through Kelly I met the K-Does, fellow New [...]
Gillian's Found Photo #1
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My wife Gillian McCain collects photos, she especially likes found photos. One of her favorite genres is pix of kids, especially kids who are somewhat, errrr, let's say peculiar.Notice the stain [...]
Goodbye Snooks
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Another week, another guy whose musical talent was so unique and singular that he could never be replaced bites the dust. Ford "Snooks" Eaglin, age 72, died last Wed. He fell down and had a heart attack, he was already suffering [...]
Quine II
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Back in October I posted about Bob Quine, I posted four excerpts from some film soundtrack music he did in the months before he died (I think the recordings were done in Jan-March, 2004).I promised I'd eventually post the [...]
P.J. Proby- How To Split Your Trousers and Influence People
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P.J. Proby's story is one of those crazed, it should be a movie but no one would believe it tales that I love so much. This is a mere thumbnail sketch of a man who's voice can raise a fan's enthusiasm to seismic proportions. [...]
This Week's Five Pack....
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So what's in this week's five pack of scratchy 45's? From the top we find somebody with the catchy nome-du-disque of The Creep on the Oakridge label, both unknown entities to me, The tune is a snappy little rocker called [...]
Zulu Rock- South Africa part one 1950- 1962
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It must've been the early 1990's, when I was doing my radio show at WFMU. There was a guy, a mailman out in Queens named Pat Conte. Pat had been collecting 78's since before I was born. He had tons of amazing stuff, [...]
Hasil Adkins- The Great Lost Album
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Haze signed this photo for me on our first meeting, 1983. The cassette Hasil gave me to play on the my radio show, all un-issued stuff. Don't bother dialing Haze's phone #, it's disconnected. Hasil's funeral [...]
Friday's 5 45's -- Guitar Slingers (and big dick swingers...)
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Okay, I'll take you commenter's suggestion and try and make this a weekly feature. Five 45's. Here's this week's stack.Since I'm a lazy shit, this week I just leaned over, from the reproduction of the couch that Sigmund [...]
The Cramps Lux Interior Dead
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Lux Interior (Eric Lee Purkiser) died today (Feb. 4th, 2009) at 4:30 AM in a hospital in Glendale, California of a heart ailment. Lux was one of the first people I met when I moved to New York City in 1977 and although [...]
Dynamic Duos II: God's Army - Johnny & Luther Htoo
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It was January 25, 2000 that the above photo appeared on the front page of the New York Times.It's a chilling photograph. Child soldiers (there are an estimated 1,000,000 children under the age of fifteen serving as soldiers [...]
Dynamic Duos I: Don & Dewey
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Don & Dewey (Don "Sugarcane" Harris and Dewey Terry) were, and still are, the greatest duo in the whole history of rock'n'roll. They never had a chart hit but they originated at least half dozen standards, many [...]
James Williamson 1966 and 1972
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Found these lovely photos the Stooges' guitarist James "the Skull" Williamson. The top photo is the Chosen Few, that's James, bottom right with the Fender Jaguar, Scott Richardson is on the top left holding his nose. He [...]
