John Lee Hooker: early promo shot. Looking menacing for the camera. Down In The Alley. Demonstrating his favorite chord.John Lee Hooker (b. Aug. 22, 1917 outside of Clarksdale, Mississippi) was probably [...]
Velvet Underground- Pre-Op
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The Primitives, 1964Lou Reed with an early high school group- The CHD (Dry Hump Club, backwards). L.A. & the Eldorados, Syracuse, N.Y., early 60's. Primitives 45. Even the Velvet Underground seem [...]
Tarheel Slim (Allen Bunn)
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Tarheel Slim and Little Ann (guess which one is which). Early Apollo 78, his orchestra was a trio. New York City was never a great town for blues and R&B. Audiences here tended to think of themselves as more [...]
Waiting For The Big One
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The Minister Of Silly Walks can be seen off to your right in the reviewing stand.This is a military ceremony that was presented to close the border between India and Pakistan who don't like each other much. The roots of their political problems seem [...]
Wilson Pickett
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These clips come from a short documentry of Wilson Pickett on tour in Germany, 1968.The Wicked Pickett indeed.From the same show.I'd had this short, German TV documentary of Wilson Pickett and his band touring Germany circa 1968 for years on VHS tape. [...]
Gillian's Found Photo #46
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I'm at a loss as to any information as to the who, where and when of this photo. Perhaps Dad is showing off his latest invention in poop proof kid pants? The same style of trousers would later be sported on the rock stage [...]
Conway Twitty- The Rock'n'Roll Years
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Conway Twitty & the Rockhousers: Limbo rock or just bad breath? Conway Twitty 1958- His music was as greasy as his hair.Twitty re-invented as a country singer, pre-perm. Conway Twitty, born Harold Jenkins, September [...]
John Gilmore
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John Gilmore (bottom right) with the Sun Ra Arkestra, 1955 (Sunny in light colored jacked behind Gilmore) Sun Ra's Science-Myth Arkestra swing out in some cool head gear. A different John Gilmore than the last one I wrote [...]
Gillian's Found Photo #45
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The Fang is back. And what has she dug up this week? No, this wasn't taken in Germany in 1942, nor it is the Pope with his Nazi scout troup, it's actually from somewhere in the mid-West of the good old USA. There were plenty [...]
Payday (1974)
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Daryl Duke's Payday (1973) with Rip Torn and a cast of fabulous unknowns, is the best movie ever made about American music. Written by Don Carpenter, who never got another screen credit, it appeared two years before Robert Altman's overrated, condescending, [...]
Black Cracker
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Back in October of 2008 I blogged (is that a word?) about Josh Alan Friedman's incredible book Tell The Truth Until They Bleed (Coming Clean In The Dirty Business of Blues and Rock'n'Roll) (Backbeat Books, 2008), which [...]
Wayne Cochran & the C.C. Riders
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Wayne Cochran in a get up only he could (or would) wear. Wayne Cochran: The Man, The Hair.On The Jackie Gleason Show, 1968.Late 70's, Wayne on guitar. Another tune from the Jackie Gleason Show.From C.C. & Company [...]
Willie Joe Duncan & his Unitar
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Willie Joe Duncan, his Unitar and the horse he rode in on. Bob "Froggy" Landers classic with Willie Joe Duncan & his Unitar Rene Hall instrumental with Willie Joe. Willie Joe (1988) and the b- side of Cherokee [...]
