My daughter got these cool Andy Griffith cards at Ocean City, NJ, and guess who was in the bunch:
Jim Lindsey!!! Grifter - Star - Homeboy



Also look at these beautiful punims:



I'm gonna perfect doin' the "Goober Pose"




This one - the one I like to call "Zombie Goober" is also a wallpaper! Yay! (it's been a while)

Labels: barney, goober, rock, rock n' roll, rockabilly, Tv. cards

.....with "person" as a politically correct substitution for "man".

Here's the panel:



Here's the song title as illustrated on an early EP:



and wow! somebody put it on boomp3! cool!:

boomp3.com

Labels: 33 1/3rpm, 60's, cartoon, comics, fun, funny, rock, rock n' roll, rolling stones

I've been doing a few guest posts at The Perfect American which to the unintiated, is a roiling vortex of lust for the illness called Rock n' Roll. It's a journey, and for me, it's been kinda liberating, and thanks to Mr. Jyn for asked me to plug in some stuff.

There's a post about Spade Cooley stomping his wife to death, one about Jim Carroll & those who worship and/or study his Basketball Diaries, one about singer Billie Davis, with a broken jaw, pulling Jet Harris from the Shadows out of a wrecked limo and lastly I'll mention the one that led to this post; the one about Dino Valente

Quicksilver Messenger Service was my first concert. It was right after their second album featuring Dino, and it was all we were listening to at the time. Eric Burdon and War opened and my eyeballs almost fell outta my head when I realized that the Boss of the Animals was up there singing "Spill the Wine" It was cooler than anything, and why in hell did my parents let me go?!?!?! But yay!

But Dino - kind of an interesting guy as explained in this exact transcription from my 1st edition of Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia (1969)

DINO VALENTI (Chester Powers)/Dino Valenti is one of those living legends. He worked in a carnival for seventeen years, was a trapeze artist for three of them, sang around the clubs of Los Angeles for years, but never made a record because he wanted it to be perfect when he did. (The story was that he kept making them, refusing to have them released, dropping them and making more.) He spent nearly a year in jail for possession of amphetamine and sold his rights to his most successful song, Let's Get Together, to get money to get out of jail. It's one of the most recorded songs ever (the song's composer is listed as Chester Powers)—the Youngbloods, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service have all done it. He also co-wrote Hey Joe. But his album, finally out in 1968, has none of this—just strange, mysterious, intimate songs that sneak up behind you. "An underground Bob Dylan," said critic Ralph Gleason. Well, he has that curly Dylan look anyway. "A five-year-dead Orphan Annie," said Emmet Lake of the East Village Other. Yes, he's a songwriting legend, and a one-year-in-gaol-for-amphetamine legend, and a macrobiotics-solar-energy legend, but mainly he's a ladies' man legend. It was San Francisco radio personality Tom Donahue who said simply: "If every chick Dino's ever known buys the record, it will be number one."
Album/DINO (October 1968): Time; Something New; My Friend; Listen To Me; Me And My Uncle; Tomorrow; Children Of The Sun; New Wind; Everything Is Gonna Be OK; Test.

Now lissen:

boomp3.com


And here's the original program from the show- click to embiggen SOME ARE EVEN GIANTER FOR VIEWING EASE

Labels: 70s, Fillmore, music, rock, rock n' roll, yay

Thank God fans can't make action figures, t-shirts, jackets, life size mounted heads, their own theatre showings of Detroit Rock City, pool sticks, dart boards, pinball machines, pint glasses, autographed gear, jigsaw puzzles, more action figures, demon ducks, dinner tables, impersonations of key performers on reality shows, comic books, drinking containers, framed gold records, silver coins, gold coins, bronze coins, and oh yeah, suck music - that they steal!! We'll just have to scrape by, somehow. Loyalty means nothing to these kids.

Labels: 70s, 80s, album, amateur, record, rock, t-shirt

Working out how to best print these in preparation for sale....Backs will have a fave song lyric instead of stats. Teams and stuff like that is purely dictated by what I found searching vs. head size...
Also, there's a little "WTF?!?! moment at the bottom.
All cards link to the total collection page.

Enjoy!









and as so many bad interoffice joke emails say, "wait for it......"



Hey, that's not baseball !!

Labels: 50's, 60, 60's, 70s, 80s, action, baseball, blog.glyphjockey.com, cards, fun, funny, new wave, punk, rock, rock n' roll, rockabilly, style, trading cards

I was reading Graham Linehan's Blog about the Sherriff in Phoenix who tried to subpoena every website viewing record of the Phoenix New Times and I sorta skimmed it, because my blood boils three times a day over taserings, children's health care taking a back seat to war, security firms drawing guns on our troops, forgiveness for telecommunications providers that aided in illegal wiretaps, insert f'ed-up thing here, etc. etc. etc. But then I said Phoenix New Times?? Isn't that Arizona? Isn't that where Black Moth Super Rainbow comes from? Maybe they'll have a review and prove that BMSR really exists!

And they do. Their site has about a whole album of their music. Go there now

Labels: Arizona, psychedelic, rock, youtube

Can't talk - cleaning garage -ugh.

Labels: barney, rock, rock n' roll, rockabilly

Let me start by saying that I went through all my old vids and maybe only one or two weren't on YouTube already.

Having said that, I recently watched Pop Gear again. This movie has some phenomenally oddball performances. Annnnnd....90% of them were in fact on YouTube. So- I gleaned 'em and here's a bunch well worth a look.

It's introduced by Jimmy Savile - possibly king of the jerkoffs. (Okay, okay, great guy etc., etc.- but hey I ain't English!)

HOWEVER- first up is something from that film that wasn't on YouTube: the gold pants dance sequence - if you like gold pants like I do, then this video is for you. You're welcome for the upload, massive fan base!



Comes next, (as my son used to say when he was a baby) is the Honeycombs singing Have I the Right, which is notable for two reasons:
The friggin' mentally-challenged-cousin-type on rhythm guitar, and the fact that the drummer, I'm pretty sure, is a dude in drag....



Tommy Quickly gives a performance of Humpty Dumpty that can only be described as excruciating. I want to punch his face off every time I see it. If I didn't have such a nice TV, I might punch it. This video infuriates me so.......

I'm punching you in my mind Tommy Quickly! In fact, I'm punching punching itself!!



UPDATE could this be another version of a sort of cultural idiom? Help me, massive fan base!!!


The Four Pennies doing Where Did you Sleep Last Night ain't no Leadbelly, but their interpretation is such a screamingly loud (for the era) go at it, sort of an end-of-folk-Dylan-at-Isle-of-Wight event, that it's quite enjoyable.



Billie Davis singing Whatcha Gonna Do? is like watching a live Thunderbirds character singing. Exquisite. Dee-lish. Helium-y. Puppet - puppet - puppet.



Steve Winwood in the Spencer Davis Group stands as exemplar of some of the great performances from this film (The Animals, Herman's Hermits, et al) so I'm including it.



Last is the creepy butt dance being done by the Roger Daltrey clone in this performance of Tobacco Road by the Nashville Teens (whatta name!) The Butt dance is mesmerizing in a scoliosis/back brace/uncontrolled intestinal problem kinda way. The performance is good tho.


All the great performances, with the exception of Matt Munro, a super boring lounge singer, will be watched over and over by me.

Wanna buy it?
Go Here:

Labels: 60's, Bass Guitar, BBC, butts, England, ep, hits, Irish, Music Video, performance, punch, rock, rock n' roll, Scotland, television, Top of the Pops, tv, uk, video

When I first saw this in the film "Don't Knock the Rock" my eyeballs almost fell outta my head.

Years later, I got to meet a couple of the remaining Treniers at Resorts International, in the hole known as A.C. Nice guys. seemed a little embarassed about this performance, though - perhaps it was because they had become so lounge and mature.

We did not poon upon departing, by the way........

The entry "A Poon is a Hug" can be found here.

Labels: 1953, 1957, 1962, 50's, 78RPM, comedy, film, fun, funny, record, rock, rock n' roll, tv, video, vinyl, wonder

Compare:


One thing we all agree on, the Misfits songs are better.

Labels: 80s, rock, rock n' roll, tv, video

My Older daughter was fortunate enough to see The White Stripes live recently. I asked her to get me just one good shot of Jack playing, and she could use my camera.

Mission accomplished. This is a girl who, as a baby could communicate clearly without words. First baby I ever saw that always wanted to wear a hat. She'd go into a drugstore with me and organize all the items on the lowest shelves perfectly. She also had weird baby mojo that, whenever she walked up to a soda machine, she'd get a free soda just by pressing the buttons.

Here's the pic- it's also a link to a wallpaper:

Labels: baby, photography, picture, rock, rock n' roll, wow

When he's on the Diamond, he's got a Lust for Life!

MORE HERE:
http://www.glyphjockey.com/2007/05/soon-i-will-post-gum.html
ALL HERE:
http://www.glyphjockey.com/punkbb.htm

Labels: baseball, Iggy, Iggy Pop, punk, rock, rock n' roll, Stooges, trading cards

Lost and rare out of print. From Cassette

"Chewing Gum Wrapper" is, I think, my Theme Song.....



Now a quick note on this widget- Box.net won't show up @ work, so I wrote to them and after 2 or 3 questions, they gave up. I tried to point out that "seeing a nothing" will not elicit an email to them asking why because there's nothing there, but oh well, whaddya want for web2.0 free?

So, Box.net was the best, but if I can't share with myself, what's the point. If you know of a widget that is effective with flexible ID3 tags & is stable - or can get me to fix my network so I can see the Box.net widget again, let me know, thanks.

In the meantime, rock on.

Labels: music, rock, rock n' roll

Rare out-of-print & unavailable vinyl, produced by Kim Fowley (who, astoundingly enough, produced "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaaaa!) prior to the John Cale Produced effort that ended up being a beacon of light in the Eagles, Grateful Dead and Boston poisoned musical times in which it was released.

Demo reel sound, Richman's really overselling the drama, but it classic Modern Lovers with songs that never made it to the final incarnation of the first Modern Lovers Album.




Buy the final version here,

at my perrenially amusing Amazon Store

Labels: action, album, art, audacity, rock, rock n' roll, talent, vinyl

Go here & listen to Green Eggs and Ham.

and yes; I'm referring something, aren't I? Hard work from clever strangers. Right down to the pops on the vinyl


link@pic

Labels: 33 1/3rpm, 60, children, glyphjockey, hippie, history, rock, rock n' roll, rolling stone, vinyl

Found this. Swedes from 86. Out of Print. Fascinating Wikipedia entry here. The Song PINK HOUSE is an awesome track, and the sole reason for my originally making the purchase. They rock hard n' dark.





A compilation to puchase (and I strongly recommend it) for The Leather Nun can be found here.

Labels: cool, Mellencamp, punk, rock, Sweden, Swedes, Tak, The Leather Nun, Yumpin' Yiminy

Abosultely the rockinest, on fire-est, show you can go to. He never plays the same song list twice and this time he really dug deep. Buy all his albums now. There was a suprisingly self-contained mosh pit as well. Kind of anachronistic tho. They seemed like the equivalent of people who get dressed up in 50's outfits..

Her's a pic of the Rev standing on top of Jimbo's Bass - Jimbo's there, too. Down low.

(link to a 1024 above)

Here's another "shot":


Now here's a mystery explained: I always thought that the Rev was portraying a chicken (possibly a guinea hen) antagonizing an insect, child, or other barnyard animal (as portrayed by Jimbo) in the following clip:

But then he explained that after playing Atlantic City the night before and crossing the mighty Delaware on his way to Philadelphia, his pathological fear of Bottlenose Dolphin was reawakened. I now get it- predatory swimming and a sinister dolphin cackle on guitar - it's not a chicken at all - it's a dolphin attacking a swimmer!!!!

Luckily that huge Bass makes a great flotation device......

Labels: Bass Guitar, Bottlenose dolphin, brimstone, did i say fire?, Guinea Hen, guitar, jimbo, Reverend Horton Heat, rock, texas

sky
Sky
SKY
SKY
SKY!!

Labels: animals, burdon, chaplian, clouds, nasa, rock, sky, stars, thermals

Going Friday- the pic of tix - hicks...... and HERE's a taste





The tune is a dedication to Mrs. Glyphjockey...

Labels: awesome, did i say fire?, fire, heat, horton, jimbo, punk, rock, suit, talent, texas, wow, yaaaaaaH

The song Mama Guitar is from A Face in the Crowd, a movie that Andy Griffith starred in. It's really cool - hard to believe good ol' Andy Taylor could be such a badass. This song is in the background of a scene where a leering Andy (playing "Lonesome" Rhodes) watches a twirling contest. The juxatposition of the music and the look of Lonesome's ill-intent crescendo exquisitely uncomfortably. This is why we watch [good] movies: something is being said on many levels at once and the whole of that experience is worth more than the sum of the parts (so let's add to that juxtaposition the mise-en-scene & cutting). Mama Guitar is a far cry from his "What it was, was football" bumpkin routines. It rocks!

Labels: 1953, 1957, 1962, 50's, rock, rock n' roll, thumbs up