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This one's for Allan.... crazy wallride shit...

SPECIALS DOCUMENTARY

Great BBC documentary on this legendary band from the UK.

[Note: Clicking the heading or here will bring you to a Russian site where the doc is split in 3 parts]

President Obama...I love the way that sounds.

Thank Fuck....

Roky Erickson

This past weekend the legend Roky Erickson played here backed by the Black Angels. I am a HUGE Erickson fan - but was a little anxious about seeing the man live. I mean, I know he is waaaay fucked up and had the potential of not even playing. Lots of folks have blasted the Black Angels for being boring and a pedestrian backing band, I thought they rocked. Total Loop or Spaceman 3 style drone...good shit. Roky looked especially out of it, having to look to the Black Angels' singer for cues....but still he fucking rocked. Playing a bunch of his classics 'Two Headed Dog', 'Night Of The Vampire', 'Creature With the Atom Brain' as well as a couple of classic Elevators numbers 'Splash 1' 'Youre Gonna Miss Me' and best of all 'Reverberation' which was epic. Sometimes a show is made by the company or just it being a good night. Saturday was one of those, surrounded by a bunch of good folks with killer seats (thanks Kelly)....it was a blast.

Mondo Vision!!

Some young local punks have been doing a video fanzine here in SF - its pretty damn good. Issue one even features ther Young Offenders that a couple of the Bricks and Mortar crew play in


Mondo Vision Episode One from Mondo Vision on Vimeo.


Mondo Vision Episode Two from Mondo Vision on Vimeo.

I Was Born To Preach The Gospel..

I'm always behind the times with music, bleating about my amazing new finds months after everyone else is already all over it. This time I am DECADES behind the times! When the Marked Men blew through town Jeff bought a record by Washington Phillips who was an old Christian bluesman from the 20's. I'd never heard of him, then when the Marked Men came back around Jeff brought a cd for me of the great man. I have been transfixed ever since, super lo-fi scratchy blues played on some weird mini piano.... Mississippi records in Portland just release a limited LP which is beautiful and has a ton of great tunes. Its about time we had some nice music to offset all this terrible Black Metal.

Heres my fave song of his...
I Was Born To Preach The Gospel.