What Are You Listening To?

I should add they played hardcore punk and came out of the same Orange County scene as Agent Orange.

Unfortunately their anti-feminist bent - clear from the name- and Nazi sympathies meant they had a short career (How Seymour Stein signed them is beyond me but he must have been horrified by this album cause they were dropped quickly) although I heard they recently regrouped to play Trump campaign events.

Cedar Walton born James Whiteford to the famous tap dancing Whiteford family ran from an abusive family while in his teens and was supported in acting school by Sammy Davis Jr. adopting the stage name Cedar Walton marrying two of his favorite things: the smell of cedar and the tv show The Waltons. He eventually became a valet for Frank Sinatra then gravitated to the Manson family but was able to escape conviction. He reinvented himself as a disco singer after becoming close friends with OJ Simpson whom he physically resembled. Many insist he was OJ’s double in Blazing Saddles in the scenes that required acting chops.

Starsky wrote:
I should add they played hardcore punk and came out of the same Orange County scene as Agent Orange.

Unfortunately their anti-feminist bent - clear from the name- and Nazi sympathies meant they had a short career (How Seymour Stein signed them is beyond me but he must have been horrified by this album cause they were dropped quickly) although I heard they recently regrouped to play Trump campaign events.

wait - what?  who are you referring to??  EBTG are english, not from OC… i'm sure i'm missing something here.

With lyrics like this, it is clear they are anti-feminist Nazi bastards:

I can tell by your eyes
That you've prob'bly been cryin' forever
And the stars in the sky don't mean nothin' to you
They're a mirror

I don't want to talk about it
How you broke my heart
If I stay here just a little bit longer
If I stay here, won't you listen to my heart?

If I stand all alone
Will the shadow hide the colour of my heart
Blue for the tears, black for the night's fears

And the stars in the sky don't mean nothin' to you
They're a mirror

I don't want to talk about it, how you broke my heart
If I stay here just a little bit longer
If I stay here, won't you listen to my heart?
This ol' heart

If I stay here just a little bit longer
If I stay here, won't you listen to my heart?
My heart, whoa, heart.

sweetcell wrote:

Starsky wrote:
I should add they played hardcore punk and came out of the same Orange County scene as Agent Orange.

Unfortunately their anti-feminist bent - clear from the name- and Nazi sympathies meant they had a short career (How Seymour Stein signed them is beyond me but he must have been horrified by this album cause they were dropped quickly) although I heard they recently regrouped to play Trump campaign events.

wait - what?  who are you referring to??  EBTG are english, not from OC… i'm sure i'm missing something here.

Starsky wrote:
Cedar Walton born James Whiteford to the famous tap dancing Whiteford family ran from an abusive family while in his teens and was supported in acting school by Sammy Davis Jr. adopting the stage name Cedar Walton marrying two of his favorite things: the smell of cedar and the tv show The Waltons. He eventually became a valet for Frank Sinatra then gravitated to the Manson family but was able to escape conviction. He reinvented himself as a disco singer after becoming close friends with OJ Simpson whom he physically resembled. Many insist he was OJ’s double in Blazing Saddles in the scenes that required acting chops.

I like this new creative outlet, could make a thread on 'what if' band history

ABBA - Voyage (duh)

but a bunch of cool new stuff out today

Jay Diggs - Jams
https://jaydiggs.bandcamp.com/album/jams
local dude tapping into 80s synth funk

Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers

plus Aimee Mann and Snail Mail

and its Bandcamp friday which stresses me out because i want to dive in deep and support new stuff, but i always end up supporting old favs

wow the new Curtis Harding is really really good… top release for this year for sure… even in the background i'm getting later day Marvin Gaye vibes from it…

Out of curiosity took a quick scan of new Abba.  Horrible just horrible. 

will admit the ABBA album faded quickly… even kosmette called it chessy

the cleanse continues with a new fiery funk outfit from Oakland, CA called The Grease Traps - Solid Ground

https://greasetraps.bandcamp.com/album/solid-ground

kosmo wrote:
even kosmette called it chessy

Kosmoette!? You're married?!

Julian, wrote:

kosmo wrote:
even kosmette called it chessy

Kosmoette!? You're married?!

rumor  has it

kosmo wrote:

Julian, wrote:

kosmo wrote:
even kosmette called it chessy

Kosmoette!? You're married?!

rumor  has it

I always assumed you were married to unpopular music.

Julian, wrote:

kosmo wrote:

Julian, wrote:

kosmo wrote:
even kosmette called it chessy

Kosmoette!? You're married?!

rumor  has it

I always assumed you were married to unpopular music.

I think he's polyamorous

Luciferase-hatch wrote:

Julian, wrote:

kosmo wrote:

Julian, wrote:

kosmo wrote:
even kosmette called it chessy

Kosmoette!? You're married?!

rumor  has it

I always assumed you were married to unpopular music.

I think he's polyamorous

That's so cool that Kosmoette is down with this open relationship with marginal British acts. So modern.

Julian, wrote:
That's so cool that Kosmoette is down with this open relationship with marginal Welsh acts. So modern.

FTFY

Pappo’s Blues - Pappo’s Blues

This reissue sounds fantastic.

Recorded in December 1970 and January 1971 this is some heavy ass shit. Pappo is sometimes referred to as the Argentine Hendrix. The first track has been covered by Clutch. Stoner blues rock might originate here or at the very least it’s a touchstone.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JVd9Kf3IWU4

A live recording with Bill Evans on piano recorded in the first half of August 1959…a few days before Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue ,which Bill arguably makes, was released…. You got to think the kinds of live dates Bill was having must have changed immediately after Kind of Blue…no more dates backing others (like this one) for starters one would think….But I honestly need a good Bill Evans bio urgent ….. that whole 1958-1959 period around Miles is my favorite and endlessly fascinating…throw in Cannonball Adderley’s Somethin’ Else which is practically a Miles session…Of course Coltrane returning to Miles after playing with Monk and cleaning up

Nothing much special happens here…none of Bill’s languid almost soporific playing…it doesn’t seem his style of playing….here it’s pretty typical….of course this would have been incredible live

Jimmy Garrison on bass who would go on to fame as part of the John Coltrane Quartet
This live set was released decades after being recorded

Still waiting on explanation from Starsky re: Everything But The Girl. If your statements are not confirmed we could be talking libel unless of course you retract them with an apology to the band and the board. 

kosmo wrote:
will admit the ABBA album faded quickly… even kosmette called it chessy

I think Just a Notion is great and sounds like a classic Abba song that could be playing on my mom’s car stereo in 1981. But it’s an outlier.  Wish there was like a 50/50 split between wistful torch song and wistful buoyant disco but it’s more like 90/10.

Listening to one song where the magic didn’t quite develop I thought about how cool a Thomas Bangalter / Benny / Abba collaboration could be.  Masters of transcendent ‘cheesy’ music