First hour had two tracks from Women, a band I was absolutely obsessed with back in the day, that has now split into Preoccupations (formerly Vietcong) an Cindy Lee. Some live MC5, and we went back in time 50 years for a totally fried version of the Dead’s “Caution”. The first hour wrapped up with Elizabeth Cotten’s “Oh Babe, It Ain’t No Lie” while the second hour got started with tracks from Gabie Strong’s label, Crystalline Morphologies. Make sure you check out her work, some of my favorite new music comes from her and her label. A beautiful piano/voice piece by Christina Carter followed, and she’s performing in Charalambides in New Orleans in a few weeks so stay tuned for more info. In closing, we left each other to the slide guitar and talk box experiments of Pete Drake’s “Forever”
Hour 1
The Dicks – “Anti-Klan (Part 2)”, Kill From the Heart, SST Records / Alternative Tentacles, 1983 / 2012 – 2:23 LP
Black Flag – “Louie Louie”, Louie Louie, SST Records, 1981 / 1987 1:18 LP 45
Ramones – “Judy Is a Punk”, Ramones, Sire, 1976 / 2018 1:32 LP A3
Happy Flowers – “Mom, I Gave the Cat Some Acid”, My Skin Covers My Body, Homestead Records, 1987 3:22 LP A6
Sunny Murray – “The Lie”, Sonny’s Time Now, DIW Records / Jihad Productions, 1965 / 1986 5:44 Digital
Women – “Narrow with the Hall”, Public Strain, Jagjaguwar, 2010 2:37 LP
Women – “Shaking Hand”, Women, Jagjaguwar, 2008 4:44 LP
Magik Markers – “I’m High”, Road Pussy, Arbitrary Signs, 2006 6:05 CD
MC5 – “Black to Comm” (03/25/72, Beat Club, Bremen, Germany) 2:10 Digital
Grateful Dead – “Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)” (09/02/68, Betty Nelson’s Organic Raspberry Farm, Sultan, WA) 15:32 Stream
Flying Saucer Attack – “Wish”, Flying Saucer Attack, FSA Records / VHF Records, 2011 5:23 LP
Tower Recordings – “Other Kinds Run”, The Galaxies’ Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field of the Tower Recordings, Communion Label, 2004 3:50 LP
Elizabeth Cotten – “Oh Babe it Ain’t No Lie”, Folksongs and Instrumentals With Guitar, Folkways Records, 1958 4:43 Digital
Hour 2
Gabie Strong – “Peaked Experience”, Sacred Datura / Peaked Experience, Crystalline Morphologies, 2016 14:07 LP
White Boy Scream – “Thou”, Remains, Crystalline Morphologies, 2018 – 4:00 Digital
Christina Carter – “School Song/ Desire to Play and Play”, Bastard Wing, Eclipse Records, 2003 8:15 LP
Yellow Swans – “Endlessly Making an End of Things”, At All Ends, Weird Forest Records, 2007 9:40 LP
Our Love Will Destroy the World – “Galactic Masada”, Polished Glass Autobahn, Dirty Knobby, 2008 5:17 LP
Arthur Doyle Plus 4 – “November 8th or 9th – I Can’t Remember When”, Alabama Feeling, AK-BA Records, 1978 4:03 Digital
Makoto Kawabata / Richard Youngs – “Track 5”, Makoto Kawabata / Richard Youngs, VHF Records, 2011 6:05 CD
Pete Drake – “Forever”, Forever, Smash Records, 1964 2:35 Digital
Psychic and Powerless 9/8/18
By Tuff Gnarl
September 7, 2018