The last Psychic and Powerless before school starts up again. Pencils, books, and dirty looks. In true P&P spirit there are selections of guitar destruction, spontaneous composition, duo mind-meld, and more. Jimi’s track picks up from when he’s thrusting his pelvis into his amp stack at Monterey and concludes with him smashing his guitar but not before setting it aflame. Distort-o pop from Half Japanese and YLT, and some psych explorations from Total and Träd, Gräs, och Stenar. Yes, war sucks. The second hour has guitar / motor experiments, solo 12-string, a selection from Eiko Ishibashi and Darin Gray’s new record, and, of course, Sun Ra.
Hour 1
Jimi Hendrix – Outro to “Wild Thing”, Live at Monterey Pop Festival, 06/18/67
Half Japanese – “No More Beatlemania”, ½ Gentlemen / Not Beasts, Armageddon / Fire Records, 1980 / 2013
Half Japanese – “You’re Gonna Miss Me”, Our Solar System, Iridescence / Fire Records, 1984 / 2014
(13th Floor Elevators cover)
Yo La Tengo – “(Straight Down to the) Bitter End”, Electr-O-Pura, Matador, 1995
Total – “Candle Aimed at the Sun #3”, Clear Factory, Majora, 1996
Patti Smith – “Birdland”, Horses, Arista, Legacy, 1975 / 2012
Royal Trux – “Junkie Nurse”, Untitled, Drag City, 1992
Träd, Gräs, Och Stenar – Excerpt from “Drammen Export / Sommarlåten”, Djunglens Lag, Tall / Anthology Recordings, 1972 / 2016
Red Krayola –“War Sucks”, The Parable of Arable Land, International Artists, 1967 / 2009
Hour 2
The No-Neck Blues Band – “Trojanova and Nova”, First Kingdom of the Ghost, Seres, 2004
Remko Scha – “Brush”, Machine Guitars, Kremlin / États-Unis, 1982 / 2018
Oren Ambarchi – “Guitar Motors”, Stacte Motors, Western Vinyl, 2006
Wham-O – “The Ocean, Because I Cry”, Wham-O, Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, Bobby J, Chocolate Monk, Ecstatic Peace!, Giardia, Sweet Baboo, Union Pole, 1996
Rob Noyes – “Feudal Spirit”, The Feudal Spirit, Poon Village, 2016 4:24 LP
Fripp & Eno – “Evensong”, Evening Star, Island Records, 1975
Eiko Ishibashi & Darin Gray – Excerpt from “Ichida”, Ichida, Black Truffle, 2018
Sun Ra – “They Plan to Leave”, Ra to the Rescue, El Saturn Records, 1983
Psychic and Powerless 8/15/18
By Tuff Gnarl
August 16, 2018