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UTCzech III

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  1. Been trying to clear the cobwebs out of my brain, came across another one - checking out wiki, apparently Mr. Myrick had done pretty well for himself over the years...
  2. I don' t know why I get a kick out of thinking about Huey Lewis hanging out with Thin Lizzy, Lowe, Edmunds, Elvis Costello et al back in the late 70's. Seems like a fish out of water...
  3. Bryan Ferry put on some weight... Looks like Canada's version of Huey Lewis & the News... (yeah, I like Huey Lewis.)
  4. Yes! Thanks for reminding me, I got this on a 12-inch EP when it came out. Bout time to dig it out and slap it on the turntable, have an 80's night!
  5. Black Crowes were one of those bands that it took me forever to like again, due to KLBJ just saturating the airwaves with them (same goes for SRV and post-Achtung Baby U2), can't handle that much of anything. Finally went and downloaded a bunch of their stuff a couple of years ago and was reminded how damn great they were. This one was always one of my favorites, not sure why, it kind of has a Lennon vibe to it, though I can't say how or why I think that, I just feel it.
  6. I agree Spoon is definitely well-known, but they've always escaped me, outside the odd video I've seen posted here or there. What I've heard I like, I'm just too old to put much money or time into digging deep into "unknown" bands anymore. I've got enough music to last 5 lifetimes, I'm happy with it. Back to Spoon, no worries, I'll allow it. Nirvana? That's just fucking trolling...
  7. Was listening to that earlier, think I'm gonna send it to my son later and see if he can play along with it, would love to do it with my band, could even slow it down and give it a country feel. I love Dave's version of it, grabs more of the Chuck Berry vibe.
  8. She sure sounds like her momma, both talking and singing.
  9. So, Aubrey Powell (of Hipgnosis) revealed that he's working on artwork for Pink Floyd "The Later Years" box set. Unfortnuately, it's been confirmed it will be all post-Waters material only. Fortunately, we should get a high-res version of Delicate Sound of Thunder and Rachel Fury shakin' dat ass (enhance, enhance...)
  10. Yes it is. Maybe my favorite Rockpile number: Dave and Carl Perkins (one of the best "tribute" specials I've ever seen...)
  11. Bwaha. So it's OUR fault nobody posts over there... Yesterday, 07:39 PM#1 8badmofo31 Moderator Join Date Jun 2008 Posts 3,493 No new posts again today Reply With Quote
  12. Oh man, the Leroi Bros, bringing back lots of good memories.
  13. Posted a song in the Obscure bands thread that reminded me of Dave Edmunds, which got me thinking about Rockpile. A supergroup before there was a name - Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Billy Bremner, Terry Williams. Let's hear some of your favorite bashers! Another album I had and lost, MaxHorn posted it on his old blog a while back, glad to get another copy of it. Credited to Dave Edmunds, but as you can see in the video, it's Rockpile: Again, Rockpile masquerading as a Nick Lowe solo effort (Kind of like Rod Stewart with the Faces):
  14. Hot damn, that's awesome, thanks for that! Love that roadhouse rock-n-roll. Reminds me of a guy that came out in the early 90's, Webb Wilder. One of those journeyman rockers who got a little airplay then disappeared. This is the only song of his I ever remember hearing on the radio, but I still dig it, just rocks. Kind of Georgia Satellites meets Dave Edmunds.
  15. It took me forever to get around to really enjoying the "noodling stuff", but now I'm fascinated with it. I was going to post this a while back, this is the first ever recording of "Interstellar Overdrive", recorded on 10/31/66. It was never released (until 2017 as a Record Store Day exclusive) but was given to a friend of theirs, a film maker named Anthony Stern by their manager, to do with it as he pleased. Stern had said he wanted to make a film equivalent to the Floyd's live shows, or how he personally experienced their music back in the early days. First up is the studio track, this is straight up punk, recorded just a few months after Revolver came out and before Sgt. Pepper, the very dawn of psychadelic rock, they really had no influences for this kind of stuff, definitely ground-breaking: And this is the film Anthony Stern made using the audio as a soundtrack, despite people saying the track had never been heard before, it's been on youtube for years, people just never put 2 and 2 together... don't watch this if you're prone to seizures!
  16. Yeah! Recently transferred my complete cassette collection over to digital, this one I had to burn to CD to keep in the car, great album.
  17. I never had this one except on a cassette I taped off of KPFT in Houston late one night. Took me forever to find it, eventually tracked down a CD re-issue of their first two albums, classic early 80's Los Angeles quirky pop.
  18. He is, but still never got much play in the US, a little on college/community stations, but never enough. This could also be a college/indie rock thread, Sparks is fairly well known but still never got more than underground love... Had this album many years ago, got ruined in a flood...
  19. That's good stuff, very Georgia Satellite-ish. I like the Charlie Brown reference...
  20. It's all good, a welcome addition.
  21. Finally, Martha and the Muffins. A Canadian band, they later shortened their name to "M+M" and had a hit with "Black Stations/White Stations". This one is not so great, just your standard pop song, but I did dig the green vinyl and the nod to the Who at the end:
  22. Next up, Wreckless Eric. I played the hell out of this one, just great Brit Pop in the Nick Lowe vein (Lowe may have produced this, can't remember). 12-inch single on orange vinyl, just a wall of chiming guitars and thick harmonies: (the 12-inch is pictured on the video, different labels and color scheme on each side)
  23. MaxHorn, hulla and others were great on the other board about highlighting those bands on the fringes, stuff you picked up for one reason or another, maybe you loved the band but they just never made it. Thought this could be a catch-all for your favorite memories. For me, I lived out in the country between Sealy and Columbus, not a record store in miles. In the back of Rolling Stone, you could order these mail-order catalogs featuring all kinds of import/independent records you couldn't find anywhere else. I would order stuff just based on the descriptions, they were usually pretty cheap and worth the gamble. I remember in the summer just waiting for the mailman to show up, we lived on a dirt road (the only house) and you could see the mailman coming half a mile away from the dust cloud. Hoping today was going to be the day my records showed up. Then running to the mailbox to pick them up (I remember, if it was an LP too big to fit inside, the mailman would attach it to the outside of the mailbox with a rubberband...). Just a great time. Anyway, first up, this band was pretty big in Australia but never did anything here in the States. This was a cool 4-song EP on Stiff Records, great pop band (I still have all of these BTW, some of my most treasured records just base on the memories..) The Sports: (EP cover)
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