Old Albums!!!
So, this weekend I was at this record store in Santa Barbara going through mountains of crude and dusty vinyl. Some old guy died in some central coast city and had an insane record collection. The crazy eccentric owner of this record store said "I was waiting for this fucker to die for like 4 years and he finally did". I guess he was some sick dude who had like anal cancer or some other horrible disease that takes a while to kill you. Anyways, this record store owner went into a 30 minute story about how he had bought these records from this guys family before he was even dead and started rambling on about how he spent 5000 bucks and had to haul all these records from like 3 hours away and make two trips. During this drunken lunatic's story, I couldn't help thinking about the poor S.O.B that fucking owned these gems before. I'm sure he spent countless hours at thrift stores, swap meets, record stores, and estate sales to get these to only have someone buy them before he was even dead..... At least he got to listen to them til he died... I'm sure he at least had some comfort in that. My point, is that if I die fuck the records.... You can sell off everything I own but my records won't go for $$$$. Those go to all the friends that I've spent time going to shows, jabbing bout tunes, and making music with.
As for the music reviews this week, I'd like to focus on Old albums. Pre - 1980's. Obviously, there are a shitton of records from 1980 onward that are worth talking about but all the ones i bought this weekend were old....
1. Eric Burdon and the Animals - Wind of Change
God damnnnn. I'm not sure of anything in this world except that we all will die but if reincarnation isn't just some bullshit then I'd really like to know wha t my soul was doing in 1968. If I was living in any western civilization, I probably owned and was rocking out to this album. First off, It has that track "San Franciscan Nights" which is the most fitting song to an awesome city. Burdon starts the track off spitting to all residents of Europe by telling them to sell everything they own and move to San Francisco so they will understand what this song is all about. Fucking brillant. Another awesome track is "Good Times"..... with lyrics like "If I think of all the good times I have spent having good Times" you know an real party animal will be feeling this shit. Paint it Black cover. Also, this album has two semi-spoken word tracks. I hate spoken word.... but these Animal backed poems are amazing if you've just smoked a bunch of weed. One of them is about the black plague... Need I say more.
2. Rhinocerous - Rhinocerous
I aint gonna lie but I really didn't know much about this band until I starting looking it up. I had wound up in the web which is allmusic.com and stumbled across it while checking out the work of former Mothers of Invention drummer, Bill Mundi. I didn't really hunt it down or anything but I saw it for like 8 bucks so gave it a shot. Besides having an awesome Psychedelic Rhino album cover this album doesn't really have much to offer. It does however have a couple of good tracks like "When you say your sorry" and "You're my girl(I don't want to discuss it)" There are a couple of good guitar solos spread throughout, courteosy of Danny Weis who used to play with Iron Butterly. This album needed to be more Butterfly and not so slow.... I basically passed out in my closet listening to this.
3. Jimi Hendrix - Last Night
Everytime I see a different Hendrix album I'm always like holy shit. "How the fuck did he record this much"? I mean he basically recorded for like 7 or 8 years and only solo as most know him for 4. But there are like 5000 records. Most of these are bootlegs and are recorded concerts but still. Last night came out on the German record label Astan. Astan was run by Ed Chaplin who had somehow signed Hendrix for some taped sessions in London that would later cause a legal battle. I own this one and "Second Time Around" which has the track Got to have it which was sampled by the Beastie Boys. That record is a way better than this one all-in-all. Last night is mostly made up of covers but they are pretty sweet covers at that. Money, Hang on Sloopy, and Walk the dog all sound like they were recorded at a band practice or something but this is still a must have for all real Hendrix fiends.
Anyfucknway, Hope you enjoi'ed this and next week i'll be writing my thoughts on turkish psychedelic rock or french gay house 12" Disco singles or something else weird. Have a nice week and remember, "Music is a Religion" -- Jimi Hendrix.
As for the music reviews this week, I'd like to focus on Old albums. Pre - 1980's. Obviously, there are a shitton of records from 1980 onward that are worth talking about but all the ones i bought this weekend were old....
1. Eric Burdon and the Animals - Wind of Change
God damnnnn. I'm not sure of anything in this world except that we all will die but if reincarnation isn't just some bullshit then I'd really like to know wha t my soul was doing in 1968. If I was living in any western civilization, I probably owned and was rocking out to this album. First off, It has that track "San Franciscan Nights" which is the most fitting song to an awesome city. Burdon starts the track off spitting to all residents of Europe by telling them to sell everything they own and move to San Francisco so they will understand what this song is all about. Fucking brillant. Another awesome track is "Good Times"..... with lyrics like "If I think of all the good times I have spent having good Times" you know an real party animal will be feeling this shit. Paint it Black cover. Also, this album has two semi-spoken word tracks. I hate spoken word.... but these Animal backed poems are amazing if you've just smoked a bunch of weed. One of them is about the black plague... Need I say more.
2. Rhinocerous - Rhinocerous
I aint gonna lie but I really didn't know much about this band until I starting looking it up. I had wound up in the web which is allmusic.com and stumbled across it while checking out the work of former Mothers of Invention drummer, Bill Mundi. I didn't really hunt it down or anything but I saw it for like 8 bucks so gave it a shot. Besides having an awesome Psychedelic Rhino album cover this album doesn't really have much to offer. It does however have a couple of good tracks like "When you say your sorry" and "You're my girl(I don't want to discuss it)" There are a couple of good guitar solos spread throughout, courteosy of Danny Weis who used to play with Iron Butterly. This album needed to be more Butterfly and not so slow.... I basically passed out in my closet listening to this.
3. Jimi Hendrix - Last Night
Everytime I see a different Hendrix album I'm always like holy shit. "How the fuck did he record this much"? I mean he basically recorded for like 7 or 8 years and only solo as most know him for 4. But there are like 5000 records. Most of these are bootlegs and are recorded concerts but still. Last night came out on the German record label Astan. Astan was run by Ed Chaplin who had somehow signed Hendrix for some taped sessions in London that would later cause a legal battle. I own this one and "Second Time Around" which has the track Got to have it which was sampled by the Beastie Boys. That record is a way better than this one all-in-all. Last night is mostly made up of covers but they are pretty sweet covers at that. Money, Hang on Sloopy, and Walk the dog all sound like they were recorded at a band practice or something but this is still a must have for all real Hendrix fiends.
Anyfucknway, Hope you enjoi'ed this and next week i'll be writing my thoughts on turkish psychedelic rock or french gay house 12" Disco singles or something else weird. Have a nice week and remember, "Music is a Religion" -- Jimi Hendrix.
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