Rolling Past Expiry Hard Rock 2010

xp And oh yeah, also decided once and for all that "Sailor's Delight" on Moxy's 1978 Under The Lights probably ranks with history's great '70s Aerosmith rips. Rest of the album strikes me as more workaday-perfunctory than their previous Ridin' High from '77 (only other one I own), but I still like it, especially also the cradle-robbing jailbait opener "High School Queen."

there is nothing surprising about how good school punks is! cuz brownsville rule!

i dig moxy, but, yeah, they don't slay me or anything. kinda generic, but it's a genre i love, so i don't care too much.

And oops, typo: I got sent that Bang pic-sleeve reissue LP "sometime in the '00s," not '80s.

oh and george must know bob tench who was in hanson. he was in roger chapman's streetwalkers band and in hummingbird and the jeff beck group. and humble pie! unsung expiry hero.

bang rule. they still rule. gotta love bang. and you should have held on to your bullangus album.

unior Marvin (born Donald Hanson Marvin Kerr Richards Jr) also known as Junior Marvin-Hanson, Junior Hanson and Junior Kerr. He is a Jamaican born guitarist and singer and is best known for his association with Bob Marley and The Wailers. He started his career as Junior Marvin with the band Hanson in 1973. Marvin has also been associated with Gass, Keef Hartley Band, Toots & the Maytals and Steve Winwood. More recently he has appeared at live concerts with others including The Original Wailers.

* 1965 - Blue-Ace-Unit with Calvin 'Fuzzy' Samuel.
* 1969 - White Rabbit with Linda Lewis.
* 1970 - Keef Hartley Band as Junior Kerr.
* 1973 - Hanson as Junior Hanson.
* 1977 - Bob Marley & The Wailers as Junior Marvin
* 1981 - The Wailers Band
* 1997 - Batuka
* 2005 - The Wailers Band.
* 2007 - Wailin' For Love. Solo album
* 2008 - The Original Wailers

Aaaargggh -- The Bang reissue thing is a picture disc (both sides featuring artwork from the old LP cover), not picture sleeve (almost all albums are picture sleeves, duh!), I meant. Came out on Outlaw Recordings out of NYC (with a two-crossed-six-shooters logo), possibly not to be confused with the Outlaw Recordings out of Canada (with a longhorn skull logo) that was putting out old and new stuff by the Godz, Billy Butcher, etc., around the same time. Confusing! (My copy of the Bang says "#54/112 on the lyric sheet insert -- the "sleeve" is just transparent plastic -- which may or may not mean this was a very limited edition.)

Junior Marvin (born Donald Hanson Marvin Kerr Richards Jr) also known as Junior Marvin-Hanson, Junior Hanson and Junior Kerr. He is a Jamaican born guitarist and singer

But he's definitely not Junior Murvin, the "Police And Thieves" reggae guy, right?

Also been meaning to mention Tanya Tucker's 1979 Tear Me Apart, at least half of which -- not just the title track, which is an actual cover -- turns out to be a pretty decently glam-rockabilly surrogate Suzi Quatro album from the country star. She also covers "Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone," by Smokie (and also written by Chapman-Chinn, just like "Tear Me Apart," and they produced the album), though the two Dennis Linde songs, the Dickie Betts one, and "Crossfire of Desire" (Kelly/Didier/Anderson) have more kick. And I don't even mind that she does a medley of "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)"/"I Left My Heart In San Francisco". "Tear Me Apart" still the best track though; Miranda Lambert should really consider covering it seeing how it's been country road-tested already, it's about a tough Texas queen, and she's supposedly been known to do "Rock N Roll Hootchie Koo" live lately. Album hit #33 country (on the heels of Tucker's #2 1978 TNT, which also had rock'n'roll on it -- Chuck Berry and Elvis and "Not Fade Away" covers at least -- though I guess more a late '70s Ronstadt aesthetic, not to mention Tucker dressed in Olivia Newton-John-in-her-sleazy-period tight leather on the cover.) Neither LP crossed pop very high, though they sure tried to.

The Winkies, from 2009:

And I've been enjoying the Winkies one and only album from 1975. Classic Hipgnosis cover art which I recall making it into some old Rolling Stone book on best album art. Crotch shots of Riviera beach studs in little bathing suits, johnsons obvious, perhaps chosen for the first tune on the album, "Trust in Dick," a barely veiled ode to jerking off ('jerk your tears away!') sung sufficiently garbled to get past label censors, I guess. It's a Stonesy tune and the album is fairly great as missed opportunity, band led by Phil Rambow who never had much luck in New York competing with Bowery punk rock. Later wrote "There's a Guy Down the Chip Shop Thinks He's Elvis" with Kirsty McColl, and the songwriting is very strong on the Winkies. Sounds a little like very hard Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers prior to the fact, covers a Bob Seger tune -- "Long Song Coming," I think -- making it sound just like the Rolling Stones. My copy has an extra four songs with them backing Brian Eno on "Baby's on Fire" and three others, sounding very Velvet Goldmine glam, more twee than the album. Lots of American country filtered through Brit rock -- invasion included -- gives them a bit of a unique flavor for '75. Quite a good rock 'n' roll band, might have done better had it been picked up by Beserkeley in the US.

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"Trust In Dick" must have doomed them here. Along with the album cover it would have any guy in the hinterlands thinking they were all poofs.

Don't recall thinking New York Dolls when I saw Artful Dodger on undercards but they were definitely good. Might be because of the cover of Archie Bell's "Showdown." Which I liked better than the Dolls version.

i like the winkies album. i think i actually had a rambow solo album at one point but i don't remember much about it. might still be in my dollar bin at the store.

This randomly made me pull out my Frijid Pink box on Akarma. The debut, which charted the band on
the basis of a "House of the Rising Sun" single -- now the distinctive edit people hear. Dumber than
dirt vocals from a weird hippie-as-a-Nixonian-conformist side of things. An actual song about not being into protesters, or drugs or booze -- just into leching on the girlfriend, Mr. Man.

In 1970.

Better than an Amboy Dukes record, insultingly stupid next to The Stooges, better than the MC5's Back In the USA. Better guitar by magnitude than Grand Funk. For half an album. Great vocalist handicapped with an IQ of about 50 and no one to correct him. A Michigan afterthought.

By the third album the entire band had been fired except for the drummer. Who reformed the group for a 1972 LP called Earth Omen which predates early Styx, REO Speedwagon heartland big glorious
tales of the US rock. Haven't quite figured out how to produce it but it's there. Which makes it sound like a bit like Argent All Together Now only more rocking. Plus the title cut, a hippie hard rock cut, like "Golden Country." Only not as expensively produced or as vociferous.

The miracle here is that Frijid Pink lasted longer on Parrot than the Stooges on Elektra, which was supposed to be the forward-looking label.

Which brings me to Iggy & the Stooges now, with video from a Brazil concert, telecast, on YouTube.

And while it's not awful, it's certainly not great. James Williamson, retired from Sony, has no reason to be dull, yet he is. And Iggy needs to cover up.

There's something wrong with him -- physically.

Possibly a large abdominal hernia that doesn't require surgical intervention. Such things are not uncommon but most people who have them don't dance around on a stage without shirts and lowcut trousers. I won't post the video but check "Lust for Life" which is just grotesque -- and not in a good way.

If the performances were electrifying it wouldn't matter ... maybe. But they're not. Get a surgeon, will ya.
Or wear more clothes. It's just icky now.

It's like Ted Nugent whistling through his dentures in recommendation of Sarah Palin shouting a caribou on her reality show.

Totally baffling. I grew up surrounded by deer hunters. Not a blessed one of them had any regard
for women. Blowing away deer was man thing, an excuse to go the hunting lodger -- a one or two room cabin and get blindingly drunk while not out gunning. Nugent, who is way older than I am, knows it.

"shouting" should have been "shooting." Corrected: "Blowing away deer was a man thing, an excuse to
go to the hunting lodge -- a one or two room cabin where one got blindingly drunk when not
out gunning."

My ongoing series on how the American inventors of the electric guitar gave up their businesses for the everyman in favor of making -- domestically -- collectors pieces for the rich. They downsized, relatively speaking, into large custom shops. Remarkably, Gibson has FIVE factories in China -- one in Nashville, the latter for domestic production. And the Nashville factory would probably be a lot smaller if it weren't for country music acts with label deals in the city.

Ironically, and I touched upon this a couple months ago in the country thread: The economic collapse heavily impacts the mainstream country audience. And if you switch to a plutonomy, you further destroy the potential livelihoods of that audience, reducing their spending power and -- naturally -- their ability to pay for entertainments from major label country artists. Which in turn leads to a need for less country artists with big backing, and less spending by those artists for premium instruments. So it becomes a downward deflationary spiral. Less money, less demand, even less production and employment, less money, etc...

http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/12/06/made-in-china-guitar-center-continued/

http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/12/07/made-in-china-american-guitar/

Baltimore Oriole comes out as birther, big fan of Ted Nugent's politics:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Answer-Man-Luke-Scott-talks-Nugent-hunting-and?urn=mlb-292970

Did you notice the idiot sportswriter didn't know Nugent doesn't live in Michigan anymore? Rhetorical.

He made his own jerky! He shot a stag in Pennsy! Boy howdy!

Here's a good quote, right under the president's birth certificate, which Yahoo News apparently felt the need to defensively run:

"If you're involved in treacherous acts, or you're saying things that are against, or are selling out our country, you should be brought to trial."

The above quote was so singularly douchewad it got the guy named as Olbermann's Worst Person in the World today. Where he also ragged on him for being a marginal player until all of a sudden he sprouted muscles, adding that he must be on human growth hormone.

Got my BÖC brick in today's mail. Woo-hoo!

Brick? What's in the collection?

Oh, I bought their first five studio albums and Fire of Unknown Origin on CD for $7 each from Barnes&Noble.com.

I was hoping they had finally done a boxset, but I have to say that's a proper brick. Nice price too.

This is really decent.

http://www.spreeblick.com/2010/12/06/map-of-metal/

Use the small map to get it all.

Latest on the Nugent line. He wins an award for a public service announcement. Writes column full of
laughable errors.

http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/12/10/the-pathetically-stupid-man/

This one wasn't worth a blog post. Ted writes a column to himself. In Ted world, I suppose he imagines that sometime in 2012 Sarah Palin will get elected and he'll be made Secretary of the Interior.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40549

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/hunting/2010/12/palins-caribou-hunting-controversy-still-has-steam-you-betcha

Before Thanksgiving I'd dug out my Frank Zappa collection and have been listening to a number of LPs, mostly the hard rock stuff, of which there's a lot.

Had an old copy of the Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar box which is just edits of relentless guitar solos and various parts. It takes an evening to chew through but if you really like electric guitar, it's great.

The other three which fit this thread well are Zoot Allures, [/i]Them Or Us[/i] and Apostrophe.

Zoot is as close as FZ got to making a mid-Seventies metal record. Them Or Us has a good version of "Whipping Post" plus one of my silly favorites, "In France". And "Apostrophe" for "Cosmik Debris" and the title cut. "Stink-Foot", on the other hand, is one of the more irritating things he ever wrote, one in a large collection.

I feel like discussion of the Damned Things' Ironiclast belongs here, not on the Rolling Metal thread. It's a "supergroup" with two members each coming from Anthrax, Fall Out Boy and Every Time I Die, and it's basically a hard boogie-rock record (think Clutch or SoCal desert rock) with some modern songwriting touches (a couple of choruses have a definite Fall Out Boy feel) and some weird power-pop moments tossed in (one song has handclaps, which is always a plus for me). Vocalist Keith Buckley sounds much better here than he ever has with Every Time I Die.

no thank you?

cuz when i read the words:

"Anthrax, Fall Out Boy" and "hard boogie-rock record" i can't help but think...no.

That's what I thought going in, too, but I was proven wrong. Would it help if I said there are moments that remind me of Billy Squier?

So, anybody reading this, is the Sweet's Level Headed (the 1977 album with "Love Is Like Oxygen" on it) as lousy and rockless and un-Sweet-like as Martin Popoff suggests? Never heard it, but saw a copy for $1 today. Almost bought it, then decided otherwise.

George predicted right about me liking that D.B. Cooper LP from 1980, by the way. Sounds like a more hard-rock version of some missing link between real early Joe Jackson and real early John Cougar. Or something.

i always dug later more proggy sweet. i think i just like the sweet. definitely worth a dollar.

i mean, at the very least, its got love is like oxygen on it. which is a great song.

i need the first sweet album. which i never ever ever see.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Lp_funny_uk_a.jpg

i like cut above the rest too. from 1979. never heard their 1980 album. kinda weird to even think of sweet in the 80's.

never seen/heard this either. 1982!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/IdentityCrisis_Sweetalbum.jpg

always so amazed when i see an album i've never seen by someone who is ubiquitous. case in point, saw this at the record show three weeks ago and i swear i'd NEVER seen a copy before. how is that even possible?

http://991.com/newgallery/Keith-Emerson-Honky-460982.jpg

http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/E/emerson_honky_in.jpg

don't have 'Level Headed', but for late Sweet I like Sweet VI a lot, it has a great track "Own up, Take a Look at Yourself". it has the same chorus melody as "Radio Free Europe". maybe R.E.M. ripped them off.

always so amazed when i see an album i've never seen by someone who is ubiquitous.

^^ yeah, this. always so thrilling in a weird way. even if the record is probably totally crappy, and i don't buy it. it's the new discovery thing.

came out in 1981. how do i miss a keith emerson album for 30 years! especially with that cover and gatefold? i didn't buy it though. it was 7 bucks. i should have offered the guy three bucks. i would have paid three bucks just for that cover. i tried to get thurston from sonic youth to buy it, but he wouldn't bite.

Jimmy Buffett parody by Keith Emerson - in 1981. should've been huuuuge right?

the natural follow-on from 'Love Beach'?

mike mascis's (j's brother) band The Warblers is playing in my basement right now and its nice to hear some honest to gosh psychedelic garage rock guitar solos! leo, the lead guitar dude is hitting all the right fuzzy notes. sounds great!

nice! are you recording anything? would love to hear

sadly i didn't.

So, anybody reading this, is the Sweet's Level Headed (the 1977 album with "Love Is Like Oxygen" on it) as lousy and rockless and un-Sweet-like as Martin Popoff suggests?

Other than "Oxygen" I could only vaguely recall this sorta Alan Parsons/sorta Styx ballad, which is probably why I sold mine long ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUbY6Jf-l9Q

What's the format we're using again in submission of Myonga's Bob Seger reissue?

I went with this:

Bob Seger – Never Mind the Bullets Here's Early Bob Seger (Myonga CD-R)

Noticed somebody on line calling the label "MVB Records" instead, but I'm sure they'll sort all that out at P&J headquarters.

have so much to listen to. i'll get to it all somehow. just got these gems and i'm gonna take my time with them:

ronnie paisley's band - smoking mirror (pye - 1978) (this is great!)

yesterday and today - s/t london - 1976) (excited to find a clean copy of this!)

british lions - s/t (vertigo - 1978)

pez band - two old two soon - live at dingwalls! (passport - 1978)

meal ticket - take away (logo - 1978)

esperanto - danse macabre (A&M - 1974)

charlie and the wide boys - great country rockers (anchor - 1976)

the bogey boys - jimmy did it! (chrysalis - 1980)

cozy powell - over the top (ariola - 1979)

tyla gang - moonproof (beserkley - 1978)

sean tyla's just popped out (polydor/zilch - 1980)

keith christmas - fable of the wings (polydor)

YAMASH'TA - come to the edge (island - 1972) (had this years ago and got rid of it. give it another try.)

nite city - s/t (20th century - 1977) (ray manzarek and nigel harrison. i'll give it a shot.)

russ ballard - s/t (cbs - 1974) (never heard this. song titles look very promising.)

mike harrison - s/t (island)

manfred mann - chapter three (polydor - 1970?) (finally digging into the vast 70's manfred mann stuff. lots of good jams. this stuff was recorded in 1969 though.)

ellis - why not? (epic - 1973)

ellis - riding on the crest of a slump (epic - 1972)

johnny winter - still alive and well (columbia - 1973)

the bishops - live (chiswick - 1978) (woo hoo! needed this so bad!)

um, tons of UFO albums.

stray dog - s/t (manticore - 1973) (needed this too!)

british lions - trouble with women (cherry red - 1980)

zones - under influence (arista - 1979)

trash - s/t (flarenasch - 1981)

omega - live at the kisstadion (bellaphon - 1979)

mother's ruin - road to ruin (spectra - 1982)

delta rebels - down in the dirt (polydor - 1989)

johnny winter - saints & sinners (columbia - 1974) (basically want nice copies of every JW album from the 70's.)

trapeze - hot wire (warner bros - 1974) (hey we were just talking about them, no?)

also got that double live beserkely record. german thing. tyla gang. earthquake. kihn.