i only own 1980's Blowfly's Party X-Rated with "Blowfly's Rap". it's pretty standard upbeat disco-ish funk. personally i think the best part of the record is the song titles:Panty LinesPrick RyderNobody's Butt But Yours, BabeShow Me a Man Who Don't Like to FuckWho Did I Eat Last Night?Can I Come In Your Mouth
I don't think the lyrics to "Show me a man who don't want to fuck" (and i'll show you a pussy/ faggot) would fly too well with the PC Police of today.
so does the funky dirty world of blowfly make you smile or make you cry?
― JasonD (JasonD), Thursday, 13 March 2003 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Evan (Evan), Friday, 14 March 2003 01:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
From the WFMU blog:
January 22, 2006Blowfly's Equipment, Costumes and Antennae StolenSomewhere in the Carolinas, Blowfly's bug mask isbeing used for nefarious purposes. This just in toBrian Turner from Blowfly world headquarters...
"Hey freaks,our van got broken into last night in charlotte bypros with tools who took out the driver side lock. soif you live around there -- please keep an eye out forthis shit. and if you have this stuff, motherfucker imputting a curse on your dick! until you return it, youwont be able to get hard unless you're looking atmicheal jackson!
here's the notice uncle tom wrote up:
The following items were stolen from Blowfly's Vanwhile parked outside of the La Quinta Inn at 3100Queen City blvd in Charlotte NC between 2:30 AM and 1PM Saturday, January 21st. If you have any informationregarding these items, please contact Tom Bowker attom at blowflymusic dot com. If in Charlotte you canreturn the items with no questions asked to TheMilestone club at 3400 tuckasegee rd.28208 The phonenumber at the milestone is: 704 398 0472. They alsomay be reached at neal at solidgoldempire dot com
Thank you for any and all help,Sincerely,Tom Bowker, Blowfly Music
1 Galien Kruger 1001 RB Bass Head SN .. E06104440
1 Fender Telecaster w/ Sunburst Finish. Has "I KillHippies" sticker on the back of the body
1 black soft carry on bag containing 1 copper "BF"Blowfly Mask, 1 uncle sam hat, 1 rubber george w bushmask, 1 rubber devil mask, 1 Blowfly bug mask w/antennae and assorted wigs and costumes.
1 Fender Stratocaster w/ unfinished wood
1 SX Custom 4 string bass guitar
1 Black Plastic Cymbal case containing:
1 Zildjain 20 inch Earth Ride
1 Paiste 302 17 inch crash
1 Paiste 3000 series 20 inch ride
1 Zildjain 16 inch rock crash
1 set of Sabian "Flat Hat" Hi Hats
1 backpack containing wal mart portable cd player, acd with a pro tools session and a lyric book."
― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Blowfly is totally awesome classic, of course. Best Blowfly song title: "The First Time Ever You Sucked My Dick"
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 02:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.henrystonemusic.com/store/blowflyoldies.htm
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link
thanks for reposting this -- and we do have a new album out on alternative tentacle - fahrenheit 69 -- along with two new records comingout in 2006. so come by www.blowflymusic.com and buy some merch so we can buy new stuff!
― uncle tom, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― veronica moser (veronica moser), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― reacher, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Those electro Blowfly tracks were commisioned by Bo Crane (of Pandisc Records fame) in 1984. Basically, the story goes (as I've pieced it together)...
Aside from running a major record pool and being the DJ for Miami's verion of Studio 54 (Honey for the Bears), Bo Crane was a TK employee. He quit in 1980, a year before TK folded.
When TK did fold, he knew he couldn't grab TK's current creative force (KC of the Sunshine Band) as he had just landed a major deal, so he grabbed TK's prior writer/producer, Clarence Reid to be Bo's creative source for his new label (Palm Tree/Red Rooster/Pandisc).
However, Clarence was in full Blowfly mode at this point, so Bo hired guns (Larry Dermer, Joe Glado, etc) to make tracks that ripoff Cybotron's Clear, Quadrant Six's Body Mechanic, and such. He gave these to Blowfly and had him write songs around.
I think Blowfly and company see these tracks as a blemish in his catalog (Tom?), but they've certainly begun a life of their own, becoming cult classics among the electro circuit.
Since Bo owned the tracks themselves, he gave them to Maggotron to rework into new songs:
"Electronic Pussy Sucker" became Palmerforce Two's "Street Wars" in 84"Fuck the Devil" became Maggotron's "Bass that Ate Miami" in 88
Both of these were spearheaded by DXJ, the core guy behind Maggotron, and appeared on the Bass that Ate Miami compilation...a scattershot project milking Pandisc's catalog between 84 and 88.
I'd like to extend a deep hearted thanks to Tom and Max Bass for setting me up with a dinner with Blowfly a year or so back. It wasn't quite the interviewed I had hoped for, but it was the interview I expected!
― PappaWheelie B.C., Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
He basically discovered and fostered Betty Wright.
It's not so much that we consider those two tracks as a blemish -- but Bo Crane stealing clarence's money. Which he did for 20 years.
And to the first post in this thread. "Standard Disco Funk" my ass! First off, Clarence invented the "Miami Sound" which begat "disco funk"
secondly, you failed to mention "Blowfly's Rapp" aka Rap Dirty which is the first rap song ever, and got re-recorded for that lp. That song was still leaps and bounds stylistically and artistically beyond anything else that had rap on it back then - 15 years after he first recorded it.
Thirdly "Nobody's Butt But Yours" Is a remake of clarence's big 1969 hit "Nobody But You Babe" - and isnt "disco" one bit.
― uncle tom, Thursday, 26 January 2006 08:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Whoa! When did he first record it? And what's with the two song titles for the same song?
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
After Rappers delight came out in 1979, Henry Stone put the song out three times in 2 years as a TK 12 inch (rapp Dirty is the clean side, blowfly's rapp is the dirty side), on the Weird world release "Blowfly's Party" as blowfly's rapp and blowfly's theme and the weird world release Butterfly as Rap dirty.
― Uncle Tom, Saturday, 28 January 2006 07:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link
I would play like $3,000 to hear this.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Sunday, 29 January 2006 06:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― strophic (strophic), Sunday, 29 January 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
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― |l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l| (eman), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
and last year;s Fahrenheit 69 Cd did indeed have Gravy Train!!!! on the hilarious "When Darkness Falls" tune.
And if anyone here knows those freaks, tell them they are fucking slack for not going to any of our FOUR BAY AREA GIGS LAST YEAR
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Thursday, 2 February 2006 06:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Thursday, 2 February 2006 06:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Blowfly is spreading the weirdness!
France: Feb 1 - La Trocardière, Nantes Feb 2 - La Bellevilloise , Paris Feb 3 - La Friche, Marseille
Long Beach, California Feb 15 - alex's bar
Australia: Feb 22: Jive, adeliade Feb 23: Karaova Lounge, ballarat Feb 24: East Brunswick Club, Melbourne Feb 25: Northcote social Club, Melbourne Feb 26: Ruby's Lounge, Belgrave March 1: Lucky Country hotel, Newcastle March 2nd: The Marquee, Sydney March 3: Troubador: Brisbane March 4th: Coolangatta Hotel, Gold Coast
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.numerogroup.com/press.php?category=Numero%20007
― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
(good luck though obv)
― syd-mongrel (kit brash), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― paizuri-san (davidcorp), Thursday, 11 January 2007 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm also very very curious as to how different Rapp Dirty was from its 1965 version to the 1980.
― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link
haha this thread is awesome!
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 August 2008 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Except for the part where punks stole some shit. Blowfly #1 though.
yeah the pappa and uncle tom stuff upthread is fascinating!
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 21 August 2008 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I love that this is like, Tom's ILX thread
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 21 August 2008 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link
what should Blowfly's next album be?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 21 August 2008 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Jimmy Eat Pussy: Blowfly Goes Emo featuring "Sugar I'm Goin' Down"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 21 August 2008 03:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Dear New Yorkers, here's a special freakshow just for you:
Sat November 21 @ Knitting Factory in BrooklynBlowflyAnal CuntStalkers
― UncleTomfly, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/BlowflyOfficial/photos/a.10150534388938990.377265.6072703989/10153418080748990/?type=3&theater
He has terminal cancer
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 23:58 (eight years ago) link
awwww fuck
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 00:04 (eight years ago) link
sadly he died today
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 17 January 2016 23:55 (eight years ago) link
Awful news. RIP.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 18 January 2016 00:44 (eight years ago) link
According to Bowker, Blowfly will release a final album, intended as a gift to his fans, titled ’77 Rusty Trombones’ in February.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 18 January 2016 00:56 (eight years ago) link
RIP
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 18 January 2016 00:59 (eight years ago) link
I found Zodiac Blowfly in a thrift store about 20 years ago and loved it. In theory, I shouldn't like the misogynistic & homophobic lyrics of Blowfly. In reality, they seemed too over-the-top to be taken seriously. If anything, Blowfly always seemed to celebrate the "freak" in everyone and I will miss the funky motherfucker.
His alternate career as Clarence Reid is also fascinating.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/clarence-reid-r-b-singer-known-as-blowfly-dead-at-76-20160117
http://pitchfork.com/news/62887-clarence-reid-aka-blowfly-has-died/
― lingereffect (Kent Burt), Monday, 18 January 2016 02:39 (eight years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 January 2016 04:15 (eight years ago) link
i had a chance to open a show for him about 10 years ago. it was at a dive bar and all the bands hung out and got lit before/after the show. we were all early 20s, and i didn't realize it but i guess at the time he was in his 60s. what a tough dude. he was really sweet to me and my friends and ended up putting on a hilarious, amazing show.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 18 January 2016 04:26 (eight years ago) link
really sad I couldn't see him play one last time
― ♫ as we get older and stop making threads ♫ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 18 January 2016 05:35 (eight years ago) link
blowfly was such a unique, gifted, pioneering artist and he will never get a fraction of the due he deserves, rest in peace
― ♫ as we get older and stop making threads ♫ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 18 January 2016 05:37 (eight years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/remembering-blowfly-musics-xxx-rated-superhero-20160119
― ♫ as we get older and stop making threads ♫ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KlnU2ZVNpU
― am0n, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
Herr Whiney's version is better than mine, but…here 'tis…
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/01/19/463569514/remembering-blowfly-black-music-s-filthiest-legend?curator=MusicREDEF
It's weird trying to write a sober, NPR-ish piece about BF…I have to talk about "incredible Fulk," where, due to an experiment, his dick becomes enormous every time a bitch call him a bastard, going on to "rip her pussy to bits" and then to ascend into outer space, like a tweedy NYT obit person. Same for "electronic pussysucker" : "I even fucked R2D2 from Star wars." Whereas Whiney can talk about him the way he talked about every damn thing. Whiney also got to talk about how innuhnet outrage addicts would lose their minds over his shit… i had something in there like that, but maybe NPR isn't the best place to make that point and it was excised. It turns out you have a lot of freedom at RS, so long as Jann Wenner doesn't care or has never heard of who yr talking about…
2 things that didn't make it into my contribution to the exploding "old music dudes are dying at a rate commensurate to the general publication alluvasudden…"
I coldcalled the successor label to TK Records in 1997, and not only spoke to Henry Stone but to Clarence Reid, who happened to be there. he told me he was going to record "when Doves Cum" cf Prince.
and when I met him when he was playing with the funk-rock supergroup with Norwood Fisher and some other guys at Wetlands in NYC a few weeks later, he told me that he knew that Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall had stayed in the same hotel room when shooting coming to america (as if the biggest comic actor in 80s america would share a hotel room with anyone other than a chick). Reid claimed that the maid noticed that when she came to clean the room, only one bed was made, which meant to CR that they were "butt buddies." He was insanely and very funnily angered by black guys who were more famous than he, vis-a-vis talking shit about MJ, kells and Prince.
― veronica moser, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 23:48 (eight years ago) link
Blowfly came on my radio show and we did an impromptu jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awy5q6K0SRA&feature=youtu.be
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 23:49 (eight years ago) link
"population"
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 00:19 (eight years ago) link
nod to whiney and rob here, both solid remembrancesRIP
― from the perspective of a gay man, i will post them now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2016 03:58 (eight years ago) link