BROADCAST #33
AIR DATE: 08-14-07

Here are the notes from tonight’s show, Fanatics! I am leaving tomorrow for a few days to do some shows in Europe, Belgium and Scotland specifically. I have one show in Belgium and four in Scotland. Nest week’s show is all done and it’s a great one. You might know this already but I will be going on tour in September for several weeks. Engineer X and I have been working like Fanatics to make a new broadcast for each week I am away. It was a lot of work but we did it. I think you will like the results. We have an all Hendrix broadcast coming up, an all covers broadcast, there will be some great features on The Damned, The UK Subs, Wire and of course a ton of great music all thrown together as we usually do it. In short, we have put together some great music for you to check out and I hope you do. While I am away, we will be posting the broadcast notes on Tuesday before the broadcast so when the show hits, you can already know what will be and do what you will with the information. I hope you enjoyed the show tonight and I hope you tune in next week for the show Engineer X and I have made for you. I will be back live the Tuesday after next. Thanks for listening and STAY FANATIC!!! --Henry

Contact for me: Henryontheradio@AOL.com

For you Fanatics who can’t live without hearing this show again or if the original broadcast time is too hard on your sleep cycle here’s the re-broadcast schedule. USA: Fridays: 0200 – 0400 hrs. PST / UK: Fridays: 1000 hrs. – 1200 hrs. / Continental Europe: Fridays 1100 hrs. – 1300 hrs./ Australia: Fridays 2100 hrs. – 2300 hrs.

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile: From the BBC Sessions CD. Not that it means anything but when the band lands on the big riff at the beginning of the song, it’s one of greatest things I have ever heard in my life. I think it’s one of the greatest moments in music. What a monster song. We have never played this version. Get ready for our big Hendrix show on 09-18-07.

Noon Prayer – Byblos (Jbeil) Mosque: I was in Byblos Lebanon the other day and saw a man walk alone into a mosque and moments later, I heard a man reciting the noon prayer. I guess it could have been him. In any case, handy digital recorder in hand, I recorded it. You will hear the beeps of my camera in the background as well as a cell phone signal interfering with the man’s vocal, ah progress. Please note the moment where the guy goes for the super high vocal and momentarily loses control. All in all, a great vocal from the field!

Ramones - Teenage Lobotomy: From the classic It's Alive album. Dig this Fanatics, the footage from this show, 12-31-77 at the Rainbow in London UK, will be released on DVD in September (so far, it’s looking like September) with a 5.1 mix of the undubbed audio, mixed by Tommy Ramone. Many of us Ramones Fanatics gathered on the lawn of Hollywood Forever Cemetery and checked out the footage in summer 2006. Can’t wait to watch it again. Johnny said that this was the best show The Ramones ever did.

Wolf Eyes / Smegma - Track 04: From The Beast CD, which pits the very long running noise collective Smegma and the relatively new assault unit Wolf Eyes. You get what you get. I don’t know how much prep these guys did and how the album sessions were set up. I read that Richard Meltzer was singing in Smegma for awhile. He used to live in LA and at one point, he would do readings and he was really great, really funny. I am much more familiar with the material of Wolf Eyes but that’s a loaded statement seeing as they have a ton of releases. I only have the easier to find stuff and a few CDRs they gave me. There’s a ton of their stuff I have never heard and don’t know if I’ll ever be able to find. I just got the Wolf Eyes / Braxton collaboration. I have not played it yet but I will get to it soon. I am very curious about that one. I think Wolf Eyes are one of the bands who are saving music from the jaws of mediocrity.

Rondelles – Revenge: From the Shined Nickels And Loose Change CD. I got this the other day and while this band is probably not new to your ears, they are relatively new to mine so I thought we would check them out again. Cool band. I think they have long broken up but no matter, on the radio you live forever. Shined Nickels is their last album of three and was released in 2001. The Fox, their 2nd album, is the first one I ever heard thanks to it being on Teenbeat, a label I trust with my ears. I have a lot of time for female powered Indie music so this band rocks me. Good stuff.

Robert Pete Williams - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues: I can’t believe there’s a record called Country Negro Jam Session but there is. Recordings by one of the great American musicologists, Dr. Harry Oster. You might remember him as the man who made all those amazing recordings at the Angola State Prison in Louisiana with like . . . Robert Pete Williams! I am always looking for more RPW and I don’t believe I have this track on anything else and I don’t know how this compilation CD on Arhoolie escaped me for so long but it did. The other players on this album I don’t know anything about but music is incredible and this is definitely worth checking out if you dig real Rural Blues music, which I think is some of the purest stuff out there.

Flin Flon - Leading Tickles (Version): From the Chicoutimi EP on the mighty Teenbeat label. I think I have been good at sparing you from too many Flin Flon and Unrest jags as of late and I am proud of myself for not subjecting you to too much of that stuff. That being said, here’s some Flin Flon. This is a cool EP, you get some new, some remixed, etc. There are perhaps some people who can do no wrong in your book and you like everything they release. That’s how I am with Mark Robinson and all his incarnations. Cool, smart music and a great label. http://www.teenbeatrecords.com/

Teeth Of The Hydra - Our Strange Man: from the Greenland album, released in 2006 on the very cool Tee Pee label. Not a bad bit of noise from a band from Columbus OH. The brave souls at Tee Pee sent me this a few months ago and I checked it out not knowing anything about the band, that’s how I like to do it. I read press materials later. I liked what I heard. I like metal bands that don’t always follow the normal path and this is one of those bands. Tee Pee is the same label who released that great Entrance album Prayer Of Death.

The Fall – Winter: You can’t lose with any track from the Hex Enduction Hour album. This is easily a high point for The Fall and one great album on its own. Released in March of 1982, this album was part of the band’s very short lived stint on the Kamera label. Any promo stuff from that era of The Fall is hard to find as they were on the label for several months of 1982 and then they had moved on. Just my opinion but I don’t think there’s a bad song on Hex. Do you want to know more about The Fall? Well do ya, Fanatic?! Well, ok then: http://www.visi.com/fall/

Jah Stitch - Set Up Yourself Dreadlocks: Yet again, we utilize a track from the If Deejay Was Your Trade CD on the Blood & Fire label. There’s a CD of Stitch’s work on Blood & Fire called Original Ragga Muffin (1975 – 77) that I have yet to hear but I’ll have it soon. I have been checking out CDs on this label steadily for a few years now. Ian is the one who pointed me at this CD and as you know, we have checked it tracks from it many times. I can’t really find any information on Jah Stitch and I don’t know enough about Reggae or Dub to write about it, what I like I like and go from there. Reggae and Dub stuff is some of the heaviest and deepest music I have ever heard.

The Clash - Capital Radio Two: From the Super Black Market Clash CD. I remember many years ago when this was a 10” record that collected some b-sides and rare tracks. I always thought that was pretty cool. It has morphed a couple of times over the years and is now a very expanded and remastered thing and that’s where we pulled tonight’s track. Apparently, this is a re-record of Capital Radio One. I prefer this Two version, seems more rockin’ Ian had the single back in the day and I remember the song from his mix tapes. I never had any Clash singles. I had a couple of the albums and that was it. I caught up later. Being broke for many years kept me from getting records. I remember a few years ago, The Clash catalog was kinda frustrating, trying to find a track here or there could send you scrambling all over their catalog to get a b-side that should have been on the album the single came from, etc. Now the catalog is better off and you can get all the tracks the band did. Worth checking out.

William Bell - Fifty Dollar Habit: From the Phases Of Reality album. This is the 1973 release by William Bell, the great Stax artist. My favorite songs I have heard him do is Any Other Way and Everybody Loves A Winner, both found on his 1967 Soul Of A Bell album. Bell was a typical Stax man, he wrote, he played, he sang, he had hits, etc. Bell continues to write, record get hits. I was listening to this song the other day and I thought it would sit perfectly right about here. I only have a few of Bell’s albums and Soul is my favorite one.

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Hot Head: From the newly remastered Doc At The Radar Station CD. I was in London weeks ago and saw this at a Virgin record store. Before we go any further, a question: how the hell does that record chain stay in business? Huge store, no music. It’s incredible to be able to walk through a retail outlet so full of CDs and not see a single thing that interests you. The occasional release that you might find desirable is so grossly overpriced, your wallet fairly screams at the thought of purchasing a CD that costs as much as an artificial lung. Anyway, for some reason, I was in one of these awful stores and came upon the newly remastered Doc, Shiny Beast and Ice Cream For Crow albums. I was interested immediately as there was not enough attention paid to these albums when they were first released and they became hard to find soon after. I eventually found the CDs online at a much more sane price and checked them out and I am giving them all gold stars. They are punchier than their predecessors and are completely worth the purchase. These were the last three albums of the great man before he retreated into the world of painting and relative solitude.

Jerry Cantrell – Castaway: From the Degradation Trip album. This was Cantrell’s 2nd post Alice In Chains effort and if you’re a fan of AIC, you might like this one. I have been told that this album took a very long time to complete. I remember someone who was at the sessions saying that they were going on and on, due to the sheer amount of music and some other more common factors inherent in the world of loud music. Happily, everyone survived themselves and the album came out. I don’t think Jerry has made another solo album since this one and has been doing Alice In Chains shows with a new singer. Those songs are too good not to play but I don’t envy anyone having to step into Layne Stayley’s shoes, would you?!

The Buzzcocks – I Don’t Mind: From the always perfect Singles Going Steady album. Nice story behind this one. I know you know that this song is found on the band’s brilliant debut album Another Music In A Different Kitchen. United Artists wanted to release a single off the album but the band didn’t want to as they had no extra songs. The label released this single anyway (with album track Autonomy on the b-side) and to get some artistic revenge, the band designed a boring brown picture sleeve that has no picture of the band, the most prominent thing about it is the UA logo. All that aside, what great songs!

John Cale - Half Past France (alt. version): From the newly remastered and expanded Paris 1919 CD. What a great job they did on an already great album. This is a kind of release I wish would happen more often. The regular version of this song is great but this previously unreleased version just shows how damn good Cale is. What a great composition, what a vocal. This is one of Cale’s early solo efforts and one of my favorites. I don’t have every single Cale album, there are some I can’t get to all the way like Artificial Intelligence and Caribbean Sunset but overall, it’s good stuff if you like that thing he does. Truth be told, I don’t know many people who have Cale albums but he’s a great discovery if you have not yet gone there.

Buck Gooter – Haunting: The mighty Harrisonburg VA duo. I think this is the 2nd time we have visited the Woman President album. Great song, great band. I met one half of the band, Billy, the other day in DC at The Evens Fort Reno show. He said they are planning to release another album this year and promised to keep me posted. Buck Gooter’s music is way out there in the best way. Here’s how to get to the band: http://www.littlegrillcollective.com/bg/. Please go and please check out their album and support true independent music. You can also check them out on Youtube, there’s a couple of videos up.http://www.littlegrillcollective.com/bg/

Deerhoof - Polly Bee: From The Man, The King, The Girl CD. I love this band. I don’t know much about them. As always, late to the game on this group. They had many albums out before I staggered into the dance but better late than never is how I usually go about these things and so here we are with an album they probably released in the 1850’s. I don’t think there is a “way it oughta be” in music, but I think Deerhoof kinda does that in all the albums of theirs that I have heard, at least four at this point, are all different, inventive and totally brilliant. How the hell do you describe what Deerhoof does? I remember getting the Apple O and Milkman albums and playing them one after the other and just sitting there wondering where the hell I had been. I told Engineer X about this revelation and he nodded sagely and said that all their records are great. X of course has been listening to the band since 1848.

Bellmer Dolls - There Is No Oblivion: From The Big Cats Will Throw Themselves Over EP. I saw this band open for Grinderman the other night and I liked them a lot so after the show I went to the merch booth and bought their CD, that’s what you do! They were cool. I talked to them after the show and they were cool. They told me they will be working with Jim Sclavunos of The Bad Seeds / Grinderman on their album. Looking forward to that. They play some dark stuff and the EP has some interesting twists and turns on it. We will be getting back to this one for sure. http://www.bellmerdolls.com/bio.html

Gene Defcon - Letter To My Evil Dream Girl: From Mr. Defcon’s Lover's ESP Blues album. You may remember The Prima Donnas from Austin Texas, oui? Back in them days, Gene went under the moniker of Otto Matik. That band came to an end one way or another and Otto became Gene Defcon and has released a fair slew of albums and singles. They’re all good to me. Gene Defcon makes 1 minute masterpieces, his albums contain well past 40 songs. Throw Up And Die is his most recent effort and threatens to release The Worst Of Gene Defcon at some point. The guy’s a maniac, I can’t wait to hear more. http://www.genedefcon.com/

Dead Boys - High Tension Wire: From the classic Young Loud And Snotty album. I don’t play this band too often. It’s not that I don’t like this album, I do. The Dead Boys were never a band I saw or really connected with. I had the album many years ago and never played it much. I always thought the production of the album was too slick and the title of the album seemed that they were trying too hard. The truth is that the album is full of really good songs and the band isn’t fucking around. I caught onto it later on, as usual. This was one of the US Punk bands people in the UK saw, I wonder what they thought of them.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tupelo (Single Version): From the band’s 2nd album, The First Born Is Dead. I was a lucky Fanatic around the time this album came out. I had a friend on the inside as it were and I got a cassette of this album months before it came out. I played this one so many times. I know many of you Fanatics are well versed in your Cave-ology and you probably already know this but this collection of songs worked so well live it’s not to be believed, Tupelo being one of their stand out stage killers. Another song on the album, Knockin’ On Joe was SO great live. I saw them do that one a few times. I am not trying to say that some songs were not good live but some stuff really happened live when other songs seemed to be an effort to get across. I remember seeing the band play some of the material from Henry’s Dream and it was great but was hard to do in the live setting. Nick doing Into My Arms solo in Paris 1997, will be a lasting memory. Anyway, I saw the LA tour stop for this album in 1985 and it was one of the best times I have ever seen the band. The show was at The Palace, now called The Avalon. They opened with Tupelo and it was huge. What a show. And so, why did we play this song tonight? I saw Grinderman pull this off the other night and it had been awhile since I had heard it and I wanted to bring it on the show and play it again. A few years ago, Nick and I were hanging out at the BBC. Nick had just released The Boatman’s Call and told me he had made the album he had always wanted and was done with music. Whatever! Done with music for that month maybe. How many albums ago was that?! I suspect the man is just getting warmed up . . .