Magazine of the Week #22

Here's a real oldie - the May 1972 issue of HIT PARADER. This was before LISA ROBINSON came along and overhauled the mag to try to make it more appealing to the "counter-culture".





There's a great shot of MICK with a guitar on the cover. This issue features a ROLLING STONES "Portrait Gallery", where we learn that the Stones plan "to tour in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya". There are also stories on TOMMY JAMES ("Politics and Pills"), PAUL MCCARTNEY, BILL WITHERS, and more.

"Words To Your Favorite Hits" includes two PETE HAM songs - "Day After Day (as recorded by Badfinger)", and "Without You (as recorded by Nilsson)". Also in there is "Levon (as recorded by Elton John)".

In "Albums In Review" we get brief reviews of DYLAN's "Greatest Hits Volume Two", BOWIE's "Hunky Dory", and "The Best of Sonny and Cher". In a "Readers' Reviews" review of LENNON's "Imagine" LP, we're told that "John's singing hasn't sounded better since he sang "Mr. Moonlight" on "Beatles '65"!

Not bad for 50 cents!

Stones '78

Looks like one of my favorite STONES' shows has been posted over at LIVE AND OTHERWISE - scroll down for "ROLLING STONES - New Jersey 1978". Includes a great version of "Sweet Little Sixteen".

Here's the page:

LIVE AND OTHERWISE MAY 30, 2006

Memorial Day

In their summer clothes

LAGRIMA PSICODELICA has posted a great boot called "Covering 'Em", which is twenty-two live covers by REM.

Here's track 9, "Paint It Black":

PAINT IT BLACK - REM

Head over to the blog for the whole boot, there certainly are some very cool covers on it. The page is here:

REM - LAGRIMA PSICODELICA

Many thanks!

Tommy Gets His Axel Out

Bassist TOMMY STINSON has had a great career. From his years with THE REPLACEMENTS (starting at the age of twelve!) to his solo project BASH & POP, to his current work with GUNS 'N ROSES and the two Replacements re-union tracks this year, Stinson always seems to have something interesting going on.

So now, in what is a slight departure for us here at Culpa Direct, here's a link to a recent Guns 'N Roses show, from this past May 15 at the Hammerstein in New York City. Its an audience recording, that was posted in three parts at the BABY YOU GOT A STEW GOIN' blog. The show includes covers of "Live And Let Die" and "Knockin' On Heaven's Door". I don't know how long the tracks will be up, so you better get them soon!

Here are the links to the individual posts:

GNR 5/15/06 PART ONE

GNR 5/15/06 PART TWO

GNR 5/15/06 PART THREE

A Hal Ashby Film

Here are some scans from the press kit for the "Let's Spend The Night Together" film.

Among other things, the kit came with eight glossy black-and-white 8x10s and a page with descriptions of the photos.

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Magazine of the Week #21

For our Magazine of the Week #21 we have the May 1986 issue of MUSICIAN, featuring a ROLLING STONES cover story by BILL FLANAGAN, with photos by MICHAEL PUTLAND.





There are some great quotes in this one. KEITH is asked "suppose Jagger wanted to go out with his own band, without the Stones?".

Keith's reply: "...if he was to say he don't want to go out with the Stones and goes out with Schmuck and Ball's band instead?"......."I"LL SLIT HIS F*CKIN' THROAT." (The capitals are Flanagan's, the asterisk is mine)

BILL WYMAN, discussing his European hit single "Si Si" says "Keith acts like it doesn't exist. While with Keith...you don't talk about it. He's solely interested in the Rolling Stones. Anything else is..." ..... "Not so much a threat as...an interference.".

As we expect from MUSICIAN magazine, there's lots of good reading here. There's a sidebar on the "Dirty Work" LP and "Keith's Favorite Guitars", which Keith says "are probably of couple of '50s Telecasters...". "ESPs are pretty good and easy to play." He also says he plays "the odd Gibson here and there", and likes a couple of old acoustic Martins, but travels with an acoustic Ibanez.

Also in this issue is a review of "Dirty Work" and nice articles on THE BANGLES and VIOLENT FEMMES.

Happy Birthday Bob

Today DYLAN fans worldwide are celebrating BOB's 65th birthday, so I thought I'd join in the fun. You don't have to be a Dylan expert to see that everywhere you look you can manage to find some Dylan-related material.

For instance:

AREA CODE 615 from their 1969 self-titled debut with their great instrumental version of "Just Like A Woman".

WILCO's JEFF TWEEDY from the Vic Theatre in Chicago on March 5, 2005 with "I Shall Be Released".

BOB and GEORGE HARRISON in 1971 at the Soundcheck For Bangla Desh running through "If Not For You".

And then there's the wonderful BEATLEGS PODCAST #44, "Cooking With Dylan". If you're not already familiar with DINSDALEP's Beatleg Podcasts (which are finally back - yay!), then definitely head on over and check them out - they are fantastic! The page for "Cooking With Dylan" is here, and the main Beatlegs Podcast page is here.

Happy birthday Zimmy!

The Jagger Family

Mick, Chris, Mum, and Dad.

Check The Cool 'Mats

There are so many great blogs out there its hard to keep up. I just found another, called CHECK THE COOL WAX. Among many other things, they have a great REPLACEMENTS show from 1987.

Go here:

Check the cool wax: Live Replacements :: 1987

Adventures in Advertising, part 8

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Adventures in Advertising, part 7

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Covering Zimmy

There always seems to be a lot of DYLAN covers popping up on the blogs, and right now there are a couple of interesting full albums' worth: FLOODLIT FOOTPRINT has "The Hollies Sing Dylan", and DOWN IN THE GROOVE has what may be one of the most frightening LPs ever, "Sebastian Cabot, Actor / Bob Dylan, Poet - A Dramatic Reading With Music". Yes, Sebastian Cabot.

Here are the links:

HOLLIES SING DYLAN

SEBASTIAN CABOT - A DRAMATIC READING WITH MUSIC

Immediate Jagger/Richards

Back in 1965 the ROLLING STONES' manager ANDREW LOOG OLDHAM started his own record label, IMMEDIATE RECORDS.



Managing the Stones, it was only natural that Oldham would have some of his label's artists record JAGGER/RICHARDS compositions.

Here are nine different Jagger/Richards songs released as Immediate singles. To make it an even ten, I've added DONNA LYNN's version of the Richards/Oldham composition "I'd Much Rather Be With The Girls" which was released on Capitol (in the U.S.), the Stones' version of which was eventually released on the "Metamorphosis" LP as "I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys".

WASTIN' TIME - JIMMY TARBUCK
THINK - CHRIS FARLOWE
SO MUCH IN LOVE - CHARLES DICKENS
SITTIN' ON A FENCE - TWICE AS MUCH
OUT OF TIME - CHRIS FARLOWE
RIDE ON BABY - CHRIS FARLOWE
BACKSTREET GIRL - NICKY SCOTT
YESTERDAY'S PAPERS - CHRIS FARLOWE
PAINT IT BLACK - CHRIS FARLOWE

bonus:
I'D MUCH RATHER BE WITH THE GIRLS - DONNA LYNN

Happy Birthday Pete

Born May 19, 1945, today is PETE TOWNSHEND's 61st birthday.

This recording is a bit of an oddity - its a solo Pete show from April 14, 1974, Easter Sunday, at the Roundhouse in London.

According to DAVE MARSH in his book "Before I Get Old - The Story Of The Who", Pete put on "a fairly casual show using electric and acoustic guitars, piano, some synthesizer tapes and the original "My Generation" demo........ Despite a drunken heckler, the show was well-received and Pete was surprisingly confident."

Here's the setlist:

The Seeker / Big Boss Man / Substitute / Amoreuse / If I Were A Carpenter / Happy Jack / Tattoo / Join My Gang / Behind Blue Eyes / Goin' To New York (New York City Blues) / My Generation Demos I + II / North Country Girl / Corrina Corrina / No Face No Name No Number / Let's See Action / Pinball Wizard / See Me Feel Me / My Generation I / Magic Bus / My Generation II

And here's the audio - its an hour and seventeen minutes in a single 22MB wma file:

PETE TOWNSHEND - APRIL 14, 1974

Gigs That Changed The World

Here's the "Altamont" episode of the radio documentary series "Gigs That Changed The World".

Its a pretty good look back at the ROLLING STONES' infamous concert at the "Altamont Speedway" in California, December 6, 1969.

The show is about 26 minutes long, and its a single 37MB MP3:

ALTAMONT RADIO DOCUMENTARY

I don't remember where I got this from, so thanks to the original uploader!

Magazine of the Week #20

Here's the other MICK JAGGER cover from May 1985 - the magazine is INTERNATIONAL MUSICIAN AND RECORDING WORLD.

Its got a nice interview with Mick by DON MCLEASE, mostly about the "She's The Boss" LP.


Also of interest is an article on NILE RODGERS, where he discusses working with Mick on "She's The Boss", and also with DAVID BOWIE, on the "Let's Dance" LP.



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Beggars Breakfast

The LIVE AND OTHERWISE blog has been posting some great music, including a STONES boot called "Beggars Breakfast", which seems to be mostly 'Beggars Banquet"-era recordings. Check it out, there's quite a bit of interesting stuff there:

LIVE AND OTHERWISE

More Rhythm Kings

Last month I posted a live show from BILL WYMAN AND THE RHYTHM KINGS from April 2000 (click here, the RapidShare file should still be good).

Here's a nice companion piece posted at ZINHOF - from May 2000, the third Rhythm Kings album, "Groovin'". Click on the link and scroll down:

ZINHOF - RHYTHM KINGS

Happy Mother's Day

Yes, a very Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers out there. (Hi Mom!) Here are a few Mother-type songs to help celebrate the day.

There's a great rare early mix from a 1970 acetate of JOHN LENNON's "Mother", which includes John's guitar track that wasn't used when officially released.

Then there's DAVID PEEL AND THE LOWER EAST SIDE with "Happy Mother's Day" from their 1968 "Have A Marijuana" LP. Peel would hook up with Lennon in New York in 1971 and Lennon would produce Peel's 1972 Apple LP "The Pope Smokes Dope". Peel also gets a mention in Lennon's song "New York City".

And last, there's THE ROLLING STONES with "Mother's Little Helper", performed live in Honolulu in 1966.

MOTHER - JOHN LENNON

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY - DAVID PEEL

MOTHER'S LITTLE HELPER - ROLLING STONES

Happy Birthday Stevie

Born May 13, 1950, today is STEVIE WONDER's 56th birthday.

Stevie's career took off when he had his first #1 hit in 1963, with "Fingertips (Part 2)", so he was already a seasoned pro at the age of 21 when he released his "Music of My Mind" LP in March 1972. That summer he would be the opening act on THE ROLLING STONES American tour. Highlights of the tour included the times that the shows would end with The Stones and Stevie performing together, doing a "1965 medley" of Stevie's "Uptight" and The Stones' "Satisfaction".

Here's a nice recording of the medley, split into two separate files:

UPTIGHT - LIVE 1972

SATISFACTION - LIVE 1972

Thanks to the original uploader!

Magazine of the Week #19

Here's the first of two magazines with May 1985 cover dates, and both featuring MICK JAGGER on their covers. And both magazines are now defunct.

This one is called RECORD, and it was a spin-off of ROLLING STONE magazine back in the early 1980s.



This issue has "Mick Jagger - The RECORD Interview" - "Big Boss Man" by MARK HUNTER. They talk about "She's the Boss", dumb records, DAVID BOWIE, etc.

Also a JOHN FOGERTY interview - "Return of the Swamp Thing", and an article on "Fogerty vs. Fantasy (Records)".

In the "Musicvideo Top Ten", THE ROLLING STONES' "Video Rewind" is at #10, with DURAN DURAN in the #1 spot.

May 12, 1971

BBC remembers:

BBC - ON THIS DAY - MAY 12, 1971

39 years ago today

May 11, 1967:

THE BEATLES, at Olympic Studios for a change, recorded "Baby You're A Rich Man", which would be the B-side of their next single, the A-side being "All You Need Is Love". MICK JAGGER was in the studio, though perhaps not on the actual recording.

Here is a stunning center channel extraction from the 5.1 ANTHOLOGY mix, featuring just the vocals:

BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN - CENTER

Happy Birthday Donovan

Born May 10, 1946, today is DONOVAN's 60th birthday.

Back in the Spring of 1968, Donovan hung out with THE BEATLES in India, where he famously showed JOHN LENNON the guitar-picking style that Lennon would use on songs like "Dear Prudence" and "Julia".

Then in November of that year, Donovan hooked up with PAUL MCCARTNEY for MARY HOPKIN's "Postcard" LP, which McCartney was producing. At one point, Paul and Donovan were recorded running through a bunch of songs with acoustic guitars, including Paul's recent "Blackbird". The tape runs a little under 15 minutes. A very charming recording, in great quality.

HOW DO YOU DO

BLACKBIRD

THE UNICORN

LALENA

HEATHER

MR. WIND

THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER

LAND OF GISCH

Moog Lady Moog

Here's a couple of odd-ball covers, both from an old LP ('69 or '70?) which showcased the wonderful new "Moog" synthesizer playing covers of various hits from contemporary artists. The album was called "The Plastic Cow Goes Moooooog", and among the tracks on it were versions of THE STONES' "Lady Jane" and DYLAN's "Lay Lady Lay".

So here ya go:

LADY JANE - PLASTIC COW

LAY LADY LAY - PLASTIC COW

"Beatle Moments"

There's a very nice post over at MARATHONPACKS that runs through some of the author's favorite recorded "Beatle Moments" and presents short audio clips of those moments for us all to hear. Also, in the post's comments, commenters are commenting on some of their own favorite moments. Lots of fun.

The page is here:

BEATLES - MARATHONPACKS

JFK '78

"fireworks not permitted in stadium" -

They want twelve dollars admission and they won't even let me bring fireworks???!!!

And of course it wasn't .38 SPECIAL after all - it ended up being PETER TOSH instead.

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Making bets on Kentucky Derby day

So of course I have to post a version of "Dead Flowers" in honor of Kentucky Derby day. And while it may not be one of the best versions ever, everybody loves UNCLE TUPELO, right?




So here it is:

DEAD FLOWERS - UNCLE TUPELO

Satisfaction, part 4

You might have known I'd be getting around to this one sooner or later.

CAT POWER's great cover of "Satisfaction" - a nice slow version with no chorus, and no signature Keith guitar lick:

SATISFACTION - CAT POWER

And why are there so many cover versions of this song by female vocalists? Just wondering.....

Magazine of the Week #18

SECRETS OF A SLAVEDRIVING MAN IN A BLACK LIMOUSINE

Last week's MOTW was the January 1982 issue of CREEM with a MICK JAGGER interview - this week we have the follow-up, the February 1982 issue with a KEITH RICHARDS interview. Both interviews are by RAY BONICI.


The interview took place just before the start of the 1981 tour. Ray talks to Keith about all sorts of things - Mick, Stu, New Barbarians, Tatto You, Chuck Berry, Max Romeo, The Beatles, Bob Dylan.....













When Ray says that people seem to see Keith "more as the down-to-earth guy", Keith says "Like anybody else it was quite possible for me to go off the handle like Elton John and Rod Stewart and really believe and play the rock'n roll millionaire star trip".

Also in this issue is an interview with MARIANNE FAITHFULL - "That's the weird thing about my life: they're all true, those stories". She talks about when she overdosed in Australia and the record company tried to cash in - "The very week when I'd taken 150 Tuinol...", "...as I came out of my six-day coma, they'd already brought out my death record. Look at it, you know, in purple and black. They expected me to die". "You can understand why I retreated for 10 years."



Also reviews of PRINCE's "Controversy", NEIL YOUNG's "Re-ac-tor", U2's "October", and QUARTERFLASH's debut LP.

All that and a GO-GO'S "Creem Dream" pin-up!

Blog of Renown

PIXELMUTT keeps putting together some fun audio collections over at PixelMutt's Blog Of Renown. Be sure to check it out:

PIXELMUTT'S BLOG OF RENOWN

New Replacements!

"Don't You Know Who I Think I Was : The Best Of The Replacements", is due out in June, featuring two new tracks from the reunited PAUL WESTERBERG, TOMMY STINSON, and CHRIS MARS.

I'm so excited I couldn't resist posting the available short samples of the new songs:

MESSAGE TO THE BOYS

POOL & DIVE

Bianca's Birthday

BIANCA PEREZ MORENA DE MACIAS was born May 2, 1945 in Managua, Nicaragua.

















She married MICK JAGGER in 1971, and she was featured on the cover of VOGUE magazine in 1974.














After her divorce from Jagger, she appeared in films like "Cannonball Run" (1981) and "C.H.U.D. 2 - Bud The Chud" (1989).






Later there was a highly publicized situation involving her eviction from her apartment and a toxic mold lawsuit, which she eventually won.




Currently she's known for speaking out against the death penalty and the war in Iraq, and she recently made the news when she was involved in a scuffle with a partially paralyzed survivor of a suicide bombing.

You get what you need

Here's another cover - the ever-popular MAX CREEK with their rather interesting version of "You Can't Always Get What You Want".

It clocks in at more than 11 minutes and was recorded this past February 18th, at The Living Room in Providence, RI. Taken from the Live Music Archive:

YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT - MAX CREEK

Haunted in my sleep

Someone recently sent me this sad, dreamy cover of "Miss You" by THE CONCRETES. I'm told that they're a Swedish band and one of their songs was used on a Target commercial.

Check it out:

MISS YOU - THE CONCRETES

And thanks to the sender - you know who you are!