What are you listening to right now?

**houseisland** · March 23rd, 2010, 10:41 PM

Wikipedia: Belonging

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYCpl2lKlj8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxqVA8cO7ZY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXpPlBFGG_Q

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**Guts3d** · March 24th, 2010, 07:11 PM

Classical Gas!

I vaguely remember this from a looong time ago, but I did recall it kicked... butt...

**slgrieb** · March 25th, 2010, 05:21 PM

I took one of my daughters to buy a CD today, and the store had Janis Joplin's entire catalog on sale for $5 each. Finding Janis remaindered was a little depressing, but it got me to thinking about her career, and in combination with stuff I've been listening to lately like Richard Thompson, The Mothers of Invention, etc. inevitably made me look for some 13th Floor Elevators to post. Founded by Roky Erickson in 1965, the Elevators were a seminal psychedelic band. One Joplin considered joining.

Erickson and the Elevators were definitely committed to the music and lifestyle:

"In 1968, while doing a stint at HemisFair, Erickson started speaking nonsense. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sent to a Houston psychiatric hospital, where he involuntarily received electroconvulsive therapy.[2]

The Elevators were vocal proponents of LSD, mescaline (peyote), DMT and marijuana use, and were subject to extra attention from police. In 1969, Erickson was arrested for possession of one marijuana joint in Austin. Facing a ten-year prison term, Erickson pled not guilty by reason of insanity. He was first sent to the Austin State Hospital. After several escapes, he was sent to the Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he was subjected to more electroconvulsive therapy and Thorazine treatments, ultimately remaining in custody until 1972." After Erikson's release, his life got really bad for many years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYh5o...om=PL&index=14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwSA0...om=PL&index=15

**houseisland** · March 25th, 2010, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by slgrieb

n combination with stuff I've been listening to lately like Richard Thompson, The Mothers of Invention, etc. inevitably made me look for some 13th Floor Elevators to post. Founded by Roky Erickson in 1965, the Elevators were a seminal psychedelic band. One Joplin considered joining.

Erickson and the Elevators were definitely committed to the music and lifestyle:

"In 1968, while doing a stint at HemisFair, Erickson started speaking nonsense. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sent to a Houston psychiatric hospital, where he involuntarily received electroconvulsive therapy.[2]

The Elevators were vocal proponents of LSD, mescaline (peyote), DMT and marijuana use, and were subject to extra attention from police. In 1969, Erickson was arrested for possession of one marijuana joint in Austin. Facing a ten-year prison term, Erickson pled not guilty by reason of insanity. He was first sent to the Austin State Hospital. After several escapes, he was sent to the Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he was subjected to more electroconvulsive therapy and Thorazine treatments, ultimately remaining in custody until 1972." After Erikson's release, his life got really bad for many years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYh5o...om=PL&index=14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwSA0...om=PL&index=15

OK, SL. I will see your 13th Floor Elevators and see (edit: err raise) you one Painted Ship.

I am confident that if we keep the psychedelic psychosis out of the hand judgment and refer to Hoyle, the pot is mine - I live in BC after all.

Painted Ship

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkWuW...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM2yC...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Nbr...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLU8lfy0slw

No idea what happened to Captain Bill.

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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
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**slgrieb** · March 25th, 2010, 11:14 PM

The Painted Ship cuts were really enjoyable, but I just don't see how you can compare them to the 13th Floor Elevator. The thing about all the best psychedelic bands was that the music was a product of the lifestyle. For better or worse. Claiming otherwise is like trying to read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
without knowing anything about Hunter S. Thompson; you might mistake the product for a work of fiction.

Seems to me that The Painted Ship had more in common with The Seeds or The Music Machine than the Elevators.

Also, back in the day, another early keystone of Austin weirdness was Shiva's Headband. I also wanted to include a sample of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan from about the same era when they used to play at the Vulcan Gas Company, but I'm going to have to settle for a clone.

**houseisland** · March 25th, 2010, 11:32 PM

Originally Posted by slgrieb

The Painted Ship cuts were really enjoyable, but I just don't see how you can compare them to the 13th Floor Elevator.

Hey... us frostbacks with a population less than the state of California, we have to take our psychedelic glory where we can find it. We had Hendrix in Vancouver for a while before he was anybody except a good guitar player.

From Wikipedia:

"Vancouver developed its own sound in the late "60's". From Folk Music playing in the coffee houses on Kitsilano's 4th Avenue, where people would come to see Hippies wandering the streets and hear acoustic music filling the street. Another major venue was "The Retinal Circus" on Davie St. where famous and infamous Psychedelic Rock Bands played regularly. The "West Coast Sound" grew from a fusion of hard rocking music mixed with wailing guitars and visual light shows. Vancouver was a place to be 'in the music' which shaped the youth of the day. Bands like The Collectors later Chilliwack, United Empire Loyalists, My Indole Ring, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, Painted Ship, Mock Duck and Hydro Electric Steetcar were the center of Vancouver's psychedelic movement. There was also a Rythmn and Blues scene in the 60's. with acts like The Nighttrain Review, Jason Hoover and the Epics, Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers featuring Tommy Chong on guitar. The Vancouvers had a #5 hit on the U.S. R&B charts with "Does Your Mama Know About Me?", written by Chong. Bobby Taylor's "King of Clubs" was home to "The Coasters" and other great R&B bands. Vancouver had it all, The Doors and several other southern bands came to play in the very creative melieu created by the Vancouver Rockers of the 60's and early 70's."

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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
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**slgrieb** · March 26th, 2010, 12:34 PM

Hey, I liked the Painted ship cuts, I just thought that stylistically they were maybe closer to The Seeds and Music Machine; bands I enjoyed then and in retrospect. I had no idea that Vancouver had such an active music scene in the day. I could hear more.

So far as population goes, all I can say is "count your blessings". I firmly believe something like a quarter million residents is about the ideal city size. As the population increases, you hit a point where traffic, commercialization and commercialism start to degrade the quality of life. With an effective population of about 1.75 million, Austin passed the tipping point a looong time ago. No matter what Wikipedia says.

Take South by Southwest. What started as a pretty informal music festival is "Now in its 24th year, the SXSW® Music and Media Conference has grown into the must-attend networking event for the 21st century music industry... By day, managers, labels, promoters, press, internet media outlets, artists and other business professionals conduct business in the SXSW Trade Show."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ou-WIxfLY

**slgrieb** · March 28th, 2010, 03:01 PM

Now that South by So What is over, press coverage is reaching critical mass. Here is some commentary from Wired, with both a sampler and links to artists that the editor liked.

My first reaction was "Crap! Did I fall into a time warp?" After that I followed the links to the bands sites, and listened to their samples. I liked almost every sample cut posted a lot better than Wired's picks. Nevertheless, I was still struck by how "retro" most of these bands sound. With 2000 bands performing, is this as good as it gets?

**houseisland** · March 28th, 2010, 04:06 PM

God Bless the Child at Amazon

Very good playing from the always impeccable Mr. Burrell. The electric piano was de rigueur for the period, 1971, and is very much more than tolerable. The Don Sebesky string arrangements, however, are over the top with the cheese factor, but mercifully they are only appended to heads and tails of the songs. Creed Taylor and Don Sebesky seemed to have a taste for individually wrapped processed cheese slices - always a caveat to bear in mind when picking up things on the CTI label.

Wikipedia: Kenny Burrell

Clips....

Not from the God Bless the Child album but rather from his next album, Round Midnight, so it has a very similar sound:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmkB5pUkqQE

A somewhat random sampling of Youtube clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmn8qGn5zt8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2VVPQYzxso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wAmxuHt5nw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=204mr...x=0&playnext=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H82cw3WLO9Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KeSGpPToTE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuooQYdCaIM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vef9dp-Qc2o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b78cvTk5cY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8wRazf_OHI

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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
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**slgrieb** · June 30th, 2010, 11:47 AM

Somehow, today just seemed like an Austin Lounge Lizards sort of day. The link will let you listen to several Lounge Lizards cuts, but I particularly recommend Old Blevins: http://austinlizards.com/music-2.html, and Leonard Cohen's Day Job.

**houseisland** · July 13th, 2010, 11:47 PM

Blackie & The Rodeo Kings

http://www.rodeokings.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackie...he_Rodeo_Kings

Originally Posted by CeeBee

YAWN!

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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
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**Guts3d** · September 3rd, 2010, 11:04 AM

I am currently experiencing a Rolling Stones revival. Early Stones was so raw and energetic. ( Not that they ever seemed refined and lacadaisical! )

**Guts3d** · September 7th, 2010, 07:45 AM

Glen Miller!

**Niclo Iste** · September 27th, 2010, 06:45 AM

I went to the Roger Waters concert in Pittsburgh PA last night. It totally rocked! I'm even happier to say that's the 2nd time I've gotten to see him. The first was when they did the Division Bell here in Pittsburgh.