Nothin' Sez Somethin': In a Rut, Be Anyone You Want to Be

07 September 2020

In a Rut, Be Anyone You Want to Be

I got back much of my lost music & now I need to fix the hole in this here blog where the rain gets in & stops my mind from wondering what I'll listen to next.

I'm going on temporary hiatus until I do some repairs.

Here are two releases recorded in the 70s to mull over while I'm away.

When the Ruts appeared at the 1978 Deeply Vale Festival they were still largely unknown outside of London. However, that was all soon to end. The Ruts put on a fiery show with all the blistering intensity that the Ruts became known. "Babylon's Burning" & "Jah Wars" would go on to become anthems for an entire generation.

The Ruts - Live at Deeply Vale Festival Late 1970's, Ozit Morpheus OZIT CD 782, 2006.

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H Eyes
Gotta Little Number
SUS
Dope for Guns
Jah Wars
You're Just A
It was Cold
Savage Circle
I Ain't Sophisticated
Babylon's Burning
Back Bite
Criminal Mind
Out of Order

You Can Be Anyone This Time Around is an album by Dr. Timothy Leary released in April 1970. The disc features three spoken word narrations by Leary backed with psychedelic music including musical contributions from Jimi Hendrix, Stephen Stills, John Sebastian, & Buddy Miles recorded during an all-night jam session at the Record Plant, 321 West 44th Street, New York City.

The title track & "What Do You Turn On When You Turn On" both feature sampling of music by other artists, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, & Ravi Shankar. This is one of the earliest known examples of sampling on a commercial record. (In 1970, the Record Plant became the first recording studio designed for mixing quadraphonic sound.)