What the Bloody ‘L

All this month I'm going to be doing housecleaning around here. I have a folder: "Music for blog" that is overflowing with remnants, debris, partial files, dust bunnies in every corner, like it's not enough of a mess around here already. 

 

So, what the bloody 'L?

For the next few posts I'm going back to a series I started unofficially on August 26, 2015.

At that time I opened a folder (always a dangerous act) I had labeled: "Musick that Needs Work'. It was a Pandora's box of files that needed some special attention, meaning anything from missing tracks to cleaning up the sound to fixing the tags to getting the art work, whatever. In the almost seven years since I started this, I have finished through letter K.

Last August 2021 I finally was diving into the K-hole.

What the L? Here it is more than half way through 2023 & I'm finally opening the L folder.

First, here is a summary of the project so far... 

 

American Taboo

was the first of the series, although I didn't really unveil the actual concept until the second "A" -

Art Phag

 

I kept on it kinda regularly for awhile: 

Banana Splits, The

 

Bruce Gilbert

 

Bug, The

 

Clutchy Hopkins

 

Dakila

 

Darshan Ambient

 

Dot Allison

 

Then a couple months passed until:

 

Ennio Morricone

 

Eugene McDaniels

 

Fad Gadget & Frank Tovey

 

Fatima Mansions, The

 

& so ended 2015. I remembered the project in March 2016 & began again:

 

 

Garbage Collector 

 

Good Horsey

 

GTO’s

 

Hafler Trio, The

 

Honeymoon Killers

 

From April until July was kinda a draught. Then What the H?:

 

 

Heat-Rays, Hula, Haujobb all in one post

 

Then nothing until January 2017;

 

 

Ikara Colt

 

 

You know how things move to the back burner, well, jump forward to May 2018.

Saw a pot smoking on the back burner & lo 'n' behold, "Musick that Needs Work" needed work. Hit the J folder this time:

 

Johnny Cash, June of 44, Jane’s Addiction

 

 

After another even longer draught, in August 2021 I finally dove into the K-hole in a big way:

 

Keith Hudson. Kendra Smith, Kalahari Surfers, Kill the Messenger, Kungens Män, Kabanjak, Klaxons 

 

Well, it;s August 2023 & I'm finally getting to the L folder. Not even half way through the alphabet in nearly seven years.

At this rate, what the 'L?

 

 

 

Blue Cheer is a band that I have a warm place for in my soul. Living in San Francisco in the late 60s, I enjoyed many an acid-drenched evening with these LSD namesakes. Lo & behold, hiding out in this lonely L folder was an album from original Blue Cheer member, guitarist Leigh Stephens. A great place to start...

On Red Weather: Leigh Stephens - guitar, bass, & vocals; Ian Stewart & Nicky Hopkins - keyboards; Kevin Westlake & Mick Waller - drums with Eric Albronda & Kevin Westlake - additional vocals on "Another Dose of Life".

Leigh Stephens -Red Weather, Phillips PHS 600-294, 1969.
all decryption codes in comments

Side 1 -
Another Dose of Life
Drifting
Indians
I Grow Higher

Side 2 -
Red Weather
If You Choose To
Joannie Mann
Chicken Pot Pie

 

 

 

 

This self-titled L, from Paul (Greg Allen) & Wolfgang (Vern Rumsey) as Long Hind Legs. This was recorded September 1996 at John & Stu's in Seattle, Washington.

 

Long Hind Legs - Long Hind Legs, Kill Rock Stars KRS 274, 1997.

Icarus Flew    
In America    
Open Wide    
Alphabets of Unreason
What are We Doing? / Dogs, Restrained    
A Curtain is Drawn, A Veil is Worn
Passion for Passion
Numb    
Painfully Obvious    
A Perfect Day

 

 

 

 

& finally for today, with six bonus mp3 files that were downloadable with the physical release (Live in Mexico City 12"), Lorena 'Lorelle' Quintanilla meets up with the Obsolete.

 

Lorelle meets the Obsolete - Corruptible Faces, Captcha Records HBSP-2X, 2013.

Tales from a High Line
The In-Between
Aging Places    
Morning Darkness    
The December Riots    
Art for Free    
The Lonely
And Time Will Act Upon Them    
Strands of Our Time    
Abyss of the Future    
        
bonus - Live In Mexico City 12"     
And Time Will Act Upon Them (live)    
The In-Between (live)
What's Holding You? (live)    
Traveler (live)    
Untitled (live)
Uncomfortable Knot (live)

Live long & love,
NØ