OFF! at the Grog Shop

I missed CIDER because I was told that they were going on later than they did. I got to watch them take their equipment off stage and that was great. Very punk rock. Missed the other band play because I went down to WRUW to watch Destructor play live on the radio. Hopefully watching Matt Flammable up close and seeing how he does it will have a positive effect on my drumming. OFF! were fantastic. As much as there is about this band that seems too cleverly pre-packaged and, in spite of the fact that Keith Morris rambled on stage like a punk rock Abe Simpson, it's what's in the grooves that matters - to quote a phrase - and OFF! has got it. Sounding awfully like early Black Flag, OFF! played all of their songs very well and I went home feeling like I reconnected with paret of me that has been lost for awhile.

Set List - March 28, 2011

Coltrane, John - Out of this World - The John Coltrane Quartet - Impulse!
Witherspoon, Jimmy - I Won't Tell a Soul - The Blues Is Now - Verve
McDuff, Brother Jack - Esperanto - Double Barrelled Soul (with David Newman) - Atlantic
Stitt, Sonny - Miss Riverside - Turn It On! - Prestige
Wilson, Reuben - Bambu - Blue Mode - Blue Note
Bryant, Rusty - Soul Liberation - Soul Liberation - Prestige
Sparks, Melvin - Ain't No Woman - Texas Twister - Eastbound
Sparks, Melvin - Get Ya Some - 75 - Westbound
Bohannon - The Fat Man - Keep On Dancin' - Brunswick
The Roots - Concerto of the Desperado - Instrumental Album - Boot
The Budos Band - Black Venom - The Budos Band III - Daptone
Madvillain - All Caps - Madvillainy - Stones Throw
Rotary Connection - Memory Band - Rotary Connection - Cadet
Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers - Cloud 9 - Jungle Fire - Prestige
Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers - Candied Yam - Heat! - Prestige
Company Flow - Bee Aware - Little Johnny from the Hospitul - Rawkus
Bo Diddley - Pollution - Another Dimension - Chess

Krautrocksampler 50 Friday - No. 12 - Can - Tago Mago

The first part of this record is kind of like a dance record. Like I could see some hip rap dude sampling the record. And then it falls off into the experimental abyss for the second half of the record. Fading. Also, it felt like this record could have been recorded by a one man band at several times during the record.

Set List - March 21, 2011

Harriot, Joe & John Mayer Double Quintet - Raga Piloo - Indo-Jazz Fusions II - EMI Columbia
Fischer, William S - Chains - Circles - Embryo
Fischer, William S - Pello Joxepe - Akelearre Sorta - Wah Wah
Taylor, Cecil - Enter, Evening (Soft Line Structure) - Unit Structures - Blue Note
Redman, Dewey - Boody - The Ear Of The Behearer - Impulse!
Eero Koivistoinen Music Society - Suite 19 - Wahoo! - RCA
Wesley, Fred & the JB's Band - Sucker - Doing It To Death - People
Maceo & All The King's Men - Better Half - Doing Their Own Thing - House of the Fox
Collins, Lyn - You Can't Love Me If You Don't - The Female Preacher - Famous Flame
Brown, James - Get Up Off That Thing - The Singles Volume 10: 1975-1979 - Hip-O Select
The 45 King - Kick The Ballistics - The 45 Kingdom - Tuff City
JD and The Evil's Dynamite Band - Sunday Kind of Love - Explodes Across the Nation - Soul Fire
Byrd, Donald - Flickers - All Night Long (with Kenny Burrell) - Prestige
Hutch, Willie - California My Way - Fully Exposed - Motown
Sunny & the Sunliners - Get Down - Texas Funk: Hard Texas Funk 1968-1975 - Jazzman
McNealy, Timothy - Sagittarius Black - Texas Funk: Hard Texas Funk 1968-1975 - Jazzman
Mickey & The Soul Generation - U.F.O. - Iron Leg - The Complete Mickey And The Soul Generation - Cali-Tex
Young Holt Unlimited - Give Me Your Love - Young-Holt Unlimited Plays Super Fly - Paula

Krautrocksampler 50 Friday - No. 11 - Can - Soundtracks

More conventional than the debut or maybe my ears were waiting for it. "Mother Sky" is another long jammer that I am sure has set many a young musical explorer on their path.

Set List - March 14, 2011

Jarrett, Keith - De Drums - Fort Yawuh - Impulse!
Kirk, Rahsaan Roland - Seasons - Prepare Thyself to Deal With a Miracle - Atlantic
Turner, Ike & Tina - Piece of My Heart - What You Hear is What You Get - United Artists
Gaye, Marvin - Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) - Marvin Gaye Live! - Tamla
Graham Central Station - Ghetto - Graham Central Station - Warner Bros.
The Stylistics - Keeping My Fingers Crossed - Let's Put It All Together - Avco
Sun Ra - Hidden Spheres - Astro Black - Impulse!
Globe Unity Orchestra - Maniacs - Live in Wuppental - FMP
Hannan, Abdul - Awareness (Part I) - The Third World - Third World
Shepp, Archie - A Portrait of Robert Thompson (As A Young Man) - Mama Too Tight - Impulse!

Krautrocksampler 50 Friday - No. 10 - Can - Monster Movie

Sounding a little bit like early Grateful Dead at times, I really enjoyed this record. I know that I've heard the song "Yoo Do Right" before by somebody. Was it the Volta Sound, maybe? I don't know. Good record.

The Buzzard - John Gorman

I did not listen to WMMS that much while growing up. I remember hearing Mr. Leonard once and that's about it. I never listened to music that much on the radio past Casey Kasem as a little kid and I was too punk rock for WMMS as a teenager. As an adult, I listened to Browns games on WMMS when they weren't on WTAM. So, I did not have much interest, besides that in "general Cleveland music history," in reading this book. It was a Christmas give from my mother a few years ago. I dumped coffee on it almost immediately and let it sit on the bookshelf unread.

My bad. It was good book - no matter how corny and annoying commercial radio is and always will be. The book was well-written and very interesting. A must read is any book that mentions Tokyo Shapiro.

Set List - March 7, 2011

Big Star - My Life Is Right - #1 Record - Argent
Gillespie, Dizzy - Kush - Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac - Impulse!
Gillespie, Dizzy - Kush - A Musical Safari - Booman
Gillespie, Dizzy - Cool Breeze - At Newport - Verve
Funkadelic - What Is Soul - Funkadelic - Westbound
Black Heat - Send My Lover Back - Black Heat - Atlantic
Sun Ra - Solar Boats - Monorails and Satellites Vol. II - Saturn
Black Experience Band - The Road - Carolina Funk: First In Funk - Jazzman
Frankie & The Damons - Bad Woman - Carolina Funk: First In Funk - Jazzman
Gamith - Darkness - Carolina Funk: First In Funk - Jazzman
Byrd, Bobby - I Know You Got Soul - Bobby Byrd Got Soul: The Best of Bobby Byrd - Polygram
Magnum - Evolution - Fully Loaded - The Phoenix
Black Merda - Cynthy-Ruth - Black Merda - Chess
The Gaturs featuring Willie Tee - Gator Bait - Wasted - Funky Delicacies
The Bar Kays - Humpin' - Gotta Groove - Stax
Kashmere Stage Band - Zero Point - Texas Thunder Soul (1968-1974) - Stones Throw
Incredible Bongo Band - Apache - Bongo Rock - MGM

Junky - William S. Burroughs

There is something comforting in the thought that no matter what changes, many things remain the same. Also, there is something beautiful in a simple life driven by consistency.

Krautrocksampler 50 Friday - No. 9 - Ash Ra Tempel - Join Inn

Track one ends strong. They should play the ending of track one the whole time.