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Foreigner Faux Spike’s Double Vision Halloween Tribute

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Below is a video link to The Re-Volts caught live in action disgracing themselves doing a stunningly sick seventies throwback recreation as DOUBLE VISION at the Bad_Acid_Presents  Hallorager VIII at San Francisco’s storied Bottom of the Hill on 10-30-2021 …

They perform two Foreigner Facsimile songs in this quickly edited clip, two corporate cock rock classics: Long Long Way From Home and Cold As Ice ( which was a top ten hit back in summer of ’77).

The posse comin’ at us is led by Spike Slawson, who has taken to heart (vest and wig) the role of Lou Grammatico in his Halloween DOUBLE VISION Foreigner Tribute. Here is backed by pedigreed punk pals including co-founding Dwarves member HEWHOCANNOTBENAMED on keys,  local ne’er do ‘ell and jocular jerk of all horns Jamin Barton , Jack Dalrymple on guitar, Colin Delaney on skins, and Paul Oxborrow in the role of late great OG bassist Ed Gagliardi .

 

A ghastly time was had by all at the Bad Acid Presents Glitter Wizard/Blue Öyster Cult~Re-Volts/Foreigner~Rockers/Thin Lizzy~ Whateverglades/Blondie fest.

 

 

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percentages of enablers

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The Percentages

enablers is :

Goldring & Thomson – guitars

Ospovat – percussion

Simonelli – words

Recorded Jan 7 2016

The Make-Out Room SF CA

studio version of “the percentages” also is currently available as a pay what you can single:

more enablers downloads including the companion album The Rightful Pivot here: http://enablers.bandcamp.com/

the album was released 07 February 2015 Recorded and Mixed By Desmond Shea and Joe Goldring May/June 2014
at Coast Recorders S.F.

 

LTD vinyl edition is available below in handprinted jackets / digital downloads are also available

 

 

 

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LIlMike.Me’s March Madness Mixcloud

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Relish Our Random Retro Rambling Rockin’ Ravin’ Soul Patrol Across The Pond And Beyond…

Experience 2 Hours Of Streaming Music From The Meters To Motörhead

Acts brought to bear on this perfect playlist include Blues Project, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, Young MC, Pixies, Allen Toussaint, Willy DeVille, Irma Thomas, Buzzcocks, Hector Lavoe, Joan Jett, Siouxsie Sioux

and more, more, more

 

Lil' Mike's March Madness Mix

Tracklist Highlights

1. No Time Like The Right Time by Blues Project

2. Why? by The Byrds

3. Purple Haze Latin Mash by Jimi Hendrix

4. Know How (McSleazy Mash Up) by Young MC

5. Tame by Pixies

6. Zony Mash by The Meters

7. You Got To Fight by Clarence Reid

8. Koto Mata by Tali Bong

9, Family Affair by Veit Marvos Red Point Orchestra

10. Hurricane Suite: Storm Warning by Dr John

11. Natural Soul Brother by Danny White

12. Teasin’ You by Willy DeVille

13. Who’s Gonna Love You by Johnny Adams

14. Breakaway by Irma Thomas

15. Night People by Lee Dorsey

16, Dap Walk by Ernie & The Top Notes

17. You Got Me by Lee Calvin

18. Woncha Gone by Tommy Ridgely

19. Hollow Inside by Buzzcocks

20. On With The Show by The Get Up Kids

21. Love Is Like Oxygen (Demo) by Sweet

22. Back by The Zulus

23. Roll Away The Stone (Live 1990) by Fastbacks

24. You Got Me Floatin’ by Joan Jett

25. Omaha by Golden Palominos

26. Cause I Said So (Live 1989) by The Godfathers

27. Mi Gente [Louie Vega Remix] by Hector LaVoe

28. KISS by Señor Coconut

29. Rehab by Shawn Lee Ping Pong Orchestra

30. The World Is Gone by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra

31. Sebastiana by Gal Costa

32. Can’t Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head (Live 2002) by Kylie Minogue

33. Ace of Spades (The CCN Remix) by Motörhead

34. Happy House (House Mix) by Siouxsie & the Banshees

35. Freakaholic by Egyptian Lover

 

 
 
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Night Train To Nowhere Electoral Dysfunction Mixcloud

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The Random Revelations Night Train To Nowhere Is Waiting For You To Hop Aboard!

A Podblast Powered By Curiously Curated Ska, Soul, Reggae, Dub, Punk, Funk, Easy Listening Music & Hard Liquor.

 

Hear my 2 hrs of painstakingly picked records and some rare soundboard concert clips. Most of my shared recordings are ripped right off vinyl rarities for your listening pleasure by artists such as Gregory Isaacs, Darondo, Dead Moon, Sister Double Happiness, Andre Williams, X, Rare Essence, Van Morrison, Larry Graham, Lou Rawls and The True Believers featuring brothers Javier & Alejandro Escovedo.

 

This episode is new for November and is a nuanced nocturnal tour you’ll want to revisit all over again.

Regale In Retro Rock Blasts from The Pretenders, Billy Squier, Dave Clark Five, Chilliwack, A Flock Of Seagulls as well as new music from contemporary #IndieRock artists like Jesse Dayton & Kelley Stoltz.

For the careful listener you’ll also hear a couple previously unreleased live recordings of a couple of my old late 80’s era bands Mom & The Rolling Scabs.

 

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Rotober Random Revelations Mixcloud

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Gotta lil’ bored and needed to share some quarantunes with my peeps online… If yer around me in the house, you’d know I spend hours everyday regurgitatin’ through thousands of albums . For those that don’t have the pleasure of me drunkenly thumbing through the shelves and pulling out obscurities I created a digital simulation. This is an official 2 Hour Guided Missile Of a Mixtape, literaly pounds upon pounds of platters painstakingly plopped under yr Spin Doctor’s new needle. (NOTE: long before a hippie jam band in NYC used the name Spin Doctors, I was using the Spin Doctor moniker on flyers for my DJ gigs around San Francisco. I eventually gave up because you know, Little Miss Can’t Be Blecch was getting way too much MTV time, and killed my buzz).

We Begin With Members Of The Dils Cowboy Nation Covering Dave Alvin of The Blasters And End With Wanda Jackson Imitating Charlie Rich. In The Middle We Get Tales Of The Big Boys Playing With Trouble Funk & Gwar Being Banned From The Club For Life At Their Very First Show. There’s Cosmic Sounds Of The Zodiac, BT Express, Flo & Eddie, Kendra Smith, Tom T. Hall, Chuck Prophet, Nick Lowe, The Mexican Hat Dance, Stax Soul Icons & Successful Major Label Heavies Revisiting Their Punk Roots. A Rarely Heard Hip-Hop Collab Between Lil’ Jon, Jay Z & Too Short, Indie Rock Rarities From The Incredible Casuals, And Beatnik Beatch, Plus Hawaiian Islander Protest Music From Israel Kamakawiwo’ole & Michael Kahikina. Dusty Springfield vs Tony Joe White, Hank Ballard vs Kris Kristofferson, Roberta Flack vs Les McCann …So, Uh, Yeah It’s A Thing & It’s All Happening Deep Inside The Random Revelations Rotober 2020 Mix.

Anyhow the the turntablist spins sonic stories for the masses in my latest Illegal , Immoral & Fattening mix…






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Church Of Misery 25th Anniversary Tour

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Yasuto Muraki, who has spent 3 years playing with the Japanese Doom Metal purveyors Church Of Misery is leaving the fold next month, and this was one of his final US appearances. Church Of Misery, who specialize in dark doom metal inspired by various infamous serial killers brought their 25th Anniversary North American Tour through San Francisco and ended their set with Murderfreak Blues (Tommy Lynn Sells) a dirge from their 2016 album “And Then There Were None” .

multi-cam clip shot with Insta360, and Zoom Q2n cameras imported and edited on my LG Android & iPhone phone using KineMaster, YouCut and audio mixed and sequence prepped with Adobe Premiere

CHURCH OF MISERY
CHURCH OF MISERY live at Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco on 25th Anniversary Tour
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Richie Ramone Live in Las Vegas – Smash You / I Just Want To Have Something To Do

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Here’s veteran rocker Richie Ramone, backed by his touring band featuring throttle down Aussie six string meister Ronnie Simmons on guitar, Clare Misstake on Bass and ex-Feederz drummer Ben Reagan. This clip of classic Ramones’ tunes was recorded live at The Dive Bar in Las Vegas. The band were pumpin’ up the volume, but with vocals at the mercy of an atrociously lame PA, but what would ya expect at a place called the Dive Bar? I shot this clip on the first night of their 2016 US Tour that eventually took this band across the US via dozens of energetic shows in some 26 states, and then onto the EU, South America, and Asia.

Richie Ramone on vocals, Clare Misstake on Bass, Ben Wah on Drums, Ronnie Simmons on Guitar
Live at The Dive Bar in Las Vegas

Richie Ramone (aka Richard Reinhardt) joined the Ramones in the early 80’s when Marky was demoted due to an alcohol related reliability problem at the time. Through some of their most extensive touring runs, best selling albums, and highest charting singles, Richie infused new energy into the group, and was the fabled NYC band’s backbeat for hundreds of gigs. Richie played on, and even co-wrote some of their best known songs of the 1980’s including “Somebody Put Something In My Drink” and the single “Smash You” (seen in this clip). After a well documented falling out with Johnny and the band, essentially over not receiving a split from the band merch (especially t-shirt’s that bore his name and photo), he quit in a huff in the late 80’s.

Reinhardt recently resumed his indentity as Richie Ramone to keep his former band’s fabled four on the floor 1-2-3-4-Go sound alive, and give a new generation a chance to experience a full throttle rock show like the Ramones once delivered night after night.

Richie Ramone Entitled LP

His album “Entitled” dropped in 2013, and “Cellophane” arrived in the fall of 2O16 featuring all new tunes from Richie with the same ol’ bad attitude the Ramones were known for… I own both and ain’t afraid to spin ’em, even if the neighbors disapprove.

Richie Ramone Autographed White Vinyl "Entitled" LP
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Old Firm Casuals – Hell’s A Lot Better

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Bassist Casey Watson sings lead vocal on “Hell’s A Lot Better”, the lead off track from the Old Firm Casuals’ 2017 EP release “Wartime Rock ‘n’ Roll“. Shot Dec 27th 2019 at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland, here’s their closing track that night.

The Old Firm Casuals are an American street punk band formed in 2010 as a sequel to Lars Frederiksen’s previous Rancid side project band known as Lars Frederiksen and The Bastards. Other members of his Old Firm Casuals unit include Paul Rivas (drums) and Gabriel Gabriloff (lead, rhythm guitar vocals).


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Stiv Eitzel vs Jesus Craptacular Superstar

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Here is the first clip I’ve had time to edit from the annual Xmess Craptacular at the Make Out Room in San Francisco.

These two songs below are sung by Mark Eitzel, (formerly of American Music Club) with the band consisting of Tom Ayres and Bart Davenport on guitars, Pete Strauss on bass,  Michael Urbano on drums with that mini Capelle on percussion holding down the rhythm section. These surprise numbers were definitely among the evening’s roller coaster of highs and lows and highlights for low lifes who get back on and ride again.

more videos from this annual event that benefits the San Francisco food bank and livens up a dreary holiday season will be forthcoming as time permits…stay tuned

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Cock Sparrer – Teenage Heart at #RockTheShip

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UK Boot Boy Glam Rockers Cock Sparrer Present Their Classic Song “Teenage Heart” From The Flight Deck Of The U.S.S. Hornet Aircraft Carrier In Alameda CA.

Cock Sparrer performing at Rock The Ship

The occasion was “Rock The Ship” a festival celebrating the 15th Anniversary Of Pirates Press Records, and quite an event and logistical nightmare it was, with shows taking place over multiple venues on 4 successive nights and peaking with this headlining set aboard a massive aircraft carrier.

Amongst the many details Pirates Press and their event production staff accounted for included the building of a separate 30 foot high entrance scaffolding to accommodate getting attendees up to the flight deck of the decommissioned aircraft carrier just for the event.

#staytuned catch more Cock Sparrer Official video and other clips from #RockTheShipFestival coming soon to my https://lilmike.me page in the near future…