5 Camera video clip I edited of Marissa, Jarrett and King Mike of Brunswick New Jersey’s tophard rock touring export The Screaming Females . This video shot live on their 2018 “All At Once” tour show at Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco
Original Version of “RIPE” From the album Rose Mountain on Don Giovanni Records
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Sly Stone & Little Sister “You’re The One” Medley
Recorded exclusively for video cameras at the Metromedia Square studios on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood during September of 1973, these songs aired as part of the third episode of a popular nationally syndicated rock concert TV program, the first episode to be produced entirely within the Metromedia production facility in Hollywood.
Despite high demand. this archival footage has yet to be formally reissued. This footage was given to me on a privately pressed DVD sourced directly through Sly and the band’s original drummer Greg Errico, and I’ve been sitting on it for ten years. Some of it has been previously uploaded, but I have not seen the whole sequence with Little Sister anywhere.
This rarely seen Sly Stone set features an opening number by the vocal backing group Little Sister including his youngest sister Vaetta Stewart. Sly was in the process of promoting “Fresh” his 7th consecutive gold album, featuring the single “If You Want Me To Stay” performed here at the end of this clip, live on national TV for the first time.
In the middle of an elongated version of “Stand”, Sly addresses the crowd to inspire the room of mostly placid audience members sitting under hot TV production lights:
“Seems like every time you get a whole bunch of lights on you, people have the tendency to want to sit down, and check you out, you see. They wanna sit down and check you out, so they can go home and say, ‘man… that wasn’t nothin’. Shoot. They ain’t did nothing.’ You in it too! This song is about all of us! You know what I mean? If you believe in anything at all, what do you believe in? What? Well then stand on up for it then, what’s wrong with you?”
To hear some rare and unreleased material from the early Sly Stone era check out this compilation from Light In The Attic that my friend Pat Thomas helped put together and officially license from Sly directly
The Gits – Absynthe
Beloved and feisty Seattle band whose path to punk rock glory was cut tragically short…
Here they are performing in a rare clip of a show I shot at the Covered Wagon Saloon in San Francisco in February 1993.
Live at The SF Eagle
“Franklyn & Susie got married…it was the happiest day of their lives”
…and then some sh/t went down…
Just another folk fable as sung by the mighty Gary Floyd. A true San Francisco via Texas music icon, since arriving in the city by the bay with his band The Dicks in the early 80’s, Gary Floyd has painted with many musical colors, from the red , hot & fierce roars of bands like Black Kali Ma, to the more subtle swamp tones he tends to hit here with The Buddha Brothers. Whipping up wistful folk with some sweet & occasionally nasty down home blues elements, imagine Gary and the boys on some shaded country front porch obliviously jamming as the day passes by. Gary’s mournful howls rise above the sound of squealin’ baby pigs in the nearby sty, and his Buddha Brothers keep happily hammering home harmonies, and rapturous riffs a-plenty long after the sweltering sun goes down.
Check out these links below to Bandcamp and search for Buddha Brothers music, you can find at two separate releases from this informal amalgamation of San Francisco Bay Area musicians.
The most recent release basically features the lineup in this video, and was recorded by Donny Newenhouse at El Studio in San Francisco in 2018 on fat two inch analog tape and includes a striking cover of Karen Dalton’s “Something On Your Mind” https://chewymarzolo1.bandcamp.com/album/buddha-brothers-2018
The first Buddha Brothers digital collection was recorded a couple years earlier by Doug Hilsinger who played some pedal steel along with a lineup that included
Long before Ian Svenonius became known for his artistic sonic role playing in projects like Chain & the Gang, The Make-Up, Weird War, Cupid Car Club, and Nation of Ulysses, even before he was crowned The Sassiest Boy in America, he was just a kid I used to hang out with on the church steps.
We weren’t particularly pious, unless you call catching screaming sermons from guys like John Stabb and Ian MacKaye akin to a religion. It was the early 80’s and we were just staright-edge DC punk teens waiting out the set changes between bands before we’d go back into the sweaty hot church basement for another slam pit.
It had been years since i’d seen Ian, but he was much the same, albeit older, still wacky, but also wisened. He is like a psychedelic sage, without the drugs…a seer, but not quite a believer…now he sells Esacpe-ism…or at least rents it out.
In the heat of the summer
Better call up the plumber
And turn on the street pump
To cool me off
With your newspaper writers
And your big crime fighters
You still need a drugstore
To cure my cough
Running wild in the streets
We got a gang called Shady
And a midnight lady
And two transvestites
To beat the band
You better not touch us
You best believe us
Your teenage Johnny’s
Gonna be a man– Garland Jeffreys “Wild In The Streets”
Runnin’ wild in the streets
Mrs. America
Tell me how is your favorite son?
Do you really care
What he has done?
Runnin’ wild in the streets
Thank God for Obamacare, y’know? Or rather, thank the people who did this compromised half-assed version of health care, which really added up to something for me. And now they’re busy trying to get rid of it. So,
#FuckMitchMcConnell… you can quote me”
Read the great profile by Jason Cohen of Scott McCaughey, the multi talented musician who co-founded such bands as The Minus Five, The Filthy Friends and Young Fresh Fellows, and who has contributed much to the sounds of others either live or in numerous studio sessions with such artsists as R.E.M., The Walkabouts, Mudhoney, Alejandro Escovedo, Arthur/Buck and many others ad infinitum
https://news.streetroots.org/2019/05/10/have-you-met-scott-mccaughey
Here are some videos from our archives featuring Scott McCaughey
The Re-Volts at Thee Parkside in San Francisco
Here’s a multi-cam live clip I shot in the thick of the pit at Thee Parkside in San Francisco of The Re-Volts performing their latest rawkin’ 7″ single release, now available on Pirates Press Records
In the midst a long awaited and sold out 17 shows in a row stand at The Chapel in San Francisco in March of 2017, former Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy added a special David Bowie Tribute night to the slate of performances.
His voice was a bit of ragged glory all night, as he could barely speak, yet managed to soar through the choruses of the Bowie back catalog. After this song he introduces the touring band featuring drummer Marc Slutsky, guitarist Mark Gemini Thwaite, and multi instrumentalists Casey McAllister and Emilio Zef China who’d just tackled the classic 70’s glam rock album cut Jean Genie.
