Today let’s talk about music, as this is mainly a music blog.
When I was younger I travelled a lot more especially to the
South of the United States of America. I was always into music so through my
travels I would buy albums, cassettes, cd’s and try to get to as many gigs as I
could. I remember seeing Evan Johns and The H-Bombs at the Antone’s blues club
in Austin, Texas sometime around 1986. My mate Paul and I were going to see
Omar & The Howlers and Evan Johns was the support act, he was a giant of a
man and his band really rocked so as an obsessive collector I had to go out and
buy all the H-Bomb albums I could get my hands on. I have five or six albums
but none beats his 1986 effort “Rollin’ Through The Night” on the Alternative
Tentacles record label.
A few years later I was back in the states in New Orleans
attending the wedding of my friend Yvette and I was loitering in a few dusty
old second-hand record shops when the Schramms “Walk To Delphi” album caught my
eye, I now can’t remember whether I had heard of the band before because the
leader of the band Dave Schramm had been an early member of Yo La Tengo but I bought the album and I have
always had a soft spot for the LP especially the title track. Bucket Of Brains
magazine review said it was ‘a record
with a heart of gold, classic Americana’. I still have the review as I cut
it out and put it in the record sleeve. I paid $6.50 for it back in 1992.
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Last but not in any way least ladies and gentlemen I give you
the MC5. I was playing these tracks yesterday and I decided that these two
tracks certainly get my vote as the best ever band introduction thanks to their
manager and White Panther party activist John Sinclair the band then go
straight into two of the best heavy guitar riff’s you can ever hear. Recorded
live at the Grande Ballroom, Detroit over two night in 1969 the MC5’s “Kick Out
The Jams” is a classic of it’s kind and should be higher than 294 in Rolling
Stone’s greatest of all time list.
Enjoy
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