For whatever reason (ignorance or senility) , I don’t recall ever seeing this clip of The Jam at their ’77 peak. It’s from the German Punk in London documentary. The whole documentary is available here, but I have a feeling this Jam performance is the highlight. Although some heavyweights are interviewed, the performance segments are mostly B-listers.
Free Again
I vaguely remember this coming out, and thinking I should listen to it. Seven years later I’ve finally gotten around to it, and it’s great. Recorded at Ardent after Box Tops and before Big Star, it’s loose and fun, but not as sardonic or weird as his later solo stuff. I’ve been streaming it, but am hunting it down on Discogs.
Crossing fingers for Renfield stories in the comments.
These Guys Again
And about time! Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, AND Malcolm McDowell?
Truth Seekers is a supernatural comedy drama series featuring Nick Frost, Samson Kayo, Simon Pegg, and Emma D’Arcy. A group of part-time paranormal investigators team up to uncover a deadly conspiracy.
I’m in. No firm release date yet.
Donuts. Los Angeles.
More Starcrawler.
Good find, Makerbot!
Goofy TV Gigs
I completely missed this one when it aired. I don’t remember hearing about it at all. A little sad, by ’79 the Ramones should have been too big for the Sha Na Na show.
But I did happen to be watching the tube in ’68 when psychedelic proto-punks The Seeds (as The Warts) mimed their biggest hit, the classic pushy-girlfriend-fuck-off song, “Pushin’ to Hard” on a now-forgotten sitcom called The Mothers-in-Law. I bought the album soon after. Oddly enough, that album had been released two years earlier, and they’d released another since, but they were still pushin’ this song on TV. The second verse and guitar break were edited out.
The First Family
Vaughn Meader as JFK, the full album from 1962. Still pretty funny.
We’re All Going To Die
Thanks to these conspiracy theory morons.
Jump Rope Gazers
New Beths album out recently. Their last one never left heavy rotation on my Walkman.
Uh, wild thing, uh, I think I love you…
This novelty single actually reached #20 on the charts, according to Wikipedia. I remember hearing it on AM radio very often when it was first released, so it might have charted higher in some areas. It was taken out of rotation after his assassination.