Saturday Music Club: some concerts and such, mostly rock, some jazz-pop

Some better recorded than others...

Aretha Franklin on The Steve Allen Show for Westinghouse stations and national syndication by them (the series that most influenced David Letterman's '80s chat show work), 1964...piano not always mic'd correctly, alas. (Clips-series repeats after first play.) 

"Lover, Come Back to Me"

"Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody"

"Won't Be Long"

"Skylark"

"Evil Gal Blues"

...then repeats the same sequence.

Fanny: 1971-73. and some later, television and related performances (click link for video combo, or this one for Beat Club gig in entirety.)

FLiP: Love the Toxic City, 2020

01. Tarantula - 0:00 02. ニル・アドミラリ - 3:26 03. カザーナ - 6:44 04. Dear Miss Mirror - 11:04 05. Shut Up, Men! - 14:14 06. 二十億光年の漂流 - 18:47 07. かごめかごめ - 22:22 08. ライラ - 26:26 09. Raspberry Rhapsody - 30:07 10. darkish teddy bear - 34:25 11. ホシイモノハ - 37:30 12. a will - 41:36 13. 永遠夜~エンヤ~ - 47:29 14. Log in “Rabbit Hole” - 53:27 15. CHERRY BOMB - 57:09 16. カミングアウト- 1:00:57 17. カートニアゴ - 1:04:17 18. 最後の晩餐 - 1:08:36 19. Bat Boy! Bat Girl! - 1:12:36 -Encore- 20. 平成ジュラシック - 1:18:51 21. ナガイキス - 1:24:45

The Dream Syndicate at Rockpalast, 2017

1. Halloween 00:00:00 2. The Circle 00:06:48 3. 80 West 00:11:03 4. Armed With An Empty Gun 00:15:07 5. Like Mary 00:19:28 6. Out Of My Head 00:24:50 7. Filter Me Through You 00:28:50 8. Burn 00:32:33 9. Whatever You Please 00:38:12 10. Medicine Show Go 00:42:03 11. How Did I Find Myself Here 00:45:31 12. Forrest For The Trees 00:56:06 13. That’s What You Always Say 01:00:19 14. The Days Of Wine & Roses 01:04:30 15. Interview 01:11:41 16. Glide 01:15:07 17. Boston 01:20:58 Steve Wynn - lead vocals, guitar;  Jason Victor - guitar, backing vocals; Mark Walton - bass, backing vocals; Chris Cacavas - keyboards, backing vocals; Dennis Duck - drums

Bôa: Acton Live

1. Ambula - 0:00 2. Bitch - 1:40 3. Disco - 5:08 4. DIY - 9:13 5. Freakshow - 16:51 6. Headstrong - 19:52 7. I Am A Woman - 23:57 8. I Love You - 29:33 9. It Could Be Better - 34:27 10. Love Peace Harmony - 37:27 11. Smooth Water - 41:47 12. Snake - 45:27 13. Welcome - 50:14 14. Who Are You - 56:07 15. You're Wrong - 1:00:55 Ed Herten - Drums; Alex Caird - Bass; Ben Henderson - Sax; Paul Turrell - Keyboards; Steve Rodgers - Guitar, vocals; Jasmine Rodgers - Vocals

Jawbox live at the Black Cat, 2022

:00:57 FF=66 0:03:49 Mirrorful 0:06:51 Nickel Nickel Millionaire 0:09:53 Reel 0:13:23 68 0:16:50 Desert Sea 0:20:02 Won't come off 0:23:19 Spoiler 0:25:49 Consolation Prize 0:29:19 Grip 0:33:46 Lowdown 0:36:34 Under Glass 0:38:22 Static 0:42:05 Ones and Zeros 0:45:09 Send Down 0:48:33 Iodine 0:52:04 Livid 0:56:20 Cruel Swing 0:58:56 Motorist 1:02:44 Jackpot Plus 1:06:09 Savory 1:20:30 U-Trau 1:15:50 Cornflake Girl

The Zombies, Colingswood NJ, 2018

Road Runner 

The Look of Love 

I Want You Back Again 

I Love You 

Sanctuary 

Moving On Edge of the Rainbow 

Tell Her No 

You've Really Got a Hold on Me/Bring It On Home to Me 

Chasing the Past 

Care of Cell 44 

This Will Be Our Year 

I Want Her She Wants Me 

Time of the Season 

Hold Your Head Up 

She's Not There 

God Gave Rock and Roll to You

The Go! Team US tour 2018

1. Flashlight Fight 2. Mayday 4:40 3. Ladyflash 9:34 4. The Answer’s No 13:42 5. Hey! 18:37 6. Semicircle Song 22:27 7. Chainlink Fence 26:26 8. Get It Together 30:29 9. Rolling Blackouts 34:20 10. Everyone's a VIP to Someone 38:35 11. Huddle Information 43:06 12. All the Way Live 47:26 13. Keys to the City 51:53 14. She’s Got Guns 57:01 15. The Power Is On 1:01:07

Some of my favorite rock/related music videos: Saturday Music Club

Jawbox: "Savory"

Fanny: "Place in the Country"

The Breeders: "Safari"

The Roots w/Erykah Badu: "You Got Me"

Miriam Makeba: "Mbube"

The Bangles: "The Real World" and "Want  You"

Thievery Corporation: "The Richest Man in Babylon"

Miriam Makeba: "Into Yam"

The Ex: "Soon All Cities"

FLiP: "Karto Niago" (or "Kāto Niago")

The Go! Team (with Bethany Consentino and Angèle David-Guillou): "Rolling Blackouts"

Light in Babylon: "Hinech Yafa"

2 by Jawbox...

What amounted to their "last single"...originally released on the odds and ends collection My Scrapbook of Fatal Accidents:

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...and what amounted to their first, also collected on that album, but first offered on a MaximumRockNRoll compilation, They Don't Get Paid, They Don't Get Laid, But Boy Do They Work Hard:


And since "Bullet Park" is named for a John Cheever novel but is not based on it (unlike Jawbox's "Motorist," which is based on J. G. Ballard's Crash), the Bangles' "Dover Beach," also not based on the Matthew Arnold poem, but the title stuck with them:

Friday's "Forgotten"...: FIRST WORLD FANTASY AWARDS edited by Gahan Wilson (Doubleday 1977) and (the album) Jawbox: FOR YOUR OWN SPECIAL SWEETHEART

Cover by Gahan Wilson, of course:

From the Contento Indices:

First World Fantasy Awards ed. Gahan Wilson (New York: Doubleday 0-385-12199-7, Oct ’77, $8.95, 311pp, hc)
9 · Introduction · Gahan Wilson · in
11 · Map of Providence · Gahan Wilson · il
15 · The Convention · Kirby McCauley · ar *
17 · About the Fantasy Awards · Gahan Wilson · ar *
19 · The Awards · Gahan Wilson · bi *
21 · The Bat Is My Brother · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales Nov ’44
36 · Beetles · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales Dec ’38
46 · Acceptance Speech · Robert Bloch · sp *
53 · About Robert Bloch · Misc. · bg *
55 · from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld · Patricia A. McKillip · ex New York: Atheneum, 1974
63 · An Essay · Robert Aickman · ar *
66 · Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal · Robert Aickman · nv F&SF Feb ’73
97 · The Events at Poroth Farm · T. E. D. Klein · na From Beyond the Dark Gateway #2 ’72
137 · A Father’s Tale [Brigadier Ffellowes] · Sterling E. Lanier · nv F&SF Jul ’74
168 · Sticks · Karl Edward Wagner · nv Whispers Mar ’74
187 · Come Into My Parlor · Manly Wade Wellman · ss The Girl With the Hungry Eyes, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, Avon, 1949
198 · Fearful Rock · Manly Wade Wellman · na Weird Tales Feb ’39 (+2)
253 · About Manly Wade Wellman · Misc. · bg
254 · The Ballantines · Misc. · bg
256 · Lee Brown Coye // An Appreciation · Gahan Wilson · ar Whispers #3 ’74
260 · The Bait [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser] · Fritz Leiber · vi Whispers Dec ’73
263 · The Vampire in America · Manly Wade Wellman · ar Whispers Dec ’73
268 · The Shortest Way [Dama (& Vettius)] · David Drake · ss Whispers Mar ’74
277 · From “Chips and Shavings” · Lee Brown Coye · ar Mid-York Weekly Oct 17 ’63
279 · The Soft Wall · Dennis Etchison · ss Whispers Jul ’74
290 · Toward a Greater Appreciation of H.P. Lovecraft · Dirk W. Mosig · ar Whispers Jul ’73
302 · The Abandoned Boudoir · Joseph Payne Brennan · pm Whispers Jul ’74
302 · Cradle Song for an Abandoned Werewolf [“Cradle Song for a Baby Werewolf”] · H. Warner Munn · pm Whispers Jul ’73
303 · Guillotine · Walter Shedlofsky · pm The Fantastic Acros, 1970
304 · The Farmhouse · David A. Riley · ss New Writings in Horror and the Supernatural #1, ed. David A. Sutton, London: Sphere, 1971; Whispers Jul ’74

Okay, so, more than any other single book, except perhaps the Ellison collection/anthology Partners in Wonder, this one's responsible for my typing this bit of electronically-captured prose...for it was a rather delayed but nonetheless welcome celebration and representation of the First World Fantasy Convention, in Providence, RI, in 1975 (venue chosen in honor of H.P. Lovecraft, in whose likeness the annual award statues, the Howards, are struck, from a design by editor and world-famous cartoonist Wilson. I was aware, distantly, of the fannish subculture that had developed around sf and fantasy, and had spread to help create similar subcultures around crime fiction and comics (and was helping to create one around punk rock as this book was being published, even as it had particularly around folk music in the '60s), but this book is also an invitation to the ongoing World Fantasy Conventions and all their sibling gatherings, publication, etc. Isaac Asimov's introductions to The Hugo Winners volumes and the SFWA Nebula Award anthologies also had a similar effect, but they documented the fannish apparatus rather more sketchily than the speech transcripts, the bits of on-the-scene journalism and other matter usually not published in a trade-press (as opposed to fannish-press) book, left out at libraries where not-particularly-innocent children can stumble right across them (I was already a fan of first Life Achievement Award-winner Robert Bloch, whose stories collected here were more rare [at that time] than good, and of Manly Wade Wellman (his sample stories are better and more representative), and certainly knew of J.P. Brennan's and Robert Aickman's work...but I believe this might've been my first exposure to Dennis Etchison, Fritz Leiber, and certainly to T.E.D. Klein and Patricia McKillip, her excerpt being the major representative of non-horror fantasy in these proceedings (though David Drake, whose work I believe I'd seen in The Year's Best Horror Stories annual, skirts the line there, too). Never did develope a taste for Sterling Lanier's club stories in the Brigadier Ffellowes series, in the tradition of Gerald Kersh and Lord Dunsany, among others (who did it better)...Lanier might be remembered longest for being the editor at the Philly-suburb how-to publisher Chilton who encouraged them to take on a much-rejected epic sf novel by newish writer Frank Herbert, Dune, which gave him some leeway to publish some further fiction titles there, including his own work. And Lee Brown Coye...just the other day, the town of Hamilton, NY, saw an auction to fundraise to preserve a mural Coye did there...all in all, a fine anthology, but a more important document (that Stuart Schiff's Whispers magazine started publishing best-of/new fiction anthologies the next year didn't hurt, either).

The newly rereleased album's cover on DeSoto, and the original Atlantic cover.

Meanwhile, a "forgotten" album is about to be re-released...Jawbox was the best of the punk/postpunk bands to form in DC in the late '80s (better than Fugazi, certainly, and better than such wonderful live acts that recorded poorly as Fidelity Jones or Autoclave...), and they did one superb (incorporating their wonderful ep and another anthology track) and one good album on Dischord Records, the legendary DC-based indie label, and went on to sign with Atlantic Records in 1993, the first of the DC punk bands to follow in the wake of Husker Du to take that gamble (it paid off about as poorly for them as for the Minneapolis band...though, having interviewed Jawbox with my then not yet Ex Donna some months back and having been one of their most voluble fans in the various media available to me at the time ["alternative" newspaper, fanzine, radio--the show Sweet Freedom, actually], I ran into J. Robbins at someone else's concert just after they'd signed the contract and just after I'd sold my first short story, and we wondered just how much of the world was breathlessly awaiting our next steps). Since then, Jawbox has broken up (it's been a dozen years now) and while their members, particularly Kim Coletta, have made a real label out of DeSoto Records (formerly an injoke that various DC sorts would slap on their self-released items), having released among much else an excellent odds and ends collection My Scrapbook of Fatal Accidents and now a remastered version of the first, brilliant Atlantic album, For Your Own Special Sweetheart, which I thought sounded pretty damned good the first time around...to promote this rerelease, the band will be reforming to play on NBC's chat show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on December 8th. Perhaps a tour will follow, which would be nice.


Here's FYOSS, including the song "Motorist" inspired by J.G. Ballard's novel Crash, recorded well before the David Cronenberg-directed film adaptation.

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