Earth, Wind & Fire – “Evil” (Live – 1973)
More early funk magic from EW&F – October 5, 1973…
Earth, Wind & Fire – “Shining Star” (Live – 1975)
The celestial funk heroes live on “The Midnight Special”
Blackbyrd McKnight – “Maggot Brain” (Live)
P-Funk guitarist Blackbyrd McKnight performs the famous Funkadelic guitar showcase “Maggot Brain” made famous by the late Eddie Hazel (and then later on by his successor Michael “Kidd Funkadelic” Hampton). Blackbyrd proves he can also play this song just as soulfully as his predecessors.
It was recorded at a place called the Starland Ballroom – not sure of the date though. I’m guessing it’s from within the last 5-10 years.
Prince – “PFUnk” (2007)
This was a song released last year exclusively online – it was in response to Prince Fans United. Supposedly Prince is at war with his own fans but It’s a long story as to the exact details. I’d rather just enjoy this extremely funky & rocking tune.
He apparently has resurrected “Camille” from the dead and added some Funkadelic (P-Funk) flavor in the process. So, as you can tell, the title works on 2 different levels.
Liquid Liquid – “Optimo” (1983)
A very obscure, underrated band from the early 80s. Their most well-known moment is the bass & drum funk of “Caravan” whose bass line was the blueprint for the rap classic “White Lines” by Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel.
This song is another funk-punk gem from 1983…
(Note: This is audio only)
The Minutemen – “Little Man With a Gun in His Hand” (Live – 1984)
San Pedro, CA’s contribution to the world….live at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C.
Jack Kerouac – “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose” (1958)
Jack’s list of the essentials to spontaneous writing…his philosophy was “first thought = best thought.” He felt the best writing was what came straight from your brain, without revision, although he DID sometimes “cheat” and ignore that advice.
- Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
- Submissive to everything, open, listening
- Try never get drunk outside yr own house
- Be in love with yr life
- Something that you feel will find its own form
- Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
- Blow as deep as you want to blow
- Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
- The unspeakable visions of the individual
- No time for poetry but exactly what is
- Visionary tics shivering in the chest
- In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
- Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
- Like Proust be an old teahead of time
- Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
- The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
- Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
- Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
- Accept loss forever
- Believe in the holy contour of life
- Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
- Don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better
- Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
- No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
- Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
- Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
- In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
- Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
- You’re a Genius all the time
- Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
Lester Bangs & the Delinquents – “Kill Him Again” (1981)
Taken from the album Jook Savages on the Bravos (1981), as is “Nuclear War” below. More punkish rock & roll from the late, great rock critic Lester Bangs. I highly recommend getting the 2 collections of his written work: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic and Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader.
(Note: This is not a video – audio only)
Lester Bangs & the Delinquents – “Nuclear War” (1981)
The world’s greatest rock critic Lester Bangs decides to get a band together & write some songs. This is the result: a very decent punkish song circa 1981.
(Note: This is not a video – audio only)
The Squires – “Going All the Way” (1966)
Great, underrated garage rock from Bristol, CT’s Squires. This was their first single & was a local hit.
I own a great compilation by them on vinyl that came out in 1986 called Going All the Way With the Squires on Crypt Records. If you can locate it, I highly recommend it to any garage rock collector.
(Note: This is not a video – just audio)
The Beat Patrol 