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Hello,

I have been getting into some seriously awesome shit lately, seriously. I started digging a little bit deeper into 60’s psychedelic and  garage music and  found some bands that have been blowing me away over the last month or so. These latest mixes, which are actually taken from my radioshow and include my sweet sultry DJ voice, feature a lot of the artists and albums I have recently been blasting on my boom-box while I freak out.

I have been especially impressed with The Outsiders (from The Netherlands, not the American version) and can’t seem to get enough of their 65-69 singles collection. Their songs have a punk quality to them but are softened with incredibly catchy melodies and a smooth vocal delivery….maybe a bit like The Buzzcocks I would say. Check out this video for the song “lying all the time”…Look at Wally Tax play that Tambourine…so life-like!

Nearly all of the selections chosen hover somewhere between those glorious years of 1965-1974. I left out so many great artists in these mixes and will hopefully have a pt. 2 post some time in the future.

Talk to you soon,

Collin

Full Radio Setlist

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The Tape-Beatles “The American Adventure” from The Grand Delusion SINGLE (1993)
Silver Apples “Lovefingers” from Silver Apples (MCA 1968)
Shocking Blue “Boll Weevil” from At Home (1969)
Tomorrow “My White Bicycle” from S/T (1st LP) (1967)
The Outsiders “Don’t You Worry About Me” from strange things are happening (RPM Records UK 2005)
Aphrodite’s Child “The Four Horsemen” from 666 (Universal Int’l 1971)
The Deviants “Bun” from Ptoof! (Alive Records 1967)
B)
Faust “Krautrock” from Faust IV (Caroline 1974)
White Noise “Firebird” from An Electric Storm (Universal 1969)
Skip Spence “Broken Heart” from Oar (Sundazed Music Inc. 1969)
Ithaca “Feelings (look around – I want to feel you)” from Game For All Who Know (1973)
Gong “Glad to Sad to Say” from Magick Brother (Snapper UK 1969)
Fifty Foot Hose “The Things That Concern You” from Cauldron (Radioactive 1969)
Aphrodite’s Child “Seven Trumpets” from 666 (Universal Int’l 1971) 
Aphrodite’s Child “Altamount” from 666 (Universal Int’l 1971)
The Fugs “Life Is Strange” from It Crawled into My Hand, Honestly (4 men with beards 1968)
The Tape-Beatles “Behold A Republic” from The Grand Delusion SINGLE (1993)
Silver Apples “Oscillations” from Silver Apples (MCA 1968)
Blossom Toes “Look at Me I’m you” from We Are Ever So Clean (Sunbeam Records 1967)

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Odetta / Odetta Sings Dylan / Masters of War

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Odetta / Odetta at Carnegie Hall / When I Was a Young Girl

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Odetta / Sings Ballads and Blues / Spiritual Trilogy (Oh Freedom,Come And Go With Me,i’m On My Way)

My Father’s Darkroom Door

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Hello,

Awhile back I received a voice message that was not meant for me. The message was from an older woman, maybe 75 years old or so, it began, “Hi Bobby, this is Gene and I wanted to let you know that I fell down yesterday and  I’d really like to talk to you or see you, please call me”. It was a downright sad message, her voice sounded frail and I couldn’t stand the thought of this woman never reaching Bobby, waiting for Bobby to call, and all due to her dialing the wrong number. I decided to call her back and let her know she had dialed the wrong number and that bobby never received her message.  The phone rang and she picked up and I began to explain the mix-up but she interrupted me “it’s so nice of you to call me back, bobby, I have had hard times these last two days”. She went on to tell me how she fell down while in the kitchen and had broken her collar bone and crawled to the phone in order to get some help. Now there was help at the house and they had her taking all sorts of pain medications. I empathized with her for a moment and then began to reiterate that I was not Bobby and that she still needed to call him. She listened for a second and responded, “thank you so much for calling me Bobby and I hope you can come out and visit with your father one day soon, I had better go, the nurse is here”. I thought about telling her I wasn’t Bobby one more time, but instead I let her know that maybe we could visit one day soon and that I hoped her pain was tolerable and that she could call me anytime.

I haven’t been in a movie watching mood for quite awhile now, I’m not sure why. These days I watch The Office once a week, a Chaplin film here and there,  and maybe a documentary every now and again. A couple of weeks back I started watching The Planet Earth nature documentaries and I have been totally in awe of what I have seen. I’m totally enthralled with them and I plan on making my way through all 4 discs (are there more?). Here is a clip from the Snow Leopard section of the series.

Here are a couple short stories that I read recently and liked:

“Days of Heaven” by Rick Bass (Montana author with a story about a man house sitting a mansion in MT)

“Night They Missed the Horror Show” by Joe Lansdale (this is disturbing, shocking, and offensive…A real horror story, I genuinely warn you)

Lately I’ve been losing interest in the internet and I’ve let mix after mix fall through the cracks never to be posted on this site, but I have a renewed will at the moment and I promise not to let ink math go stale and dead like so many other blogs out there. And it’s hard to update the blog when the sun is shining outdoors.  I suspect this winter will turn me into a shut-in and I will do nothing except drink coffee and concoct hot fresh mixes for you. Oh, and on top of all the new mixes you’ll be getting here,  KBGA will begin streaming over the internet soon and you can listen to all your favorite KBGA programs from any computer station in the world.

Well, this Joe Meek mix is something special if you ask me…I think it might be one of my favorites ink math mixes so far. I offer it up to you as a sacrifice for my lack of new content over the last few months. The binding theme of this mix is that each of these songs was produced by the amazing English producer Joe Meek. Joe did the production on about 245 songs from 1959-1967 and I have about 130 of those songs and I went through and picked out some of my favorites for this mix. I came across Joe Meek while I was deep within my Buddy Holly obsession last year this time. I was reading an article about Buddy and it mentioned english producer Joe Meek as someone who was not only influenced heavily by Buddy and produced many holly-esque tunes, but also idolized him and was convinced that Buddy communicated to him through dreams. Aside from liking Buddy, Joe was also an incredibly creative and imaginative producer who invented groundbreaking recording techniques that made his particular production style standout as one far ahead of its time. If you’re interested in Joe there is a great book out there that will really give you the juice on the man. Unfortunately the hits started drying up for Joe, and he was already a tortured soul, so on the 8th anniversary of Buddy Holly’s death in 1967 Joe took a shotgun and killed his landlady before turning it on himself.  Long story short.

Oh, and the link section has been updated…know of anything that is missing in there? bye, Collin

Artist / Song

Side A

Emile Ford & The Checkmates / What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?
Heinz / Questions I Can’t Answer
Shade Joey and The Night Owls / Bluebirds Over The Mountain
The Impac / Too Far Out
Jason Eddie and The Centremen / Come On Baby
Heinz / Just Like Eddie
Mike Berry and The Outlaws / My Baby Doll
The Honeycombs / Have I the Right? / Video
The Blue Rondos / Little Baby
Ray Dexter / Just Like You
The Buzz / I Gotta Buzz
The Birds of Prey / Love Gone Again
Jason Eddie and The Centremen / Singing the Blues

Side B

Glenda Collins / Something I’ve got to Tell you
Michael Cox / Angela Jones
Mike Berry and The Outlaws / Just A Matter of Time
Michael Cox / I Can’t Make up my Mind
Heinz / I’m not a Bad Guy
Alexander Combo / Can’t you Hear my Heart?
Mike Berry and The Outlaws / Tribute to Buddy Holly
The Cryin’ Shames / Please Stay / Video
Joe Meek / I Hear a New World
Glenda Collins / It’s Hard to Believe It

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Deer, Fifty Mountain Campsite, Glacier NP

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Howdy,

Above we see a picture of a deer sneaking near my campsite in order to A) steal a piece of clothing with my sweat soaked into it, or gnaw on it, B) find a puddle of salty urine from which to lap, or C) give me the heebie-jeebies as I lay in my tent wondering what that sound might be. The correct answer is all of the above.

I finally got my big summer backpacking trip in a few weeks ago. Some friends and I did six nights in Glacier National Park on a route known as “The North Circle”. The route  was incredibly scenic throughout, almost more so than any other I’ve done, the skies were perfectly crisp and blue and fall colors had just begun to appear. We saw an amazing number of mountain goats, a black bear momma with her cub (she stood on her hind legs and checked us out, we stood poised for action), a wolf, a ram, crazy deer, a fat ass marmot that looked too big to be a marmot, some birds of prey, possibly an eagle, and maybe some others, sorry if I forgot you. Anyway, it was a near flawless trip with the only downside (possibly up for my hiking partners) being that my thermamest emptied itself out about every two hours throughout the night which makes for some troubling sleep.  Here are a few various photos from various days during the trip.

This last weekend was the KBGA Birthday Bash, our twelfth birthday. The night was ’50s themed so I did my best to look like a kid from the 1950s who was up to no good, but I ended up with more of a late ’60s man-child look.  I did two live DJ sets of late ’50s / early ’60s rock and roll and the crowd even danced for a while, which had never really happened to me before while DJing, usually everyone is slightly reserved and I stand there stroking my chin in between songs. I’m thinking about trying to do those sets live on KBGA this coming week since I didn’t even really touch most of the material I had selected for the night, so if that happens I’ll post a link for you. The whole Birthday Bash was rad and I feel so lucky to be able to be part of a radio station like KBGA. The last band at the birthday bash, Monotonix, was one of the most insane and unique shows to ever come through Missoula and Day over at Vintage Vinyl Revival wrote up a great review with pictures and video that you should definitely check out…Missoula is not likely to see a show like this again anytime soon.

In a few weeks time I am heading to Seattle for a few days in order to see The Fleet Foxes and do some old fashioned record shopping. I’ve heard so many people give rave reviews on The Fleet Foxes live show and I have listened to their self-titled album quite a bit, so I am definitely looking forward to seeing them. The last time I was in Seattle must have been when I was ten years old or so. I remember seeing a picture of myself from this trip where I was wearing a fluorescent green wind jacket and little flip down john lennon-esque sunglasses standing on a pier somewhere…aside from that picture, and men throwing fish, I remember nothing about Seattle…it should be good to be there, it’ll be like the first time.

Well, here is an edited version of my radio show from last week. I think you’ll like this mix…It’s pretty rocking and bad ass, but also has some tender moments hidden within.  Also, there are a few tracks from The Conet Project in this mix and I highly suggest tracking that down for yourself on the web because it is cool and weird.

Bye, Collin

Artist / Album / Song

Faust / Faust / It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl

The Conet Project / The Conet Project / German Lady

Glenn Branca / Lesson Number One / Lesson #1 For Electric Guitar

Neu! / Neu! ’75 / Isi

The Books / Music for a French Elevator / Millions of Millions

Tom Verlaine / Dreamtime / Deep Penetration

The Association / Insight Out / Never My Love

The Beau Brummels / Bradley’s Barn / Turn Around

The Conet Project / The Conet Project /

Akron/Family / Eskimo / There You Are

The 13th Floor Elevators / The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators / Splash 1 (alternate)

Wilderness Sculpture, www.joshshaffner.com

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howdy,

This summer here in Montana has been spectacular and I have been unable to drive myself indoors to compute up some new ink math mixes for you, but luckily the last 2 days have been nothing but rain and gray so I’ve finally planted myself down to work it on out. Over the last few weeks I have been living in an album from 1976 called, “Have Moicy!’”… I’ve either been listening to it, singing the songs in my head, or making up my own lyrics to match the harmonies from the record and singing them aloud when I am doing whatever. Have Moicy! was created by a supergroup of sorts, that being Michael Hurley, Members of The Holy Modal Rounders, and Jeffrey Frederick and The Clamtones, all real tight buds.  It’s folk but not, it’s country but not quite, and the lyrics are outrageously silly, genius, and unforgettable:, “I was cleaning my jackknife when you did appear, had to fight with you I cut off your ear.” How could a person not like a song with lyrics like, ” I was cleaning my jackknife”? I slid a few tracks from Have Moicy! into this mix (you deserve to hear the whole album, so hard to choose two songs), hoping to convince you that it is an album you need, along with some original early Holy Modal Rounders and some solo Michael Hurley. Oh, and aside from all that goodness I also put in some Incredible String Band, which never bores, and some solo work from ISB member Clive Palmer….and to put a cherry on top, a nice little hawaiian two-step from my boy, John Fahey.  Anyway, hope you like it…lemme know.

In other news I am so goddamn sick of politics and can’t bear to turn on the tv or log on to cnn or nothing. I have gorged myself on that gruel for far too long..Will it ever end? Maybe the torture never stops.

Couple weeks back I was forced to sleep in my parents’ basement. I had a week where I had to sleep at my folks’ house and on top of that my Aunt was visiting, so I was booted out of my childhood bedroom and given a mattress on the floor in the basement. I actually don’t mind sleeping in the basement…it’s cool, silent, and dark as can be, but it is also piled up with all sorts of accumulated what-have-you and I had to eeke out a little corner for my pad. I’d turn off the light and run to my pad, strap on my headlight, and read while boxes of junk towered around me (mostly my old junk, to be fair).  I was somewhat suspicious of spiders in this room, what with all the crevices, hiding spots, and the like, so when I awoke very late at night to a spider’s legs scuttling across the middle of my back I casually, but quickly, swatted the fat little sucker off and went back to dreaming. After this incident my dreams were anxiety ridden and I kept awakening and running my hands across my bed and entire body in search of more spiders. I didn’t think there were too many spiders hanging around, I hadn’t seen many, but for some reason my subconscious wouldn’t allow me the deep peaceful sleep a growing boy like myself requires. Two nights it went on like this, hour after hour awakening with thoughts of spiders crawling all about my person, so I went out and bought myself five little pieces of mind called, “catchmasters”. I laid them all around my bed and in the corners and deep in the crevices,  sticky pads, with an aroma that attracts fuzzy little ones. It was piece of mind alright, I had protectors out there guarding my bed and I was able to sleep like a lamb.  I awoke in the morning refreshed, stumbled up, did my scratching and then looked down in horror.

Oh, and at the end of September myself, and a few other dudes will be DJing a portion of the KBGA birthday  bash (which will undoubtedly rule). It’s a ’50/’60’s sock-hop theme this year, so I am going to whip together some sort of rad late ’50’s, early ’60’s rock n’ roll set that’ll get the kids bopping. Everyone is supposed to get all dressed up, so I need to dig up either a preppie sweater-wearing captain of the football team outfit, or some bad-ass, hair greased right on back, switchblade in the pocket, package of cigarettes in the sleeve, big black boots ready to rumble garb. And, I’ll post that mix up here for you in case you can’t make it.

Gone to Chattanooga to see my ponies run,

Collin

Artist / Album / Song

Michael Hurley, Unholy Modal Rounders, Jeffrey Frederick & The Clamtones / Have Moicy! / Jackknife/Red Newt

The Holy Modal Rounders / I & 2 / Blues in The Bottle

John Fahey and His Orchestra/ After the Ball / Hawaiian Two-Step

Michael Hurley / Long Journey / Polynesia

The Incredible String Band / The Big Huge / Cousin Caterpillar

The Holy Modal Rounders / The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders / Bird Song

Clive Palmer / Spirit of Love / Spirit of Love

Michael Hurley, Unholy Modal Rounders, Jeffrey Frederick & The Clamtones / Have Moicy! / The Slurf song

Michael Hurley / Armchair Boogie / Sweedeedee

Side One:

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Hi,

How does it feel to be in attendance at the world premiere of Ink Math 2.0?  Probably not too special, I suppose, considering that only a few of you came and I could only wrangle a cash-bar and a platter of cheez-its. So, out with UCTIV DOT NET and in with the DOT COM, spread the word casually, perhaps in a conversation with a co-worker, or in a brief interaction with an old woman on the subway. With the help of a wealthy and talented benefactor, this new site has finally become a reality and oozes with the sheik modern landscape I so desire in this cold sterile world of internets that we live in. There should be some new “high-tech” features beaming at you soon, such as a subscribe feature, and a link section that will guide you towards things that I think are neat, the sky is the limit. Isn’t it great that we live in The Future?

I knew that I’d have to put together a special mix for this kick-off party and I have been sitting on this one for awhile, saving it up little by little only to drop it all on you unawares for this grand occasion. Something summery, something fun, something unique, something rare, all with an underlying layer of credibility, that was my goal.  I started listening to a lot of late 50’s and early 60’s soul recently and with the addition of a few box-sets, and the right albums, I knew I had the right recipe to blow your sweet little mind. I tried to focus on female artists for this set, but a few males slipped in here and there, apologies. One boxset, “One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found”, proved especially useful for putting this together and is also totally rad on its’ own. In addition, I went through a bunch of A-Side singles from the Stax/Volt record label between the years 1959-68 and found some incredible stuff, too much stuff, and there are some odds and ends thrown in as well from whatever happened to pop up. It was kind of hard whittling down all this totally great music into two petite handy mixes, but I think I picked the real gems and I am satisfied and beg you to be as well…maybe I’ll do a part two of this sort of stuff some time.

Lulu & The Luvvers – I’ll Come Running

Also, if you are in Missoula come down to The Badlander next Tuesday July 28th to hear me DJ up what might be some of hardest and nastiest ganster rap ever made. I’m not really a fan of rap music, or hip-hop, but a few of us KBGA folk were sitting around one night and we started reminiscing about our youthful days when rap music was especially dirty, especially interesting. and was like candy to the mind of a 10 year old. After saying, “those were the days”, and having another drink of beer, we decided to take a little live DJing trip down memory lane to the year of Nineteen-Ninety Motherfuckin’ One and thus the ganster rap royal DJ night was born. I can remember convincing my Mom to tell the record store owner that it was ok for her son to buy parental advisory albums (told her that all the good albums at least had one swear word) and then coming in later by myself in order to buy every 2 Live Crew, N.W.A., and Geto Boys album they had, and this was in fifth grade. First thing I would do was throw away all the cover art and black out the group name and track-titles on the cassette, so as to assure my Dad didn’t get wind of what I was up to because one time he threw away my copy of Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik when he found it. And, after that it was headphones, and headphones only, Mom and Dad could never know. Most of the time I didn’t know what they were talking about, what with all the violence and women, but there was something so goddamn fascinating about the lyrics and the music that I kept buying tape after tape until one day I burned out and bought a Tool album.  Anyway, at the very least this DJ night should at least be funny (3 white guys in Montana playing the hardest of early 90’s ganster rap) and maybe I’ll post my set up here some time so you can fully understand the sort of filth my mind was drawn to at a very tender age.

I hope you are doing well,

Collin

Artist / Song

Side One

The Cobras / Restless

Twiggy / When I Think of You

The Fleets / Please Return to Me

Elle Greenwich / You Don’t Know

The Mad Lads / Don’t Have to Shop Around

Barbara and The Browns / In My Heart

The Teddy Bears / To Know Him is to Love him

The Crystals / He Hit Me (and it Felt Like a Kiss)

Wendy Rene / After Laughter

Side Two

Petula Clark / Heart

The Shangri-Las / Out in the Streets

Billy Joe Royal / Down in the Boondocks

Jackie DeShannon / Dream Boy

Dolly Parton / Don’t Drop Out

Lulu / I’ll Come Running

Carole King /  He’s a Bad Boy

The Chiffons / Nobody Knows What’s Goin’ On (In My Mind but Me)

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SEE

From the Great

I’ve heard so many parts so many times but I’ve never listened straight through.

Collin

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Hi,

It’s so strange, just over a week ago we had some heavy-duty wet snow laying all over the trees and now the sun is bright and my brow is consistently soaked. Montana is all over the place. It’s amazing how much the weather affects my mood. I didn’t really realize this until a couple years ago, but now, man, I feel like a king on a sunny day and a serf on a dreary. Our precipitation / snow-pack levels are higher than average this year in montana, so hopefully we will forgo hell on earth this summer and remain smoke-free in August. Hit the hills a few times over the last week or so, but mostly I’ve been bombing around like a monster on my new bike. It took me a second to find the right bike to fit my modern needs, a comfortable commuter with balls, but I found exactly what I wanted and on sale. A couple days a week I have work at 4 in the morning and I have taken a vow that I will not break down and drive on those days, but will stay true and heft myself onto my bicycle. I live up in the mountains, so on these early morning days i start off with a lengthy dark downhill that gets my heart going. It’s real country dark at 4 in the morning, and my petzl headlight barely makes a dent in the darkness as I ride. A couple mornings ago, when coming around a corner silently, I came across a fox and a cat standing there together. They both froze for an instant as my headlight hit them and then I was gone around the next corner. What was going on? Was there to be a rumble? Do foxes hunt cats? Perhaps love was in the air?

Bye,

Collin

From radio show last week Artist / Album / Song / Pump it!

Paul McCartney / McCartney / Kreen – Akrore

The Charlatans / The Amazing Charlatans / Alabama Bound

Simon and Garfunkel / Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme /A Poem on the Underground Wall

The Rolling Stones /Between the Buttons / She smiled sweetly

Smog / Strayed EP / Strayed

Andre Ethier / Andre Ethier Featuring Pickles and Price / She will never be your girl

Harry Nilsson /Nilsson Schmilsson / Jump into the fire

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Hi-

I have been neglecting you and the spring weather is to blame. I know you’ve been hungry for a new post for quite awhile and I am sorry to have starved you, but now I am going to redeem myself, and I am going to overfeed you while I’m at it. So, let’s see, I’ve got this new hot 60’s psyche post all queued up (just in time for summer) and I’ve got a few others cooking in the back of my brain, so hopefully the nice weather doesn’t sway me away from my internet duties.

There is a cat living in my house now and I call her, “Picklesworth”, and my other roommate calls her, “Bigglesworth”, but her real name is “Zoey”. She is a good cat, stays to herself mostly, but will take time out of her day to wander over and say hello. In a couple months I will be the only one living in this house and it’ll be good to have Picklesworth hanging around.

I’ve been watching the american version of “the office” a lot these days. I’m watching all the seasons out of order, but it doesn’t seem to make any difference, I catch it all. I watched all of the british version of the show a year or so ago and I loved it, but when I tried the american version I found myself entirely unfulfilled, but now it seems to be clicking and I can’t get enough.

Tonight I am going to watch The Maltese Falcon. Humphrey Bogart is the best, I really can’t get enough of him. I watched, “the treasure of the sierra madre” the other day for the second time and was totally blown away yet again. Watch this trailer and tremble.

Bye for now, there will be more, promise, collin.

Artist / song/ album

Nirvana (U.K) / Wings of Love / The Story of Simopath

We Five / You Were on my Mind / You Were on my Mind

The 13th Floor Elevators / Splash 1 / The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators

Pink Floyd / The Gnome / Piper at The Gates of Dawn

Question Mark and The Mysterians /96 Tears (alternate) / More Action

The Who / Leaving Here (alternate) / My Generation

The Mojo Men / She’s My Baby / Why Ain’t Supposed to Be

Tim Buckley / She Is / Tim Buckley

The Fugs / Carpe Diem / The Fugs Second Album

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Hi,

Yesterday while I was riding my bike up Pattee Canyon here in Missoula I happened to glance over to the shoulder of the road and saw the words, “Mom Only” showing on an envelope that was half-buried in gravel. I don’t usually stop riding my bike to check out garbage, but for some reason I did this time and was surprised to find the above note within the envelope. Finding the note is all the more strange considering that I found it near where I live, in Pattee Canyon, and there is a good chance this girl is living, or lived, in the forest somewhere near me. There is a magazine which collects found notes, pictures etc.. called, “Found”(www.foundmagazine.com), and I’m thinking about sending this one in.

I’ve been planning on posting this song by Can for quite awhile, but for some reason it has taken me longer to do so than I originally intended. This particular song, Yoodooright, is a favorite of a friend of mine and she cranked it up for me one day and knew I’d dig it. From Wikipedia:

Yoo Doo Right” is a song on Can’s 1969 debut album, Monster Movie, which had been edited down from a six-hour improvisation to a mere twenty minutes. The song features a pounding, tribal-influenced rhythm section throughout, along with singer Malcolm Mooney repeatedly reading excepts from a love letter in an almost mantra-like manner. During the song he develops a frog in his throat.

bye,

Collin

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MP3

Hi.

Read This

Been listening to this beautiful piece a lot lately.

Collin

Brian Eno / Discreet Music

Hi.

I am going to hit you with a barrage of posts this week and this first one features an album that my friend Day (Vintage Vinyl Revival) lent to me the other week after I had heard a few songs off it. This album, “nothing to lose but all to gain”, 1978, by Hansadutta Swami, has me somewhat hypnotized and I find myself putting it on over and over. It’s strange, that is for sure, but there is something comforting, fascinating, and completely original in the country-like jams and warbling/rambling/repetitious vocals. Hansadutta was once a very important person in the Hare Krishna movement and this album is rich with lyrical references to Krsna and is performed by devotee musicians, so on its’ own it stands as being unique. It’s a shame that is has yet to be available on cd…the album has a very relevant and modern feel.

From the back of the album:

As one of the eleven gurus or leaders of the world-wide Hare Krsna movement, he lives a strictly controlled life as a celibate monk in the renounced order known as sannyasa. These songs, although sung in simple english language, run deep with spiritual meaning. They contain the essence of Vedic wisdom and are therefore not only very entertaining and pleasing, but they enlighten the heart of the conditioned souls. Unlike most popular singers of today, Hansadutta Swami lives a very simple and regulated life. He is a strict vegetarian, does not indulge in illicit sex, gambling or intoxication of any kind including tea, coffee, and cigarettes. Many of the songs on this album are done for the first time in the studio without previous rehearsal. The musicians playing with Hansadutta are all traveling monks and in making this particular album had not heard the words more than once or twice before going into the recording session. Hansadutta says, “these songs are kirtan – kirtan means spontaneous singing and dancing in praise of the Lord. There is no need to practice.” He says, “If one feels love of God, love of Krsna in his heart, then whatever such a person sings will inspire in the hearer the same mood of loving devotion to Krsna.”

Without a doubt my favorite tune on the album is “The Holy Name”. It’s 12-minutes long and consists of Hansadutta repeating couplets throughout. I copied the lyrics from the back of the jacket below, so read along if you’d like, it’s somewhat hard to understand on a first listen. Collin

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The Holy Name

Nothing to lose but all to gain,
You convinced the world to chant the Holy Name.

Dirty hearts and dusty brains,
You make the lowest men dance to the Name.

Spiritually deaf, dumb, blind and lame
You cure the multitudes with the Name.

Honor, dishonor, pleasure & pain,
Kicked out as worthless by this Holy Name.

Mad after Money, women, and fame,
Sometimes even I think of chanting the Name.

I have tried every trick and played every game,
But I cannot understand what is this Name.

Sun, snow, wind, hail and rain.
All times are good for chanting the Name.

Wife, friends and relations think us insane,
This is one result of chanting the Name.

Faster than a bullet or a speeding train,
You travel around spreading the Name.

You have bound me hand and foot with a chain,
The links of which are the Holy Name.

This shameful life and feeble refrain,
I offer you, Prabhupada, for the Name.

Falling before you like a wooden cane,
Bless me with attachment to the Holy Name.

Like a generous cloud that gives rain,
May I float thru the world spreading the Name.

Full of desire for profit and gain,
You have the medicine in the shape of the Name.

Falling before you like a wooden cane,
Make me take this cure of chanting the Name.

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Hi.

If you are in Missoula this might be a nice way to spend a night…I’ll be doing a short solo set and so will Day, the curator of Vintage Vinyl Revival. Oh, and aside from the two short sets, we will also be doing a tag-team, call-and-response set together for the remainder of the evening. I hope to post some tidbits from my set up here soon.

Bye, Collin

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Hello,

I’ve been thinking about doing a Valentine’s Day mix for a little while now, but have unfortunately procrastinated too long and have had to compromise the original vision I had for the mix with this shortened, but equally effective and heart-moving set. Well, originally I intended there to be both a side 1 & 2 to this mix, with side 1 being a sweet and optimistic falling-in-love kind of thing, and side 2 representing the sorrowful, bitter, lonely, and resentful side of heartbreak. Now with time pressing down on me, and Valentine’s Day right in my face, I’ve only time to make one mix and I am choosing side two, so goodbye side one…hope to see you again some time! And also, to be honest, I have a secret obsession with sad music and I have been looking forward to making side two more so than side one. You know, maybe I will post a nice love mix in the following weeks to balance this one out, we’ll see. Well, I suppose if you are feeling down and out this Valentine’s Day then maybe this isn’t the right sort of musical choice for this particular week (may I suggest the previous jazz post), but I felt an urge to post something special for VD so I am sorry if this isn’t the right fit. Wrapping up all this gibberish and nonsensical ballyhoo, I present to you a nice fat stinking heartbreak mix, hope it suffices.

Collin

PS. And you know there are a billion awesome heartbreak songs out there and it was pure torture for me to whittle down all of my choices to a half an hour set, so please ignore any possible glaring omissions you may notice and know that I am trying.

PPS. Day, fellow audio blogger and general all around good guy, has posted a nice mix full of Valentine Love Goodies and Sweet Nothings over at his blog, Vintage Vinyl Revival. His mix would undoubtedly make a great side one to this one.

Artist / Album / Song

Roy Orbison / Bear Family 55-65 / It’s Over

Sam Cooke / The Man Who Invented Soul / Trouble Blues

Frank Zappa / MOFO / How Could I be such a Fool?

Louis Armstrong / Best of / I’m Confessin’

Leonard Cohen / Death of a Ladies Man / Iodine

The Kinks / Kinda Kinks / I Go to Sleep

Otis Redding / Pain in my Heart / Pain in my Heart

Buddy Holly / The Complete Buddy Holly / It Doesn’t Matter Anymore

Smog / Knock Knock / Left Only With Love