Langspeeltijd * Longplaytime: Monday 04 & Wednesday 06 June:The soundtracks of Zabriskie Point, Blow-Up & Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush: [Ed’s Show 2018-23]

LONGPLAYTIME:  The soundtracks of Zabriskie Point, Blow-Up & Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush: ** REPEATED: The Soul and Blues of 1967 with John Mayall, Mel Brown, Sky Saxon Blues Band, Johnnie Taylor, Charlie Musselwhite  ****  Monday 0R4 june, 12 noon till 12 midnight, Brussels CET ** Repeated Wednesday 06 June, 12 noon till 20:hrs Brussels CET  ** [2018-23 (38)= 2017-04]*** RADIO 68: ALL THE SOUNDS AND ALL THE VOICES OF THE SIXTIES ****

PLAYLISTS

NEW SHOW: 

SPECIAL:  THE SOUNDTRACKS : ZABRISKIE POINT, Antonioni, 1970 (entire album): The Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, The Kaleidoscope, Roscoe Holcomb, John Fahey, Jerry Garcia, Patti Page ** BLOW-UP, Antonioni, 1967 (choice tracks): Herbie Hancock, The Yardbirds with JEFF BECK and JIMMY PAGE, Tomorrow (two outtakes), Unknown Studio Musicians ** HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH, Clive Donner, 1968, entire album: The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic,  Andy Ellison (alternate versions instead of OST of  four Spencer Davis Group tracks: Taking Out Time, Picture Of Her,  Just Like Me, Possession) ** AND ALSO: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1967: three alternate versions that did not make the LP: The American Metaphysical Circus, Heresy aka Coming Down, Mouse aka The Garden of Earthtly Delights  + DAVID HEMMINGS HAPPENS, 1967 ** WORD & POETRY: No pasarán * The Fugs & Alan Ginsberg: I Saw The Best Minds Of My Generation * Weathermen Announce Offensive *  Delphine Lecompte : Ik vergeet soms (exclusieve Radio 68-voorleessessie)

REPEATED SHOW: THE SOUL AND BLUES OF 1967

JOHN MAYALL: THE BLUES ALONE ** SKY SAXON BLUES BAND (aka THE SEEDS): A FULL SPOON OF SEEDY BLUES with members of The Muddy Waters Band ** CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE’s SOUTHSIDE BAND: STAND BACK! HERE COMES, feat. Barry Goldberg, Harvey Mandel, Fred Below, Bob Anderson ** JOHNNIE TAYLOR: WANTED ONE SOUL SINGER (Stax) ** MEL BROWN: CHICKEN FAT * AND ALSO: DUSTER BENNETT: SMILING LIKE I’M HAPPY (Blue Horizon, 1968) **

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HIGHLIGHT

BLOW-UP

“Made in Great Britain in 1966, the flat-out great Blow-Up (in the U.K., Blow-Up) was Michaelangelo Antionioni’s  first English-language effort. “Inspired” by Argentinean writer Julio Cortázar’s 1959 short story Las babas del diablo (literally, “The Devil’s Drool”), Blow-Up was nominated for two Academy Awards – in addition to winning the Palme d’Or. (…). Blow-Up, for its part, is not only a great work of art but a great work of philosophy as well, one as impressive as Antonioni’s Italian masterpiece, La Notte (1961). Also of interest, Blow-Up caused a bit of a stir upon its release for its depiction of female nudity, casual sex, and drug use. Of course, forty years later this all seems a bit silly, considering how tame the scenes look to the modern viewer”.  (Quoted from: http://www.altfg.com/film/blowup-michelangelo-antonioni/)

“Everyone who has seen “Blow-Up” will know that it’s The Yardbirds, in a recording made with the rare Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page line-up, who provide the film with its exciting live rock group action cameo, and they are seen, and here heard, blazing through an interpretation of the old Tiny Bradshaw via Johnny Burnette Rock ‘N’ Roll Trio chestnut ‘Train Kept-A-Rollin’ – here redesigned as the sharper-titled ‘Stroll On’ – yet that’s only a smidgeon of what’s on offer.

This recently-issued reassessment of the soundtrack via the Music on Vinyl outlet presents everything in a vibrant, altogether more alive way for the up to date listener to get their head into. A few of the instrumental pieces – almost all created by the great Herbie Hancock number among the set’s most colourful creations, including the highly effective ‘Bring Down The Birds’.

Most people who are even just a little bit bothered about those types of fascinating behind-the-scenes insights will know nowadays – well at least since the initial vinyl reissue way back in the late 80s / early 90s – that one of director Michelangelo Antonioni’s first choice London groups for the onstage club guitar smasherama scenario was to have been the never less than intriguing, always effortlessly endearing Tomorrow, the British psychedelic pop legends who would later go on to give us such mercurial-sounding underground pop gems as ‘My White Bicycle’ and ‘Revolution’. Here, they can be heard as they transit forward from their more mod-inclined previous incarnation when they operated as the In Crowd, and now giving out with the softly attacking charm of ‘Am I Glad To See You’.” (Quoted from: http://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2014/08/original-soundtrack-blow-up-1966-review.html)

MEL BROWN: CHICKEN FAT

“ Guitarist Mel Brown is hailed as “An Impulse! Discovery” on Chicken Fat, his debut for the label, and this album does feature a fantastic unique sound. Brown played in the bands of T-Bone Walker and John Lee Hooker, and has an aggressive (though not harsh) single-string picking style. For this date he is paired with either Herb Ellis or Arthur Wright on guitar, Gerald Wiggins on organ, and Brown’s regular rhythm section of Paul Humphrey on drums and Ronald Brown on electric bass. There are a couple tracks that are played as pretty straight blues, but this is a hoppin’ soul-jazz date. The tunes are bouncy and funky, and Brown’s playing is a real treat. His bluesy, almost reckless soloing gives a vastly different flavor that the playing of guys like Grant Green or Melvin Sparks. Gerald Wiggins’ organ playing is cool and swinging, and the electric bass of Ronald Brown makes this album about as funky as Impulse ever got. Both Herb Ellis and Arthur Wright get some solo space as well, with Ellis sounding quite interesting playing an unamplified 12-string on a couple cuts. Brown gets some nice tones as well, and on “Hobo Flats” plays “an electronic guitar with Wah-Wah distortion” (remember, this is 1967 jazz) “that gives a weird shimmering sound,” according to the liner notes. Leave it to Impulse! to put a new spin on the guitar/organ sound. This is hot stuff”. By Sean Westergaard, all rights reserved, https://blinddogradio.blogspot.be/2016/07/chicken-fat-by-mel-brown.html

ABOUT LONGPLAYTIME

 We will play full albums, album sides or selected album tracks.  We stress overlooked, forgotten, ignored, misjudged, rare, non-commercial and media-banned music and artists, throwing in a hit album for good measure. All from or related to the sixties –  of course! Thanks, Ed   **
OVER LANGPSPEELTIJD We draaien volledige albums, LP-kanten of een keuze uit een langspeelplaat. We hebben vooral  oog voor muziek en artiesten die vallen onder de categorieën “vergeten,  vreemd, geweerd, over het hoofd gezien, verkeerd begrepen, gecensureerd, zeldzaam”. Met nu een dan een dikke hit ertussen. Geniet van de langSPEELTIJD. Bedankt, Ed

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