Ever since I wrote about Neil Young’s out of print live album “Time Fades Away” (here and here) I’ve been getting emails about it. At first, people were writing me to say thank you for throwing it up for download because the album only came out on LP and has since been long out of print. Lately the emails I’ve been getting are asking me to put the record back up. Well, I’ve finally gotten around to it. So here it is kids, enjoy. Hopefully this shit will be on the new Neil Young boxset coming out soon. Speaking of, when is that big motherfucker of a boxset coming out? Anyone know?
(Download Neil Young – “Time Fades Away” LP)
And here’s my favorite song off the album, along with Jubilee’s cover of it which you can find as a b-side on their first single “Rebel Hiss” over @ http://www.jubilee.LA
The past few days have been a crazy rock n’ roll week… if you want you can listen to the new muxtape I made while you read exactly why this week ruled. http://buddyhead4.muxtape.com/
On Wednesday, I invited myself to DJ with Shepard Fairy at the Glasshouse in Pomona,CA before Love & Rockets played their first full show in nine years. I’m not counting them playing the Mick Jones song “Should I Stay or Should I Go” twice at the Joe Strummer tribute show a few months ago at the Key Club as a real show. Did anyone else realize they played a Mick Jones song or am I the only one? What the fuck?!?
Anyways, Shepard and I hung out for the first time in about six years and DJed everything from Richard Hell to The Stooges to Ultra Vivid Scene to CSNY (yeah I dropped “Carry On” into the mix) to Redd Kross. It was a fun DJ set and good to catch up with Shepard after all these years. The guy is seriously one of the nicest and coolest dudes around, it’s no wonder he’s had all the success he’s had. Who else would be cool with me bum-rushing their DJ gig opening for Love & Rockets?
Anyways, enough about us… Love & Rockets took the stage and to be honest I didn’t know what to expect from one of my favorite bands dusting off their hits live for the first time in long while… but they straight up FUCKING KILLED IT! Even with the sound guy fucking up a ton the band sounded great and tight as fuck. Daniel Ash’s guitar sounded like a chainsaw and those fuckers can sing like birds!
Sure, being the super-fan that I am, I’m convinced I could have wrote a better set list… like how about not opening (“Ball Of Confusion”) and closing (“Should I Stay or Should I Go”) with covers dudes? And how about you guys play at least one song off your best record “Sweet FA”? I was really hoping to hear Judgement Day (should have been on the greatest hits too) but once they tore into “Kundalini Express” I wouldn’t have known if the roof caved in cuz I was head banging so hard. Hopefully these dudes make a new record and do a proper tour. By the way, if you haven’t picked up the last Bauhaus record “Go Away White”… buy that shit now. I’ve been DJing “Endless Summer Of The Damned” every-time I get the chance. Shit rules.
Love & Rockets – “Kundalini Express” live @ The Glasshouse
Last week Troy Boy posted about how Jane’s Addiction was reuniting with Eric Avery for the first time in SEVENTEEN years and begged the powers that be to slide us into this seated event. Well, as you would have guessed, we didn’t get invited. So instead I planned on going to see the Joy Division documentary that Grant Gee made (he also made Radiohead’s “Meeting People Is Easy”) but when I arrived at the Arclight with my friend (who’s also named Travis) the movie was sold out.
So with nothing to do we decided to stop by the El Rey where the first-ever U.S. NME Awards show and the Jane’s/Eric reunion was going to go down hoping we could somehow sneak in. Well, the rock gods were on our side cuz as soon as we showed up we ran into Z Berg of The Like and with her help did the old switch-er-roo of badges and walked right in. Thanks Z, I owe you one. Or is it two now?
“NME Awards” video
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To make a long and boring story short the awards show sucked just like they usually do… for the most part it was a douchebag fest with a bunch of bands I’ve never heard of and don’t care to ever hear again winning awards. Somehow Oasis was up for an award but didn’t win (must have been a miscount), Har Mar played, some shitbox band dressed in skeleton costumes played, and Evan Dando played two songs acoustic. Mick Jones accepted an award for something, said cool shit, and played a few songs with his band while Sienna Miller danced around with her dress pretty much falling off. Damn shes hot. I’m sure a bunch of other shit happened too but I was too busy waiting for Jane’s Addiction to play and listening to Happy Tom from Turbonegro nuke everyone. I love that guy.
Happy Tom, who’s a new resident to San Diego, had this to say about the first ever US NME awards: “The NME Awards USA is an attempt to bring LA and London closer. Which makes sense, as they’re both shit sandwiches: the less bread you’ve got the more shit you get.” I couldn’t agree more. Tom also went on to tell me about his intimate experience with Evan Dando back in the early 90′s and how “his dick tasted like a stick made out of heroin dipped in chocolate”. Interesting rock trivia for sure. On a side, but related note, Happy Tom ended up being interviewed on San Diego’s Channel 9 News for the story titled “Marijuana Boat Washes Ashore”. I’m fully backing his decoy theory.
So back to the NME awards… after standing around listening to a bunch of bands I couldn’t care less about play and random British people talk, the original Jane’s Addiction line up took the stage and I bum-rushed to the front and center of the stage to check out the rock. Troy Boy (and a few other friends) even texted me saying he saw me on the webcast head banging in the front row and I was a dick for getting in. Sorry dude, didn’t plan it… just happened. Check out a couple shitty camera phone photos I popped off and there’s more on my flickr if you care.
Here’s my review…. they totally fucking ruled. Hopefully this little event made Eric Avery realize a full-on tour with those three other dudes is a good idea. It’s mind blowing how one guy can de-jive a band so much. Eric Avery is Jane’s. And yes, for the record… of course Navarro had his shirt off and is still full of cheese. But together as a band the original line up of Jane’s Addiction, even in 2008, fucking slay. They played “Stop”, “Mountain Song”, “Trip Away” and “Jane’s Says”. I was hoping for them to kick into “Whores” but none the less, it was an awesome mini-show. Let’s hope they bail on the idea of getting back together with the douche from Satellite Party and can talk Eric Avery into at least playing a few more shows with them. Here’s some video footage of what you missed. Bummed you weren’t there Troy Boy.
(The photo above was taken by Travis Schneider)
“Stop”
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“Mountain Song”
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“Ocean Size” (camera phone)
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I was considering going into detail here about the insane Sly Stone show I attended with Ian Rogers (who has Sly’s face tattooed on his arm) and his wife Julie Saturday night at the House of Blues but I’m sure Ian will post something on his blog about it. And not only is Ian way more of a Sly fan/expert (Ian should be Sly’s manager) but this page already has way too many grammatical errors so I’m gonna quit while I’m ahead. I will say this about the Sly show though… I’ve never seen anyone vocally announce so many “piss breaks” during a set. Dude is WAY out there on “planet outer-space”. Oh and check out Paranorm’s post on Sly… shit’s rad.
I ‘d like to welcome an OG Buddyhead alumni, Nate Cavilerri, back to the head. You can check out his first post in a while called “Party Mountain“. Much more to come. Good to have you back Nate. Sorry that was so long everyone… it’s just been a while.
