Old friend, DJ Colonel sent me some of his radio shows. As you might
remember from a few months back, I posted a few DJ Colonel mixes. The
show below is from his Bend OR radio program.
I don't think that he is podcasting yet, but in DJ Colonel's own words,
"Come on daddyo, give dem people what you know they need. peace,
colonel."
Here tis:
01 Caution Bob Marley & The Wailers
02 Dub The Line Gregory Isaacs
03 Watermelon Man Baba Brooks Band
04 No Time ft. Military Man Capelton
05 Reggae Fever Steel Pulse
06 Picture on The Wall Lion Inn Jungle
07 Gone Down Dezarie
08 The Killer Jah Stich
09 Ganja Plant Rider 10 ft Ganja Plant
10 Pass De Kahn Abja
11 Effortless Dub Greenstars
12 Free Man The Ethiopians
13 El Pussycat Roland Alphonso
14 World a Reggae Ini Kamoze
15 Hustler Ky-mani Marley
Yesterday my friend Cal Spitzer electrogrammed this snazzy 8x10 publicity shot of the delightfully named (and delightfully shod) Stark Naked and the Car Thieves. Research reveals that this combo had its beginnings as a conglomeration of several Indianapolis area garage and doo-wop groups, finally relocating to Los Angeles where they had several minor hits, and rotating list of members. Despite the wild name (and a reportedly crazy Vegas stage show), their surviving recordings are decidedly tame. Further research reveals that their name was eventually stolen by a New Zealand band who went on to record a minor hit cover of another name-thieving band: the Monks' (UK) "Nice Legs, Shame About the Face."
The thing that really struck me, though, is the small print: SN&CT's booking agency is listed as "Jimmy O'Neill Management." I believe this would be the very same DJ Jimmy O'Neill whom I listened to on WOW Radio 590 Omaha during the '70s. Before his days of spinning hot Top 40 wax in Omaha, Jimmy managed several L.A. bands; before that he was a Los Angeles DJ, but best known as the host of ABC's mid-60's teen music program Shindig. The program was created by O'Neill and then-wife Sharon Sheeley, an accomplished songwriter who penned the #1 hit "Poor Little Fool" for Ricky Nelson and co-wrote the Eddie Cochran classic "Come on Everybody."
Sheeley and Cochran later became boyfriend and girlfriend, and she (along with Gene Vincent) survived the car accident that killed Cochran in England in 1960. Their ill-fated romance later became the subject of a 1980's Levis 501 commercial. Following the wreck, Cochran's car and its contents were impounded at the local
police station. A police cadet at the station named David Harman borrowed Cochran's impounded Gretsch guitar and taught himself how to play. As "Dave Dee" he later led the 60's British pop chart-toppers Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, who had a mini-revival last year when their nugget "Hold Tight" was featured in an ironically bloody car wreck scene in Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof":
Where was I? Oh yeah, Shindig. It was a brief but big TV hit with Jimmy introducing many of the big acts of the day. Despite solid ratings it was canceled in 1966 to make room on the ABC schedule for a second weekly episode the red-hot Batman series (delighting a young Batman fanatic named Quentin Tarantino who would pay homage to Adam West's Bat-dance in Pulp Fiction). Shindig performers included TheBeatles and this rival quartet of English Invaders:
The Who, as fate would have it, would later score a US Top 20 chart hit with a cover of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues." Jimmy's O'Neill's spotlight on Shindig also brought him immortality in 1965 as a Flintstone character -- here's "Jimmy O'Neillstone" introducing "The Beau Brummelstones" on "Shinrock."
My favorite nugget from the real Shindig is this Halloween '65 bit with Jimmy introducing Boris Karloff for a cover of Bobby "Boris" Pickett's Monster Mash:
In the background, those cute go-go girls included Terri Garr, who would go on to have a starring role in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and earn an Oscar nomination for "Tootsie." Another was Toni Basil, the 80's one-hit wonder of "Mickey" fame. Between her Shindig go-go gig and MTV mall rat celebrity, Basil was a bit player in films, including Mary the prostitute in 1969's "Easy Rider" with Jack Nicholson, who received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. Basil teamed up with Nicholson again the next year as Terry the hitchhiker girl in "Five Easy Pieces," which earned Nicholson his first Oscar nomination for best actor. Here you can see her sitting in the diner booth during the film's famous sandwich scene:
Nicholson, of course, went on to star in dozens of films, including Batman and a cameo appearance in Tommy, the rock opera written by The Who a few years after their Shindig appearance. As noted here previously, that film also spawned a totally bitchin' pinball machine -- the model I frequently played while listening to Jimmy O'Neill on WOW.
Along the way Nicholson earn a boatload of Oscar nominations, most recently for the Omaha-based "About Schmidt." In that film, Nicholson's character works as an actuary at the downtown HQ of the Woodmen of the World insurance company, once Omaha's tallest building. Woodmen of the World insurace, incidentally, owned WOW Radio and gave it its call letters. When Jimmy O'Neill was a DJ there, his studio was in the same building.
But my personal favorite Nicholson screen moment occured a few years earlier, as Marine Colonel Nathan Jessup in 1992's "A Few Good Men." Another Oscar nomination, likely clinched by this memorable scene:
Recognize Nicholson's Marine lawyer in the scene? Yep, inevitably, KEVIN BACON. But that's another story.
This time around in cratedigger labs, I mixed it up a bit and there is
a mixture of soul, funk and more jazz grooves than I have thrown down
in the past.
I have been working on the new gear to get the best sound, so I hope that I was successful. I think I made all the fades...
I call it "Down and Dirty," Dig It!
Here is the track list:
01 Intro Christopher Recordings
02 Here Come The Judge Shorty Long Soul
03 Sho Nuff Jimmy McGriff Sunset
04 A Funky Space Reincarnation Part II Marvin Gaye Tamla
05 Cloud Nine Temptations Gordy
06 Huracan Cal Tjader Crystal Clear
07 Hey Big Brother Rare Earth Rare Earth
08 Party Freaks Pt 2 Miami Drive
09 Hey Mr. DJ Bobby Moore Checker
10 Kufanya Mapenzi (Makin Love) Ramsey Lewis Columbia
11 Got Pleasure Ohio Players Westbound
12 Stop Her On Sight (SOS) Edwin Starr Ric-Tic
This mix was compiled from all original vinyl sources, most of them
being the 7 inch 45 variety. The records themselves were found in the
bottom of dusty crates in and around Chicago and the northern IL area.
1. Delicious / Jim Backus & Friends
2. Hernando's Hideaway / The Ventures
3. Dance The Slurp / 7-Eleven
4. Jelly Jungle (Of Orange Marmalade) / The Lemon Pipers
5. Down At Lulu's / The Ohio Express
6. Let's Take A Trip / Godfrey
7. Medication / The Standells
8. How Is The Air Up There? / The La De Da's
9. Spazz / The Elastik Band
10. He Was A Square / The Downliners Sect
11. Dracula Prince Of Darkness / King Horror
12. Play With Your Pussy / Max Romeo
13. Beaver Patrol / The Wild Knights
14. Tale Of A 280 Pound Shoe Salesman / The Knights
15. Red Dragon / The Blackjacks
16. Hair On My Chinny Chin Chin / Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
17. In My Own Time / Bee Gees
18. sorry / The Easybeats
19. Do Not Disturb / Los Shakers
20. Vox Wah-Wah Pedal / The Electric Prunes
21. I Hate You / Monks
22. So What!? / The Lyrics
23. Feast Of The Mau Mau / Screamin' Jay Hawkins
24. Bacon Fat / Andre Williams
25. Ling, Ting, Tong / The Five Keys
26. Bad Detective / The New York Dolls
27. Clint Eastwood / The Upsetters
28. The Ugly One (AKA Lee Van Cleef) / King Stitt
29. Hello Lucille, Are You a Lesbian? / T. Valentine
1. Dagmar's Hotpants Inc. / Drive-In Ad
2. Let's Get Drunk & Truck / Tampa Red
3. I Wanna Do Something Freaky With You / Leon Haywood
4. Soixante Neuf Annee Erotique / Serge Gainsbourg
5. Warm The Pot ('Til It's Good And Hot) / Willard Burton
6. Put It In / Johnny King And The Fatback Band
7. Two Gentlemen Sharing / Drive-In Ad
8. The Girl Can't Help It / Little Richard
9. Little Girl / John & Jackie
10.Push It In / The Versatiles
11.Sweet Little Pussycat / Andrew Williams
12.Itch And Scratch / Rufus Thomas
13.Naughty Stewardesses / Drive-in Ad
14.Two Girls In Love (With Each Other) / The Johnny Otis Show
15.Wreck A Buddy / Soul Sisters
16.Cock Stiff And Hard / George Anthony
17.Take It Off / The Genteels
18.Chili Dippin' Baby / Joyce Poynter
19.Leave My Kitten Alone / Little Willie John
20.Birth Control / Lloydie And The Lowbites
21.The Naughty Cheerleader / Drive-In Ad
22.Love Call / Jean-Jacques Robert et Jean-Michel Guise
23.Sexy Woman / Timmy Thomas
24.Spreadin' Honey / Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
25.Let Me Come Within / Renaldo Domino
26.Bumpin' / Ground Hog
27.Hot, Funky, And Sweaty / The Soul Lifters
28.Erotica / Rita
29.Triple Stewardesses / Drive-In Ad
30.Dub Your Pum Pum / Lee Perry & the Silvertones
I have known the shadowy character known as The Colonel since the very late 80s I think. We have shared many interesting adventures over the years, many of which, I can't share in a public forum.
Back in the desert days, we spent a lot of time in the field, hiking, camping, mtn biking, getting lost and blowing things up. To think that he is now a family man, is a juxtaposition of sorts.
The Colonel has discovered that he has a passion (hate that word, sorry) for Reggae and Dub. Over the summer he started sending me mix cds of his latest finds. He now has a radio show in Bend , OR.
I started making mixes of his mixes and sharing them with all you strangers in the interweb.
The Colonel's Dub quarters is the most popular mix of them all. In honor of the snowy, tea drinking afternoon that I am having, Here it is...
Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli was once asked for a second opinion on a paper written by a less-than-stellar student. Pauli took one look at the paper, and replied wearily, "It is not even wrong."
After seeing this... whatever it is... on display at the Roadster Show, I think I know just how Herr Pauli felt.
I have no doubt that this truck is well-constructed. Certainly whoever is responsible shows a high degree of skill in the disciplines related to building a custom car and/or hot rod. That said, never before have so many contradictory and just plain bad ideas been combined in one vehicle.
This is the classic example of what goes wrong when you do not have a clear vision of the final product before you begin.
Is it a "rat rod"? A lowrider? A bed-hopping minitruck? What?
Of course, in the film, the Emperor's opinion was ultimately shown to be a foolish one. Mozart is now considered one of the greatest composers of all time, and the Emperor Joseph II merely another pale fop in a long line of hemophiliac cousin-fucking European royalty. So perhaps I too will be shown up as a buffoon when this... whatever it is... is one day heralded as the zenith of the 21st-century coachbuilder's art.
I won't be losing any sleep worrying about it, though.
Check out the latest mix from cratedigger labs, imaginatively titled dec 24 mix.
I
have culled these sides from a variety of real world sources, junk
stores, record shops and garage sales, mostly from the Northern IL
area, but there are a number of tracks that were rediscovered on a
recent trip to SF.
Hope you dig. Best in 2008!!!
dec 24 mix tracklist
01 Intro-Shure Brothers 02 Detroit Emeralds I Bet You Get The One (Who Loves You) Westbound 03 Intruders Turn The Hands Of Time Gamble 04 Stereo’s Stereo Freeze Pt. 1 Cadet 05 Meters Sophisticated Cissy Josie 06 Dynatones The Fife Piper HBR 07 Solomon Burke I’m Leaving on That Late Late Train Chess 08 Kool & The Gang North, East, South, West De-Lite 09 Simtec & Wylie Nine Times Out Of Ten Mercury 10 Chi-Lites Being In Love Brunswick 11 Lonette McKee Save It (Don’t Give it Away) Sussex 12 Rufus Thomas The Funky Penguin Pt. 1 Stax 13 Swamp Dogg Do You Believe Elektra 14 King Curtis 8th Wonder Atco
