North Fork Sound Top 20 November 16th ‘08

1. Gavin Bryars, Tramp & Tom Waits: Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet
2. The Fugs: Kill For Peace
3. Ian McLagan & The Bump Band: When The Crying Is Over
4. Little Barrie: Free Salute
5. John Campbell: Written In Stone
6. Jimmie Vaughan: D.F.W.
7. Stevie Ray Vaughan: The House Is Rockin’
8. The Lone Sharks: Who’s Sharing The Moon
9. Nick Lowe: Lately I’ve Let Things Slide
10. Latimore: Let’s Straighten It Out
11. Nick Drake: Hazey Jane II
12. T. Rex: Metal Guru
13. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Red Right Hand
14. Joe Jackson: Nineteen Forever
15. The Cure: More Than This
16. Randall Bramblett: Used To Rule The World
17. Jeremy Gluck: No Sound
18. Sleeper: Delicious
19. Vince Gill: Jenny Dreamed Of Trains
20. Toots And The Maytals & Queen Ifrica: Reggae Reggae

Album Of The Week:
Various Artists (incl. Little Richard, John Hiatt, Levon Helm, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill & Patti Loveless): Imus Ranch Record (New West Records)

The 7” B-side:
The Residents: Loser Weed

Last Week’s Listener Favourites:
The Nips: Gabrielle
Richard Lloyd: Monkey
Rilo Kiley: It’s A Hit
Dion: Jailhouse Rock
Timmy Thomas: Why Can’t We Live Together (1990 remix)
Queen Ifrica: Below The Waist
Björk: Play Dead
Sean Tyla: Suicide Jockey
Rupert Holmes: Second Saxophone
Scott McClatchy: No Surrender
Chumbawamba: Bella Ciao
Chuck Berry: Memphis Tennessee
The Dollyrots: Because I’m Awesome
Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez: Dimples
Los Lobos: Everybody Loves A Train
The Jam: In The City
The Go-Gos: We Got The Beat
V.V. Brown: Crying Blood
Reverend Organ Drum: James Bond Theme
Rodney Crowell: Crazy Baby
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Slush
Leonard Cohen: Boogie Street
Rodney Dangerfield: My Neighborhood
The Band: Atlantic City
Roky Erickson & The Aliens: Sputnik
Alton Ellis: Rocksteady
The Lone Sharks: It Should Rain
Rickie Lee Jones: Nobody Knows My Name
Reverend Organ Drum: James Bond Theme
Sparks: Looks, Looks, Looks
Little Barrie: Pay To Join

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Ted Nugent

ht provides 'security' for Ted Nugent
Bandwagon Heavy Metal Soundhouse, London NW9
May 1979
photo: Terry Lott

Stevie Ray & Jimmie Vaughan

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Tommy Shannon, Chris Layton & Jimmie Vaughan
CBS Records convention, March 19th, '84
Honolulu, Hawaii
photo: ht

Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry
(w/Keith Richards, Neil Young, Will Lee, Phil Everly)
1st annual Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony
Waldorf Hotel, NYC, January 23rd 1986
photo: ht

North Fork Sound Top 20 November 9th ‘08

1. Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come
2. Peter C Johnson: Statue Of Liberty
3. Patti Smith: Pumping (My Heart)
4. Johnny Cash (w/Carl Perkins): Brown Eyed Handsome Man
5. Rod Stewart: It’s All Over Now
6. Delbert McClinton: Lay Down Sally
7. Boots Brown & His Blockbusters: Cerveza
8. Tom Waits: Hold On
9. Alton Ellis: Rocksteady
10. Ben E King: Supernatural Thing
11. John Adams: Kumudha's Final Transformation
12. The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed
13. Shelby Lynne: If I Were Smart
14. The Godfathers: Just Like You
15. Freddie King: Hide Away
16. Andre Williams: Do You Remember
17. Ronnie Lane’s Slim Chance: Tell Everyone
18. David Bowie: Seven
19. The Band: Atlantic City
20. Republica: Bitch

Featured Album:
Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez: Re-Hive (Horizon Music Group)

The 7” B-side:
Mark Bingham (w/Johnny Adams & Aaron Neville): Oh Heavenly Salvation

Last Week’s Listener Favourites:
Booker T & The MGs: Fannie Mae
Dr. Feelgood: You Shouldn’t Call The Doctor
Bessie Banks: Go Now
Oasis: The Shock Of The Lightning
Parliament: Flash Light
I-Roy: Pauper And The King
Bob Marley: Soul Shake Down Party
The Dandy Warhols: Nothin’ To Do
Left Banke: Walk Away Renee
Van Morrison: St. James Infirmary
Lee Perry & The Upsetters: Croaking Lizard
Bob Dylan: Marchin’ To The City (version 2)
Nicky Thomas: Love Of The Common People
Lambchop: A Hold of You
The Yayhoos: Monkey With A Gun
Lou Reed: My Red Joystick
Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band: Cherchez La Femme/Se Si Bon
Booker T & The MG’s: Fannie Mae
The Specials: Ghost Town
Elvis Costello: Mr. Feathers
Buzzcocks: Orgasm Addict
The Wolf:Gang Diesel: Horsemeat Pie
Hamell On Trial: Don’t Kill
Muddy Waters: You Need Love
Bo Diddley (w/Keith Richards & The Shirelles): Bo Diddley Is Crazy
Joe Cuba: Bang Bang
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Hong Kong Garden
Jesse Winchester: Third Rate Romance
Ray Wylie Hubbard: Live And Die Rock ‘n Roll
Chuck Berry: Memphis Tennessee
Byron Lee & The Dragonaires: Soul Limbo
Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez: When The Summer Goes
Ike & Tina Turner: Poor Fool
The Cramps: New Kind Of Kick
Legend: Cheque Book

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La Chasse

photo courtesy:
http://www.themarqueeclub.net/

La Chasse was a ‘private’ drinking club on the first floor at 100 Wardour St. By the time I became a 'regular' (1972) it was practically on its last legs. It was owned by Jack Barrie, who also ran the Marquee Club, a few doors down the street. The seedy little one-room dive played host to (mainly) music biz luminaries ranging from Charisma Records’ chief and bon vivant, Tony Stratton-Smith to not quite so luminaries like Crackie and (one-eyed) Noj (Van Der Graaf Generator’s intrepid road-crew) with musos like Lee Jackson (formerly of the Nice, then of Jackson Heights), Lindisfarne, Phil Collins (most of the Charisma artists roster, in fact), folks like George Peckham, Bob Hill, John Anthony and other record producers, studio personnel, groupies and all kinds of ligger wrapped in between. In a recent article for the Mail Online, David Bowie said of his song The Bewlay Brothers, “I do believe that we finished the whole thing on that one night. It's likely that I ended up drinking at the Sombrero in Kensington High Street or possibly Wardour Street's crumbling La Chasse. Cool.”

Cited also as the birthplace of Yes (John Anderson met Chris Squire there), it was a short stroll from Trident Studios so, after work if I had any money in my pocket, I’d knock on the door, someone would unlock it and Roger would pour an over-priced Southern Comfort which I’d chase with a beer. I’d watch and listen, nursing those drinks for as long as possible. Talk would invariably be about new records, upcoming tours, untrustworthy managers, road stories, "got any skins?" etc. and later, the place would fill up after the Marquee had closed. When I say “fill up”, if the room had 30 people in it, it would be WAY over-crowded, as it was little more than an average sized living room, which is probably what it once was. And since everybody smoked back then, the atmosphere would be thick and cloying. I went there to feel ‘part of’ a scene (however low-rent), and was under the impression I'd been given a ‘membership’ because I worked at Trident, London's grooviest studio. It took me a while (in my naïveté) to realize Jack had certain designs...on me, so occasionally, I’d spend time trying to fend off his nefarious advances. One night, a nice-looking gal with an indecent figure dropped a fiver on the floor and, in picking it up, made it quite clear she wasn’t wearing any knickers. Even Roger saw it from his side of the bar and nodded to me as if to say, “you’re in there". Turns out he was right, and the resulting experience in a crowded bed-sit in Queensway was splendidly squalid. Alice Cooper’s ‘Under My Wheels’ was always getting played on the jukebox, along with other classic pop & soul hits of the day. I heard a rumor that Keith Moon fell out of the window onto Wardour Street, a floor below, but I don't know if it's true. Maybe it was the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's 'Legs' Larry Smith. I’m pretty sure I read once that Moony and Viv Stanshall (also from Bonzos) had been drinking at La Chasse the night they roamed the West End, dressed like this:-

Keith Moon & Vivian Stanshall
photo: Barrie Wentzell
courtesy http://www.vivarchive.org.uk/

Phil Spector

Phil Spector, Seymour Stein
Allen Klein post Rock & Roll Hall of Fame party,
Waldorf Hotel, NYC
photo: ht