North Fork Sound Top 20 Aug 23rd 09

Lyric work-sheet
(© Richard Butler, 1979)

1. The Psychedelic Furs: Blacks/Radio
2. Little Feat: Hamburger Midnight
3. Hidden City: Raw Weather
4. Reverend Horton Heat: Crazy Ex-Boyfriend
5. Passion Pit: Let Your Love Grow Tall
6. Guy Clark: Jack Of All Trades
7. George Gilmore & The Giblets: Cuttin’ Out (Goin’ Back Up The Line)
8. Jook: Do What You Can
9. Eddie Cochran: Stockin’s ‘n’ Shoes
10.Bees Make Honey: Booterstown
11.Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men: Mobile Blue
12.Eddy Lawrence: Say It In Southern
13.Bob Marley & The Wailers: Punky Reggae Party (12” version)
14.John Adams: Hoodoo Zephyr (Hoodoo Zephyr)
15.Egg: Long Piece #3 (Pt. 4)
16.O.V. Wright: Ace Of Spades
17.Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto: In The Basement Pt. 1
18.Oasis: The Turning
19.Genya Ravan w/Lou Reed: Ave. Co’lorado
20.Janet & The Jays: Love What You’re Doing To Me

NoFoSo Alb o’ The Week:
Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers: Pandemonium Ensues (Koch)

The Guilty Pleasure:
Genevieve Waite: White Cadillac (Paramour Records)

Last Week’s Listener Thumbs-Ups:
Marvin Gaye: I’ll Be Doggone
John Cale: Dirty Ass Rock ‘n’ Roll
Jimmy Cliff: You Can Get It If You Really Want It
Adam Faith: What Do You Want
Tanya Tucker: Crazy Arms
Helen Love: Beat Him Up
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Days That Used To Be
Ian Dury And The Blockheads: Jack Shit George
VAST: Pretty When You Cry
Suicide: Frankie Teardrop
Shakin’ Stevens & The Sunsets: Spirit Of Woodstock
Ryan Shaw: I Do The Jerk
The Rolling Stones: Wild Horses
The Only Ones: Another Girl, Another Planet
Nick Lowe: (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?
Dr. Feelgood: All Through The City
Joe South: Games People Play
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan: Diamonds
Billy Lee Riley: Red Hot
John Martyn: Big Muff
Ian Hunter: Words (Big Mouth)
John Prine: Ain’t Hurtin’ Nobody
The Jim Jones Revue: Fish 2 Fry
The Buzzcocks: What Do I Get
MC5: High School
Shakin’ Stevens & The Sunsets: Spirit Of Woodstock
The Pulsars: Tunnel Song
Robin Tyner w/Eddie & The Hot Rods: Till The Night Is Gone (Let’s Rock)
John Hiatt: Perfectly Good Guitar
Kasabian: Vlad The impaler
MX-80 Sound: PCBs
Van Der Graaf Generator: Darkness (11-11)
The Mothers Of Invention: Mother People

Mothers Of Invention beer!

Fans of Little Feat should know that founding drummer Richie Hayward has some serious health issues and is in dire need of a little financial help. Go here - http://richiehayward.chipin.com/richie-hayward-medical-expenses - and donate whatever you can. Just do it. The drumming on 'Hamburger Midnight' alone is worth the effort. Then ask yourself why do most people in the civilized world get 'free' health care while Americans don't?

Today, let's celebrate Keith Moon's birthday, b. August 23rd 1946

photo: Bob Gruen

backstage, CA, 1976
(found at The Dust Congress blog)

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/