Yesterday, it seemed like a thousand starlings had gathered in the trees just north of the barn, chattering and shaking the branches. Canada geese and Sandhill cranes are also beginning to join up in flocks, a sure sign that winter is on the way.
The starlings made their presence known while I was cleaning the pen where I will fatten the ducks and geese that will soon become next year's meat... another sign that winter is on its way.
Not sure if I'd call the Pink Fairies a band. They were more of a constantly shifting group of musicians that came out of the London psychedelic scene in the late 60s and early 70s. With a taste for drugs, free music and anarchistic politics, their original line-up featured Twink of The Pretty Things on drums, Twink's girlfriend, Silver Darling, playing the keyboards, Mick Farren of The Deviants doing the vocals, and former T. Rex percussionist, Steve Peregrin Took, on guitar. The band played one gig, then went their separate ways.
A year later, Twink recruited the other members of The Deviants... Paul Rudolph, Duncan Sanderson and Russell Hunter... to become the new line-up for the Pink Fairies. Twink left the band in 1971 and headed to Morocco, followed by Rudolph, who would eventually replace Lemmy in Hawkwind.
Sanderson and Hunter decided to continue the Pink Fairies, briefly replacing Rudolph with Mick Wayne before recruiting Larry Wallis from UFO. Wallis would go on to become the guitarist in the original line-up for Motörhead, but not before he recorded "Kings Of Oblivion" with Sanderson and Hunter.
My favorite line-up for the Pink Fairies is Sanderson, Hunter and Wallis. This album is the reason why.
Step 1.) Instead of having your mistress make the bed after doing the nasty, have her fix that damned pesky kitchen faucet.
Stay tuned for step 2.
Moving on, I accidentally caused computer #2 to become a boat anchor by Dancin' in the Minefield, which drug computer # 1 into suicide mode. Now, considering that computer # 4 is just a paperweight that I let Mrs. 17 use for her flight of fantasy on Friday nights, I had to lean on computer #3, which never lets me down. So thanks to an old E-machine, and of course the fact that I'm a "stable genius", all is well.
Moving on some more, did you know today would have been Steve Gaines' birthday?
James Blood Ulmer is an American musician. He started as a Jazz guitarist, then branched out into Funk and Blues, creating a sound that some have described as "avant gutbucket".
Rodolphe Burger is a French musician, best known as the creative force behind the experimental band, Kat Onoma.
Ulmer and Burger got together in 2002 to make some music. They recorded some songs in a studio. Other songs were recorded during a show at the New Morning in Paris. This album was the result, although six years would go by before it was released.
There's some real magic here. At least I think so.
The fourth studio album by The Coup was scheduled to be released in September of 2001. The original album cover featured founding member and boy genius, Boots Riley, blowing up the World Trade Center.
Two planes were flown into the World Trade Center before the album was released. Crazy, heh?
Naturally, the record company postponed the release and insisted that the cover be changed. Boots said he fought to keep the original cover, but finally gave in.
Anyway, thought I'd post a song from the album as an antidote to all the patriotic bloviating we're about to get hit with from those scoundrels in politics and in the entertainment... er, news industry.
On this day in 1978,
Keith Moon drummer with The Who, died of an overdose of
heminevrin prescribed to combat alcoholism. A post-mortem confirmed
there were 32 tablets in his system, 26 of which were undissolved. Moon
had attended a party the night before organised by
Paul McCartney for the launch of the The Buddy Holly Story
movie. He played on all The Who albums from their debut, 1965's
My Generation, to 1978's Who Are You, which was released two weeks
before his death.