Great mid-'60s Japanese surrealist movie ('Tanin no kao' in the original) in which a businessman scarred horribly by an industrial accident persuades a stranger to sell him his face to create a mask to cover his own disfigurement and seduce his own wife...

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This video isn't very pleasant but it's a great song.

Originally released on Rhino Handmade, this great-sounding live show from the Adventure tour is now out of print.

Television - Live At The Old Waldorf, SF, 1978

This band from New Zealand were operating from only 1981 to 1983 but brothers Graeme and Peter Jefferies went on to further amazing things. Graeme would go on to release a number of fantastic records as The Cakekitchen and Peter has done a number of solo albums and collaborations.

This CD, Nerve Ends in Powerlines, was released in 1995 on Raffmond and has some unreleased material on it. The final track has a lengthy silent lead-in before it launches into four unlisted songs taken from two cassettes. During their recording existence, they only released two cassettes, a 7" and a 12". All of these, including the 1995 reissue CD, are out of print.

Nocturnal Projections - Nerve Ends In Powerlines

Super-excited about this!

Awesome gem from the vaults type of thing from Rhino featuring a pretty great day in the life of Stephen Stills spent at a studio in NYC right after Buffalo Springfield broke up and right before CSN formed. Stills whips off a number of his future hits in unfinished, acoustic form as well as a number of other songs and covers. The tapes were almost destroyed when the studio was shut down, but were saved a musician who happened to be rehearsing there around that time when he noticed Stills' name on the boxes. It took 25 years for the tapes to make their way back to Stills via a friend of Graham Nash. Another great archival release from Rhino. Buy the vinyl here.

Stephen Stills - Just Roll Tape

Featured previously on some of the Tokyo Flashback comps from PSF, this is a concert from 1995 at Bears in Osaka by one of the great lost Japanese underground psych bands. Features dudes from Fushitsusha and led by Shizuka, a maker of dolls. This record creeps me out as much as it thrills me.

Shizuka - Live/Traditional Aesthetics

Before Masterchef and before Through the Keyhole there was Jet Bronx and The Forbidden, Loyd Grossmans late 70's punk/power pop band!



I had always heard rumours of this band but then low and behold I found the first of their two seven inches in a book shop on Church Street this Saturday (No cover unfortunately!). I was really surprised when I got home and put this on at what a great Power Pop song the A Side "Ain't Doing Nothing" really is.

Fast forward to 2008 and Jet Bronx and The Forbbiden are back, and judging by the newer songs they're still pretty good! Anyone fancy seeing them at the 100 Club in September?

Anyway here's the 7" for your listening pleasure

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Happy 30th Birthday Steely Dan!

I'd kind of forgotten about this set of cassettes I got from SST distro in the early 90s til I ran across the double-disc reissue on Negativland's own label, Seeland, the other day and had a chuckle or several, listening to it again.

This is a compilation of sequences from Negativland's 'Over The Edge' radio show, featuring fictional DJ character, Dick Vaughn. Under the guise of a couple of radio shows on the 'California Superstation', Vaughn is a great parodic character and many of the PSAs and ads are actual clips from the 70s/80s that will definitely cue some nostalgia for folks, like myself, who grew up in the USA during this era. The prank calls and lame DJ banter is pretty funny and it's definitely worth a listen if you're a fan of tape splicing/pop culture-spoofing humor.

Disc One
Disc Two

The new Heron Recordings site is up and working. It looks great - head over to listen to music, get gig updates and buy stuff...

Founding member of Rush, John Rutsey passed away on the 11th of May 2008. Sadly by not living near Toronto any longer, this one slipped past me.

Enjoy this track by Rush, "Working Man" from the 1974 self titled album; his last with the band before being replaced by Neil Peart due to ill health.

When I told Simon the first Scorpions album rules, he laughed and said 'Wind of Change?' Well, I would like to watch him eat his words with a knife and fork while he listens to this proto-prog masterpiece at full volume.

Produced by Krautrock mastermind Conny Plank in 1972, this is the only Scorpions album to feature Michael Schenker, who soon left to form UFO, as a full-time member. Schenker was only 16 or 17 at the time, apparently. Klaus Meine's vocals, which later acquired their trademark nasal shriek, are toned down and tougher. Also, you must admit it features some pretty sweet artwork.

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"Pretty profound..."

True genius comes in many forms...
Outstanding talent...
The ability to attract the best backing band and then mould them to suit your inimitable style perfectly...
Choosing songs that you can represent astonishingly well...

Here's all 3 of the above, twicefold!