Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Photo Album: Roddy Radiation 5/7/2015 Boulevard Trash Tulsa


Excited wasn't strong enough of a word for how I felt when I found out that guitarist Roddy Radiation (Byers) from the legendary 2Tone ska band The Specials was going to be in Tulsa. This was a must see show as far as I was concerned. I had actually had a picture taken with him on the Warped Tour in 1998 with the version of The Specials that was touring at that time. One of these days I'll get it scanned and show it here. I thought about mentioning it to him because he was very accessible in the small space that was Boulevard Trash but ultimately decided to let him be. It's not as if he would remember the few seconds that he took with me considering all that he was done in his life. Seeing him perform in this setting was more than enough for me.
 
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Friday, April 21, 2017

notmovingpictures Episode 056: Roadtripping

I promise new episodes are coming with Tommy. As a matter of fact I am editing them now but in the meantime I felt like talking about music so here you go. Another episode of me rambling along about the recent concerts I've seen and those that are upcoming. Names like Prong, Sepultura, Testament, Local H have been seen and those like X, Alice Cooper, Megadeth and Scorpions are all on the schedule amongst others. Once again there is talk about wanting to do new music because I have a ton of lyrical ideas sitting and waiting but also about trying to learn to play a little guitar. It's not too long of an episode so go ahead and check it out.



Closing Music: Alloy - Live To See The Day
Closing Music: Thurston Moore - Cease Fire

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Thursday, April 20, 2017

Photo Album: Alejandro Escovedo June 11th, 2014 The Vanguard

In an effort to put content on this blog other than info on my podcast episodes I've decided to start uploading pictures from anything that strikes my fancy, so long as it's from something I've done or seen, with some info tacked on as well. At least this will fill the gaps until I feel like writing the odd short story, lyrics, bunch of crap, etc. Who better to start things off than one of my favorite musicians?





This photo was taken from the fourth time that I have seen Al in concert. Unlike the previous three shows there was no band backing him this time. It was just Al, his guitar and violinist Susan Voelz. The stories were there, spun in between songs, but the songs themselves had changed. A different energy had been given to them with no difference in the brilliance of the performance, it was if the songs lived, even breathed and adapted to the circumstances. That's part of his talent. I missed seeing him this past November right before my birthday but I won't make that mistake again.


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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Ten For Tuesday Episode 113: AV Undercover Special

This is an extra special bonus episode which features artists that have gone to AV Undercover and performed live cover songs. If you look at the playlist below you should be able to tell what I was going for. Right now I've got so much music lined up  just felt the need to get it out. So enjoy this Ten For Tuesday Twofer.



Local H - Shock The Monkey
Superchunk - In Between Days
Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Troubled Hubble - Things Can Only Get Better
Courtney Barnett - Cannonball
Mac DeMarco - Undone
Sharon Van Etten And Shearwater - Stop Draggin My Heart Around
The Falcon - Keep Your Hands To Yourself
The Minus Five - Cherry Bomb
The Dismemberment Plan - Barracuda

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Ten For Tuesday Episode 112

The Skints - Rise Up
Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps
The Au Pairs - It's Obvious
Izzy Stradlin - Baby-Rann
Local H - Cool Magnet
Smashing Pumpkins - One And All
The Toadies - Possum Kingdom
Bedouin Soundclash - When The Night Feels My Song
10,000 Maniacs - Candy Everybody Wants
The Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town



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Friday, April 14, 2017

notmovingpictures Episode 055: Conclusion Of The Conversation With Aaron

In the fourth and final installment of my conversation with my friend Aaron we again are talking about music. This time it's about party bands, you know, the kind where people just want to hear something familiar without any concern for content. Then Aaron starts talking guitars (he's got fifteen) and how he started experimenting with altering them. After that we talk about music keeping you young and then the guitar nerdery returns with talk about recording and editing skills and how we earned them. It all closes up with some social media etiquette or at least how we do it and with that this chapter closes. However I have a feeling that once we records some new music another conversation will be had.



Opening music: Alloy - Live To See The Day
Closing music: Mastodon - Show Yourself

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Thursday, April 6, 2017

notmovingpictures Episode 054: Aaron Part 3



Part three of my conversation with my friend Aaron finds us continuing to talk about Metallica and selling out, the line you can choose to not cross when a band changes their sound too much, cover songs, gaming and how it can bring family and friends a bit closer when separated by time and distance and movies like Star Wars: Rogue One, the Bladerunner sequel and Highlander. I mean the first one not the crappy second one. Probably some other stuff I missed too.

Opening music: Alloy - Live To See The Day
Closing music: Local H - Shock The Monkey

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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Ten For Tuesday Episode 111

Wovenhand - Long Horn
Nerve Quakes - Honey Hive
Sonny Sixkiller - Number One
Rank Xerox - M.y.t.h.
Ruts DC - Vox Teardrop
Shonen Knife - Ramones Forever
The Old Firm Casuals - Perry Boys
Izzy Stradlin - FP Money
Bon Scott? - Back In Black
Ghost - Square Hammer



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Sunday, April 2, 2017

A Trip To Josey's Records New Tulsa Store

Last Saturday a rare window of time and opportunity emerged for me. To take advantage of it, meaning to do something that would satisfy my personal needs, I targeted the newly opened branch of Josey's Records here in Tulsa. It's extremely rare that I have any kind of time to go crate digging these days what with family, work and other personal projects and understandably I leapt at the chance. Plus I finally had some expendable cash so I didn't have to worry about spending it on something that might be considered frivolous.

My favorite place to buy vinyl and zines here in Tulsa was Holy Mountain but unfortunately it had closed down very recently and I had been unable to even go visit the store one last time. The good news is that Jay, the owner of Holy Mountain, now works for Josey's and Jay is the type of guy who remembers regular customers and what they like. That's a rarity these days. There was no other place in Tulsa that offered what Holy Mountain had, nothing even came close and I worried about that.

When I arrived to Josey's the first order of business was to walk around the aisles to get a feel for the place. Even though the space is renovated and has a clean, crisp look to it, still, there was the smell that I immediately noticed. The smell of old records I mean and I breathed that smell in for several minutes as I just walked around and taking in what selection they had. That smell is a good thing by the way. It's an odor that conveys comfort to me.

Having taken the atmosphere in I chose a random section of the rock alphabet and got to work. Time slipped away and lost all meaning as I flipped through the bins with my head down. Slowly but surely I began to gather a few albums at a time and would periodically journey over to the listening station (comprised of three record players with headphones) and see what I had found. Not all of them made the cut but I was beginning to find some gems.

After several trips to the listening station what emerged was a pattern of music from 1978 to 1985. That appeared to be what I was focusing on even though when I had arrived I had no clear idea of what I would be looking for. When I had begun my search I had a thought of just buying a few things but by now I realized that I had almost enough music for a podcast episode of Ten For Tuesday so I dug in and continued to search. I mean why stop short right? Better to make it happen at this point. Go big or go home or insert your own overused cliche as needed.

Eventually I realized that I had been there for close to three hours and knew that I needed to pay up and run some errands before my wife started calling asking where I was. What I ended up with was two albums I had owned on cassette back in the day, two from artists whose music I had listened to and liked, a German compilation of Australian bands and three from bands I had never heard of before. Check out the complete list at the end of the column and wait for the podcast episode in about a month or so. Hey, it takes time to digitize music and it's not like I don't already have enough music already prepared for seven episodes waiting to go. This one will probably leapfrog most of them though. Probably.



Red Rockers - Schizophrenic Circus 1984
Scandal - Self Titled EP 1982
Raging Fire - A Family Thing 1985
Rock Paket - Australien 1982
Tuff Darts - Self Titled 1978
Any Trouble - Where Are All The Nice Girls 1980
The Police - Reggatta de Blanc 1979
Jason & The Scorchers - Lost & Found 1985

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