DUB SIDE OF THE MOON - Easy Star All-Stars (2003)

Awhile back- meaning a few months, I would say- we were hanging around Manifest Records here in Charlotte, just killing time in one of our favorite ways. Browsing through the racks of never-ending glory I caught myself zigging and zagging back and forth to this recognizable tune on the speakers. Let me just say, that I was totally immersed in the stacks of music and the tunes overhead keep you smiling as you dig on and on and on, but this was a song I knew, but I didn't. It was sooo recognizable but wasn't.

Stopping dead in my tracks, I gave my good dog ear one turn toward the sound and froze. It was reggae, sure, but it was frigging Dark Side Of The Moon! And it was sooo damn good.

So you know I had to B Line over to the center counter where they play the music from and I found out about The Easy Star All-Stars and their dripping gold send up to everyone's favorite album.
I didn't buy it then, I wanted it on vinyl and ended up ordering it for us online.

Here in our little cottage on this side of the forest we spent the weekend spinning record after record during the New Year's birth with soothing lights and love. Dub Side of the Moon received monstrous play time and it makes you so happy.

The All-Stars HAVE to be huge Dark Side fans, because this album is nothing but a labor of love.
ENJOY!

R. CRUMB AND HIS CHEAP SUIT SERENADERS (1974)

Far deep in the layers of your skull, there should be a small circuit that is intended to make you smile at the simple things in life. This fine, delicate trigger is very important for your survival as a decent human being. So small and so simple, it tries to keep up with your transcending adult responsibilities and is usually snuffed out around the age of 15. That is why most people are assholes.

If for some rare reason you still have the smiling personality of your fifteen-year old self, and you rejoice at the little inside jokes of your own little world, then you can appreciate the ability to sit back and look around at the assholes taking life so serious while you go on humming either Benny Hill, Looney Tunes or the Three Stooges theme songs in your silly head.

Now that we're on that level, let me introduce to you R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders.

These guys are for people like us who like to sit back and smile at that Big Full Moon...
People who enjoy laughing at the most intelligent, stupid instances of everyday life and people who like to drop off the cliff in the back of their skull to all of those places that only they can see; where there is a band shell nestled in a quiet summer town at dusk and the clocks are all broken. Sitting amongst your dreams, you can watch that moon rise and listen to the sweet sounds of a light heart...






Thanks Kenny!

LA SEXORCISTO: DEVIL MUSIC, VOL.1 - White Zombie (1992)

Here's something that just kills me... It has been NINETEEN YEARS since this album came out. NINETEEN! Everything is nineteen...
I know you may know of this glorious beast of a record, and if you do than you certainly agree that it is one of the coolest records ever made. Way ahead of it's time and all that jazz, I still get a hard on when this one rolls. The drumming of Ivan de Prume (had to look that one up) is pure thunder on every track and it sounds like the snare is going to cave in and die every time he hits it... he hits my hair...we all know Rob Zombie like we know Peter Pan peanut butter and he delivers here on the band's third album with true homage to everything cool. You dig horror movies and zombies and strippers and hell raising and sci-fi and old Twilight Zones and beer and fast cars and Black Sabbath?

Put this in your ears Jack...

Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) 1966

*funfact - written by sonny bono, the original was cher's biggest solo hit of the sixties, peaking at #2*

Bobby Hendricks!!

The Company Band (2009)

These guys rock the hell out of the joint. Formed in 2006 by Clutch frontman Neil Fallon, Fireball Ministry frontman James Rota, CKY drummer Jess Margera, Guitarist Dave Bone, and Fu Manchu bassist Brad Davis with all intentions of just jamming together for fun. Well, one thing led to another and we have this killer album of tunes that will get you thumping that head.