Wiser time

Wow! Another great show by the Black Crowes (10/22/09)! They came out and cruised through "Good Morning Captain" and followed that with a few singles from the past. They played about 3 or 4 songs from the new album and weaved in and out of their past catalog. It's the first show I can remember where all 3 of my favorite Crowes songs ("Wiser Time", "Thorn in My Pride", and "Jealous Again") were all performed. "Wiser Time" was the absolute high point of the show, with an absolutely searing guitar duel between Rich Robinson and Luther Dickinson. The show was another one of those mini-State Fair sets, only an hour long but for $15 (plus fair admission), it was a killer deal for a Thursday night.

There's all kinds of new stuff added to the playlist since I posted here. As of this Thursday, I'll be able to expand my playlist to almost twice it's size (although I won't do that all at once...) so look for all kindsa sounds to be comin' atcha! Again, feel free to suggest anything you'd like to hear and I'll see if I can accommodate ya.

I hope to be getting some more pics up on the Flickr page too so, keep an eyeball peeled over there for some cool sights to go witcha sounds on the NOTIMEWARP network of media! (I need a catchy name for that...). So, until next time, keep it low down and funky and don't stop groovin'! http://www.notimewarp.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/notimewarpradio/

It's all good!

Ok, he didn't play that, but there were a few tunes from his latest "Together Through Life" that he played last Saturday at his show at the AZ State Fair. He came out with 'Cats in the Well' and followed that up with 'Lay Lady Lay' and 'Beyond Here Lies Nothin' '. Highlights included an unreal version of 'Highway 61 Revisited' (my fave of the night), 'Thunder on the Mountain', and 'Ballad of a Thin Man'. He came out for an encore of a trio of songs, 'Like a Rolling Stone', Jolene' and a ridiculous 'All Along the Watchtower'. All in all, a really good show. He didn't talk to the audience except for introducing his band towards the end of the show. I was also surprised there weren't any video screens on the sides of the stage, usually a staple at a show deez days but, it was cool. We had reasonably good seats anyways. I was also a short set (about 80-90 minutes)but they do that for shows at the fair. But when you consider the ticket price was only $20 (you also had to pay to get into the fair), I think we got our money's worth.

I feel a change coming on...

I added some cool groovin' stuff this week including songs by Talking Heads, Native Smoke, Dr. John, Sir Harrison & the Blues Kings, ZZ Top, Pretenders, Link Wray, Van Halen and Junior Brown.

The station's got a real good groove goin' now. With so much variety of styles, all joined together by the groove, makes it sound real fresh and original. Now we need to spread it around and let everyone else get hooked! Ain't easy, tho'... People get caught up in their own narrow little grooves and can't free up their minds to accept variety. They listen to things that are tied together with their own little thread. They don't always git what's goin' on when they come across sumptin' new. Sometimes that thread isn't so clear! Ya gotta look at it from a different angle to see it. When you find it, you know it's good! You wonder why you didn't see it before. You say, "How come I didn't see this mofo before? What was I lookin' at? Now, I get it!" So, remember that next time you see somethin' different. Is it what you think it is? Do you get it? Free your mind and your ears will follow!

Tomorrow's the Bob Dylan concert. Man, this is gonna be good. I saw him, I think it was sometime during the 90's, at the AZ State fair. Really good show. For some reason, I was surprised. Don't think he'll catch me off guard this time though...

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CLASH NYC

I'm listening to this cool special on The Clash, offa the BBC6 site (thanks to theclashblog.com for the link). Don Letts put this collection of commentary, interviews, and music all together. Part one of the 3 part series is now unavailable (?) but I'm checking out the other 2 parts. It focuses on the relationship the Clash had with the mighty NYC. Lots of it (from what I'm hearing) deals with their opening slot for The Who at Shea Stadium in 1982. I got the CD when it came out and thought it was fairly solid. You really couldn't beat the line up with Topper (Headen, drummer fired shortly after the release of "Combat Rock") though. While this sounded great, that magic seemed to be missing a bit. One thing that was sadly annoying, I thought, was Joe Strummer's constant commentary (Oh, the blasphemy!). From what I understand, the band wasn't sure how down the Who crowd was with them other than the hits so, there was a lotta splainin' going on. There's a great version of 'Magnificent Seven' that goes into 'Armegedeon Time' then comes back to 'Seven'. Cool! But Joe sez, right offa the bat "We're gonna go from New York to Jamaica and back" (or something to that effect). That's not too bad until he calls out the change during the song. Just let it roll, Joe! Let the groove take them away! I don't mean any of this to discourage anyone away from the CD. It's really very good. Ah, but what coulda been!

As for the radio station, new stuff added by Elmore James, Pura Fe, Al Green, MC5, Thin Lizzy, Nick Lowe, Captain Beefheart, 2Pac, Elvin Bishop and others. Good grooves of all shapes, sizes, and colors! Now, to go add some mo' stuff!

Is there anybody out there?

Greetings from the blog nobody reads for the radio station nobody listens to! Ok, that's not completely true but it has seemed a bit like Tumbleweed City in these parts of the 'net lately. Getting hyped for the Dylan and Crowes concerts coming up, as well as the release of a 2-DVD set by ZZ Top titled "Double Down Live". The first DVD is from a 1980 concert in Essen, Germany, on their "Deguello" tour. I've owned a boot CD of this concert for years and, lemme tell ya, this is a mudderfugger! I watched a couple clips yesterday and, man... no shades, no gimmicks, Billy's got his famous Les Paul "Pearly Gates" (now retired from the road; he plays a replica now), these guys just tear it up! The second one is a unique collection of video shot between October 2007 and October 2008. Director Jamie Chamberlin ("Rock and Roll Gearhead: 4 Days with Billy Gibbons") uses one camera to shoot his footage. Bare bones video for bare bones space blues! Included is backstage and interview footage as well. October 23 is the scheduled release date. If there's an accompanying CD, rest assured you'll get to hear some of that on NOTIMEWARP RADIO.

In the mean time, I continue to add more cool tunes to the radio station. I'm also looking forward to a cool car show this Saturday here in town. 2000 cars and another estimated 3000 cruising up and down Central Ave. Those pics will probably be on my personal Flickr page, accessible to all. Any rock and roll related buggy's can be double posted on the NOTIMEWARP page or maybe even here. In that great rock and automotive tradition...

A cool new Flickr on the horizon...

There is now a Flicker page for NOTIMEWARP RADIO. I uploaded some of the cool stuff I've collected and presented them for your viewing pleasure. Promo postcards from movies and other releases, buttons sold out on tour only, a poster promoting an album, an unused ticket from a 1975 tour, exclusive pictures taken at a major concert in 1981, special fan items given out with CD releases and through fan clubs, and a special autograph from a now gone blues - rock guitar legend, all on one cool photostream! The perfect eye candy for listening to NOTIMEWARP RADIO!

I also added a bunch of cool music this weekend including stuff by King Crimson, Ritchie Valens, B.B. King, Psychedelic Mooj, Prince, Charlie Musselwhite, Slave, Eric Clapton, Plateros, Sonny Boy Williamson, Chickenfoot, Slim Harpo, and a lot more!

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To Flickr or not to Flickr (and other stuff from Tumbleweed City...)

After cruising around Flickr the last few days, I'm debating starting an account for NOTIMEWARP RADIO. I already have an account but the idea there was to keep my photography interests seperate from the radio thing. Besides, what does a cool landscape hafta do with music? But I do have a large amount of pictures, postcards, buttons, posters, records, magazines, concert shirts, and such, tucked away in large boxes in the closets. What a cool photo project! I've already scanned an assortment of buttons (see first blog entry) and stickers, which you can catch some on my Myspace page. I thought "Well, that's scanned; Flickr's for photos". Have you seen somada crap on Flickr? You stand an album against the wall and snap a pic of it, still showing the wall and the floor? What da hell is that? Nah, I got some ideas... Now, if I put 'em on the page I got now, nobody's gonna wanna look at my pics of the lake when they can check out my shirt from the Van Halen 1980 'Invasion' tour or the iron-on that came with the Parliament "Live P-Funk Earth Tour" album. I dunno... maybe I can still toss some of the little assorted memorabilia pics on my "normal" page. I gots too much cool stuff that doesn't do anybody no good sitting in a box in da closet, know waddah mean? It'd also be a cool way to learn how to use my camera's manual settings instead of auto-ing everything.

On the audio side, more cool stuff added last weekend from Pops Staples, Porno for Pyros, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Clash, Isaac Hayes, Jeff Beck, Lou Reed and a buncha other groovin' stuff. If you should happen to read this, go and give the tunes a shot. You'll be glad you did.