eMUSIC OCTOBER

* Introducing Wiley & The Checkmates I sought this one out after recently being turned on to Wiley's latest album, We Call it Soul, which I reviewed in my Tuneup column a few weeks ago. (This album also is available on eMusic.)

The band is fronted by Herbert Wiley is a veteran journeyman soul singer whose career goes back to the 1960s — although he also had a day job for a few decades, operating a cobbler shop in Oxford, Miss. (My favorite biographical tidbit was Wiley says that, as a child, he used to work on William Faulkner's shoes.)

While I prefer We Call It Soul, (9 times out of 10, I'm going to prefer any album that includes a cover of "Ode to Billy Joe"), Introducing is a fine effort full of good funky Southern soul that recalls the good old Stax/Volt era without sounding precious or retro. I love the horn duel in "Dog Tired" and the Blaxploitation strings, congas and screaming guitar in "Messed Up World." And when Wiley sings that he's in "deep shit" in the song of that title (over a bass-heavy musical backdrop that might remind you of psychedelic-era Temptations), he sounds like he knows what he's talking about.

In addition to this album, I also downloaded a Wiley & The Checkmates single, "Milk Chicken". It's good, but I have to admit I was a little disappointed to find out it's an instrumental and not a continuation of Wiley's chicken phobia he sang about on "I Don't Want No Funky Chicken" on We Call It Soul.


* Dracula Boots by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds. Now here's a musician with a pedigree. Brian Tristan, better known as Kid Congo Powers has been a member of The Cramps as well as Nick Cave's Bad Seeds and The Gun Club.

This record, however doesn't sound much like any of those. It's pretty darn impressive though. There's lots of instrumentals with Kid Congo laying down cool basic psychedelic guitar riffs as the bass rumbles, the drums send coded messages from the jungle and electronic effects sizzle in the background. Sometimes there's New Wavey keyboards adding some science-fiction zing to the mix.

Where there are vocals, they are mostly spoken by Powers. He can sound sinister in songs like "La Llorona" (yes, that's my favorite tune here) or goofy, like "Found a Peanut," a cover of a Thee Midnighters tune.


* Raw, Raw Rough by Barrence Whitfield. Barrence still is a savage!

Released earlier this year, Raw is his first solo album in years. But he's still got that early rock 'n' roll/crazed R&B spirit that was so refreshing when he burst out of Boston with his band The Savages in the mid-80s.

Here he plays with a basic stripped down band -- guitar, bass, drums a sax. I'm not sure who the group is, but they stomp and wail. And Barrence shouts with such abandon he makes Screamin' Jay Hawkins look downright shy.

There's lots of original -- or at least obscure enough to be original -- tunes here including shouters like "Early Times," "Kissing Tree" and the opener "Geronimo." Also, Whitfield pays tribute to not one but two classic Pacific Northwest garage bands, covering "Strychnine" by The Sonics and a near-forgotten classic by The Kingsmen, "Long Green." (This also was a minor hit for New Mexico's Fireballs back in the '60s.)

Though the shouters are his main strength, Whitfield also shows he can handle some "slow dances." "I Wouldn't Want to Be in Your Shoes" and "One More Time" are nice and purdy in an Otis Redding kind of way.

* Talkin' Trash by The Marathons and Friends. They call it trash, but I treasure this stuff. This is a collection of 26 R&B obscurities from the '50s by seven vocal groups.

The Marathons, The Olympics, The Danliers , The Lions, The Lexingtons, The Boulevards and The Robins.

I have to confess, the latter group is the only one of these with which I was even halfway familiar. They're best known for Leiber & Stoller tunes "Riot in Cell Block #9" and "Smokey Joe's Cafe." (neither of which are here) and for spawning The Coasters, which became known as the funniest R&B group in the '50s.

But even though they weren't nearly as well known, The Marathons, who have 11 songs on this collection, could give The Coasters a run for their money. They did novelty tunes like "Peanut Butter" and "Tight Sweater" (written by Sonny Bono!), and funny story tunes like "Chicken Spaceman" (did this insoire the Don Knotts movie The Reluctant Astronaut?) and "C. Mercy Percy of Scotland Yard."

But the craziest -- and most addictive -- song on this album is the title song by The Marathons. It features a girl who responds to the singer's advances with the craziest laugh ever recorded.

Plus:

* 11 Tracks from Live at the Double Door 1/16/2004 by Robbie Fulks. I downloaded most of this album years ago when I first joined eMusic. At the time I just downloaded songs that I didn't have on other Fulks album. (A lot of those would later appear on Fulks' album Georgia Hard.) Thanks to eMusic's new policy of offering complete albums for the cost of 12 tracks, I was able to pick these up for just a couple of track credits. And I'm glad I did. Among the ones I just downloaded are fine versions of Fulks standbys "Dirty Mouth Flo," "I Push Right Over" (though I still prefer Rosie Flores' cover), "She Took a Lot of Pills (And Died)," "Parallel Bars" (with the under-rated Donna Fulks singing Kelly Willis' part) and "Knot Hole."

Taking advantage of the eMusic album-price policy, I also picked up six tracks I skipped from another live album I downloaded years ago, The Handsome Family Live at Schuba's, a December 2000 show. True, all these tracks were between-song patter and most were only a few seconds long. But what the heck, they were free.

* 8 tracks from A Country Legacy 1930-1939: CD B by Cliff Carlisle. Cliff was born in Kentucky in 1904. My grandfather's name was "Clift" and he was born in Kentucky in 1903.

Coincidence?

Carlisle, who began recording in the '30s, might be described as Jimmie Rodgers with a dirty mind. Lots of his songs. He had the Singing Brakeman's yodel, but he had Blowfly in his soul. His tunes were full of hell-raising, barnyard humor and sex. I believe he was the only white guy included on the Dirty Blues Licks compilation, which I downloaded last month. (He also did some occasional powerful religious material, perhaps to atone for his rough and raunchy ways.)

My favorites from this batch I downloaded include "That Nasty Swing" -- yes, it's about what you think -- which 60-some years later was covered by Blue Mountain, as well as "Shanghai Rooster Yodel," a precursor to Howlin' Wolf's "Little Red Rooster."

I downloaded the first disc from this collection years ago. I can't wait to download the rest of Disc B when my account refreshes this week.

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, October 2, 2009
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Get Up and Go by David Bromberg
Penny Instead by Charlie Pickett
Feel Good Again by Charlie Feathers
Don's Bop by Artie Hill & The Long Gone Daddies
Girl Called Trouble by The Watzloves
The Taker by Waylon Jennings
Fools Fall in Love by Katy Moffatt
Swing Troubador by Christine Albert

Took My Gal Out Walkin' by Loudon Wainwright III with Martha Wainwright
Ramblin' Blues by Charlie Poole
Chatanooga Sugar Babe by Norman Blake
That Nasty Swing by Cliff Carlisle
Three Times Seven by Doc & Merle Watson
See That Coon in a Hickory Tree by The Delmore Borthers
I'm a Rattlesnakin' Daddy by Blind Boy Fuller
The Sad Milkman by The Handsome Family

See Willie Fly By by The Waco Brothers
Power of the 45 by Big Sandy & The Fly-Rite Boys
Got Me a Woman by Andy Anderson
Fruit of the Vine by Nancy Apple
Honky Tonk Heroes by Billy Joe Shaver
Man in Black by Johnny Cash
Dolores by T. Tex Edwards & Out on Parole
Drinkin' and Smokin' Cigarettes by Rev. Horton Heat
I Got Your Bath Water On by Butterbeans & Susie

The Gypsy by Cornell Hurd
Wild Bill Jones by Jim Dickinson
Everybody's Clown by Skeeter Davis & NRBQ
Opportunity to Cry by Wilie Nelson
The Highwayman by Zeno Tornado
Tumblin' Tumbleweeds by Sally Timms
Surface of the Sun by Exene Cervenka
Potter's Field by Dave Alvin & The Guilt Women featuring Christy McWilson
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: PERE UBU LIVES UP TO ITS NAME

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
October 2, 2009


I’ve loved Pere Ubu — the avant-weirdo band originally from Cleveland — for years, but I was ready to be put off by the group’s latest album, Long Live Père Ubu!, because of some of the statements in the project’s press material.

The album is a musical adaptation of Ubu Roi, an 1896 play by Alfred Jarry, whose work influenced the Surrealist and Dada movements and later the Theater of the Absurd. The band took its name from the play’s protagonist.

Long Live Père Ubu! is not background music. It’s not ‘fun’ music,” the press release says. “It’s an intellectual and conceptual challenge and as viciously satirical as Jarry’s original.”

Then it quotes David Thomas, the band’s frontman: “If you’re not going to listen to this with the same effort you’d devote to a literary novel, you’re wasting your time. ... It’s long past time for rock music to grow up and move past the simpering platitudes or Tom Joad cant that passes for serious thought. All hail the survival of the Unfit!”

Thomas also claims that Long Live Père Ubu! is “the only punk record that’s been made in the last 30 years.”

First of all, as an Okie, I resent that disparaging remark about the hero of The Grapes of Wrath. But even more troubling is all the highfalutin art talk. What is this, Emerson, Lake & Palmer? It sounds like the condescending gibberish spouted by ivory-tower culture critics who bestow artistic legitimacy upon Sgt. Pepper and haughtily dismiss Beatles ’65.

But then again, Thomas probably delights in provoking the primitivists. In fact, I’m pretty sure he’s mocking the high-art culture vultures.

Flashback to 1896: When Ubu Roi had its premiere in Paris, riots broke out from the very first word of the play — merdre, a variation on the French word for "shit." (Didn’t the French also riot at the opening of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring? What is it with them?)

Set in Poland, Ubu Roi is the tale of the hideous Père Ubu and his shrewish wife who urges him to seize power by murdering the king. After the crime is committed, Ubu becomes a cruel tyrant and is eventually overthrown himself. On one level, the play is a parody of Macbeth, but it also satirizes the politics of the nation-states of Europe that culminated in World War I.

Ubu is not just a terrible dictator. He is repulsive beyond belief — cruel, loutish, petty, venal, gluttonous, coarse, and pompous; Jabba the Hutt and Idi Amin have nothing on him. He was also the protagonist of two sequels, Ubu Cocu (Ubu Cuckolded) and Ubu Enchaîné (Ubu Enchained), neither of which was performed during the playwright’s lifetime.

Ubu does Ubu: While Thomas took Pere Ubu as the name of his band in the 1970s, he had never attempted to perform Jarry’s work until last year’s adaptation in London of Ubu Roi, called Bring Me the Head of Ubu Roi. Thomas starred as the title character, with singer Sarah Jane Morris, from a band called The Communards, as his wife. The bickering couple portrayed by Thomas and Morris were two parts Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth and one part Jiggs and Maggie. The first half of a radio adaptation of this is available as a series of free podcasts.

The album starts off with the word that sparked the 1896 riot, growled by Thomas. When I first heard it, I thought he was saying “murderer.” Considering that the King of Poland doesn’t have long to live, “murderer” isn’t an inappropriate word to set the mood.

With the additions of Morris and electronic whiz Gagarin, the ever-changing Ubu band here is the same group that played on the previous Ubu album, 2006’s excellent and underrated Why I Hate Women.

Like any Pere Ubu album, this record is filled with electronic bells, whistles, squeaks, and squawks that hark back to Plan 9 From Outer Space and Thomas’ yelps, warbles, and tasty guitar licks (the one on “Watching the Pigeons” is right out of the Jesus Christ Superstar overture).

There is also some belching. The song “Less Said the Better” is almost as funny as a it is disgusting. It’s the best use of burping in a rock song since Alfred E. Neuman’s “It’s a Gas.”

Because it is a dramatic presentation, there is a lot of spoken-word dialogue (as well as some that’s sung), most of which is fascinating. My favorite is the conversation between Mère and Père Ubu on “The Story So Far.” He’s in a hallucinatory daze while she tries to convince him that she’s a supernatural natural spirit — an angel, to be exact. But even in his delirious stupor, Père Ubu knows she’s no angel.

“Long Live Père Ubu!” is a compelling and dark album, if not an all-out rocker. The press material is right — it’s not background music. It certainly isn’t easy listening. But if you’re twisted enough, it’s a lot of fun, no matter what the press release says.

Blog bonus: Check this animated Brothers Quay video of “Song of the Grocery Police” below



And there's another one HERE, but embedding has been disabled. Probably for some highfalutin artistic reason.

R.I.P. AMY FARRIS

I just learned that Austin fiddler Amy Farris died over the weekend.

I just saw her in August playing with Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women at the Santa Fe Brewing Company, where I snapped this photo. She was a wonderful musician.

A brief in the Austin Statesman blog is HERE.

UPDATE:

Still no word on cause of death. The Yep-Roc site says she'd suffered a long illness.

In lieu of flowers, the family encourages you to send a donation in her honor to Hungry For Music, Inc, a nonprofit effort to provide musical instruments to underprivileged children with a hunger to play.

http://hungryformusic.com
http://hungryformusic.org

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, September 27, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
Webcasting!
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
It's Money That I Love by Randy Newman
Where's the Money by Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
Long Green by Barrence Whitfield
Money (That's What I Want) by Jerry Lee Lewis
Money Honey by Elvis Presley
No Money, No Honey by Beck
Give Me Wine or Money by The Mekons
Material Girl by Petty Booka
Brother Can You Spare a Dime by Dr. John & Odetta

Didn't It Rain by The Tormenters
I Ain't Got You by The Yardbirds
Blues That Defy My Soul by Dex Romweber
Baby Doll by The Del Moroccos
Bow Down and Die by The Almighty Defenders
Holy Hack Jack by Demented Are Go
Wasting My Time by The White Stripes
Gimme Some Water by The Guilty Hearts
Green Fuzz by The Cramps
Little Annie Fanny by The Kingsmen

Look for the Question Mark by The Fuzztones
Outrun the Law by The Things
Satanic Rite by Los Peyotes
Into the Drink by Mudhoney
Do You Swing by The Fleshtones
Shake It Wild by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
Hey Joe by The Leaves
Get on the Right Track, Baby by The Monsters
Sea and Sand by The Polkaholics

Somebody Stop Me by The Dynamites with Charles Walker
Bad Trip by Lee Fields
Ode to Billy Joe/Hip Hug Her by Wiley & The Checkmates
King Cobra by The Budos Band
Cold Bologna by The Isley Brothers
Choices by Bettye LaVette
This Land Is Your Land by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

SUPPORT THE KSFR FUNDRAISER

OK you ham-and-eggers, KSFR, Santa Fe Public Radio, is in the middle of our fall fund drive and it's about time you forked it over.

I know these are difficult financial times for a lot of us, but we have to keep KSFR afloat.

In case you didn't know, I produce two shows on KSFR, The Santa Fe Opry on Friday nights (starts 10 pm Mountain Time) and Terrell's Sound World same time on Sunday night. (My podcast, The Big Enchilada, isn't directly affiliated with KSFR, but the music on the podcasts is the same type of stuff I play on my shows.)

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Being a public station also means its locally controlled. Our music shows don't follow playlists created by out of state marketers. Local people like we play the music we want. Check out the great shows KSFR officers on our program guide.

But like I said at the beginning of this post, it's time to fork it over! You can pledge online or during daytime hours you can call 428-1393. If you're out of the Santa Fe area, there's a toll-free pledge number, 1-800-907-5737. I'll be on the air tonight at 10 pm, so I'll be happy to personally take your pledge at 505-428-1382.

BIG ENCHILADA # 14

Another Big Enchilada podcast is served. Watch out, that plate is hot!

Unlike my past few Big Enchilada shows, there's no overriding theme on Podcast 14 -- just Freeform Weirdo podcasting at its finest with pulse-pounding tunes by Roky Erikson, Wolfman Jack & The Wolfpack , The Almighty Defenders, Johnny Burnette, John Schooley, Nathaniel Mayer, Monkeyshines and so many more.

And in the middle of the show there's a mini-version of what I like to call "Around The World in a Daze," raw, rockin' international sounds from the four corners of this delightful planet.

CLICK HERE to download the podcast. (To save it, right click on the link and select "Save Target As.") NOTE: This link was repaired on 10-10-09.

Or better yet, stop messing around and CLICK HERE to subscribe to my podcasts and HERE to directly subscribe on iTunes.

You can play it on the little feedplayer below:




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Here's the play list:

(Background Music: Special Rate Sherry by Vinnie Santino)
All My Lovin' by The Almighty Defenders

It's a Crying Shame by The Gentlemen

Lonesome Train (On a Lonesome Track) by Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n' Roll Trio

Rattlesnake, Baby, Rattlesnake by Joe Johnson
Mama Get the Hammer by Barrence Whitfield
The Crooked Path by John Schooley & His One Man Band

(Background Music: The Good, The Bad and The Chutney by Kalyanji & Anandji Shah)

Chlopci by Kazik Staszewski

El Reportero by Los Tigres del Norte

Go Man Go by The Olympians
Betchayén Tègodahu by Alemayehu Eshete

Good to Be Bad by The Deadly Vibes

Kaw Liga by Silver Sand

(Background Music: Pale White Surfer by The Mistaken)

Two Gray Hairs by Monkeyshines

White Dress by Nathaniel Mayer

Wolfman Boogie (Part 1) by Wolfman Jack & The Wolfpack

It's a Cold Night for Alligators by Roky Erikson & The Aliens

House of Voodoo by Half Japanese

(Background Music: Chicken Slacks by RIAA)

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, September 25, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Boogie Woogie Country Girl by Cornell Hurd
Rebel Rock Armageddon by The Riptones
Rockin' Spot by Cody Coldiron
Battle of Love by Mose McCormack
Long Gone Daddy by Arty Hill & The Long Gone Daddies
Good Lovin' by C.C. Adcock
Shake a Leg by Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars
Word to the Wise by Quarter Mile Combo
Ants on the Melon by The Gourds
Didn't He Ramble by Loudon Wainwright III

Betty and Dupree by Billy Lee Riley
Let's Pretend by Ethyl & The Regulars
Dumb Blonde by Dolly Parton
Heartache Ahead by Wanda Jackson
Big City Good Time Gal by Wayne Hancock
Bring it On Down to My House by Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel
Bayou Tortue by James McMurty
I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again by The Maddox Brothers & Rose

Insane Thing by Exene Cervenka
Big Mamou by Waylon Jennings
Can't Go On This Way by Hot Club of Cowtown
Party Slab by Ronnie Dawson
Gee I Really Love You by Heavy Trash
I Push Right Over by Robbie Fulks
Umm Boy You're My Baby by Bill Johnson & The Dabblers
Foothill Boogie by Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
Drinking With Jesus by The Red Elvises
Hard Travelin' by Simon Stokes

Somedays You Write the Song by Guy Clark
Across the Borderline by Jim Dickinson with Chuck Prophet
Walking to the End of the World by Amy Allison
It's All Over Now Baby Blue by The Byrds
I'm Not Ready Yet by George Jones
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: FUZZY SOUNDS

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
September 25, 2009


At last a “greatest hits” compilation by The Fuzztones. This is the first ever such collection — well, at least since 2005’s LSD 25: 25 Years of Fuzz and Fury.

But if you’re like me and don’t have that previous compilation, this new one, Lysergic Legacy, by Rudi Protrudi and his philosophers of furious fuzz — on the Cleopatra label, if anyone’s keeping score — is great. (If you do have the older album, take note: according to the Allmusic Guide, the two albums have 17 of the same songs.)

As lovers of the garage-rock sound know, “fuzz” is more than just an effect on the guitar. It’s a state of mind. It’s an attitude that The Fuzztones have championed since the early ’80s. Like their contemporaries, The Fleshtones and The Cramps, they sprang out of New York. But, along with the obligatory personnel changes, The Fuzztones have moved around. They were in California for awhile, but fell apart in the early ’90s after a major record label deal flopped. The Fuzztones regrouped this century in Europe. Protrudi and his fuzzy friends have been based in Germany in recent years.

Lysergic Legacy includes a couple of tunes (“Garden of My Mind” and “Third Time’s the Charm”) from the band’s most recent studio record, last year’s Horny as Hell — an album known for the addition of a horn section to the basic psychedelic/garage sound. There are also several original versions of songs that were reworked for Horny, like “Johnson in a Headlock,” which was originally released in 2004, and “Ward 81,” which goes back to the early ’80s.

If you listen to a particular handful of tracks here, you might think you have a garage-punk version of Frank Sinatra’s Duets. That’s because of some impressive guest appearances by ’60s Nuggets-era greats. “Get Naked” features the late Sky “Sunlight” Saxon of The Seeds. Mark Lindsay from Paul Revere & The Raiders belts out “Caught You Red Handed.” James Lowe of The Electric Prunes can be heard on “Hallucination Generation.” And the raga-rocking “All the King’s Horses” features Arthur Lee of Love and Sean Bonniwell of The Music Machine.

Sorry Mysterians fans — you won’t hear the artist formerly known as Rudy Martinez on “Look for the Question Mark.”

And there’s not one but two covers of songs by The Sonics, “Strychnine” and “Cinderella.” The Fuzztones did a tribute EP to this classic garage band from Seattle a few years ago.

A quarter century is a long time to be in the fuzz and fury game. But, judging by the sound of the more recent tracks on this collection, I’m betting Rudy Protrudi has many more years in him.

More sounds from the world garage:

* Some Kind of Kick by The Things. This is a garage-punk band from Dublin that I stumbled across while looking for new kicks on eMusic. The quartet is led by singer Neilo Thing (the musicians should have gone Dr. Seuss on us, calling themselves “Thing 1,” “Thing 2,” etc.). This album, full of high-charged snot-rock, was released early this year.

Despite The Things’ Irish heritage, you don’t hear much of the shamrock shores in them. They sound nothing like The Pogues — and, thankfully, even less like U2. In fact, if anything, they remind me a lot of The Fuzztones, whom I bet they idolize. Both bands are heavy on the retro electric organ (in The Things’ case, sometimes played on a nice-and-cheesy-sounding synth) and basic garage hooks.

There are some cool spooky tunes like “Demon Stomp” (I can’t really make out the lyrics, except where Neilo says complimentary things about vampire girls) and “Psycho Lover.” You can hear the guiding spirit of The Doors’ Ray Manzarek in Ruairi Paxton’s keyboard solo on “Think” (try not to think of “Break on Through”). The jittery “Make Her Cry” name-checks Johnny Cash. And the slow-dance “Sandy” sounds like The Black Lips attempting country music.

But my favorite here is “Set Me Free,” in which Neilo seems to channel The Hives’ Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist.

* ¡Cavernicola! by Los Peyotes. Here’s a reissue of an early album (from the golden days of 2005) by Argentina’s leading garage band. London’s Dirty Water records recently made the album available in a digital version on your popular download services (including Amazon, iTunes, and eMusic).

There are plenty of Peyotes originals on this record as well as Spanish-language covers of crazy old rock songs. The group resurrects the infamous “Fire” by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, called “Fuego” here. Los Peyotes also do “Jack the Ripper” (Screamin’ Lord Sutch’s song, not Link Wray’s famous instrumental).

And like The Fuzztones (and like me), these Argentines are Sonics fans. Here they do “The Witch.”

Give el Diablo his due. Los Peyotes do a four-and-a-half-minute “Satanic Ritual” kicked off with a slow cheapo horror-movie organ solo. Two tunes, “El humo te hace mal” and “I Don’t Mind” would later appear on Introducing Los Peyotes, which was released last year. And the “secret” bonus song at the end of “The Witch” (no, it’s not really a 10-minute version of the song) is “Scream,” a song that also appears on Introducing.

MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY: LSD MADE A WRECK OUTTA ME

Here's a live 1991 performance by T. Tex Edwards & The Swingin' Cornflake Killers (I gues his band Out on Parole hadn't been paroled yet) doing a classic musical cautionary tale.



I like this almost as much as this one.

And for the original "LSD" by Wendell Austin (as well as a link to the landmark "I Wanna Come Back from the World of LSD" by New Mexico's Fe-Fi-Four Plus Two, CLICK HERE.