PUNK VS HEAVY METAL! THE RAMONES MEET BLACK SABBATH

Believe it or not, twice in the late 70s the RAMONES were the opening act for BLACK SABBATH. Before securing their status as headliners, the band were likely to accept any pairing, no matter how ill conceived the booking. One of the shows was even billed as PUNK VS HEAVY METAL, and the RAMONES had to halt their performance and flee the stage amidst a shower of debris after aborted attempts to start I'M AGAINST IT and SURFIN' BIRD. They did not return to complete their set.


Astonishingly, audio has turned up of this show:



RAMONES VS BLACK SABBATH 1







The other recording is even more unruly, especially at the end of PINHEAD and after the completion of the SEARCHERS' ballad NEEDLES & PINS (perhaps they might have skipped this one??) A disgusted JOEY refers to the crowd as 'turkeys' before launching into SURFIN' BIRD.

(The image is actually from another disastrous gig, opening for AEROSMITH at a festival in Toronto.)


Here is the regrettably incomplete audio:



RAMONES VS BLACK SABBATH 2

Here is MARKY recalling the shows (the link requires two steps, or click on the title):


MARKY RAMONE RECALLS RAMONES VS BLACK SABBATH










The band seemed to take the failed crossover performances in stride, and DEEDEE even briefly took to sporting a BLACK SABBATH tshirt (see above). Over time the schism between the exclusive HEAVY METAL and PUNK camps smoothed over, but a vintage photograph used by the OBLIVIANS for the cover of their classic album POPULAR FAVORITES captures the zeitgeist animosity of an older era perfectly...

(Note the fans wearing tshirts similar to DEEDEE's. Ah, those were the days.)






Looking for a photo credit on the DEEDEE pic, if anybody knows, please let me know.



Until then, feel free to check out my track by track RAMONES career overview blog at

RAMONES: HUMMING A SICKENING TUNE


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GABBA GABBA HEY

HICKOIDS 8/17/2012 WHITE HORSE AUSTIN TEXAS

The HICKOIDS performed at the WHITE HORSE in Austin Texas on August 17, 2012. On this occasion some high quality video was shot by RYAN FITZPATRICK, and later compiled with the aid of HIX drummer LANCE FARLEY. It's some of the best live footage shot of the band since i've joined, so i put together all of the youtube links here for my own (and everybody's) cornvenience.

The lineup this particular evening was JEFF SMITH vokes DAVY JONES lead widdilyin' RICE MOOREHEAD bass LANCE FARLEY drums SCOTT LUTZ on keys/extra git and myself TOM TRUSNOVIC on other geetar.

A memorably fun night, glad some of it was captured.




LOCO GRINGOS cover

HICKOIDS FRUIT FLY








YOU KNEE'D ME

HICKOIDS YOU KNEE'D ME








Doing CARL DOUGLAS proud

HICKOIDS CORN FOO FIGHTING








Part 3 of the HEEHAW medley

HICKOIDS BUTTFUCK JUNCTION







BENNIE & THE JETS

HICKOIDS BENNIE & THE JETS







Finally, BACK IN THE TRUCK & DONKEY LADY

HICKOIDS GET BACK IN THE TRUCK/DONKEY LADY









HIX LINX:

HICKOIDS FACEBOOK

HICKOIDS REVERBNATION

SAUSTEX-- HICKOIDS' LABEL HOMESITE

ROKY ERICKSON & THE RESURRECTIONISTS LIVE!

The folks at TEXAS PSYCHEDELIC ROCK have struck again with the youtube upload of ROKY ERICKSON performing live in New Orleans 1982 with the sadly underrecorded RESURRECTIONISTS. This lineup featured CARL GIESECKE of the NERVEBREAKERS on drums, BRIAN S. CURLEY of LESTER BANG'S DELINQUENTS on bass and JIMMY JONES on lead guitar-- although these recordings feature ROKY taking solos of notable quality with striking frequency. ROKY's vocals are a shade less ferocious than his performance on the previously available BEAUTY & THE BEAST (captured earlier in 1982 with the same lineup), but the recording has good balance and features several tracks not appearing on that release. Two extremely rare cuts, ANGEL and HASN'T ANYONE TOLD YOU are also included.






ROKY & THE RESURRECTIONISTS--TUPELO'S TAVERN







01 Bermuda 0:00
02 Hasn't Anyone Told You ? 03:32
03 Two Headed Dog 06:32
04 Cold Night For Alligators 11:02
05 Mine Mine Mind 15:43
06 White Faces 18:35
07 Don't Shake Me Lucifer 21:28
08 Angel 24:06
09 The Beast 29:16
10 I Walked With A Zombie 38:21
11 Heroin 44:38
12 I Think Of Demons 56:52
13 Bloody Hammer 1:01:50
14 Crazy Crazy Mama 1:10:42
15 Creature With The Atom Brain 1:14:43
16 Starry Eyes 1:19:39
17 Don't Slander Me 1:24:29
18 The Interpreter 1:28:19
19 Stand For The Fire Demon 1:31:16
20 Night Of The Vampire 1:37:38
21 Hasn't Anyone Told You ? 1:45:15
22 You're Gonna Miss Me 1:48:30





Here is a quick jump to the long out of print BEAUTY & THE BEAST on grooveshark. I had a hand in the production of the SYMPATHY FOR THE RECORD INDUSTRY release, and also wrote the liner note. The astonishing cover art (see top of page) was created by R.K. SLOANE.




ROKY & THE RESURRECTIONISTS-- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Although a small amount of material with slightly inferior audio quality was minimally utilized (the cd features performances culled from two nights), I was pleased to be part of documenting such a strong performance of ROKY with one of his most underrated backing bands.

Here is the complete original recording that CD is culled from:


ROKY LIVE AT THE ISLAND

PS!  Another Louisiana RESURRECTIONISTS show has turned up! Lousier audio, but a good performance.

ROKY & THE RESURRECTIONISTS BATON ROUGE 1982








Go here for more cool ROKY materials daily!

DEVIL'S INFINITY CHILDREN: ROKY ERICKSON FANPAGE

ROKY ERICKSON-- THE EVIL ONE RARITIES!!

The folks over at TEXAS PSYCHEDELIC ROCK have been uploading some rather amazing ROKY ERICKSON archival material to youtube lately. Two different posts have revealed a startling amount of alternate takes and mixes from the EVIL ONE sessions. For convenience this blog will gather these recordings, and also some links to other related items.

With a few major exceptions (WHITE FACES, COLD NIGHT FOR ALLIGATORS) most of these outtakes are not too radically different in their arrangement, but there are MANY great different vocal takes, longer fades, and performance details now audible with different instruments more prominent in the mix. There are also some cool instrumental backing track takes.

2 hours of expanded EVIL ONE. Thanks to the uploaders of this precious motherlode. You can follow TEXAS PSYCHEDELIC ROCK's ROKY- related activities on Facebook here: 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS/ROKY ERICKSON.


Enjoy!





EVIL ONE ALTERNATE MIXES






01 It's a Cold Night for Alligators 0:00
02 Night of the Vampire (alternate mix) 03:14
03 Mine Mine Mind (alternate mix) 07:30
04 If You Have Ghosts (alternate mix) 11:04
05 Stand For The Fire Demon (alternate mix) 15:12
06 Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer) (alternate mix) 21:08
07 I Think Of Demons (alternate take/mix ) 24:30
08 White Faces (alternate mix/doubled vocals) 27:19
09 I Walked with a Zombie (extended alternate mix/alternate backing vocals) 29:55
10 Creature with the Atom Brain (alternate take) 33:13
11 Don't Shake Me Lucifer (alternate take/mix) 37:30
12 The Wind and More (alternate mix) 40:20
13 Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play (alternate mix) 44:24
14 Cold Night For Alligators (alternate mix) 46:59
15 Alien I Creator (alternate take) 51:36





THE EVIL ONE VOCAL TAKES & INSTRUMENTALS






01 It's a Cold Night for Alligators (Take 1) 0:00
02 It's a Cold Night for Alligators (Take 2) 03:14
03 It's a Cold Night for Alligators (Take 3) 06:28
04 If You Have Ghosts (Take 1) 09:41
05 If You Have Ghosts (Take 2) 13:42
06 If You Have Ghosts (Take 3) 17:17
07 The Wind and More (Take 1) 21:21
08 The Wind and More (Take 2) 25:45
09 White Faces (Take 1) 30:07
10 White Faces (Take 2) 32:52
11 White Faces (Take 3) 35:35
12 Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play (Take1) 38:16
13 Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play (Take 2) 40:38
14 Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play (Take 3) 43:14
15 Don't Shake Me Lucifer (Take 1) 45:49
16 Don't Shake Me Lucifer (Take 2) 48:48
17 Stand for the Fire Demon (Instrumental) 51:41
18 The Damned Thing (Instrumental 1) 57:52
19 The Damned Thing (Instrumental 2) 1:03:14
20 Night of the Vampire (Instrumental 1) 1:06:31
21 Night of the Vampire (Instrumental 2) 1:10:54

Musicians: Roky Erickson (vocals & guitar), Duane Aslaksen (guitar), Steven Burgess (bass), Fuzzy Furioso (drums), Andre Lewis (keyboards), Bill Miller (autoharp); Also: Brian Marnell, Scott Matthews, Link Davis Jr. and Stu Cook







Here's the complete original CD.


THE EVIL ONE









Here's a link to ROKY ERICKSON: THE EVILLER ONE, a collection of other versions of the EVIL ONE compositions I compiled for my blog BUNCOMBE SHINOLA:



ROKY ERICKSON: THE EVILLER ONE--AN ALTERNATE CLASSIC

And finally, here is a link to the Facebook fanpage where I post ROKY related materials daily:


DEVIL'S INFINITY CHILDREN: ROKY ERICKSON FANPAGE




Cheers

TOM WAITS & THE RAMONES

TOM WAITS and THE RAMONES. Two of my favorites, and some might think unlikely members of a mutual appreciation society- or interpreters of each others' material. However, over the years their common ground has cemented, and borne fruit. For Mr. WAITS' birthday (and convenience) I've gathered up all of their respective covers, and their original versions, Enjoy.




THE RETURN OF JACKIE & JUDY







I DON'T WANNA GROW UP







DANNY SAYS

PONY- CJ RAMONE

 

 

 

The originals:



THE RETURN OF JACKIE AND JUDY








I DON'T WANNA GROW UP







DANNY SAYS

PONY

 

 

 

 

 

How about some live action?


I DON'T WANNA GROW UP live












ALSO!

Feel free to check out my daily track by track RAMONES career overview blog at

RAMONES: HUMMING A SICKENING TUNE



Photo by BRAD ELTERMAN

INDIANA JONES & THE FACES OF DEATH!!

INDIANA JONES & THE TEMPLE OF DOOM is such a lousy movie in so many ways. Several common sequel pitfalls are tripped over (the 'annoying kid sidekick' is a prevalent film followup cliche), and who can erase the shrill annoyance of KATE CAPSHAW's dreadful performance (the future Mrs. SPIELBERG, nudge nudge) from their memory. But the jarring shift from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK's exhilarating, imaginative violence to the charmless, blunt sadism of the sequel is easily the most glaring shortcoming-- and indeed, TEMPLE OF DOOM is noted as one of the films which triggered the 'PG13' rating. You see, for a big budget, major studio, family adventure picture, an 'R' rating would constitute a disastrous loss of revenue. How do you measure the combined weight of director STEVEN SPIELBERG's and producer GEORGE LUCAS's Hollywood sway in the 80's? Instead of being pressured to tone down the brutality of their latest offering, they received a convenient new rating designation, seemingly tailormade for their predicament. "R' level violence that the kids can attend.

SPIELBERG & LUCAS were both struggling through divorce/breakup difficulties before and during production, and in retrospect both acknowledge this shaded their creative outlook, with especially SPIELBERG proving surprisingly willing to dismiss TEMPLE OF DOOM outright.

But perhaps there was something else heightening their black mood, nudging their bleak funk, agitating their simmering tastelessness. Recently, while in the midst of a VHS mondo genre review, I was suddenly struck by how many of TEMPLE OF DOOM's noteworthy scenes were mirrored in the famous snuff documentary FACES OF DEATH, released significantly earlier. FACES is well known as the release that triggered the death video compilation avalanche in rental stores nationwide during the early 80s- the MONDO CANE of the VHS age. (That so much of the 'documentary' is transparently staged, and narrated with insultingly smug phoniness, seems to have mattered little.)

While it is difficult to imagine SPIELBERG or LUCAS hanging out at their homes with a bowl of popcorn and shoving their clear-cased, loaner copy of FACES OF DEATH-- hosted by the ludicrously monikered FRANCIS B. GROSS (pictured above on the motorcycle)-- into their living room vcr for a viewing, the similarities are so strikingly clear, I was stunned to have not noticed them earlier. And make no mistake, as TEMPLE OF DOOM worked through conceptualization and pre-production, FACES OF DEATH had been wildly popular and well known in Video Shops for several YEARS.


Skeptical? Proceed. It'll pass.




1. BEATING HEART
      One of TEMPLE OF DOOM's most notorious scenes, in fact, perhaps one of the very reasons PG13 exists, involves a ritual sacrifice in which a still beating heart is yanked from the chest of a helpless victim. The very opening scene of FACES OF DEATH features a look at some open heart surgery, and lingers for several seconds as the heart pumps away with the chest cavity open and exposed. The credits are then followed by autopsy footage where a heart, and other organs are removed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk2E1CoGe98





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN59Tx1s5qM







2. GATOR BAIT
     As TEMPLE OF DOOM draws to a climax, action shifts to a chasm bridged by a shaky rope contraption, and several henchmen tumble to their deaths into the crocodile infested waters below. This recalls one of FACES OF DEATH's sequences, in which a representative of law enforcement, unwisely attempting to lasso an alligator in a pond, is yanked into the drink and mauled.Of course, it's even MORE similar to the FACES OF DEATH 3 segment in which a windblown parachutist lands into a Florida allogator (crocodile? whatever) pit. However, the third installment in the FACES OF DEATH series saw relase a year after TEMPLE OF DOOM hit the theaters. It's still quite striking how similarly the feeding frenzies are edited-- perhaps FRANCIS B. GROSS and co. felt it was time for some payback. After all, turnabout is fair play.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKOeLVsmkLQ





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROD4A0jr0Lw






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13jWeF8iM_Y







3. MONKEY BRAINS
     Lastly, the clincher. The 'comedic' highlight of the second INDIANA JONES flick involves a long gross out dinner scene in a foreign country where, amongst other revolting offerings, monkey brains are on the menu. If there is SOME way one can claim this idea wasn't stolen outright from this world-famous FACES OF DEATH sequence, PLEASE, explain to me HOW. (While this scene is truly disturbing, one can rest easy that it is also one of the 'documentary's most obviously staged schticks.)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MgyRO3c870





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjRdxuByd2g








INDIANA Jonesin' for death?? How could he B. so Gross?









Sorry for the low quality clips on some of these, copyright holders seem to be working hard to keep some of these scenes offline.

HIX do DIX!

As part of ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO's UNITED SOUNDS OF AUSTIN concert on January 11, 2014 the HICKOIDS were invited to perform DEAD IN A MOTEL ROOM by Austin's beloved punk icons THE DICKS. Other artists appearing at this 'Journey Through 60 Years of Austin Music' included JOE ELY, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, ROKY ERICKSON, BUTCH HANCOCK, TERRY ALLEN & ROSIE FLORES.

All photos by TODD V WOLFSON. More of his great pix from this event can be found here:

 The United Sounds of Austin / ACL Live at the Moody Theater .




Nobody got the whole song on video, but between these two clips it's almost all of it. The introduction is courtesy the lovely MARGARET MOSER.

HICKOIDS DEAD IN A MOTEL ROOM pt 1






HICKOIDS DEAD IN A MOTEL ROOM pt 2







HICKOIDS were honored to be invited, and had a great time. Thanx everybody