THE BEASTS OF BOURBON - Hordern Pavilion, Sydney 2 April 2013

Beasts of Bourbon performing at Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 2 April 2013
Beasts of Bourbon are an Australian alternative rock, blues band formed in August 1983.
The line up currently consists of Tex Perkins on vocals, Spencer P Jones on guitar, Brian Hooper on bass guitar, Charlie Owen on guitar and Tony Pola on drums.


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THE BEASTS OF BOURBON - The Axeman's Jazz

THE BEASTS OF BOURBON  The Axeman's Jazz  LP 1984 CD 1990/2009
Evil Ruby / Love & Death / Graveyard Train / Psycho / Drop Out / Save Me a Place / Lonesome Bones / The Day Marty Robbins Died / Ten Wheels for Jesus / Good Times (bonus)*/ Sometimes Goodguys...(bonus)*.
Recorded live at Paradise Studios by Tony Cohen & *Recorded live At The Old CivicTheatre (Perth).
The Beasts Of Bourbon: Boris Sujdovic: bass / Kim Salmon: guitar, slide / Tex Perkins: vocals / James Baker: drums / Spencer P. Jones: guitar + Tony Thewlis: guitar / Brett Rixon: drums.

The Beasts of Bourbon are an Australian alternative rock, blues rock band formed in August 1983, with James Baker on drums (ex-Hoodoo Gurus), Spencer P. Jones on guitar (The Johnnys), Tex Perkins on vocals (Dum Dums), Kim Salmon on guitar and Boris Sujdovic on bass guitar (both ex-The Scientists). Except for mainstays, Jones and Perkins, the line-up has changed as the group splintered and reformed several times. Their debut album, The Axeman's Jazz (July 1984), was the best selling Australian alternative rock album for 1984. Their debut single, "Psycho", is a cover version of the Leon Payne original, and was the best selling Australian alternative rock single for that year. However the group disbanded by mid-1985 and each member pursued other musical projects. They reformed in 1987 and issued a second album, Sour Mash, in December 1988 on Red Eye Records. According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, it "virtually redefined the parameters of guitar-based rock'n'roll. The Cramps-influenced swamp-rock of old had been discarded for a more adventurous slab of gutbucket blues and avant-garde weirdness. Perkins' voice had matured into an authentic blues growl". Their fifth studio album, Gone (January 1997), reached the Top 50 ARIA Albums Chart. Their seventh studio album, ''Little Animals (21 April 2007) on Albert Productions, which also peaked into the Top 50. Source

The first sonic blast from this Austral indie supergroup was recorded in one afternoon by members of the Scientists (Kim Salmon, Boris Sujdovic, and James Baker), Salamander Jim (Tex Perkins and Salmon), the Hoodoo Gurus (Baker), and the Johnnys (Spencer Jones). Although several hailed from remote Perth, the band was actually formed in Sydney, where all were based by the early-'80s (Perkins had migrated from Brisbane). Like the Scientists, they were influenced by Hank Williams, the Rolling Stones (see "Beast of Burden" on 1978's Some Girls), and the Cramps. The group wasn't necessarily meant to lead to a career, but for several of the musicians -- most notably Perkins (also of the Cruel Sea) -- it has. Considering how little time was actually spent on recording it, The Axeman's Jazz is a surprisingly accomplished debut. If not quite as successful as 1988's follow-up, Sour Mash, it remains an energetic collection of grungy swamp rock with a side of countrified blues. Things get off to such an auspicious start with lead track, Leon Payne's "Psycho," however, the rest of the album pales a little in comparison.

If Perkins sounds like a guilty man on the other songs, he sounds appropriately innocent on "Psycho," the twisted tale of a murderer lost in the depths of denial (as if in anticipation of Nick Cave's Murder Ballads, on which Jones would guest, the self-deluded narrator kills pretty much everyone he meets). "Psycho" was also released as a single backed with the Easybeats' "Good Times" and the Standells' "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White." "Good Times," which is featured on the full-length, was recorded live at the Old Civic Theatre in Perth with Tony Thewlis and Brett Rixon, from a later incarnation of the Scientists, on drums and guitar. If the U.S. were said to have an equivalent to the Beasts, it would have to be the Monkeywrench, which counts members of Mudhoney, the Big Boys, the U-Men, and Aussie band, Lubricated Goat, among its ranks (the Goat's Stu Spasm has even done some time in the Beasts' constantly-evolving lineup). Allmusic

In celebration of their 30th anniversary, Beasts of Bourbon are releasing a three-disc live album as well as performing six special shows in Sydney and Melbourne this August.
The band will play three dates in each city with a nightly rotating lineup. The formation will vary from the current incarnation, which includes Tex Perkins, Spencer P. Jones, Charlie Owen, Tony Pola and Brian Hooper, to the original lineup where Perkins and Jones will be joined by Kim Salmon, James Baker and Boris Sujdovic as the players who recorded their seminal 1991 record, "The Low Road".
The scheduled live album, titled "30 Years of Borrowed Time", features performances from three different sets that took place this year. It marks the band’s tumultuous 30-year career, which has seen them release six albums and tour Australia and Europe countless times and play at the inaugural Big Day Out Sydney in 1992.Source
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LITTLE BOB STORY - Livin' In The Fast Lane

LITTLE BOB STORY  Livin' In The Fast Lane  CD 1991/96  LP 1977
Little Big Boss° / All Or Nothing° / I' m Gonna Dress In Black° / 'Round The Corner° / Riot In Toulouse° / When The Night Comes° / Baby° / You Make Me Crazy° / Mister Tap° / Nothin' Else (Can Give It To Me)° / Hot N' Sweaty °* / Music Of Our Life* / Suzy* / Night Could Be Easy* / You Don't Need To Know* / She's A Heartbreaker* (* bonus tracks).
°Produced by Sean Tyla
Little Bob Story: Little Bob: vocals / Guy Georges Gremy: guitar / Dominique Guillon: guitar / Barbe Noire: bass / Mino Quertier: drums + Sean Tyla: swamp guitar in "Riot In Toulouse" / Bob Andrews: piano & John Earl: sax in "All Or Nothing".

Without mistake, one can only say what a legend Little Bob is regarding Rock'n'Roll History. Neither success, glory, hits, airplay nor homage could ever testify enough of his contribution to music.
It all goes back to France’s main northern port. A tough mother of a rain-battered grey hole called Le Havre. Le Havre is the closest France ever gets to the look and feel of Liverpool or New Jersey : oil terminals, super tankers, refineries, chemical plants, warehouses, longshoremen, etc. Little Bob comes from here, and for those to whom such things matter, Little Bob’s Story features all the rights Rock & Roll ingredients. bob can out mean-street anyone.

Bob's been at it for a while, playing every armpit France has to offer with his legendary band called Little Bob Story, Bob even ventured to England (300 gigs) attracting the ³gunslingers² of British rock critics, opening ³the road as he traveled it, playing all around Europe, singing on every single stage on this road from Irish pubs to Hells Angels bars, from universities to big festivals. Literally setting venues on fire ! Touring as if the fate of the free world depended on it.
Today, Little Bob leads a new band (since 7 years), released 4 solo¹s albums, and his rock has changed. His music is drawing deeper into the roots of blues. A mixed up of tribal rock with burning emotion and powerful feeling.

The greatest have always considered Bob as one of their own. Recording with Steve Hunter (Mytch Ryder, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper...), Charlie sexton (the Texas Boy Wonder), Kenny Margolis (of Mink Deville and Cracker), Dave Alvin (The Blasters) and on stage with Maria McKee & Benment Tench in Hollywood, Dr Feelgood, Beverly Joe Scott & Southside Johnny in Paris, Willy DeVille & Johnny Thunder in England.
Little Bob cherishes the way of singing of classic rock and blues singers from Little Richard or Howling Wolf to Eric Burdon. Bob’s Got the secret magic ingredient which makes all the difference in the heart of his fans : the innocence, the fervor & the ingenuity. Bob pulls it off, never blinks, never winks, he discards the "Camp", easy way-out, gambles on the power of bare emotion, and comes out a winner. his look and tremondous voice make him unique to the audience.
Each time little Bob’s release a new album it is a good news, if anything because, as wise men say, "whenever a dreamer fulfills his dream, other dreamers ought to celebrate". Source
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CITY KIDS - The name of the game (Re-Up)

CITY KIDS The Name Of The Game LP 1983
State Control / Mad Shadows / Name Of The Game / Speeding /Security / Old Man Skin.
Recorded live in Le Havre.

Produced by Rob Younger.
City Kids: Dominique Comont: vocals, keyboards / Eric Houllemare: bass / Stéphane Lesauvage: drums / Pascal Lamy: guitar.

Indissociables de la ville du Havre comme Little Bob Story ou Fixed Up , les City Kids débutent leur carrière avec ce mini lp enregistré live en 1983, sur leur propre label, City Kids Records ! "The name of the game" propose un rock sous forte influence australienne : s'y côtoient Radio Birdman , les Visitors et Died Pretty ! Avec grande classe , les havrais nous assènent des originaux parfaitement enregistrés live et produit par Rob Younger lui-même! Tout au long des six chansons de "The Name Of The Game" le piano vigoureux et la voix grave de Domnique Comont font merveille! Il se dégage un lyrisme à la Doors de ces chansons portées par une rythmique parfaite,, celle du duo basse-batterie composé d'Erik Houllemare (le frère de Christian , membre des Bad Brains qui "commirent" la même année, un excellent mini lp "Legends From The End Of Time" sur Closer Records, d' Happy Hate Me Nots , des Someloves et des New Christs) et de Stéphane Lesauvage à la batterie ! L'incisive guitare de Pascal Lamy orne chacune des chansons et sait durcir le ton quand il le faut !

Les City Kids savaient rocker de façon originale et addictive! Le Havre se souvient encore de cette nuit-là: quelques uns de ses plus électriques enfants enregistraient live pour la posterité et avec un énorme culot pour un premier disque, un témoignage essentiel auquel le grand Rob Younger apportait sa caution de producteur!

The City Kids were a french rock band from Le Havre.Formed in August 1980, their influences are diverse: the Anglo-Saxon rock of the seventies (MC5, the Stooges, the Who), the punk ( with the Damned, Saints, Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers ...) and especially the Australian rock underground (Radio Birdman, Died Pretty). Since the mid-seventies, Le Havre city has a reputation for being "a heavy rock town"...Thanks to Little Bob Story at the time the only French rock band singing in English to perform across the Channel.

City Kids will soon imitate their elders in 1981 for 25 dates with Doctor Feelgood.The City Kids has performed in France and in Europe with about a hundred dates a year with Iggy Pop in 1990 at the Zénith of Paris. Against the current musical fashions of the moment, City Kids did not got successful beyond a certain part of the rock audience.

Produced by Rob Younger, the first City Kids mini album "The Name Of The Game" was recorded live in their town of Le Havre. A solid album: one of my favorite french rock albums !

Thanks to Max for the cd artwork...

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ROADRUNNERS - ... A Frog In My Throat...

ROADRUNNERS  ... A Frog In My Throat... CD  1989
Love Infection / A Frog In My Throat / Just A Drop / Big City Lights / You Change All The Time / Clean And Reasonable / Snake In The Grass / Wrong Track / Vacant Box / Jessie James Theme / Dolores / Sleep Tight.
Produced by Boucherie Productions.

Roadrunners: François Pandolfi: lead & backing vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, keyboards & sound effects / Nito Rodriguez: electric & acoustic guitars, backing vocals & sound effects / Ludwig Leroy: drums, tambourine / Thierry Effray: bass, backing vocals + Gene Clarksville: keyboards / Ti' Joe: 12 strings guitar & backing vocals / François Hadji-Lazaro: banjo / Pat Campell: coyote howls & Remington gun / Jeff, Poulpe, Mamac & Peter: brass.

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THE JET BOYS - Just Wanna Talk To You

THE JET BOYS ‎ Just Wanna Talk To You  7'' & 12'' 1989
Just Wanna Talk To You / You Talk Too Much / Like A Shooting Star.
Produced by Si Freddy Di Angelo

The Jet Boys: Freddy Lynxx: guitars, vocals / Vic Vixen:  guitars, vocals / Poker Alice: bass, vocals / Nick Hell: drums, vocals + guests: les 3/8: brass section / Paul Wallfisia: piano

About The Jet boys
« Freddy Lynxx was playing in a band, the Aristochattes, when he first saw Thunders play in Paris in 1983. Lynxx left his band to start working as a roadie for Thunders then started a new band. When it came time to name the group, the top three choices were Jet Boys (the name of a Thunders song), Flying Pizza and Vendetta (Vixen/Alice’s choice). To settle it, Lynxx took his mates and the three names over to Thunders to ask him which was best. « How could he not choose the one after his own song? » Lynxx said. « I picked Jet Boys the way the Rolling Stones took their name from the Muddy Waters song. Going to Johnny Thunders for the name was like a little boy going to church and being given his church name ».
Scott McLennan Time Out 1994.

 The Jet Boys – Year by Year
1984 - The Jet Boys took off after 3 weeks of rehearsals with a guy named John as their drummer, they were asked by Johnny Thunders to be his supporting act at the Gibus Club in Paris on September 26th & 27th. The second night, while playing « Can’t Keep My Eyes On You », a suitably impressed Johnny Thunders jumped on stage to grab the mic… that’s a double rock n roll confirmation of biblical proportions! They also played the Gibus club with the Flying Padovani’s in November & December as the word spread like napalm and the band moved up a gear. John was ejected from the drum stool and replaced by Phil Nodon in September 1985 and the next logical step was to get into the studio.
1986 - In January, the first demo is recorded with Johan Asherton, Mickey Blow and mixed by Dominique Laboubée (Dogs). The studio was so small that Phil had to use a drum machine. They later played the Gibus again with The Vibrators.
1987 - Phil left the band for unknown reasons and was replaced in 1988 by Nick Hell. They recorded their second demo in February and narrowly escaped death when a landslide destroyed part of the studio while Freddy was recording his guitar; the song « Like A Shooting Star » was born before the dust could settle.

1989 - From March 8th to 11th they returned for more shows at the Gibus club, again with Johnny Thunders. Then on April 4th they recorded the « Larger Than Life » album in 3 days at Mesa studio, on glorious 8 track, and after 2 days of mixing on 19/20th for a total cost of 6035 Francs (£920) including the master tapes, the deed was done. A month later a Debut single “Just Wanna Talk To You“ in pink vinyl is released on Sucksex Records (pronounced Success) and is quickly re-pressed in black vinyl in September when it sells out. Meanwhile, The Jet Boys keep busy touring and playing with The Del Lords, The Fleshtones, The Inmates and Dogs D’amour. October saw a release of a pink vinyl 12 » followed by the album in December. Heaps of great reviews in the worldwide music press followed, even without proper distribution; but it proves to be too little, too late, and believe it or not the band splits up because of Vic Vixen complaining about a missing credit on the inner sleeve! Only Nick Hell and Freddy remain, and quickly bring in Mad Engine on Bass and Fuzzfox on guitar.

1990 - Touring mostly in France and Spain and with new demos recorded in Lille attracting attention, the band is approached by Musidisc Records. In December, Johnny Thunders is playing an acoustic gig at the Gibus Club and Freddy brings him the tape of the album. Talking about project, Johnny tells Freddy he knows the people from Musidisc and would be interested in producing the album himself. Tragically, it will be the last time they speak.
April 1991 - and new demos for Musidisc , but the band has already planned to use 2 of the songs on a single in memory of Stiv Bators and the sleeve poster bag is already printed. During the mix on 23rd April, the phone rings and Marc Zermati tells them the sad news about Johnny Thunders… From that moment on everything goes wrong so they decide to mix in a different studio with Phil Sevin who was an assistant engineer during the last Stiv Bators studio sessions! Meanwhile, back from a Spanish tour, Musidisc don’t return their calls…
1992 - Mad Engine is leaving and is replaced by their roadie, Ian Dollz. They tour France, Belgium and Spain where they get a contract to release « Larger Than Life ». Marc Zermati asks Freddy Lynxx to help him produce a Johnny Thunders tribute album and secures a deal for « Larger Than Life » and the tribute album at the same time, on Meldac Records in Japan.
1993 - Ian Dollz and Nick Hell quit the band. A New York girl called Big G is recruited but it’s difficult to find a permanent drummer, with Jean-Lou Kalinowski (Shakin’ Street) sitting in for a while before Big G suggests they hire the drummer Yo, from her other band Loco Lizzards.

1994 - Freddy Lynxx asks Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols, Rich Kids) and Julian Standen (who produced The Lemonheads and London Cowboys to name but two), if they are available to produce the Jet Boys. Live action continues with gigs at the Gibus club in June 4th and 5th with guest Rick Blaze & the Ballbusters from New York and results in some return gigs in the America. In August, touring in the United States with The Ballbusters, It appears Arista are interested in the band after they play up a storm at the Webster Hall in New York City. They even manage to secretly record a demo at Edison Recording Studio on 46th St while the big boss is on vacation. However, the relationship between Big G and Yo is becoming intolerable so it’s back to France, and Freddy calls it a day, bored of feel ling like a baby-sitter. Back at base he is soon busy with a Japanese split single with the band « The Golden Arms » released in the US on Jeff Dahl’s label Ultra Under Records, and another in the pipeline.

1998 - Freddy plans to re-release « Larger Than Life » and asks Jean Cataldo from Action Records to do some remixes. Something is in the air and by pure coincidence he’s then contacted by the US label Triple XXX (via Jeff Dahl’s connection) and offered a 3 album worldwide deal including The Jet Boys album! Since 1994 The Jet Boys have been in financial debt to Skydog manager Marc Zermati , when Marc asks Freddy to let him release « Larger Than Life Dusted » the debt is written off.
In conclusion: The Jet Boys have never been a big success but sold something like 7000 copies of Larger Than Life with minimal, or bad distribution. You can find the « Dusted » version on Amazon but expect a « Producer’s Cut » one day, including all of the demos mentioned above. In my humble opinion, you are encouraged to seek any and all of the Jet Boys recorded output by regular searches on the www, e-Bay, Record fairs and the usual methods of tracking down the good stuff. A small caveat, dear reader, since the crash and burn of THE original Jet Boys there are a few bands out there who share the same name, but only the line-up with Freddy Lynxx carries the trademark of quality you can trust.

Finally, this page is dedicated to Nicolas Chante aka Nick Hell who was defenestrated in Costa Rica in 1998. May you be remember as « THE’ Jet Boys drummer!
Tom Crossley
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GANG WAR - Street Fighting

GANG WAR  Street Fighting  cd  1993

Ramblin' Rose / London Boys / These Boots Are Made For Walking / M.I.A. / The Harder They Come / Endless Party / I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys / I'll Go Crazy / Hey Thanks / The Courageous Cat / Just Because I'm White-Bright Lights Big City / Around & Around / The Harder They Come* / Ten Commandments Of Love* / Like A Rolling Stone* / Endless Party* / Do You Love Me*.
Recorded live in Monreal (Dec. 28, 1979) & Boston* (June 20, 1980).
Gang War: Johnny Thunders: guitar & vocals / Wayne Kramer: guitar & vocals / Bobby Thomas: bass / John Morgan: drums.

"In late 1979 former New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders teamed up with former MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer (right after Wayne was released from jail) in a band called Gang War. Other members included John Morgan, Ron Cooke and Philippe Marcade. They recorded several demos and performed live several times. Gang War disbanded before releasing any actual LP, but there are a few bootleg recordings of their studio demos and live performances circulating; One semi-official live/studio vinyl only LP was released on Zodiac Records, credited to Thunders and Kramer and titled Gang War, it is easily available from specialist retailers."

"Gang War came about shortly after Johnny Thunders released his 'So Alone' album, and Wayne Kramer was not long out of jail after serving two years of a sentence of four for a coke bust. Arriving in Detroit with the Heartbreakers, Johnny met his teenage idol Wayne who jammed with them at the gig. Johnny stayed on, moving his family to Michigan and pledging his future to Gang War. They toured regularly and recorded a couple of demos with a view to getting a deal, but they couldn't get record company interest and after eight or nine months they split. Although Gang War released no records and at the time they got little attention, in retrospect the collaboration is looked on as a 'rock fantasy' supergroup. These live recordings bear testimony to this unique partnership between two renowned rock guitar icons. On the recordings, both contribute lead vocals and guitars on Thunders and Dolls tracks, songs familiar from Kramer and MC5 and fascinating cover versions."

"This cd is a mix of two seperate Gang War shows, and on the first show the band is in pretty good form and the sound is pretty good. It really does sound like a cross between The Heartbreakers and the MC5. Johnny's guitar is there in all it's buzzsaw glory, and every once in a while Wayne lets some wild acid drenched lines fly, and their styles really complement each other pretty well. However, the second show that starts with 'The Harder They Come' (which is the same material as on 'Live at the Channel Club') has Thunders completely out of it. By this point Johnny's wife has just left him, and, true to form, he immedietly started self destructing. So he spends half of these last 5 tracks berating the audience between and during the songs."
Dedicated to Mr D. !
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MICK FARREN (R.I.P.) - Vampires Stole My Lunch Money

MICK FARREN  Vampires Stole My Lunch Money  lp/cd  1978/2008

Trouble coming everyday / Half price drinks / I don't want to go this way / I want to drink* / Son of a millionaire / Zombie line* / Bela Lugosi / People call you crazy* / Fast Eddie / Let me in, damn you* / (I know from) Self destruction / Drunk in the morning.
Produced by Larry Wallis.

Mick Farren: lead vocals / Larry Wallis : guitars, backing vocals / Andy Colquhoun : bass, backing vocals / Wilko Johnson : guitar on* / Alan Powell : drums / Chrissie Hynde, Sonja Kristina, Maria, R2D2 & Susie : backing vocals / Will Stallybrass : harmonica / Chas Heatherington : the machine rented to the Pink Floyd(!) .

Mick Farren — journalist, science fiction novelist, author, singer, founding member of the (Social) Deviants and Pink Fairies, Motörhead songwriter — cut his first solo album with a nascent version of the Fairies immediately upon leaving the Deviants in 1969. After spending some years writing about, rather than making, music, he returned to that side in '77 with a four-song 7- inch on Stiff that has its moments but is hardly a milestone. The following year, however, the Englishman dived back into the deep end of rock with the harrowing "Vampires Stole My Lunch Money", showing the junior nihilists just how grim, serious and personal music could be. Released at the height of the punk wave but springing from a much deeper creative well, "Vampires Stole My Lunch Money" is Farren's solo masterwork. With musical assistance from Dr. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson, Chrissie Hynde and others, he dishes out a harrowingly honest collection of songs about drinking, dissolution, depression, self-destruction and desperation. About as powerful as rock gets, this nakedly painful LP is most definitely not recommended to sissies, moralists and born-again Christians. TrouserPress

Mick Farren, lead singer for the Deviants, collapsed on stage last night (July 27) in London. He passed away shortly thereafter.
According to his Facebook page, Farren was making a rare live appearance with a new lineup of the Deviants for the Atomic Sunshine Festival at the Borderline Club in London when he collapsed on stage during his performance. He was later pronounced dead.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jul/29/mick-farren

Mick Farren, auteur, et chanteur, compositeur, figure de la contre-culture, est mort à 69 ans. Il a été victime d'un malaise le 27 juillet sur scène avec son groupe The Deviants.
Farren est né à Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, il écrivait pour le journal International Times, mais aussi pour NME, il est notamment auteur de The Titanic Sails At Dawn polemic, publié le 19 juin 1976, considéré comme précurseur du punk. Ses mémoires Give The Anarchist a Cigarette est un témoignage de la contre-culture Britannique des années 60, il a écrit 23 romans, 11 livres, et 4 sur Elvis Presley. 'Elvis Died For Somebody’s Sins But Not Mine' est sorti cette année.
Farren était aussi musicien, et a formé The Deviants en 1967, le groupe a sorti trois albums entre 1967 et 1969 : Ptoof!, Disposable, et 3. Il a composé pour Hawkwind ou Motörhead, et permis à MC5 et William Burroughs de participer au Festival Phun City. Politiquement très engagé, il a lutté contre la guerre du Vietnam, et fondé the White Panthers à Londres. Source: F. Zegut dans son blog Zegut

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DASHIELL HEDAYAT - Obsolete

DASHIELL HEDAYAT  Obsolete  cd/lp  1971
Eh, Mushroom, Will You Mush My Room ? : Chrysler / Fille De L'Ombre / Long Song For Zelda // Cielo Drive /17.
Executive producer: Bernard Lenoir
Dashiell Hedayat (With Gong): Dashiell Hedayat: lead vocals, guitar, soloist, keyboards, tape [cut-ups], performer [cosmic-hedayat-rumble] / Christian Tritsch: bass, acoustic guitar / Pip Pyle: drums, guitar / Didier Malherbe: flute, saxophone, water music / Daevid Allen: lead guitar / William Burroughs: vocals / Sam Wyatt: vocals / Gilli Smyth: vocals.
French musician and author who worked under various pseudonyms throughout his career. He was born 5 June 1947 and died 17 July 2013
He started out writing for the Rock & Folk magazine. His musical career was brief and he recorded under the names Melmoth and Dashiell Hedayat [a tribute to Dashiell Hammett and Sadegh Hedayat]. He also used the Hedayat name for his first books before taking on the name Jack-Alain Léger in 1974. He published most of his book under the name Léger and had a best seller with "Monsignore". Later he also wrote books under the names Eve Saint-Roch and Paul Smaïl.
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LONG SONG FOR ZELDA 

Je suis à la fenêtre 

Toi tu es dans la baignoire 

Tes pieds dépassent, je peux les voir 

Dans la glace de l’armoire 

Il y a ce disque idiot 

Qui est rayé au milieu 

Et; les tarots que je te tire 

Sur ton châle en camaïeu 

Il y a l’odeur d’encens 

Et les bougies ont fondu 

Tout est si vague 

Le fil des pensées s’est perdu 

Je ne sais même plus si je pense 

Je ne sais même plus si je pense 

Il y a une fille que j’ai aimée 

À la fin de la nuit 

J’étais à contempler les novas 

Les anneaux de Saturne 

Je veux dire… 

J’étais mon jean vide et mon blouson 

Qui flottait à un bâton d’os 

Les os friables de la came 

J’étais le singe du travelo 

Oui! J’étais vraiment lui 

Le cul rose sur le rebord du caniveau 

Le singe du travelo 

Et ce petit doigt noir 

Tu sais, qui caressait mon cul 

Comme je suis une plaie ouverte… 

Mon nez, je veux dire… 

Mon nez où s’engouffraient les autos 

Comme dans un tunnel… 

Mes narines avec leur tuyau d’échappement 

Des nuages d’héroïne 

Le cheval vapeur 

Horse Power, Horse Power 

À écouter un vieux jazz 

Devant un vieux bar 

Avec du papier Coltrane

Je veux dire, tu vois 

Dans les chiottes 

Quelque chose comme ça 

Et moi, devant 

Le cul dans le caniveau 

Et le flottement indécis 

D’un drapeau de trottoir 

Dont j’étais la hampe… 

Et des étoiles qui tournaient partout 

Tout autour de ma tête 

Ma cervelle de cave… 

Mes os friables qui un jour disparaîtraient aussi 

Dans l’eau du caniveau 

Avec mon reflet… 

Avec mon nez 

Mon nez brûlé reflété… 

Je suis celui qui a vu un bouledogue débouler 

Et qui bringuebalait tous les immeubles 

De la rue Delambre, derrière lui 

La laisse laissée trainer 

Que tu es beau bouledogue! 

Que j’aime ta couleur rouquine 

Wouah-Wouah 

Il a levé sa pine bleue pour pisser 

Wouah-Wouah-Wouah! 

Combien je t’aime 

Et au bout de la laisse, Zelda 

Un peu vieux, me fait-elle, votre procédé 

Détrompez-vous, 

C’est toujours efficace avec un chien 

Ce n’est pas à vous 

Que ce compliment était adressé 

Vous l’avez cru parce que vous êtes rousse aussi? 

C’est pour votre chien que mon cœur bat 

Hein! Non ,je veux dire 

Je disais ça comme ça 

Wouah-Wouah 

Les chiens Wouah, 

Les chiens Wouah dans la nuit 

La nuit Wouah 

Les chiens Wouah, et toi, et toi Wouah! 

Le jour se lève! I love you Zelda 

I love you Zelda 

Je chantais 

Je chantais avec le soleil, Zelda! 

Je suis à la fenêtre 

Toi tu es dans ma baignoire 

Tes pieds dépassent 

Je peux les voir dans la glace de l’armoire 

Dashiell Hedayat (1947-2013)

A lire: 

"Le Bleu le bleu" Christian Bourgois (1971)

"Le livre des morts-vivants" Christian Bourgois (1972)

J.J. CALE (1938-2013)

"Naturally", "Really", "Okie": three masterpieces !!!