DIG IT! N° 59

DIG IT! N° 59
Toujours fidèle au poste de combat, le gang de Toulouse remonte au front pour ravitailler ses rock'n'roll soldiers abonnés qui attentent leur nouveau numéro aussi impatiemment qu'un témoin de Jéhovah la fin du monde !
Si toi aussi tu veux devenir un soldat combattant pour la Cause, ABONNE-TOI !!!

RED INVASION - I'm Not Too Young To Die

RED INVASION  I'm Not Too Young To Die   CD  2005
I'm Not Too Young To Die / Get Away From Me / You Hate Me / No More / I Got No Time / A Year Ago Tonight / Look At You Now / This Is How I Live, This Is How I Die / People Like Us / Disconnected / Worst Nightmare.
Produced by Jason Duguay & Red Invasion.
Red Invasion: Ryan: guitar /  Joe Boy: vocals / Steve: drums / Rich: guitar / Joe: bass.

Red Invasion (2003-2010) was a 70's style punk rock band mixed with straight up rock & roll, glam, and powerpop. They've earned comparisons to The Dead Boys, The New York Dolls, D Generation, The Stooges, and The Heartbreakers in their look and sound. Their music is an HONEST celebration of the individual and the fucked-up life we all see and live. The goal is trying to bring back the original attitude of punk and rocknroll that's been dwindling since the dawn of the safe pop-punk and emo craze.
In October 2005, the excellent label Pelado Records released their debut full length, "I'm Not Too Young To Die." Red Invasion has shared the stage with a wide musical range of relevant bands like The Casualties, The Adicts, The Explosion, Buckcherry, Total Chaos, The Ducky Boys, Roger Miret and The Disasters, Rock'n'roll Soldiers,The Misfits(w/ Marky Ramone), Richard Bacchus (ex D Generation), The Heartattacks, The Jabbers, and many more.

 Here are some reviews from the debut album:

"...reminiscent of The Dead Boys-with maybe Johnny Thunders on loan as the patron saint of guitar leads. ...Singer Joey Boy sounds like he may well have escaped from the mental ward (dig that!) or just stepped on hot coals. ...And doesn't "I Got No Time" (not the 1976 Saints song, though that's another band Red Invasion sounds a little like) borrow Thunders' Heartbreakers' "Born To Lose" mixed with The Ramones' cover of "California Sun?" Chuck Berry, call your great-grandchildren!" The Big Take-Over 

"Red Invasion are a Boston band that I definitely need to pay more attention to after hearing this album. Snotty punk with a Dolls/Heartbreakers jones and given a dose of megawattage. Catchy tunes and played with energetic verve. The hooks on "You Hate Me" and "I Got No Time" will ensnare you with little resistance. "Disconnected" reeks of attitude. Slashing guitars accompanied perfectly by a percolating bass/drums tandem and insolent vocals. The real deal." Suburban Voice

"Speedy melodic punk from Boston with a lot of old New York snottiness. These guys definately own a couple of DEAD BOYS records between them." Maximum Rocknroll

 "These guys do the 70's glam-punk thing better than just about anyone, and the buzz on these guys has been growing. This is a must-have CD, seriously, everyone needs to go out and get this right now. Give them money so they can get their asses on the road and tour and rock your asses off in person!" Amp Magazine

"...They will light up a few Saturday nights around here in a riot of sleazy, hook-heavy snot rock...you know, lyrics about dying young spat out by an amped-up Stiv-abee, swaggering Thunders guitar solos, a pogo ready rhythm section, howl-along choruses, that kinda scene. "Disconnected" is the standout here, a real teenage temper tantrum with an awesomely primitive stab at a harmonica solo halfway through, and the Dolls-y closer "Worst Nightmare" has the potential to grow into an epic, burn-the-shithouse-to-the-ground monster live...but I'm guessing Red Invasion are gonna develop into a dangerous, druggy, virgin-killing juggernaut of beastly punk-sleaze sometime soon, so check 'em out while their young and desperate, and prepare yourself for the shitstorm to come." Sleazegrinder

"The title track is the perfect anthem for pogoing yourself dizzy in your eyeliner, leather and spikes, while the slower paced "A Year Ago Tonight" is a song that dwells on more power pop and glam tendencies. This is an enticing sampler of what may be ahead for them. Within the band's methodical design is a catchy comprisal attractive to anyone who deserves to buy any punk record. While Red Invasion may be focused on a finite time in our history, their appeal is one of the most far reaching I have heard on record. I'm hoping these guys can help usher in a new era in Boston punk history, one unique in its capacity for freedom and expression. A new door is peering open, abandoning the rigid dictates of hardcore. As a rock n roller, I find it my duty to pry the door a bit wider, and invite you all to the other side." Jimmy Reject from Fat City, Now Wave Zines
A Red Invasion interview can be read  HERE!
Thanks To Franck!

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BULLET PROOF HEARTS - American Custom

The first video by Bullet Proof Hearts from the "American Custom" single on Drastic Plastic Records. Order here: http://www.impactmerch.com/store/bull...

BULLET PROOF HEARTS:
Kevin Moran - Vocals, Guitar
Tammy "Gun" Moran - Bass
Mark Blackman - Drums
Aaron Schmitz - Guitar

Directed by Aaron Gum
Girl - Laura Ellis
Make-Up - Shera Baumel
Wig - Toiya Washington Brown
Assistant - Paula Christensen

Filmed at Brothers Lounge
(Thanks Trey & Lalaya)

The single is available on DRASTIC PLASTIC RECORDS
www.drasticplasticrecords.com

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Contact - bulletproofhearts1@gmail.com

Bring together four musicians from the Midwest's most rocking bands, and you get BULLET PROOF HEARTS. Formed in 2011, the members of BULLET PROOF HEARTS’ past bands read like a who's who of the Midwest Underground scene, Kevin Moran - Guitar & Vocals: Nuns With Guns, The Criminals, New Ave. Kings. Mark Blackman - Drums: No Heroes, Apathy, Nuns With Guns, Bad Luck Charm. Tammy Gun - Bass: Chicken Hawks, Blue Collar Bravado, Vermins, Take Agent. Aaron Schmitz - Guitar: The Rundowns, The Upsets. BULLET PROOF HEARTS combines the members love of classic "real" punk rock & power pop, to produce its distinctive, loud rockin' sound.

THE REAL KIDS - Better Be Good

THE REAL KIDS Better Be Good CD 1999

1 All Kindsa Girls / 2 Common at Noon / 3 Solid Gold / 4 Better Be Good / 5 Just Like Darts / 6 Roberta / 7 Reggae, Reggae / 8 Taxi Boys / 9 She / 10 Up Is Up / 11 Now You Know / 12 She Come Alive/ 13 My Way/ 14 She's Alright/ 15 Do the Boob / 16 My Baby's Book/ 17 Rave On / 18 All Kindsa Girls.

Tracks 1 & 2: Sponge records single produced by Oedipus & The Real Kids / Tracks 3-8 & 13-18 Red Star lp alternate takes (1977): produced by Marty Thau & The Real Kids / Tracks 9-12: Bomp Records demos (1979): produced by John Felice and Phil Adler.

Recorded in Newton and Boston, Massachusetts; Nyack, New York. Includes liner notes by John Felice.Digitally remastered by Vic Anesini.

The Real Kids: John Felice: vocals, guitar / Allen "Alpo" Paulino: bass / Billy Borgioli: guitar / Billy Cole: guitar / Howard Ferguson: drums.

"Better Be Good" is an 18-track compilation of alternate takes and live versions of songs that showed up on various releases by the Real Kids and the Taxi Boys, who for all intents and purposes were the same band. Leader John Felice, who was in the first, unrecorded lineup of the Modern Lovers with his next-door neighbor Jonathan Richman in the early '70s and later roadied for the Ramones, is a punk rock savant; the Real Kids were the first truly great Boston punk band, although they sounded much more like the Flamin Groovies than the Sex Pistols. These three-chord rockers, bracketed by two versions of the great "All Kindsa Girls," are tough, cool, and catchy. Complete novices should probably start with the original albums, but these alternate versions are much more than mere ephemera.

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THE REAL KIDS - The Real Kids

THE REAL KIDS  The Real Kids  LP/CD  1977 

All Kindsa Girls / Solid Gold (Thru and Thru) / Rave On / Better Be Good / Taxi Boys / Just Like Darts / She's Alright / My Baby's Book / Roberta / Do The Boob / My Way / Reggae Reggae.

The Real Kids: John Felice: lead vocal, guitar, chimes / Billy Borgioli: guitar / Alan Paulino (Alpo): bass, backing vocals / Howard Ferguson: drums, percussion + Mono Man (DMZ): piano on "Roberta"
Produced by Marty Thau & The Real Kids.

In the late '70s through the early '80s, the Real Kids were Boston's original rock & roll slop band. Fronted by John Felice, main songwriter and guiding spirit, the Real Kids ran on equal parts adolescent rivalry, drugs, and as much beer as they could consume. When Felice wanted to tear up a club with his rockin' originals or his favorite rock & roll tunes (equally adept at both), the Kids could be a thing of raw beauty to watch and hear. When Felice wasn't in the mood, he could play pissed-off rock star to the max and the results were desultory at best. This LP, however, catches them early in the ball game, their debut album for the tiny Red Star label with all the great John Felice tunes like "All Kindsa Girls," "Taxi Boys" (which later became the name of an offshoot group that recorded for Dave Pierce's Star Rhythm imprint, the label that also issued the second (or last, depending on how you're keeping score) Real Kids album), "My Baby's Book," and "Better Be Good" along with spirited covers of Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran material just to give you the big picture. Perhaps the Real Kids were just too undisciplined to make it big; maybe the drugs and the booze got in the way of the creativity. Alas, it's an old story, but Felice's reputation over in Europe continues to earn high marks and rumors abound that new material is on the way. In the meantime, check this one out -- close your eyes and you'll swear you've been transported back to the late '70s at CBGB's. Like their name, these guys were for REAL!

Que dire ?
Que c'est un des meilleurs album du rock, au même titre que "L.A.M.F." ou  "Shake Some Action" ?
Que j'en ai usé deux exemplaires ?
Que c'est un disque séminal ?
Que la pochette est magnifique ?
Que la guitare rythmique vous empoigne dès le premier morceau et ne vous lâchera plus jusqu'à la fin !
Que les Real Kids font le meilleur reggae blanc !
Que les reprises de "My way " ( E. Cochran ) ou "Rave on" ( B. Holly ) se confondent avec des originaux comme "My baby's book" ou "Do the boob" !

Cet album n'a pas pris une ride ! Et le rock de Boston, des Lyres à Willie Alexander, des Del Fuegos aux Neighborhoods non plus !!!

Thanks to Max for the artwork!

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This post is dedicated to Philippe Martin who introduces me to the Real Kids, 36 years ago...rest in peace, brother!

THE REAL KIDS - All Kindsa Girls

THE REAL KIDS All Kindsa Girls  7'' SP  1977/1982  (re-up)

All Kindsa Girls (Full Length Recording) / Common At Noon.
Produced by Oedipus & The Real Kids.
The Real Kids: John Felice: lead vocal, guitar, chimes / Billy Borgioli: guitar / Alan Paulino (Alpo): bass, backing vocals / Howard Ferguson: drums, percussion.
" Dedicated to real kids everywhere."
The Real Kids were one of Boston's earliest new wave bands; their debut album is full of dynamite tracks that take the trashier aspect of the Rolling Stones and couple it with the high-power guitar approach of the Ramones. Frontman (and onetime Modern Lover) John Felice not only provides tough guitar and distinctive lead vocals, he has a knack for writing clear, infectious melodies. Spin "All Kindsa Girls,"  for proof!

The first ever Real Kids release !!!
The 1977 French Sponge label debut disc with the classic anthem "All Kindsa Girls" (different version from Red Star LP!) b/w Beantown ode "Common At Noon", a song  "about Boston Common, which is this park in the middle of Boston where people go to hang out and look at girls in the summertime".
Star Rhythm Records reissued the Sponge single with a different cover in 1982. Norton Records then did the same in 1999.

The Real Kids were a Boston punk rock band led by guitarist, singer and songwriter, John Felice.
Felice (born 1955) grew up in Natick, Massachusetts as a neighbor and friend of Jonathan Richman, a fellow fan of The Velvet Underground. At 15 he joined Richman in the first line-up of The Modern Lovers in the early 1970s. He performed with the band intermittently from then until 1973, but because of his school commitments, he was not involved in the 1972 sessions which produced the classic first Modern Lovers album. Commenting on Richman, Felice has said, "Me and Jonathan, as close as we were, you know, I was like a punk, I was a wise-ass kid. I liked to do a lot of drugs, I liked to drink, and Jonathan was like this wide-eyed, no-drugs, ate nothing but health food...".

Felice then decided to start his own band and formed The Real Kids (originally named The Kids) in 1972, with Rick Coraccio (bass), Steve Davidson (guitar), and Norman Bloom (drums). They became a successful live band in the Boston area, playing "an aggressive brand of straight-ahead, no-bullshit rock which harkened back to Chuck Berry, had overtones of the British Invasion groups at their mod finest, yet pointed the way towards the Punk to come". In addition to Felice's own songs, they performed versions of classics by Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly and others. The band did not record until 1977, when it comprised Felice, Borgioli, Allen "Alpo" Paulino  and Howie Ferguson. Their first record was a single, "All Kindsa Girls" issued in 1977 on Sponge Records, a french label headed by Philippe Garnier (later journalist / novelist in California).

A french fan club existed in Bordeaux, France, in the 80's.The Stilettos from Bordeaux recorded a french version of "All kindsa Girls"."Toutes les filles" (1980) was the b side of "Nos gueules sur les affiches". José Ruiz, their guitarist was an huge fan of the Real Kids!
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THE CRY - Louie Louie (50th Anniversary Version)

"... just a free classic for all our fans!" The Cry

Last weekend The CRY! went into the studio with original Kingsmen guitarist Mike Mitchell to celebrate the 50 years since the release of the classic LOUIE LOUIE!   Mitchell, (now in his 70's) recreated his epic guitar solo and The CRY! (all under 22) add their tradmark swagger and attitude.

The results speak for themselves.  
http://www.rvrb.me/thecrypdx/songs
We offer this free download for ROCK "N" ROLL lovers everywhere.


Please enjoy, share, and remember past generation of rockers who gave us a legacy to uphold!

 THE CRY

THE THROBS - Proud To Be Loud

THE THROBS  Proud To Be Loud   LP  1986
Here Comes The Night / She's So Pretty / Everybody's Gonna Have a Real Cool Time / I'll Do What I Want / Oh Love / Nuclear Attack / I Was Gonna.
Produced by Roman Zack & The Throbs.
The Throbs: Ron 'Sweetheart' Collie: vocals / Jeff Campbell: guitar, vocals / Peter Lotimer: bass, vocals / Michael Lotimer: drums, vocals.

"Super rare, limited to 500 copies pressed in 1986 on Precision Records. This amazing and elusive glam punk band migrated from Toronto to NYC during the heyday of mid-eighties glam and were instantly adored by punks and headbangers alike for their adrenaline charged, wasted tunes like "Nuclear Attack", "I Do What I Want" and "Here Comes The Night". They signed a deal with Geffen Records and released one quality LP that lacked the vicious bite of this early material before vanishing into the ether." Source

"The Throbs were one of the most promising bands to come out of New York that offered something different to the sound and scene that was happening in Los Angeles in the late eighties. In 1990 after having a handful of offers, the Throbs landed a big name label when they signed to Geffen Records, but just six months after their debut album the Language of Thieves And Vagabonds came out in 1991, the label dropped them. Attempts to carry on without vocalist Ronnie Sweetheart and drummer Ronnie Magri would prove pointless as the soul and essence of the band had been lost - the Throbs were no more. But as Sweetheart reveals in this interview, have we really seen the end of The Throbs? ..." Source
To read the Ronnie 'Sweetheart' interview  it's here!
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Thanks to Franck !

ICI & INDEPENDANT (Of Best: 1988-1993) - Jean-Luc Manet

Ici & Indépendant (Of Best: 1988-1993) par Jean-Luc Manet , 244 pages publié au Camion Blanc.
Critique rock et auteur de nouvelles noires, Jean-Luc Manet fut notamment pendant six ans, pour le mensuel Best, le chroniqueur impénitent d’une France underground qui défricha de nouvelles voies soniques, en toute indépendance et hors des sentiers battus. Thugs, Sheriff, Real Cool Killers, Mano Negra, Burning Heads, Straw Dogs, Jet Boys et des centaines d’autres groupes, activistes, fanzines, labels, trouvèrent grâce à lui une tribune privilégiée, pour relayer et appuyer leurs aventures épiques et énergisantes. Tel un carnet de route, voire un guide touristique de l’agitation binaire, ce livre regroupe l’intégralité des articles de Jean-Luc Manet consacrés de 1988 à 1993 aux maquis rock’n’roll et réseaux turbulents d’ici. Source
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Jean-Luc Manet est né en 1959 à Paris. Critique musical depuis 1979 (pour Best, Nineteen et Les Inrockuptibles notamment), il a publié une trentaine de nouvelles noires et deux novellas (romans courts) : « Terminus Plage de Boisvinet » dans la collection Noir Urbain des éditions Autrement en 2005 et « Haine 7 » aux éditions Antidata en 2012.
Les éditions du Camion blanc, fondées par Sébastien Raizer et Fabrice Revolon en 1992, est une maison spécialisée dans la musique, et dont le slogan est « L'éditeur qui véhicule le rock ! ». Le premier titre, publié en tirage confidentiel, est consacré à Joy Division : "Vie et mort d’un poulet enragé", écrit par Sébastien Raizer, suivi de "Joy Division, Lumière et Ténèbres", également de Sébastien Raizer, en septembre 1992.Parmi plus de 300 titres publiés depuis vingt ans, on trouve des biographies consacrées à de nombreux artistes et groupes de rock, de tous courants et styles, ainsi que des ouvrages de fond sur le rock progressif, le rock psychédélique ou le heavy metal (musique), dont certains approchent les 1000 pages.
Les éditions du Camion blanc publient aussi bien des auteurs francophones que des traductions anglo-saxonnes. Wikipedia

JOHNNY CASINO & THE SECRETS - Live On 3PBS

JOHNNY CASINO & THE SECRETS  Live On 3PBS CD 2009
Cowboys And Indians / I Am Who I Am Not Who You Want Me To Be / The Ballad of a Thin Man / Brother Grahame Says / Can't Find My Way Thru The Door / Nothing Left to Hide / Stop and Think It Over / Take Me Down to Your River / Outcast / Messin With The Kid.
Recorded live by Jim Walter.
Johnny Casino And The Secrets: Johnny Casino: vocals, guitar / James Saunders: guitar / Cris Wilson: drums / Michael Evans: bass.

To witness Johnny Casino on stage is to witness a man in perfect harmony with the spirit, narrative and essence of rock’n’roll. Head thrown back, sweat pouring from his forehead, his liberally tattooed arms thrashing, plundering riff after glorious riff. Others may pretend, but Casino is the real deal.
In late 2008 Casino and his Melbourne tribe of Secrets – James Saunders, Cris Wilson and Michael Evans – wandered into the studios of Melbourne’s PBS public radio station, ostensibly to play four or five songs on Phil McDougall’s Sunglasses After Dark radio show. Like a rock’n’roll version of mathematical induction, for every brilliant song another was born, until the studio finally called time 45 minutes later.
Live on PBS captures Casino’s set in all its potent glory – from the heavy Chuck Berry riffage of ‘Cowboys and Indians’ and ‘Brother Grahame Says’ to the pounding take on Bob Dylan’s ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’ and the plaintive ‘Can’t Find My Way Thru the Door’. In ‘I Am Who I Am’, Casino pleads the integrity of his case: “I am who I am, not who you want me to be.” Meanwhile, the weight of emotion in ‘Nothing Left to Hide’ demolishes any suggestion of artistic pretence.
After a suitably spirited take on Greg Cartwright’s ‘Stop and Think It Over’ – cut down to four minutes from its customary eight- to 10-minute live mark – it’s down to the water’s edge for a baptism of rock’n’roll fire in ‘Take Me Down to Your River’. The set concludes with a cover of The Saints’ ‘Messin’ With the Kid’. It’s as powerful as the fiery rhetoric of a head-strong youth challenging the institutions of authority – and just a little bit more.
As with any Johnny Casino set, the end is tinged with disappointment: if only the moment could exist in perpetuity then all might be good in the world. But then we’d have nothing left to look forward to. P.Emery

The good people at 3PBS radio in Melbourne Australia asked our favourite rock'n'roller Johnny Casino to come on down and play some songs for radio 3PBS live music week . Johnny took his Melbourne lineup of Cris Wilson (Warped!) on drums , Michael Evans [Tiger by the tail] on bass and James Saunders (Redshift) on guitar and tore thru a hand full of songs when the producers at 3PBS told them to keep playing as they were having so much fun !! the band ended up playing 10 songs and the result is what you have here on "live at 3PBS" as live as you'll get no overdubs no 'lets do that one again' just as they were played , with a slaming version of Bob dylans 'ballad of a thin man' the live fav version of the Complusive Gamblers 'Stop and think it over' a stomping version of the long lost Animals hit 'Outcast' and the soaring version of The Saints 'Messin with the kid' , we reckon it's the sounds of a band having a good time, GET SOME ! Source
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