Dirty Love

Dirty Love, the B-Side to Motorhead's, Ace of Spades (1980). 

 

 

Roy Budd

Roy Budd playing his theme to Mike Hodges' Get Carter (1971).

Right On Be Free

The Voices of East Harlem bringing their full freedom for-realness to Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1972.  This amazing clip is from the 1973 David Hoffman directed documentary, Sing Sing Thanksgiving, later retitled for DVD release as B.B. King and Joan Baez in concert at Sing Sing Prison, 1972.   The Voices, were a twenty member ensemble that managed to play both The Isle of Wight Festival (1970) and the Soul to Soul concert in Ghana (1971). Right On Be Free is the title track off VEH's 1970 debut,.

 The concert at Sing Sing took place a little more than one year after the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971. 

 

Attica Prison Poem, Muhammad Ali,

Bright Moments

Rahsaan Roland Kirk at the 1975 Downbeat Awards performing Pedal Up.  Bumpschool post number 103 is a centum tribute to the subject of number 3;  Confabulation At the Zoo.  Kirk is a soul-spirit-gale force blast, and is here joined by McCoy Tyner, Stanley Clark, and Lenny White on drums.  A much longer version of Pedal Up can be heard on Kirk's 1972 live double, Bright Moments.  Rahsaan and McCoy's solos are a bumpthump upside the head.  I'm not sure why, but we get a camera shot of an uncomfortable looking Chick Corea (5:06) at the end of Kirks blasteroo.  What gives Chick?  Difficult to say, but I'm thinking CC may have been mortified at the sight of McCoy Tyner's superdope sunshine yellow turtleneck.  Chick realized he had been out yellowed, and it was too late to go blue.



Sandy Bull

Sandy Bull, Blend, from Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo (1963)



Still Bill

Bill Withers Live at the BBC 1973, performing

Lonely Town, Loneley Street from Still Bill (1972).

Happy Father's Day!

Father's Day ferociyawp! thee Headcoats, I'm Hurting.