Summer wanes and whaddaya get? Well this week, there's a sweet ol' RKBS original instrumental, name of "Caroline, Yes". We are oh so clever for making this here wordless reply to the Beach Boy's "Caroline, No", aren't we? In any event, it's a nice lil' song, and we do hope you get to digging this one, too...
The other goodie continues our ongoing '80s revisionist history: a measured, somewhat "MTV Unplugged" version of the Psychedelic Furs' A-No.-1 classic, "The Ghost in You", from their last good album, "Mirror Moves", in 1984.
JK
"Caroline, Yes": https://app.box.com/s/bupsgqu658amy17j0w0t
"The Ghost in You": https://app.box.com/s/i37log22lz83tjbno0lb
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
"Hot Rod" b/w "The Killing Moon"
One original for you cats, and a cover...
"Hot Rod" is the "original"-- a character study admittedly heavily influenced by the dearly departed Phil Lynott (he of the great Thin Lizzy). It came together last year and immediately earned itself a soft spot in my heart. This on account of the excuse to bust out the dumb rock thump, the guitarmonies and the wah-wah, but mostly on account of the subject matter. Gives me a warm late '90s Baltimore feeling all through my sullen bones, it does. "Hope you dig it, Jack!"
"The Killing Moon" is cover of Echo & the Bunnymen's dark classic from their '84 masterwork, "Ocean Rain", gussied up with a little REM-style Rickenbacker, tinkling piano and some swoops of pedal steel. I'd mentioned last time how nice the drums sounded in that torn-up, post-tenant/ pre-renovation room at Stately Roadkill Manor? Check 'em out on this one!
jk
"Hot Rod": https://app.box.com/s/su6ax7nd2h3u91vrcvmc
"The Killing Moon": https://app.box.com/s/guteahq16x5vljw9z7ph
"Hot Rod" is the "original"-- a character study admittedly heavily influenced by the dearly departed Phil Lynott (he of the great Thin Lizzy). It came together last year and immediately earned itself a soft spot in my heart. This on account of the excuse to bust out the dumb rock thump, the guitarmonies and the wah-wah, but mostly on account of the subject matter. Gives me a warm late '90s Baltimore feeling all through my sullen bones, it does. "Hope you dig it, Jack!"
"The Killing Moon" is cover of Echo & the Bunnymen's dark classic from their '84 masterwork, "Ocean Rain", gussied up with a little REM-style Rickenbacker, tinkling piano and some swoops of pedal steel. I'd mentioned last time how nice the drums sounded in that torn-up, post-tenant/ pre-renovation room at Stately Roadkill Manor? Check 'em out on this one!
jk
"Hot Rod": https://app.box.com/s/su6ax7nd2h3u91vrcvmc
"The Killing Moon": https://app.box.com/s/guteahq16x5vljw9z7ph
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
"Nicky, I Never Knew" b/w "Dominique"
Briefly, a couple more originals are up next, via me and Señor Roadkill. As with the rest of this batch, the drums were recorded at the Roadkills' Charm City Manor back in autumn '12, in a great-sounding room downstairs, post-tenant and pre-renovation. There's really not much to say about the songs otherwise. You decide:
"Nicky, I Never Knew": https://app.box.com/s/t3cvwg69omdaikb7dpk2
"Dominique": https://app.box.com/s/gkrg88p1scqyeaehgita
"Nicky, I Never Knew": https://app.box.com/s/t3cvwg69omdaikb7dpk2
"Dominique": https://app.box.com/s/gkrg88p1scqyeaehgita
Monday, July 29, 2013
"To the Moon" b/w "Buckout Road"
First off, to put our cards on the table, this is "fresh" product, rather than "new", these two tunes dating back to the old Honcho days of the roaring late '90s Baltimore. They've been gussied up a bit and, with any luck, generally given their due.
"To the Moon" is such a blatant Scruffy the Cat/ Charlie Chesterman lift that it barely needs mentioning to anyone familiar with those guys' records. But do I ever have a soft spot for it. And the Rickenbackers and cheeseball organ only help....
"Buckout Road" does refer to an actual road--- a mysterious, winding, hilly lane on the ass end of the area we knew as Silver Lake, NY (or East White Plains, though technically West Harrison). Buckout Road started (still does) behind the quarry and went way up and around, getting darker, curvier and more narrow as you went, eventually emerging lord knows where, behind one of the reservoirs, I think. It had dark aura of "no return", and was rumored to be the kind of place you'd be likely to find albinos, cast-outs, adulterers, criminals and all that kinda thing. It's even worse nowadays, and particularly scary if you have a fear of McMansions. Sad, sad, sad.
JK
"To the Moon": https://app.box.com/s/nkmcgrsdlbi6epd564ju
"Buckout Road": https://app.box.com/s/wgw5uu64vdnflmo3yq7r
"To the Moon" is such a blatant Scruffy the Cat/ Charlie Chesterman lift that it barely needs mentioning to anyone familiar with those guys' records. But do I ever have a soft spot for it. And the Rickenbackers and cheeseball organ only help....
"Buckout Road" does refer to an actual road--- a mysterious, winding, hilly lane on the ass end of the area we knew as Silver Lake, NY (or East White Plains, though technically West Harrison). Buckout Road started (still does) behind the quarry and went way up and around, getting darker, curvier and more narrow as you went, eventually emerging lord knows where, behind one of the reservoirs, I think. It had dark aura of "no return", and was rumored to be the kind of place you'd be likely to find albinos, cast-outs, adulterers, criminals and all that kinda thing. It's even worse nowadays, and particularly scary if you have a fear of McMansions. Sad, sad, sad.
JK
"To the Moon": https://app.box.com/s/nkmcgrsdlbi6epd564ju
"Buckout Road": https://app.box.com/s/wgw5uu64vdnflmo3yq7r
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Stackpole- Keating '12 (5): CCR, in case you needed more
Original RKBS tunes coming next post! But this one wraps up last year's Stackpole sessions, and just in time for this year's Harpswell Summer Rock Camp....
Fogerty, Fogerty, Cook & Clifford. What can you say? It's hard to overstate how good and how productive those guys were over the short blast of time centered on '69-'70. And how textured and varied they could be. It's also hard to overstate how little the world needs any more cover versions of Creedence tunes. But yet again that's what you get here. For completeness' sake:
Born on the Bayou: https://www.box.com/s/ow4fvquz6d3mcr1nd9tt
It Came Out of the Sky: https://www.box.com/s/tn4xwv8f12rm1k31ast0
Fogerty, Fogerty, Cook & Clifford. What can you say? It's hard to overstate how good and how productive those guys were over the short blast of time centered on '69-'70. And how textured and varied they could be. It's also hard to overstate how little the world needs any more cover versions of Creedence tunes. But yet again that's what you get here. For completeness' sake:
Born on the Bayou: https://www.box.com/s/ow4fvquz6d3mcr1nd9tt
It Came Out of the Sky: https://www.box.com/s/tn4xwv8f12rm1k31ast0
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Stackpole- Cardillo- Keating '12 (4): George Harrison, Led Zeppelin
Hope everybody's Independence Day weekend went swimmingly (perhaps literally), and the summah sweltah didn't weight too heavily on you. Admittedly, there was some intermittent shelter sought in the cool basement of the Buttsteak manse, but it's summer, after all.
Not much text needed for these posts from last year's Stackpole-Keating band camp. Both songs come from 1970, and both feature the remote bass-playing contributions of The One and Only 'Dillo.
"Isn't It a Pity" came off of George Harrison's sprawling, world-stunning post-Beatles triumph, "All Things Must Pass". This was another milestone rekkid that featured all those usual musical suspects of the time (talked about in detail a couple posts back), and we were again shooting for that loosey-goosey, barnstorming feel that we love so much.
"Hey Hey, What Can I Do" didn't make it onto "Led Zeppelin III", and remains one of the greatest non-LP cuts of the rock era, along with the Beatles' "Paperback Writer" b/w "Rain" single. It provided good cover for me to bust out the acoustical instruments and try and hybridize them to the rock. Robert Plant I am not.
JK
Isn't It a Pity: https://www.box.com/s/2y0lwkevc6i4fnasvgz8
Hey, Hey What Can I Do: https://www.box.com/s/ifbviwj6qejeoq6mtke2
Not much text needed for these posts from last year's Stackpole-Keating band camp. Both songs come from 1970, and both feature the remote bass-playing contributions of The One and Only 'Dillo.
"Isn't It a Pity" came off of George Harrison's sprawling, world-stunning post-Beatles triumph, "All Things Must Pass". This was another milestone rekkid that featured all those usual musical suspects of the time (talked about in detail a couple posts back), and we were again shooting for that loosey-goosey, barnstorming feel that we love so much.
"Hey Hey, What Can I Do" didn't make it onto "Led Zeppelin III", and remains one of the greatest non-LP cuts of the rock era, along with the Beatles' "Paperback Writer" b/w "Rain" single. It provided good cover for me to bust out the acoustical instruments and try and hybridize them to the rock. Robert Plant I am not.
JK
Isn't It a Pity: https://www.box.com/s/2y0lwkevc6i4fnasvgz8
Hey, Hey What Can I Do: https://www.box.com/s/ifbviwj6qejeoq6mtke2
Monday, July 1, 2013
Stackpole- Cardillo- Keating '12 (3): Small Faces, Traffic
Happy Canada Day, y'all! But it's back to the psychedelic '60s, England-style for these two hit cover rekkids from me and John Stackpole (and special guest):
"Tin Soldier" comes courtesy of the great, great Small Faces, released at the very tail end of 1967. Jeez, nobody much even knows about the Faces nowadays, and that's with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood on board. Prior to their drunky, good-time, groovy blooz-rock evolution, and before diminutive Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton, there were the Small Faces. They had a sackful of great tunes, from the mod to the psychedelic. I've covered few songs that are more fun to play than this one, and few that are more vein-popping in their vocal demands.
"40,000 Headmen" is 1968 track from Traffic, of Steve Winwood and Dave Mason fame, Jim Capaldi transient quasi-fame and (yuck) Chris Wood non-fame (he of the flute and sax). Total gibberish, but a fun, moody groove to set, with room for some congas and lead guitar and keys and all that.
And one of the best part of these is that Stack and I had the great idea of using the recording process to virtually reforming our second-earliest high school band, and outsourced the bass duties to the one and only Dillo. Huzzah!
Tin Soldier: https://www.box.com/s/rmqla5lxzje32ipnw0y7
40,000 Headmen: https://www.box.com/s/urrr791kj54hlo8bj1ca
"Tin Soldier" comes courtesy of the great, great Small Faces, released at the very tail end of 1967. Jeez, nobody much even knows about the Faces nowadays, and that's with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood on board. Prior to their drunky, good-time, groovy blooz-rock evolution, and before diminutive Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton, there were the Small Faces. They had a sackful of great tunes, from the mod to the psychedelic. I've covered few songs that are more fun to play than this one, and few that are more vein-popping in their vocal demands.
"40,000 Headmen" is 1968 track from Traffic, of Steve Winwood and Dave Mason fame, Jim Capaldi transient quasi-fame and (yuck) Chris Wood non-fame (he of the flute and sax). Total gibberish, but a fun, moody groove to set, with room for some congas and lead guitar and keys and all that.
And one of the best part of these is that Stack and I had the great idea of using the recording process to virtually reforming our second-earliest high school band, and outsourced the bass duties to the one and only Dillo. Huzzah!
Tin Soldier: https://www.box.com/s/rmqla5lxzje32ipnw0y7
40,000 Headmen: https://www.box.com/s/urrr791kj54hlo8bj1ca
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