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This is Radio Vickers in the new Radio Vickers format. These are just songs I’m listening to at the
moment. It might be a Finnish Thrash
Metal song, a pop song or some piece of jazz.
And you can listen along. I also
have three bands, there videos are scatter hither and yon around my site. If you could give one or two of them and eye
and an ear, I’d be ever so grateful.
Review By Gregg
FIRST AID KIT
First Aid Kit is duo consisting of two sisters, Johanna and
Klara Sodenberg, from Stockholm,
Sweden. They
sound like they grew up in Tennessee.
For Thursday night's concert, they also had a guy on drums who sang harmonies as
well. Johanna plays guitar and sings most of the leads while her sister
sings harmony and plays keyboards. Vocal harmonies can be amazing things.
They are a perfect example of a situation where the whole is far greater than
the sum of it's parts. Single voices can be huge, powerful things.
Singers like Bjork and Sinead O'Conner don't need to harmonize with
anyone. They can fill up a big space all by themselves. Harmony is
a different thing all together. Something quite magical happens when two
or more voices interact to create a harmony. With any
harmony its a matter of finding two or more melodic lines that make this
new thing happen. Kind of like mixing yellow and blue to get
green. The sisters in First Aid Kit create vocal harmonies that
are beautiful and transcendent. An enormous pleasure to hear live.
The First Aid Kit video for Emmylou
The video for Ghost Town
WILD FLAG
The women in Wild Flag, on other hand, make three and four part vocal harmonies that are secondary to what they do with their guitars, keyboards and drums. Just as beautiful and transcendent, but not quite so upfront. Two members of Wild Flag were formally two thirds of Sleeter-Kinney. Carrie Brownstein on guitar and vocals and Janet Weiss on drums and vocals along with Corin Tucker on guitar and vocals made up Sleeter-Kinney. I always thought that band needed a bass player in it. Wild Flag does not. Along with Mary Timony (formally of Helium) on guitar and vocals and Rebecca Cole (The Minders) on keyboards and vocals, Wild Flag has a fully rounded out sonic range without anyone playing bass. Even the keyboard player, typically the one left to fill in for bass, doesn't need to. I'm not quite sure how they do this. Even the guitars don't seem to be tuned down at all.
The set consisted of just about everything from their debut album with a couple of covers thrown in. The sound of this band is hard to pin down. When they first formed, their Myspace page posted this description: "What is the sound of an avalanche taking out a dolphin? What do get when you cross a hamburger with a hot dog? The answer is: WILD FLAG.". I guess that sums it up pretty well.
This band is so much fun to see live. They play with a sense of abandon without ever falling apart. They manage to sound sound quite sloppy and tight all at the same time. The vocal harmonies lay on top of the guitar, drum and keyboard assault like decorations on a big fat cake. Again, an enormous pleasure to hear live. It was fun to watch them play as well. They seem to be having as good a time as their audience.
Here are Wild Flag on David Letterman, performing Romance
Here are Wild Flag on David Letterman, performing Romance
The Wild Flag Video for Electric
Band
That’s all for today.
This is Radio Vickers signing off.
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This is Radio Vickers in the new Radio Vickers format. These are just songs I’m listening to at the moment. It might be a Finnish Thrash Metal song, a pop song or some piece of jazz. And you can listen along. I also have three bands, there videos are scatter hither and yon around my site. If you could give one or two of them and eye and an ear, I’d be ever so grateful.
Well, I’ve been transferring my digital transfers back onto my computer from CD’s that I made about 10 years ago. Some of these albums, I don’t even remember transferring in the first place. Mostly, they’re in much better shape that I remember them being in. Or perhaps my hearing has deteriorated so much in the past decade, that they just sound better because I can no longer hear the imperfections. They have to come off the CD’s I've been storing them on because most of my recordable CD’s from even five years ago, don’t play anymore. The info on the data discs I made is not accessible. If anyone else out there has stuff on recordable CD’s, I’d advise them to back it up now.
I definitely got this album from my dealer in Hamilton. I can’t say that if I’d seen the cover of this album, I would have considered buying it. Hopefully, it will stay up. It features the entire band’s asscracks. A class act, to be sure. The first song is absolutely horrible. It almost begs you to stop listening to them. The second song is better though. It has to be. They seem to be trying to be McClean and McClean but it is certainly a mixed bag of musical offerings.
Crackers, "The musical ambassadors to the motorcycle world," have been touring in one incarnation or another for over 25 years, with Patricia Warden and Reg Denis as its core members. Reg and Patti have been playing together for more than 35 years, in Linx as well as Crackers, and Reg was also in a couple of groups named The Only 1's and Pork way back in the day.
1-2 Trouble
Crackers seem to have been a bar band at heart, albeit one with a surprisingly broad range of influences; their website lists "Billy Joel and Charlie Daniels to Kid Rock and Frank Zappa," and I'd throw in Rush, The J. Geils Band and maybe a little Krautrock in there, too. Their website's history page has a lot of great (fully clothed, you may rest assured) vintage photos of the band, from in-concert snapshots to publicity photos.
1-3 Rio Bravo
Once you get past its profoundly unpleasant album cover, Choice Cuts, which was released in '78, isn't exactly what you might be expecting. The album was recorded at Grant Avenue Studio in Hamilton, Ontario, produced by Steve Smith and engineered by Dan Lanois (?!), with "album concept," music and arrangements by Crackers.
1-4 See You Tomorrow
At the time of this recording, Crackers were Monte "The Hose" Hawze on vocals and keyboards, Patricia "Delicia" Warden on bass, George "The Hole" Holyoke on drums and Reg "Crazy Man" Denis on guitar and vocals. "Crackers In Concert," recorded in glorious fake live, is one of those meet-the-band songs where each member of the band gets a solo, and also features vocals run through a vocoder or something.
1-5 Gracie
"Rio Bravo" exemplifies the group's everything and the kitchen sink too approach as it touches upon several different genres and tempos throughout its 3:40 running time. "See You Tomorrow" is an up-tempo and vaguely sci-fi tune with a few nice guitar solos, and "Heaven Was Never This Dead" is an epic number that slowly builds to a spaced-out instrumental climax.
2-1 Heaven
2-2 Still Feels Good
2-3 Four Wheel Drive
2-4 Crazy Man
That’s all for today. This is Radio Vickers signing off.
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Death of The Author Brigade – I Am Your Waitress – A song for the working masses. Especially the working masses employed in the catering business.
Death of the Author Brigade – The Boy Next Door – A 60’s tinged classic.
Death of the Author Brigade – Simple Song – Kat will break your heart.
Don’t Tell Betsy – The beginning and end of all Zombie love songs.
Don’t Tell Betsy – On My Mind – A Stonsey-sexy rocker.
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This is Radio Vickers in the new Radio Vickers format. These are just songs I’m listening to at the moment. It might be a Finnish Thrash Metal song, a pop song or some piece of jazz. And you can listen along. I also have three bands, there videos are scatter hither and yon around my site. If you could give one or two of them and eye and an ear, I’d be ever so grateful.
Well, I’ve been transferring my digital transfers back onto my computer from CD’s that I made about 10 years ago. Some of these albums, I don’t even remember transferring in the first place. Mostly, they’re in much better shape that I remember them being in. Or perhaps my hearing has deteriorated so much in the past decade, that they just sound better because I can no longer hear the imperfections. They have to come off the CD’s I've been storing them on because most of my recordable CD’s from even five years ago, don’t play anymore. The info on the data discs I made is not accessible. If anyone else out there has stuff on recordable CD’s, I’d advise them to back it up now.
I must have gotten this album from my dealer in Pennsylvania. Otherwise, it might have come from Phi Beta or Record Surplus but I bought box loads of this stuff from the guy in Allentown. Gosh I miss those cartons of records arriving in the mail. This is a pretty enjoyable album or late sixties brit-pop. Six Day War seems to be the song that is still being played. Kind of a In the Year 2525 song. I like it but there are other treats on this album. And now you get to hear the whole record!
Band members: Brian Farrell (Vocals, Guitar, Stylophone), Kenny Parry (Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards), Dave Dover (Vocals, Bass Guitar, Keyboards) and Terry McCusker (Vocals, Drums).
1-2 Lay It Down
Colonel Bagshot’s Incredible Bucket Band, comprised of Brian Farrell, Terry McCusker, Dave Dover and Kenny Parry. They had several record deals, toured Europe and played gigs like the Reading Festival. A record by the band from that period (Six Day War) was remixed by DJ Shadow, and also featured in the recent hit-film Phonebooth which starred Colin Farrell.
1-3 Lord High Human Being
Brian later went solo and the other guys formed another band called ‘Bunny’, who went on to support the popular Glam Rock/Pop band, Slade, on their tours.
1-4 Headhunters
Kenny Parry later joined the band, Liverpool Express-whom still play to this day. He is also a member of a well-known Country band, Hambone, which also features Brian.
1-5 I’ve seen the Light
2-1 Dirty Delilah Blues
2-3 Sometimes
2-4 That’s What I’d Like To Know
2-5 Tightrope Tamer
2-6 Oh! What a Lovely War
This is a video of Six Day War
That’s all for today. This is Radio Vickers signing off.
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Death of The Author Brigade – I Am Your Waitress – A song for the working masses. Especially the working masses employed in the catering business.
Death of the Author Brigade – The Boy Next Door – A 60’s tinged classic.
Death of the Author Brigade – Simple Song – Kat will break your heart.
Don’t Tell Betsy – The beginning and end of all Zombie love songs.
Don’t Tell Betsy – On My Mind – A Stonsey-sexy rocker.
For the real music lovers out there, I have a private email list. I send these emails out once a day. They contain great New Music, Videos, Opinion and a link to new Radio Vickers blog posts. The people on the list are all blind-copied so there are no privacy issues. If you'd like to be added to the list and receive these private postings, just drop me a line at radiovickers@yahoo.com and it shall be done.
This is Radio Vickers in the new Radio Vickers format. These are just songs I’m listening to at the moment. It might be a Finnish Thrash Metal song, a pop song or some piece of jazz. And you can listen along. I also have three bands, there videos are scatter hither and yon around my site. If you could give one or two of them and eye and an ear, I’d be ever so grateful.
Well, I’ve been transferring my digital transfers back onto my computer from CD’s that I made about 10 years ago. Some of these albums, I don’t even remember transferring in the first place. Mostly, they’re in much better shape that I remember them being in. Or perhaps my hearing has deteriorated so much in the past decade, that they just sound better because I can no longer hear the imperfections. They have to come off the CD’s I've been storing them on because most of my recordable CD’s from even five years ago, don’t play anymore. The info on the data discs I made is not accessible. If anyone else out there has stuff on recordable CD’s, I’d advise them to back it up now.
I have no idea where I got this album. Lost to the mists of time, I’m afraid. It could have been E-bay or it could have been one of the great record stores we used to have in here in L.A. Unfortunately, most of them are gone now. Moby Disc, Aaron’s, Phi Beta are just beautiful memories now. This could have been purchased at Record Surplus, which that god is still with us.
In fairness, I should state that I have a weakness for late sixties/early seventies prog rock and this certainly falls into that category. That being said, there is some very enjoyable music here. It is tuneful and doesn’t get too self indulgent, which can happen when a bunch of very talented musicians get together and decide to see how far out they can get. That does not happen here. It gets a Radio Vickers two thumbs up.
Clouds were a 1960s Scottish rock band that disbanded in October 1971. The band consisted of Ian Ellis (bass and lead vocals), Harry Hughes (drums) and Billy Ritchie (keyboards).
1-1 Watercolour Day
In early 1964, Ian Ellis and Harry Hughes were playing in a band called The Premiers. The band itself consisted of Bill Lawrence (bass guitar), ‘Shammy’ Lafferty (rhythm guitar), Derek Stark (Lead guitar), Harry Hughes (drums) and Ian Ellis (vocals). It was decided that an organ would help the sound of the band, and Billy Ritchie joined.
1-2 Cold Sweat
Cyril Stapleton took the band to London to record some demos, but nothing came of that, and Derek Stark, Bill Lawrence, and James Lafferty decided to leave. It seemed that Ritchie joining the band had prompted more changes than had been intended. Ian Ellis decided that he would take up the position of bass guitarist as well as lead vocalist. The group decided to move in a new musical direction, and changed their name from The Premiers to 1-2-3.
1-3 Lighthouse
1-2-3 had a much different sound from the previous band, or from almost any other band at that time. After achieving little success in Scotland, the band moved to London, England where they hoped that their original music would catch on, but early audiences were confused by the lack of a guitarist.
1-4 Long Time
The band were given a now-legendary headlining residency performing at the Marquee Club, attended by future prog icons such as Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson.[3] That an unknown band was chosen to headline at the Marquee was unusual, as they hadn't first performed the customary support spots. At the time, they were described as "a unique group...who have created an entirely new sound in pop group music". The same publication referred to "the truly exciting nature of 1-2-3.". Tamla motown was the order of the day, but this band offered up a potent mix of blues, classics, pop, and scat-jazz, wrapped in arrangements that defied categorisation. Their set consisted of original songs and standards, but these latter pieces were studiously reshaped to become, in essence, new. It anticipated the techniques later used by America's Vanilla Fudge, but where the US group slowed their creations down for melodramatic emphasis, 1-2-3 were more concerned with swing, and used the pieces as stepping stones to self-expression, rather than a means in themselves.Yet they balanced this esoteric desire with a conspicuous focus on melody. There was nothing remotely like it around.
2-1 Mind Of a Child
During the time the group performed at the club during 1967, they were signed by NEMS management company and Brian Epstein of The Beatles fame. This event was heralded in the national press, complete with photograph and accompanying article. Among the Marquee audience was future superstar David Bowie, who said, when interviewed by Record Mirror in 1967, that they were "three thistle and haggis voiced bairns [who] had the audacity to face a mob of self-opinionated hippies with a brand of unique pop music which, because of its intolerance of mediocrity, floated, as would a Hogarth cartoon in Beano". Later, in 1994, speaking about the 1-2-3 treatment of his own song ("I Dig Everything"), Bowie said that "the song was radically altered, yet retained its heart and soul". He said he regarded Billy Ritchie as "a genius".
2-2 I Know Better Than You
The death of Brian Epstein, founder of NEMS, left the band in the care of Robert Stigwood, his successor. But Stigwood had just signed The Bee Gees, fellow Australians, and was preoccupied with making them a success. This brought an end to the management relationship shortly afterwards. After parting company with NEMS, the band kept busy playing in the local London club circuit. At a club in Ilford, east London, the band were seen by Terry Ellis who quickly signed them to his new agency, and re-named the band Clouds.
2-3 Leavin’
Originally known as the Ellis-Wright agency, the organisation grew and became Chrysalis. Clouds had also risen in prominence, playing many major tours, and appearing at the Royal Albert Hall and many of the headlining concert venues in the world, including the Fillmore East in New York. The band released a number of albums during this period. The recordings were generally very well received by the critics, with respectable sales. Concert reviews were also favourable. A Billboard magazine review of a 1970 concert at the Arragon ballroom, Chicago, began by saying 'This band will be a giant.'
2-4 Get Off My Farm
But despite some initial success for the band, Chrysalis increasingly focused its attention on Jethro Tull, and the momentum that began with 1-2-3 was lost. Though the later incarnation, Clouds, was still interesting, invention was now part of the mainstream, and the group disbanded in October 1971, unable to find a niche in an overcrowded progressive rock scene. As years passed however, it was the band's earlier incarnation as 1-2-3 that became the subject of a critical reappraisal. Ritchie, the organist, was credited as being the first of his kind, standing and taking a lead role, paving the way for others, such as Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman. With accolades from the likes of David Bowie and others, the band's distinctive guitar-less, organ-driven sound is now viewed as a definitive precursor to the progressive rock movement.
For the real music lovers out there, I have a private email list. I send these emails out once a day. They contain great New Music, Videos, Opinion and a link to new Radio Vickers blog posts. The people on the list are all blind-copied so there are no privacy issues. If you'd like to be added to the list and receive these private postings, just drop me a line at radiovickers@yahoo.com and it shall be done.
This is Radio Vickers in the new Radio Vickers format. These are just songs I’m listening to at the moment. It might be a Finnish Thrash Metal song, a pop song or some piece of jazz. And you can listen along. I also have three bands, there videos are scatter hither and yon around my site. If you could give one or two of them and eye and an ear, I’d be ever so grateful.
Well, I’ve been transferring my digital transfers back onto my computer from CD’s that I made about 10 years ago. Some of these albums, I don’t even remember transferring in the first place. Mostly, they’re in much better shape that I remember them being in. Or perhaps my hearing has deteriorated so much in the past decade, that they just sound better because I can no longer hear the imperfections. They have to come off the CD’s I've been storing them on because most of my recordable CD’s from even five years ago, don’t play anymore. The info on the data discs I made is not accessible. If anyone else out there has stuff on recordable CD’s, I’d advise them to back it up now.
I’m sure I got the Butler album from my dealer in Hamilton. It took me forever to find out any information about these guys. I didn’t have a track list and “Butler” is a pretty generic name for a band. I persevered though, and found out some vital Butler. I also had to listen to quite a bit of the album again to get a song title, to aid me in my search. There are some pretty good songs on this sucker. It’s not all great, but there are some tunes well worth listening to. There’s a little of that 80’s keyboards in here but not enough to make you want to tear your hair out.
Butler
This album was recorded in 1981 for the Vertigo Label.
1-1 Down and Out
1-2 Without Me
The band is named after the guitarist, vocals Paul Butler.
1-3 The Prisoner
Other members of the band are:
Peter Fredette – Bass/Lead vocalist
Steve Hollingsworth – Drums
John Findlay – Keyboards
Derek O’Neil – Guitar
1-4 Media Man
1-5 All Caught Up
Paul Butler was in the East Coast band Pepper Tree
1-6 Now
2-1 Just Say No
Peter Fredette worked with Kim Mitchell, Pat Travers, Gowan and Ian Thomas
2-2 Welcome to My World
The formed in 1976 and toured with Max Webster and Rush.
2-3 I’m Alive
2-4 Into My Life
2-5 I Can’t Hit It
2-6 Endgame
That’s all for today. This is Radio Vickers signing off.
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NOW! If you could watch a couple of our humble videos, we would love you to death.
Death of The Author Brigade – I Am Your Waitress – A song for the working masses. Especially the working masses employed in the catering business.
Death of the Author Brigade – The Boy Next Door – A 60’s tinged classic.
Death of the Author Brigade – Simple Song – Kat will break your heart.
Don’t Tell Betsy – The beginning and end of all Zombie love songs.
Don’t Tell Betsy – On My Mind – A Stonsey-sexy rocker.
This is Radio Vickers in the new Radio Vickers format. These are just songs I’m listening to at the moment. It might be a Finnish Thrash Metal song, a pop song or some piece of jazz. And you can listen along. I also have three bands, there videos are scatter hither and yon around my site. If you could give one or two of them and eye and an ear, I’d be ever so grateful.
Well, I’ve been transferring my digital transfers back onto my computer from CD’s that I made about 10 years ago. Some of these albums, I don’t even remember transferring in the first place. Mostly, they’re in much better shape that I remember them being in. Or perhaps my hearing has deteriorated so much in the past decade, that they just sound better because I can no longer hear the imperfections. They have to come off the CD’s I've been storing them on because most of my recordable CD’s from even five years ago, don’t play anymore. The info on the data discs I made is not accessible. If anyone else out there has stuff on recordable CD’s, I’d advise them to back it up now.
I have no idea who these guys are. I can’t get to the vinyl that I recorded this off. If anyone out there has any information on them, I’d be oh-so-grateful if you could pass it along to me. I like the band. It’s one of those early 70’s rock fusion groups with a big horn presence. While they aren’t If or Chicago or Lighthouse, this is a very enjoyable album and well worth your time to give it a listen. I just wish I knew more. I do not. If you do, please enlighten me.
The Seven
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That’s all for today. This is Radio Vickers signing off.
NOW! If you could watch a couple of our humble videos, we would love you to death.
Death of The Author Brigade – I Am Your Waitress – A song for the working masses. Especially the working masses employed in the catering business.
Death of the Author Brigade – The Boy Next Door – A 60’s tinged classic.
Death of the Author Brigade – Simple Song – Kat will break your heart.
Don’t Tell Betsy – The beginning and end of all Zombie love songs.
Don’t Tell Betsy – On My Mind – A Stonsey-sexy rocker.
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