Theme from the movie Gregory's Girl - Colin Tully
Besides being a great film, the soundtrack by saxman Colin Tully is absolutely brilliant and fits perfectly with the lighthearted tone of the movie. The soundtrack was never released in the US and is hard to find in England (and I'm still looking...) Colin's played with the underrated Cado Belle & John Martyn. This is the theme song from the movies intro, and piggybacked is a longer version over the closing credits.
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Face To Face - 10 9 8 - Lip Sync Live TV
Please forgive the random pops, this tape is about dead and nearly impossible to get to track right. Clip is rare enough that I thought I'd post regardless. Laurie Sargent is one of my favorite front people on the planet and this song was killer.
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Honk - Hesitation at The Great Park, Irvine CA 08/02/08
Honk are one of the greatest bands to ever come out of Southern California. They opened the summer concert series tonight at The Great Park in Irvine to an excited crowd. Please pardon the bad video quality, as this is off a cheapie Kodak camera that at least produces decent audio :-)
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Eric Johnson - Mountains AKA Venus Reprise - Live
This tune turned up on Venus Isle as Venus Reprise as a short outro with no vocals. I had this on some old audio tapes and a couple were entitled "Mountains" by the tape traders (Eric calls it a Reprise Jam here.) I talked to Tommy Taylor at the NAMM show one year and asked about this song, referring to it as Mountains and he didn't correct me. Tommy told me he really liked the song, and it would be on the next CD. It was, but in an abbreviated instrumental form. Think you'll like this one better. You can tell Eric is testing ideas in the song, and the vocal line is just gorgeous. Hope he releases it in this form someday... Also have a different audio only posted in my folder.
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Smile - Sailor at The Starwood, Hollywood - 01/20/79
In the mid to late 70's, the holy trinity of Sunset Strip bands was Van Halen, A La Carte and Smile. Smile were by far and away the most melodic of the three. Sailor is a gorgeous ballad that was the soundtrack to a lot of kids lives back in the day. Tommy Girvin (guitar) plays with Eddie Money nowadays. Jimmy Volpe (drummer) played with Eulogy (Rusty Anderson, now with Paul McCartney), Warrior, and now with Pat O'Brian and the Priests of Love. The great Scott Waller (singer) has been a stage manager for years and has toured with the likes of Aerosmith, KISS and The Rolling Stones. Really miss seeing these guys... PS, Check out www.scottwaller.com and www.tommygirvinmusic.com!
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A La Carte - Fairview Boogie - A&M Studios Video Demo, 1980
I'm the world's biggest A La Carte fan next to Mr. Paul Cummings. A La Carte were local legends in the mid-to-late 70's & early 80's around Los Angeles. They were equally billed with bands like Van Halen & headlined huge hall shows. They've recently been gigging again (hope to post some of that, they're even tighter now, if that's possible) and Kevin recently did a session with Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.
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Raw Flower - Chinese Rocks + 1 : Troubadour 1991
The singer had major charisma. Anyone know what they're doing nowadays?
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The Mechanics - Old 8MM Footage, Flyers, Etc.
Courtesy of Brian Webster, 9 minutes of Mechanics goodies circa 1979. Brian always had an 8MM camera around before there were VHS camera's. In order of appearance: 3 minutes of old flyers, set to the tune of the 'B' side of our single which I still hate :-) Filthy limericks set to hanging around at the Fullerton studio. Feel free to kill the volume on these. Mike Couden still reads dirty limericks better than anyone. Cool 8MM Mechanics footage at The Hong Kong Cafe with dubbed music. I can't thank Brian enough for making this. Nowadays kids have their lives saved in digital quality, 30 years ago this is all we had.
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7th Grade - Live at Jezebel's, Anaheim CA
7th Grade were Fred Taccone (vocals), Jon Nichols (guitar), Craig Riech (Bass), and Randy Carr on drums. Think this was around 1989, need to check the dates... Fred now makes great amps for the likes of Aerosmith (dividedby13dotcom) and Jon plays with Beth Hart.
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Rusty Anderson & Randy Carr Manic Depression Backyard Party
My friend, the late great Randy Carr gave me this and I thought I'd lost it. This is Randy, Rusty Anderson, Sean Brown, Jon Nichols and Craig Riech, The Unholy Groovepushers! Rusty (now with Paul McCartney) used to play in a dive-bomb Jeff Beck style, which no one seems to believe when I tell them, given the 60's melodic way he plays nowadays. This is Rusty at his old best! Wanted to add this is Randy in his element, doing the big Mitch Mitchell and Ginger Baker style he loved. The very concept that Social Distortion booted him out of their band just makes me laugh my ass off. Click WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY! :-)
The Mechanics, Rockola, Long Beach Cable TV: Boom Boom Room
Another one from Bobby Blues (KMET, KNAC DJ) cable show from 1979. Nifty little Scott/Tim composition. For some reason there's no Tim guitar on the copy I unearthed. Hopefully the master will turn up of the whole show. God we were skinny then! :-)
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The Brian Webster Experience - Strutter
Brian (OC sound guru, 1st guy to record Metallica) got a bunch of us old OC musicians together for a day of train-wreck jamming circa' 1990. Dick (singer), Mike (bassist, ex-Mechanics) and Brian (guitar) used to play together in high school. Now about my EKO Rocket... :-) I'm playing the baby blue EKO Rocket (actually called a Rokes, named after an Italian psych group). I kick myself everyday for letting this one go to Japan. When I found it, it had been sitting in a wine celler in the midwest since 1967, and was brand new in the case with the tags still on it. Actually a 12 string and had a single D'Armand pickup in the neck position. A thing of absolute beauty...
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The Mechanics - Carburation Generation at The Starwood 1981
Probably the best Mechanics song, later covered (splendidly) by Rikk Agnew's band Poop & released as a 45. Filmed at one of our last shows. Side note, Ozzy Osbourne was supposed to do a surprise show this night, KROQ let the cat out of the bag, so he cancelled out. Ozzy heads still showed up in droves and the last band got bottled off. Hah.
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Pancreas Joe & the Eskimo Leftists - 30 Thirty Dollar Guitar
Sorry for the horrible audio quality :-) Couldn't believe I found this in my tapes. This is awesome. Back in 1981 when newfangled video shows were playing Pat Benatar and Rod Stewart in a loop, Goodnight LA was playing stuff like Bitchen' Party by the Lopez Beatles, Helium Bar by The Weirdos, and a 6 minute classic video by Pancreas Joe. Be sure to check out pancreasjoe.com!
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Unholy Groove Pushers - Baby, What Do You Want Me To Do? - 1988
From the Jeff Carr collection... Rusty Anderson, Sean Brown, Craig Riech, Jon Nichols and Randy Carr at a backyard party. Song starts around 1:20 after some mugging by the band :-)
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Unholy Groove Pushers - Sunshine Of Your Love - 1988
From the Jeff Carr collection... Rusty Anderson, Sean Brown, Craig Riech, Jon Nichols and Randy Carr at a backyard party. Randy kicks the bejesus out of this song, especially the double bass stuff at the end.
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