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Good Night Music – A New Favorite Hellacopters Tune

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Our fearless leader of Rock Remnants, Peter Kreutzer, does a fantastic job churning out a Night Music every 24 hours to save this site from total dead time when the rest of us don’t feel like it. He asked us to do our own Night Musics more often than we do (ideally every night) and I’m gonna try and do more because Peter’s an all-around great guy. Mine will be called “Good Night Music” because I only deal in Good Music.

I’m gonna start with my favorite tune off the Japanese Hellas CD I got last week. This is a Roky Erickson song. I know a little bit about Roky. You might know more. I’m guessing Peter knows a lot.

This song was good for me to begin with, but has really gotten into my blood upon repeated listenings:

Here’s the original, not exactly chopped liver either:

The Last New/Old Hellacopters?

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Got what I think is the last CD with at least a few Hellas songs that I don’t have the other day, from Japan, the last of the Amazon Santa motherlode. There’s one song I still don’t have here and there, mostly on vinyl, but I don’t do vinyl anymore. It has several covers on it – my second choice would’ve been “Cold Night For Alligators” a Roky Erickson song if you’re into that. I give you this, an Otis Redding cover. Yes, the Otis Redding original is better, but a dope like me wouldn’t even know it were it not for the Hellacopters. Hopefully Peter can stand the vocals, which he says leave him limp as Rosie O’Donnell in a puddle of puke.

Quick Chris Spedding Post

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Lawr’s “Wild In The Streets” post made me think of Chris Spedding, who was our guitar hero back in the day. Probably because he was somewhat obscure, at least to American folks, and he embraced early punk instead of trashing it. We used to think this song was all that and a bag of chips. Now it seems a bit tame and cheesy, though still enjoyable. The accompanying video is kind of cheesy, but helpful:

Super Bowl Chili Peppers

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I’ve been amused at how many times I’ve seen Anthony Kiedis in his Off! hat in reference to the Peppers playing the Super Bowl. It would make it the best Super Bowl halftime show ever if he actually wore it there. Do you think they’d let him wear it if he wanted to? It would be nice to forcibly expose the Beyonce and Lorde and Justin Bieber and Imagine Dragons goofuses to some cool culture.

I’m A Lot More Punk Than You

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A friend sent me this picture a while ago and I’ve been wanting to post it for a long time.

It’s a young Steve Moyer, a young Ian MacKaye and the Headless Horseman taking a break while the Follow Fashion Monkeys were recording our second album at Inner Ear Studios with Ian producing.

Dig the Rob Tyner/Phil Lynott hair, the ever-present beer belly and the punk-uncool Cardinals jacket.

The Best Album AC/DC Hasn’t Made In The Last 30 Years

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My foray into death metal has been interrupted by another Amazon Santa CD I received in the mail that I’d been wanting for quite a while – ’77’s 21st Century Rock.

These guys truly get what made AC/DC great and it has nothing to do with Brian Johnson’s screech or Back In Black. It’s three-chord boogie-woogie rock ‘n roll, the kind of music that makes one want to strut around the room like Bon Scott.

This song:

is the same as this song:

But they’re both great songs. (I must admit, the AC/DC is still better in the side-by-side taste test.)

Why doesn’t AC/DC sue the shorts off these guys? Maybe they understand that imitation is the best form of flattery and that 21st Century Rock is the best AC/DC album since Highway To Hell.

Anyone who isn’t smiling during three-chord boogie-woogie rock ‘n’ roll is no friend of mine. (OK, you still are, but it seemed like a fine phrase with which to end the post.)

P.S. – I’ve been through Wolverine Blues once now and it’s somewhat difficult. A little bit more of an aural assault than even I am used to. The good news is there are bits and pieces there that I found myself liking. Even one whole song. Again, I’ll keep you posted.