Hull Juice (again)

George Greenough and Richie West in a clip from the now available on DVD movie "Crystal Voyager". Yes a Re-post, but well worth another look. Richie West rips. (love to see that board)

There's poison in your heart

Kitty Wells from the 1957 Grand Ole Opry Collection. Kitty page. dig it.

Overbaked?

Nat Young’s “Nautilas / Cuttlefish / Folly”, 8 ft 6” with Greenough spoon like nose, foam centre and flex tail, manufactured at Gordon Woods Surfboards 1965. Extensive warping of the nose section, the board is in otherwise original condition. Photograph courtesy Scott Dillon Collection Photograph by Alby Falzon. via http://www.surfresearch.com.au/mDillon.html

She Sells

50's-60's Classic 10' Bing Longboard collector's item - $500 for now unless the auction has increased.see the E bay auction. water tight but needs minor restoration and a gloss coat. I think think it's a stock model from that period. Spoke with a collector who said it's worth at least 800.00 yet i must sell. can't see the #'s on it.

Love Needed

EDIT. HOMES FOUND!!! THANK YOU!!! rescued 6 black lab (mix) puppies out of the middle of the road on Saturday. PLEASE help me find them homes - otherwise, it's Animal Control - which means they only have 5 days. We've bathed them, sprayed them for fleas and wormed them....but we can't keep them. They are currently in a kennel in my basement since I don't have a fence. I've lost count of the number of rescue groups that I've contacted, only to be turned down due to no room. Please check with every dog person you know to see if they need a puppy Laura Otto 847-707-0137 Joan Goldman jegsm@earthlink.net

Filming The Myth

Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 western film, directed by Sydney Pollack. It starred Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw" Chris Lapp. The movie was said to have been based in-part on the life of the legendary mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson, based on Raymond Thorp/Robert Bunker's book Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson and Vardis Fisher's Mountain Man and scripted by John Milius and Edward Anhalt. SYDNEY POLLACK discusses the film and the radical changes from the original Milius script which, with it's gore, to me sounds like it would have been more fitting with a Sam Peckinpah direction. The movie still carries a deep melancholy and desolation that hits deep. Top film.

She Travels

Kyle Albers riding the Point Concept "She" hull. I must say i rode this super blade on only two small waves yet i felt it's magic! It's super fast in trim yet i'm really looking forward to burying those rails in a cutback. I'm hoping in the future i can give it a proper go. for more on this craft visit....http://pcprogress.blogspot.com/

Sleeveface

More from Sleeveface... Thanks Tim.

Who's Your Daddy?

ALL GROWN UP (Howard Hausey) JOHNNY HORTON (COLUMBIA 1958) Lyrics here. Make what you will of that???? This was not a staple for Mr. Horton. He had much better moments. My personal favorite below. Whispering Pines Johnny Horton (April 30, 1925 – November 5, 1960) was an American country music singer who was most famous for his semi-folk, so-called "saga songs" which launched the "historical ballad" craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s.("The Battle of New Orleans", "Sink the Bismarck" and "North to Alaska") Despite Horton's wild-at-heart looks and voice, he was a man haunted for years by ominous premonitions of his own death. He often promised those close to him he would contact them from beyond the grave. Like the psychic he claimed to be, Horton came eerily close to predicting the manner of his death. He believed he would be killed by a drunk. He died on Nov. 5, 1960, in an automobile accident at the Little River bridge on Highway 79. To the outside world, Horton seemed have it all: good looks, charm, a great singing voice and incredible athletic talent. Twenty-six colleges had offered him basketball scholarships after his graduation from high school. He played briefly for Lon Morris Junior College and Baylor University. During lean times in the music business, Horton could make as much as $200 a day playing pinball. His appeared to be a charmed life. But Horton's premonitions of death grew stronger the more popular he became with country and pop audiences. He canceled an appearance at the premiere of the movie 'North To Alaska' and tried to get out of his gig at the Skyline Club, but to no avail. He stayed in his dressing room at the Skyline, convinced a drunk would kill him if he stayed at the bar. With bass player Tommy Tomlinson in the front seat and manager Tillman Franks in the back, they set off for Shreveport, La. Tillman noted Horton was driving too fast, but that was not unusual. Horton always drove fast, as if propelling along his own prophecy. Franks was snoozing in the front seat and Tomlinson was in the backseat when Davis' pick-up bounced off either side of the bridge then plowed into Horton's car. by Clay Coppedge

East Side Lovin'

The Village Callers - when your gone ( live ) The only album that the superb Village Callers ever recorded, this live set from 1968 captures the essence of their Latin-funk-soul fusion. Recorded in the Plush Bunny, an intimate club in their native LA, this raw romp presents the band at their scorching best. Hear all tracks ;

Grievances

A friend sent me this link to a new web-based show called Black Cab Sessions. This one featuring Daniel Johnston. Interesting to hear him with accompaniment other than himself. Great song. thanks mark.

Lads Y Lassie

find the female?

Dirt Cheap Life

El Chicano -Viva Tirado live 1971 El Chicano is a Latin R&B/brown-eyed soul band from Los Angeles, California, whose influences can be found in rock, funk, soul, blues, jazz, and salsa. Original members included Bobby Espinosa, Freddie Sanchez, Mickey Lespron, Andre Baeza, and John De Luna. During the 1970s, new members Ersi Arvizu, Hector "Rudy" Regalado, Max Garduno, Danny Lamonte, Brian Magness, Joe Pereria, and Jerry and Rudy Salas joined. Their best-known songs include the jazzy "Viva Tirado", the funky "Tell Her She's Lovely" and their cover version of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl".

3 Elements

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." Buddha

I Got A Thing

Funkadelic - 1970

The Neighborhood

The 5 mph exits can make things interesting. Looking through the toxic haze there is Dodger stadium sunken in the foreground of downtown. 5 minutes away from home is a plethora of great historical eateries and architecture. pets. I'm starting a series of posts on my favorite part of Los Angeles.... the east side. Here's a micro look at the Highland Park/ Mt. Washington area. Dig the colors of this time of year. It certainly would have made more sense for me to use film and the medium format for these shots but, I'm getting a bit tired of the blanket in lo-fi imaging. As stated in a previous post, I still ponder that old idea that if CA splits into the ocean (with a miraculous 0 loss of life) then the LA river (at the I5/110 fwy's junction) becomes the LA Rivermouth. (an A grade beach/point break I can check while making the am rocket fuel) The Pasadena Freeway was the first freeway built in California. Over the past 60 years it has been signed as US 6, US 66, CA 11, and is now CA 110. The south end of the Pasadena Freeway, from US 101 to what is now I-5 was built in two timeframes, the northbound side was built as Figueroa Street in the early 1930s (it handled northbound and southbound traffic at the time) and the southbound side was completed in 1944 to extend the freeway south to Hill Street from San Fernando Road, where it joined up with the 1940 Arroyo Seco Parkway section.

Angel #1

Tren Brothers (Jim White and Mick Turner of the Dirty Three's side project)

The Dark End of the Street

"The Dark End of the Street" is a 1967 soul song written by Muscle Shoals songwriter Dan Penn and Chips Moman and first performed by James Carr. The song became Carr's most popular, reaching number 10 on Billboard Magazine's Black Singles Chart, and crossing over to number 77 on the Pop chart. Written by Penn, a professional songwriter and producer, and Moman, a session guitarist at Phil Spector's Gold Star Studio, the song is the lament from an adulterer to his illicit lover, told from the adulterer's point of view. They continue their sin, "hiding in shadows where [they] don't belong" because their "love keeps coming on strong." At the climax of the song, the narrator fears "they're gonna find us some day." In the summer of 1966, while a DJ convention was being held in Memphis, Tennessee, the song was written in about thirty minutes. Penn and Moman were cheating while playing cards with Florida DJ Don Schroeder.[1] They wrote the song while on a break. "We were always wanting to come up with the best cheatin' song. Ever," Penn said.[2] The duo went to the hotel room of Quinton Claunch, another Muscle Shoals alumnus, and founder of Hi Records, to write. Claunch told them, "boys, you can use my room on one condition, which is that you give me that song for James Carr. They said I had a deal, and they kept their word."[3] The song has been covered by many artists, including Deacon Blue, Elvis Costello, Ry Cooder, Aretha Franklin, Linda Ronstadt, Percy Sledge, The Allman Brothers, Richard Thompson and Linda Thompson, Eva Cassidy, Frank Black, Diamanda Galás, Flying Burrito Brothers, The Afghan Whigs, Widespread Panic and Eels. The song was a top 25 country music hit for the duet team of Archie Campbell and Lorene Mann in early 1968, and covered later that year by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton on their album, Just the Two of Us. Southern novelist Ace Atkins titled his 2002 book "The Dark End of the Street" after the song. Today, the song is closely regarded as a classic recording of the "Muscle Shoals Sound".

Staff Benda Bilili

via transafixion. Staff Benda Bilili are a group of paraplegic street musicians who live around the grounds of the zoo in Kinshasa, Congo. Four senior singers/guitarists on makeshift wheelchairs are supported by a young, all-acoustic rhythm section, plus a 17 year-old prodigy performing infectious guitar-like solos on a one-string electric lute he designed and built himself out of a tin can. Recorded and produced by Vincent Kenis, their debut album Très Très Fort will be released on Crammed Discs in late February 2009. A feature film about Staff Benda Bilili (trailer ) is about to be completed by film producers Renaud Barrett and Florent de la Tullaye. "All that's required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke

The Assassination of Jesse James, by the coward Robert Ford

I just recently saw this 2007 take on Jesse James directed by Andrew Dominik. With Brad Pitt, Mary-Louise Parker, Brooklynn Proulx, Sam Shepard and Sam Rockwell. I highly recommend. Opening scene. go full screen. Love those muted images. The cinematography is amazing as well as the soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. They do a vamp on the oldie "sunrise sunset" with bells piano and violin that kills me. Also reminiscent of the Fargo soundtrack by Carter Burwell. The Train Scene.

Plush Exotica

If ever I do one of these kind of trips? THIS would be it. mush point? check sand sucker point? check desert setting? check

Lego Don't Surf

Been ages since having to tap the imagination and bring out the old arsenal of finger-surfing and notebook moves used in the school days. This guy has got 'em down and catalogued. Back then Lego was only street. Great video via..Transafixion.

RIP

The Stooges' Ron Asheton - His 5 Greatest Riffs via NME Farewell, then, to another legend. Ron Asheton, guitarist in proto-punk US rockers The Stooges, has passed away aged 60 at his home in Ann Arbor. In terms of influence, Asheton has to take his place in the hall of fame, his style being adopted (and adapted) by legions of future heroes. Meanwhile, his best work sounds a fresh as it did when the band came kicking and screaming out of Michigan at the end of the '60s. To pay tribute, here are five of Asheton's finest moments, and why they still matter. RIP big man. (according to nme) 1. I Wanna Be Your Dog After kicking The Stooges' best-loved song off with a flurry of explosive feedback, this glorious three-note descending riff encapsulates Asheton's 'less is more' style, which without question helped define punk's early sonic blueprint. 2. No Fun Sex Pistols liked this tune so much they covered it regularly in their heyday – and continue to do so. Evolving from a stoned jam where frontman Iggy Pop was improvising lyrics based on Johnny Cash's 'I Walk The Line', Asheton again cranks out another hi-energy rock 'n' roll riff so dumb the Ramones are thought to have learned how to play by strumming along to it. 3. 1969 Evolved like many of the songs on the Stooges' self-titled debut album – there would be roughly two minutes of 'conventional' songwriting followed by wild improvisation. Here, Asheton's choppy style dovetails perfectly with Iggy Pop's tale of impending apocalypse. 4. Down On The Street Come the chorus, as Iggy howls 'NO WALL!!!!', Asheton conjures up a nerve-shredding, lurching riff. And then about two minutes in, we have what seems like two separate solos competing with each other, adding to the song's almost claustrophobic intensity. 5. T.V. Eye Another wild, unrelenting blues-based riff (albeit hugely distorted), its raw, emotive power prefigured heavy metal. Combined with Iggy's vocal and the four on the floor drumbeat later favoured by disco divas, the results are almost impossibly exciting.

Rainin' In My Heart

Most people are familiar with the Al Green accompanied by Willie Mitchell, Teenie Hodges and Al Jackson (among others) during the early years of hits. I guess that's why these clips are so special. Probably ripped from a dvd, here's another great from years ago.

Insomnia Tip #20

1 daisy, 2 daisy, 3 daisy 4.... Counting Sheep We finally figured out why it never worked for us. The old wives' cure for insomnia is to count bouncy little sheep leaping over a fence. No wonder it doesn't work. Bouncy sheep are hyperactive and wide awake. They're the last thing you need to dwell on when you want to go to sleep. So try the variation that worked for us. Count sleeping sheep. Imagine a beautiful green meadow stretching to infinity. Every ten feet or so, right in a row, lies a peaceful, sleeping sheep. Imagine that you're just gliding by, almost floating. And that you pass by a sheep every 3 or 4 seconds (experiment to find which time interval works best for you -- it varies from person to person). Count the sheep and glide on to the next, and the next, and so on. Apparently in the 1970s two Harvard psychologists, Richard Davidson and Gary Schwartz, researched "counting sheep" as a classic way of dealing with insomnia. They concluded that counting sheep occupied both hemispheres of the brain simultaneously, preventing the type of disturbing brain activity that is often responsible for insomnia. via; Insomnia Tip #20

Ecstacy in Slow Motion

Sell, Sell, Sell

From the land of hulling....(deal of the century. owner's daily driver) 7'1" Spencer Kellogg/Paul Gross. No dings, glassed super strong, light light green (just to set off the volon) tint. With fin. $375 InQuire thru comments. From Bonzerland... 6'7"- 2 1/2" Campbell Brothers Bonzer 5 semi gun. MINT! (i don't think it's even been ridden) Act fast as it's jumping to Craigland soon and the sale is being handled by brokerage. InQuiries...contact Daily Bread. 400.00 note; THIS IS AN AMAZING BOARD I WOULD KEEP IF I WERE YOUNGER. AN ABSOLUTE TOOB GETTER AS WELL AS HIGH PERFORMANCE!