HEARTS SLOW DOWN......

Having beenascrabbling for this for some while now, it was with the good fortune of the Raw Nerve board that it finally came up again. I have been over playing this crap, taped copy on C90 for years. It does not do this album justice in the slightest. What album? The unreleased Redrighthand album " They Sang and Chanted For Hours, Then The Locked In Hundreds Set Themselves Ablaze". A true crime on the last decade.
During the Narcosis years our vocalist peet had been doing this band ( they in fact started before he was in Narcosis with a different line-up and many twists and turns to the story) that was eventually recorded in 2004 by our good friend Mr John Kettle. The recording was a bit of a stress and headache but this was the finished product.
But then the label went skint, they couldn't afford to release it, it got shelved save for a few CD-r's and tapes of the recording which have been circulating for years.
The line-up at the time consisted of people that have/are in They Are Cowards, Narcosis, Like A Kind of Matador, Charger, Hard To Swallow and Gruel.
At the time everyone was blown away by this album. It is still to this day a horrible, angsty, drawn out affair. Avoiding the more conventional "rock" element of doom. Instead its replaced with dissonance and pure distorted filth.

REDRIGHTHAND

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NEW PURCHASES

Yes. Arrived the other week. Here we go.
First off, The Last Dragon DVD. You can read my previous post about how much I love this film here so just take my word its sweet.

But slightly more exciting was the Rodney Dangerfield "No Respect" 3-disc set. This is the best visual companion for the Dangerfield fanatic. Featuring all of his specials he did for NBC and Fox, a selection of his own show live from Club Dangerfield, the proving ground for many young stand ups. it features a young Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Hicks as well as the crude but good David Tyree. It also features the Dangerfield episode of This Is Your Life, presented to him live on stage during one of his performances. Its really nice and touching. Dangerfield, what a legend.

Here we go.....

I also purchased a new amp, but that is another story for another time.
I also have come across this on my internet travels that I will share with you.
Been digging this album loads recently. It shouldn't really need any explanation at all, The Butthole Surfers are legends in there own. If you like them then you love them, there is no middle ground at all. This is my favourite album by these oddball legends, the opening sample always raises a smile.

The Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technicain (1987)

Go and enjoy.
x

New toys

Well sort of. As has been a plan of mine for some time now. I needed a new cab. Mine was fine but falling apart. As anyone that has given me a lift with it at gigs or carried it upstairs/across cobbles/out of the van will know. Its a complete bastard.
Its a Behringer BB810. I know people hate Behringer and slag it off rotten quite a lot but its stood up well for the past 4 years. Been on so many tours, used by bands every night. It even survived Dan Lilker playing through it for 8 days in a row. The casing started looking a bit ropy a year or so ago. Original wheels fell off and I fitted these shopping trolley wheels, they have proven to be unsturdy. As well as the wood beginning to fall apart on the bottom. So the time came to get it sorted.

The sides have been removed along with the base and wheels. The electrics are all still fine and intact. The plan has been to build new sides and base with new wheels fitted and easier access for transport.

The sides have now been done, good solid ply. New wheels and axle have been ordered and that is the current position.

So yay to building your own stuff. The project after this is a new amphead. Which I can see being slightly more tricky.
Ah well. I did get hold of the Mad Max OST courtesy of Mackie. So its all going pretty well at the moment. Which is unnervingly wierd. So its bound to go wrong very soon.

Toecutter....you have ruined me!

Last night I was bare witness to a almighty travesty.
Mad Max has always been one of my favourites. Since I was 13 it has. Up until now I have owned the whole series on video. A recent trip to a second hand music/video shop changed that when I came across the original film on DVD for less than two sterlings. Well there are no fancy extras but it was about time I brought my apocalyptic love of australian cinema into the digital realm. So purchased, it has sat on my shelf for a good month until I had time to enjoy it. Last night was that chance.
Credits as usual, stirring, orchestral score sweeps in, opening montage of Halls Of Justice and the sub-title "a few years from now", cut to Roop and Charlie parked up, perving on a young couple fornicating. Its all going swimmingly. Then the radio chatter is suddenly clearer than I remember, you can make out the dispatch voice. Hang on....NO! Un marked on the DVD case, I have been suckered into the original US home video release version. They dubbed there voices. I had heard about this and my friend had fallen prey to this trap many years prior. Now I had to.
Why did they have to ruin it. I could barely make it past the opening pursuit of the Nightrider.
This was, as I learned a few years prior, due to the American Distributors fear that audiences would not take kindly to heroes with Aussie accents. It ruined my night in more ways than one. Avoid this version at all costs. It removes a lot of the grit found in the original dialogue, replaces the slang words with more "american-isms" and spoils your fun.
On a much better note, I started work on my speaker cabinet today. Yes, I am building my own housing for the Cuntstack.

P.S. If anyone knows where I can obtain the Mad Max OST then holler. I have been searching for years.