Hey Kids!

Summer's not over yet! There's still time for a teen beach dance party or two!

Here's your background music:

So for once I did not have to drive to Southern California on the 4th weekend as I usually do to get my annual Supersuckers/Rev Horton Heat fix, they played right here in my backyard at the Pozo Saloon on the 4th of July!

I was the Designated Driver ('cause I cain't drink like I used to could) and the party crew I was with were dragging, so I missed Sexy Time Xplosion and Nashville Pussy (GRRRRRR!!!!) but that's OK, I'll catch them another time.



Here's a slew of photos I took



Did anyone else attend this show? I'd love to see your photos too!

I was going through some old cassette tapes, I ran across a song I somehow forgot about by the Huevos Rancheros.

Please to enjoy:

Nothing says America like an old fashioned sing-a-long. There's nothing more American than a medley of patriotic classics sung by Dean Martin, Kate Smith, Barbara Eden, Norm Crosby and Mickey Rooney!



Take that Lee Greenwood and your crappy overplayed to death song I can no longer listen to without the urge to attack the speaker wires from where the painful sound eminates from...

Years ago, when MTV was cool, there was a show called Liquid Television that showed animated shorts. One of the shorts was called "Winter Steele," my best friend and I watched it religiously and quoted it constantly. It was a crudely created puppet show about a biker chick on the road looking for her "old man" Crow Dickerson. She had white blonde hair with black roots, possibly a role model for the chicks that are currently on "Rock of Love." Some of our favorite scenes were when Winter finally finds Crows mother, she tells Winter, "Whadda ya say we score us some Aqua Velva and keep this party rollin'?" On another episode, the police have surrounded her as shes climbing the hospital wall trying to get to her old man. They yell, "You have the right to remain silent.." to which she responds "You have the right to lick my pointy boot ya fricken nazi!" I've never been able to find the full length show anywhere (MTV chopped it into to 4 minute segments). So it was a fluke when I googled it and found that the creator of the show had recently uploaded them to youtube! Halle-lew-yer!



Here's episode one... the rest are here

Oh yeah, I also found Dog Boy!

I just love this band! I found this gem featuring the S.C.O.T.S. song "Deja Va-Room" along with some vintage drag racing! Whoo hoo!

Please to enjoy!

Put out the cookies & milk, drop the needle on the record and do a little dance...



Gene Autry tells it how it is! Better be nice y'all...

From Wikipedia:

Skaterdater is a short film that was released in 1965. It was written and directed by Noel Black and was the winner of the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. It was also nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Short Subject category.

The film has no dialogue. The surf rock-esque soundtrack was composed by Mike Curb and Nick Venet.

It was one of the first films that heavily featured skateboarding.

The skateboard riders where members of The Imperial Skateboard Team from Torrance, California. Their names are Gary Hill, Gregg Carrol, Mike Mel, Bill McKaig, Gary Jennings, Bruce McKaig and Rick Anderson.

I found the full length movie on Google video, the original film was in color, but this version is black & white. There are clips of the color version on you tube.

I just love you tube, I waste so much time going back into the wayback machine finding all kinds of crazy stuff I'd forgot. Back in the '80's, there was a local L.A. cable access show called Art Fein's Poker Party. Art Fein had the best roots rock/talk show ever. I've heard it's back on the air, unfortunately I can't get it where I live now, so I have you tube to watch the highlights.

A few years ago, there was a club in North Hollywood called the Palomino Club. They featured all the country greats and legends, also allowed up-and-coming rockabilly and roots bands to play on off nights. My friends and I were huge Blasters fans, one of my friends befriended Dave Alvin, one of the two brothers who started the band. He told my friend to check out this guy called Dwight Yoakam playing his first show there. So we went. I was blown away by Dwight, even though he was so shy he played with his back to the crowd most of the show, or kept his head down with his hat pulled so far forward you couldn't see his face. This was in the early '80's, obviously he's overcome his shyness. Here's a little bit shy (note the dark shades) Dwight Yoakam and baby faced Dave Alvin playing on Art Fein's Poker Party in 1986.

Back in the 90's Art Fein had a local Los Angeles cable access show called, Art Fein's Poker Party. All the rockabilly singer/songwriters and traditional country artists stopped by to play. Recently, while cruising you tube, I found that they had posted them in segmented clips. I was thrilled to find this one of Rosie Flores (Screamin' Sirens) and Dave Alvin (Blasters) singing a duet called "Goodbye Again"

enjoy!




I'll be posting more in the future, stay tuned.