From: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@xnet2.com Subject: bomp-digest V2000 #85 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send e-mail to majordomo@xnet2.com with "unsubscribe bomp-digest" in the body X-Bomp-web-site: http://www.bomp.com X-BompList-Administrator: efd@xnet2.com bomp-digest Monday, February 21 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 085 It's another issue of bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail with the words "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com or use the form at . The following subjects are included in this digest: Funky Max Waller re: Los Shakers/Cavestomp suggestion rpb Re: bomp-digest V2000 #83 Chuck Ciriello Rock And Roll Dance Party 2/15/00 rat fink Fwd: [NCsocialist] Group Photo - NC chapter meeting willie little Tee & Thee Crumpets Tour Dates Neil Motteram Re: MC5 "Thunder Express" info wanted brian marshall Re: hey there frozen face! dannowicki@uswest.net Stronger Than Dirt Playlist 2/22/00 unkraut@mail.io.com Re: bomp-digest V2000 #83 "fbrandon" Re: hey there frozen face! "fbrandon" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 09:26:50 -0500 From: Max Waller Subject: Funky Message text written by INTERNET:bomp@screamer.xnet2.com > A blanket statement like this I couldn't help but take as a challenge... I found that Lou Donaldson's 1963 LP The Natural Soul included a track called "Funky Mama." Was that the first time? I don't know... Joey < Earliest 'Funky' in Music Master points to a Cavliers 45 - Teen Fever / Funky (Coral 62245) early 1961 Max ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 10:56:35 -0500 From: rpb Subject: re: Los Shakers/Cavestomp suggestion All this talk of Los Shakers and Cavestomp suggestions leads me to one place - the Shakers at Cavestomp. If Alec Palao is putting together a comp for Big Beat, perhaps he's already located the band members and could shed some light. Oh yeah -full Real Audio Clip of Shaker's Break it All on my web page. Richard TAKE THE AUDIO OBSTACLE COURSE! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:22:22 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Ciriello Subject: Re: bomp-digest V2000 #83 Regarding the Upstate NY thread, I think the Charles 45 is cool, 1 punk side (has been comped) & 1 Beatleish side. The invictas have 3 or 4 more singles, but not the 1 you listed, which I believe is another group. There 45s are on Bengel & Sahara. All are same punky style. There was also an EP in the 70s, that has 4 song that predates the LP/45 releases, recorded in 1965, also worth picking up. The Rogues on a major label is diff. group, B side of "You Better Look Now" is "Train Kept A Rollin" which is very punky. Another great upstate 45 is the Humans - Warning/Take A Taxi (I don't know if B-side is comped, but it a cool garage/folk rock). I'm from Rochester, here's a few other groups from this area to look for, these 3 are all on NuSound Wee Four, Terry Pillitere (Singer from Wee Four), Pete Morticelli (Has help from Terry). Bobby Francis - At The Beach, good surf, Vistas - Moon Relay 1 of the all time great surf instros, Young Tyrants, Show Stoppers (On Columbia) Little Peppy & Bare Existence (Female Singer, Psych/Garage), Bethoven's Dream Group, there are a ton more If you can find the 1st couple of editions on Outasite magazine, there are alot of Upsate, NY 45 listed. Chuck ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 12:08:16 -0500 From: rat fink Subject: Rock And Roll Dance Party 2/15/00 Hey, Here we go with yet another playlist for the Tuesday Night Rock And Roll Dance Party which takes to the airwaves every Tuesday night 9pm until midnight e.s.t. on 90.1FM WUSB in Stony Brook, New York... ...stormin' into the studios this week with a crate full of records only to find one of the turntables busted up, DOH! It made for one hell of a night but it went something like this: Ray Vernon: I'm Counting On You (Hillbilly Wolf: Missing Links vol.1 lp, Norton) Don & Dewey: Baby Gotta Party (Jungle Hop cd, Specialty) Larry Williams: Short Fat Fannie (7", Specialty) Sonny Burgess: Ain't Got A Thing (Hittin' The Jug cd, AVI) Don Feger: Corner Date (Desperate Rock And Roll vol.5 lp, Flame) Roban Sanders: You Tore Your Playhouse Down (Rock-A-Billy Party cd, Buffalo Bop) Wanda Jackson: Hard Headed Woman (Rockin' Party lp, Combo) Johnny Carroll: The Swing (Rock Baby Rock It cd, Bear Family) Sonny Lane & the Downbeats: Hook, Line And Sinker (The Raging Teens vol.1 lp, Norton) Reggie Perkins: High School Caesar (Teenage Riot lp, Atomic) Savoys: Domino (Teenage Riot lp, Atomic) Go Cat Go: Let's Hear It Once Again For...cd, Vinylux) Croonin' Kurt & the Hi-Geared Combo: Who's Crying Sweet Papa Now (Low Down Swing cd, Ecco Tone) Elvis Presley: Baby, Let's Play House (The Sun Sessions lp, RCA) Ray Harris: Come On Little Mama (Let's Bop: Sun Rockabilly vol.1 cd, AVI) Charlie Feathers: Nobody's Woman (Jungle Fever lp, Kay) Jackie Lee Cochran: Mama Don't You Think I Know (That'll Flat Out Git It vol.2 cd, Bear Family) Johnny Jano: Have You Heard The Word (King Of Louisiana Rockabilly lp, Krazy Kajun) Steve Carl w/the Jags: Curfew (Meteor Rockabillies cd, Ace) Roy Kelly: Rock And Roll Rock (Rock And Roll Riot cd, Buffalo Bop) Jerry Parsons: Don't Need No Job (Rock And Roll Orgy vol.3 cd, Flesh Den) T Boones: King Of The Orient (Trans World Punk vol.2 lp, Crawdad) Roughnecks: You're Driving Me Insane (Yeah Yeah Yeah cd, Cheap Cheap) Customs Five: Let's Go In 69 (Move It lp, Teenage Shutdown) Teddy Boys: Jezebel (Garage Punk Unknowns vol.1 cd, Crypt) Maggots: Apeman 2000 (7", Screaming Apple) Go Go Gorillas: It Was A Nightmare (Mondo Frat Dance Bash A Go Go cd, Arf Arf) Have Nots: Kids All Right (7", Screaming Apple) Mucus 2: Je Nsuis Pas Desole (7", Larsen) Armitage Shanks w/Billy Childish: Dutch Courage (7", SFTRI) Squares: Just One Word (7"ep, Get Hip) Slobbery Dognose: Love Me (Material 7"ep, One Million Dollar) Teengenerate: Sex Cow (7", Estrus) Gore Gore Girls: Hit You Hard (7", Charles) Stompin' Harvey & the Fast Wreckers: Is You Is (7", Voodoo Rhythm) Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Little Demon (Voodoo Jive cd, Rhino) Beatnik Termites: Charlie Brown Gets A Valentine (12"ep, St. Valentine) Parasites: Good Grief (Pair Of Sides lp, Shredder) Muffs: No Action (Hamburger cd, SFTRI) Hi-Fives: Mr. Moto (Welcome To My Mind lp, Lookout) Centurions: Bullwinkle Pt.II (Surf Monsters cd, Del-Fi) Southern Culture On The Skids: Atom Age Trucker (s/t lp, Lloyd Street) Von Zippers: Mighty Red Barron (7", Roto-Flex) Gene Crazed & his Rockabilly Bastards: Apeman Rock (Graveyard Rock 7"ep, Crazed Bop) Woggles: Do Just What I Say (7", Telstar) Real Kids: I'll Say That (s/t cd ep, TKO) High School Rockers: I Love Anna Kournikova (Danger! 7"ep, Alien Snatch) Resinators: Can't Take No More (s/t cd, no label) Morning Shakes: All Fucked Up (7"ep, Wallabies) Magnitude 3: Jack The Ripper (7", Rockin' Bones) Sinister Six: Go Away (7", eMpTy) Temporal Sluts: Stuck In The Middle (7", Thee Knights Of Trashe) 54 Nude Honeys: Hot Generation (7", Mademoiselle) Dumbell: TV Set (Skinned 7"ep, Radio Blast) Customs: Lone Gone (Real Long Gone cd, Shake It) Devil Dogs: It's Not Easy (Saturday Night Fever cd, SFTRI) Crispy Nuts: Way / Lorey (split 7"ep w/Electric Frankenstein, Rockin' Bones) Les Godzillas: The Beast In You (7"ep, Wiped Out) Bomber: Mexican Highway (7" Sorlem) Spyder & the Mustangs: So Long Child (Garage Punk Unknowns vol.2, Crypt) Bats: Got A Girl (Trans World Punk vol.2 lp, Crawdad) Gregory Dee & the Avanties: Nervous Breakdown (Mondo Frat Dance Bash A Go Go cd, Arf Arf) Dee Rangers: Deranged Letter (7"ep, Rockin' Bones) Doctor Explosion: Hunger (Maximum Rhythm And Shit 7"ep, Demolition Derby) Budget Girls: You're So Sorry (Hi Peach! 7"ep, Nana) Bum: Here Comes The Magic (split 2x7" w/Teengenerate, Lance Rock) Spitfires: Cut Me Some Slack (7", Estrus) stay tuned. - -Michael The Tuesday Night Rock And Roll Dance Party http://www.wusb.org/deadend 9pm until Midnight on 90.1FM WUSB Stony Brook, New York ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 12:10:06 -0800 (PST) From: willie little Subject: Fwd: [NCsocialist] Group Photo - NC chapter meeting Hello, Just in case you are curious what I look like. Here's a picture of me at the Socialist Party of North Carolina convention held in Raleigh a week ago. I'm the one on the far left dressed with the Buddy Holly glasses, dressed in black. Keep those garages loud! Melvin Little Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 12:57:15 -0800 From: Neil Motteram Subject: Tee & Thee Crumpets Tour Dates Next weekend! Friday Feb 25th at John Henry's in Eugene, OR with The Electric Flies, Brainwashers Saturday Feb 26th at Satyricon in Porland, OR with Backyard Babies, Yo-Yos, Speedtwin Coming Up: Saturday March 4th at The Old Vic in Santa Rosa, CA with The Flakes Friday March 10th at The Boomerang in San Francisco with The Intellectuals, The Flakes, The Dukes of Hamburg Here are the confirmed dates so far for Thee Crumpets European tour in May 2000. There are a few dates open or not confirmed at this time. *Friday May 5th in London, UK - details to be announced Saturday May 6th at Hoekske in Gierle, BE Sunday May 7th (afternoon) at the State Prison in Antwerp, BE *Sunday May 7th in Brussells -details to be announced *Monday May 8th open Tuesday May 9th at Geckos in Leuven, BE *Wednesday May 10th in Stuttgard, DE - details to be announced Thursday May 11th at Atomik in Munich, DE Friday May 12th at Katronaat in Haarlem, NL *Saturday May 13th possibly in Paris, FR Sunday May 14th (afternoon) at Shauffagan in Tongeren, BE Sunday May 14th at Crossroad in Olen, BE Monday May 15th at the Youth Club in Gesl, BE *Tuesday May 16th is probably a rest day Wednesday May 17th at 013 in Tilburg, NL Thursday May 18th at De Vlaerik in Rotterdam, NL Friday May 19th at Five Gebod in West Rozebeke, BE Updates, details, etc. at http://www.bitey.com/crumpets ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:24:39 -0800 (PST) From: brian marshall Subject: Re: MC5 "Thunder Express" info wanted - --- Phil Clark wrote: > > folks > > Re the MC5 "Thunder Express" LP : Is this any good? YES!!!!!!!!! > What's on it? Some 1972 sessions recorded with a different bass player. Can someone hip me to the content, sound quality etc....Mostly it's some older material redone, but it's still extremely high-powered. Sound quality is quite good. > > And is that Who BBC Sessions LP out on vinyl yet? It is, but it appears to be import only. At least my copy of it is. Brian NFTG > > cheers-ears > > phil dil > > > > > __________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:16:09 -0700 From: dannowicki@uswest.net Subject: Re: hey there frozen face! Artco was a pretty solid Phoenix R'n'B label run by Art Barrett and Austin Coleman, not Art LaBoe. Dyke and The Blazers' connection to LaBoe was via Tony Evans, a local disc jockey and program manager at Phoenix's Top 40 giant KRIZ. Evans (whose Routeen Music company published "Funky Broadway") also placed a Bittersweets single with LaBoe's Original Sound Records a little bit later. (The Bittersweets, sometimes spelled Bitter Sweets, were a Byrdsian Phoenix garage band that evolved into The Twentieth Century Zoo. Check out their great "Feel A Whole Lot Better" rip-off "Cry Your Eyes Out" on the Hype label, if you get the chance.) Here in Phoenix we like to consider Dyke and The Blazers local heroes, although they were indeed Buffalo transplants. The O'Jays and The Blazers were originally brought to Phoenix by KRIZ dj Hadley "Who Loves You Madley" Murrell (whom some of you might remember from The Caravelles thread of a couple of months ago). So Hadley takes some credit for the band's subsequent success in the Valley of the Sun. Dyke Christian wrote "Funky Broadway" in Phoenix. Broadway Road is a main east-west artery through the predominantly black South Phoenix. He also apparently was thinking of the Broadway Road back in Buffalo, too, if you listen to the lyrics: "In every town I go in, there's a street now . . . The name of the street . . . Funky, Funky Broadway . . . " "Funky Broadway," which was a big local hit in Phoenix before going national, was recorded in 1966 at the famous Audio Recorders of Arizona on North Seventh Street. So was Dyke and The Blazers' second single, the mighty "So Sharp" b/w "Don't Bug Me," which went directly to Original Sound. A few other tracks also were cut at Audio Recorders, but most of the rest of The Blazers' catalog was recorded in L.A. The Blazers, however, never severed their ties to Phoenix. It was on the mean streets of Phoenix's south side -- in the vicinity of 12th Avenue and West Buckeye Road to be precise -- that Dyke Christian was shot dead on March 13, 1971. Services were held in Phoenix, but he was buried back in Buffalo, at least according to his obituary in the "Arizona Republic." At least a couple of ex-Blazers still live here, too. Back when that Kent CD compilation came out a few years ago, the only local shop I could find that stocked it was an R'n'B music store in Phoenix's mostly black Maryvale section. When I presented the album at the cash register, the proprietor, who had come to Phoenix from California just a short time before, said: "Yeah, Dyke Christian. I swear, every other person who comes through that door either says they're related to him or that he was their best friend!" Now THERE's a testament to Dyke and The Blazers' impact on Phoenix . . . Dan N. Phoenix, Arizona, USA apollojams wrote: > > You know....Dyke and the Blazers is in that same situation as the WildWeeds and so > on. Why is there a Buffalo connection in people's minds? Correct me if i'm wrong, > but here's the history in a nutshell. "Carl LaRue and His Crew" cut one single on > KKC: "Please Don't Drive Me Away"/"Monkey Hips and Oyster Stew". The band: CL on > piano, Maurice Jones on trumpet, Alvester Jacobs on guitar, "Dyke" Arlester > Christian on bass and vocals, Willie Earl on drums. All of whom are back living in > Buffalo now btw, those who are still alive, that is. Anyway, Dyke WAS born in > Buffalo in 1943, I assume the rest of the band are natives too. This band became > the Blazers, renowned as the O'Jays backing band for a spell (PHILLY). The O'Jays > left them stranded in PHOENIX (which is where i always THOUGHT they originated > until i learned better), so they became their own entity. The first Dyke single > was ON a Phoenix label (right?): ArtCo 101 in 1966: "Funky Broadway" (referencing > a street in New York City? Hmm. There's a "Broadway" in Buffalo, and probably > Phoenix, as it's a common street name. Oh, and it's the first time the word > "Funky" was used on a record, by the way). Anyhoo: THEN the subsequent stuff was > leased to a LOS ANGELES label, Original Sound! Tho who knows: Artco? Art Laboe? > Maybe both owned by Art? Then didn't the Blazers basically become the nucleus of > the "Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band"?? Talk about all over the place!~ > > Phew. What started all this? Oh yeah....i think the point was there's enough good > stuff by Dyke to fill an entire cd (there IS one on Kent via Ace, UK) and it's > essential if you even BARELY like soul and funk. Wilmer and the Dukes, on the > other hand, are basically one fantastic single and a pair of fairly good lp cuts. > Good "nuggets" fodder. > ----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 20:51:34 PST From: unkraut@mail.io.com Subject: Stronger Than Dirt Playlist 2/22/00 The following was the Stronger Than Dirt playlist for February 22, 2000. STD can be heard every Saturday night from 8-10 on KOOP Radio, 91.7 FM, Austin, TX. The Answer I'll Be In (T.S.: Teen Jangler Blowout) The Who Happy Jack (BBC Sessions) Mooney Suzuki Turn My Blue Sky Black (7") Muffs You Lie (Hamburger cd) Loose Lips I Need More (Talkin' Trash lp) Nervebreakers Girls Girls Girls (We Want Everything! lp) Hollywood Squares Hillside Strangler (Feel Lucky Punk?!! comp) Rich Kids Ghosts of Princes in Towers (DIY UK Pop I) Marmalade I See the Rain (Kaleidoscope lp) The Attack Anymore Than I Do (Broken Dreams, vol. 1) Carnabeats Give Me Lovin' (GS I Love You Too comp) Distractors Rock and Roll Fox (7") Registrators Boys From Nowhere (16 Wires From the New Provocate lp) Hi Fives No No No (And A Whole Lotta You lp) Victims Television Addict (Murder Punk, vol. 1) Clash Protex Blue (s/t lp) Killing Joke Wardance (Laugh? I A Nearly Bought One cd) Other Half Mr. Pharamcist (Nuggets box set) Power of Beckett Lost Soul in Desillusion (Nightmares from the Underworld, vol. 1) Laura Ulmer Amoureux d'une Affiche (Ultra Chicks, vol. 1) Drags Communication Breakdown (Set Right Fit to Blow Clean Up lp) Sugar Shack V.I.P. (Get Out of My World lp) Turbonegro Self Destructo Bust (Darkness Forever! lp) Girl Robots We Know (s/t cd) Ramonetures Blitzkrieg Bop (s/t lp) Radio Shanghai Pointless Pointless (7") Tubeway Army That's Too Bad (7") Cortinas Fascist Dictator (7") Pandoras I Didn't Cry (7") Heartbeats Don't Tolerate (7") Tropical Fish Captain Man, pt. 1 (Syde Tryps, vol. 6) Sheridan & Price Lightning Never Strikes Twice (Elec. Lemonade Acid Test comp) Sons of Hercules Lost in Space (s/t lp) Gasoline Afro Cow (7") Scientists Frantic Romantic (Murder Punk, vol. 1) Highway Slugs Some Fun (Swedish Exotica, vol. 1) Something Wild Trippin' Out (7") Remains Once Before (s/t lp) - --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:51:24 -0800 From: "fbrandon" Subject: Re: bomp-digest V2000 #83 hmmm- a rochester posting without mention of the brass buttons or gene cornish.... - -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Ciriello To: bomp@screamer.xnet2.com Date: Sunday, February 20, 2000 8:44 AM Subject: Re: bomp-digest V2000 #83 > >Regarding the Upstate NY thread, I think the Charles 45 is cool, >1 punk side (has been comped) & 1 Beatleish side. The invictas >have 3 or 4 more singles, but not the 1 you listed, which I believe >is another group. There 45s are on Bengel & Sahara. All are >same punky style. There was also an EP in the 70s, that has >4 song that predates the LP/45 releases, recorded in 1965, >also worth picking up. The Rogues on a major label is diff. group, >B side of "You Better Look Now" is "Train Kept A Rollin" which >is very punky. Another great upstate 45 is the Humans - Warning/Take >A Taxi (I don't know if B-side is comped, but it a cool garage/folk >rock). > I'm from Rochester, here's a few other groups from this >area to look for, these 3 are all on NuSound Wee Four, Terry Pillitere >(Singer from Wee Four), Pete Morticelli (Has help from Terry). Bobby >Francis - At The Beach, good surf, Vistas - Moon Relay 1 of the >all time great surf instros, Young Tyrants, Show Stoppers (On Columbia) >Little Peppy & Bare Existence (Female Singer, Psych/Garage), Bethoven's >Dream Group, there are a ton more If you can find the 1st couple >of editions on Outasite magazine, there are alot of Upsate, NY >45 listed. Chuck ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:55:00 -0800 From: "fbrandon" Subject: Re: hey there frozen face! wow---this is the stuff i love about this list----gary and dan just told us more about arlester "dyke' christian than i ever hoped to know---in just two days---cool... - -----Original Message----- From: dannowicki@uswest.net To: bomp@xnet2.com Date: Sunday, February 20, 2000 8:24 PM Subject: Re: hey there frozen face! > >Artco was a pretty solid Phoenix R'n'B label run by Art Barrett and Austin Coleman, not >Art LaBoe. Dyke and The Blazers' connection to LaBoe was via Tony Evans, a local disc >jockey and program manager at Phoenix's Top 40 giant KRIZ. Evans (whose Routeen Music >company published "Funky Broadway") also placed a Bittersweets single with LaBoe's >Original Sound Records a little bit later. (The Bittersweets, sometimes spelled Bitter >Sweets, were a Byrdsian Phoenix garage band that evolved into The Twentieth Century Zoo. >Check out their great "Feel A Whole Lot Better" rip-off "Cry Your Eyes Out" on the Hype >label, if you get the chance.) > >Here in Phoenix we like to consider Dyke and The Blazers local heroes, although they >were indeed Buffalo transplants. The O'Jays and The Blazers were originally brought to >Phoenix by KRIZ dj Hadley "Who Loves You Madley" Murrell (whom some of you might >remember from The Caravelles thread of a couple of months ago). So Hadley takes some >credit for the band's subsequent success in the Valley of the Sun. > >Dyke Christian wrote "Funky Broadway" in Phoenix. Broadway Road is a main east-west >artery through the predominantly black South Phoenix. He also apparently was thinking of >the Broadway Road back in Buffalo, too, if you listen to the lyrics: "In every town I go >in, there's a street now . . . The name of the street . . . Funky, Funky Broadway . . . >" > >"Funky Broadway," which was a big local hit in Phoenix before going national, was >recorded in 1966 at the famous Audio Recorders of Arizona on North Seventh Street. So >was Dyke and The Blazers' second single, the mighty "So Sharp" b/w "Don't Bug Me," which >went directly to Original Sound. A few other tracks also were cut at Audio Recorders, >but most of the rest of The Blazers' catalog was recorded in L.A. > >The Blazers, however, never severed their ties to Phoenix. It was on the mean streets of >Phoenix's south side -- in the vicinity of 12th Avenue and West Buckeye Road to be >precise -- that Dyke Christian was shot dead on March 13, 1971. Services were held in >Phoenix, but he was buried back in Buffalo, at least according to his obituary in the >"Arizona Republic." > >At least a couple of ex-Blazers still live here, too. Back when that Kent CD compilation >came out a few years ago, the only local shop I could find that stocked it was an R'n'B >music store in Phoenix's mostly black Maryvale section. When I presented the album at >the cash register, the proprietor, who had come to Phoenix from California just a short >time before, said: "Yeah, Dyke Christian. I swear, every other person who comes through >that door either says they're related to him or that he was their best friend!" Now >THERE's a testament to Dyke and The Blazers' impact on Phoenix . . . > >Dan N. >Phoenix, Arizona, USA > >apollojams wrote: > >> >> You know....Dyke and the Blazers is in that same situation as the WildWeeds and so >> on. Why is there a Buffalo connection in people's minds? Correct me if i'm wrong, >> but here's the history in a nutshell. "Carl LaRue and His Crew" cut one single on >> KKC: "Please Don't Drive Me Away"/"Monkey Hips and Oyster Stew". The band: CL on >> piano, Maurice Jones on trumpet, Alvester Jacobs on guitar, "Dyke" Arlester >> Christian on bass and vocals, Willie Earl on drums. All of whom are back living in >> Buffalo now btw, those who are still alive, that is. Anyway, Dyke WAS born in >> Buffalo in 1943, I assume the rest of the band are natives too. This band became >> the Blazers, renowned as the O'Jays backing band for a spell (PHILLY). The O'Jays >> left them stranded in PHOENIX (which is where i always THOUGHT they originated >> until i learned better), so they became their own entity. The first Dyke single >> was ON a Phoenix label (right?): ArtCo 101 in 1966: "Funky Broadway" (referencing >> a street in New York City? Hmm. There's a "Broadway" in Buffalo, and probably >> Phoenix, as it's a common street name. Oh, and it's the first time the word >> "Funky" was used on a record, by the way). Anyhoo: THEN the subsequent stuff was >> leased to a LOS ANGELES label, Original Sound! Tho who knows: Artco? Art Laboe? >> Maybe both owned by Art? Then didn't the Blazers basically become the nucleus of >> the "Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band"?? Talk about all over the place!~ >> >> Phew. What started all this? Oh yeah....i think the point was there's enough good >> stuff by Dyke to fill an entire cd (there IS one on Kent via Ace, UK) and it's >> essential if you even BARELY like soul and funk. Wilmer and the Dukes, on the >> other hand, are basically one fantastic single and a pair of fairly good lp cuts. >> Good "nuggets" fodder. >> ----------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V2000 #85 **************************** ===================================================================== You've been reading bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com