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Unretouched photo of Rudy foraging for billy goat gruffs for the evening meal (all three evening meals, actually). He also dismembers the baby ones and issues the parts to local trick-or-treaters, carefully swaddled in duct tape and gaily decorated externally with candy bar wrappers.And if that isn't frightening enough for you, then here is one more seasonal music (of sorts) recording for you, just to make sure we don't leave The 59er with an empty bag this All Hallows Eve. And I present it with only one motivation in my heart:
TO DESTROY ALL YOU'VE DONE!
Actually, this live performance is less scary than cool. It has just what a scrawny teenage fan of horn bands and Hammond organs wanted back in the fall of 1968. But I don't know why Wikipedia calls this a "psychedelic" band when, in the next sentence, the writeup hints at just what makes this cut so striking: it's kind of like Screamin' Jay Hawkins accompanied by James Brown's Famous Flames.
Fire, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (1968, from a live performance on "Top of the Pops,", BBC), via YouTube, embedded for noncommercial critical discussion and educational purposes.
Thanks for the treats.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember the Mancini thing but I do remember "Creature Features." Mancini for me was always "The Pink Panther," "Peter Gunn," "Days of Wine and Roses" (great movie), and the theme from "Route 66."
Great pic from Iowa.
Wait a minute....."Route 66?" Was that Nelson Riddle?? They all run together after a while...ha ha!
ReplyDeletevalsalva maneuver-- how'd you get a pic of Rudy taken a dump?
ReplyDelete59er: Nelson Riddle did the theme to the Route 66 teevee show. I know him best from the charts he did for his orchestra to accompany Sinatra. Here I must also acknowledge one of Big Otis's favorite Mancini sides of all time. Listen to it here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nh49a8q2E4
Oil Can: Rudy's default mode of locomotion involves the Valsalva maneuver and a 9 yard plume of effluent, action and opposite reaction being equal and all. It's impossible not to shoot a photo of him in this state.