Jinnistan wrote:

Townhend's autobiography from a few years ago is worth a read.  There's a couple of embarrassments, especially from his early 80s coke period, like that time he tried to woo Theresa Russell.  It's kinda funny he bothered to include it.

Townshends willingness to embarrass himself has always been part of his appeal to me.

It comes through in the emotional honesty of his music and the free form sprawling of many of his interviews. He's really one of the greatest. I'm starting to wish I hadn't gotten rid of his Empty Glass solo record, because I have a feeling I'd appreciate it more these days.

Now I need to scour some more dollar bins, because that's where I'll find that one too.

My weed tastes like shampoo.
 

Here's some of what I've been listening to, today, from a collection of late–60s radio spots created by our dear friends The Firesign Theatre. Asking the Firesigns to do an ad was to court the completely unexpected as the boys were given complete creative control and freedom to exert their form of absurd, surreal, satirical, pun–filled well–read status quo–smashing psychedelic lunacy upon the hapless good or service being advertised. These ads actually aired in the late '60s and they've just been compiled and released on Bandcamp under the title "Jack Poet Loves You." This is real esoteric stuff for the rabid Firesign fan but also a glimpse into their genius and into the spirit of the times. 

But the weed has electrolytes....

I'm sure that Can didn't wait to release the latest, and earliest, of their new live series until after Damo Suzuki's death, but the first edition of the series to feature the vocalist is now out.  Quality-wise it continues the standard of the prior three releases.  But to my disappointment, I already had this performance on at least two different bootlegs.  It's actually one of their more common live boots.  If any of the previous shows from this series had already been booted, I'm not aware of it.  Anyway, without too close a comparison analysis, it may be that this is taken from a different source, or even different multiple sources (some variance in tone is detectable).

(My own previous copy)



As I said, as well as being a fairly common boot, there's also confusion.  For example, this show is sometimes listed as from December 5th (due to misreading the '5-12' date), and another I have lists it as May 22nd, although it's the same show.  Also, there's a Paris Theater in London, which Can also played on this same tour, and that tape frequently gets listed as this Paris show by mistake.

Anyway, beside the point, good stuff though to pick up.  I only wish they would have dropped the habit of listing the tracks by German numerals, especially here where the material is easily identified, like the following "Vitamin C".




 

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