Tony Pusey

Hello Cem, welcome to Organissimo! I was begining to think I was alone on this one. Yes, your choice is a good one, think I will play it again before going to work.

Since this is a reissue thread and we are on the (tangenital) subject of Love, perhaps its apt to mention that Loves Out Here and False Start, plus a previously unreleased live recording from the 1970 tour in England has ben released by HipPo. ( I was at the Waltham Forest Gig).

Just returned from Istanbul, and for the second time this year I have come home with a stack of albums on the Double Moon label. Anybody else here hip to them? The label is founded by a couple of free jazz fans whose early ambition, which they fulfilled, was to take Sun Ra to Istanbul. Anyway the label is full of Turkish ethnic Jazz/ Gypsy/ electronica/Sufi/hip hop whatever fusion and its great! I am too busy listening right now but I will get back to yall later. I used, in the 60s to buy anything on Elektra on sight, I feel much the same way about Double Moon! Is there anybody out there in record land?....

Chewy, just back from Istanbul and I read this! I am staying here at Organissimo- you can go back to your yes albums- yours is no disgrace, I am sticking with Can t be so bad.....

Just played my copy of 20 Granite Creek, which is actually on the German Line label. Did I dream about the Edsel reissue? Anyway, Skips Chinese Song is playing, and its lovely!

hello Pasta, Edsel records in the UK have done 20 Granite Creek some years back. They also had the first album out. Evangeline records have the Legendry Grape album, which is a legit cd version of the famed cassette release.Havnt heard it, but by all accounts its a corker. The Bob Mosely Reprise is out on Wounded Bird. Dont know of any digital version of the Fine Wine abum though....

The first IABD album( including wonderful Globe Propaganda cover, perhaps the best thing about the album!), Marrying Maiden, the first Grape and Wow ( including a sizable chunk of Jam) has ben available on Katz own, San Francisco Sound label. Of course there have been various other cd reissues of these albums but the IABD has also appeared sans original cover, as a result of this legal kerfuffel.

Of course just about all of you have it nailed, the first album is peerless, though I guess they could have stretched out a bit on those wonderful songs, Wow is patchy, Jam is indulgent,69 is underated and a fine album, Citizen is forgetable but a nice enough coda...Oar on the other hand is a work of genious and has been immensely influential ( who would have thought...) A maddenly inconsistant band, but I recall Mike Wilhem saying that when he heard the Grapes 3 guitar front line a lightbulb went on in his head and he went, ` Ýeah...´

Sundazed have just annouced that they will be releasing the classic, Moby Grape catalogue in October! Both on cd and on vinyl. I for one think that this is Grape news! 8.05!

No you saw Holly Gail.

I was at Bickershaw where it rained constantly, the Dead played an awesome set, but I cant for the life of me recall the good Captains set....old age? Trivea, in the UK there is a long running, and I mean long running soap, Coronation Street, and back in 1967, I kid you not, at least one of the charecters was lured away on a march to London to demand that Beefheart would play in the UK!

Shad brought Big Brother to Chicago to record that first 22 minute album. Then he stiffed them and they had problems getting back to SF. And then after Monterey, when Grossman and the rest of the world heard Janis, Columbia bought the rights to that album for a cool 2 million if I remember correctly, which is why that album was subsequently reissued after Cheap Thrills on Columbia complete with that goofy Mainstream drawing on the back.

September the 18 eh ? But which year?

I really like this set. I had no preconceptions, and I bought 5 of the recent selects at one go, but it is the Onzy I am playing most often. Not profound, but powerfull and with a good proportion of WTF moments.I love the Gerald Wilson set, but I think that this is almost as good, in short very entertaining. Let me know what you think when you hear it!

Yeah Aggie, but spare us the clip of it on youtube...

Mine arrived yesterday.

Onzy arrived yesterday, Unforunately I am at work and I have only heard the first couple of tracks while breakfasting, but it sounded great...

In his book Owning up, he writes of getting knee tremblers on the tow path at the Cooks Ferry Inn on the river Lea. I used to go the Ferry myself a lot in the early 70s to listen to various english blues bands. Even had a couple of knee tremblers there myself! Serendipity.

Atlas press have recently published a small collection of the longrunning cartoon Flook which was published in the conservative Daily Mail. Melly smuggles in to the strip numerous pataphysical observations ( King Ubu please note!) A case of anarchic subversion and detournement.

Actually dont care too much for that Swedish Snaps album, much prefer the fourth volume in the series, Grappa for lovers, but all 17 volumes are worth aquiring.

We are talking about the same Poddy? The Albino one?

Sad news. George was a member of the English Surrealist Group based around the London Galery of Gearge Mesens just after the war. As a later day surrealist i met him, and he was a hoot! He was truly a larger than life character. A Queer Surrealist Blues shouter! Read his autobiographical books- Owning Up and Rum, Bum and concertina. Today the world is diminished by his absence.

.....and he was a snappy dresser, not too many zoot suits were seen in Camden Town back then, a true fashion icon.

I remember seeing Poddy at the Roundhouse in London, didnt find him more that a run of the mill tenor player, but for some reason his name stuck in my mind.

I missed you all-and as intimated elsewhere I got far too much work done.last week.