LISTEN TO EDDIE GRANT!

It's that time of the week again, Short & Curly Cover Song Fridays. Today is a special one because I have low self esteem about the number of people visiting my site so I'm going to up the ante and include the original as well as two different covers. Statistics tell me that kids want free music and who am I to deny what the kids want? If only my favorite cover band at the Jersey Shore would rock one of these tunes. Well they probably wouldn't be in a cover band at the Jersey Shore if they knew about these jams. Their minds would have been blown long ago and learning that new song by Train wouldn't have seemed so important. I really don't even know what that means. So today's selection was written by none other than Eddie Grant, a personal favorite of mine. Totally underrated outside of the nerd world. I guess Electric Avenue has made people bitter to the sweet sounds that Eddie is capable of. The first selection is the original by Eddie's band The Equals. After that is a farely recent cover by Harvey Bassett and Thomas Bullock's outfit Map of Africa and the third cut is by reggae sensation Derrick Harriot.


Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys -THE EQUALS


Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys - MAP OF AFRICA


Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys - DERRICK HARRIOT

Happy Friday!

Fall is Falling

(scroll down for new Prins Thomas address)

I guess this is the official summer wind down. Now people will get depressed and go into fall and winter party mode. The grittiest stuff seems to always happen after summer ends. Blu Jemz and I have a good party coming up in a few weeks with In Flagranti which I'm excited about and alot more stuff in the works. Like I said before, I've been lazy but here's some music to keep you occupied till we meet again.

I'm feeling this new PS1 mix from Lee Douglas. Let's take it to the cave. Get on it kids, download away!

WPS1 Art Radio - Warm Up 2007 - LEE DOUGLAS


Remember to go check out the Prins Thomas show is LA this weekend too. It's no longer at the Traction Ave. location. When they send me the new location I'll put it up. I'm sure it'll be quite awhile before Prins Thomas makes it back to LA so don't miss it. Might as well post the Essential Mix from Prins Thomas and Lindstrom while I'm at it. It's a few months old at this point but check it out if you aren't familiar and for those that know it get jazzed for Friday.

Essential Mix - LINDSTROM AND PRINS THOMAS
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7KBNKTM3

Just copy and paste link. I don't no nothing about the internets but for some reason I can't link it right to the page I want. Dang!

NEW ADDRESS!

1221 South Hope st.
Downtown LA .
(cross st. is 11th)

Hours are 10pm til 4am

Going to Slacker City, Population Me

Man, I've been a slacker this week with this blog but I promise good things to come. However, I couldn't miss out on Short & Curly Cover song Fridays so here's a quick post cause I gotta bounce in a few minutes. Rockwell turned me onto this one, not "Somebody's Watching Me" Rockwell but the infamous James Rockwell, boogie and disco extraordinaire. He had a test press of this that I think ended up getting stolen so if you find a copy you should really think about giving it to him. So I present a Mary Jane Girls classic flipped by the unknowns La Famille.

All Night Long - LA FAMILLE


Also, if you're on LA it's going down on Saturday night. Not since ze Dafter Party will you see such wildness. People will be looking like those zombies in 28 Days Later by about 6am. Don't miss out.

Everybody's Working for the Weekend!

I'm sitting here nursing a sweet hangover from too many Pacificos last night at La Cita and realizing it's gonna be hard to keep content up on this thing. Oh yeah,Tim Biskup and his friend who I think was one of the Ren & Stimpy creators were doing their Ego Killer portraits last night. Tim is a pretty accomplished dude and I think his portraits really speak for themselves.

He nailed it, stink lines and all!




Anyway, I decided I need to do some regular features to keep me motivated to put content up so I'm ripping off my friend Mike B's B-side Wednesdays with my Short & Curly Cover Song Fridays. For awhile I was obsessed with reggae 7" cover songs so I'll be sprinkling alot of those in for the next few weeks. Most of my records are in boxes waiting to be unpacked from my move so once I unpack them I'll include shots of the records, not that anyone cares. I think it mostly makes me feel like a big man and I need that cause I have a fragile ego but that's pretty much true for anyone with a blog. Zing!

Without further ado here's my first pick for Short & Curly Cover Song Fridays

Made famous by William DeVaughn this track is a classic, yo son let's flip to the reggae 45!

Be Grateful - DONOVAN CARLESS

Danger Zone

Damn!!!

Clark and Michael

I never go to the movies. Don't get me wrong I enjoy going and I like watching them but in LA it's like $14 and I'm cheap. I'll save my money for booze and records. I wanted to see the Simpsons movie but settled for going to the Kwik E Mart in Burbank instead. My old lady is on my back non-stop about going to see something but that just means I'll be spending $28 because she's gonna want me to pay for her too. That said, I think I want to check out Super Bad. A couple friends saw a screening and claim it's classic. My interest was further peaked when this classy son of a bitch Justin Van Hoy turned me onto this site. I don't know if I need a late pass on this or what but I'm feeling it. I loved Arrested Development and I hope Michael Cera blows up even more. Get to watching!

Pubes Picks

This event is my pick of the week. Go check it out son!

Metalica was good...

...but Holocaust did it better. It's a slow day today so I might as well keep things rolling with some cyber jams that will hopefully knock your socks off (or shoes) like that Jake Brown during the X Games. So anyway, everybody knows Metalica and most people I know liked them at some point. Lar's dad has to beat some sense into those dudes now cause not even Rick Rubin can help them. Better yet, Lar's dad and Rick should start a band, all psychrock or metal about porn, basically an album that sounds like The Holy Mountain looks. One of my favorite recordings was the $5.98 EP. My man Thom Lamb hooked me up with that tape a long time back but I think I left it somewhere in New Jersey about 5 years ago. The track Small Hours was on there and was easily my favorite song. I knew it was a cover but for some reason never tracked down the original. A little while back Andrew from Invisible Man hit me up with a YouTube link to a video of the OG. Since then I tracked down the vinyl and transferred it just to post just for you. This shit rips! Do yourself a favor and go find this record. I saw a bunch for sale on CD and if you enjoy vinyl like me, I'm sure you can bargain with some crazed German metal head for a copy.

Small Hours - HOLOCAUST

Unchained

Van Halen is back! You're from Mars if you don't want to catch this show. Oh wait, no Michael Anthony? Eddie might be out of rehab but I still think he's got a screw loose. Is that such a good idea to break up the line up like that? Is Wolfgang Van Halen gonna be able to compete with MA's back up vocal stylings? Anyway, I'll be at the LA show in November. I think some or all of the tickets go on sale this weekend so get on the horn post haste. I think I might be more excited to see the people who show up to this thing. We are in Van Halen country here in LA. A few years ago I went to see Iron Maiden, Dio and Motorhead and the people watching was so intense my head almost exploded. Anyway, this dude Darian I work with claims there is still a wall in Pasadena that has Van Halen Country painted on it. He's gonna try get a pic and I'll post that up with quickness when it arrives. Until then check out the VAN HALEN website for details and enjoy this little performance by Van Lee Roth below. Most of it is from Pasadena High School in 1975 and then goes into some covers from probably around the same time, then some stuff that sounds a bit later. The quality sucks but these dudes are seriously shredding shit here so make sure you give it a chance and listen all the way through, at least through the covers.

VAN HALEN - Pasadena High School 1975


Check Diamond Dave getting radical!

Testes 1,2,3.....

Man I used to love Beavis and Butthead when that show came out. Best thing to happen to a kid in grade school. A couple years ago on Ebay some dude was selling tons of animation cells that I kept telling myself I was gonna buy. Never got around to it, I think I couldn't figure out how to use Paypal or something like that. Technology is not my strong point so I should be able to screw this blog up pretty quickly. I don't feel that bad about not knowing how to use computers well because most of the djs I hear using them suck at using them too. Alright, here goes my first rant. Ease up on Ableton mixes until you can use it properly. If I hear any more glitchy cut up tracks or remixes done in Ableton I'm gonna poke screwdrivers into my ears. The original track was better anyway so give it up. Anyway, I have a blog now. I'm gonna put up all kinds of crap on here when I get a chance. This is probably going to be mostly nerd music talk and reminiscing on the times of old. If you don't want to hear me spout about how stupid kids are today with their terrible taste in music and other various salty talk then take a hike brother. I might as well post something for the kids to bring some viewers to Pubelog. Let's get weird!


I think this is a proper track to start off onto a downward spiral of blogging.

Hey man, let's talk about it.

Talk About It - HARUMI