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moonfestival in fredrikstad. I saw this amazing band, rudi protrudi and the fuzztones. kick ass motherfuckin' cool band.
Declare the pennies on your eyes - from "Taxman" by the Beatles, released on Revolver, August 5, 1966
Taxman
One, two, three, four
One, two
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
(If you drive a car) I'll tax the street
(If you try to sit) I'll tax your seat
(If you get too cold) I'll tax the heat
(If you take a walk) I'll tax your feet
Taxman!
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
Don't ask me what I want it for
(Ah, ah, Mr. Wilson)
If you don't want to pay some more
(Ah, ah, Mr. Heath)
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die (taxman)
Declare the pennies on your eyes (taxman)
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one but me (taxman)
Songwriters: George Harrison
Taxman lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
If you are a fan of either 1960s style Psychedelia, Fuzz tone guitar, and/or Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, you will love this song . There is a rambling monologue at the beginning so its best to just fast forward to about the 2:30 minute mark for a really excellent rendition of this clssic.
I did a series of photos for Soho News to promote the Psychedelic Weekend event at a club called The Cavern. It was a wild weekend of various psychedelic/garage bands and go-go dancers. Some of the bands and people involved are featured here. I recognize some of the bands and people here. I see Rudy Protrudi and Deb O'Nair from The Fuzztones, Wendy Wild and members of her band The Mad Violets, Tom Scully, who organized the event and DJed at it and the lovely Viva. She inspired everyone to new psychedelic heights at the event or maybe it was the punch they were serving that weekend. Does anyone recognize any of the other people?
Once upon a time little Deb O'Nair and Rudy Protrudi came to New York with their band Tina Peel and played at Max's and then they somehow morphed into the legendary garage pioneers, The Fuzztones. They also were playing in assorted Club 57 madness. They went their own ways, Deb in bands such as Das Furlines a psychedelic polka band. She still pounds a mean organ and lives in the East Village. Rudy went on to form Link Protrudi and the Jaymen, played with lots of legends, has had a solo country music career, braved it in L.A. and now lives in Berlin with a reformed Fuzztones. Not the end. I took this photo at the psychedelic building on East 4th Street. I really do not think it is painted like that anymore. It doesn't fit with the gentrification.
What's new:
* Lovepedal Eternity
* Lovepedal Black Beauty Balance
* Lovepedal Toxic II
* Lovepedal COT50
* Subdecay Blackstar
Already sold, but pictured in this photo:
* Lovepedal Black Magic
* Subdecay Blackstar
‘The Modern Lovers’, 1976. Proto punk. Jonathan Richman was the main man here. Ernie on drums later joined The Cars and keyboardist Jerry joined Talking Heads. Richman loved the Velvet Underground and John Cale produced these recordings, done 1972/3 but not released until 1976. Jonathan was anti-hippy, with short hair, singing songs with titles like ‘I’m Straight’ and ‘Dignified and Old’ in an adenoidal, off-key voice. Vietnam, long hair and pot was the norm then. A contrary bod.
‘Roadrunner’ kicks this off. A two-chord classic about the joys of cruising with the radio on. A softer version was re-recorded, released and charted in 1976. This is the original punky, Velvets riff fest. A desert island disc. ‘Astral Plane’ is a chugging riff with keyboard wash and stabbing guitar. The guitars all over this album sound punk years before the name was given. ‘Old World’ is a deep bass throb with moody keyboards and Fender strum, a love poem to the old ways, of parents, of innocence. More Hug It than Smash It Up. The middle eight swells and bursts open like sunshine. Another desert island disc. ‘Pablo Picasso’ is a slow chug bass with freaked out guitars about, yep, Picasso. It’s funny. John Cale still covers it in concert. ‘She Cracked’ is a fast one chord thrash rocker about unhinged, modern girlfriends. Great lyrics too. ‘Hospital’ follows, probably about the cracked girlfriend. A slow, sad piano with Richman’s plaintive croon. One of my fave lyrics: ‘I go to bakeries all day long/there’s a lack of sweetness in my life’. ‘Someone I Care About’ another fast rocker with fuzztone keyboards and flailing riff, hand claps too. ‘Girlfriend’ slows it down with sparse guitar, pretty piano and heartfelt vocal. It’s gorgeous. Happy sad. ‘Modern World’ ends it with another relentless riff, tight drums, raging keyboard.
This stuff is nearly 50 years old but sounds fresh. Richman went to Bermuda and mellowed out before this album was released. He came back a different person and effectively disowned it. Don’t matter. Sharp, tight, funny. This is a classic set of songs. ‘Roadrunner’ especially was a big influence on UK punks.
The guts of my Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ-1, made in 1962. I also have an FZ-1A. from 1966. Ironically, the FZ-1A sounds much more like "Satisfaction".
Also note the HUGE Germanium transistors.
If you didn't know, the Maestro Fuzz-Tone was the first transistorized guitar effect.
There has been much confusion about this circuit, as the schematics on the patent, and on the original Ieaflet that came with the pedal are both wrong. I photoshopped this up from Philip Bryant's incorrect schematic at Fuzz Central and posted it on the Freestompboxes forum in 2009. then corrected one last small error in 2010!
Deb and Rudy psyching out getting ready for The Fuzztones to play at the Psychedelic night at The Cavern in Tribeca 1981.
De las paredes del Fuzztone. Yo la he probado con alguna imagen en ByN y me ha gustado el resultado. Ya la subiré.
texture FREE for use...
please credit me with a link back to this texture...
I would love to see what can you do with this, please leave a link or a sample of your work in the comments
Legendary guitar effects – the Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ-1, FZ-1A and FZ-1B (with sound clips).
Left-to-right: FZ-1, FZ-1A, FZ-1B
Well, I woke up and I was all alone
Looked for the girl but she must have gone
Then I saw her name on that ol' tombstone
Now I know my lover ain't flesh and bones
UH-OH!
FUZZTONES - Going to a graveyard
The 2010 Steve Terrell Spooktacular.
Fe fe, fi fi, fo fo fum, it's a Monster's Holiday! Halloween is here again and it's the second anniversary of The Big Enchilada! Sit back with a cold glass of your favorite blood type and enjoy the ghoulish sounds of Stud Cole, Roky Erikson, Johnny Dowd, Deadbolt, The Monsters, The Fuzztones, The Scrams, Electricoolade, The Electric Mess, The Hydeouts, Marshmallow Overcoat and so many more. Rock your rockin' bones!
Here's the playlist
(Background Music: Zombie by The Big Guys)
You've Become a Witch by The Electric Mess
Monster's Holiday by The Plainsmen
Creeps at Night by The Hydeouts
Voodoo Moonshine by Deadbolt
The Witch by Stud Cole
La Llorona by The Scrams
Witchcraft in the Air by Bettye LaVette
(Background Music: Spooks-a-Poppin' Theme by The A-Bones)
Don't Shake Me Lucifer by Roky Erickson & The Resurectionists
I'm the Wolfman by The Fuzztones
Coffin Nails by Coffin Nails
The Zombie Stomp by Danny Ware
Breathing With the Dead by Organs
I Got the Creeps by Big John Bates
Frankenstein Meets The Beatles by Dickie Goodman
(Background Music: Zombie March by Dirtbag Surfers )
Spookie Boogie by Cecil Campbell's Tennessee Ramblers
Werewolf Dynamite by Kim Fowley
Zombiefied by Electricoolade
13 Ghosts by Marshmallow Overcoat
I Was a Teenage Werewolf by The Monsters
Demons and Goats by Johnny Dowd
Want More Spooky Tunes?
Check out my previous Halloween podcasts
Big Enchilada 15 CLICK HERE
Big Enchilada 1 CLICK HERE
Listen to this podcast 7 p.m. Mountain Time Tuesday October 26 on Real Punk Radio
I did a series of photos for Soho News to promote the Psychedelic Weekend event at a club called The Cavern. It was a wild weekend of various psychedelic/garage bands and go-go dancers. Some of the bands and people involved are featured here. I recognize some of the bands and people here. I see Rudy Protrudi and Deb O'Nair from The Fuzztones, Wendy Wild and members of her band The Mad Violets, Tom Scully, who organized the event and DJed at it and the lovely Viva. She inspired everyone to new psychedelic heights at the event or maybe it was the punch they were serving that weekend. This photo was taken at St. Marks Church. Does anyone recognize any of the other people?
I have known Tom Scully for quite some time. I remember Tom back in the daze/days of New York in the '80s. I remember him having wild roof top parties on top of his building on Chrystie Street in Chinatown with films being shown, bands playing and Tom DJing all with the background of the glittering Manhattan skyline. Things always seemed about to go out of control, but somehow when the sun started to rise, it calmed down and everyone was pleased that the roof did not collapse. I recall that there were several casualties at those parties. One person fell off the roof and another walked into the elevator on the 12th floor. The elevator was not there and he fell all 12 flights down the elevator shaft. Surprisingly, both people survived. Tom organized the Psychedelic Weekend Parties at The Cavern. I had my own small bar in the basement. Tom gave me the name of The Reverend (Or The Rev) and named my small bar The Confessional Booth. I was given a punch bowel with a glowing blue liquid in it. I was instructed to give a glass to anyone who gives me a bell. This special brew was spiked with an unknown quantity of acid/LSD. The night got stranger and stranger with bands like The Fuzztones and Certain General playing as crazed painted day-glo blue go-go girls danced out of control. People did not confess at my confessional booth that night because most of them could not speak or were too busy bouncing off the walls and dancing. At the end of the last night, the blue go-go girls kidnapped Tom. He woke up the next morning to find himself painted all blue and had to find his way home. He could not get the blue off his skin for a week.
Tom was a premier revolutionary DJ throughout the clubs in New York and he eventually started to DJ in Europe. Tom in his day, was a true mover and shaker in New York. In my opinion, he has not been given proper credit for what he accomplished during his time in New York. In 1978, he and Susan Hannaford created and produced the New Wave Vaudeville show at Irving Plaza. Ann Magnuson was the director of the show. This one of a kind vaudeville show was a cultural changing point in New York. It eventually gave birth to the new creative clubs that mixed performance with art, film, music, theme parties and went onto inspire so many creative souls of that time. It was Klaus Nomi's premier performance at the New Wave Vaudeville Show, that amazed people with his other world visuals and sound. From this point, Tom, Susan and Ann went onto to create the infamous Club 57 in the basement of a Polish church at 57 ST. Marks Place in the East Village. It mutated into a warped creative playground for wacked-out kindred artistic spirited funsters. Tom and Susan created the weekly Monster Movie Club and Ann Magnuson was the manager of the club. Ann was able to experiment and develop her ideas and performances. Susan was at the entrance accepting the donations for entrance, looking very much like Morticia Addams from another planet. Tom took his role very serious as the Monster Movie Club curator. He would organize all screenings and was the projectionist. Tom would organize low budget B monster/horror films to be shown to an eager East Village audience. He would organize the filmmakers to come and speak about their films. If I am not mistaken, he even got Russ Meyers to appear, speak and answer questions. Tom was the Monster Movie Club professor whereas Susan encouraged people to talk back to the films, laugh, have fun and create scenes. This upset the professor side of Tom, but after a few drinks he even got into the fun of it. Tom inspired and encouraged lots of people on the scene at that time to be true to who they are and not be afraid to perform and look silly. He always said, "If you can't be silly and idiotic sometimes, what is the sense of it all?"
Tom eventually moved out of New York with his french wife Sybille. They lived in Paris and then Montpellier. They created two beautiful and talented daughters named Camille and Charlotte. Tom and Sybille live with Camille in Berlin. Charlotte lives in Paris and is a make-up artist for films and photo sessions. She is also pursuing her interest in film and photography. Sybille is a photographer. Camille is presently completing her studies in Berlin and is active in photography with the help of her mother. Tom is involved in numerous art projects and plays in a fun punk band called (what else?) Monster Movie Club! The photo above is Tom after a Monster Movie Club performance in Berlin and the photo below is Tom with his daughters Camille and Charlotte.
I have known Tom Scully for quite some time. I remember Tom back in the daze/days of New York in the '80s. I remember him having wild roof top parties on top of his building on Chrystie Street in Chinatown with films being shown, bands playing and Tom DJing all with the background of the glittering Manhattan skyline. Things always seemed about to go out of control, but somehow when the sun started to rise, it calmed down and everyone was pleased that the roof did not collapse. I recall that there were several casualties at those parties. One person fell off the roof and another walked into the elevator on the 12th floor. The elevator was not there and he fell all 12 flights down the elevator shaft. Surprisingly, both people survived. Tom organized the Psychedelic Weekend Parties at The Cavern. I had my own small bar in the basement. Tom gave me the name of The Reverend (Or The Rev) and named my small bar The Confessional Booth. I was given a punch bowel with a glowing blue liquid in it. I was instructed to give a glass to anyone who gives me a bell. This special brew was spiked with an unknown quantity of acid/LSD. The night got stranger and stranger with bands like The Fuzztones and Certain General playing as crazed painted day-glo blue go-go girls danced out of control. People did not confess at my confessional booth that night because most of them could not speak or were too busy bouncing off the walls and dancing. At the end of the last night, the blue go-go girls kidnapped Tom. He woke up the next morning to find himself painted all blue and had to find his way home. He could not get the blue off his skin for a week.
Tom was a premier revolutionary DJ throughout the clubs in New York and he eventually started to DJ in Europe. Tom in his day, was a true mover and shaker in New York. In my opinion, he has not been given proper credit for what he accomplished during his time in New York. In 1978, he and Susan Hannaford created and produced the New Wave Vaudeville show at Irving Plaza. Ann Magnuson was the director of the show. This one of a kind vaudeville show was a cultural changing point in New York. It eventually gave birth to the new creative clubs that mixed performance with art, film, music, theme parties and went onto inspire so many creative souls of that time. It was Klaus Nomi's premier performance at the New Wave Vaudeville Show, that amazed people with his other world visuals and sound. From this point, Tom, Susan and Ann went onto to create the infamous Club 57 in the basement of a Polish church at 57 ST. Marks Place in the East Village. It mutated into a warped creative playground for wacked-out kindred artistic spirited funsters. Tom and Susan created the weekly Monster Movie Club and Ann Magnuson was the manager of the club. Ann was able to experiment and develop her ideas and performances. Susan was at the entrance accepting the donations for entrance, looking very much like Morticia Addams from another planet. Tom took his role very serious as the Monster Movie Club curator. He would organize all screenings and was the projectionist. Tom would organize low budget B monster/horror films to be shown to an eager East Village audience. He would organize the filmmakers to come and speak about their films. If I am not mistaken, he even got Russ Meyers to appear, speak and answer questions. Tom was the Monster Movie Club professor whereas Susan encouraged people to talk back to the films, laugh, have fun and create scenes. This upset the professor side of Tom, but after a few drinks he even got into the fun of it. Tom inspired and encouraged lots of people on the scene at that time to be true to who they are and not be afraid to perform and look silly. He always said, "If you can't be silly and idiotic sometimes, what is the sense of it all?"
Tom eventually moved out of New York with his french wife Sybille. They lived in Paris and then Montpellier. They created two beautiful and talented daughters named Camille and Charlotte. Tom and Sybille live with Camille in Berlin. Charlotte lives in Paris and is a make-up artist for films and photo sessions. She is also pursuing her interest in film and photography. Sybille is a photographer. Camille is presently completing her studies in Berlin and is active in photography with the help of her mother. Tom is involved in numerous art projects and plays in a fun punk band called (what else?) Monster Movie Club! The photo above is Tom after a Monster Movie Club performance in Berlin and the photo below is Tom with his daughters Camille and Charlotte.
Right, another pedal shot. What's changed since the last shot:
Gone:
* Boss CE-2
* Arion SCH-1
* Yamaha FL-01
New:
* Zoom Tri-Metal
* DOD 201
On the way:
Deb and Rudy psyching out getting ready for The Fuzztones to play at the Psychedelic night at The Cavern in Tribeca.
My gear as of 2006-04-03.
Top row:
Vox Tone Bender (JEN-made)
Arbiter Fuzz Face reissue (modded)
Daneletro French Toast (very cool)
Kimbara Fuzz-Tone FZ2
Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ-1 (1962)
Colorsound Supa Tonebender (Steve Hackett Special Edition)
Shin-Ei Fuzz/Wah
Jen Distortion Booster
Second row:
Alesis Bitrman
Arion Tubulator
HAO Rust Driver
Third row:
Boss DC-2
Boss CE-2
Arion SCH-1 (Japan)
Yamaha FL-01
Fourth row:
MXR 10-band EQ
Maxon Treble Booster