I Think That You Should Hear This Vol. 1

Hello, everyone! Its been a while since I posted anything of substance here. Well, today is your lucky day.

I love making mixes of good songs for my friends. Generally they have some kind of theme. In this case, the theme is going to be "songs I think that you should hear". Most of the artists will be familiar to you, some may be a little more obscure, but all of them are freakin rad.

Anyone who knows me personally, and has seen my record collection, knows that it is primarily music from 1965-1979. Not that there isn't good music before 1965 or after 1979, but I'm just more attracted to that era of record making and songwriting. I did put a few newer songs on this mix just to "mix" it up!

I really love "Ghost Of A Chance" by Ron Sexsmith off of his latest record, Exit Strategy For The Soul. Also, a VERY new tune by a band called Real Estate, "Beach Comber". I don't know what their record sounds like, but this has a great homemade, California, Shins-meets-Beachwood Sparks sound.

I included some obscure songs like "Wordless" by The Velvet Underground. It comes from their Squeeze LP. It was recorded after Lou Reed left and most purists hate it. Well, I don't give a shit. I like it. It took me a while to get a copy as most copies sell for about $500. You'll notice two by Nicky Hopkins from The Tin Man Was A Dreamer. I love that whole record and couldn't chose just one song. Also, "Something To Believe In" by Cherokee isn't too well known. I bought it because it had Chris Hillman and Sneaky Pete in the credits. I was blown away when I put it on the stereo. Damn. A real solid debut record by a band that never released a follow up. If you're into it, check out their first band, The Robbs.

The last "modern" song I want to bring to your attention is this STUNNING song by my hero Jimmy Webb. It was originally recorded for his Paul Gauguin in the South Seas record. He explained that it was written for Richard Harris to sing on an upcoming project. Unfortunately, Richard Harris passed away before he could record it. Its heartbreaking to imagine Richard, in his old age, singing this song. Well, this version comes from Jimmy's Live And At Large album. He's really up there as one of the greatest songwriters of all time. This is proof.

So, here it is - compiled by yours truly. I hope you enjoy it.

I Think That You Should Hear This Vol. 1

1 - Waiting For The Band - Nicky Hopkins
2 - Ghost Of A Chance - Ron Sexsmith
3 - Country Girl - Brinsley Schwarz
4 - Done This One Before - Ronnie Lane
5 - Don't Go To Strangers - J.J. Cale
6 - I've Been Waiting For You - Neil Young
7 - The End of the Rainbow - Richard & Linda Thompson
8 - Wordless - The Velvet Underground
9 - Stranger in a Strange Land - Leon Russell
10 - The Beast In Me - Nick Lowe
11 - Beach Comber - Real Estate
12 - Something To Believe In - Cherokee
13 - The Way Love Used To Be - The Kinks
14 - Been Too Long On The Road - Bread
15 - Many Rivers To Cross - Harry Nilsson
16 - Lawyer's Lament - Nicky Hopkins
17 - No Signs Of Age - Jimmy Webb

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TONIGHT - Brother Will LIVE on bunkradio.com - 10PM

A note from Bunk Radio:

Monday night June 8th is a very special episode of “The Universe with David Starbuckle” as we have lots to celebrate. The new season is off to its finest start yet with more music, listeners and laughter than ever.

This Monday June 8th from 11PM - 1 AM EDT, 10PM - Midnight here in Austin and 8PM - 10PM in the west, we will be celebrating our 10th episode as well as host David Starbuckle’s Birthday!!! To help make this broadcast special we have a live in studio performance from Will Courtney of Austin’s own The Brothers & Sisters ( http://www.thebrothersandsisters.com/) This band is amazing and we’ve been spinning 3 of their tunes over the last few weeks. Also we will be joined via satellite by Chris Cubeta of New York’s Chris Cubeta & The Liars Club!!! - last season’s fan-voted “band of the year” (http://www.chriscubeta.com/)

We will also play The Match Game with our live real-time chat for some amazing prizes, debut Episode 9 of the internet radio sensation “The Adventures of Squelvis” (yes he’s a squid that looks like Elvis) and as always we’ll take you through 2 hours of the best unsigned rock n roll in the galaxy hand picked by DR ROCK. The show airs 100% FREE each week at BUNK RADIO (http://www.bunkradio.com) Please come check it out and log into the live chat to give us your instant feedback and chat with other listeners from all over the world... all 100% FREE.

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For those of you who do not know, “The Universe with David Starbuckle” is a live uncensored radio show that focuses on the best unsigned rock n roll there is. These bands are amazing. Rock N Roll is alive and well and living in Austin, where we broadcast each week from high atop the historic Hogg building from Same Sky Productions (http://www.same-sky.com) . Each week David and his co-hosts DR ROCK and Daniel Robert Durrett bring you a unique mix of humor, great rock, and whatever else is on Starbuckle’s warped mind.

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FRIDAY, May 1st - Brothers And Sisters @ The Scoot Inn

TONIGHT in Austin, TX - LIVE at Club de Ville

Chris McFarland returns home from tour, Brother Will plays some songs on a guitar and Tenlons Fort kicks your ass!

Tenlons Fort - 9:30
Will Courtney - 10:15
Chris McFarland - 11:00

LIVE - May 1st, 2009 - Brothers And Sisters, Happen-Ins, The Black, Karrie Hopper, JC &Co.

Friday, May 1st at The Scoot Inn

Brothers And Sisters
Happen-Ins
The Black
JC & Co.
Karrie Hopper









Brothers And Sisters




Happen-Ins

I Never Said...


The Black



Karrie Hopper


JC & Co.


Wonder - JC & Co from Julia Gazdag on Vimeo.

BROTHERS and SISTERS/ Lil' Cap'n Travis - April 3rd

SXSW Day 2 - Brothers And Sisters play at 1:20PM

SXSW DAY 1 - STIMULUS PACKAGE PARTY - 11AM!!!!! LOOK!!!

Stimulus Package: The Hear Ya SXSW 2009 Day Party
Wednesday, March 18th (11am - 2am)
Paradise Cafe (401 E. 6th St.) | Austin, TX
FREE

Lineup:

11am Danny Malone

11:30am BROTHERS AND SISTERS

12:00PM Ferraby Lionheart

1pm The Henry Clay People
2pm The Deep Dark Woods
3pm Joe Pug
4pm Tom Schraeder
5pm Justin Townes Earle
6pm Motel Motel
7pm Gringo Star
8pm Tigercity
9pm Morning Benders
10pm BLK JKS
11pm Harlem Shakes
12am Red Cortez
1am Tallest Man On Earth

The Beatles "Feel Fine" eating fish n chips

How cool is this band? I could see a band like Sonic Youth  The Year Punk Broke-era doing something like this, but a band in 1964? Enjoy watching George eat off of the floor.

Funniest Video EVER!!!

This kid just got done with the dentist and is still really stoned from the gas...

Accidents on Live TV

I love YouTube! I know most of you do. Even before YouTube I used to search the internet for funny and weird clips. As teenagers, my friends Beau and Joe and I used to smoke and spend hours, whole weekends, on Ebaumsworld and other sites looking for the funniest, craziest videos. When YouTube came along it was taken to the next level. It never ends. With millions of videos, its impossible to see them all, but I wanted to post a few of my favorite TV accidents. Nothing better than being on live TV and making a fool of yourself. Here are a few that I thought were funny.







I'm sure you know this one...





And finally a good compilation

Dewey Martin, Buffalo Springfield drummer, dead at 68

FROM NME:

Buffalo Springfield drummer Dewey Martin has died aged 68.

Martin, real name Walter Milton Dwayne Midkiff, is believed to have died of natural causes.

The star was found by a room mate in his Los Angeles apartment on Sunday (February 1), reports the LA Times. It is thought he died the previous night (January 31).

Martin's Buffalo Springfield bandmates - Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richey Furay and Jim Messina - have yet to comment.

One of the founder members of Buffalo Springfield, Martin joined the band while they were in their embryonic stages after he moved to Los Angeles in the mid-'60s. In his biography 'Shakey', praised Martin as a "sensitive" drummer.

"You get harder, he hits harder," wrote Young. "You pull back, he hits back. He can feel the music - you don't have to tell him."

Martin played on most tracks featured on the band's three albums, including 'Mr Soul' and 'Rock 'N' Roll Woman'. He sang lead vocals on 'Good Time Boy' from their 1967 album 'Buffalo Springfield Again'.

The drummer also alleged that he supplied Stephen Stills with the LSD that inspired him to write the group's biggest hit, 'For What It's Worth'.

After Buffalo Springfield split, Martin attempted to start another band under the name The New Buffalo Springfield. However, after Young and Stills took legal action against the name, he dropped the moniker.

In the '80s Martin toured as Buffalo Springfield Revisited with original bass player Bruce Palmer.

Monkees drummer Micky Dolenz paid tribute to Martin, saying, "It's a great loss. We never worked together, we just hung out a lot. We went to shows together at the Whisky (a Go Go) and the Troubadour. He was a great drummer - it's a well known fact. And he was a really nice guy."

Buffalo Springfield were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1997.


Here's a cool Live version of "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing", live at the Monterey Pop Festival 1967



And the NEW Buffalo Springfield from the 80's

Elliott Smith "Suicide Machine" - Last Vocals Ever Recorded

I can't believe it, but a new song has finally surfaced from Elliott Smith. It just so happens that it contains the finished lyrics to one of my favorite songs, "Tiny Time Machine".

"Suicide Machine", as it is now known, was supposedly finished up just two days before Elliott Smith took his own life on October 21, 2003. For about 7 or 8 years now, I have been listening to the instrumental version always wishing I could hear Elliott singing over it. 

Well, just 2 days ago, somebody uploaded it for everyone to hear. The original source was unnamed because supposedly there is more unreleased music that they are trying to get and didn't want the source to know that it was being spread around (?!?!!?!?). I have a feeling this track will be everywhere very soon, so lets hope this "source" doesn't know how to use a computer.

I wish there was a more polished vocal and better mix, but we'll take what we can get. Hopefully Elliott is up in Heaven perfecting it while George Harrison plays the lead guitar.

Enjoy...

Suicide Machine

Also, I thought I'd post the original instrumental version, "Tiny Time Machine", that I found on YouTube so that you can hear all of the cool melodies and chord changes underneath.

The Beach Boys"Johnny Carson"

This is funny and great. Check out this great cover of "Johnny Carson" from Beach Boys Love You.

Fairport Convention "Time Will Show The Wiser" and Self Titled LP

Check out this really early clip of Fairport Convention performing "Time Will Show The Wiser" with their original vocalist, Judy Dyble. Easily one of the greatest opening tracks to one of the greatest records.




Well, I guess while I'm at it, I'll talk a little bit about this record.




The first Fairport Convention came out in 1968 and is the only one to feature Judy Dyble. After the album's lack of attention, Judy left before Sandy Denny joined the band for the What We Did on Our Holidays LP. 

A lot of this album is made up of other people's songs. "Time Will Show The Wiser" is a rather obscure Emmit Rhodes tune (I think from his Merry-Go-Round days), but most who recognize it will probably associate the tune with this record. Along with a couple from newcomer Joni Mitchell and a song by Bob Dylan sits some of my personal favorite Richard Thompson tunes. The tight, little country/folk-rock ditty, "If" and the gorgeous "Decameron" are perfect examples of the two styles that would shape up the next few Fairport records and put Richard Thompson on the map. That said, this record doesn't just sound like their other records. It definitely has its own style.

I remember my friend Jessica playing this for me for the first time when I was about 20 years old and it blew my mind. I wanted to know these guys. I wanted to live in their songs. I wanted to wear tight , little striped pants and wear capes and smoke pipes and talk about poetry and drink tea and play guitar. I hope you want to play dress up and enjoy the music, too. 

I found this link. Copy and paste this link into your browser. After that, go buy it on vinyl on ebay.

http://sharebee.com/50747b6d

Joni Mitchell "For Free" LIVE 10/9/70

Here's a great clip I found on YouTube of Joni Mitchell singing one of my favorite songs. What an amazing performance! God, I wish I could have been there. This was taped live for BBC on October 9, 1970.

Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb

The first record I want to share with you is easily in my Top 25 favorite albums of all time. Perhaps Top 10. Glen Campbell's Reunion: The Songs of Jimmy Webb is a near perfect album. I couldn't tell you why its not perfect, but I just feel safer saying "near".

By 1974, Glen Campbell had lived the life that most can only dream of. He'd won Grammy's for his recordings of "Gentle On My Mind" and "By the Time I Get To Phoenix"as a solo artist and sold millions of records. He was a popular session guitar player on many huge hit records by many of my personal favorites like The Association and Mamas and the Papas. Especially cool, he was a guitar player on The Beach Boys' Petsounds record. He was even the original replacement for Brian Wilson when he stopped touring with the Beach Boys in 1965.

For some reason, Reunion is often overlooked when Glen Campbell is mentioned. I don't get it. I really don't. As a songwriter myself, Jimmy Webb is a hero. To think that a whole album of his songs, recorded by his greatest interpreter, is generally discovered in dollar bins inside the music store basement or underneath a dusty stack of Mitch Miller records at the local Goodwill, is one of the true crimes in pop music. Even now, you can pick up the CD for about $1.99 sealed on eBay.

I won't go into why you should listen to each song, I'll just demand it. Listen to the WHOLE record from start to finish. Sit in your favorite chair and put it on the stereo or go for a night drive. It will feel so familiar to you. It feels like childhood to me. I can imagine it coming out of the speakers in the back of the big ol' van my family had in 1983 in Nashville.

Go buy a clean version on vinyl on eBay.

You might as well smile...

Who is "The Rider" and what are his goals with this website?

Hello, my name is Brother Will. You can call me "The Rider", Rider, Ryder, Brother Will, Brother, Will, Bill, William, Willie, Brother Bill, Brother William, Brother Willie, Prophet, Man, Sexy, Dude or friend.

I hope that this blog will be a place where I can share honest thoughts about life, or lack of. A place to post interesting videos and photographs. I'm most excited to talk about good records and songs by artists well known and, more than often, by artists you'll never hear on Top 40 or on the shitty TV shows and commercials or "underground indie" satellite/web stations you look to for good music. 

Just so you know, I hate most "indie rock". I do enjoy "independent" music. Often times, the music that was viewed as super lame by the "hip" or "edgy" people in the past 5 decades, is now the most radical sounding music you can find in the used record stores. I read some of these reviews on new records that get high marks and I feel so alone. I don't get it. All these new records are filled with cheap tricks, cliche recording techniques and the worst crime of all - AUTO TUNING (or "pitch tweaking" as I like to call it). Its such bullshit. These fucking singers that aren't good enough to sing it right naturally, rely on computers to fix their notes when they can't hit them. EVERY singer on CMT uses it. It sounds so mechanical. I swear I can spot it almost every time. What's worse is now I am hearing it on these awards shows. Can you believe it? People that don't even deserve these music awards of excellence in the first place, rub it in our face by getting up on live TV and use computer assistance to make them come across as great singers. Look, I love live, raw vocals. In rock, you don't always need a perfect voice. It helps, but it is not ALWAYS necessary to hit every note. But...if you're gonna build your entire career around being a singer of a vocal band ala Rascal Flatts or a pop star like Duffy or Katy Perry, well, DAMN THEM!!! DAMN THEM TO OBSCURITY. Ok, ok, more on that later...

I promise to post only music made by humans and sung in natural human voices. For now, let me say "Welcome to my Blog!!!"