“Paid the cost to be the boss, Look at me
You know what you see, You see a bad Mutha”
Download:
MP3: Sly And The Family Stone - Thankful N’ Thoughtful
MP3: Rufus Thomas - Funky Penguin
MP3: James Brown - The Boss
MP3: Funkadelic - Red Hot Mama
Download:
MP3: Wilco - Someone Else’s Song
MP3: Clinic - Harmony
MP3: Leroy - Away
MP3: Meat Puppets - Plateau
MP3: Say Hi To Your Mom - Laundry
MP3: Ryan Adams - Tractor Beam
MP3: Radiohead - My Iron Lung [Acoustic]
MP3: Band of Horses - Window Blues
MP3: Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner
MP3: Bon Iver - Beach Baby
ROLLO & GRADY’S TOP 25 ALBUMS OF 2008 (CLICK HERE)
ROLLO & GRADY’S TOP 25 SONGS OF 2008 (CLICK HERE)
Matador Records is releasing a remastered edition of Pavement’s ‘Brighten the Corners’ and Cat Power’s ‘Dark End Of The Street - Vinyl EP’ today. “The Dark End of the Street” is a 1967 soul song written by Muscle Shoals songwriters Dan Penn and Chips Moman and first performed by James Carr.
Buy
Cat Power: Dark End of the Street EP (Vinyl) (Amazon)
Pavement - Brighten the Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition (Remastered) Amazon)
Download:
MP3: Cat Power - Dark End Of The Street
MP3: Cat Power - Dark End Of The Street (Live Black Sessions)
MP3: Pavement - Type Slowly
A plus D present Bootie LA @ the ECHOPLEX on December 6th
1154 Glendale Blvd. (Back Entrance)
Echo Park, Los Angeles
9 pm–2am . 21+
$5 before 10 PM, $10 cover
Download:
MP3: A plus D - Beethoven’s Fifth Gold Digger (Kanye West vs. Beethoven Remix)
MP3: A plus D - Nelly Furtado’s Crazy (Nelly Furtado vs. Gnarls Barkley)
MP3: A plus D - Decepta-Freak-On (Missy Elliott vs. Le Tigre)
MP3: A plus D - Going Back To Dani (Notorious B.I.G.vs. Red Hot Chili Pepers)
MP3: A plus D - Addicted To White Lines (Grandmaster Flash vs. Protection)
MP3: A plus D - I Keep Forgettin’ To Regulate (Warren G. & Nate Dogg vs. Michael McDonald)
MP3: A plus D - Don’t Stop Believin’ In Planet Rock (Journey vs. Afrika Bambaataa)
This warms my heart. The tracks are from an acoustic performance for a radio station in Atlanta. The band was promoting the ‘Bends’, but played two tracks from ‘OK Computer’ (Lucky, Subterranean Homesick Alien).
***The sound is distorted for the first 25 seconds of Street Spirit
Cat’s Paw Studios
August 4, 1995
Atlanta, GA
SETLIST:
MP3: Radiohead - Street Spirit (8/4/1995)
MP3: Radiohead - Lucky (8/4/1995)
MP3: Radiohead - Bullet Proof…I Wish I Was (8/4/1995)
MP3: Radiohead - You (8/4/1995)
MP3: Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien (8/4/1995)
MP3: Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees (8/4/1995)
Download:
Radiohead - OK Computer (iTunes)
Radiohead - The Bends (iTunes)
I haven’t seen Guy Ritchie’s new movie RocknRolla yet. The film received mixed reviews and then the A-Rod divorce scandal hit. However, the soundtrack is phenomenal. The Clash, The Subways, The Beat, The Hives, The Sonics, 20-20’s, War and Lou Reed are some of the artists that contribute tracks. It’s by far his heaviest soundtrack to date.
Download the Rocknrolla Soundtrack from iTunes (Click Here)
Download:
MP3: RocknRolla - No School Like The Old School
MP3: DJ Shadow - Fixed Income (Remix)
MP3: The Sonics - Have Love Will Travel
MP3: Peaches - I’m The Kinda
MP3: Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Pink Coffee Remix)
MP3: Let’s Go Sailing - Sideways (Remix)
MP3: Amplive from Zion I - Critical (Drum ‘n’ Bass Remix)
MP3: MGMT - Kids
MP3: Mike Jones - Still Tippin (Remix)
MP3: Nina Simone - Feelin’ Good (Joe Claussell Remix)
MP3: Le Tigre - Deceptacon
MP3: The Black Keys - Have Love Will Travel
MP3: Garage A Trois - Hard Headed Rio Aka Rio Cuca Dura
I’ve left my apartment once today to walk my dog. I’m not into bargain shopping sprees; I order everything from Amazon.com and ship it back East. I feel sorry for the guys that had to go to the mall with their girlfriends or wives. It’s almost as fun as seeing ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Pt. 2′.
Download:
MP3: Thom Yorke - Black Swan
MP3: Pete Doherty - Blackboy Lane
MP3: Law - Still Got Friday To Go
MP3: Old School - Home Depot
MP3: Old School - Panties
Herman Blume: You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn’t matter. You were born rich and you’re going to stay rich. But here’s my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can’t buy backbone. Don’t let them forget it. Thank you.
MP3: The Beatles - The Ballad Of John And Yoko
MP3: John Lennon - Oh Yoko!
Download:
MP3: Rushmore - Sharp
MP3: Rushmore - Bag Of Cocaine
MP3: Rushmore - Kill You
MP3: Rushmore - Kemo Sabe
MP3: Rushmore - Is That Latin
MP3: Rushmore It Was The Hand Job
MP3: Rushmore - Pop A Cap In His Ass
MP3: Rushmore - Dear Max
MP3: Rushmore - Hand Jobs
MP3: Rushmore - Safety Is Harvard
MP3: Rushmore - OR Scrubs
MP3: Rushmore - Advice
Download:
John Lennon - Imagine (Remastered) (iTunes)
Rushmore Soundtrack (Amazon)
Rushmore (Rent NetFlix)
Chris Hanson (l) and Geoff Hanson (r)
“Scrapple” features what I think is one of the greatest soundtracks ever produced. In their directorial debut, brothers Chris and Geoff Hanson scored a major break when they landed veteran blues legend Taj Mahal, who produced the soundtrack, rerecorded versions of his favorite songs and added some originals. The soundtrack is really the underlying narrative of the movie and also features JJ Cale, John Martyn, Cymande and Widespread Panic.
“Scrapple” follows a summer in the life of ski bums in the fictional town of Ajax, Colorado in the late ’70’s. Geoff Hanson stars as the low-level drug dealer Al Dean. Another star was a pig called Scrapple, named after the pork delicacy, which led The New York Times to coin the film “Babe on Acid.” Geoff and Chris also directed and produced “The Earth Will Swallow You”, which documents the summer 2000 tour of Widespread Panic.
R&G: Congratulations on the ten-year anniversary of “Scrapple.” How much do you think the soundtrack contributed to the longevity of the film?
Geoff: We hear all the time from people it’s the best soundtrack they’ve ever heard. I think the movie kind of circulates as much as a CD, and I think a lot of people come to the movie for the music. We’re just happy that people still watch it ten years later.
R&G: Keller Williams recently recorded a song called “Nepalese Temple Balls” based on a scene from the movie. How did that come about?
Geoff: The lyrics from the song are pulled from the movie pretty much verbatim. It’s the scene in the movie where Al Dean, the character I play, tells his friends about this drug, this thing that he’s got coming in. It starts off, “If you like this stuff, you’re not going to believe what I got coming in”. They are these Nepalese Temple Balls, these crazy things from the shadows of Mount Everest made by monks.
In 2007, I was DJ’ing at a radio station in Wilmington called 106.7. The Penguin and Keller Williams came into my studio and played some songs. I knew Keller would like “Scrapple.” He loved the Grateful Dead, and he’s kind of a hippie at heart. That’s what our movie’s about, and those are our fans, so I gave Keller a copy of the DVD; we were always trying to turn musicians on to our movie. About ten days later I got a call from his manager, and he said Keller really loves the movie.
In May of 2008 his manager emailed me a MP3 file that said “Nepalese Temple Balls.” I was surprised and touched that Keller liked our movie enough to write a song using our lines as lyrics. I’m actually getting a writing credit on the record, which is cool for me because now I get to say I’m a songwriter.
R&G: Any royalties involved?
Geoff: Who knows? I’ll tell you in a year. Maybe I’ll get a check for $80 bucks or something [Laughs].
R&G: [Laughs] You and your brother Chris were first-time independent directors, producers, writers and actors. How did you get Taj Mahal on board to score the movie?
Geoff: I was living in Telluride, Colorado and I was writing a music column for the newspaper Sound Advice. In 1991 they announced that Bill Graham was going to do the Midsummer Music Festival, and that’s what really made me decide to stay in Telluride. The paper asked me to be the editor of the magazine that we were going to do for the Festival. I was just a 22-year-old kid. The artists on the line-up were Joe Cocker, the Allman Brothers, Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler, Jackson Brown and Taj Mahal.
The first time I ever met Taj was backstage at the Festival. I was instantly blown away by the guy. I was in a room with him and four other writers, but nobody else knew anything about him. They were just going off what the press release said. I was talking to him about rerecording “Giant Step,” so he got that I was hip to what he was all about and we ended up talking for about 45 minutes. That was the beginning. I was so into him and at that point began collecting all of his music. I was an aspiring filmmaker even then and decided that, wow, wouldn’t it be cool to make a movie with Taj. I had a concert promoting business on the side, and in 1992 I got Taj to come to Telluride and play. I got to know him even better and also got to know his manager at the time, Carey Williams. I asked Carey if I make a movie would Taj do the music for it, and he said, “Sure, if you ever get it done, we’ll do the music.”
R&G: When did you finish writing the script?
Geoff: We finished it in ’95. Afterwards, Chris and I went to work at the Sundance Film Festival as volunteers because we were trying to absorb as much of the whole independent film thing as we could. We sent the first draft of the “Scrapple” script, which was at the time called “Spam,” to Carey and he gave it to Taj. It didn’t take them long to say they would do the music. The first scene of the script is a guy riding down the highway on a motorcycle with a pig in a sidecar with Taj Mahal singing “Further On Down The Road.” They thought that was cool so we were on. He was critical to the whole thing and we recorded the music with him after we shot the movie, in January of 1997; it was one of the coolest things about the whole project.
R&G: Were you intimidated working with Taj?
Geoff: I don’t think it was intimidating working with him, it was just really exciting. We had just finished our movie and we were doing the music with Taj Mahal. It was a dream come true.
R&G: Tell me something interesting that the general public doesn’t know about him?
Geoff: Well, here’s my favorite thing about Taj. When I first interviewed him in 1991, he said something that is one of the favorite things I’ve ever heard. He said that people are always so preoccupied with other people and what they do and their jobs. Taj said, “I am a job.” I just love that. He’s also a musicologist. He knows more about music than anyone I’ve ever met, and all kinds of music: polyrhythmic, Caribbean and Hawaiian. He’s just a great guy and agreed to do the music for our movie on a handshake.
R&G: Music played an integral role in the film, and you had a diverse range of musicians from Sam Bush to Toots Hibbert.
Geoff: The music in the movie is the narrator. It’s either commenting directly on what’s happening or it’s hitting on a subtext of what’s going on.
R&G: Were there other movies that inspired you to use music as the narrator?
Geoff: “Fandango” used music in the same way. Quentin Tarantino uses music very dramatically, as well. “Scrapple” was right on the heels of “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction.” Our biggest influence was “Easy Rider.” Men’s Journal paid us a huge compliment when they called our movie “the ski bum’s Easy Rider.”
R&G: Do you have any advice for young filmmakers who are trying to score low-budget films with well-known musicians?
Geoff: The first thing would be to go after the deep cuts. Stay away from the really popular stuff because it’s too expensive. But, if you’ve got tastes that are a little bit offbeat, then go for your favorite stuff because most of these people are approachable. The thing is not to come in the front door. Try to figure out a way in the back door. We never would have been able to work with Taj Mahal if we went through the label.
Download (Right-Click Save As):
MP3: Chris & Rich Robinson - Over The Hill [John Martyn]
MP3: Keller Williams — Nepalese Temple Balls [Live]
Download/Buy
Scrapple - Soundtrack (Buy)
Scrapple - The Movie (Buy) or (Rent)
Widespread Panic - The Earth Will Swallow You (Buy) or (Rent)
Taj Mahal - Maestro (iTunes)
Keller Williams - Laugh (iTunes)
Cymande - Renegades of Funk (iTunes)
The Black Crowes - Warpaint (iTunes)
Los Angeles Concerts:
Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band @ House of Blues Sunset Strip on 10/23 (BUY TIX)
Keller Williams with Mosley, Droll & Sipe @ El Rey Theatre on 11/7 (BUY TIX)
Eric Roberts
Entourage is killing it this season. The writers and actors are hitting their stride; even Vince is likeable. The casting directors were the true stars of last night’s episode. Guest star Eric Roberts playing the role of the mushroom dealer was genius. He joins the ranks of Hollywood wackos, Gary Busey, Val Kilmer and James Woods of stars that have made memorable cameos in the HBO series.
Family Guy creator Seth Macfarlane has a set of brass balls. He based last night’s entire episode on The Trashmen single “Surfin’ Bird” and Jesus’ Resurrection from the dead as an used record store employee. I imagine some people hated it, but you cannot overlook his homage to Office Space when Stewie and Brian smash the 45rpm “Surfin’ Bird” single. Bravo.
Download (Right-Click Save As):
MP3: Michael Bolton - PC Load Letter
MP3: Samir - Paper Jam
MP3: Geto Boys - Still
MP3: Glen Quagmire - Giggity Giggity
MP3: Ari Gold -24/7
MP3: Ari Gold - Overslept
MP3: Ari Gold - Triple Fucking Axel
MP3: Ari Gold - Wake The Fuck Up
MP3: Ari Gold - Lloydddddddddddddddd
Download/Rent:
Geto Boys - Geto Boys: Greatest Hits (Screwed & Chopped) (iTunes)
The Trashmen - Tube City - The Best of The Trashmen (iTunes)
Office Space Soundtrack (Amazon)
Office Space (NetFlix)
Family Guy (NetFlix)
Entourage (NetFlix)
Sam Beam Of Iron And Wine
I’m back home from my trip to Austin. The city definitely lives up to it’s billing as The Live Music Capital of the World. I caught some excellent shows while I was in town;
Band Of Horses @ The Parish, The Black Keys @ Stubb’s, Antibalas, Black Joe Lewis, Fleet Foxes and Drive-By Truckers at ACL Festival.
I also met several artists that I respect and admire; Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley), Shooter Jennings, Tyler Ramesy (Band Of Horses), Sam Beam (Iron And Wine), Black Joe Lewis, and Patrick Carney (The Black Keys). I asked Danger Mouse if he planned on producing the new Gorillaz album, he replied “I love The Gorillaz”. I guess we will have to wait and see.
**I enjoyed the Texas BBQ, but Los Angeles has better Mexican food than Austin.
Download (Right-Click Save As):
MP3: Iron and Wine With Calexico - Wild Horses (Stones Cover)
MP3: The Black Keys - 10 A.M. Automatic (Live)
MP3: Shooter Jennings - Put The O Back In Country
MP3: Band Of Horses - The End’s Not Near
MP3: Danger Mouse - 99 Problems (The Grey Album)
Download:
Band of Horses - Cease to Begin (iTunes)
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog (iTunes)
Shooter Jennings - Put the O Back In Country (iTunes)
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (iTunes)
The Black Keys - Attack & Release (iTunes)
Download (Right-Click Save As):
MP3: Fast Times At Ridgemont High - Learn It
MP3: Fast Times At Ridgemont High - Fags
MP3: Fast Times At Ridgemont High - Hell Of A Piss
MP3: Fast Times At Ridgemont High - Something Wrong?
MP3: Fast Times At Ridgemont High - Wus
MP3: Fast Times At Ridgemont High - Dope
Buy/Rent:
Fast Times At Ridgemont High Soundtrack (Amazon)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (NetFlix)
The Cars - The Cars (iTunes)
