Tent Talks Tunes: weird and wonderful vinyl found on the road
you see that right there coming at you in your face in the real in the raw in the moment all the way alive baby that is the trademark of quality right there TTT baby tent talks Tunes with my special brand new camera yay let me reach on over here to the monitor the monitor being my desktop computer which is the way it should be and let's see if I am indeed actually going out l i v e on the f b hmm I can stare right at the camera and scroll down and out of my peripheral vision see that yes indeed I am on live and people are looking at me right now live let us maximize the screen and expand it apparently it says I'm on it says tent talks tunes 10 26 22 I don't know why today is November 16th 2022 and as James Pogo says welcome back your dreams were your ticket out welcome back yes thank you James for welcoming me back welcoming me back welcome and welcome you to ten talks Tunes always good to have you on board Alan there's a penis who just posted a really raucous video of him doing a song called my God can beat up your God originally recorded in 1984 by a little band called broken Talent Alan or is it Alan please post a link to that video so the Frantic fans and vibrational viewers of tent talks Tunes can experience your over-the-top version of the song that I wrote back in 1983 along with big Santo my God can beat up your God it's always very flattering and humbling when people do their own versions of one of my songs I get a big kick out of it and it's really nice to know that you know a song that we just kind of I don't want to say bashed out but we just kind of bashed it out because we were bored one afternoon in 1983 the better part of 40 years later it's still got legs like ZZ Top it's got legs and you know how to use them so thank you Alan Alan Alan however you pronounced your name for covering my God can beat up your God and um yeah so here's another Hot Topic I'm sure you all saw this fantastic leather gauntlet hand crafted in Hattiesburg Mississippi by my good friend and now bandmate Mr Walt wheat Walt for those of you who might be paying attention or have seen tent talks Tunes in the past you might know Walt as being the guitar player for the mighty before I hang who appeared within recent memory on a split 10 inch EP with you guessed it the almighty anti-scene hope you guys can see that with all the reflection in the glare and uh you know showing what a small world it is and how irony always plays a hand in world events Walt is now the guitar player for anti-scene yes indeedy do our former guitar player mad brother Ward retired from music leaving a big hole over there on stage right but uh Walt wheat of before I hang and now anti-scene answer the call of duty when it was issued and we actually just got done with our inaugural run of the Ultra lineup of anti-scene featuring Walt on guitar featuring me wearing his hand crafted gauntlet and also for tent talks Tunes I'm wearing his handcrafted copper Gauntlet that he made for me out of copper and magnets dating back to when this risk was causing me incessant Relentless pain and we thought thought it might have been um arthritis turns out that my wrist had been broken um but this is a darn good looking Gauntlet you know Walt is a metalsmith a leather Smith a gunsmith a guitar Slinger and an overall good dude so if any of you people out there would like some fine leather craft or metal craft or Gunsmithing look him up he's on my friends list he's all over Facebook he is the man thank you Walt for giving me this so yeah we did it we took the Ultra lineup on the road and we played three nights in a row first night at Reggie's in Wilmington North Carolina with our Pals the street clones and the bastard Brigade and as you can see by the backdrop I've been collecting souvenirs the whole time I love my Souvenirs of playing live we actually have here honest to God handwritten set list by the bastard Brigade honest to God handwritten setlist by the street clones I love this stuff love it love it love it love it love it I got boxes of set lists that I've collected over the years going all the way back to 1983 84 ish and I love them I uh every once in a while I'll Exum one of those boxes and take a look at some of the set lists I've gotten I should do a show and tell on 10 talks tunes about some of the crazy ass set lists that I got what do you guys think about that I think that might be fun would you drink a toast of your local tap water to an episode of tent talks Tunes devoted to my set list collection let me know cast your vote click that thumbs up I see some thumbs up some hearts right there already I think people kind of like the idea of a set list show all right we might have a a future topic there of course means I gotta dig them out [Laughter] oh we just got a big old flurry including at least one angry face who's the Wise Acre who posted the angry face at the thought of a set list show hmm who are you a smart guy I want to know I think I'll be able to find out anyway because I've discovered that if I if I look at tent talks Tunes as it's archived on my Facebook page if I look at the comments as they appear in real time the little picture icon of the person doing the posting will show before the uh thing turns into a heart or a thumbs up or in this case a frowny face boy oh boy some of my viewers out there have got a very salty sense of humor I must say but you know what I kind of like it yeah man it was a dynamite run of shows what else do we have here we got a set list from our good pals left on high who we played with in Jacksonville Florida and uh look at that an anti-scene set list yes I am the type of guy to collect my own bands set lists I'm just wacky that way what can I tell you it's part of the fun of being a rocket in a roller mm-hmm um so yeah great as long as we're checking the bulletin board we see we've got some set lists posted what else is going on with mullet and board here well an event from the past which I'm compelled to mention the Danbury record and CD Expo the Danbury record and CD Expo which took place on November 5th at the VFW Hall number 149 in Danbury ico-promote it I was not there this time because I was out on the road with anti-scene but I was actually talking to my co-promotor this morning and uh she said it was Dynamite apparently a really good turnout lots of happy dealers which means by default lots of happy Shoppers which means everybody happy so thanks to all who came out to the event thanks to all the dealers who set up and uh helped get the people what they need in terms of Records taped CDs Collectibles and yak yak yak and we will be doing it again sometime in 2023 probably in the springtime we haven't booked the date yet but yes the Danbury record and CD Expo is back and by the way if anybody out there is watching right now and attended the Danbury record in CDX Bill why don't you tell us a little bit about what you got because one of my um great Joys one of my great Pleasures excuse me in running the Expo is seeing who bought what I love standing by my post by the front door and looking at people's purchases and talking to them about them because we just love vinyl that of course is the nature of tent talks Tunes so that was the past what do we got to look forward into the future the Punk Rock Flea Market yep we're doing another one December 10th of this year at a brand new venue the State House in Downtown New Haven Connecticut by the uh excuse me by the um the ninth ward if you guys know your ancient New Haven history the State House proudly located them in the ninth ward on the same block as Cafe Nine and if you've ever seen or played a show in New Haven you know Cafe Nine um new location because the old location proved to be a little bit problematic um the Punk Rock Flea Market was so punk rock that it got shut down by the cops punk rock Maximus can you imagine that and you might ask well what on Earth could have been happening at a flea market to Warrant it getting shut down by the cops well what happened was so many people came out to the Punk Rock Flea Market that traffic was blocked for miles on the state highway in Southington where the where the event was it was held outdoor at a an old drive-in theater and traffic was blocked cars couldn't get through so they had to send out I don't know if they sent up the highway patrol or the local constabulary but they had just to get traffic moving and they had to block off the entrance and turn people away just so regular traffic could get through that my friend is quite an accomplishment so the State House the new location is indoors it's weatherproof there is ample parking not only in the parking lot for the state house but there's parking garages nearby parking lots nearby street parking all throughout the the neighborhood in the City of New Haven so parking should not be an issue travel should not be an issue attendance should not be an issue so come on come on down getting December 10th December 10th at the State House in New Haven for the next Punk Rock Flea and if you look on Facebook or the hardcore Sweet bakery website you'll see all the information that you need about it I will be set up I will have a table full of vinyl and cassettes and CDs including by great popular demand the newest and latest anti-scene vinyl release the seven inch 45 RPM single of Are You Sure Hank Done It That Way yes anti-scene covers Waylon Jennings and we do it in the way that only we do it look at that Grizzly bunch of nasty weathered old rock and rollers posing hard for you including that guy right there look at him look at that dude look at him scowling at you from the back of that record cover I will have a couple of these only 300 pressed on black I got a couple of them there's also a very limited number of pink vinyl copies on bright shocking opaque pink that you can get on anti-scene.com only a hundred of those and there was also a lime green a translucent lime green pressing that was only available from TKO records our label not sure if those are still available but it couldn't hurt to go over to TKO and take a look and it certainly couldn't hurt to go to anti-scene.com and take another good long look I will of course also have a wide selection of anti-scene vinyl including the latest LP live from quarantine two featuring uh you guessed it again that or other severe looking bass player yep I will have it all for you so thank you everybody from the past and on behalf of the future um no mail this week simply because um another one of those things that people know me for is my car troubles uh my once beloved 2008 Subaru has a seized up engine don't know if it's going to survive but because of that I have not been on the road checking the mailbox so we've checked the bulletin board can't check the mailbox just yet we will soon enough so let's get right down to the Brass tax of tent talks Tunes which is all stuff that I have found on the road during my last run with anti-scene I found stuff not only in the gigs but also at all the record stores that I go to I think it Bears repeating that when I go on tour either as a solo doing my solo acoustic or solo electric hardcore or with anti-scene or ultramani or they hate us or the bloody apostles what I like to do is hit all the record stores in the towns that I stop in and I always have a bunch of stuff from my label tpos and I will rock actually I can kind of demonstrate what it's like for you I got a big old crate of vinyl this is actually a short crate of vinyl if I walk in with a big old crate of vinyl filled with tpos product hate that word but product and I will walk in and go to the person behind the counter and say hello person behind the counter my name is Malcolm 10 I have a label called tpos I specialize in weirdo degenerate Outsider stuff would you like to buy some of my stuff and if they have even one wit of Common Sense and I'm happy to report that most of them do every once in a while everyone's in a great while I will actually walk into a record store and there will be somebody behind the counter who let's be charitable let's just say that they are ignorant of the facts because that leaves them hope that leaves them hope to educate themselves but every once in a while we find someone behind the counter who is ignorant of the facts and is not interested in my stuff fine the overwhelming majority of people behind the counter at record stores want my stuff and when they want my stuff I always tell them man occasionally woman don't give me the money yet because if you give me the money it's just going to disappear into my pocket and I'll walk out with money which is of course fantastic because money does make the world go round but let me look through your bins first let me see what you got in there and I'll take a little trade and that's how I end up with some really damn cool stuff to bring back for you people to show and tell and quite often to sell at fine events like the punk rock holiday flee on December 10th or via my discogs and eBay pages so I'm going to talk about things here that I think I'm actually going to keep all of these for myself uh just because it's one of those days you know uh no you know what I'll take that back I got one or two that I am willing to sell on this one but uh the majority majority of these are keepers first of all I got to thank Jeff Clayton for this one Jeff Clayton the unimpeachable president for life and lead singer of The Almighty anti-scene he's got his own program on Tuesdays called Break On Through and Jeff does a lot of what I do he talks about music geekery and nerdery he also talks about movies and he has a top 10 list and just fun stuff relating to our culture by necessity it's quite often anti-scene-centric but he goes way afield like yesterday he did a top 10 of his favorite war movies and it was pretty neat there were some I'd never heard of before a few that I had seen myself and uh it was very very entertaining I really enjoyed it so look up Break On Through every Tuesday on the anti-scene Facebook page or on the anti-scene YouTube page it's because of Jeff and his Break On Through that I learned about this I found it on eight track baby the great insult featuring Wild Man Steve and Jean Tracy this is like the best of all possible worlds this came out I'm gonna guess sometime in the 1970s you've got a dirty white comic and a dirty black comic at a Holiday Inn just having a cutting contest playing the dozens on each other and riffing off each other and this is some of the fun it's like I've said before I'm not I've never really been a big fan of dirty humor because so often it's not done right it's just dumb and nasty for the sake of being filthy but these two dudes know how to do it right and they just completely go at it with each other and it is hilarious and so to find it on eight track sealed sealed eight track kids and I don't know if you can tell but the eight track actually has custom art custom cartoon art which is very funny and on the back it says save this carton for Hard Times wink wink wink I guess this is supposed to provide you with relief during those Hard Times by looking at the uh the cartoon on it rated XXX strictly adults only sale of this tape prohibited to anyone under 18 years of age if anything on this tape reminds you of anyone you know then you know the wrong people signed stereo Joe you got your disclaimer right there that's that's like the 1970s equivalent of a Parental Advisory sticker yeah I am probably gonna have to crack this one open because I've searched for it on YouTube and all I could ever find was a very short excerpt this is the whole thing I'm gonna pop this sucker into my eight-track player and digitize it and have it on CD Baby so I can pollute my mind and the local Airwaves some more let's have a let's drink a deep dark Toast of Danbury tap to dirty truck stop humor as found on eight-track cartridges talk about Niche that's about as niche as it gets what do you say Murray Gelman tuning in from Tucson Arizona what's your opinion of that stuff I love it all right now here's another this is a choice fine Choice find by the way I got that Gene Tracy Wildman Steve 8-track at repo record in Charlotte North Carolina on my way home I visited another fine store that I've been wanting to get to for a very long time double decker records in Allentown Pennsylvania I've known Jamie who owns that place since I think before he owned it actually he's a he's an old hardcore punk rock dude always a record collector and he opened up a shop in Allentown uh I think he told me it was 20.
20 odd years ago and I still hadn't ever been there before but finally I set foot into double decker records in Allentown he bought a big old pile of my tpos product including lots of anti-scene Records so if you guys want to get some anti-scene all of the stories I'm about to mention or have mentioned do stock anti-scene vinyl along with Charles Manson GiGi Allen Reverend Jim Jones Tiny Tim and in some instances even my album so double decker records in Allenton Allentown Pennsylvania man they found a record that I've already got a copy of my Personal Collection so this one is up for grabs and this is the kind of record I love love let's go back in time a little bit to 1972. David Bowie is the hottest thing on Wheels he's selling records he's selling tickets part of the reason being that he was completely utterly outrageous David Bowie is one of the most outrageous performers of his day you cannot even imagine how controversial and uh schismatic and polarizing he was so big news big deal David Bowie of course he made the biggest waves by going public and saying I'm gay so here you've got this guy huge sellout concerts selling tons of Records who is essentially a gay mutant outer space man so of course that triggered a whole wave of gay mutant outer space people who wanted to make records and be David Bowie and you know the definitions are pretty loose you could say that Lou Reed Iggy Pop the Hoople they certainly read the CR they certainly rode the crest of that wave I don't think any one of them actually tried to pass themselves off as a gay mutant outer space man but they definitely caught that Vibe you know I mean Iggy and Lou they went out with plenty of face makeup and plenty of glitter and plenty of eyeliner you know they were playing the game even the Mick Jagger the Rolling Stones Jagger especially went out with lots of glitter and eyeliner and makeup and so did a whole other of people who had a completely different set of skills then David Bowie Lou Reed and Mott the Hoople one of my favorites one of my absolute favorites is this guy right here and this this is just the warm-up to the record I found in uh Allentown one of my favorites I've talked about this dude before on tent talks Tunes Joe bryeth Joe bryeth was probably the first and I would venture to say only one of the gay mutant Outer Space men who even came close to making a dent on the charts and mind you was only a dent and it was um more of a near Miss than an actual hit here's his second album he's the only one I know of who made more than one album they're both on Elektra records check that out creatures of the street by Joe bryeth look at that look at that outer space mutant gay guy oh boy yes indeed as I mentioned earlier his skill set was slightly different than David Bowie's I mean some people could be unkind and say that it was sorely lacking I try not to be unkind I give everybody the benefit of the doubt and I give everybody big fat credit for doing what they do you know this guy actually got it together to make two albums to write and record two albums and go on tour um the stuff's out there you can definitely hear it on YouTube there's some live clips of this guy on YouTube that just defy description you gotta see them so yeah he tried to Hitch his wagon to David Bowie's gay mutant outer space rocket ship and he might have come close to kind of sort of making it almost maybe just a little bit sorta but not quite he was the biggest he might have been the best speaking of biggest and best I got to take a moment here to introduce your favorite probably heterosexual firmly rooted on planet Earth feline fine furry faced ferocious fangy yet somehow friendly friend of mine Harry the cat here you go guys you don't just don't get to see Harry on camera too often but here he is oh boy you don't get to see me getting all cuddly and mushy too much either very often but I'm gonna do it now who's my boy say hi to the people Harry you are live on the internet right now and also archived Forever on YouTube and archived Forever on Facebook yep you're getting hearts and loves and Smileys I'm a guy I'm gonna be terrible I'm gonna make you wave hi hi yeah this is when Harry wants to get out park on the park of my Lair talk on my lap there you know just stay right there he's out of oh no now he's got to go away because he wants to hog the camera Harry love you guy gotta leave you don't kill a mouse or something thank you yes I am vegan but I understand the laws of nature that guy is a champion Mouser and uh like just a couple of days ago I uh woke up and found a lovely fresh killed Mouse right there on my bedroom doorstep he left it for me as a gift is that love or what Harry you're beautiful I love you so who else is beautiful that I love outer space mutant gay man Dorian there he is Dorian himself from New York City that's the front and that's the back there's a picture of Dorian himself let's see if I can get the proportions right on this no I'm still sort of getting used to the way the camera focuses and which direction is which there is there's Dorian I first heard of Dorian in the pages of punk magazine John holmstrom and legs McNeil's magazine Punk the way that they interviewed people in Punk magazine was just classic and the Dorian interview is a great example of it they opened up the article by saying we got a phone call from this guy who managed an artist called Dorian they said the guy said that he would take us out to a steak dinner with Dorian if we would interview him and publish it in Punk magazine so they prefaced it right away with saying that there was a steak dinner in it for them so they said okay we went out to a steak dinner and we interviewed this guy and then they per then they printed the interview verbatim and if I recall correctly that at least part of it was cartoon and it's the funniest damn thing you've ever read I don't know if it's posted online anywhere or if any of you guys out there have original issues of punk magazine but yeah the the punk magazine interview with Dorian fantastic I did some research on Dorian a few years ago when I first found my first copy of this record and people basically described him as a poor little rich boy who just wanted so badly to be a rock star and um I guess this was his first attempt it's an independent label see if you can see that amorama records and I believe this is the only thing that amorama ever released don't quote me on that but I think it was and uh yeah self-financed independent full-length LP of mutant gay Space Rock done with a I'll say it again with a rather uh unique skill set in a very interesting way of expressing himself luckily there's uh lyrics on the back uh first track the men's room did you ever feel your mother's broom did you ever feel your old man's Gloom I I could go on but I'm not gonna with an opening line like that how can you go wrong did you ever feel your mother's broom man that's deep that's deep that's Dorian I think maybe my favorite track on here is side two cut two it's called Silver stringed marionette nine minutes and 25 seconds of vaguely homoerotic lyrics about well let's see Howdy Doody his name checked in there uh Kukla Fran and Ollie are name checked in there uh Rudy kazooty whoever that is is named in there nine minutes and 25 seconds of songs about his uh silver stringed marionette his beautiful little wooden pet wow and of course on the back there's the credit the thank you list I have no one to thank for this album but myself can you read it can you see it he's got no one to thank for this whole thing but himself well I say thank you Dorian for recording one of the wackiest weirdest albums of a super Niche and very short-lived genre that I've ever heard I mean you hear me talk about Nish how Nish can you get homosexual outer space mutant rock and roll there should have been a lot more as far as I'm concerned but uh Joe bryeth and Dorian they're really the only ones I know about you might throw early John Cougar in there before he was you know John Mellencamp he had his fair share of makeup and eyeliner and he was on David Bowie's label still saying about the same old stuff you know middle American pink houses and whatnot but boy was he pretty back then apparently he hated that image but the evidence survives to this day his first two albums yep yep maybe not outer space maybe not gay maybe not mutant but definitely glam Glam I'm telling you of course kind of the same deal if anybody out there is aware of anybody else who tried to ride the tidal wave of David Bowie's popularity please post links I love to just I love to discover this kind of stuff the more obscure the better I just love it it's that side of show biz that you know this kind of stuff will never ever ever be written about enrolling Stone Dorian will never ever ever be nominated to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Joe bryeth is not gonna be um you know you're not gonna find a Joe bryeth record at Walmart you know the exclusive colored vinyl Joe bryeth record Walmart it's never going to happen that's why I love these people not only because they're damn weird and bizarre and wonderful but because no one knows them it just makes it that much more fun nobody knows them that's the fun of it that's where the real thrill of Discovery comes in that's what keeps me going all right got this one in the town of Hickory North Carolina which the people in Concord tell me you gotta say it like this Hickory crate diggers records in Hickory North Carolina I scored some real good stuff there not the least of which oh boy I'm starting to salivate at the very thought of this one I got it here in my lap I can't wait to show it to you people you've heard me talk a lot on tent talks Tunes about my love my adoration [Music] My Worship of sleazy cheesy completely cynical exploitation and cash in records records that were not made to be art records that were not made to stand the test of time records that were not meant to be critically analyzed records that were made for one reason and one reason only and I was to grab as much cash from a current a current Trend as quickly as possible and then throw it away and move on to the next one pure money making motivation it's the only reason these records exist and once again if you go onto my YouTube channel and look up 10 talks Tunes you'll find I've done one entire episode to these wonderful exploitation records specifically The Beatles exploitation records of the early 1960s but the genre is pretty wide-ranging it's pretty wide and it's pretty deep any sort of music that even briefly made waves was up for grabs for these people and the way that these records would be made and you know please bear with me if you've heard the explanation before but I think it Bears repeating because it's so much fun typically some cigar chomping want to be executive in a place like Long Island New York would pick up uh the latest issue of variety magazine or billboard magazine and say hmm what's happening these days um oh I see uh sitar music yes uh sitar music this guy Ravi Shanker all right he's kind of popular uh George Harrison he's a beetle he likes sitars um okay well we need a sitar album so you'd call downstairs and say all right guys get it together I need a sitar I need an album of sitar music by the end of the day get to it hang up the phone and by the end of the day he would have a sitar album a full-length album of sitar music maybe not full length these things usually clock in at about 10 songs per album and the songs are usually two or three minutes each so they're they're pretty short you know and they were meant for sale only at drugstores dime stores thrift shops um The Bargain bins of record stores um anywhere that a a guy known as a rack jobber could travel door to door and convince a place to put a little floor space aside and have a rack of these records I remember very clearly that the the drugstore in my grandma's neighborhood had one the drugstore in my neighborhood had one the dime store in my grandma's neighborhood had one it was like a wire rack you know about as tall as a person with like say four shallow wire display things it'll be stocked with these cheap ass records like flower power sitar look at that psychedelic artwork masterpiece flower power sitar by rajput and the sepoy mutiny with Incredible song titles this had to have been 1967. dig the song titles flower power flower bed eye string beads do it with flowers lullaby for flower children Child Of Love ragadelic flowers flowers everywhere beautiful beautiful flower and The Fifth Dimension hit up up and away now you might ask how did the cigar Chomper on the second floor make a phone call to the basement and get a full-length album done by the end of the business day well it's quite easy actually you would have these musicians downstairs who would rush out to the record store and get a phonograph copy of say up up and away by The Fifth Dimension they would put it on the record player downstairs listen to it a couple of times figure out how to play it start the tape recorder and then play it hit stop and in this case they would have by the sounds of this record they would have also gone to the local music shop on Long Island and bought themselves a sitar and then sat down and played the sitar along with this one take no redos one take Wonder version of up up and away and then they would typically like maybe record a couple of generic instrumental tracks just like real simple you know moon June spoon type music and then overdub some more sitar on it and then they would go into their Library where they had dozens and dozens and dozens of tapes of this generic instrumental stuff recorded in Years Gone by like you'd have a bunch of twist numbers from when the twist was a big craze you'd have a bunch of surf you know surf quote unquote songs from when surf music was a craze they would get those instrumental recordings play them back and this guy who had just bought a sitar 15 minutes ago would play sitar on top of These instrumental tracks and hence you've got a brand new song called beautiful beautiful flowers that they can put on this flower power sitar record by rajput and the sepoy mutiny unbelievable and I my brothers and sisters all of you out there who are watching and listening right now I'm not joking I'm not lying I'm telling you exactly what I heard when I played This Record side one track one is that version of up up and away featuring I'm not joking the worst the worst ever Lovin gal dang mother scratching chicken bashing sitar player I've ever heard in my life it is very very obvious that whoever's playing the sitar whoever this uh Raj's put guy is really probably had only owned a sitar or maybe he was renting a centaur for the afternoon but it only ever had it in his hands for five or ten minutes I'm not joking it is completely out of tune completely out of key and you can hear the dude fumbling while he plays there's like all these dropped notes and awkward pick hits and you know at least one place where he kind of gets lost but that was the nature of these things one take the big boss wanted this record done by the end of the day so that's it one take and it's only going to be sold at a dime store anyway for 88 cents so who cared you know nobody cared they just pressed it and got it out and then the next day they were going to record maybe um I don't know a Hare Krishna tribute record I wouldn't be surprised it was like whatever they thought they could cash in on as quickly as possible and this is such a wonderful wonderful example of that extremely cynical business model This Record is terrible what's interesting is that as the album goes on from track one side one to track five side two the sitar player actually gets a little bit better I mean he never gets good mind you there is no good sitar playing on this record but you can actually hear the guy sort of getting better from one track to the other he is learning on the job on vinyl forever so yes rajput and the sepoy mutiny not a record that anybody in their right mind would ever want or listen to but I never said I was in my right mind I never made any claims to the contrary I only said that my name is Malcolm tint and I love to talk Tunes and I have always had a big fondness in my heart for the records that nobody else wants there's always a reason why nobody wants them and those reasons usually appeal to my sense of the Absurd absurd by the way this album is on the wonderful cheese ball exploitation record design Ed with a subsidiary of Pickwick records of Long Island Lou Reed to name one actually cut his teeth as an in-house singer-songwriter for design records you can actually hear his voice and his guitar playing on some of these records if you have sharp enough hearing I have a few of those for sale by the way if anybody wants to hear some Lou Reed before he was Lou Reed hit me up I'll hook you up I forgot to mention too that this Dorian record this Dorian record this copy of the historian record is for sale so if you want some genuine homosexual outer space mutant rock and roll on an independent label by a guy who was mocked mercilessly in Punk magazine let me know I got it for you you might not know you need it but you do need it all right what else did I find here oh my God here's another one this is great oh my eyes lit up when I saw this thing you don't even know how happy this one made me you don't even know I don't have words to describe the joy in my heart when I picked this one out of the bin I gotta remember which shop was I at when I got this one my memory serves me badly right now it was in uh what is the town that James Madison University is in Noble records was the name of the shop Noble records in Martinsburg Virginia yes at the beginning of the trip now you guys if you're a follower of tent talks Tunes you've heard me talk a lot about Grand Funk you might have heard me do my entire show devoted to their manager Terry Knight hell of a story it's the kind of stuff you can't make up the story of Terry Knight I was waxing rap Sonic about Terry Knight's post Grand Funk career when he started to believe his own hype when he actually genuinely believed that he could uh to paraphrase him take a lump of [ __ ] and make gold out of it he genuinely believed that he had this magical ability to create something out of nothing and um you know to cut to the chase the first band that he attempted to do this with was a group called Mom's Apple Pie and the Very Infamous story about it is how he came up with this pornographic album cover and tried to generate a lot of controversy about it thinking that with enough controversy there'd be enough sales and with enough sales you know super stardom and he would have created himself another Grand Funk Railroad as we all know didn't quite work and um the the I think pretty sure one of the last pieces of the Terry Knight puzzle was a copy of that original Mom's Apple Pie record found it I found it at Noble records in Martinsburg Virginia and of course you know I do have a bit of a sense of propriety here so I'm not going to show you the naughty bed so you can certainly find them online maybe you're one of the Unlucky people who actually has this in your personal record collection I don't know but here is the Mom's Apple Pie record in question I have censored it with my fingers which are very carefully strategically placed yes Mom's Apple Pie with the dirty cover that's the dirty cover and that's Mom's Apple Pie themselves apparently at least one of the members of Mom's Apple Pie was extremely embarrassed by the front cover and the music itself well my good friend and Mentor Leslie Wimmer of open books and Records was visiting me the last time I found a Mom's Apple Pie record in the wild and I was playing for it playing it just to listen to it and she looked up and said you know what this this record sounds very common and I thought that was an apt description it's very common uh Mom's Apple Pie were not the worst band in the world but kind of like guys like Joe bryeth and Dorian they were trying to jump on a type of music that was very popular at a specific moment in time and that was horn driven rock bands this is in the days when Blood Sweat and Tears and Chicago were selling boatloads of Records in each band that had a big horn section so lo and behold you got this band I think they're from Ohio I want to say lo and behold you got you know 13 or 14 guys who put together a band with a great big horn section and they're gonna ride the crest of the wave of Blood Sweat and Tears in Chicago and you know it's okay it's it's not bad it's just kind of you know it's just really nothing too special about it I even found a bootleg recording of these guys on the wolf Wolfgang's Vault website and you know to me the litmus test of whether a band is really Kick-Ass or not is can they do it live and I've been turned on to a lot of great music by listening to the live album or a live bootleg of a band and I've also done an episode of tent talks tunes about that so I checked out this live recording of Mom's Apple Pie thinking well maybe they could fire it up live and you know maybe there's something that just didn't get captured on vinyl hate to say it but the live recording was about as common as the lp sorry guys I tried I really did but I just did not hear anything that uh would make Terry Knight sell millions and millions and millions of records and of course it didn't happen so I don't know the results speak for themselves now I'm going to wrap up here with another record that I found I believe I found this one let me try to remember what my itinerary was for this whole trip I went to so many record stores this one was from um Main Street jukebox in Stroudsburg Main Street records in Stroudsburg Pennsylvania great shop and uh digging through the cheap one dollar records I found a cheap one dollar record by a band who I genuinely love um a band that never got the recognition that they really deserved kind of like Grand Funk um sold millions and millions of Records I'm pretty sure they're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame I'm pretty sure they were never on the color of Rolling Stone I'm pretty sure that they never won a Grammy pretty sure that they never got any of the kudos that money can buy I'm talking about Three Dog Night Harmony I'm here to tell you right now my droogies this is a great record this is a seriously really really good record Three Dog Night new there shiznit they knew how to make a record that totally rocked uh when I was a Wii lad my father had three dog night captured live at The Forum on eight track tape and he would play that eight-track tape a lot and boom I love that loved it and then later on you know through the household was the Three Dog Night it ate easy album the one album around the world with three dog night uh The Joy to the world greatest hits golden biscuits the first three dog night greatest hits golden biscuits those records really blew me away when I was a kid and as is so often the case with bands that I really liked when I was young I just you know kind of lost track of them for a while and didn't really think about it until one day I just sort of came across a copy of Three Dog Night Live at the Forum and said eh why don't I play this for the first time in 30 years and I did and it was just as good as I remembered it I was really really that good and that set me off on my path to just start rebuilding My Three Dog Night collection and you know because of the reasons I mentioned before they were never on the cover of Rolling Stone they never got a Grammy they were never in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame they don't have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame probably just because their management didn't have enough clout to buy them all of those accolades they've always stayed very well under the radar and I can practically guarantee you that if you go to any cheap bin in any record store or if you look hard enough in any flea market or yard sale you you will find all the Three Dog Night records you want cheap I got this for a buck it's hardly in any kind of great condition you know the covers all split and worn out but for a buck why not brought it home played it damn good record real good combination of mellow 70s Groove and some tasty 70s rock music so three dog night I've been an unrepentant fan for uh the better part of my entire life and I was just very happy to find this cheap beater copy that I can just play whenever I feel like it you know it's the kind of record that I don't have to put in a plastic bag even I mean I'm not the type of guy to grab a record like this and put my fingers all over the wax but if I were gonna this would be one of those records got nothing to lose if I destroy it I'll find another one for a buck somewhere who cares but a great record seriously if anybody out there likes tasty 70s rock we can talk about Three Dog Night wall day long boom and Matt my friends wraps up this week's episode of TED Talks Tunes between the fact that my touring schedule is over for the year and that my sub has got a seized engine I ain't going anywhere for a while I plan to be staying very well put at least until January um with the exception of going to the punk rock holiday Flea on December 10th which means we should have lots of tent talks tunes for the next couple of months I don't think I'll be missing any you know I can't predict the future obviously but should be good so I should be seeing a lot more of you than I have in the past few weeks if you're watching on YouTube thank you for watching as fun as it is here on YouTube it's triply fun live on Facebook every Wednesday at 7 pm Eastern Standard Time and I'm gonna sign off now with something I didn't talk about as I go to my monitor and see if I can turn this thing off successfully one of my favorite magazines of all time after Cream Magazine and before maximum rock and roll it was trouser press and I do believe I'll be talking about trouser press next week and some of the music I found in the field that does relate to trouser press so I do hope to be back in about 167 hours until we meet again this is Malcolm tent sing so long from the Nutmeg State foreign
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