OFF: CDs/LPs spotted, Bay Area stuff, etc.

[Doug Pearson]

A whole bunch of things ... first, some albums/CD's spotted in the Bay Area:

1) Last weekend, when I was at Amoeba Records in Berkeley, I saw that they
have a vinyl copy of Nik Turner Sphynx 'Xitintoday' (Charisma) for $20.
The sleeve was in great shape, but the album was taped shut so I couldn't
check the condition of the LP or see if the booklet was included.  If
someone seriously wants this, the store will open it up so it can be
checked before purchase.

2) Picked up a copy of the 'Hawkwind' (first album) CD on One Way at the
Tower Outlet in San Francisco today for cheap (the only other Hawkwind
items I could find were the Dave Anderson stuff).  If anyone needs it more
than I do, drop me a line.

3) The same Tower Outlet has *tons* of copies of the 3 Motorhead CD's on
CMC for $6.00 each (no 'Heaven Forbid' cutouts, sorry).

Among some of my more recent acquisitions (the new ST37 CD 'I like to talk
when theres something to talk about' rules!), a couple things I should
mention...

One of the newly-released Twink (the Pink Fairies/Pretty
Things/Tomorrow/Pinkwind/etc. drummer, of course, not the keyboard roadie!)
albums, 'Unreleased Experimental Tapes' (or something along those lines),
is incredible!  It's unfinished tapes from 69/70 of (mostly) heavy drumming
and completely freaked-out Moog synthesizer noise (it was described to me
as sounding like Throbbing Gristle in parts, and indeed it does), along
with a few psych song bits that sound like outtakes from 'Think Pink'.
There's another new album of old (70s/80s, I think) Twink stuff that I
haven't yet checked out, given the dodginess of some of that guy's work.
But this 'Experimental Tapes' one is definitely worth it (as long as you're
into electronic weirdness).

And, one of those Italian labels that's been reissuing cool stuff left &
right (Get Back, Abraxas, etc.) has put out a legit (I think?) reissue of
the Sam Gopal 'Escalator' album.  I picked up a vinyl reissue (gatefold,
heavy vinyl), so I'm not sure if it's available on CD.  Sounds better than
the previous bootleg CD, as far as I can tell.  Real nice 60s fuzz/psych
music with tablas instead of a drumkit, and guitar/lead vocals by Lemmy
(post-Rockin' Vicars, pre-Opal Butterfly).

Lastly, for any Bay Area folks, since Primordial Undermind have moved out
of town, I'm most recently involved in a band called Go Commando.  We're
playing our first show this friday (jan 21) at the Cocodrie in San
Francisco (on Kearny Street in North Beach), and are going on first at
around 9:30PM.  Our singer has a gorgeous voice (and looks to match), the
guitarist and drummer are quite skilled, and I'll be playing keyboards plus
a bit of bass.  I'm not quite sure how to describe our sound (although it's
definitely not spacerock), but I will promise that we'll play one
"on-topic" cover song.  Hope to see you there ...

        -Doug
         ceres at sirius.com