Barney Bubbles Memorial Concert and Imperial Pompadours CD

[trev]

dear hamburger...you're getting NOTHING...NOTHING d'ya hear?
ha ha ha ha

It's my birthday today...

there was an ersatz vinyl on ebay recently...$95

trevy wevy

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From: "mike coleman" <insect.brain at GMAIL.COM>
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 12:52 PM
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Subject: Re: Barney Bubbles Memorial Concert and Imperial Pompadours CD

> well, as the techies thread will ferrit out,  it's no wonder my new (gifted)
> (but new) cheap-ass turn-table is a spiritual matter, and quite the
> rebellious one (my fave part), completre with intermission if desired.
> Riding this new wave of vinyl resurgence which may have been brought about
> by simple greed and people's want to 'pose' more stuff, is no other than my
> local record dealer who was likely the best source of CD's here in
> Texas....and now there's not a CD in sight there and he's pullin' $1000.00 +
> per day....solo....
> So anyway, what I love about this, is that you must have finally been into
> your mum's basement or located whatever shady character from the past to get
> your LP back, and now that you've commited it to archival digital format, if
> you've not returned it to it's sleeve and it's going into paper, PLEASE
> return it very carefully and contact me off-list about the details....
> I will require all future RFM releases pressed in wax, and come to think of
> it you'll get rich pulling this off so just hand over the LP
> you have my address but if you need it again don't hesitate asking
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/29/09, trev <judge48 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "ERSATZ"   THE IMPERIAL POMPADOURS
>>
>> Barney's own musical masterpiece
>>
>> Now available from Real Festival Music:
>> http://www.realfestivalmusic.co.uk/music.html 
>> £7.99 + shipping - all major credit cards accepted
>> Original Barney Bubbles artwork cover, burned on archival quality media.
>>
>>
>>
>> Go to the Barney Bubbles Memorial all-dayer Concert, 29th November, 229
>> Club Great Portland Street, London
>> More info and tickets http://www.nikturner.com/   and
>> http://www.hawklords.com 
>>
>> Originally planned as a "Sunday Implosion" at the London Roundhouse, the
>> concert will now take place at the 229 Club Great Portland Street, London
>> with the same line-up:
>>
>> Hawklords featuring the New Bubblettes, Brian James Gang, Inner City Unit,
>> Imperial Pompadours, Quintessence, Jerry Fitzgerald/Lol Coxhill's Fre-Ex,
>> Trikimiki's '3-D Space-Warp', D.J. Jeff Dexter, and the Pentameters Players
>> performing "The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice" by Robert Calvert
>>
>> Plus  psychedelic light shows and visual exhibits
>>
>> Visionary artist Barney Bubbles was the graphic designer and creator of
>> such classic sleeves as Hawkwind's "X In Search of Space," "Doremi Fasol
>> Latido" and "Space Ritual" as well as innumerable Stiff Records covers. But
>> his vision also extended to light shows, choreography and this record,
>> "Ersatz." Collaborating with friend Nik Turner, Robert Calvert, Inner City
>> Unit and whoever else was in the studio at the time, they produced a record
>> under extreme economic conditions. Barney even designed the sleeve in
>> affordable black and white, and kept the band (and himself, as was his wont)
>> completely anonymous in the credits. Saving on the expense of studio time,
>> they would record first-take versions of songs from a favourite mix tape of
>> his after one play apiece. They would listen then record, listen then record
>> twelve times in one quick session.
>>
>> And the songs on Barney's tape? "The Crusher" by The Novas, Little Black
>> Egg" by The Nightcrawlers, "Brand New Cadillac", "Black Denim Trousers And
>> Motorcycle Boots" by The Cheers. But what wound up on the album were a
>> string of versions rendered by a band that had little or no previous
>> knowledge of these songs! "The Crusher" is slowed down as to render the
>> vocals practically belching or vomiting, not sung, over spartan backing of
>> pot'n'pan percussion, drill noises and dinky organ. "See You Soon Baboon" is
>> all frantic LSD-rockabilly, heavy on the vocal reverbing. In fact, the
>> reverb's in the red on half the tracks here and if it's not the vocals, it's
>> the damn guitar or some bicycle spokes being played with a knitting needle.
>> From the "Pebbles" archive comes a classic freakout on The Fee-Fi-Fo-Plus
>> Four's "I Want To Come Back (From the World of LSD)" with its barked out
>> chorus of "A-C-I-D! A-C-I-D! A-C-I-D!" over variable delay speeding. The
>> whole thing reeks of low budget experimentalism at all times, especially
>> when an egg timer is used as percussion on one track. "Light Show" is pure
>> anarchy: an almost "Baba O'Reilly" type anthem synthesizer intro, but ("POW!
>> POW!") in breaks a buzzsaw Keith Levene riff -- sans backing -- then Nik
>> Turner gives it some Hawkwind-styled intonation over a spare and tortured
>> mini psycho-punk bombardment until it all degenerates into a woman shrieking
>> over and over: "LIGHT SHOW! LIGHT SHOW! LIGHT SHOW!"
>>
>> On the back cover legend "Play it LOUD you turkeynecks" the word "LOUD"
>> takes up half the space of the jacket but you run a real risk if you make
>> good on this suggestion and live adjacent to intolerable neighbours. Because
>> one song can suddenly rocket into the stratosphere all noised-up after a
>> real quiet passage. Side two is "Insolence Across The Nation" and is a
>> surefire rent-breaker at any volume: An album side's length of collaged
>> sound effects, samples of Wagner and brief instrumentals backing a
>> multi-perspective narration of the life of Adolf Hitler. It's
>> psychedelic/punk cabaret action, for sure and one of the narrators is most
>> definitely Robert Calvert, slipping into "Captain Lockheed" meets
>> "Steppenwolf" psychotic, Teutonic ranting and frothing at the mouth. The
>> whole deal is just so twisted and unpolished, this album and the year it
>> came out - 1982 -- are completely incongruous. An utterly twisted album of
>> variety and creativity.
>>
>> http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/40#
>>
>>
>> "Barney was, as far as media direction of the youth of this country,
>> probably the most important artist of our generation." Douglas Smith
>>
>>
>>
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