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Mojo Music Newsletter Vol 8 No3 June 2010
Here's what will be available during the next few weeks at Mojo.

this month's new release highlights
velvets

Velvet Underground
Vinyl/VU and Nico
2 DVDs



bbc folk

BBC
Story of Folk Music
2 DVDs


2 DVD set with the first disc being Warhol's movie " Vinyl " - shot in the Factory one day in March
(according to other sources, end of April-beginning of May) 1965 freely inspired by A Clockwork Orange. Restored and digitally re-mastered
under supervision of the Andy Warhol Foundation. .Second disc is an hour rehearsal / jam of the Velvets with Nico and as expected, it's a very primitive and stretched out affair.

2 hours of UK TV performances by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee,
Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Davy Graham, Wiz Jines, Bob Dylan, Jackson C Frank, Sandy Denny,
Pentangle, The Incredible String Band, Richard Thompson, Donovan, Steeleye Span
and tons more. Folk heaven !!!

stones exile

Rolling Stones
Stones In Exile
DVD

texas flashbacks

Texas Flashbacks
Various Artists
6 CD Box Set

DVD release of the 60 minute BBC TV broadcast now comes with 90 minutes of bonus features with extensive additional footage including interviews with all the band members, footage from “Cocksucker Blues” and Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts returning to Olympic Studios and Jagger’s country house Stargroves where a lot of the early work on the album was done. The film includes contributions from all the band members: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman & Mick Taylor.

Additional contributions from: Martin Scorsese, Jack White, Don Was, Caleb Followill (Kings Of Leon), Benicio Del Toro, Will.I.Am (Black Eyed Peas), Sheryl Crow, Anita Pallenberg, Ronnie Wood, producer Jimmy Miller, engineer Andy Johns, photographer Dominique Tarlé and sax player Bobby Keys.!!

This CD reissue of the original 6 LP set is quite simply the greatest Texan psych/garage compilation
ever released. Mojo's Frank was lucky enough to hook up with the 3 guys from Austin who released these some 30 years ago and sold many copies of each volume in his days at The Record Plant. One of those guys is still active in the Austin scene running the twice yearly Record Fair.

The Lone Star State was home to a disproportionate number of fine garage, psych and punk bands in the 1960s. This stupendous boxed set gathers together no fewer than 95 of their greatest moments, culled from some of the rarest singles ever issued. Complete with a packed 32 page booklet (featuring discographies, rare pictures and background info), it’s a truly essential purchase for all fans of snarling, snotty, sneering rock and roll. Preorder.

chocolate soup

Epitaph for a Legend
Various Artists
2 CDs

eagles live

The Eagles
Live in Concert 73/74
DVD

New re-mastered version of the classic 2 LP compilation of artists on Houston's International Artists label that runs the full spectrum from blues to psych / garage. Includes Big Walter, Dave Allen, Lightnin' Hopkins, The Spades, 13th Floor Elevators, Lost & Found, The Chaparrels , Red Krayola and more. Was great, still is !! Preorder.

3 Performances from 1973/74 from the UK, US & Holland. 80 minutes of footage with special guest
appearances from Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne.

chocolate soup

Chocolate Soup
(for Diabetics)
Various Artists
5 CD Box Set

velvets quine

Velvet Underground
The Quine Tapes
6 LPs

The original vinyl series documenting the best of the UK Psychedelic and Freakbeat underground 45's of the 60's is now gathered ( with extra stuff ) in one place.The 5 CD set contains 82 classic tracks by Tintern Abbey, The Apple, The Tickle, The Smoke, Fleur De Lys and others, and gems by lesser- known artists such as Boo & The Boo-Boos, The Perishers, Graded Grains, The Australian Playboys and many more.

Also included is a lavish full-colour booklet, offering discographies and histories of every act, as well as many rare photographs. Hands down the best series of its time and it's never been topped. Mindblowingly essential !! Preorder .

The Quine Tapes is a definitive document of the live Velvet Underground. Captured on tape from performances in San Francisco and St. Louis between May and December of 1969, the recordings feature the Velvet Underground’s final lineup of Lou Reed, guitarist Sterling Morrison, drummer Moe Tucker and bassist Doug Yule. The material includes incendiary performances of such seminal Velvets standards as “I’m Waiting for the Man,” “What Goes On,” “Sunday Morning,” “Femme Fatale,” “White Light/White Heat,” “Venus in Furs,” “Heroin,” “New Age,” “The Black Angel’s Death Song” and “Rock and Roll.” Also included is a rare performance of the “Follow the Leader,” an original song which the band never officially released, as well as stunningly different versions of the epic “Sister Ray.” The 6-LPs are packaged in three striking gatefold jackets with poster/handbill inserts, rare photos and a deluxe box.Recorded by Velvets fan and future alt-rock guitar icon Robert Quine (who would go on to play with the Velvet Underground’s leader Lou Reed more than a decade later), these historic Velvet Underground performances are now available on vinyl for the first time ever. The package features incredible new cover art commissioned especially for this vinyl release, plus rare photos, Verve label re-productions’s, poster/handbill inserts, and detailed liner notes by Rolling Stone’s David Fricke. Preorder.

mojo's classic album of the month
chain live

Chain
Live Chain
CD

The post Wendy Saddington, pre Matt Taylor lineup of the band weren't together for long but with the line-up of Phil Manning (guitar, vocals), Warren Morgan (electric piano), Glyn Mason (guitar, vocals), Barry 'Big Goose' Sullivan (bass) and Barry 'Little Goose' (drums), their debut album " Live Chain" is a terrific document ,recorded live to two-track at Caesar's Palace, Sydney on July 1970 - for $32.00 - which was reputedly half the marijuana budget!

Close to impossible to find on LP this reissue adds a track left off the original (probably due to time constraints, as the first two tracks take up almost 25 minutes alone): 'On The Road Again' and their very first single, from 1969; 'Show Me Home' backed with 'Mr. Time ‘.The line-up who recorded the single was Manning, Morgan and Harvey with Claude Papesch (organ) and Tim Piper (bass). Morgan and Papesch's piano/organ interplay was reminiscent of The Band and a very early example of progressive rock in Australia , and 'Mr. Time' is positively psychedelic!

For those who are only familiar with Chain via their 1971 breakthrough album "Toward The Blues", you may be surprised at how progressive this album is - a sound not too dissimilar to Blind Faith - with an added twin guitar attack. It is still rooted in the blues, mind, with some awesome extended soloing, but some of Morgan's piano is decidedly funky! ('Black And White'), whilst the riff-tastic
'Pilgrimage' would not sound out of place on Kahvas Jute's 1971 progressive rock classic "Wide Open ". An absolute masterpiece and along with Carson the greatest Australian blues outfit !!

 


Nev's Nuggets

jericho alley

Jericho Alley Vols 1-2-3
Various Artists
CD

With the 3rd volume just released, this excellent series of compilations provide a fascinating view of the LA RnB scene from 1955 to 1967. Artists featured include Harmonica Slim, Gus Jenkins, King Solomon,Louis Jackson,and plenty more. These comps play really well and are highly recommended for fans of the second tier front runners.Tough Guitars,plenty of fine harp blowin', and some killer vocal performances make these packages hard to resist. Nicely priced at $20 each - Jericho Alley is what you buy when you think you have it all.

Nev

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Upcoming Instore
The Southern Preachers will be performing live at Mojo's on Saturday 26th June at 3pm. As usual, it's free.

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Got Vinyl Records To Sell?

Need to sell some of your vinyl records?
We are always buying - either email: info@mojomusic.com.au
or else phone us at (02) 9262-4999.

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Vinyl Rarities

We've been processing an amazing collection over the past few weeks. Several of you have already
loaded up with lots of great stuff but there's still plenty of goodies left.

* Fully signed The Smiths - Meat Is Murder LP

* Unplayed copy of PJ Harvey's " Dry" vinyl with bonus album of demos of songs on the first disc. Individually numbered edition which sold out the day of release,

* Many Siouxsie items including a bunch of signed records.

* Tons of Goth vinyl including some crazy Cure stuff.

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The Mojo Playlist

Jimmy Nolan - Before The Funk
Link Wray - Wray's Three Track Shack
Mikey Baker - But Wildest
Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You
Howlin' Wolf - This is Howlin' Wolf's new album
James Brown - In the Jungle Groove
John Lee Hooker / Groundhogs - Hooker & Hogs
Jon Wayne - Texas Funeral
Johnny Winter - Progressive Blues
Percy Mayfield - His Tangerine and Atlantic Sides


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If you are after anything on CD, DVD, or vinyl, email us at info@mojomusic.com.au

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