Autumn 66 Records: 2014

Thursday, November 20, 2014

John Fallon Afterword New Album Out Now On Autumn 66 Records

Former Steppes singer/guitarist John Fallon has just released his first solo album in 15 years. It's titled Afterword and it's OUT NOW on Autumn 66 Records. Available at Amazon and at Autumn 66 Records at Discogs!

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Blue Oyster Cult-The Golden Age Of Leather (1977)

Raise your can of beer on high!

Mogwai-Rave Tapes (Full Album)

They just keep gettin' better!

Brian Jonestown Massacre-Fist Full Of Bees (2012)

Sock it towards me! (as Lou Rawls used to say!)

Tavares-It Only Takes A Minute (Capitol 1974)

Now in the unemployment lines/you can spend your life reading signs/waiting for your interview/it can shoot the whole day for you!

AIN'T IT THE TRUTH!

Del Jones' Positive Vibes-Times Are Hard And Friends Are Few!

From The Cold Jaws Of Prison!

Tiny Tex And The J.Jones Connection-Who Am I

About as far raw as it gets!

100 Essential Dub Albums By David Furgess On Sale Now At Amazon!

Cotton Candy TV AD 1978

Get Down! Get Down! Rock on brothers! Come join Smalley's hot new rock band!

Autumn 66 Records At The Movies: Angel Dusted (1981)

This classic 1981 flick stars John "Drugs" Putch as Owen Eaton, a over privileged knob-head from a lace curtain circus of a family that includes his real life mother Jean Stapleton (aka Edith Bunker yikes!), career stuffed shirt Arthur Hill (of the 4 Martini lunch brigade), Helen "Knocker Trembler" Hunt and Ken Michelman (who played Goldstein on the White Shadow.)

The story revolves around the Angel Dust crisis that was big news in suburbia in 1980-1981 (almost every TV drama had a "dust" episode back then.) Poor Owen couldn't cope as a college jarhead so he turned to Angel Dust to boost himself through mid-terms. But of course, Owen couldn't handle his dust and freaked out big time in the college dorms. It culminated in Owen doing an auto-destruct number on the school trophy case that resembled Pete Townshend's guitar smashing scene at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

This little escapade earned Owen a corner padded room at the state mental hospital. Owen's mail it in parents refused to believe their son used dope and slipped heavily into a denial trip "our son is a good boy and he comes from a good family blah blah blah!)

Owen is finally discharged but things don't go well at home. The rest of the family think Owen is out to lunch, so our hero begins to raid Pop's Valium stash. Owen then has a meltdown that features a super punch-up with his gin soaked father. Owen is then shipped back to the nut hatch and slips into the void in his very own cheesburger universe.

Finally, Owen is packed off to a "with-it" halfway house that of course features the obligatory Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd wall posters. Owen finally figures out that his whole bum trip is the result of trying to keep up with his dope-smoking brother the medical student (played by Michelman.) The whole thing wraps up with Owen and family reuniting at the family plantation.

This dire flick was originally a TV movie of the week and trust me it has more yuk-yuks than a Sgt. Bilko marathon. It's now available as a WB home DVD and believe me it one real gone gasser!

David Furgess

7-26-14

Mynah Birds-It's My Time (VIP 1966)

Projected 1966 single from Canada's would be super group The Mynah Birds. The group featured Neil Young, Bruce Palmer and future funk superstar Rick James on vocals. James it turns out was AWOL from the US Navy and was eventually thrown in the stockade which killed the group's record deal at Motown offshoot VIP. The group also included future Steppenwolf groovers Goldy McJohn and Nick St. Nicholas.

Autumn 66 Records Unsung Records: Bruce Palmer-The Cycle Is Complete (Verve Forecast 1970)

Ex-Buffalo Springfield bass player's moody 1970 solo effort for Verve-Forecast is a loose, trippy affair that features various members of West Coast act Kaleidoscope and his old pal in the Mynah Birds Rick James on scat vocals. Overall the LP sounds a lot like Can's 1973 gem Future Days. A great late night album from an underrated talent!

David Furgess-7-26-14