#mabuhay gardens

[disease]

PSYCHIC TV @ MABUHAY GARDENS | 1980s

#psychic tv #PTV #show flyer #80s #industrial #TOPY #ephemera #mabuhay gardens #san francisco #monochrome #music #u #EDIT

[theunderestimator-2]

Crime lords: Frankie Fix (centre) and Johnny Strike (right), founding members of Crime, "SF's First and Only Rock 'N' Roll Band' along with Ricky Williams (left), original singer for The Sleepers -and former Crime drummer- as captured by James Stark at the first Sleepers show at the Mabuhay Gardens, December 25, 1977.

According the Sleepers' bio:

"The Sleepers formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1978. Michael Belfer had been trying to form a band with his friend, Tim Mooney, and Belfer had decided he wanted former Crime drummer Ricky Williams for vocals, as "he was so awesome looking". The band released a five-track 7-inch EP in late 1978, and then broke up, with Belfer playing in Tuxedomoon and Williams co-founding Flipper, from which he was fired before the band made any recordings 'for being too weird'."

(via)

#Ricky Williams #Frankie Fix #Johnny Strike #Crime #1977 #early punk scene #punk #san francisco #mabuhay gardens #the sleepers #people

[midnighttraindemo]

FUCKED UP + PHOTOCOPIED: Instant Art Of The Punk Rock Movement

published 1999, this 3rd printing pub. 2002

#found this at my local record store for $55NZD !!!! quite a steal compared to prices online and it's sooooo fucking cool i'm obsessed #been using it as a reference text for my graphic design class so the investment is paying off 🙏 #punk #punk rock #punk art #punk posters #dead kennedys #kraut #black flag #sonic youth #jello biafra #the germs #winston smith #the mad #stimulators #the dictators #the misfits #misfits #mabuhay gardens #70s #80s

[saintvalentinesorelse]

Valentine’s Day 1980

#flamin groovies #romeo void #mabuhay gardens #fab mab #the mab #valentines gigs

[ashtrayfloors]

Lux Interior of The Cramps, dives into the audience (at Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco, 1978) // Steve Harlow

#photography #not my photo #lux interior #the cramps #live music #stage dive #mabuhay gardens #san francisco #1970s #motion blur #steve harlow #flickr

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY to the legendary Nico: Actress, model, musician, and singer-songwriter. Born in Germany as Christa Päffgen, her career is well documented—from being cast in Fellini’s LA DOLCE VITA and singing on the landmark first Velvet Underground album, then embarking on a long career as a Teutonic chanteuse. Her reputation as “Andy Warhol’s eye candy” nearly limited her and her music has a compelling future-primitive goth-folk quality—eerie and gauzy yet somehow endearing. Her best-known albums were produced by John Cale and Eno, but her 80s recordings are well-worth seeking out as well. She died suddenly and tragically at age 49 after a bicycle accident.

In late 1978 she performed a series of shows at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco. It was just her voice and her harmonium— an enigmatic set considering The Mab mostly staged rowdy punk/New Wave bands. I met her briefly, recorded her shows for my own enjoyment, then uploaded them on reel-to-reel tapes. A few years later I loaned the tapes to an associate who never returned them. Many years after that, my recordings mysteriously appeared on a French bootleg series. Those tapes got a lot of mileage. HB Nico and thank you for your spirit. This video approximates what we saw at the Mab...

#nico #christapaffgen #velvetunderground #singersongwriter #johnnyjblair #harmonium #mabuhaygardens #sanfrancisco #birthdays

#johnny j blair #singer songwriter #music #san francisco #Nico #Velvet Underground #Mabuhay Gardens #birthday #harmonium #Youtube

[legendarytragedynacho]

Poison Ivy, Mabuhay Gardens Dressing room, SF 1979

📷 by Jim Jacoy

#poison ivy #jim jacoy #the cramps #music #musician #musica #rock #rock music #singer #rock singer #beauty #punk rock #gothic rock #psychobilly

[punkrockhistory]

45 years ago

Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys at Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco, November 22, 1978, the 15th anniversary of JF Kennedy's death

Photo by Stanley Greene

#punk #punks #punkrock #jellobiafra #deadkennedys #mabuhaygardens #history #punkrockhistory

[iamdangerace]

Poison Ivy and Lux Interior in the dressing room of the Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco (1979).

#poison ivy rorschach #lux interior #the cramps

[kvetchlandia]

Mike Murphy     Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys, Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco     1979

[theunderestimator-2]

Tony the Tiger aka Tony the Hustler & Cherie Greene aka Cherie the Penguin, LA first wave punk couple visiting San Francisco punk temple Mabuhay Gardens in Jan. 1978, as captured by SF street photographer Greg Gaar & found on The Fab Mab FB group.

From the few bits & pieces I managed to trace on the internet about those early LA punk scenesters & sexual adventurers, I found Tony mentioned as a ‘gay-for-pay male hustler’ and Cherie remembered as 'the gregarious dominatrix singer of the band Butch’ according to Kid Congo’s ‘Some New Kind Of Kick’ memoir. Another post on Cherie, this time by Doug Fitzsimmons on his @punk_diversity IG account, provides some more enlightening backstory after a talk he had with her, such as her relationship & marriage to Tony and the incident that earned her her nickname from the tux and tails she was wearing the night she crashed a party at Wilton Hilton, the infamous ramshackle Craftsman duplex/ Screamers then-headquarters, where the best parties were supposedly held, fueled by acid, sex and… ghosts.

(via, via & )

#early punk scene #tony the hustler #tony the tiger #cherie the penguin #la punk #people #punk #mabuhay gardens #the screamers #1978 #wilton hilton

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Poison Ivy & Lux Interior of The Cramps barely standing up straight in the suffocating small dressing room of “Mabuhay Gardens” in San Francisco ca. 1978, as documented by Jim Jocoy.

#Poison Ivy #Lux Interior #Jim Jocoy

[therecordchanger62279]

THE RECORDCHANGER YEAR-END EDITION 2023

       My annual year-end review of my favorite records and books.

 TOP NEW ALBUM RELEASES

     Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos – Yuja Wang & The Los Angeles Philharmonic

     I Inside The Old Year Dying – PJ Harvey

     The American Project – Yuja Wang with The Louisville Orchestra

     Hackney Diamonds – The Rolling Stones

     Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day? – Galen & Paul

     Relentless – Pretenders

     The Future Is Now – The Chick Corea Elektric Band

 TOP REISSUES/ARCHIVE RELEASES

     Evenings At The Village Gate – John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy

     Anthology – Charlie Watts

     Hollywood Blues Summit-Live At The Ash Grove – Muddy Waters

     Live At Mabuhay Gardens – Romeo Void

     Grrr Live! – The Rolling Stones

     All Around Man: Live In London – Rory Gallagher

     A Night In San Francisco – Missing Persons

 FINDS OF THE YEAR

   (Catalog titles that slipped under my radar when first released)

     Yesterday’s Wine – Willie Nelson (1971)

     Let England Shake – PJ Harvey (2011)

     Concerto In B. Goode – Chuck Berry (1969)

     Live In Bremen 1975 – Gary Bartz NTU Troop (2021)

     Cool Heat: The Best of CTI Records – Various (2017)

     Force Majeure – Doro Pesch (1989)

     Bound For Hell On The Sunset Strip – Various Artists (2022)

 THE YEAR IN REVIEW:

     If anyone had told me that 2023 would see new releases from both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, I’d have suggested a sanity check. But a live archive release from The Stones early in the year was followed by the all-new Hackney Diamonds in October, while The Beatles released one more song, Now and Then, to cap their career once and for all. Of course, both were bittersweet. Hackney Diamonds was the first Stones release of new material following the death of original drummer Charlie Watts in August 2021. And though Watts appeared on two tracks finished in 2019, Steve Jordan took over the drum chair for the band with mixed results. The Beatles resurrected yet another John Lennon demo first attempted for their Anthology project in 1995, but left unfinished then because of technical issues. New technology allowed them to finally finish the track in 2023, but guitarist George Harrison had passed in 2001. That left Paul and Ringo along with late producer George Martin’s son Giles to complete the recording. So, these releases are really in name only because both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones we all came to know and love had already left the building. Still, both projects were successful, and well-received, and while The Beatles claim their record is indeed the end, The Rolling Stones are already back on the road, and promising another album of new material (and one last Watts recording) as early as next year. (I wouldn’t put any money on that, however, unless you can afford to lose it.)

     For those of us who took Charlie Watts’ passing to heart, there was some comfort in the release of the Charlie Watts Anthology this year that collected some of the drummer’s best Jazz recordings. And once again, some master sleuth managed to unearth a previously unheard, and unreleased recording by the late John Coltrane. Evenings At The Village Gate with Eric Dolphy, a rehearsal for a 1961 date at the Village Gate transcends less than perfect sound to remind everyone that 1961 was John Coltrane’s year, and that everything he touched that year turned to gold.

     The musical event of 2023, as far as I’m concerned was Yuja Wang’s marathon performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic of all four Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos in one go in February, released a few months later. The genius pianist also released The American Project, a new work by composer Teddy Abrams with the Louisville Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. She toured sold out venues all around the world, and continues to push the envelope by making innovative, and fresh choices in her repertoire to draw more attention to the Classical music genre in the 21st century. As Classical musicians go, Yuja Wang is a Rock star.

     One of the year’s best surprises was the return of Clash bassist Paul Simonon as part of a duo working under the name Galen & Paul. Galen is Galen Ayers, daughter of the late British singer-songwriter Kevin Ayers. Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day recalls the music Serge Gainsbourg made with Jane Birkin in the late 1960s. Sophisticated, smart, charming, and funny, and the last thing I’d have expected, but it works, and was one of my favorite records of the year. The new Pretenders album, Relentless, was another welcome addition to their catalog, and my collection. And PJ Harvey’s latest, I Inside The Old Year Dying, her first new album in seven years, re-establishes her as an artist who continues to move forward, and challenge listeners by constantly reinventing herself.

     Finally, a great new live album from Chick Corea’s Elektric Band, prepared for release by Chick before he passed in 2021 paved the way for the reissue of the band's five studio albums for GRP in new digipak editions with excellent sound. Candid did the honors.

     Closer to home, vinyl and cassette prices continue to rise while the availability of CDs continues to make buying a physical copy of almost anything a genuine headache. I waited three months for an online seller to supply me with Yuja Wang’s Rachmaninoff Concertos CD, and on the day of release, I visited eight retailers online or in store before I could find a copy of the new Rolling Stones album on CD. The store was 40 minutes from my house, and it dampened the excitement of getting the band’s first album of new material in eighteen years. I guess the record industry doesn’t need long time collectors any longer now that vinyl and cassettes are a hit with twenty-somethings with deep pockets. If CDs disappear completely, I’m finished buying music because I refuse to rent it.

     I did, however, manage to find one vinyl record I wanted this year that was actually reasonably priced and available from a reliable online seller. Chuck Berry’s Concerto In B. Goode is kind of a “wild card” in the Berry catalog. His last release for Mercury in 1969 before he returned to Chess, the album has four new originals on side one, but side two features the title track only – eighteen minutes of Berry’s trademark licks and lines. There’s nothing else like it in Chuck’s catalog, and for that reason alone, it was worth getting. It’s hardly a masterpiece, but it is a great listen, and the pressing on Elemental is pristine.

     Another great find this year was Willie Nelson’s 1971 album Yesterday’s Wine. I’d never heard it. I only knew it by reputation. But it was even better than I’d heard – easily as good as Shotgun Willie, Phases and Stages, and even Red Headed Stranger.

     I’ve always (until this year) been behind on PJ Harvey releases, but this year I caught up with Let England Shake, released in 2011. It’s the best album in what has become one of the most impressive catalogs of any contemporary Rock artist.

     Gary Bartz’s Live In Bremen 1975 with the NTU Troop was issued in 2021. I was looking for something interesting from that period, and stumbled on this one. Five years removed from his time with Miles Davis’s electric band, this lands between stints with Kenny Burrell, and Donald Byrd. Free Jazz with a Funk and Soul influence, and the politics of the day are what Bartz’s band was all about, and they are in fine form here. The music just washes over you like a soul cleansing shower.

     All in all, not a bad year for good music – if you could find it, and if you could afford it. The future doesn’t look too bright for collectors like me, but I’m not ready to hang it up just yet – no matter how bumpy the road gets.

     In closing, I’ll mention briefly that I read 40 books this past year, and several were among the worst I’ve ever read. I won’t waste your time discussing those. Instead, I’ll recommend the last one I read which happens to be a music memoir. Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Sleater-Kinney guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder Carrie Brownstein is one of the most engaging books I’ve ever read by a musician. Her honesty and candor are disarming, and while most memoirs are not usually what you would call “page turners,” this one certainly is. I read it in just two days, and I expect to read it again one day. Very highly recommended, and you don’t even need to be a fan of the band (though you might become one by the time you finish).

     Most of the best books I read in 2023 were the crime novels of Ross McDonald featuring his sleuth Lew Archer, and Ian Fleming’s James Bond books. I also read a couple of books by Rock writer Gene Sculatti. For The Records and Tryin’ To Tell A Stranger ‘Bout Rock and Roll were great fun to read, and after the garbage I encountered through most of the year, welcome relief.

If you like what you see here, hit the ‘follow’ button, and then the ‘like’ button when the spirit moves you. Thanks for reading The Recordchanger. I hope you found it worth your time.

[nizajang]

brewing plantita

Have you noticed how expensive the local produce is?

Yes. Sobrang mahal ng mga bilihin at hindi ako sure kung dito lang ba sa Cebu City tag 10 pesos ang isang piraso ng kamatis. Sobrang nakaka stress na kahit ang simpleng gulay, ganyan na kamahal.

Namiss ko yung part ng buhay ko when I was still living with my Mom in Albay where we didn't have to buy kamatis, onion chives, tanglad, talbos ng kamote, okra, sili, talong, kalabasa (basically mga gulay sa bahay kubo) because meron kaming tanim sa backyard.

I miss the feeling na hindi ko na kailangang pumunta sa palengke para lang may magamit ako kasi lahat yun abot kamay ko na sa garden ni Mama. And to think, yung pinagtaniman nya is just a very small space, most of it naka-paso lang. So sabi ko sa sarili ko, why not re-create that?

Since nagsimula ng uminit ulit dito, finally after weeks of rain, naisipan kong magtanim nalang din ng sarili kong mga crops. I am not a person with the green thumb, I, most of the time, kill plants.

Pero sabi nila di naman daw totoo ang green thumb kaya susubukan kong bumuhay ng plants and I am really putting all my hopes up to this (kasi ayoko ng gumastos ulit ng 10 pesos para lang sa isang pirasong kamatis).

Honestly, I miss my Mom and her gardening skills. I miss her plants and I never thought I would someday be thinking the same way as her.

Gusto ko na din maging plantita....

Plantita ng mga herbs and gulay na pwedeng gamitin sa pagluluto.

Pero of course hindi ko makakalimutan ang flowers kaya umorder na ako ng seeds ng bulaklak na kaya kong iassure na mabubuhay (sana talaga mabuhay).

Anyways, I planted a few (kidding, just two) of the veggies that we often use for cooking and here's the progress so far.

(This is the onion leek that I tried to replant. I don't know if mabubuhay ba to but yung pinagtamnan ko sa kanya is just the empty cup of the iced coffee I drank)

(and here's the tomatoes... I hope they have started growing na talaga. I will transfer them to bigger pots if they really start to grow)

Another reason as to why I'm planting is because I wanna show my husband that I am useful and I am not just lying around sa boarding house. I do have extra time to tend to plants and get out of my room. Masyado na kasi syang nagger lately, nakakarindi makinig.

#plantitaniza

[singeratlarge]

SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO: “She’s Not Some Animal”—A Beauty & The Beast story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlZHkQLm9a8

 …The lyrics combine street-wise romanticisms and observations from when I was working as a bicycle messenger on the hardboiled streets of San Francisco, living on Nob Hill and going to Mabuhay Gardens with my friends. When I wrote this “old fashioned love song” I was dosing heavily on 60s British Invasion and 70s New Wave. On a cosmic jukebox it would play next to Badfinger, “Marcella” (Beach Boys), early Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, and klassik Kinks.

The track went through multiple takes (there’s another nifty punk-speed demo version made in Florida with drummer Mark Jones, once lost in the New Wave Twilight Zone). This take was final-mixed by Rusty Richards, a Grammy-winning engineer who worked with Brian Wilson and Julie Miller. Thanks to everyone who keeps requesting this tune.

#powerpop #badfinger #beachboys #elviscostello #nicklowe #sanfrancisco #mabuhaygardens #brianwilson #markjones #newwaverock #twilightzone #beauty #beast #marcella #thekinks #raydavies #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge #attractions #animal #newwave #singersongwriter #streetlife #bicycle #messenger #artrock #singer #vocalist 

#power pop #Badfinger #Beach Boys #Elvis Costello #Nick Lowe #San Francisco #Mabuhay Gardens #Brian Wilson #Mark Jones #New Wave #Twilight Zone #Beauty #Beast #Marcella #The Kinks #Ray Davies #johnny j blair #street life #bicycle #messenger #vocalist #music #singer songwriter #singer at large #san francisco #pop rock #monkees #davy jones #david bowie #Youtube

[bandcampsnoop]

4/26/23.

Yes, Record Store Day has lost its initial charm. But I still love it - it helps me fill in my record collection (The Verlaines "Bird Dog") and helps me discover new bands - Wild Carnations were mentioned a few days ago.

It also helps me appreciate bands I never appreciated or even thought to give a listen. I'd always thought of Romeo Void as 1980s new wave. I knew that ONE song "Never Say Never" with its lyric "I might like you better if we slept together."

Record Store Day saw the LP release of "Live from Mabuhay Gardens: November 14, 1980". This San Francisco, California based band was much more post-punk than new wave (at least initially). Think Pere Ubu, Magazine, Gang of Four, Blondie or early The Cars.

This is released by Liberation Hall.

#Romeo Void #San Francisco #California #Record Store Day #RSD #The Verlaines #Wild Carnations #Pere Ubu #Magazine #Gang of Four #Blondie #The Cars #Liberation Hall #Bandcamp