Here’s a photo taken by Dave Dude, who was a roadie for Reverend Horton Heat – it’s a cool shot, either infrared ( that was fun stuff, I miss it ), or he used normal film and pushed the hell out of it. Somewhere in America, that’s all I can tell you.
This song popped into my head the other day, prompting a frantic dig to find it. The Causey Way were a crazy new wave band who I got to see live a couple of times in the late 1990s. It was fun.
The Causey Way : ” Money ”
This is Wong Shadow – Thai surf rock from the mid 1960s – from one of my favorite records right now, ” Shadow Music Of Thailand ” . Sublime Frequencies SF042. น่าเกรงขาม!
1. The Son Of P.M. : ” Koisun Ching “
1. The Son Of P.M. : ” Koisun Ching ”
2. P.M.7/ Jupiter : “Pone Tala Pone “
2. P.M.7/ Jupiter : “Pone Tala Pone ”
3. The Son Of P.M. : ” Lhow Lenum “
3. The Son Of P.M. : ” Lhow Lenum ”
4. P.M.7/ Jupiter : ” Sawan Bangkok “
4. P.M.7/ Jupiter : ” Sawan Bangkok ”
A dark rock n’ roll band from New Orleans. We recorded this early 2009 at Balance in Mandeville, LA, and some other places in N.O.L.A. — The band is here, and this album is on iTunes.
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Dancing In The Rain “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Dancing In The Rain “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Complications “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Complications “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” I Shouldn’t Hang Around “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” I Shouldn’t Hang Around “
Ballzack and co-conspirator Odoms have released their first iPhone app, and I have played with it, and it’s really fun. You can get it here. Who’s Doogie? Oh boy.
Rik Slave sings with Rock City Morgue, which is the band that Sean from White Zombie plays bass and keyboards with, but he has fronted many groups, including The Phantoms, who were originally active from 1984 to about 1995 and were quite popular here in New Orleans. Back then, the band’s core consisted of Rik, bassist RJ O’Rourke, drummer Greg Terry, and a rotating cast of guitar players.
There are a variety of recordings of the original Phantoms, including a 12″ EP, a 45, and numerous demos and board tapes, but when they reformed last year and asked me to produce their album ( which is pretty evenly split between old songs and entirely new ones ), I reasoned that this is a different time and a different band and so I purposely didn’t listen to anything they had.
It’s not really fair to compare this version of ” Do You Believe ” from 1989’s More Drunken Buffoonery EP to the modern recording – they were in their early 20s then, and they’re grown-up men now, and their lineup has been fleshed out with two guitarists and a keyboard player, but it surprised me the other day when I listened to it for the first time. The new recording is a lot more hi-fi, and it’s got a lot more stuff in it, but it really is the same song.
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : Do You Believe ( 1989 )
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : Do You Believe ( 1989 )
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : Do You Believe ( 2009 )
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : Do You Believe ( 2009 )
1989 Phantoms : LJ, Greg, Robert Lambert, Rik
2009 Phantoms : Greg, Chris Lenox, Rik, Pat Catania, LJ, Ben Caston
Oh yeah. A photo by Michael Rougier for Life magazine. Go here for more.
Christ. OF COURSE there’s a documentary about this.
Here’s a record I recorded and mixed earlier this year. I’ll write a little more on The Phantoms in a bit, but for the time being here’s some tunes from the album.
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Dancing In The Rain “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Dancing In The Rain ”
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Friend I Never Had “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Friend I Never Had ”
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Complications “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” Complications ”
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” I Shouldn’t Hang Around “
Rik Slave & The Phantoms : ” I Shouldn’t Hang Around “
