Anyone heard the Curse Of The Alphastone record he references in the PSF interview?
can anyone dig this up...? v curious to hear it
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
what I said goes for Alex's solo stuff and his other projects post-BS too. So yeah, need to check out FoS and other stuff as well.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 22 April 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
http://therobertgordon.com/books/it-came-from-memphis/
read this book too, if you ever get a chance to see the unreleased video & film clip collection Gordon put together in support of the book, see that too
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
kinda surprised Dickinson and the Cramps never worked together, given the Chilton connection
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
they did!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqg0YVyieMw
― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
xp That book has been on my too-read list, as has Tav Falco's Mondo Memphis stuff. Think he's done Vol 2 of that by now?
― andrew m., Wednesday, 22 April 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
wait waht tyler what is the story with that!
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
I thought I had all the early Cramps stuff
Wiki says : recorded a one-off single ("Red Headed Woman") with The Cramps in 1984
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
yeah that's all i know! heard it on some homemade cramps rarities comp a million years ago.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
whoa stop the presses, a Cramps record from 1984 that I haven't heard
― sleeve, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
hmm the single is not on Discogs but this comp has it:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Rockabilly-Psychosis-And-The-Garage-Disease/master/340231
― sleeve, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
on youtube i think
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
x-post
Curse of the Alphastone sdtrk mentioned here, but have never heard it
http://koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/jimdickinson.htm
FAN CLUB FC 064/NR 761/FC 064CD
JIM DICKINSON: DELTA EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS COMPILATION, VOL.2: SPRING POEMS (LP/CD) (a collection of songs from the motion picture soundtracks arranged and conducted by James Luther Dickinson: The Great Big Fish a) Beale Street Green b) The Saucers Are Landing c) Delta Getaway / The Curse Of The Alpha Stone a) Cross Talk b) Skin It Back c) Velvet Woman Painters Of The South (Ol' Miss Center For Study Of Southern Culture) a) Campton Races/Catfish Blues b) Beautiful Dreamer Southern Dust (University Of Texas Films, Austin TX) a) Hose Job b) Choke The Chicken c) Death Is A Fat Cop Down a) Max By The Tracks b) Live Bait c) Brass Monkey; cd-reissue with 'Vol.1: The Blues') 1990
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
His book is just yarn after yarn after yarn, with so many names flying in and out for a paragraph or two, it's hard to keep up. But then for a few years there he's playing on Spirit in the Dark or Wild Horses or Flamin' Groovies or with someone I'd never heard of let alone heard before. He ends more than a couple asides with "But that's another story" and it's a bummer those didn't make it in, too. Worth picking up.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
Interesting. Will add it to my list of books to read
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
Great thread, hadn't seen it before. Also JD on the main Big Star and Chilton threads o course. Mentioned these 2017 releases in my Nashville Scene ballot comments I always add these imaginary categories):
Related Genealogically As Well As Musically Hon. Mention:North Mississippi Allstars: Prayer For Peace, James Luther Dickinson: I’m Just Dead, I’m Not Gone: Lazarus Edition (also a Related Reissue)North Mississippi Allstars wheel Dad through the Afterlife and vice-versa one more time, with bonus pepper candy encores. They also provide strong support for Rev. Sekou and themselves, on two albums (incl. the Rev.'s Related Top Ten In Times Like these) where the personal and political and tropes and rhetoric and blues and gospel and other strands of history and right nows are always ticking and clattering and pumping, and he’s the one with the compelling voice and eye. Dad rules his own album, natcherlly, more than ever with the added tracks. Not great but worth streaming.
― dow, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
Listened to his book through my local public library over a two day marathon binge. Really fantastic.
― trip maker, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
Updated xpost It Came From Memphis came out in November, editorial thing on Amazon says yeah you get Elvis and shit, but the emphasis is on the singular achievements of Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson, Furry Lewis and wrestler Sputnik Monroe. This is a book about the weirdos, winos and midget wrestlers who forged the rock and roll spirit, unwittingly changing the fabric of America. Music liberated that Memphis audience, and the world followed.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71VEPxZCJIL.jpg
― dow, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
Also, another Gordon book, Memphis Rent Party, has stuff about Dickinson and Chilton--dunno if he recycles any of it:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81EIppBYjvL.jpg
― dow, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link