Was it worth the wait? Of course it was.Īt the top is Pablo Picasso by Man Ray. A year or two later I got hold of a copy of the 12" off Discogs not in especially good nick, but a real, actual copy. Sometime around 2006/7 I discovered STX's standard setting Audio/Out blog and he very kindly obliged me with an mp3. I searched for donkeys, never getting even a sniff. As a result it became one of those holy grail records. Released in '94 this was Meek, a Weatherall pseudonym and tribute to Joe Meek, for this one-off, limited to 500 copies (I think), hardly any of which seemed to make their way northwards. It's very aimless, and really stoned, and doesn't go anywhere but goes there very nicely. Over the course of two sides of 12" vinyl (ten minutes per side) Andrew Weatherall noodles around and invokes the head-nod. It sounded great and I was already a Weatherall anorak with a mental checklist of records to get and tick off. Way back in 1994 I heard this record late at night in a friend's flat after an excursion to a nightclub. While we're in Weatherall territory there's a set he did for Dalston Superstore available for free download at Soundcloud, very much in the A Love From Outer Space/Masterpiece compilation vein. Ctel hadn't heard it so here's the flipside, similar but slightly different. Our old friend Andrew Weatherall named a 1994 12" single after Joe Meek. I got a more than a few quizzical looks from the nursing staff. Listening to it in the cubicle we were pretty much locked up in was bizarre- some of the album is amazing, some of it marred by squeeky-voiced Smash style aliens. I went out at some point and bought I Hear A New World, Meek's sci-fi album done partly to test new stereosonic sound. I remember reading about Meek back in 2000, trapped in the Bone Marrow Unit of Manchester Childrens' Hospital. He shot himself in 1967 after first shooting his landlady Violet Shenton. Meek was a somewhat troubled person, obsessed with the occult, and paranoid that the Metropolitan police were interviewing every gay man in London with the intention of getting him. There are various compilations of his stuff on the racks, you should have at least one. He recorded all kinds of odd records in his flat at 304 Holloway Road while also hitting the number 1 spot with The Tornados otherworldly song Telstar (Margaret Thatcher's favourite record but don't let that put you off). Joe Meek was the 60s most experimental and infamous producer. It would be nice to hear the '89 intro track though. Now that the internet/Twitter storm about Reni 'storming off stage' and Ian calling him in front of an Amsterdam audience expecting an encore has died down, the opening boom of drum and Diana Ross should be the signal at Heaton Park in just under two weeks time that it's showtime, followed by those opening bass notes of I Wanna Be Adored. But I don't, so here's a video of a studio performance of Stoned Love. Small Time Hustler was itself based on a sample from the song Lightnin' Rod by Kool And The Gang, and since '87 both Gang Starr and Nas have used the same sample for their own ends.Īt the Warrington gig three weeks ago and the pair of gigs in Barcelona last week The Roses entered to the incomparable Stoned Love by The Supremes, which I thought I had on my hard-drive. Obviously there are ways to rip youtube audio but the quality's never brilliant so if anyone's got one I'd be very grateful. I don't own Small Time Hustler in any format as far as I know and haven't been able to find an mp3 to date either. Turns out that this is looped version of a 1987 hip-hop track called Small Time Hustler from New York's Dismasters, and a classic piece of mid 80s hip hop it is too. Rolling bass and drums, looped screeching noises, very late 80s and very cool. This youtube clip shows the intro track that the band used to take to the stage to back on the tour they did in 1989. This is another Stone Roses related post. Sorry to be getting repetitive in recent posts, what with four Weatherall posts this week and several Stone Roses related posts, but sometimes that's the way it goes round here.
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