Audio For News Reports For Week Of June 28st 2009

This week we remember Sky Saxon, fans pick Paul McCartney Favorites, and Men At Work go to court.

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I am not a writer by trade. I can't call myself a blogger either, without the word catching in my throat somewhere between my vocal cords and my lips. I am a vinyl records dealer. Most of what I do online is comprised of seven parts marketing, two parts vain narcissism, and one parts opportunistic voyeurism. I'm interested in the Face Book & Twitter happenings of people I know in 3D, barely know, or knew a quarter of a century ago. I'm not a celebrity. I hate that word. Neither are most of my FB and Twitter friends. In fact, I can count on one hand the number of famous, and or infamous persons that I have met, and still have fingers left over. I would like to be able to say that I don't give a shit about having met these celebrities either, and that they are just like you and me. But they are not like you and me, and these encounters left their mark. Maybe, when God gave out Fairy Dust, they got in line twice. I don't know. My point here is that, I am a cynical human being. I can be brutally judgmental, and I dislike more people that I like. Bukowski got it right when he said. "I don't hate people, I just feel better when they're not around". For whatever reason, deserving or not, celebrities are special in our eyes. They, and their goings on, orbit the periphery of all our lives. And whether we like it or not, their deaths stir our emotions and trigger memories, that usually have little to do with the celebrity personally. The deaths of Michael Jackson, Farah Fawcett, and Sky Saxon have done just that for me. Triggered an ocean of memories and emotions. They've been sloshing around my head all week, and they're overflowing all over the place.

For those freaks that can't get enough of celebrities, even in death, here's a goulish site. Not that I spent time there or anything.

Catching up on the Top 5 . . .

Haven't done full upkeep, but here are the two weeks previous to last week's eBay Top 5's.




Week Ending 06/13/2009

Top 5 List:


1. LP - The Beatles "Let It Be" box set UK - $5,258.88


2. LP - Leonid Kogan "Plays Lalo & Tchaikovsky" Columbia SAX 2329 - $3,150.00


3. LP - Lee Morgan "Volume 3" Blue Note 1557 - $3,000.00


4. 78 - The Quarrymen "That'll Be The Day" / "In Spite Of The Danger" acetate (possible reproduction) - $2,950.00


5. 45 - Frankie Beverly & The Butlers "Because Of My Heart" / "I Want To Feel I'm Wanted" Fairmount DJ copy - $2,312.00




Week Ending 06/20/2009


Top 5 List:


1. 78 - Grace Brim "Man Around My Door" / "Hospitality Blues" J.O.B. Records - $3,650.00


2. LP - Trio De France "Plays Faure & Ravel" Pretoria France - $3,616.00


3. LP - Leonid Kogan "Beethoven Violin Concerto" Columbia SAX 2386 blue & silver label - $3,368.00


4. 45 - The Beatles "Please Please Me" / "Ask Me Why" VJ 498 (spelled with two T's) - $2,501.00


5. LP - David Bowie "self titled" New Zealand - $2,181.95

Remembering Sky Saxon

For almost twenty-five years I am running into people who know Sky Saxon, or have their Sky Saxon story.

My last time was just about a month ago. Another record dealer who I have lunch with about once week had a Little Richie Marsh 45 that he listed on eBay. Sky Saxon contacted him and offered his phone number. He really just wanted to say how cool it was that someone had found one of his old 45's. He also kindly sent a signed CD to my friend.

That is the typical Sky Saxon story. Friendly, unassuming and always looking for a conversation. I met him twice at shows in the 80's.

Unassuming is the word that always comes to mind when I think of Sky Saxon. Years ago I was friends with a girl who hung out frequently at Sky Saxon's apartment. This was during a period in the eighties when garage music was going through its first revival in Los Angeles. Saxon was a part of it. And a part of the next revival. Of couse he never left the sixties, and if you didn't know the particulars, the reports of him working jobs at stationary stores and Baskin Robbins would make him sound like a burn-out, a pathetic case.

But Sky Saxon was not a Syd Barrett or Roky Erickson. He was always genuinely authentically always doing his own thing, as they used to say so so long ago. And he was most comfortable in his own skin.

Maybe it was his association with the Source Family, to which he kept connections all his life, that kept him grounded, humble even. Yeah, the Source was one of the many seventies cults in Los Angeles. But here again to call the Source a cult is to trade on stereotype. I'm no fan of any religion, and suspicous as all out doors about it too. So when I say the Source people didn't have the ick factor, it should come with some currency. Hell, I get more icked out by the Saddleback Church types that live all around me.

If I were to believe in such spiritual things, which I don't, I would say that something rare happened on June 25th. That humanity lost such a powerful soul that morning that a correction had to be made in order keep balance. That the death of a man who had obscurely acheived a rare height of authenticity and freedom had to be counter-balanced with the taking of a man who had sadly fallen to a rare depth of spuriousness and confinement. I'm not looking for the Google points so I choose to leave out the name of this second man.

Remember, I don't actually believe any of this anymore than I believe that something I read in a great novel is true, other than that sometimes great literature is more true than reality.

Accidental Nostalgia Thursdays 4PM PDT/7PM EDT

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Accidental Nostalgia -- Press This Now!!!!

Motown 50 Top 5 Vote!

Motown is set to release a compilation album of Motown's first fifty years this September, and is asking fans to decide on the Top 5 songs. From now til July 15. fans can vote for their Top 5 favorite Motown hits. The first fifty voters will receive a credit on the album. The first 500 will receive a I Voted Motown 50 bumper sticker. All voters will be entered into a drawing for a trip to Detroit to visit the Hitsville USA Motown Museum. Did I vote? You betcha I did! Here are my Top 5 picks? Now groove on over there and vote!
http//www.universalmusiconline.com/motown-50-vote/

#5 The Spinners - Rubberband Man
#4 The Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
#3 The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman
#2 Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
#1 Contours Do You Love Me

Audio For News Reports For Week Of June 21st 2009

This week vote for Motown's Top 50, New Order members reform under a new name, and Muse prepares their new album.

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Accidental Nostalgia Thursday Night 4PM PDT/7PM EDT

We will be replaying previous shows for the next two weeks. Norm and I will be back on Thursday July 2nd. 4PM PDT/7PM EDT with an all new show!

Tune in to this week's show where we'll play 60 minutes of legendary, and little known Surf tracks. Plus a few surprises

Audio For News Reports For Week Of June 14th 2009

This week Julian Lennon finds Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Sgt Pepper plays a Cheap Trick, and Paul McCartney gives it to One Little Indian.

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Accidental Nostalgia Thursday Night 4PM PST/7PM EST

Jane and I will be on Radio Dentata at 7pm eastern tonight with our show Accidental Nostalgia.

What do a BBC Television presenter, ecstacy, and a former Bollywood cinema have in common? Tune in right here this Thursday at 4 PM PDT/7 PM EDT to find out!

Here is a vlog of stuff that has something to do with tonight's show:

Exterior shot of The Hacienda.

Club's Interior just right before opening night.

The Stone Roses - Amature footage of an early gig at The Hacienda 1985. Ian sounds awful,John Squire shreds, and Reni is amazing!

the Stone Roses - I wanna Be Adored from their Blackpool Live DVD

INSPIRAL CARPETS - she comes in the fall Live in Manchester 1990.

We don't talk much about Happy Mondays on today's show, but this footage has to be included or we wouldn't be worth our salt. Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film 24 Hour Party people, a film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, was named for this Happy Mondays song.

happy mondays - 24 hour party people Live.

If you listened to our show this week, you heard David Hasselhoff's cover of Berry Gordy's "Do You love Me". While decorum prevents us from posting the Hoff's "drunk video" from You Tube, here is a video of David performing the song at Disneyland's 30th. Celebration which is almost as cringe-worthy.

DAVID HASSELHOFF-Disneyland 30th Celebration-Do You Love Me!

Accidental Nostalgia Thursday Night 4PM PDT/7PM EDT

What do a BBC Television presenter, ecstacy, and a former Bollywood cinema have in common? Tune in here this Thursday at 4 PM PDT / 7 PM EDT to find out!

Audio For News and Auction Reports For Week Of June 7th 2009

This week the we remember Koko Taylor, George Thorogood makes sure his fans get their vinyl, and The Who sell out some more.

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Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 06/06/2009

Top 5 List:

1. LP - John Fahey "Blind Joe Death" Private 1st Press - $4,000.00 - Start: $49.99 - Bids: 13

2. 45 - Bob Marley & The Wailers "Diamond Baby" / "Where Is The Girl For Me" Coxsone Jamaica - $2,801.50 - Start: $999.00 - Bids: 9

3. 45 - Nirvana "Love Buzz" 815/1000 Sub Pop - $2,500.00 - Start: $3,000.00 - Bids: Best Offer

4. LP - Dave Bixby "Ode To Quetzalcoatl" Private - $2,400.00 - Start: $3,199.99 - Bids: Best Offer

5. 45 - Joy Divison "An Ideal For Living" Enigma Original - $2,275.16 - Start: $1.59 - Bids: 24

The first private press John Fahey record, one of only 95 copies, gets the #1 spot selling for $4k. Next, a Bob Marley 45 out of Jamaica on Coxsone sells for a little over $2.8k.

The #3 spot goes to a frequent visitor to the Top 5 list, the Nirvana "Love Buzz" 7" sells on a Best Offer for $2.5k. Another private press folk record, this one from Dave Bixby, also sells on a best offer - this offer for $2.4k.

The #5 spot goes to the Joy Division's "An Ideal For Living" 7" which bids to a tiny bit over three quarters of the way past $2.2k.

More From Today's Accidental Nostalgia

I never got back to talking about Vince Taylor on today's show. This sort of left a big gaping hole in the legend of Ziggy Stardust. Below is a link to most of the Vince Taylor story as it relates to Ziggy Stardust from davidbowie.com.

One story I've heard that isn't mentioned there is about a concert in France sometime in the early seventies. Vince Taylor fired his band just before the show, and went on stage alone in a white robe. He claimed he was Jesus and spent two hours reading from the Bible. One part of the story I've never heard told and would like to know is how much of the audience was still in attendance at the end of the Bible lesson.

Here's the link: Vince Taylor

Accidental Nostalgia Press Play On This Widget Now!!!!

Accidental Nostalgia Thursday Night 4PM PST/7PM EST

Jane and I will be on Radio Dentata at 7pm eastern tonight with our show Accidental Nostalgia.

Tune in this week for 60 minutes of camp and humour in music from Harlem Jazz to The Cramps, and some stuff you may not know about Ziggy Stardust.

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This Thursday On Radio Dentata 4PM PT / 7PM ET

This week's Accidental Nostalgia - How to travel from Harlem Jazz to The Cramps in twelve easy steps.

Audio For News and Auction Reports For Week Of May 31st 2009

This week Ozzy says he didn't want to sue his former band mate, Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan may collaborate this summer, and Wilco's Jay Bennett dies at 45.

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