The Girl on a Motorcycle (French: La motocyclette), also known as Naked Under Leather, is a 1968 British-French film starring Alain Delon, Marianne Faithfull, Roger Mutton, Marius Goring, and Catherine Jourdan. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. The Girl on a Motorcycle redefined the leather jacket for motorcyclists into a full body suit that Marianne Faithfull wore in the film.
Based on the short story “La Motocyclette” by André Pieyre de Mandiargues, or the English title “The Motorcycle”
The First Edition (later known as Kenny Rogers and the First Edition) was a country music/rock band. Members being Kenny Rogers (vocals & bass guitar), Mickey Jones (drums & percussion) and Terry Williams (guitar & vocals). The band formed in 1967, with noted folk musician Mike Settle (guitar and vocals) and the operatically trained Thelma Camacho completing the lineup.
The First Edition signed with Reprise Records in the summer of 1967 and first hit big in early 1968 with the pop-psychedelic single “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” (US #5). After several hits and misses the group (now billed as “Kenny Rogers and the First Edition”) once again hit the top ten in the summer of 1969 with the topical “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town” (US #6, UK#2).
For the next six years, the First Edition bounced between country, pop and mild psychedelia, enjoying worldwide success.
Made for the Flatstock Europe 4 international rock poster exhibition, in Hamburg, Germany, September 24-27 2009. This image was shot on location in the Hamburg container terminal…
Four-color silkscreen print, 23 x 17.5″, edition of 60, signed & numbered by the artist.
Mine came in the mail today, it’s #46 and the quality of craftsmanship is superb. This print was only $15 dollars, the best buy in the art world. Dan’s vision and print quality is amazing. This is the second post of his work on this blog. Check out all of his incredible work here: CROSSHAIR SILKSCREEN AND DESIGN
Wire are an English rock band formed in London in October 1976, (and intermittently active to the present) by Colin Newman (vocals, guitar), Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar), and Robert Gotobed (né Grey) (drums). Wire’s debut, Pink Flag (1977) contains songs which are very diverse in mood and style, but most use a minimalist punk approach, unorthodox structures, and several songs are under a minute in length; “Field Day For The Sundays” is only 28 seconds long. Inspired by the burgeoning U.K. punk scene, Wire are often cited as one of the more important rock groups of the 1970s and 1980s. Critic Stewart Mason writes, “Over their brilliant first three albums, Wire expanded the sonic boundaries of not just punk, but rock music in general.”
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an African-American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a ‘talking blues’ style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was rhythmically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known songs include “Boogie Chillen” (1948) and “Boom Boom” (1962). Hooker’s life experiences were chronicled by several scholars and often read like a classic case study in the racism of the music industry, although he eventually rose to prominence with memorable songs and influence on a generation of musicians.
“Oklahoma” (1975) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Henry Wessel, Jr. (born 1942 in Teaneck, New Jersey) is an American photographer noted for his descriptive, yet poetic photographs of the human environment. Wessel earned a B.A. degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1966 and an M.F.A. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972. Before graduating with his M.F.A., in 1971, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Wessel a fellowship and, one year later, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited his photographs. Currently, Wessel is on faculty in the photography department of San Francisco Art Institute.
The Waterboys are a band formed in 1983 by Mike Scott. The band’s membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, Ireland and England. The early Waterboys sound was dubbed “The Big Music” after a song on their second album, A Pagan Place. This musical style was described by Scott as “a metaphor for seeing God’s signature in the world.” It either influenced or was used to describe a number of other bands, including Simple Minds, The Alarm, Big Country, the Hothouse Flowers and World Party, the last of which was made up of former Waterboys members. The Waterboys released their third album, This Is the Sea, in October 1985. It sold better than either of the two earlier albums, and managed to get into the Top Forty. A single from it, “The Whole of the Moon”, reached number 26 in the UK. Promotion efforts were hampered by Scott’s refusal to perform on Top of the Pops, which insisted that its performers lip sync.
The band was led by “Mahavishnu” John McLaughlin on acoustic and electric guitars, with members Billy Cobham on drums, Rick Laird on bass guitar, Jan Hammer on electric and acoustic piano and synthesizer, and Jerry Goodman on violin. The group is best known for their albums The Inner Mounting Flame (1971) and Birds of Fire (1973). This group was considered an important pioneer in the jazz fusion movement. McLaughlin and Cobham met while performing and recording with Miles Davis during the Bitches Brew sessions. McLaughlin was also influenced in his conception of the band by his studies with Indian guru Sri Chinmoy, who encouraged him to take the name “Mahavishnu” which means “Divine compassion, power and justice.”
Their musical style was an unprecedented blending of genres: they combined the high-volume electrified rock sound that had been pioneered by Jimi Hendrix (who McLaughlin had jammed with on his initial arrival in New York as part of the Tony Williams Lifetime), complex rhythms in unusual time signatures that reflected McLaughlin’s interest in Indian classical music as well as funk, an improvisational concept that was rooted in jazz as well as Indian music, and harmonic influence from European classical music. The group’s early music was entirely instrumental; their later albums had songs which sometimes featured R&B or even gospel/hymn styled vocals.
The video on this blog features a live performance of the track “Resolution”. The original version of this song can be found on the album Birds of Fire. It is one of my all time favorite pieces of music…
Armed with tribal thunder, psychedelic projections, and glow paint by the gallon, Ed Hall was the most successful band to emerge from the inaugural roster of Trance Syndicate Records, the local label started by Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey. Formed in 1985 by guitarist Gary Chester, bassist Larry Strub, and drummer John Buron, Ed Hall tricked out Black Sabbath’s bleak spanking machine with multicolored shards of lysergic energy and the anything-goes spirit of early Austin punk bands Former Bayou Pigs/Sugar Shack drummer Lyman Hardy joined prior to the Gloryhole tour when Whitley departed to focus on the Cherubs. After recording 1994’s Motherscratcher in five straight days, Ed Hall spent much of that year on the road, touring with Flipper and the Dwarves, and recording John Peel’s BBC radio show in London. The trio headlined the 1995 Austin Music Awards Show and released their fifth album, La La Land, later that spring. Ed Hall broke up in 1996.
A huge personal thanks to Lyman, Gary and Larry for their amazing performances and unique sound. Their shows were always entertaining. You never knew what was going to happen. I was lucky enough to have seen them several times. One time in particular was in Oakland and it was an off night. Hardly anybody showed up so they proceeded to rock out to old UFO songs, they were so free and fun. As ridiculous as they could be sometimes I was always a bit envious if not inspired.
Grassy Knoll video mash-up of various musicians created in Final Cut Pro and projected onto two large screens. Controlled on a laptop using vidvox, accompanied by a Fender Jazz bass and a Roland SP-808… Can you name the players involved?
Check out the PROMO to get a better sense of the performance.
