The Blowin Weekly Extra  More tunes than time…    Blowin 8-10pm, Sunday 29 November 2009 Repeated around 1 am on Tuesday
BCB 106.6 FM in West Yorkshire, and www.bcbradio.co.uk everywhere else..

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Playlist below…

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Demolition

More at www.rob-walsh.net

Seven Arts Centre Christmas Party, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, Sunday afternoon 20 December, featuring Bassa Bassa Seven Arts, 31 Harrogate Road, Leeds LS7 3PD. Sunday aftenoon gigs £5/4; online @Jumbo Records www.jumborecords.co.uk or from bar at Seven Arts.  www.sevenjazz.co.uk

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Sharing your broadband? You need to know what’s being downloaded, or you could be fined. www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/nov/27/pub-file-sharing-cloud-fine And yes, it is like fining Royal Mail for carrying packages with illegal contents…

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Beefheart: Through The Eyes Of Magic

by John Drumbo French, longtime drummer with The Magic Band.

Out 11 January 2010, published in hardback, includes reminiscences from key members of The Magic Band and The Mothers Of Invention.

“The ultimate book about Captain Beefheart written by the man who spent more time with him than most. 880 pages, including 16 pages of amazing photographs, many published for the first time.”

Cover price £19.95. www.myspace.com/drumbojohnfrench

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Blowin 29 November

• Guided By Voices – I Am A Tree – Best Of: Human Amusement At Hourly Rates CD – Matador
• Bim Sherman – 100 Years – Love Forever CD – Century/EFA
• Prince – When Doves Cry – Purple Rain CD – Warners
• Captain Beefheart – Well – Troutmask Replica CD – Reprise
• Aphex Twin – Bucephalus Bouncing Ball – Warp20(Chosen) CD – Warp
• O.V. Wright – Born All Over – The Soul Of O.V. Wright CD – MCA
• The 13th Floor Elevators – Baby Blue – All Time Highs CD – Music Club
• Johnny Osborne & Papa Tullo – Back Off (12” Mix) – Johnny Osbourne: Most Wanted CD = Greensleeves
• Brian Wilson – Surf’s Up – Smile CD – Nonesuch
• Burning Spear – Jah No Dead (discomix) – Spear Burning CD – Pressure Sounds – www.pressure.co.uk
• Richard Thompson – I Still Dream – Watching The Dark: The History Of Richard Thompson 3xCD – Hannibal
• Franco & le TPOK Jazz – Testament Ya Bowule – Francophonic 2 2xCD – Sterns
• Guided By Voices – The Best Of Jill Hives – Best Of: Human Amusement At Hourly Rates CD – Matador
• Bim Sherman – World Go Round / Every Where You Go – Tribulation CD – Pressure Sounds – www.pressure.co.uk
• Bob Dylan – Percy’s Song – Biograph 3xCD – Columbia
• Scientist – One Way – Dub From The Ghetto CD – RAS
• Fleetwood Mac – Need Your Love So Bad – Greatest Hits CD – CBS
• Public Enemy – Bring The Noise – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back CD – Mercury
• Beach Boys – It’s About Time – Sunflower/Surf’s Up CD – Capitol
• Apehx Twin – Green Clx – Slected Ambient Works 85-92 CD
• Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Tonight’s The Night – Santa Cruz February 1984
• Captain Beefheart – The Dust Blows Forward ‘N’ The Dust Blows Back – Troutmask Replica CD – Reprise
• Nightmares On Wax – Les Nuits – Carboot Soul CD – Warp

More playlists at www.rob-walsh.co.uk

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Well

Light floats down day river on uh red raft o’ blood
Night blocks out d’ heaven like uh big black shiny bug
Its hard soft shell shinin’ white in one spot well
It’s hard place dat I’m livin’ but I’m doin’ well well
The white ice horse melted like uh spot uh silver well
Its mane went last then disappeared the tail
My life ran thru my veins
Whistlin’ hollow well
I froze in solid motion well well
I heard the ocean swarmin’ body well well
I heard the beetle clickin’ well
I sensed the thickest silence scream
Then I begin t’ dream
My mind cracked like custard
Ran red until it sealed
Turn t’ wooden ‘n rolled like uh wheel well well
Thick black felt birds uh flyin’
With capes of solid chrome
With feathers of solid chrome
‘n beaks of solid bone
‘n bleach the air around them
White ‘n cold well well
Till it showed in pain
The hollow cane clicked like ever after
Its shadow vanished shinin’ silence
Well well

The Dust Blows Forward ‘N’ The Dust Blows Back

There’s ole Gray with ‘er dove-winged hat
Threre’s ole Green with her sewing machine
Where’s the bobbin at?
Tote’n old grain in uh printed sack
The dust blows forward ‘n dust blows back
And the wind blows black thru the sky
And the smokestack blows up in suns eye
What am I gonna die?
Uh white flake riverboat just flew by
Bubbles popped big
‘n uh lipstick Kleenex hung on uh pointed forked twig
Reminds of the bobby girls
Never was my hobby girls
Hand full uh worms and uh pole fishin’
Cork bobbin’ like uh hot red bulb
‘n uh blue jay squeaks
His beak open an inch above uh creek
Gone fishin’ for a week
Well I put down my bush
‘n I took off my pants ‘n felt free
The breeze blowin’ up me ‘n up the canyon
Far as I could see
It’s night now and the moon looks like uh dandelion
It’s black now ‘n the blackbird’s feedin’ on rice
‘n his red wings look diamonds ‘n lice
I can hear the mice toes scamperin’
Gophers rumblin’ in pile crater rock hole
One red bean stuck in the bottom of uh tin bowl
Hot coffee from uh krimpt up can

Me ‘n my girl named Bimbo Limbo Spam

Don Van Vliet www.beefheart.com/walker/index.html

Surf’s Up

A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn
Columnated ruins domino
Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping?   Hung velvet overtaken me
Dim chandelier awaken me
To a song dissolved in the dawn
The music hall a costly bow
The music all is lost for now
To a muted trumperter swan
Columnated ruins domino   Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping, Brother John?   Dove nested towers the hour was
Strike the street quicksilver moon
Carriage across the fog
Two-Step to lamp lights cellar tune
The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne   The glass was raised, the fired rose
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting
While at port adieu or die   A choke of grief heart hardened I
Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry   Surf’s Up
Aboard a tidal wave
Come about hard and join
The young and often spring you gave
I heard the word
Wonderful thing
A children’s song   A children’s song
Have you listened as they played
Their song is love
And the children know the way

Brian Wilson / Van Dyke Parks

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Keep On Blowin Rob

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