Saturday, May 29, 2010

I don't have much to say about...

the recently deceased Dennis Hopper, but I won't pass up an opportunity to put up some beatnik jazz combo music, especially if it's in a cellar joint. It would have been even better if they could have gotten Steve Lacy or Ornette...



Dennis Hopper and Linda Lawson in Curtis Harrington's "Night Tide" (1961, the upside-down year)

Here's some more common Bug Melter fare:



Diagram A Live @ basement show in Providence, R.I.



Tiger Hatchery, 05/09/09 @ Now That's Class Champagne Of Fests
Shot by Loumnz

Friday, May 28, 2010

No knife-fight...

...but this guy sometimes bears one in his teeth:



You will probably need that pic because this video is so dark...



浦邊雅祥(Masayoshi Urabe) live @ Shinjuku URGA, 02/22/10


"I am so happy to see he is performing again." posted one viewer.
If you can call that seeing...

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Two Wongs don't make a Wright...

as you would know if you were a fervent viewer of Woody Allen's movie "What's Up, Tiger Lily." Here is Jack Wright, not with two guys named Wong, but rather Pascal Battus from France and Michael Johnsen from the Pittsburgh area:





Pascal Battus (France) : Objects, contact mics
Jack Wright : Reeds
Michael Johnsen : original electronics
04/21/10 at the Red Room, Baltimore, Maryland
(a/k/a Bal'More and Charm City)



Videos courtesy of Dennisovich