04.14.2006

We had Spottiswoode and a couple of His Enemies in the studio prior to their show at Helsinki. From what I could gather from their press and their website, I expected rampant lunacy, a kinetic Marcel Duchamp / Monty Python kind of experience. Instead I had a thoughtful, engaging and funny crew of Spottiswoode, bassist John Young and guitarist Ripley McMahon in for a half-hour of songs and talking. It's a privilege to be sitting there in the cramped studio while a live performance is going down. Sometimes I really lub shobidnid.

The Morells, That Mellow Saxophone

The Doors, Petition the Lord With Prayer (live)
Akira the Don, Clones (hip-hop remix of Alice Cooper version of David Carron's tune)
Sara Ayers, Everyday We Die a Little
Chemical Brothers, Come Inside (feat Sara Ayers)

Roxy Music, If There Were Something (live 2001)
The High Llamas, Easy Rod, Checking In, Checking Out

Spottiswoode and His Enemies, live performance

John Boutte, Why (Annie Lennox cover)
Shonen Knife, Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Del Nileppez/Thomas Dimuzio, Yawriats Ot Nevaeh (quarter note slices flipped backwards for the entire song, terribly beautiful and disturbing)
The Rudds, Something Great

Golem, Nikolev
Dino, Desi & Billy, Not the Lovin' Kind
Tin Hat Trio, Helium Reprise (w/ Tom Waits)
Dusty Springfield, Just One Smile

The Who, Coke Commercial
Neil Diamond, Coke Commercial
Los Bravos, Coke Commercial
Gracie Slick, White Stretch Levis Commercial
Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Coke Commercial
The Iron Butterfly, Ban Roll-on Commercial
(all from www.bigozine.com)

NRBQ, I Want You Bad (live)
Charlie Watts, I've Got a Crush On You (feat Bernard Fowler)
Meat Purveyors, I Want a Tall Boy (from "More Songs About Buildings and Cows")
The Morells, Growin' a Beard

The Rumdummies, Boil That Turpentine