Saturday, April 26, 2025
JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #990JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #990.572.205! David Bowie – Low (RCA) :: The premise. John
Lee Hooker – Anthology: 50 Years (Shout! Factory) :: These incendiary barn-burnin’ boogie-chooglers
from the Detroit blues legend—especially the early minimal ones spanning 1948 to 1962—are such a priceless passel
of butane blooze that even the thief who comes only to steal and kill and destroy wouldn’t be able to scrape up the
kinda serious scratch needed to finance their soul-servin’ purchase. I can’t stop listening to them and neither
should you. SIZZLING PLATTER OF THE WEEK: The Doors –
Live At The Matrix 1967 (Doors Music Company) :: When this recording first surfaced more than 30 years ago as a Trademark
Of Quality bootleg entitled Moonlight Drive: Recorded Live At The Matrix 1967, I reviewed it in the May 1976 issue
of CREEM thusly: “What we have here are 12 tunes from their Waiting
For The Sun period. Good sound quality, and I guess that I should be happy with that, but I’m not ’cause
it reminds me too painfully that Jim Morrison was the best rock vocalist that ever lived and I can’t help but wonder
what he’d be doing today, if...” Well, that ancient vinyl bootleg
of the best live Doors album ever has finally been reincarnated as this new 24-song twofer that’s been fully restored
from the original stereo master tapes by none other than Doors producer Bruce Botnick himself. What I don’t recall hearing
the first time around, however, is the classic “Back Door Bozo” moment—and let’s face it, there’s
at least one classic “Back Door Bozo” moment on every live Doors record—when the singer ad-libs: “All
right, I’ll put it in the ass right now!” before the solo in “The End.” The end, geddit? I guess that’s
what Botnick means when he writes in the liner notes that: “Jim includes a lot more poetry not heard on any other recordings.”
And I guess that’s why I no longer wonder what Jimbo would be doing today, if… Nick Lowe – Bowi (Stiff) :: The punchline. Be seeing you!
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