listening

today i screwed up and thought i was opening the market when in reality i'm scheduled to work a mid-shift. so i used the time to pen a review for iloveftw.com of the new great tyrant 7-inch with 4-song cd that i got from teague after stoogeprac last night. thanks to jon, frank cervantez, and forced exposure, i've spent the rest of the morning reading doug sheppard's 1988 interview with the late mc5 frontman rob tyner in the new ugly things and listening to toonage by alice cooper (a '69 live set from the whisky-a-go-go in l.a., sounding very folk-rockish), speed glue & shinki (their first alb eve, a mess of drug-addled '70s blooze-rock), the juan de la cruz band's up in arms (the first alb by sg&s drummer-singer joey "pepe" smith's filipino band, preceding his membership but with added live bonus tracks where he does appear; the leon russell and frank zappa covers were kinda disconcerting, as was the song that's a ringer for macca's "maybe i'm amazed," but the live stuff's pert rad, even though i can't understand the tagalog lyrics), and miles davis' the complete on the corner sessions (which includes material that appeared on big fun and get up with it as well as the originally damned, now hailed eponymous album). was thinking the other day about how influential the '70s avant-garde (things like electric miles and krautrock) are on the hip muzak of the oh-oh's, like the music they play at the market that one customer complained to me sounds like "porn mixed with outer space" (which is actually a fusion i could get behind).