Friday, September 01, 2006
Do Your Funky Thing
LARRY ELLIS & BLACK HAMMER: FUNKY THING (PT. 1)
From 'The World's Rarest Funk 45s: sixteen heavyweight super-tough deep funk ultra rarities.'
Black Hammer. How awesome a name is that? The lost highway of rock 'n' soul music is littered with thousands of incredible bands Who Never Made The Big Time, and the re-issue industry is a busy one because - as the liner notes of this LP point out - "New Music Is Just Music You've Not Heard Before", and record freaks like me will happily spend the rest of our lives digging up and dusting off The Great Music That Time Forgot, which there appears to be an inexhaustable supply of. So calling your compilation 'The Worlds Rarest Funk 45s' is a pretty ballsy thing to do, specifically because no compilation can possibly live up to such a title: however rare the music contained on this LP may be you gotta figure that even as we speak, somebody scratching around their attic in Iowa has just uncovered a privately pressed one copy only acetate made by their uncle Doug in 1966 which is the Best Record You Never Heard.
That said, these records are certainly rare as hell, and if you wanted to get your hands on a copy of an original of any of 'em you'ld be looking at spending...1000s of pounds. Best of the lot - for my dollar - is Larry Ellis & Black Hammer's 'Funky Thing - pt 1.' It's an absolute monster: a super heavy psychedelic freak out which hits it & and quits in under 3 minutes...I've played it almost constantly for two days now. The first twenty seconds - an unaccompanied Hammond organ freaking out, some cat extolling us to "DO YOUR FUNKY THING" - is a Funk 45 intro in the elevated league of The Ebony Rythym Band's ' Soul Heart Transplant' ("I had a heart tansplant today...") and Mickey & The Soul Generation's 'Iron Leg' ("DUUURRRRR!"), and what follows - a churning groove tastier than momma's best fried chicken - is simply evil, in the best sense of the word.
I appreciate I'm posting into an indie vacuum here and ain't no cat gonna read this who could give two hoots 'bout some silly old funk record by a buncha guys they never heard of, but I'm digging the song so much I had to mention it. Maybe next time I'll review a Divine Comedy LP, huh? ¶ 9:36 AM
From 'The World's Rarest Funk 45s: sixteen heavyweight super-tough deep funk ultra rarities.'
Black Hammer. How awesome a name is that? The lost highway of rock 'n' soul music is littered with thousands of incredible bands Who Never Made The Big Time, and the re-issue industry is a busy one because - as the liner notes of this LP point out - "New Music Is Just Music You've Not Heard Before", and record freaks like me will happily spend the rest of our lives digging up and dusting off The Great Music That Time Forgot, which there appears to be an inexhaustable supply of. So calling your compilation 'The Worlds Rarest Funk 45s' is a pretty ballsy thing to do, specifically because no compilation can possibly live up to such a title: however rare the music contained on this LP may be you gotta figure that even as we speak, somebody scratching around their attic in Iowa has just uncovered a privately pressed one copy only acetate made by their uncle Doug in 1966 which is the Best Record You Never Heard.
That said, these records are certainly rare as hell, and if you wanted to get your hands on a copy of an original of any of 'em you'ld be looking at spending...1000s of pounds. Best of the lot - for my dollar - is Larry Ellis & Black Hammer's 'Funky Thing - pt 1.' It's an absolute monster: a super heavy psychedelic freak out which hits it & and quits in under 3 minutes...I've played it almost constantly for two days now. The first twenty seconds - an unaccompanied Hammond organ freaking out, some cat extolling us to "DO YOUR FUNKY THING" - is a Funk 45 intro in the elevated league of The Ebony Rythym Band's ' Soul Heart Transplant' ("I had a heart tansplant today...") and Mickey & The Soul Generation's 'Iron Leg' ("DUUURRRRR!"), and what follows - a churning groove tastier than momma's best fried chicken - is simply evil, in the best sense of the word.
I appreciate I'm posting into an indie vacuum here and ain't no cat gonna read this who could give two hoots 'bout some silly old funk record by a buncha guys they never heard of, but I'm digging the song so much I had to mention it. Maybe next time I'll review a Divine Comedy LP, huh? ¶ 9:36 AM
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That could be taken as a slight, Mr. Fuzz, but you caught me on a good day so I'll let it slide. This once.
"I'm digging the song so much I had to mention it."
As good a reason I ever heard for blooging. :)
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"I'm digging the song so much I had to mention it."
As good a reason I ever heard for blooging. :)
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