Life Party for Austin Recording Engineer and KNOW DJ Paul Harrison

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Paul's recordings of The Wig are featured on Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine #14.

The Return of Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine is back!

With "Texas Me, Myself, and I," the upcoming 16th episode in the Lone Star-centric series, Mal Thursday embarks on a full season of Texan rock n' roll, garage, psych, soul, and firsthand oral history from the musicians who made it happen. The podcast is heard on GaragePunk Pirate Radio, also the home of Mal's other shows Florida Rocks Again! and The Mal Thursday Show, and is available free on iTunes, Mevio, Podomatic, and this just in: a broadcast version is in the works, to air throughout the Lone Star State.

Catch up with the show via the Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine podcast archives. Or just scroll down on this blog.

The Briks 1966

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine #15: Houston Revisited

Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine touches down in Houston for the Texas Psych Garage Happening to bring you some of the finest 45s to emerge from Space City in the '60s. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.

Playlist:

THE SIX PENTS: She Lied

THE MOVING SIDEWALKS: Need Me
THE CLIQUE: I'm Alive
DAVE STARKEY FIVE: Hey Everybody
THE BLOX: Hangin' Out
THE GLASS KANS: Stick with Her
THE THINGS: In Your Soul
THE LEMON FOG: Summer
THE BAROQUE BROTHERS: Baroque a Go Go (bed)
ROY HEAD: You're Almost Tuff
THE TRAITS: Too Good to Be True
OSCAR PERRY: Face Reality
ARCHIE BELL & THE DRELLS: Tighten Up Pts. 1 & 2
KASHMERE STAGE BAND: Boss City (bed)
FEVER TREE: Now Sounds Groove-In/Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out
THE COASTLINERS: I'll Be Gone
NEAL FORD & THE FANATICS: Shame on You
THE LAVENDER HOUR: So Sophisticated
LOST & FOUND: 25 M.P.H.
THE COUNTDOWN 5: Uncle Kirby from Brazil
JOSEFUS: Crazy Man
THURSDAY'S CHILDREN: Dominoes/You'll Never Be My Girl/Try Girl/Air Conditioned Man/You Can Forget About That
THE CLIQUE: Splash 1

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Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine #14: The Wig Story

In the latest trip in the Texas Tyme Machine, Mal Thursday goes forward into the past with "The Wig Story," as told by Johnny Richardson, Benny Rowe, Bill Wilmot, and Jess Yaryan. The Austin band (1965-1967) left behind two classic 45s and the reverberations of many a wild night at the Jade Room echoing down the ages. Also, new records from The Sweet Nuthin, Churchwood, the Beaumonts, and the Black Angels. Dedicated to the memory of Rusty Wier. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.

Playlist:
THE WIG: Forever and a Day
THE NERVEBREAKERS: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
THE CLIQUE: (I am) Superman
THE SWEET NUTHIN: All In
THE HAPPEN-INS: Be Yer Fool
BLACK ANGELS: Don't Play with Guns
ZZ TOP: Salt Lick
THE LOST COUNTS: Hoppin' Dog

THE WIG: Drive It Home/To Have Never Loved At All/Everybody Needs Somebody to Love/Crackin' Up/Bluescene

THE BEAUMONTS: Toby Keith
PIñATA PROTEST: Jackee
CHURCHWOOD: I Have a Devil in Me
GLAMBILLY: I'm In Love with a Ghost
COPPER GAMINS: Wet Sounds
T. TEX EDWARDS: Love Power
THE SONS OF HERCULES: Rock of Gibraltar
KENNY & THE KASUALS: Floating
THE WIG: Louie Louie


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The Mal Thursday Show #47: Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 13 'The Greatest Trips'

The Mal Thursday Show #47 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 13: The Greatest Trips

 Mal sets the controls for the heart of the Lone Star State, in an episode chock full of Texan rock n' roll genius from beyond the walls of Tyme: The Greatest Trips. Included in this episode are excerpts from our interviews with Roy Head, Ezra Charles, George Kinney, Jesse Sublett, and Joe 'King' Carrasco, as well as a mess o' fine 45s from yesterday and today. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.

Playlist:
THE TWILIGHTERS: Nothing Can Bring Me Down
THE NERVEBREAKERS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (bed)
KENNY AND THE KASUALS: Journey to Tyme
13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS: You Don't Know How Young You Are
THE RIPE: Dr. Strange
THE UGLY BEATS: Throw Me a Line
SONS OF HERCULES: Grow Up?
THE NERVEBREAKERS: My Girlfriend is a Rock
BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS: Sway
THE UGLY BEATS: Maximum Bumble (bed)
ROY HEAD: She's About a Mover/One More Time
THURSDAY'S CHILDREN: You'll Never Be My Girl/You Can Forget About That
THE GOLDEN DAWN: I'll Be Around/Tell Me Why
THE SKUNKS: Earthquake Shake/Gimme Some
JOE 'KING' CARRASCO & THE CROWNS: Let's Get Pretty/Caca de Vaca
KENNY AND THE KASUALS: Floating (bed)
ENDLE ST. CLOUD:  Tell Me One More Time (What's Happening to Our World)

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Bubble Puppy and The Krayolas at Antone's Friday Ngiht

Jerry Clayworth and Mal Thursday in association with Dublin Bottling Works proudly present Texas psychedelic legends Bubble Puppy Friday July 13th at 10 p.m. at Antone's, 213 W. 5th St. in Austin, Texas, with special guests The Krayolas at midnight.

Advance tix: www.antones.net/event/129269/

For more info on the show and limited edition Bubble Puppy Vintage Cola, go to http://atomicjukebox.com/

Kashmere Stage Band Brings ‘Thunder Soul’ to Antone’s

Austin, Texas (June 15, 2012): The Kashmere Stage Band concert originally scheduled for The Scoot Inn has been moved to Saturday June 30^th at 9 p.m. at Antone’s, 213 West Fifth Street in Austin. Opening the show will be Austin’s Hard Proof Afrobeat. Advance tickets are available through Ticketfly at http://ticketf.ly/M1QCov.

“We are very excited to be working with Antone’s on this show,” says promoter Mal Thursday. “It’s a legendary venue for a legendary band.” 

The 25-piece funk orchestra is the subject of the award-winning documentary Thunder Soul, executive produced by Jamie Foxx, which will have a free public screening on Friday June 29^th at 7 p.m. at Orun Center for Cultural Arts, 1720 East 12^th Street, presented as part of the Black Media Council’s Liberation Film Series.

In the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas in the late 1960s, musician and composer Conrad O. Johnson, known as "Prof", took a job as Music Director at the predominantly black Kashmere High School where he would go on to transform the school's struggling jazz band into a full-fledged funk powerhouse. The Kashmere Stage Band and their dynamic leader would soon become legendary and world-renowned. 

In the early 1970s, national High School Stage Band competitions were fiercely competitive, strictly conservative, and almost entirely white. Not only did Prof break the color barrier and get his kids into these competitions, he flipped the status quo by rearranging all of his band's music into elaborate funk arrangements. He changed the band's look, encouraging them to embrace their own inimitable style. He then introduced the element of showmanship, with each section choreographing slick moves with their instruments—unprecedented at the time. Finally, he unleashed his band on the competition scene, where, against tremendous odds, they would go on to triumph again and again. 

From 1968 to 1977, the Kashmere Stage Band won a record number of titles around the nation and was invited to perform in Europe and Japan.  Prof and the band made history when they won Most Outstanding Stage Band in the Nation at the highly prestigious All-American High School Stage Band Festival in Mobile, Alabama, in 1972 – the very same year that state’s segregationist Governor George Wallace would announce a run for the presidency.   

Kashmere Stage Band released several records between 1968 and 1978, which became highly prized among funk fans and record collectors. The band’s recordings have been collected by Now Again Records on the essential 2-disc anthology Texas Thunder Soul.

The band’s success reverberated throughout Kashmere High School resulting in unprecedented student achievement in the arts, athletics and all academic disciplines.  Prof and the band’s accomplishments also helped to uplift and unite the community.  As former student Gaila Mitchell put it:

"The Kashmere Stage Band was the best thing that ever happened to our community.  Even in a time when there was so much racial bias, everybody in the community came together to help the Kashmere Stage Band do whatever they needed to do."

Having reunited in 2006 to pay tribute to Johnson, Kashmere Stage Band has carried on with their inimitable live performances. They most recently played Austin at Uncle Billy’s Lake Travis in September 2011, and at La Zona Rosa during South by Southwest 2010.

CONTACT:

J.M. Dobies

Industrious Media, Austin, Texas