An Olde Fashioned Christmas

I'm a huge fan of Christmas time, and even more so, the time leading up to Christmas. Here's a 3-disc mix of must-have Christmas music to add to your holidays. Merry Christmas!

There's 77 tracks here, so I'm not going to list them all like I usually do, but artists include:

Aretha Franklin, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Bob Atcher & The Dinning Sisters, Booker T. & The MG's, Burl Ives, Darlene Love, Dean Martin, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Dinah Washington, Donny Hathaway, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Glen Campbell, Jackie Wilson, The Jackson 5, James Brown, John Lennon, Julie London, June Christy, Louis Armstrong, Loretta Lynn, Marvin Gaye, Nancy Wilson, Nat King Cole, Neil Diamond, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, Ray Charles, The Ronettes, Sammy Davis Jr., Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Ventures, Vince Guaraldi Trio, and Wayne Newton.

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The Golden Trip

Here's a new mixtape for you guys.  This one's more on the psych side of things, with a few that don't really belong in the genre, but I felt they fit so nicely that I decided to include them anyways.  Some really cool stuff on here, some well known and a handful of rarities.  Starlites, Human Expression, and Tempters were all pulled from 1967 45's. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band is a new one to me.  Even being the shortest track on this mix, it still stands out as one of the most interesting, especially considering it's release was in 1968.  That's it from me.  Enjoy.

The Golden Trip

01. Starlites: I Can't See You

02. The Electric Prunes: I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)

03. Grateful Dead: Cream Puff War

04. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band: As Kind As Summer

05. The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard

06. 13th Floor Elevators: Levitation

07. Grace Slick & The Great Society: Grimly Forming

08. The Fire Escape: Love special Delivery

09. Lalo Schifrin: The Golden Trip

10. Kaleidoscope: Dive Into Yesterday

11. Patsy Cline: I Love You So Much It Hurts

12. Hugo Montenegro: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

13. David Axelrod: Merlin's Prophecy

14. Leonard Cohen: Suzanne

15. France Gall: Laisse Tomber Les Filles

16. Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot: Bonnie And Clyde

17. Can: Vitamin C

18. J Girls: Yellow World

19. Human Expression: Optical Sound

20. Tempters: Tell Me More

21. Alexander Spence: All Come To Meet Her

22. Shadows Of Knight: Someone Like Me

23. The Kaleidoscope: You Don't Love Me

24. The Velvet Underground: The Murder Mystery

25. Fairfield Parlour: I Will Always Feel The Same

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FIDLAR - Live On KXLU

I posted a few of these videos a couple weeks back.  Here are the rest of them.  These are videos I shot of FIDLAR live on KXLU.

Black Out Stout

No Waves

White On White

5 To 9

Chinese Weed

Gimme Something

Wait For The Man

Summer Time In The Promised Land!!!

Summer is here, which means the beach, BBQs, and good, classic music.

Typically, I try to post stuff that is (for the most part) more obscure.  But, in the case of a summer mix, you gotta stick with what you know.  But even still, I'm hoping there might be a couple surprises on here.  This mix pretty much makes me want to take a looooong break from work and go drive up the coast or into the desert with a cooler of cold beer in the passenger seat.  It's a windows down, turn it up loud, bang your hand on the roof of the car type thing.  Enjoy.

Summer Time In The Promised Land!!!

01. J.J. Cale: Call Me The Breeze

02. Neil Young: Walk On

03. Bob Dylan: New Morning

04. The Doors: Soul Kitchen

05. Link Wray: Rumble

06. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hey Joe

07. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Born To Move

08. Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers

09. Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show: Carry Me, Carrie

10. Bruce Springsteen: The Promised Land

11. George Harrison: Wah Wah

12. Led Zeppelin: Traveling Riverside Blues

13. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Needle And The Spoon

14. The Rolling Stones: Can't You Hear Me Knocking

15. Jackson Browne: Red Neck Friend

16. Johnny Cash: Blistered

17. The Band: Just Another Whistle Stop

18. Kris Kristofferson: Gettin' By, High, And Strange

19. Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade Of Pale

20. Thunderclap Newman: Something In The Air

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The Flaming Lips!!!!!!!

My wife & I had the INCREDIBLE PRIVILEGE of getting to see The Flaming Lips, not one, but two nights in a row at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Night 1 was The Soft Bulletin in it's entirety and night 2, Pink Floyd's: Dark Side of the Moon.  Soft Bulletin is my favorite Lips album and Dark Side of the Moon is my favorite album of all time.  To say it was a special couple of nights just doesn't give it justice.  But, I'm still at too much of a loss of words to say anything else.

Alice took a handful of photos.  I'm gonna let her save the majority for her blog, but I couldn't resist posting a couple here.  Thank you to The Flaming Lips for the best two nights of my life.  Seriously.

FIDLAR - Wait For The Man

Here's another video from the FIDLAR: Live On KXLU series.

This is another track off their DIYDUI 7" release.

Wait For The Man

More FIDLAR videos HERE and a whole lot more HERE

New Links

I re-uploaded all my mixtapes so the links won't expire after a week anymore. Here are the new links to previous posts.

The Only Game The Man Left: A Collection Of Soulful Songs (1963-1976)

She Cuts So Fresh: Another Collection Of Soulful Songs (1968-1974)

Life In June

Headset Jazz: A Lalo Schifrin Collection

Daniel Johnston Must Be Destroyed!!!: A Daniel Johnston Collection

This Will Get You From Santa Monica To Pasadena (In Traffic)

A Source Of Joy & Inspiration To All The World

Mexican Garage Stompers (1962-1968)