B-side to their (as far as we can tell-ONLY single) titled “How Can I Tell Everybody”.  Recorded (year unknown 60s/70s?) at PURR RECORD COMPANY in Anderson, SC  (out of business).  In short, please enjoy this ghost from the past that was recently discovered along with countless other 45s that have sat in an old office for the better part of 40 years!  Expect some of the cuts to make their WAY overdue appearance to the WORLD via GF in 2013.  Enough of this mess, see you all in a bit.
Dubya Jay, Â ZZ, Â Zerra, Zeb, Zeke and the rest of the Gypsy Klan, good year.
Gypsy friend, photographer and Athens resident, Stacey Marie was riding her bicycle when she was stuck head-on by a drunk driver in a pick-up truck. Â She has serious injuries and is currently in Athens Regional Hospital. There is a benefit show TONIGHT starting at 11:30pm in Athens at the Farm 255 to help raise funds for her medical bills (IN THIS DAYE INN AGE!!) — Please consider a donation of any amount to help Stacey to a quick recovery by visiting this PAGE
On a Wednesday evening, we made our way down to “The Manor” in Athens, GA – a venue known for it’s Lazers, Fog and Ying Yang Twin hosted events.  At around 10pm the curtain raised, The RODNEY KINGS chomped down on the sound and folks where physically fine to show for it, bless their hearts. They throbbed and bobbed their bones baby. There was a middle band, Tallycox that seemed well rounded with “top notch musical-movement-minded-musicians”-no doubt.  I slipped upstairs and bumped into D-ROC and KAINE momentarily.
Sliding into the midnight hour, the lips kicked things off with “SEA OF BLASPHEMY”–and a sea it soon was of beer, bottles, cans, shoes and bodies as the band played new cuts direct from their latest release (Arabia Mountain) with older material in between.  It was the usual Lipsy show without the gimmicks, although I believe some of the new comers where still in “shock from the rock” said one innocent groove stricken-lady.  They played an Almighty Defenders song (Bow Down and Die) and then soon after ended somewhere around “BAD KIDS”. Seeing the lips many a time between all of ourselves, the show still came nothing short of a rawkously recharging–perhaps an alcoholic reboot for some, and simply a twist of the hips for others.  / WJ
Here at GF, We’ve been tickling the musical catalog of Athens’ HAM1 for well over the past year.  Although the band is now defunct and no longer together, they’ve left behind countless capsules that shall not cease to be re-discovered as time grows into future.  “WHITE RAT” is one tune especially charming to the emotional ear, plucked directly from  “The Captain’s Table” record  (2007 / Orange Twin Records).  It grooves, prooves and mooves your thought process; alarming the mellow moods that your mind has stored away for the day.  Take it in, catch the HAM1 Review that our own Zeb Garrison posted earlier this year and CUT YOUR TEETH on their new incarnation around town, known as OLD SMOKEY.
Listen to “White Rat” By HAM1 and click here to buy the record!
This is a record called “Castlemania” by a San-Fran band called “Thee Oh Sees”.  It was released in May 2011 by IN THE RED. There’s a tune on it called “Stinking Cloud” and it is utterly BEWTIFUL.  Perhaps this is the lost tape from that time The Trashmen took acid.  The vinyl version features 2 LPs, although the album is only 3-sided, but the 4th side is a REALLY COOL etching that includes that tag line from this song. “We’re Dead, Dead, Dead as I’ve Already Said!”  Catch Thee Oh Sees in ATLANTA, GA with TY SEGALL next month at THE GOAT FARM on SEPTEMBER 18th
This musical SAINT hogged most of GF’s summer playlist; and is still holding strong – Everyone knows him as “King of the Road” and some even remember his soundtrack for Disney’s ROBIN HOOD (Oodoo Lolly Oodoo Lolly!) Roger Miller was the original bag. He wrote and played guitar with George Jones, played drums, fiddle and sang in other well known Country-Western acts and all the while forming his own music that was decades ahead of time such as “The Moon Is High”, “I Ain’t Coming Home Tonight” and “That’s Why I love you like I Do”, pulled from his catalog of over 800 songs.
Here he is in a video taken from 1966’s OPRY ALMANAC. Please allow 9 seconds of digital trickery before the image shows itself. Apparently- Miller, “Thumbs” and the rest of the band (which includes the Crickets’ Drummer!) had spent the early morning hours smoking and drinking back stage before going on to appear live at 6am and totally bring the house down. This is a hazy, improvised version of Rogers’ hit “Do Wacka Do” that (in my opinion) rivals the original studio version. If you feel fuzzy, check out the FULL EPISODE of Roger Miller’s 1966 Opry Am appearance. You can’t be sorry!
GYPSY FARM field reporter, ZZ RYDER sent this to our door step last week. Â He tells tall tails of GF’s third release, an upcoming show at Georgia Theatre and what really get’s his “BLOOD BOILING” Â : : : :
OO BABY SUMMER 2012! Please accept my introduction to Gypsy Farm Records’ 11-Bones-of- Blues garage album GYPSNOSIS because it is like a DRUGTRIP!! It features Athens punx The Humms, Rodney Kings, Ice Creams, along with other desolated souls who made it into the studio such as These Magnificent Tapeworms, Ghost Lights, and Uncle Skunkle. And I’m sure that every girl falls in love each time those sweet babeez hear those psychedelic hustlers The Rodney Kings hoss-howlin’ on “I Wanna Meet you”! As the first GFR album to be pressed on vinyl, these gypsy boo-nanas have climbed on up the Naked Monkey Staircase. This same rekkid will be headed all over the world, via CD and download as well. I wonder when the single track “Roller Derby Girl” could’ve even had its garagey coolness contained inside the GYPSY FARM studio, and still maintained its influence of strychnine each time you hear it —- maybe they’ve channeled Stiv Bators’ ghost. It’s so strange — way harder than grunge rock — more roots punk style. Not to mention, right now I’m remembering These Magnificent Tapeworms showing me how it’s done on multiple occasions live. Some of these recordings date back to 2008, but it’s clear that nothing’s changed there, coming out of the cloud of 2011. Continue reading “ZZ Ryder touches base with GF”
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