MERE MOMENTS AFTER I MET DICKIE PETERSON...

aaaaaaaa hahahahaaa that guy is crazy

WOAH HE LOOKS AWESOME STILL.

DID HE SIGN RECORDS

THERE WERE NO RECORDS THERE FOR HIM TO SIGN...

ACTUALLY, AFTER HE LEFT, WE FOUND A REALLY BEAT UPCOPY OF NEW! IMPROVED! but he was gone.;

Wheres that youtube clip of them looking like 3 Cousin Itts with instruments, shit is awesome

LOL best look ever for a band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TkRT13L4GA

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that pic is hilarious

it really is both awesome and hilarious

THAT DUDE WEARS MORE JEWELRY THAN MOST WOMEN I KNOW

he looks... prissy.

haha awesome .. I talked to him extensively at the intonation show! they did a signing afterwards.

the guy ahead of me was asking Dickie to sign his original OutsideInside pressing, and I pointed to "magnolia caboose babyfinger" and said - 'hey Dickie, did you ever hear the cover of that tune by this band Mudhoney' ... and he just kind of looked up and said .. "oh yeah man, Leigh wrote that one, maan..."

haha... wow. what a lifer. god bless him. they are playing in the chi again tomorrow night -- I think I will go.

great pic too Ian.

oh also I told Paul Whaley that I was psyched he was back playing with the band. He seemed pretty happy.

He's smaller than I would've imagined. Or maybe it's just in proportion to Mt. Saint Ian back there.

i was in the store yesterday afternoon..

DAMN I MISSED IAN + DICKIE PETERSON

that wasn't yesterday, that was a week ago or something. when they played northsix.

WHAT TIME WERE U THERE MIKE? I WAS THERE ALL DAY. i might have been in the basement cleaning, though.

i only had 10 minutes, did most of my shopping at EAT earlier that day. i think it was 3ish or 4ish? didn't bother to ask if you were in, should have.

that reminds me, should i go to a blue cheer show in '06 ???

-- am0n (vvv...), October 20th, 2006 10:58 AM. (am0n)

yes

do they just do the classics? i don't wanna hear "new material"

yes, just the classics -- only stuff from the first two LPs, in fact. Dickie's voice is shot to hell, but he's a great character and engages the audience with some good stories. he's a hoot.

heh might have to go have a look-see i reckon

on a sidenote: as much as i love "vincebus eruptum", the movie ghost world ruined their parchment farm cover for me. i can't listen to him singing those lyrics without Blueshammer coming to mind :|

parchman

says fucking "parchment" on the blue cheer cd

SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP

Booker T. Washington "Bukka" White (November 12, 1909– February 26, 1977) was a delta blues guitarist and singer born near Houston, Mississippi. Even though he didn't like the spelling "Bukka", he was best known by that name. He gave his more famous cousin B.B. King his first guitar, a Stella. Bukka himself is remembered as a player of National Steel guitars. He also played, but was less adept at, the piano.

White started his career playing fiddle at square dances. He claims to have met Charlie Patton early on, although some doubt has been cast upon this [1]; regardless, Patton was a large influence on White. He typically played slide guitar, in an open tuning. He was one of the few, along with Skip James, to use a crossnote tuning in Em, which he may have learned, as James did, from Henry Stuckey.

He first recorded for the Victor label in 1930. His recordings for Victor, like those of many other bluesmen, fluctuated between country blues and gospel numbers. His gospel songs were done in the style of Blind Willie Johnson, with a female singer accentuating the last phrase of each line[2]

Nine years later, while serving time, he recorded for folklorist John Lomax. The few songs he recorded around this time became his most well-known: Shake 'Em On Down, and Po' Boy.

Bob Dylan covered his song "Fixin' to Die Blues", which aided his 'rediscovery' in 1963 by guitarist John Fahey and ED Denson and propelled him onto the folk revival scene of the 1960s. White had recorded the song simply because his other songs had not particularly impressed the Victor record producer. It was a studio composition which White had thought little of until it re-emerged thirty years later[3].

Fahey and Denson found White easily enough: they wrote a letter to "Bukka White (Old Blues Singer), c/o General Delivery, Aberdeen, Mississippi." Fahey had assumed, given White's song Aberdeen, Mississippi, that White still lived there, or nearby. The postcard was forwarded to Memphis, Tennessee, where White worked in tank factory. Fahey and Denson soon travelled to meet Bukka White. He and Fahey remained friends throughout White's life,[4] and he recorded a new album for Fahey's Takoma Records. Danson became his manager.

White was, later in life, also friends with fellow musician Furry Lewis. The two recorded, mostly in Lewis' Memphis, Tennessee apartment, an album together, Furry Lewis, Bukka White & Friends: Party! At Home.

One of his most famous songs, Parchman Farm Blues, about the Mississippi's infamous Parchman Farm state prison, was to be released on Harry Smith's fourth, never realized, volume of the Anthology of American Folk Music. His 1937 version of the oft-recorded song[5] Shake 'em on Down is considered definitive, and became a hit while White was serving time in Parchman.[6]

dude, i already said "snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap." keep it social, huh?

respect your elders

...snap?

WOW THX FOR ALL THAT INFO THAT I ALREADY KNEW ABOUT PARCHMENT FARM

keep the gay nitpicking on crewcial board plz

looks like u didn't know it at all. but feel free to take it too srsly.

Parchment Farm

covered by Blue Cheer, written by Mose Allison / Kingston Trio

Sittin' down here on a Parchment Farm, uh huh. (Repeat)
Sittin' down here on a Parchment Farm, I ain't never done nobody no harm.

Bet your life I'm going to jail, uh huh. (Repeat)
You can bet your life I'm going to jail, judge bought a Cadillac with my bail.

Loadin' that cotton in a hundred pound sack, uh huh. (Repeat)
Loadin' that cotton in a hundred pound sack, got a twelve gauge shot gun at my back.

I be in jail for the rest of my life, uh huh. (Repeat)
You know that I be in jail for the rest of my life, all I ever did was to shot my wife, uh huh.

Sittin' down here on a Parchment Farm, uh huh. Uh huh. I ain't never done nobody no harm.
Uh huh. Uh huh. Bet your life I'm going to jail.
Uh huh. Uh huh. Sittin' down here on a Parchment Farm.

i met mose allison once. nice guy.

inspired by but different from Bukka's

Judge gimme me life this morn'in
Down on Parchman Farm
Judge gimme me life this morn'in
Down on Parchman Farm
I wouldn't hate it so bad
But I left my wife in mournin'

Four years, goodbye wife
Oh you have done gone
Ooh, goodbye wife
Oh you have done gone
But I hope someday
You will hear my lonesome song, yeah

(guitar & washboard)

Oh you, listen you men
I don't mean no harm
Oh-oh listen you men
I don't mean no harm
If you wanna do good
You better stay off old Parchman Farm, yeah

We go to work in the mo'nin
Just a-dawn of day
We go to work in the mo'nin
Just a-dawn of day
Just at the settin' of the sun
That's when da work is done, yeah

Ooh, I'm down on old Parchman Farm
I sho' wanna go back home, yeah
I'm down on the old Parchman Farm
But I sho' wanna go back home, yeah
But I hope someday I will over come.

(washboard & guitar to end)

white people in making shit seem lame non-shocker.

btw i am not talking about you there. i was just tryin' to say that i prefer the bukka orig.

"Well, I've been plowing behind a mule, son, picking cotton all day long."

yeah like that line doesn't even make any sense.

its not supposed to, its Zwigoff mocking that sorta thing via "Blueshammer"

sign on door of club: "No Blue Cheer tonight"

sign on back of booking agent: "kick me, hard"