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    Top 10 Mental Music Masterpieces #1 (Nick Drake) “Pink Moon”

    Authored by Dale Nickey: Nick Drake – Pink Moon (1972) Unbearable lightness of being More Masterpieces click>>>> 10 9  8  7 6 5 4 3 2 1 “Pink Moon” finds Nick Drake parked in a chair alone with his guitar, foretelling his untimely death at age 26. After recording two elaborately arranged albums of autumnal perfection, Nick shuffles into the studio an unkempt and closed-off…


    September 28, 2013
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    Mental Musical Masterpieces # 2 Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band – “Trout Mask Replica”

    Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band  – “Trout Mask Replica” (1969) More Masterpieces click>> 10 9  8  7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Sometimes you just have to eat shredded wheat. The 1969 double LP,”Trout Mask Replica” is music’s answer to shredded wheat. It goes down hard and scratches your throat. But ultimately, it’s good for you.  The rhythms are fitful. The guitars are dissonant and…


    September 22, 2013
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    Profiles in Outsider Music “Songs In The Key Of Z” by Irwin Chusid (Book Review)

     Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music (2000), published by A Cappella Books Reviewed by: Dale Nickey We print junkies divide books into different categories. There are the books you commit to out of respect for the author or because you don’t want to wuss out before you see what…


    September 14, 2013
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    JANDEK – “Maze Of The Phantom” (Record Review)

    Reviewed by Dale Nickey: Jandek – “Maze Of The Phantom” (2012) Corwood Industries (0808) Jandek is the most compelling indie artist at this particular moment in human history. Jandek captures your imagination. In Jandekland, imagination is the only tool you have to appreciate and curate the music. Jandek does no interviews. Nor does he provide biographical information.  No…


    September 1, 2013
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    Larry Dean Embry (1958-2013) Catrancher Studios (The Skid Row Years)

    Larry would say it many times in the years after 9/11. “It was like someone flipped a light switch”. I was holding my head in my hands the night our rightfully elected president Al Gore conceded the presidency to the man who stole it, George Bush. I possessed a terrible wisdom. I didn’t know what…


    August 30, 2013
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    Larry Dean Embry (1958-2013) The Catrancher Years (Hollywood)

    Larry’s accelerated learning curve at 38 Fresh Studios gave him the requisite tools to begin his career as a freelance sound engineer. At 38 Fresh he did Hip-Hop sessions, commercials, jingles, knock-offs, voiceovers, musical artists….anything thrown his way. He found a funky but unique 3 bedroom upstairs apartment on Beachwood Dr. in central Hollywood, not…


    August 25, 2013
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    Larry Dean Embry (1958-2013) The 38 Fresh Years

    Larry spent his early adult years sustaining himself as a house painter. As time wore on, Larry eventually realized that his mental and physical health would require a career course correction ASAP. His last big project was a recording studio in central Hollywood called 38 Fresh Studios. Larry really pulled out all the stops and…


    August 22, 2013
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    Larry Dean Embry – Guitarist/Artist/Producer (1958-2013)

    The Howlers – “All Blues” Larry Dean Embry (Vocals/Guitar)   Click here>>>>> Larry Dean Embry – All Blues Larry Dean Embry has passed and left a gaping void in my life that I’m still coming to grips with. He would want you to remember him as a guitar player. He was a lot of other things.…


    August 22, 2013
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    Top 10 List – Mental Musical Masterpieces – # 3 Skip Spence

    Authored by Dale Nickey: Skip Spence – “Oar” (1969): More Masterpieces click>>>> 10 9  8  7 6 5 4 3 2 1 “Oar” was one of the weirdest albums of all time, with a back story to match. After getting “dosed” with acid, he had the mother of all bad trips.  After chasing one of his Moby Grape band mates around the studio with an ax, Spence…


    August 19, 2013
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    Postcards From The Ledge (Profiles in Outsider Music) # 1 – JANDEK

    Authored by Dale Nickey: Soundscapes for enhanced interrogation….. Jandek is a cipher. Less so now that he is performing live and has actually spoken and shown his face in public. But from 1978 to 2004 there wasn’t a more remote, iconoclastic and disturbing outside artist than Jandek. You won’t find his records at your local record shop…


    August 15, 2013

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