LEATHERCOATED MINDS - SUNSET AND CLARK.wmv

THE LEATHERCOATED MINDS - 'Sunset And Clark' (Fontana TL.5412) 1967 This is my rare UK copy of The Leathercoated Minds LP 'A Trip Down The Sunset Strip' on Fontana. It also happens to be the essential mono mix. How this rather obscure and completely 'underground' album managed to get a release in Britain is unclear.... The album cover is a picture of Roger Tillison and Terrye Newkirk who were a folk-rock duo based in Hollywood. They cut a 45 as The Gypsy Trips. Read my review here. It is believed, however, that Terrye Newkirk did not perform on The Leathercoated Minds album but Tillison did along with producer and arranger John J. Cale and sundry musicians employed by Viva Records. 'A Trip Down The Sunset Strip' is quite a period piece and a tyme capsule of the coloured sights and sounds of the LA teen scene circa 1966-67. Unfortunately the cover versions don't stand well next to the originals but the snippets of conversations and car noises between the tracks recorded on We! st Hollywood's Sunset Strip are cool. The instrumentals featured such as 'Sunset And Clark' are really where it's at. These were all written by John J. Cale. expo67-cavestones.blogspot.com

VIVA LA DERBY! Super Fun Happy Time - DUMPTRUCK

Not so recently, the VIVALADERBY! crew had a SUPER FUN HAPPY TIME with DUMPTRUCK of Derby Deeds and many other derby related activities. The man is a good time, and is was completely charming considering he was talking to us at 4am. Dumptruck is one funny motherfucker and we had a good time chatting with him, but for all the lulz he generates, he also speaks with passion and intelligence and with the type of insight possessed by very few. This interview is pretty old. Consider it the lost tapes of Dumpy. If you don't mind hearing all of our thoughts on some pretty old events that everyone already knows the outcome to, then you'll probably have a super fun happy time too.