Stinky summed up the general mood during an emergency shareholder meeting. "We must crush them," he seethed (with a hatred he usually reserves for Butterboy).
You see, blogging is a highly lucrative industry, and the competition is cutthroat. With each pageview and download, we receive kickbacks and incentives. Bringing a free agent like Koen to our team was incredibly expensive, but we couldn't afford to lose him to a rival blog.
The dirty secret of music bloggers is that we all hate each other, and we all hate music. (It's got too many notes.) Sure, we act friendly and feign enthusiasm. But content is our commerce, and what Nathan and Viacom did is unforgivable.
In order to reassert our dominance in this topical turf battle, Stinky put together an overview of Nigel Dixon's musical career, which started with British rockabilly band Whirlwind. That led to his work on Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost Too and its followup album, 1983's Pearls Galore (not to be confused with her 1984 LP of the same title).
Havana 3AM released their self-titled debut in 1991. Nigel was the lead singer, Gary Myrick the lead guitarist, with Paul Simonon on bass and Travis Williams on drums. Nigel Dixon died in 1993; Myrick released one more album under the Havana 3AM name (but with none of the other members) in 1996.
Stinky's comp includes Nigel Dixon's solo single, songs that he cowrote and played guitar on with Pearl Harbour, a few Havana 3AM tracks, and a whole lotta Whirlwind. Hopefully this show of force will teach our rivals a lesson.
The Best of Nigel Dixon: http://tinyurl.com/NigelDixon
ReplyDeleteAnother Stinky Provocation
As a late-period survivor of the Blogger Wars, I believe the only solution is M.A.D. That's Mutually Appreciative Downloads. You'll thank me later.
ReplyDeleteM.A.D. were a great obscuro punk band from Santa Cruz. Usta party hardy with them in the early 80s. Big Doors fan so your opinion means a bunch, Jimmo.
DeleteThank you later? I''ll thank you right now, Captain! As for the Doors, wasn't Bobby Collins their bass player?
DeleteYou can hire a ringer like Koen, but we'll see how long he's loyal when he sees the real N$$ Geld. You & the Stinky one are going down. Just wait 'til tomorrow's Bobby Collins mega-post. For you wanna-bees, bass whore extraordinaire Collins was in Whirlwind with Nigel, but was in Holly & the Italians with Holly Beth Vincent, guest bassist for Automatics & Blancmange, backing vocals for Big Bam Boo...well, I won't go on. Just weep now & wave the white flag.
ReplyDeleteOh no, we've been scooped! Stinky loves Holly. But don't press "Publish" just yet, Nothin. Our law firm (Automatics & Blancmange, LLC) is sending you a cease & desist letter as soon as they can find the rock you've been living under. "Tell that blog to shut up" were their exact words.
DeleteAh, gimme a break. The rock I live under is the rock that rocks the world. & youse guys already overdid that "Shut up" stuff. Them shysters need to get another catch-phrase. But if Stinky loves Holly, I'll hold off for now. He's obviously got a few marbles rattling around in his noggin. & Koen, call me. Ya got my number.
DeleteI'm tempted, but there's this compromising video... Any chance you could make it 'disappear' (incl the punk who took it!)?
DeleteWell, Art, ma man, here's the skinny. I can take care of the punk with the vid cam & all his copies as easy as scraping smegma from my schlong. The Chiang Mai karaoke bar CCTV footage is a snap. But that Swifty biatch got her hands on a copy & therein lies the rub. She thinks it's the best thing she's done to date & has been showing it to everybody & their cousins. An inside source tells me she sez quote bettern sliced Wunderbrot unquote. She doesn't care about your rep. Your bona fides right now are worse than a third rate turd burglar. Guess you'll just haveta keep shovelin' pablum for the Jondinkys fer a while. Sayonara, sucka. Call me...like...never!
DeleteI'm beginning to understand more & more why some bloggers have terrible reputations...
DeleteSounds like you're stuck with us, Koen. Our condolences to your loved ones.
DeleteThanks for this compilation, I think had a few records of Whirlwind in the Jurassic Park days, but never saw them live, unlike Crazy Cavan, Freddie 'Fingers' Lee, Shakin' Stevens & The Sunsets, a.o.
ReplyDeleteA lot of truth in your write-up here, being addicted to music is dreadful, due to excessive downloading I seldom have time to listen to those blasted mp3s...
And thanks for reminding me to send you a bill for the upcoming post I wrote for you.
Remember that other blogs are making me more and more offers, some are actually becoming interesting!
The check is in the mail, Koen -- but don't try to double-cross us! Just remember that we've got compromising video of you and Taylor Swift singing "My Little Sister's Got A Motorbike" in a Chiang Mai karaoke bar. If that ever got out Tay Tay would sue you into financial oblivion, and Cavan Grogan would haunt you from his grave.
DeleteActually she wasn't halfway bad, but it would seriously damage my reputation of course... Cavan Grogan alive was already scary looking enough, don't set his ghost on me please...
DeleteThe only M.A.D. I know of is spelled M.A.D.D. (Mothers Against Drunk Downloading).
ReplyDeleteYou got to see Freddie "Fingers" Lee LIVE Koen? Now I DO hate you.
- Stinky
I always thought it stood for Mutually Assured Doodlin'... Come on Stinky, I know, Rockabilly Rules, but still... hate is such a negative vibe!
DeleteMormons Against Dubstep?
DeleteThat would be Morons Against Dubstep then.
DeleteYou'll never get your own planet with THAT attitude, Joey.
DeleteI updated my Pearl Harbour post about her success in finishing the chemo for lung cancer diagnosis. Kind needed a solid kick off dead center for that repost what with some new stuff w the band so precious to us all callous blogger or not we all unite
ReplyDeleteCallous? Never. You know I love you, man. We're all happy for Pearl, as a cancer survivor and as an artist getting her due!
DeleteSo far I've been paid in cheap plastic beads and bedbug-ridden blankets. Damn, I think I've been had...!
ReplyDeleteI'll send you some Firewater mp3's. It takes your mind off the biting.
DeleteHere’s a little more background on how Havana 3a.m. came together.
ReplyDeleteNigel Dixon was the lead singer of the British rockabilly band; Whirlwind, & the band’s drummer was Nick Simonon—Paul Simonon’s brother, which explains how they knew one another.
Paul Simonon & Nigel Dixon were into motorcycles, as were Gary Myrick & Steve Jones (of The Sex Pistols). Myrick was playing in Steve’s live band, and met Paul Simonon & Nigel Dixon through him. Simonon & Dixon had flown from England to El Paso TX where they bought two Harleys that they then rode cross country. The four musicians bonded riding motorcycles together.
Myrick explains on a podcast (https://www.wddimpodcast.com/post/gary-myrick-adventures) that British guys all loved westerns and so the two were eager to see El Paso. (He reckons the classic Marty Robbins song played a part in it).
Gary Myrick suggested that they write three songs together and see what they came up with. They liked the songs, and Havana 3a.m. were able to tour and draw crowds before they even had a record—simply on the strength of sporting a founding-member of The Clash.
A Japanese label gave them a record deal and (as part of the deal) the band was allowed to license the masters to an American label, and landed on Miles Copeland’s IRS Records.
Perhaps the most interesting thing I learned in the podcast is that after Nigel Dixon died, Simonon left music to go back to painting, and management paired Gary Myrick with former BABYS lead singer John Waites to write songs. Together they recorded Waites’ smash hit album; NO BRAKES as a band. Geffen offered Gary Myrick a solo album, so he told Waites to release NO BRAKES as a solo record. Myrick says he still benefitted because as he says: “I have points on the record” but he missed out on the boost in name recognition that a #1 hit like MISSING YOU provides.
- Stinky
Thanks, Stinky -- that's really interesting stuff! I never knew the guy who sang "She Talks In Stereo" was a blues guitar slinger and songwriter. Kathy Valentine covered Myrick's song "Guitar, Talk, Love & Drums" (which he cowrote with the "Thunder Island" guy, Jay Ferguson!) Two bands have covered Havana 3AM's "Reach The Rock":
Deletehttps://thepeawees.bandcamp.com/album/stranger-7
https://backlash3.bandcamp.com/album/rat-patrol-to-siberia
Thank you for exposing the seedy underbelly of the cutthroat music blogging biz -- I always suspected that there was intense rivalry and mutual disdain between music bloggers but it's nice to see it finally brought to the surface. I share your hatred for music but I'm addicted to downloading so here I am! Thx
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