I've got loads of stuff here y'know. I can't wait to see what you got.
Alright, ok. I just started off looking for things I can't get at home.
There's a film here called 'Drive, He Said'
which was directed by Jack Nicholson in 1970
I've always been intrigued to see it but I didn't know it was available
and there it is. Well done Amoeba.
What's in your bag Sarah?
What's in my bag? I went a bit crazy in the Criterion section, predictably.
There's 'Eyes Without a Face.'
Basically, I've been learning French a little bit on and off.
So y'know, this is French. 'Les Yeux sans visage,' yeah.
So I thought that would be...
I mean I've seen it before. It's really, really good though. Great music.
This is one that I've had for years, but this is
the deluxe edition, which you always need extra tracks, y'know.
This is the link between the old T.Rex and the kind of more produced stuff.
So it's like there's no drums yet, but still...
Yeah, it's like he's got Mickey Finn playing bongos or congas.
There's no drums but there's bass and all.
And they look brilliant as well.
Yeah, beautiful.
What's in your bag bean?
Ok, well I've got, yeah, quite a lot of things. I've got these books by Leroy Jones.
Quiet, screaming, hooded holy rollers.
preacher, space, rocket, church, nutty logic. Straight, no chaser.
I was doing a bit of reading on Thelonious Monk recently
and I saw an online article that sort of referenced Leroy Jones' essay about 'Monk'
as being a really good read. So there's kind of reprints of a couple of his books.
I got a nice 7", sorry, 12" in fact
of 'Disco Inferno' by The Tramps.
Back in Glasgow, as a side project
I play in a disco band called The Disco Shark.
Because, like a shark, you know, you've got to keep moving or else you'll die.
Right, so it's a disco shark.
And my good friend Lauren, he sings this one, 'Disco Infrerno.'
Absolute classic.
That was the first record I ever had.
Really?
'Disco Inferno' by The Tramps, yeah.
It was Christmas '79 and I wanted Leif Garrett
'I Was Made for Dancin''
But my dad bought me a K-Tel compilation that was called 'Disco Inferno'
Oh yeah, right, right.
I've still got in the house.
Of course you do. That's amazing.
I kind of liked the look of this one
which has a man and a dog on it. I'm a big fan of dogs.
Apparently his dog is his only friend.
And he struggles to maintain his dignity
and I thought that might be quite interesting as well.
You know I heard this the other day in Monorail in Glasgow. There's a great record shop
in Glasgow called Monorail. Ex Hex.
Don't know anything about them
but it sounds really like The Runaways.
Good guitar kind of stuff, I think.
This girl here, she did some recording with members of Sleater-Kinney. I'm not sure which one.
I don't know anything about it, but that's a great, great record.
I got this Philip Glass thing, 'Einstein on the Beach.'
'Einstein on the Beach' is an opera like no other.
There is no story. No hero or heroine.
No obvious links between words images and music.
Antoine, who was playing violin with us on our last American tour, just previous to playing with us
he'd been playing in a production of this Philip Glass thing 'Einstein on the Beach.'
And he played us some excerpts from it and it sounded pretty amazing.
So I picked a nice-looking kind of vinyl pressing of that.
I actually have here the brand new Sleater-Kinney record.
I think the first time for the group played in America it was '97
and the first time in New York. I was lucky enough to meet some really interesting people.
In fact, Janet from Sleater-Kinney and Fontaine from Versus
took me out dancing. And the DJ was Elliott Smith.
And he played 'Monkey Man' by the Stones, and I went up to thank him
I said, 'that's my favorite Stones song, thanks very much'
and he smiled. A really nice guy but y'know, memories are made of this.
It's been getting good reviews as well.
Yeah, I'm excited to hear it.
And then a Tati box set.
It's easy watching I guess, for a lot of mime and things like that.
That's the kind of French movie that's gentle on the student I suppose.
Yeah it's the most rigorous language practice is it.
No.
So that's kind of my level, really.
Next up, 'Skinhead Moonstomp.'
There was a documentary on BBC TV recently
it was all about a sort of youth fashion in the sixties and seventies.
And the whole skinhead look from '69/'70 this was one that all the skins had.
And I haven't actually heard it, or heard anything off it.
Good looking bunch of boys.
Yeah, looks pretty good, yeah.
Jimmy Smith thing on Blue Note
really just because, as you can see, we've got quite similar taste in knitwear.
You do.
Obviously Jimmy Smith is a bit of a kind of Hammond organ hero for me as well
so since he's wearing such a neat cardigan on the cover, I thought that's probably worth checking out.
This here is Vashti Bunyan
I picked this up one day and some of these are early singles plus some demos.
And I just loved it so much, it's the only time I've ever written a fan letter.
I actually... I was so moved by it
and I had this friend who had her email.
So I asked for the email and I wrote her a fan letter
just to tell her I love her and she gave me a really sweet reply.
I thought I would also get the War On Drugs record, which I keep hearing and saying what's that?
And then it's always that.
I'm quite surprised. I wouldn't necessarily have thought that that was your sort of thing.
No, me neither.
Kind of quite classic rock for you.
A little bit, yeah.
Wait'll you get a load of this.
Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead at the Fillmore.
Do you ever remember, in the eighties there was a magazine called 'The History of Rock?'
I bought that.
Yeah, well on the back cover of that magazine was this poster. That was about 1984.
And I always really fancied it, y'know. I thought it would look great.
And that's all framed so I think I'll be taking that home with me.
The only problem is I've got no room on my walls, y'know
so I think what we'll probably do is have to maybe take my daughter's school photograph down.
Maybe her class paragraph. She'll be too embarrassed in a few years anyway.
So that'll go down well, I'm sure.
Album 'Garra' by Marcos Valle. Seventies Brazilian
It's kind of a label that people I know... a label called Light in the Attic that do a lot of really good reissues.
You can pretty much pick up anything on the label and it's really good.
But yeah this guy Marcos Valle, he did a run of really interesting records in the kind of late 60s and 70s
and this is one of them.
The greatest rock n' roll movie ever made, 'Gimme Shelter.'
Oh yeah, brilliant.
They capture every shot. They capture the whole story of how it all unfolds.
It's Altamont, folks, if you don't know.
The anti-Woodstock that killed the sixties dream.
Right at the end of it? December?
December, yeah, '69.
Anyway, on that cheery note
Yeah.
That's what was in our bags.
Thanks Amoeba.
Thank you guys very much.
Cool. Thank you.