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Welcome to the Hood.


   

19/10/1957
Stella ; Stella - you can come back now , it was only a nasty little rash.
James
15/12/1973
Big Ears says : Osibisa - Osibisa 1971 is jah wobbliscous
Link
11/11/2011
Just as sure as every sinner has a future
Every saint has a past
Stalin
15/12/2011
Big Ears says : Looking Glass - Brandy 1972 is primo
Titbit ; Brandy was a popular girl , Bunny Walters had penned a tune using the name
word on the St was that big nose Barry Mannilow had plageurised Walters tune for his hit  Mandy
( excuse the hate cap for one moment )
Slick marketing move ? I know which side of the fence I'm lookin' over from.
Link
13/10/2012
Two ? for the haters :
Do u like sex_____ yeh
Do u like travel_______yeh
           Then      _ uck   o _ _
01/01/2018
Big Ears says : Rare Earth  - Ma 1973 is groovy
Link
19/10/2019

Pending drop of Colour Blind EP

Big I says : Laundromat -check it & go Meryl
21/10/2019
Lamchop dropped to You Tube
Link
25/10/2019
Pending drop of Free 2 B (instrumental ) to U Tube

Big Ears says : Stories - single Brother Louie early 1974 is primo
titbit ; these one hit wonders r still on the road today & Guy Richie used them in a bar scene
in Layer Cake ; praising their general Tude and head space.
Link

27/10/2019
25% OFF all merchandising - ends October 31 2019
29/10/2019

Hangi Pantzz clip dropped to You Tube.
Link
Big Ears says : Mr Probz - single Waves [ Robin Schulz remix ] 2013/4 is mandatory
Check out the whole soundscape - The Treatment 2013
Link
11/11/2019

Armistice Day - a thought for all the fallen.
!4/11/2019
Big Ears says : Disappointed L.A.B. left empty handed @ NZMA s this year.
Link
3/12/2019
Big I says : Wired for Sound - check it
Recent publication covering the  history of Stebbing  recording studio Akld.
Compelling stocking stuffer for the inquiring mind.
5/12/2019
Summer Tour


  Citizens Advisory - This festival season
If U don't know who is in the Kitchen leave the  scooby snacks in the jar.

1/1/2020

Made It
Big I says : Kudos to Karen Hay ( journo ) & Goebels ( dance )
and their New Years honours.
titbit ; never aware that Karen fielded criticism over her kiwi accent
she did have huge shoes to fill from the "good evening citizen "


BATTERS UP ; BALLS IN ; ZOOM.

7/01/20
Big I says : Jo Jo Rabbit check it.
While an acquired taste - a winner in my book just making it to the Globes.
Tarintino was always going be quite the peak to knock off.
5/02/20
Waitangi - Finishing touches to new track Daybreak & pending drop to
You Tube.
11/02/20
Final production process for K Road Shuffle featuring a new track.
Should be dropped to Boob Tube within the week.
20/02/2020
Kaikorae a soundscape in final production.
pending drop to bube tube soonish.
27/02/2020
Big Ears says - Ben Harper still got it
even after all these years.
Titbit : Diamonds on the Inside -  he abandoned the mike for a naked vocal to the intimate crowd
Brave move I've only seen Phoebe Snow really pull that off.
While I revelled in it - he may have also lost a section of the audience in technical musicianship
an indulgence.
The percussionist's birthday cake a nice touch bringin' it on home !
Link
29/02/2020
New EP taking shape - Daybreak
Autumn dawn drop
 25/03/2020  
The Bush Doctor says : Trouble tracking down sanitizer think Tee Tree oil
Dilute this with a cheaper neutral oil ( baby ) using an eye drop.
Personally I then dilute this down with a bit of water reusing a pump bottle to dispense.
Shake before use.
Titbit : Back in the day maori used manuka branches to sweep their whare clean.
The use of a sanitizer DOES NOT replace washing your hands up to your wrists
with hot water & soap !!
A word to the wise from the chef.
30/03/2020
L.I.P.
 March passing of Bill Withers
 the world seems a little dimmer today.
Titbit : Track down the Withers session on the Old Grey Whistle Test
with interesting commentary from Peele
31/03/2020

Daybreak EP dropped

04/04/2020
Free 2 B (reprise) clip dropped to bube tube
13/04/2020
Pending new tracks in their finishing stages.
Fall ending drop to bube tube.
!9/04/2020
PotKake dropped to Bube Tube.
Titbit : Potcake is an island term for a dog of mixed breeding - ( mut )

Link

23/04/2020
DogHouse dropped to Bube Tube
Show me a guy that hasn't been there
& I'll show you a pussy whipped poodle

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2/05/2020
L.I.P.
May Day passing of Dave Greenfield
Keys for the Stranglers.
Big Ears says :discovered an overlooked gem - Skin Deep
although the clip is just a mime it works
from the LP Aural Sculpture.
Link
8/05/2020
Covid material in the works.
t.L.I.P.  - The life in passing
Not an atypical offering - scraping together a clip to drop to bube 
Snowfall  drop of a new EP  me thinks.


16/05/2020
Finishing touches to new track that's been in the works



Jam Back at the Porch
Reflections
Should include a bube clip.
17/05/2020
Big Ears says : Sheryl Crow  There goes the neighborhood (quarantine version )
Primo material & the cameo from the horse in the stable - priceless.
Titbit : This tiny nightingale has always made me weak at the knees since I caught her  show
@ Atlantis , Paradise Island , Bahamas many moons ago.
Link

20/05/2020
Big I says : Nanette - HANNAH GADSBY worth tracking down.
A glimpse into the world according to Hannah woven with a thin comedic thread.
Not for the faint hearted & told as only a shackle dragger could.
On the road to evolvin'
Titbit : I had the comment of another human being I had grown to admire echoing in my mind
(also someone with the old prison stripes  buried deep in the back of the wardrobe)
CLIVE JAMES
An observation he made of pohms stereo typical comments on Americans
"being loud and obnoxious "
They themselves seemed so American with their passing comments.

04/06/2020
L.I.P.
June passing of Steve Priest - bass player for Sweet
High princes of glam rock @ the dawn of the 70 s.
Titbit : The hit machine team of Chin/Chapman wrote their chart topping material &
therefore made the loot. I understand Brian Conolly (vocals) was still performing
right up until just before his death in his early 50's.
Link


12/06/2020
Listener guide to the lyrical content of the track Colour Blind.
Link
The back drop to this track was the Sept. 2018 passing of legislation by the U.S. congress
outlawing lynching.Attempts at introducing legislation began in 1918 .4800 souls are known to have perished
with a less than 2% conviction rate for the perpetrators ; with a final act as late as 1958.
Even the senator that introduced the bill was surprised legislation didn't already exist.
The ANZUS alliance insures a Kiwi commitment to stand along side  American troops as brothers.
Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Kuwait,Iraq & probably  places the NZ public are unaware of.
The inevitable blood lost ; license to cast a critical eye over the full measure of the wo/man
we ask our whanau to stand shoulder to shoulder with on the battlefield.
How does your garden grow ?
The tree baring those strange fruit has been uprooted and the southern man needn't fret.
Cherish one another dearly on the road to evolving.

Titbit : This track was my very first attempt at using the home recording equipment I had purchased years before.
Using the free  version of an online recording platform.
A steep learning curve that took a few months with the pain of losing sessions with a mis placed key stroke.
With several rebuilds from scratch - a bitter sweet pill as I realized  an improvement with each rebuild.
Hence the coined term bootleg - demo.Unpolished gem or Teko depending on your head space.
I do lament the loss of one particular session for the opening solo .
In the summer months I often record with the french doors open to a balcony.
In this session I picked up the song of tui ( a native bird ) & it wasn't until I was editing the mix
with cans on that  it became apparent it was answering to the phrasing of the solo
filling in only the rests .Remarkable - but lost forever.
I have since recorded them consciously & inserted a track as a mocking bird in Dog House.
The dog you can hear barking in the Lamb Chop clip is a back door neighbors dog ,
picked up in the recording session not on the footage . A remarkable random fit.
Quite similarly - he would only start up with certain chord changes & rests.
Cicadas & random bird chorus aplenty in the sessions (not added).
The clip Daybreak in particular.
With a little help from my friends.
19/06/2020
Big Ears says : the The - Mind Bomb circa 89
Intrigue then Relevance now.
After a revisit - just can't stop playin' it.
Link
24/06/2020
Big I says : BBC the Story of Skinhead - check it
Don Letts : huge influence on the Clash & member of Big Audio Dynamite .
Righteous Street Cred.
Link
05/07/2020
Big Ears says : Foals -Holy Fire 2013
Check  it.
In a world awash with musical excellence ; My Number continues to get airplay.
While not a huge fan of the 2019 remix release I'm sure it made good
marketing sense to a savy management.
Link
07/07/2020
Moves are a foot to make most tracks available on all of the major platforms for download.
First scheduled release 27/07/2020 & then fortnightly until 30/10/2020.
Fingers crossed.

08/07/2020
DayBreak
Glossary of Terms
Aorangi - break of day ; Ponui - big night ; Te Whetu - star ; Waireka - pleasant waters
Maritai - sea breeze .
Link
12/07/2020
Big I says : the Icon series on Gibson tv - check it .
Jerry Cantrell ( Alice in Chains ) ; Tony Iommi ( Black Sabbath )
Gave up on Sabbath after 73 s Bloody and Alice died for me with Lane Staley .
The tip toe through the fret board with these guys really well produced.
Tony Iommi : Link            Jerry Cantrell : Link
                                   Sabbath  :Link                         Chains : Link                             

17/07/2020
Big I says : Hightown ; Starz network series - check it.
Shot on location P. Town (Provincetown) ; Cape Cod ; Ma.
The hedonism of Cape summers are a rich palette for character development.
Titbit : I may have a biased perspective having survived two summer seasons on the Cape.
My only brushes with U.S. law enforcement - one near fatal .
Rust claiming the life of a close friend ; leaving a partner & young daughter to face the world .
Grim Reaper invited to the party all too often .

Copnkijoe Moana - channel link


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