The Mal Thursday Show #49: Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 14

In the latest trip in the Texas Tyme Machine, Mal Thursday goes forward into the past with "The Wig Story," as told by Johnny Richardson, Benny Rowe, Bill Wilmot, and Jess Yaryan. The Austin band (1965-1967) left behind two classic 45s and the reverberations of many a wild night at the Jade Room echoing down the ages. Also, new records from The Sweet Nuthin, Churchwood, the Beaumonts, and the Black Angels. Dedicated to the memory of Rusty Wier. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.

Playlist:
THE WIG: Forever and a Day
THE NERVEBREAKERS: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
THE CLIQUE: (I am) Superman
THE SWEET NUTHIN: All In
THE HAPPEN-INS: Be Yer Fool
BLACK ANGELS: Don't Play with Guns
ZZ TOP: Salt Lick
THE LOST COUNTS: Hoppin' Dog

THE WIG: Drive It Home/To Have Never Loved At All/Everybody Needs Somebody to Love/Crackin' Up/Bluescene

THE BEAUMONTS: Toby Keith
PIñATA PROTEST: Jackee
CHURCHWOOD: I Have a Devil in Me
GLAMBILLY: I'm In Love with a Ghost
COPPER GAMINS: Wet Sounds
T. TEX EDWARDS: Love Power
THE SONS OF HERCULES: Rock of Gibraltar
KENNY & THE KASUALS: Floating
THE WIG: Louie Louie


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The Mal Thursday Show #48: Naming Names

Django, Floyd, Dr. Stone, and Humphrey Plugg join Mal as he presents a series of songs with people's names in the title. This episode is dedicated to the memory of the Troggs' Reg Presley and film director Michael Winner. With Rocky Roberts, The Breakup Society, The Ripe, The Shambles, The A-Bones, and many more. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.


Playlist:
ROCKY ROBERTS: Django
THE BREAKUP SOCIETY: Here Comes Floyd
THE RIPE: Dr. Strange (Live)
THE LEAVES: Dr. Stone
THE KINGZ ENGLISH: Dr. Hunger
A3: Amos Moses
THE SLICKERS: Johnny Too Bad
THE SHADOWS: The Rise and Fall of Flingel Blunt (bed)
THE A-BONES: Geraldine
BOBBY FULLER FOUR: Annie Lou
THE REAL KIDS: Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie
ADRIAN LLOYD: Lorna
THE FABS: Dinah Wants Religion
THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE: Mary Please
THE SHAMBLES: Does Stephanie Know
MUCK & THE MIRES: Doreen
TEDDY & HIS PATCHES: Suzy Creamcheese
THE KINKS: Spotty Grotty Anna (bed)
THE BERKELEY KITES: Alice In Wonderland
THE ATTACK: Lady Orange Peel/Neville Thumbcatch
THE RATS: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone
LEN PRICE 3: Mr. Grey
THEM: Richard Cory
SCOTT WALKER: The Amorous Humphrey Plugg
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The Mal Thursday Show: Texas Tyme Machine Vols. 1-13

The Wig, Austin, 1966 L-R: Benny Rowe, Rusty Wier, Jess Yaryan, Johnny Richardson, and Bill Wilmot

The Mal Thursday Show is stepping up production on the podcast, thanks in large part to audience response to the "Texas Tyme Machine" series. In addition to playing great Texas music from the past to the present day, the series has featured epic oral history from the musicians who made it all happen: Roy Head, Ezra Charles of Thursday's Children, George Kinney of the Golden Dawn, Jesse Sublett of the Skunks, and Joe "King" Carrasco. In 2013, Mal will be recording more first-hand tales of the Heroes of Texas Rock n' Roll, starting with a group interview with the surviving members of the Wig, the '66-era Austin band best known for Rusty Wier's first recordings, the classic 45s "Crackin' Up" and "Drive It Home."

Here is the complete Texas Tyme Machine series on The Mal Thursday Show:

The Mal Thursday Show #47 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 13: The Greatest Trips 
 

The Mal Thursday Show #45 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 12: All Covered Up Pt. 3

   

The Mal Thursday Show #44 -  Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 11: The Joe 'King' Carrasco and the Crowns Story

The Mal Thursday Show #42 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 10: Forth Worth Teen Scene Revisited (with Guest DJ Melissa Kirkendall)

 

The Mal Thursday Show #40 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 9: San Antone Grown (with Guest DJ Margaret Moser)

 

The Mal Thursday Show #38 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 8: The Roy Head Story (with Guest DJ Joe Nick Patoski)

The Mal Thursday Show #37 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 7: All Covered Up Pts. 1 & 2

The Mal Thursday Show #36 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 6: Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls

 
 

 

The Mal Thursday Show #35 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 5: The Golden Dawn Story (as told by George Kinney)
 

  

The Mal Thursday Show #32 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 4: The Thursday's Children Story (as told by Ezra Charles)

The Mal Thursday Show #32 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 3: The Skunks Story (as told by Jesse Sublett)

 The Mal Thursday Show #24 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 2: Fort Worth Teen Scene

The Mal Thursday Show #23 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 1: A Journey to Tyme

 

The Mal Thursday Show #47: Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 13

The Mal Thursday Show #47 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 13: The Greatest Trips

 Mal sets the controls for the heart of the Lone Star State, in an episode chock full of Texan rock n' roll genius from beyond the walls of Tyme: The Greatest Trips. Included in this episode are excerpts from our interviews with Roy Head, Ezra Charles, George Kinney, Jesse Sublett, and Joe 'King' Carrasco, as well as a mess o' fine 45s from yesterday and today. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.


Playlist:
THE TWILIGHTERS: Nothing Can Bring Me Down
THE NERVEBREAKERS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (bed)
KENNY AND THE KASUALS: Journey to Tyme
13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS: You Don't Know How Young You Are
THE RIPE: Dr. Strange
THE UGLY BEATS: Throw Me a Line
SONS OF HERCULES: Grow Up?
THE NERVEBREAKERS: My Girlfriend is a Rock
BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS: Sway
THE UGLY BEATS: Maximum Bumble (bed)
ROY HEAD: She's About a Mover/One More Time
THURSDAY'S CHILDREN: You'll Never Be My Girl/You Can Forget About That
THE GOLDEN DAWN: I'll Be Around/Tell Me Why
THE SKUNKS: Earthquake Shake/Gimme Some
JOE 'KING' CARRASCO & THE CROWNS: Let's Get Pretty/Caca de Vaca
KENNY AND THE KASUALS: Floating (bed)
ENDLE ST. CLOUD:  Tell Me One More Time (What's Happening to Our World)

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'Texas Chainsaw' Man: My Interview with Tobe Hooper

'Texas Chainsaw' man: Director Tobe Hooper on Leatherface, 'Lifeforce,' and more

Austin native Tobe Hooper is best known for writing and directing one of the most influential horror movies ever made, 1974's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." In conjunction with the release of "Texas Chainsaw 3D," the latest entry in the controversial franchise, Hooper sat down with the Austin Classic Movies Examiner to discuss the new film, his career, and his beginnings as a filmmaker in the late '60s.

"I was in Austin, making a lot of TV commercials, PSAs, documentaries. We had a little company called Film House, about five of us. We could even do post-production, although we had to get the 16-millimeter film developed in Dallas or over at channel seven. We did Farrah Fawcett's first professional work...We made a film called 'Eggshells' [a restored version screened at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival], a true hippie film, from the sandals up! It was about the beginning and end of a subculture."

"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was banned in several countries upon its release. England banned the film for 23 years. The visceral terror evoked by the movie comes not from explicit gore and violence, but from Hooper's use of POV, the power of suggestion, and his creation of an all-encompassing atmosphere of dread. In the wake of the Newtown school massacre, film violence has once again become a hot-button issue. Hooper is not sold on the connection between screen violence and the violence endemic in American society: "I don't know how to respond. It's all a part of the same thing. The dark side of human nature...I don't think a horror movie is going to inspire a copycat, certainly not one running around with a chainsaw..."

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The Mal Thursday Show #46: The Ballad of Mal Thursday Pt. 8

The Mal Thursday Show #46: The Ballad of Mal Thursday Pt. 8

Another trip through the past and into an uncertain future with Mal. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.



Playlist:
PLAN 9: Flashback
SUZI CHUNK: Look Back and Laugh
THE BLACK LIPS: New Direction
RANDY & THE RADIANTS: My Way of Thinking
JIM JONES REVUE: It's Gotta Be About Me
NICK CURRAN: The Low Life
THE MIGHTY LANDSHARK!: Covert Twist
JENNY ROCK: Mal
THE MALARIANS: Once Upon a Time (In Your Mind)
THE MOVE: The Disturbance
THE KINKS: I'm in Disgrace
PLASTICLAND: Sipping the Bitterness
THE SAINTS: (I'm) Stranded
NIGHT BEATS: Ain't Dumbo
NEW YORK DOLLS: Human Being
SPIRIT: Girl in Your Eye
JORDAN CHRISTOPHER: Angel, Angel, Down We Go
THE OHM: She's Turned Out
BOBBY BRELYN: Hannah
THE EMBROOKS: Nothing's Going to Work
THE ATTACK: Go Your Way
RAY COLLINS: Any Way the Wind Blows
THE GREENHORNES: Saying Goodbye
THE TURTLES: We'll Meet Again

More, More, More J.M. Dobies, Austin Classic Movies Examiner

Stripper in love: 'A Cold Wind in August' (1961)

Teenage rebellion: 'Riot on Sunset Strip' (1967)

Bury my heart in Scottsdale: 'The Ransom' (1977)

 

Bad trip: 'Angel, Angel, Down We Go' a/k/a 'Cult of the Damned' (1969)

Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' at Violet Crown

Hit man Pitt: 'Killing Them Softly' (2012)

'Try and Get Me!' a/k/a 'The Sound of Fury' (1950)

Swampsquatch: 'The Legend of Boggy Creek' (1972)

In Sickness or in Hell: 'The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave' (1971)

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