MORE LINKS;

Man, yesterday at work dragged on soooo badly.

Several things kept me going;

Firstly, the venerable and generally excellent online music zine Perfect Sound Forever, which features masses of lengthy, interesting and unpretentious articles about subjects which are slightly off the beaten track; this piece about the history of the Red Dog Saloon and the Fabulous/Amazing* Charlatans being a perfect example, and essential reading for all '60s counter-culture fiends.

(The Charlatans version of Buffy St. Marie’s song ‘Codine’, one of the few tracks released by the original line-up, can be found on Volume 4 of the Nuggets box-set, and is amongst the most blissful 2 minutes and 12 seconds of music you could hope to hear – sounding like a more spaced-out acid/garage take on the same kind of roots-influenced hybrid that The Band cooked up a few years later, it’s a goddamn tragedy that the group never got it together to follow up their initial inspiration, because, man, that one track hints at something really special going down... and that above article is as good an excuse as any for me to tell you about it.)

Secondly, I’ve been getting up to date with the never less than righteous truths posted by Kid Millions on his journal on the Oneida website. Truly friends, here is a man who knows where it is fucking at. (And I reckon his appraisal of the Grateful Dead is pretty spot-on too.)

*Accounts seem to vary as to the actual name; suffice to say, NOT the '90s British band The Charlatans, god forbid I should ever waste any ink on them.