Exile on Main Street Expanded Edition Download...

I found this impossible to turn down. As much as I'd love to add to Mick and Keiths bulging bank accounts, I just haven't the bread man! I already have Exile on vinyl and CD. They should have released the extra tracks the first time round. Follow the link to Bobo's Favourites and take it from there...http://rjjand596.blogspot.com/2010/05/rolling-stones-exile-on-main-street.html

Type

Some type stuff. The first is a stencil I did a while back. I sprayed it all over the village I live in. The response apparently was positive. It's still on the window of the local community art space.

The second is a clipping from a newspaper advertisement for reprints of a famous WWII public information poster. The poster was initially produced by the Ministry of Information in 1939 during the beginning of World War II, and was intended as a "last case scenario" to be used only should the Nazis succeed in invading Britain via Operation Sea Lion, in order to stiffen resolve. Two-and-a-half million copies were printed, although the poster was distributed only in limited numbers. The designer of the poster is not known.

Blotter barn LSD blotter art gallery

Blotter barn LSD blotter art gallery....More amazing art to blow the mind with. This site is definitely worth a visit for anyone interested in the pop/drug culture of the past 30 years. This is a whole pop art sub culture in need of serious investigation. The designs work on many different levels from large reprints of the sheets of blotters, to the close ups of the LSD stain patterns and ink deficiencies, and reveal a side to drug culture art previously ignored. The site also works as a living document of the infamous blotter art collection of Mark McCloud. The collection, also known as the Institute of Illegal Images is the most comprehensive collection of printed or embossed LSD blotter paper in the world.
Follow the link to get experienced: http://blotterbarn.com/index.html

Orange sunshine acid blotter art...

Captain Beefheart - I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby

Great footage, great band, great tune, great moves, great outfits...Captain gives me the willies!

The greatest B-Side of all time...

Of course it's "Rain" by The Beatles.



and this version was recorded for the Ed Sullivan show. The Beatles look ghostly.It sounds massive, must be something to do with the re broadcast. It's sounds wildly distorted and much washier. Cool!!!

Strange Acid Blotter Gallery..

I found this strange little site purely by accident. It is, as the title suggests a gallery of Acid Blotter designs from the 80's, 90's and present day. Where this stuff comes from God only knows. There's also some stuff about research chemicals masquerading as acid, psychoactive pioneers etc. As I said strange little site. Some really cool designs, I'm thinking maybe stamp collectors could get into this stuff, the designs not the acid. The amount of detail on those little 5mm squares is pretty impressive, considering they were probably printed on some ink jet printer at the back of some underground laboratory. As someone interested in both graphic design and pop/drug culture, I find this stuff fascinating. Time for that acid blotter coffee table book?
http://www.blotterart.net/gallery/LSDphotos/blotter

Dylan and Lennon get deep in the back of a limo...

The famous footage of Lennon and Dylan in the back of a limo, May 27th. 1966 in London. John looks fantastic and comes of sharp as a knife. Poor Bob seems to have been up for a couple of days drinking Buckfast or cough mixture or maybe both. Still, strange and fascinating in a voyeuristic kind of way...

The Beyond Within...Documentary about the History of LSD.

A rational, non sensationalist and in depth look at the history of LSD. No matter your view on this unusual chemical, this objective documentary looks at all aspects of it's use since it's synthesis by Albert Hoffman in Switzerland during world war 2. The film takes us through it's use as a psychiatric tool both by the medical fraternity and the military, the experiment's carried out at Harvard by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, it's introduction to the public via Ken Kessey and The Merry Pranksters and it's effect on Western music, art and popular culture. This is the first of three parts, all available for free download from Google Video.

LSD tabs in blotter form.

"The Beyond Within". Part one of three.

Guy passes Acid Test...

Image design achieved with photoshop filters and stuff.

New Banner at last...

I got round to doing the new banner for the blog after months of deliberation. Hope you (as in me, because no one else reads this f**king thing) like it.

The Amps - Tipp City

Old guitar strings = serious hoarding problem...

Beatle Bob...

Beatle Bob (real name Robert Matonis, born 1953) is a well-known figure in the St. Louis,
Missouri music scene. He has been seen doing his characteristic dancing at a wide range of concerts including Ani DiFranco, Less Than Jake and Chuck Berry, both in the crowd and onstage with the performers. He is known for his arrhythmic dance moves and Beatles-inspired "mop top" hairstyle and '60s attire. His constant presence and dancing is welcomed by some concertgoers and an aggravation to others, but even his detractors admit that his presence signals that one is seeing the best music event in town on that particular night. He has allegedly been to at least one live show every night since Christmas Eve 1996, and seen over 10,000 bands over the last decade.

According to a 2000 article in the Riverfront Times, Beatle Bob's real name is Robert Matonis. He is a vegetarian and states that he does not smoke or drink.

Contrary to popular belief, the nickname "Beatle Bob" did not originate from his Beatles style hair cut. In fact, it's quite the opposite. The name was given to him while in school in St. Louis. Typical to many children in St. Louis, Bob went to Catholic schools while growing up in St. Louis. One day during class, he was reading a Beatles magazine that was concealed within an open text book. When the nun caught him, she snatched the magazine from him and stated, "That will be enough of that, Beatle Bob!" The name has stuck.

He has contributed to the now-defunct music publication Jet Lag Magazine and wrote a monthly "Top Ten" of local concerts for Sauce Magazine. He also used to produce an annual Phil Spector Christmas Special for local community radio station, KDHX, although members of the local music scene have disputed rumors that Beatle Bob was ever a DJ or owned a radio station.

Beatle Bob has also attended music festivals around the United States, including Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival(an annual Manchester, Tenn. music festival),City Stages , SXSW, Lollapalooza, the Ponderosa Stomp, Sleazefest, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Austin City Limits Music Festival. He holds the distinction of emceeing the final Guided by Voices show at Metro in Chicago, December 31, 2004; and introducing Sleater-Kinney at their last touring show during Lollapalooza in 2006. He introduced Camper van Beethoven and The Flaming Lips at Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival in Lawrence, Kansas in June 2006. He also emceed the "Last Call at the Nights" on January 19, 2007, the final show held at Mississippi Nights on Laclede's Landing in St. Louis. On August 3, 2007, Beatle Bob was seen at the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago, Ill., dancing onstage with The Polyphonic Spree and introducing a Mississippi band, Colour Revolt. Beatle Bob also introduced the Sam Roberts Band onstage on August 4, 2007 and spent their set dancing offstage. He was seen again on August 5 at Lollapalooza introducing the rock band Dios and dancing with them onstage, and later introducing indie rock band Yo La Tengo.

Beatle Bob and his dancing are featured in the Guided By Voices video for "My Kind of Soldier" [1] and in Lit's DVD "All Access." He is the subject of an upcoming documentary entitled "Superfan: The Lies, Life and Legend of Beatle Bob."

"My Kind of Soldier" Guided by Voices, featuring Beatle Bob...