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Wanna do a little wool-gathering AND gird your loins for a music pissing match? Then Ecce Musica baby:

(Young) Hawkwind - Silver Machine (Live ‘72)

Their only UK top ten hit. The boys really nailed the magic formula for infamy on this one:

1. Lemmy (soon to be of Mötorhead) who was at this point a spry young lad sporting a tattoo of a fucking hawk.
2. And Stacia -  a 6 ft 1 Irish exotic dancer - who, like all creepy hot chicks, dressed like an evil wizard’s idea of a Gelfling sex android.

(Old n’ Crusty) Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness & Charm

In 1977 the boys in Hawkwind accidentally ate a bar of lipstick instead of their usual lunchtime ounce of mushrooms. The overall effect lasted long enough to record this little glam-inspired ditty.
By dinner they located their stash again and went on to record their 247th album about transvestite laser-beam shooting space-salamanders.

Can - I want more (BBC 1976)

The fathers of Krautrock went disco and managed to not be a walking punchline.

If anyone has the German TV version of this song with the go-go frauleins in lamé pantsuits, please drop a line, I will exchange nude photos/live body parts.

Giorgio Moroder - Chase (Midnight Express) Live on ZDF 1977

The father of the ‘Sexual Dad’ look, Giorgio Moroder, pretty much invented dance music, builds his own instruments, speaks 80 languages and photographed the electron. Can you do any of that? Pounding a Silver Bullet and smashing the can on your forehead does not count.

A Number of Names - Shari Vari (The Scene, Detroit 1982)

Remember how every Saturday you would spend the morning getting jacked up on cereal that turned the milk purple while watching a 30 minute advert for the latest Malibu Rambo playset? Remember how around 11:00am, your parents would kick you out of the house so that they could ball? Remember how you spent the afternoon playing in the sprinkler and punching your brother in the nuts?

If mom n’ dad had rented a Motel 6 instead, you could have been watching this:

Steely Dan - My Old School (Live 1973)

Of course your folks had a ritual to the weekly shag: Mom & Dad would smoke a “J” and listen to some of the most scathingly well-written, intricately composed jazz-rock ever made. Take a cue from them; Steely Dan needs to become a family tradition like Arbor Day, voting Democrat and swim lessons.

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(In a departure form the norm, this week I shall not be recounting any stories about mustaches or the difficulty of finding a hallucinogen that I haven’t tried yet).

I have to say, I am feelin’ pretty bitchin’ and upbeat this week.

In case you didn’t hear, Barack Obama is now president, and I think that is super.

Turns out America can pull its head out of its collective ass long enough to finally elect our first black president who is not being portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

(I myself had a very small personal stake in this as I contributed by canvasing casino workers in Reno the weekend before the election. Yow!)

At any rate, a friend snuck me into the Election party at the St. Francis, and it really did seem like the televised Second Coming. Thankfully this was waaaaay more of a love-fest than what Gore Vidal envisioned in “Live From Golgotha”.

So like a Polaroid to remind someone of the night they fell in love, I give you some of my poorly shot video from Obama’s acceptance speech. Dig the tourists snapping photos.

And what’s that you say? You want cute endagered baby animals too? As a matter of fact, I do have something to show you:
First Baby Tasmanian Devils. They are Venom-Spitting, Hateful…yet adorable li’l Mon-chi-chi ripoffs:

And the Sydney Zoo has added a rare baby Pygmy Hippo. Really not much to say except that “mini” + “won’t-trample-you-to-death-and/or-give-you-a-horrible-staph-infection” is a combo that always melts my cold, black heart

TTFN.

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can i have my spider back

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Wired Magazine’s Autopia blog just posted an article on the results of a study (presumably from the No-Shit Institute) that shows that the more bike ridership increases, the safer it becomes to ride a bicycle.

That means that everyone from fixie-fiends to recumbent-retirees are all helping each other out just by getting out there and riding! Frick yeah!

Still no word about riding bicyclists though….Thank you! I’ll be here all night!

Here’s the jump to the article.

- le Fric

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Ahh pop music. No matter how I often I clumsily grope your nether-regions, there is still always some obscure, dusty corner waiting to be fingered.

Case in point: Canada and it’s booming electro-disco scene of the late ’70’s and early ’80’s.

Focused mainly in Montreal, the Canadian Electro-Disco scene (Which I will now refer to as CaLoDisco…because I can) identified itself more with the spare, mechanical New Wave and Italo Disco sounds coming from England and the Continent, and less with the bombastic thumping sound produced south of the border in NYC. Due to Canada’s non-U.S. influences. many academically-minded crate-diggers will argue that ‘Disco’ is a misnomer, and the sound was closer to New Romantic or Electro…but you don’t get laid by having those kinds of conversations, so I’ll move on.

The heavy hitting production team for CaLoDisco was Toronto’s Ian Guenther and Willi Morrison, known collectively as as Two Hats.

Under their record labels, Butterfly & Ramshorn, many Canadian talent question marks like THP Orchestra, Lime, Rational Youth, & The Skatt Bros found their way onto the charts & dance floors of Canada & Europe…and in the case of the latter group, even the US.

The Skatt Bros

The Skatt Bros billed themselves as the ‘Straight’ Village People, and had a minor US chart hit with ‘Walk the Night’ in 1978. Their videos are all colossal train wrecks of macho sexuality and mustaches; not surprisingly, their songs have lasted mainly as anthems in the Gay BDSM scene…so I’m posting them here.

Skatt Brothers: Life at the Outpost

Skatt Brothers: Walk The Night

Rational Youth

The other major act to come out of the scene, Rational Youth, were much more focused on Electro, and played more cerebral pop which was heavily influenced by Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra:

Rational Youth on Musivideo

Gino Soccio

As mentioned before, Italo Disco was a huge influence on the CaLoDisco scene (and Rumanian prostitutes).

Italo’s influence was best personified in the local Giorgio Moroder ripoff: Gino Soccio.

Gino Soccio:The Visitors

The ’80’s: The Future

In spite of all the creativity coming form the Canadian Scene, CaLoDisco’s influence would not be felt outside of Canada until the mid ’80’s, when records by the bands mentioned here (and many more) found their way south to Chicago and Detroit, where they would be discovered by DJ’s in the burgeoning House and Techno scenes. Further down the line CaLoDisco would find it’s way into the English Acid House scene.

If you want to fill your brain with more of this stuff, Magic Waves Blog has a phenomenal post that covers the CaLoDisco scene, and includes many more clips. Find it here.

That’s all babies. Cheers.

le Fric

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Some photos from several CC Rider SF related events.

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This video is rad. I like it.

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Welcome to our new webpage. Were still working on a few things but we wanted to get it up and running for all to see as soon as possible. Please cut us some slack as we do some last minute tweeking with sections on the new site. We’re gonna have the shopping option enabled very shortly. I want to thank everyone for their patience through our ongoing learning process. We’re super busy and we think you’re really going to enjoy what we have in store for you!

Come early september, CC RIDER welcomes Andrei Bouzikov to the walls! One of our favorite local artists of all time Andrei’s paintings and illustrations have graced the covers and fliers for albums and shows from some pretty amazing bands: Municipal Waste, Deadfall, Voetsek, Ghoul, Cannabis Corpse, Hatchet, Fueled by Fire, Nocturnal Graves.. just to name a few!

Check out his website and keep posted to this site for updates on when the show (and free tecate) are going to be held!

www.andreibouzikov.com

MUNICIPAL WASTE - THE ART OF PARTYING 2007

Andrei Bouzikov with some of his work.

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We wanna thank Mike Poore and the folks over at the Video In My Backyard (Vimby.com) for the awesome segment on CC RIDER SF that they did. We’re super psyched!

Check it out here:: http://www.vimby.com/video/fashion/us/all/detail/7375

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Were having a major sale next week so keep posted for updates.. SALE STARTS WITH THE LAUNCH OF OUR NEW ONLINE STORE AND WEBSITE AUGUST 22ND… Sale Items will also be available in our ebay store so if you catch it early you can bid for the lowest sale price available! SWEEEEET DEALS!!!

We’re also gearing up for another one of our epic road trips to pick up only the finest in vintage and pre loved gear.. so a store change out is coming soon and we’ll have a bunch of fresh stuff for all the locals! aaaaaoooww… Dont think we’ve been shelving those special requests… more deadstock Casio’s and porkpie hats a comin..Kill city’s also on the way so hold tight! AND BIGGER SIZES in vintage shoes..

Lien’s also been racking up the late nights working on altering some pieces for the CC RIDER re-worked line.. no more baggy rocker shirts.. we’re tailoring them back into pre pre loved shapes…

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