Vicky and the Vengents live in the studio! : Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock

Listener comments!

12:03pm V Priceless:

heya JB!

12:04pm KP in DC:

Rok on

12:05pm Rich in Washington:

Oh man. This is gorgeous. I sort of lost track of this album.

12:06pm Spankyflop:

So glad I got to see Roky (at Metallica's Orion Festival in Atlantic City, of all places).

12:06pm Rory:

My favorite Roky song

12:07pm Rory:

Er something like that

12:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Roky represents so much to so many.
The One & Only.
We're Gonna Miss You alright.

12:07pm Rich in Washington:

aw, Joe. You're gonna make me cry and I'm at work.

12:07pm Andrea in Jersey City:

Hi!

12:07pm Phillippe Bastille:

Howdy Afternoon Joe and everyone

12:09pm Krys O.:

Hey, Joe B.!

12:09pm Mick:

I was not so secretly hoping you'd do a Roky show

12:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I hope he's having a great laff w/ SydBarrett & SkipSpence @ our expense & finding Peace.

12:11pm Joe B:

greetings all! thanks for tuning in. live music from vicky and the vengents coming up in a little bit!

12:11pm SmokinJ:

Fantastic!

12:11pm Kenny rotten:

Hello Joe

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12:13pm tim from champaign:

The first time my daughter responded to music when she was about 7 months old was to You're Gonna Miss Me. She started flapping her arms, then bouncing up and down when the song started. I thought it was about the most appropriate way to respond to a Roky song.

12:13pm Rory:

I never had the bloody hammer!!!

12:13pm Rich in Washington:

This is ripping!

12:13pm holland oats:

loving this tribute - roky was thee best

12:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Roky's Voice simply got to someplace no other did.

12:14pm blee:

YES!!!

12:14pm Chrissy of The Heights:

Bloody Hammer is always a hard song to listen to. This version fucking rips though. Thanks, Joe!

12:15pm frenchee:

I've been waiting for the Belock Roky Erickson tribute! ToT's set was good too. ;-)

12:15pm Rich in Washington:

I think one of my earliest music on the radio memories was hearing 13th Floor Elevators' Fire Engine as a very young kid and it made a huge impression - the sung siren sounds, the weird warbly jug sound (I had no idea what made that sound until many, many years later).

12:16pm Rory:

It’s times like these lucifer I see are infinite

12:16pm Jmcgreivey:

Joe McGasko reminded me (by playing the Southwest FOB) of the Texas Twisted comp I have, with 10 nicely recorded live Elevators tracks (better-sounding than the International Artists CD of the first album, for sure).

12:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'Fire Engine' is about DMT - in 1966. It's incredible.

12:19pm Rory:

Btw I can literally relate to Don’t Shake Me Lucifer, no joke :(

12:20pm Rich in Washington:

Oh wow, RR1163! I had no idea!

12:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The Elevators' code (except the drummer - & according to book 'Eye Mind') was to not play or record unless Tripping. In mid1960s Texas. The freaking GratefulDead were incredulous. Then Roky represents a kind of purgatory & resurrection back into active relevance that compares in one sense to Brian Wilson's - & in another - is kind of w/out comparison @ all.
@Rich: 'Take you to "DMT" place in my - fire engine'...

12:23pm holland oats:

"the empty," no?

12:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

DMT/the empty...

12:24pm frenchee:

LOL, RRNov63: "the Grateful Dead were incredulous"

12:24pm Chrissy of The Heights:

@Rory: Me too on DSML! For the longest time I thought the lyrics were "I been up all night and no suicide clogged the works" and thought yeah...I can relate...sleep deprivation makes you wanna die sometimes...

12:25pm holland oats:

that's your interpretation, or is a band member quoted talking about it? i don't remember that in the 'eye mind' book

12:27pm Matt Fiveash:

Holy fuck, this is scorching!

12:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

There were very early Psychedelic researches @ the University in Austin...a bit like Ken Kesey's experience..
Roky was committed to the insane asylum w/ no hope of release for some time! There's your Horror film...
@holland: I just read 'Eye Mind' about it, really...it's been much discussed...

12:27pm Woo:

1st time I heard the Elevators was when I bought a copy of Nuggets in the cutout bin in the 70s. That purchase had some last effect.

12:27pm Joe B:

while i love every version of the iwnd and more, this is the best version, despite the crappy audio because i forgot my copy at home!

12:27pm SeanG:

ROKY RULES!

12:28pm Rory:

@RevRabbit, for some grass too...

12:28pm Rory:

The State of Texas is literally insane.

12:29pm holland oats:

@rr k thx

12:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I think older sibling here in NewEngland playing Mono Man in Lyres/DMZ were my probly my earliest inklings of Rokyness...

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12:29pm tim from champaign:

I really dislike the state of Texas but I do appreciate that so many weirdos come from there.

12:30pm SmokinJ:

Crappy audio better than no audio.. usually... :)

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12:31pm karlward:

Joe: thanks so much for bringing Roky to Monty Hall, and also for broadcasting that show. We owe you one.

12:31pm Dano59:

Love this one ... and the monster songs of course. I got the Pysch Sounds picture disc this year and am playing it endlessly.

12:31pm holland oats:

caught one of his last (maybe last) maxwell's shows, so great

12:32pm Rich in Washington:

Roky's voice is like a Les Paul overcranked out of a Pignose amp. Bad quality recordings of him don't detract from it one bit.

12:33pm Joe B:

last show at maxwells was november 2012 if i'm not mistaken

12:33pm holland oats:

sounds about right

12:33pm Carmichael:

Heya Joe and Roky. Texas is a good place to be FROM.

12:34pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

This set is smoking, bubbling and about to boil over! Watch out!

12:34pm Esther Crow:

yeah Joe! spinning the best of ROKY! can't wait for VV!!!!!

12:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...much later Julian Cope reinforced it...
In Garage - Texas has a special place. Scenes are Darwinian: Has to be enuff activity to sustain it - but isolated enuff to be itself apart... 'Eye Mind' makes point it was kind of the 'Third Coast' - & - like w/ Chet Helms & Janis - a Texas-SanFrancisco interaction... 'Eye Mind' calls it a classic case there & then of Avant-garde & Old Guard - & only a bit later the 'Cosmic Cowboys' come about...such rapid change from like 1966 to '69. The Elevators' still not recognized for their achievement & dues. Iggy for one says he thinks of them often when people rhapsodize about the Stooges...The recording quality in one sense is classic Garage LoFi - but then again - a gawdamn shame...

12:35pm eric in sodak:

Electro-jug!

12:35pm joe:

'ello folks

12:39pm joe:

I was only lucky enought to see Roky play once and that was when I celebrated New Years with him at Maxwells.

12:39pm Rory:

All this talk of Texas and no mention the weirdest of the weirdos Gibby Haynes

12:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Successfully following Roky!
Love it!

12:42pm Mike Sin:

So glad to be able to catch this show live! Hello Joe and Scott K.!

12:43pm SmokinJ:

Love Vicky!

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12:46pm tim from champaign:

Way cool set, Joe! Vicky and the Vengents are new to me. I'm digging it. Pretty scrappy and has a bit of a Detroit vibe.

12:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'PleasePleaseMe' riff. I do that! :)
Visual is worth it! : www.facebook.com...

12:47pm The Carvels NYC:

VICKY AND THE VENGENTS ROCK! Can't wait to play with them on Thursday at El Cortez in Brooklyn!

12:47pm Peter from Dover NJ:

Sorry I missed most of the Roky tribute. But daaaaammn, Vicki and the Vengeants to k.

12:48pm Joe B:

Vicky and the vengents and the Carvels Thursday at El Cortez in brooklyn!

12:50pm SmokinJ:

Wow! These fuckers are awesome!

12:51pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

Rory: and don't forget The Church of the Subgenius! Texas freaks all the way.

12:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Reactions to Texas...

12:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Odd that Austin is the Capital...but there's a whole lot of Texas all around it! As it is in States...

12:53pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

3 Day Stubble are also from Texas.

12:54pm Rory:

Granny, ha! That’s right!

12:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I did learn from Janis: Never mind the High School Reunion...

12:57pm chiapat:

diggin the sounds from Vicky and the Vengents!

12:57pm The Oscar:

Just tuning in for a second before shuffling off to a meeting, but yay this KKBBQ cover!

12:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

YAY !

12:58pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

WHOOO-HOOO!

12:58pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Hello Joe and alles. Great Roky tribute and super live set!

1:03pm Phillippe Bastille:

Scott K is always fab on the engineering side.

1:10pm Dave Wright:

VENGENTS ROCK !!

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1:13pm tim from champaign:

Smokin post Vicky set, Joe!

1:18pm Dungaroos Kipawah:

I love V & the V’s—and you inspired me to pull that Roky/Okkervill Record out of mothballs & give it another listen. You & this (in case you haven’t seen it): https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/06/01/be-and-bring-me-home-remembering-roky-erickson/

1:30pm Tim from LH:

Rock n Roll Backlash is the first Woggles I go into!

1:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The energy & feel of this band.
The Sincerest Condolences.

1:45pm KP in DC:

When I saw Jeff with the Woggles he was playing an old hollow body electric that looked weird and familiar. I had just seen the Pretty Things in London and it occurred that Phil Taylor had used the same model. It was, I think, a Harmony Stratotone, right out of 1963.

1:49pm Tim from LH:

His guitar tone on their records is phenomenal!

1:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

A Model of Punk'n'Roll Gittar.

1:57pm Carmichael:

Great Spirit cover!

2:11pm mcgreivey:

Joe made me get out my Billy Bragg and Outrageous Cherry records this morning. Now you're making me get out my Man or Astroman records. But I can't listen to them until tomorrow because I have to listen to the rest of your show, and then I have to listen to Scott's show. Well, and Jim Price, of course.

2:18pm Hopey Sockmonkey:

Going to have to see if I can find my Guadalcanal Diary vinyl.

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2:21pm tim from champaign:

Cool. I've never actually heard Guadalcanal Diary. I remember being a young teen in the mid 80s and looking at the charts in the back of Rolling Stone. I remember being intrigued by the college rock charts because of evocative band names like Guadalcanal Diary.

2:21pm Henry:

saw GD play in athens in the late 80s. great show.

2:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'Lips of Steel' - earworm since '87

2:25pm Spankyflop:

I've seen Guadalcanal Diary. I can't for the life of me remember who they opened for.

2:26pm Spankyflop:

I remember liking them and thinking I'll have to check them out, but then they broke up.

2:27pm Andrea in Jersey City:

Great show!

2:28pm Spankyflop:

I also saw the Woggles in Wildwood NJ on the beach. It was a complete surprise.

2:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

How good is this Cover? I ask you.

2:42pm Chi Bill:

Wow, was that (Big Beat Strong) Sock it to me - Mytch Ryder cover? I like!!! Almost sounded like some original 50's band that he stole from, ha!

2:42pm Jeff formerly from Rahway:

Great show Joe! RIP Jeff Walls.

2:43pm P-90:

Love “Be Seeing You”!
Also: Happy Birthday Curtis Mayfield!

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2:44pm David Shortell:

I was completely uninformed about both "Man or Astro-Man?" and the Woggles when I decided to take a blind gamble by attending their 1993 show at Maxwell's (It's strange that MOAM were not headlining!). The opening act were called Date Bait. i never heard from them again.

2:45pm P-90:

“Won’t be seeing you”, you’re gonna make me cry...

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2:46pm David Shortell:

I saw Vicky & the Vengents at Roxy & Dukes on Chuck Berry's final living birthday. I think 5 people showed up.

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2:51pm David Shortell:

How many Prisoner-inspired songs are there? There's Iron Maiden's "The Prisoner", the Times' "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape", the Jam's "Away From the Numbers"...
George Harrison's son Dhani named his band "thenewno2".

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2:52pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks for an entertaining show today, Joe. And RIPs to the gentlemen we've lost.

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2:53pm David Shortell:

Resounding No are playing at "In the West" in New Brunswick on June 14.

2:55pm northguineahills:

Thanks, Joe!

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2:55pm tim from champaign:

Cool concept for a festival. Thanks for the great show, Joe.

2:55pm Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

thanks, Joe!

2:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

+ Thx Joe +

3:49pm P-90:

Wait... how many steps was that from “key parties” to “getting a drum machine”...?

12:08pm Miss Georgia Peach:

Thanks for another great installment of Three Chord Monte

Artist	Title	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
RIP Roky Erickson
Roky Erickson	Think of as One	True Love Cast Out All Evil	ANTI‐	2010		0:01:26 Pop-up)
Roky Erickson	Starry Eyes	All That May Do My Rhyme	Trance Syndicate	1995	1995 re-recording with Paul Leary, King Coffey, Lou Ann Barton and others	0:04:50 Pop-up)
Roky Erickson	I Have Always Been Here Before	I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology	Shout! Factory	1987/2005		0:08:30 Pop-up)
Roky Erickson And The Explosives	Bloody Hammer	Halloween: Live 1979-1981	Norton	2008	RIP special one	0:11:15 Pop-up)
Roky Erickson	Cold Night For Alligators	Gremlins Have Pictures	Pink Dust	1986		0:16:20 Pop-up)
Roky Erickson And The Explosives	The Wind And More	Casting The Runes	5 Hours Back	1979/1987		0:19:45 Pop-up)
Roky Erickson	Bring Back the Past	True Love Cast Out All Evil	ANTI‐	2010		0:26:06 Pop-up)
13th Floor Elevators	Splash 1	The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators	Decal	1966/1988		0:28:15 Pop-up)
13th Floor Elevators	Tried To Hide	The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators	Decal	1966/1988		0:31:48 Pop-up)

Vicky and the Vengents live in the studio!
Engineer: Scott K
Vicky - vocals; Matt - guitar, vocals; Brian - bass, Mario - drums
Vicky and the Vengents live on WFMU!	I Wanna Cry					0:36:33 Pop-up)
Vicky and the Vengents live on WFMU!	You're the One					0:39:34 Pop-up)
Vicky and the Vengents live on WFMU!	We Turned Into a Lie					0:42:57 Pop-up)
Vicky and the Vengents live on WFMU!	You Used To Be My Baby					0:43:19 Pop-up)
Vicky and the Vengents live on WFMU!	Out Of My Mind					0:50:23 Pop-up)
Vicky and the Vengents live on WFMU!	I'll Be Loving You				Mark Sultan cover	0:53:09 Pop-up)
Vicky and the Vengents live on WFMU!	interview
The Carvels NYC	Questioningly	Everything With You is a Travesty double 7"	Self-Released	2018		1:03:59 Pop-up)
Miss Ludella Black	A Creature Called Doubt	Till You Lie In Your Grave	Damaged Goods	2018		1:06:33 Pop-up)
The Smarthearts	Dark Heath	On The Line	Wilsuns Recording Company	2019		1:09:26 Pop-up)
Tommy and The Commies	So Happy	Here Come Tommy and the Commies	Slovenly	2018		1:12:15 Pop-up)
Ex Humans	Halos	s/t	Rob's House	2010		1:14:25 Pop-up)
The Marked Men	Nothing's Changed	On the Other Side	Dirtnap	2005/2018	singles comp. originally 2005 a-side on shit sandwich records	1:16:35 Pop-up)

RIP The Flesh Hammer - Jeff Walls
The Woggles	Sayonara Blues	Rock and Roll Backlash	Wicked Cool	2007	flesh hammer composition	1:26:36 Pop-up)
The Woggles	Only Got Myself To Blame	The Big Beat bonus EP	Wicked Cool	2013	jeff walls composition	1:28:39 Pop-up)
The Woggles	Seventh Veil	Ragged But Right	Telstar	2003	the flesh hammer on ... electric sitar!	1:31:34 Pop-up)
The Woggles	Black Sheep	Rock and Roll Backlash	Wicked Cool	2007	flesh hammer on organ, guitar, production and co-writer	1:34:12 Pop-up)
The Woggles	Nothing's Gonna Stop Me	The Big Beat	Wicked Cool	2013	flesh hammer co-write	1:37:51 Pop-up)

The Woggles	Valleri	Tempo Tantrum	Wicked Cool	2006/2009		1:43:41 Pop-up)
The Woggles	On the Move	Tempo Tantrum	Wicked Cool	2000/2009	trashmen cover with jeff AND Montague; orignally appeared on the takin out the trash tribute LP	1:45:53 Pop-up)
The Woggles	Soul Sister, Brown Sugar	live on WFMU		2003	live on WFMU, Oct. 24, 2003. engineer: Phil Wrecktor	1:49:16 Pop-up)
The Woggles	Don't Give Me No Sass	live on WFMU		2003	same info as above	1:51:26 Pop-up)
The Woggles	I Got a Line On You	live on WFMU		2003	live on WFMU - info same as above	1:54:05 Pop-up)

Dash Rip Rock	You Were On My Mind	Not of This World	Mammoth	1990	jeff walls on guitar	1:59:28 Pop-up)
Southern Culture On The Skids	Double Shot	Santo Swings	Estrus	1996	jeff walls on organ, producer	2:02:47 Pop-up)
Man Or Astro-Man?	Name of Numbers	Mission Into Chaos 7"	One Louder	1994	jeff on production, moog (maybe guitar?)	2:05:11 Pop-up)
Man Or Astro-Man?	Madness In the Streets	Mission Into Chaos 7"	One Louder	1994	info same as above	2:06:27 Pop-up)
Hillbilly Frankenstein	Tempo Tantrum	various - American Rumble, Volume One	Skizmatic	1996		2:08:31 Pop-up)

Guadalcanal Diary	Say Please	2x4	Elektra	1987		2:14:32 Pop-up)
Guadalcanal Diary	Let the Big Wheel Roll	2x4	Elektra	1987		2:17:00 Pop-up)
Guadalcanal Diary	Watusi Rodeo	Walking In the Shadow of the Big Man	DB Recs	1984		2:19:19 Pop-up)
Guadalcanal Diary	Lips of Steel	2x4	Elektra	1987		2:21:38 Pop-up)
Guadalcanal Diary	And Your Bird Can Sing	2x4	Elektra	1987		2:25:02 Pop-up)

The Woggles	Treat Her Like a Lady	various - Even More Super Hits of the Seventies: Michael Shelley's 2015 marathon premium	MikeShell	2015	cover of cornelius brothers & sister rose	2:29:54 Pop-up)
The Woggles	Big Beat Strong	live on WFMU		2013	live on WFMU April 30, 2013 - engineered by Mike Sin	2:33:45 Pop-up)
The Woggles	Move	live on WFMU		2013	live on WFMU 2013 - same as above	2:38:05 Pop-up)
The Woggles	Be Seeing You	Tally Ho!	Wicked Cool	2017		2:39:14 Pop-up)

Girls On Grass	Commander In Thief	Dirty Power	self-released	2018	playing thursday at hank's saloon in brooklyn!	2:46:15 Pop-up)
Resounding No	Ya Blew It	Gross Dominance	State Champion	2018	great new jersey band - check out their FIRSST Fest at firsstfest.tumblr.com	2:48:51 Pop-up)

Spiral Stairs	BTG	We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized	Nine Mile Records	2019		2:54:59 Pop-up)

June 3, 2019

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