RUHtF:Elvis Costello@ Amoeba Hollywood June 22, 2009

In case you, along with me, weren't there..here's Elvis Costello's show from Amoeba Hollywood.

The picture is from his last Amoeba show with the Imposters which tea and I were front and center for.

RUHtf: Cadillac Tramps interview from the Bro Show

In the 90's, my brother and I had a radio show called The Bro Show. We had some great guests come up to the studio and play. Here's The legendary Cadillac Tramps. They are playing tomorrow night in Fullerton for free at the Slide Bar. I suggest you go if you can.

RUHtf: Sex Pistols at Isle of Wight Festival

I haven't seen/heard this anywhere, which is surprising because it was streamed online, and anyone with a passing knowledge of how to work a computer could have recorded it. I had vision and captured it..sadly, I did so with my FM transmitter and about 3 songs sound REALLY crappy because of poor reception. I cut those out of this stream.
Enjoy!

RUHtf: Henry Rollins - "O MTV Unplugged"

This is pretty cool...Henry Rollins doing a "Spoken Word Unplugged"...ON MTV. Yeah, it's seems "biting the hand that feeds"...but whatever. It's still cool and took balls to do.

RUHtF: Safi Sniper at Knitting Factory (opening for the Fall)

This one truly deserves to be filed under "you-must-see-it-with-your-own-eyes-to-believe-it-cause-my-description-doesn't-come-close-to-doing-it-justice".

The Fall came stateside a few years back and being the Fall fanatic I am, I saw them every Southern California opportunity (and San Diego). I had never heard of the opening act... but what I saw I was not prepared for.

The Fall's equipment was all set up on the stage... and some guy came out holding an Apple laptop, set it down, opened it up, hooked it up... and began his show. I was expecting, as the rest of the audience probably was, techno music to start pulsating from his laptop. However, what we saw was what shall follow in this post.

When I tried to explain to people what I saw the next day my words could not describe it. He picks a single syllable, single beat, a single picture, and proceeds to loop it ad nauseum. Needless to say, I, and the rest of the audience, sat there stunned with our mouths agape. Luckily, I had my digital camera and captured part of this performance, once I realized I would not be able to properly describe this the next day. I did the shooting, ergo the shaky picture.

If you don't "get it", don't worry... it's not to be gotten, like any good abstract art.

RUHtF: ULTRA-RARE!! Jane's Addiction God-Like Genius Award performance 2008

I have been looking for this for a long time now. I recorded this when it was broadcast April 23 of last year... but I named the file with a name that I wouldn't have gone looking for. On a whim, I looked up the date this concert was and looked on my drive for files that date... and lo and behold, it was there!

I've looked on the web and nowhere else can this be found so once again this is a truly rare item, of the like ou'll only find here on RUHtF. Mind you, the award show was really lame and the audio quality is less than stellar... but as any good bootleg, at least it exists.

So now for your enjoyment I give you the godlike geniuses (as deemed by NME... I doubt any American entity would bestow this honor on them)...JANE'S ADDICTION!

Ruhtf: Paul Weller's birthday

In honour of Mr. Weller's birthday, "Leafy Mysteries" on Conan O'Brian:



The picture above is taken in the kitchen of House Of Blues Anaheim. Please note his lit cigarette, and my dog Hawk. When his sister Nicky got him for me, he mumbled something in cockney while pointing to Hawk. I asked him to repeat it twice, and then just laughed and said "yeah".