Chthönic Smïth

...the sustain... taste it!

If only you had a photograph

Slade’s "Back to the World", a one-page feature on Don Powell in Melody Maker, October 13, 1973.

I used to think the zebra sleeve was a cheap reissue design until I read that it was because Cope insisted they replace the original cover. In hindsight it does have more of a post-punk classiness about it

Mythology, 1968, with Bill Butler and Tony Iommi

Oh yeah, forgot to post this yesterday but what in the Chilton was going on with the NYT Connections puzzle (top left corner)?

I've definitely made a note so we can maybe take the pooch hound next time

Got me Xmas jumper in early this year to avoid sell out disappointment. Will be the season to be louder/deaf forever!

The Windsor Davis gif will be working overtime tonight.
Bye bye sick fucker!

Went to Wilmslow today, not somewhere I'd usually find myself at but found a lovely boozer - The Swan Inn - and in I swanned. More importantly...

Solitary lawn fungus

That chorus bassline almost feels like a Shepard Tone, it seems to keep rising even though it drops back down again every few bars

It was the song that helped bring John out of his retirement too - he was never arsed about Wings but when he heard Paul had gone 'solo' again he got itchy feet

We just figured, if the tickets fall through we'll turn it into a city break. But we always book with a decent cancellation policy

So it seems, just glad we had the foresight to book first, then tickets

Same in Liverpool, you wouldn't have thought a cult band like Shack would influence prices but we booked a room before the tickets went on sale and on the day of release the prices had pretty much doubled

Mick Vayne & Johnny Thunders photographed by JT’s saxophonist Jamey Heath in Leeds 6
All dead now but for one night only Stevie Vayne is back at Brudenell Social Club to pay tribute to all dear friends & launch is much anticipated memoir VAINGLORIOUS to which I have contributed the foreword

Moody Blues singer and bassist John Lodge dies aged 82

#JohnLodge #moodyblues #ClassicRock

YouTube video by Arbor Video Jason & The Scorchers - White Lies

What's with all these little white flies that are swarming around at the moment. I've never seen them before

www.youtube.com/watch?v=51y8...

I think Rob could be onto something and Lee Harvey Oswald tried to give us a clue at the time albeit widely misquoted. He actually said "I'm just a patty"

T.Rex’s “Ride a White Swan” The Move “When Alice Comes Back To The Farm” cover New Musical Express, October 10, 1970.

Today's psychedelic shroom sightings
One by a gravestone and one in a gloomy clearing
(1st picture by @lynnlouisejones.bsky.social )

And then a year later, 18 Sept 1977 at the Glasgow Apollo, here's a couple of great pics (by Ian Storarr) of Calvert in full flight with Hawkwind...

See if you can guess which one wants to legalise incest

Bloody hell, it's Knee-tremble Johnny

They do 14" at our local place. The OH always says "I don't want to have to sit and watch you eat that whole thing", I counter with "Luckily you'll only have to turn away for a few minutes"

"Leftover pizza", I understand both those words but not together

What about when they strung Mussolini up - bloody il Antifa