#chip kinman

[spilladabalia]

The Dils - Tell Her You Love Her

#the dils #tell her you love her #chip kinman #tony kinman #john silvers #punk #punk rock #recorded 1980 #live! #1987 #Youtube

[t-tex-edwards]

This photo that came up in today’s Memories is from when the Hollywood, California band that I was in, The Loafin' Hyenas, played our first club gig at Raji’s, the epicenter of Hollywood underground bands at the time. I think this was 1988. At that point the band consisted of myself on vocals, former Cramps guitarist Click Mort, a wild cajun gal from Beaumont named Dionne Sparks (now Neva Trejo) on fiddle, & the former rhythm section from the band Blood on the Saddle, Ron Botelho on bass & Hermann Senac on drums. This is the lineup that recorded our first single “Scatter” (about Elvis’ chimpanzee) b/w “Move It!” (a reworking of one of my earlier songs from Tex & the Saddletramps days) that was one of the early releases from Long Gone John’s Sympathy For The Record Industry label (SFTRI 008).

And what a night it was. I don’t remember much from our performance, but I do remember who was there in the audience that night. In the second photo just to the left of the speaker cabinet (& darkly in the first photo) you can see original Gun Club bassist Rob "Graves" Ritter in sunglasses (yes, after dark AND indoors) sitting on the floor with his friend Tim Farris from the band Celebrity Skin. Rob was our favorite & the first bass player Click & I recruited for The Loafin' Hyenas & he jammed with us once when we were in the early stages of writing songs & putting the band together. But Rob was too busy at the time playing reunion gigs with 45 Grave & soon joining the band Thelonious Monster, to have enough time to devote to our project. He did return toward the end of The Loafin' Hyenas & contributed some beautiful bass lines to our only album, THE LOAFIN’ HYENAS on Patrick Mathè’s New Rose label out of France.

Also that night Click had invited his old bosses from The Cramps, Lux Interior & Poison Ivy Rorschach, who surprisingly showed up & crowded into the stuffy basement room at Raji’s where the bands played. I remember Lux pointing out in conversation afterwards in his humorous goofy manner, “Hey, we’re both lead singers with three letter names that end in ‘x’  Lux & Tex!”. I had invited Chip Kinman from Rank and File, a band that I admired & had opened shows for a couple of times back in Dallas at The Hot Klub, who also showed up.

The third photo is my still sweetie Karen Kritter & I in one of Raji’s booths. The final image is a flyer by Click Mort. Don't remember if this was the same night. But it would make sense since Lux produced the first Mad Daddy's LP...

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[krispyweiss]

Album Review: Various Artists - Americana Railroad

All of the songs are about trains and several of them employ harmonica or horns to ape locomotive whistles. But that’s where the similarities end and the tracks diverge on Americana Railroad.

The album was originally a limited release Record Store Day special and is now out on digital platforms.

The brainchild of co-producers Carla Olson and Saul Davis, the 19-song, various artists’ compilation goes all the way back to Elizabeth Cotten’s “Freight Train” by A.J. Haynes and travels as far forward as Dom Flemons’ original “Steel Pony Blues.”

Two versions of “Mystery Train,” the first by Rocky Burnett and Barry Goldberg, and the second by James Intveld and Goldberg, sum up the LP’s diversity, from fairly true to Elvis Presley’s famous take to a bluesy shuffle, respectively.

While there is no filler, the track-jumping can be districting as the music shifts from the hard country of Robert Rex Waller Jr. and Chip Kinman’s “The Conductor Wore Black” to the folk of John Fogerty and Mickey Raphael’s “City of New Orleans” to the hard rock of Gary Myrick’s “Train Kept A-Rollin’.”

But it’s worth the 75-minute journey because just when the Americana Railroad starts to grow tiresome, surprising gems like CSN’s “Marrakesh Express” (Dustbowl Revival) and Procol Harum’s “Whiskey Train” (Olson and Brian Ray) come in to earshot.

Grade card: Various Artists - Americana Railroad - B-

7/20/22

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[kosmik-signals]

Rank and File

#Rank and File #Tony Kinman #Chip Kinman #Alejandro Escovedo

[kvetchlandia]

Uncredited Photographer Chip (l) and Tony Kinman of The Dils, Los Angeles c.1978

The Dils were one of my fave bands back in L.A. punk antiquity.

[mikespent]

@robforward Hey! Giving this to yer pops on Sunday in PS OkOk the Bside has been chosen to be on a upcoming Doc about the SDNC Punk Rock birth featuring myself and Chip Kinman Bside aKa “Land of the Lost” will be the Title Track !! I dunno maybe I’ll see you & pops @forwarddesigngroup WewanttoRock #spentidols #mikespent #landofthelost Available on most digital platforms & on vinyl from #steeltownrecordsgermany @steeltownrecords #documentary in the works #platinumrecords NOT widely known but punk rock in California was born in Carlsbad! & I have been called the first one in my hometown after meeting the Dils who lived down the street from me! (at Palm Springs Vintage Market) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqb2lCHp4TO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[randomvarious]

Today’s compilation:

Slash: The Early Sessions 1983 Punk Rock / Rockabilly / Americana / Alternative Rock / New Wave

Slash Records opened its doors in 1978 as a label that was committed to documenting Los Angeles' then-exploding punk rock scene. And very early on, they managed to secure two of the city's biggest, most influential, and most critically acclaimed acts: Germs and X. Plus, they also put out the soundtrack to the famed LA punk documentary, The Decline of Western Civilization. So, needless to say, they were extremely integral to the whole cultural movement.

But it didn't take very long for Slash to begin to expand past their pure punk product. In '81 they added the rootsy rockabilly Blasters to their ranks, followed by punks-turned-country-rockers Rank and File—whose leading members, brothers Chip and Tony Kinman, had previously fronted legendary Cali punk band The Dils—and then in '83 came Chicano rockers Los Lobos and Milwaukee folk-punks Violent Femmes. And they also had neo-psych/paisley underground staple The Dream Syndicate and blues-rock punks The Gun Club on their subsidiary, Ruby Records, too.

So, this 1983 greatest hits sampler from Slash catches the label somewhere in the midst of that expansion, trying to coherently bridge a gap between Americana and punk rock, showing that these two styles that can seem *very* disparate can actually be woven together quite effectively.

But I'm not sure that they actually pulled it off here, as there seems to be something of a theme to each side of the record: the A-side consists of the Americana stuff and the B-side has mostly the punk stuff, and despite some of these bands' affinity for mixing the two things together, you don't really get much of a taste of it here.

And it also appears that the A-side, outside of what is by far the album's most well-known track, the alternative cult classic, "Blister in the Sun" by The Violent Femmes, hasn't stood the test of time, whereas the B-side, with two cuts from X, one from Germs, and another from The Dream Syndicate, still goes pretty damn hard to this day, 40 years later.

X's two offerings, which come off of their pair of hallowed back-to-back albums, 1980's Los Angeles and 1981's Wild Gift, feature the dynamite boy-girl vocal team-up of John Doe and Exene Cervenka that sees them both exchanging lines and also generating great harmonies. And both songs are produced by ex-Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek too.

The Germs song, "Caught in My Eye," is an outtake from the recording sessions for their lone, mythic album, (GI). It features some excellent punk guitar-tone to go along with frontman Darby Crash's scratchy vocal. It's also on a posthumous 1981 Germs compilation EP called What We Do Is Secret and is produced by none other than the queen of punk rock herself, Joan Jett.

And that B-side's only non-punk track, "Tell Me When It's Over" by The Dream Syndicate, is great too. It's the opening track on their landmark debut album, The Days of Wine and Roses, and it's just this thing of jangle-thick, early 80s underground, post-punk beauty.

Took some time for me to really get into this record, but the B-side here is absolutely tremendous. A solid, brief look at some of the early years of this unique LA punk/indie/alt/Americana label.

Highlights:

Violent Femmes - "Blister in the Sun" X - "Los Angeles" Germs - "Caught in My Eye" The Dream Syndicate - "Tell Me When It's Over" X - "White Girl"

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[americanahighways]

REVIEW: Americana Railroad

REVIEW: Americana Railroad @carlaolson @BMG @hellowendypr @davealvin @domflemons #JohnApice #newmusic2022 #americanamusic #railroadsongs

Americana Railroad This ambitious 74-minute train song compilation — 10 years in the making is an array of traditional & contemporary railroad songs by varied artists. The only thing missing — the late Boxcar Willie who could imitate a great train whistle. The set features artists from distinguished bands – some familiar others not so much. There are 19 cuts like Chip & Tony Kinman (Rank &…

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[cyanidetooth]

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[odk-2]

Rank and File - Sundown (1982) Chip Kinman / Tony Kinman from: "Sundown" LP

Cowpunk | Alt. Country | Neo-Traditionalist

JukehostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Chip Kinman: Lead Vocals / Guitar Alejandro Escovedo: Guitar / Backing Vocals Tony Kinman: Bass /Backing Vocals Slim Evans: Drums

Produced by David Kahne

Recorded: @ The Automatt in San Francisco, California USA in June of 1982

Released: in 1982

Slash Records (US) Rough Trade (UK)

Collectors’ Choice Music Records (2005 CD Reissue)

#Rank and File #Cowpunk #1980's #Sundown #Chip Kinman #Tony Kinman #Slim Evans #Alejandro Escovedo #Slash Records #Rough Trade Records #David Kahne #Cow Punk

[iamdangerace]

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[onthemoonarts]

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[theunderestimator-2]

The Dils performing in broad daylight at San Francisco Civic Center in 1978, as documented by Jill Hoffman-Kowal.

(via)

#the dils #tony kinman #chip kinman #1978 #early punk scene #punk rock #punk #live gig #san francisco #jill hoffman kowal #people

[kosmik-signals]

Rank and File

(via Rank and File | The Fat Angel Sings)

#Rank and File #alejandro escovedo #chip kinman #tony kinman

[punkrockhistory]

44 years ago today

Chip Kinman, guitarist of punk band the Dils, jumps on stage at the Search and Destroy Magazine Benefit Concert at the Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco, May 11, 1978. Photo by Ruby Ray

#punk #punks #punkrock #mabuhaygardens #Dils #history #punkrockhistory #otd

[theerecoup]

Song Of The Day EXCLUSIVE: Blackbird, "Blue Hair"

Brothers Chip and Tony Kinman may not be household names, but their activities helped to build the foundation for American punk and independent rock. Their first band, The Dils, came to be during the fertile late 1970s California scene. Their second band, Rank & File, was a roots-rock affair that featured a young Alejandro Escovedo, and is still highly regarded to date. After that band broke up,…

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