Rich and Johnny's Inzane Michigan

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FLYERS FROM THE PATHETX'S MICK GOLDWATER ARCHIVE = TWO Apr 13, 2020

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MICHIGAN RECORD A DAY : Dr. Jack Van Impe "The Greatest Love Story" Diadem 1978 Lp Apr 11, 2020

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Well since its less than 24 hours away from Easter and the previous John Outlaw post got some cats feeling like poseurs, here is well...the opposite. Gotta love the "turn this off right now" category at the Olzone crib, rare demand natch but usually victim to Italian hardcore or super rough Michigan bluegrass but sermons in general are for solo ears only at the hut post 11pm in low volume and this is one, phew, super gnarly. Big money Diadem job that's pretty common in the bins, cause A: bring up Dr. Jack's name to anyone esp in his home state and find yourself ALONE real quick and B: ish is a grim as it gets. Has the same paranoid dispensationalist zeal as fellow TV minster boi Hal Lindsey but with an utterly grim fidelity that, minus the content, hits RAW when Van Impe thumps his crude aged wooden pulpit with his worn out & memorized bible. Makes your neck hair revolt, fast. This is titled "The Greatest Love Story" but in actuality a full account of the last days of a "formless from every bone broken" Jesus in all its gory detail from violence and being spit upon in conjunction with the Van Impe speed - hammering out verses to seal the experience. Utterly not chill, utterly not supposed to be. The pastor has a gaggle of stark records to help you form your personality : classics like "Nightclubs to Christ", "Hell Without Hell", "Demons and Exorcism!" and more via heavyweight local labels like Singcord and Victory. Would love to hang as a trio with Jack and "Tremendous" Jones and fully dive into this "New LSD" they were yammering on about in the mid seventies. Maybe out of some kind of personal self torture these "no hope" paranoid Sermon records keep calling out to be digested in the Olson household but what is really fascinating is the Michigan chasm that houses both C.L Franklin's powerhouse Chess Series Lps in nearly the same era as Dr, Jack's "Coming War with Russia", only miles apart. Unbelievable really, grab your Accorgan and sing your own song. Have to clean out the cabbage with some pulp Sci Fi after diving into these icy lake waters.

FLYERS FROM THE PATHETX'S MICK GOLDWATER ARCHIVE = ONE Apr 10, 2020

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MICHIGAN RECORD A DAY : John Outlaw ‎"The Poems And Testimony Of John Outlaw" Lighthouse 1973 Lp Apr 08, 2020

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Man, here's a big ol greasy splinter for your soul pressed out on twelve inches of uncommercial plastic via Northville Michigan in the middle game of 1973. I reckon if you add even a sprinkle of "non committal" to the Xian game from the shadows of the mitten, the whole stew gets real sour, real fast. Organ + Christ poetry is common yes, and normally pretty solid transport to SOME other region circa 11pm onward for solo evening audio reflection, and the same blueprint is more prevalent on the lower Western side of the state on bougie big cash labels like Diadem, but here under the guise of John Outlaw, the experience makes you feel like you just took a shower in a goo gone and toweled off with turpentine. Side one's entire A-B-B smug social poetry gets real tight real fast and the schmaltzy story of "Testimony" on side two from girls to candy stealing to wavering candles signs from Jesus feels more like Salesmen-like than Soul-like. It has that 23% of "come on yo" than I dunno, The Family Alter Of The Air does. Instead of hammers, we got baskets. That said, that uneasy feeling and the "why the fuck I am listening to all these" atmosphere makes for a memorable jaunt. Sticks with you, somehow, and Mr. (sic) Outlaw was some kind of radio personality, just doesn't sit well with the Michigan cannon, which is fine, right? Strange label too, only did two versions of this that for all its conversion pretense, it not haunting the thrift stores, anywhere. Odd one that will always get a brow tenser when seen next to its more Michigan earnest counterparts. Whatever drama false or not that went into this, I'm good from here.

FLYERS FROM JON HOWARD'S ARCHIVE = FIVE Apr 07, 2020

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FLYERS FROM JON HOWARD'S ARCHIVE = FOUR Apr 01, 2020

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FLYERS FROM JON HOWARD'S ARCHIVE = THREE Mar 30, 2020

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RICH & JOHNNY's INZANE MICHIGAN EPISODE #4 = THE PLAGUES' BILL MALONE Mar 28, 2020

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RICH & JOHNNY's INZANE MICHIGAN EPISODE #4 = THE PLAGUES' BILL MALONE

Rich and Johnny talk from the shadows of the quarantine bunkers with Bill Malone of Lansing's finest downer troupe, The Plagues. Peep the entire discography and two Frightened Trees tracks at:

https://www.mixcloud.com/john-olson2/rich-johnnys-inzane-michigan-soundtrack-episode-4-the-plagues/

FLYERS FROM JON HOWARD'S ARCHIVE = TWO Mar 27, 2020

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MICHIGAN RECORD A DAY : The Imaginary Cassette Company Series #2 / Club Of Rome "The Mourning Party"11i Mar 25, 2020

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More Imaginary Cassette Company basement damage that makes my cabbage boil with all sorts of local pride. A gaggle of goofy "Clubs Of Rome" out there but trust me, drop your euro vampire costumes in the Granger dumpster outside cause here is the trophy, natch. Mark Fedewa appears to be the captain here in prime 88-89 EL basement scene styles but the grainy gate fold snap has three members, maybe Jeffrey Deason was one of the troops? Nada info to be found from the shadowy corners of the ICC camp, most you can hope for is a heated down memory lane post on FB to get some kinda handle on the wicked ingredients hidden magnetically inside. Standard 8min + "nowhere" free form cryptic lurch as put down in prime congruent c90 styles from the label. There are some spooky urban moves here and there but nothing really adds up and the stoned basement smog apexes in the lonely rainy Tuesday night harmonica gracing side two. The vocal echo warble and delayed cardboard drums on "Leave Only Footprints" makes me wanna jump out a one story suburb hut and run a mile backwards, twice at 2am. Club of Rome even has a downer / loner folk element that utterly covers everything you could ever want from a whacked- out local tape from the 80s. It's all there. Did you work with them at El Az in 1987? Were C.O.R too weird to do blow with the kitchen staff at Bilbos? The whole audio experience is akin to a LSD soaked 4 track weekend experiment in all it's mid Michigan dreary winter black and white glory. Swear to Cthulhu if you were seeing double with Kroger Kevin from King Corba 40z -ers paid for with returnables from Saturday's MSU game, I'd tell you this was an unreleased WEEDS Xpressway tape from... eer.. 1988. Can't ingest this "stuff" enough, makes the Screaming Mee Mees sound like a pre - UFO mania Blink 182 gig at a crowed Utah brewery. Bottom level living-in-a-closet genius of the highest non - order. I hope whoever made this righteous racket is a teacher at Okemos High School RN. Will brag about this tape and this f'in label till you get damn well get sick of it, even the Lime Giants 96i one. Lots of fantasies in Olzone nugget, one of them is a split bill via Kalamazoo in an empty basement with Club of Rome sharing a banger gig with homemade gods Strange Fruit Abiku. Simply put, they are FROM HERE and OUT THERE. Phew.

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