Rawk 'n' Roll Road Trip...

What a crazy weekend! Serge, Brian and I drove down to New Brunswick to sell some wax at the Moncton Record Expo this past Saturday, May 25 (glad I missed the great glebe garbage sale!) We drove over night on Thursday and had a clear sail all the way. I’ve done this drive probably about 70 times since ’85 and although sometimes boring and longish it was all good (likely due to the company). We listened to a lot of great tunes including unreleased live recordings from Tony Williams Lifetime (Village Gate ’69), Baby Woodrose (Radiochuset Rocker 2006), Linus Pauling Quartet (Live ’02) and albums from Bread Love and Dreams, Bayete, Crooked Hook, Kohsuke Mine, Yuji Imamura, Bardo Pond, Tortilla Flat, Gila, Brainticket and more!

We had a great breakfast at the Irving Super K outside Woodstock early Friday morn’ and continued on to Saint John. Upon arrival in the great port city and agood cup of java we headed over to Backstreet Records SJ to hang with my longtime friend and proprietor Gordie Tufts. Thanks G for all the hospitality and hangtime, you got a great shop and you are a soldier for sure! Scored some nice wax here…sealed copy of a 1971 RCA release by a killer hard rock band called Boomerang, Lucifer’s Friend – I’m Just A Rock ‘N’ Roll Singer on Billingsgate label, Otis Spann with Fleetwood Mac – Biggest Thing Since Colossus (US version with alternate cover on Blue Horizon), 2- Three Man Army LPs(one of which was a replacer and one I have been looking for since ‘82 F’n SCORE!), Thunder & Roses- King Of The Black Sunrise (U.A. late 60’s US power trio in Hendrix vein) and a super rare near mint original of Bob Smith – The Visit on Kent 1969, 2x LP with poster(KILLER!!!!!). Went to Billy’s (best fish ‘n’ chips in town and downed a few tasty pints of Pumphouse ale. Hooked up with my cousin Susan where we finally got some sleep for the first time since Wednesday night(after watching “Green Berets” with John Wayne! Got up Saturday AM on 5 hours of shut eye to a beautiful Maritime morning(the drizzle/fog combo) and headed up the # 1 to Moncton for the record expo at the Crown Plaza. I bought no records at the fair but met some swell people and sold some cool wax! Thanks Marty!
After the show we headed out of Moncton with destination, hometown Fredericton. We stayed the night and got absolutely fried on Picaroons and god’s good corn with my longtime close friend and musical co-conspirator Mark Carmody (Angered Wrecks, Exploding Meet, Decade Of Dreams). Thanks for the hospitality Mark it was a wicked night! We all had a literal blast and it was awesome to hang! We drove back yesterday and got back to Birdman at 9 pm, tired but happy! There are some nice and odd used LPs out today, among them, Limbus 4, Psychic TV, Stockhausen, Adolf Hitler...?

Tons of new shit here aside from that, and a big order arriving tomorrow hope to see you soon……Remember…Birdman Sound is your #1 Rock stop!

ps…thanks to Jason for manning the gunnel!

Friday Morning Cartunes...May 18th, 2012

Klaus Schulze - Ways Of Change (Virgin) LP
Heldon - Marie Virginie C. (Neer City) LP
Tortilla Flat - Tortilla Flat (private) LP
Egg - A Visit To Newport Hospital (Deram) LP
Supersister - Memories Are Now / 11/8 (Polydor) LP
Nucleus - 1916 (Vertigo) LP
Zao - Tserouf (Peters) LP
Ebo Taylor - Atwer Arroba (Philips) LP
Na Hawa Doumbia - Dan Te Dinye La (Awesome Tapes) LP
Le Mystere Jazz De Tombouctou - Dina Waliji (Kindred Spirits) LP
Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengra & The Congos - New Binghi/Happy Song (RVNG) LP


Lijadu Sisters - Danger (Soul Jazz) LP
John Coltrane - Africa (WRC) LP
Koi Pond - Oayeeeia (Sonic Meditations) LP
Quiet Sun - Sol Caliente (Antilles) LP
Ame Son - A Coup De Hache (Wah Wah) LP
Soft Machine - Esther's Nosejob (Reckless) LP

Reigning Wax....

My bins runeth over! A veritable ton of killer new releases, awesome reissues and restock on ultra essentials...lately,... as in this week,
we've been privy to some mighty wicked trade-ins also! Some akin to the
record pictured to the left...just sayin'.....! Aaaaah, cheerful insanity...

Friday Morning Cartunes...May 11th, 2012

Fifty Foot Hose - If Not This Time (Limelight) LP
Circle - Potero (Hydra Head) LP
Moon Duo - Fallout-Sonic Boom remix (Sacred Bones) LP
Of The Wand & The Moon - The Lone Descent (Heidrunar Myrkrunar) LP
White Hills - Drift Away (Thrill Jockey) LP
Don Cherry - Omejelo (BYG) LP
Faruq Z. Bey - Untitled #2 (Sagittarius A-Star) LP
Synchron - Untitled #1 (Sagittarius A-Star) LP
Teruo Nakamura - Unicorn Lady (Soul Brother) LP
Azanyah - Praise (Jazzman) LP
Sun Araw, M Geddes Gengras & The Congos - Jungle (RVNG Intl.) LP


Rob - He Shall Live In You (Soundway) LP
Guelewar - Sunu Makaan (Kindred Spirits) LP
Odu Afrobeat Orchestra - Revenge Of The One Eyed Hyena (Sagittarius A-Star) LP
23 Skidoo - Kundalini (LTM) LP
Trans AM - American Kooter (Thrill Jockey) LP
CCCP - Death Of The Spanish Lion (Flamophone) LP
J.P. Massiera - Inside My Brain (Mucho Gusto) LP
Francois Guy - Aouaie! Viens T'en (Mucho Gusto) LP
Jon Porras - Into The Black Mesa (Thrill Jockey) LP
Saturnia - Alpha Omega (Elektohasch) LP
Cranium Pie - Rememberrr (Fruits De Mer) LP
The Amazing - Dogs (Subliminal Sounds) LP
Blood Ceremony - Return To Forever (Rise Above) LP
Monobrow - Troubled Apostle In The Chamber (Indie) LP
Grumbling Fur - Bears Wandering... (Aurora Borealis) LP

TBWNIS NEWS

Our live gig with the legendary Damo Suzuki in March of this year is nearly ready to go to press! This LP will as usual be ltd. To 100, vinyl only copies. The album is called “Gonna’ take us to Saturn? I don't take you anywhere. Every city has a tourist office... I'm not a tour guide". All original improvised compositions clocking in at 42 minutes in length with Side A featuring “Wooden Soldiers” and “Berlin, Ontario”. Side B features “Brass Buddha”, Ozzy’s Bathroom” and “Neu Sudanesque”. This album is really in yer face, raw and vibrant, super spaced and primal and psyched out to the max!

Currently we still have copies of our latest record, “Punks, Twats and Urban Cowboys” available although not many! We have a very, very ltd CDR album with printed disc and cover entitled “Manning The Bird” recorded live on Record Store Day 2011 and released on Record Store Day 2012!

Upcoming gigs at this point include Velofest in early June outdoors at the experimental farm and at the end of June at the National Gallery outside in the spider pit.

“Gonna’ take us to Saturn? I don't take you anywhere. Every city has a tourist office... I'm not a tour guide” will be released in July.

Damo Suzuki and TBWNIS Live on VIMEO http://vimeo.com/40551707

Friday Morning Cartunes...May 4th, 2012

Qumran Orphics - Live At The Blank Club 5/22/10 (Mid-To-Late) LP
Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Bedside Manner (Ecstatic Yod) LP
Electric Moon - Madrigal Meridian (Fruits De Mer) LP
Eno Moebius Roedelius - Broken Head (Bureau B) LP
Vibravoid - Nearby Shiras (Fruits De Mer) LP
Christmas - Jungle Fabulous (Paragon) LP
Rain - A Day In The Life (Shadoks) LP
Mike Wexler - Pariah (Mexican Summer) LP
Aron - Dodens Stilhed (Kommun2) LP
Cranium Pie - Granny's Wall (Lunartica) LP


Hebden/Reid/Gustafsson - Untitled (SMSJ) LP
Talibam! with Alan Wilkinson - Let's Go Hang Out In Tesco (Bo'Weavil) LP
King Crimson - Providence/Starless (Atlantic) LP
Papir - Sunday # 2 (El Paraiso) LP
Blood Ceremony - The Witch's Dance/Daughter Of The Sun (Rise Above) LP
American Blues - Comin' Back Home (Uni) LP
Prof. Wolfff - Hetzjagd (Second Battle) LP
Soft Machine - Facelift (Vinyl Lovers) LP

Cool Tunes....@ Birdman Sound

Wow…what a crazy week! Record Store day was huge ! Thanks to everyone and all for makin’ it a success, especially the bands and the folks who caught the show. Mega fun! Same thing goes for the record show on Sunday, last! 700 people through the doors and happiness expressed amply from both sides of the tables!! Crazy shit indeed! Drove all day Monday through torrential rain(freezing rain as well) to New Brunswick. Saw some incredibly rare shit down east in terms of records. Sealed, rare 60’and 70’s, psych and prog stuff. Reminded me of the glory days of huntin’ the department store cut out bins, yippee! This pic is me crackin' the seal on a 44 year old LP...still smelled great! The record is pretty rare...American Blues(pre-ZZ Top) with Frank Beard and Dusty Hill. It's their 2nd and best album called "Do Their Thing" on the great(then) UNI label. Books for a bunch and I paid $8.99 !!!, just 2 days ago! SCORE !!!!

Pharoah Sanders - Elevation (Impulse) LP
Flying Saucer Attack - Past / Present (Drag City) LP
Tangerine Dream - Ashes To Ashes (Esoteric) LP
Once Dreamt - Space Travel (Blue Flea) LP
Ambrose Slade - Martha My Dear (Fontana) LP
The Luck Of Eden Hall - SF Sorrow Is Born (Fruits Des Mer) LP
Neil Merryweather - Flat Back (Kent) LP
Black Pearl - Hermit Freak Show (Prophesy) LP
SRC - Street Without A Name (Capitol) LP
Midnight Sun - Living On The Hill (Kapp) LP
JA Caesar -  Echigo Tsutsuishi Oyashirazu (Phoenix) LP


Amon Duul II - You're Not Alone (Atco) LP
Jessamine - Ordinary Sleep (Histrionic) LP
Massacre - Gate (Celluloid) LP
AR3 - 10 Jahre Lebenslanglich  (Zebra) LP
Peeesseye + Talibam - You Tried (To Eat It)  (Smerladina-Rima) LP
Technicolor Poets - Solipsistic Wedding (Kommun2) LP
Moebius & Plank -  Conditionierer (Bureau B) LP

Guest DJ Will Desjardins..."Wills 78 RPM Quarterly"
King Oliver - St. James Infirmary  (Victor) 1930
Duke Ellington - The Mooche (Brunswick) 1928
Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Ride Red Ride (Columbia) 1935
Rev. Edward Clayburn - Death Is Only A Dream (Vocalion) 1927
Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Paramount) 1927
Blind Mamie & AC Forehand - Honey In The Rock (Anchor) 1927
Mike Hanapi - He Manao Healoha (Odeon) 1926?
Hafiz Burhan - Inleyen Ahim (Columbia) 1936
Reverend A.W. Nix  - The Black Diamond Express To Hell (Decca) 1927
Jim New - For Work I'm Too Lazy (Timely Tune) 1929
Lulu Williams - Careless Love (Romeo) 1928
Grayson & Whitter - Rose Conley (Victor) 1927

Friday Morning Cartunes...April 20th, 2012

Nackt Insecten - Suicide Overdrive (Blackest Rainbow) LP
Guru Guru -  Der LSD Marsch (Live 1971) (Lilith) LP
Gala Drop w/Ben Chasny - Broda (Gala Drop) LP
Mike Wexler - Prime (Mexican Summer) LP
Life On Earth - Let's Take A Break (AAO)
Circle - Here Come The Warm Jets (Hydra Head) LP
Arbouretum -  St. Anthony's Fire (Thrill Jockey) LP
Mark McIntyre - Slapped In The Face (Seductive Sounds) LP
Sylvester Anfang II -  Jam # 3 (Latitudes) LP
Sean Smith - I Know You're Tired, But Come. This Is The Way (SAAH) LP
TBWNIS - Sno-Cave Movement (Birdman Sound) LP
Yonin Bayashi - Omatsuri (Phoenix) LP
Northern Haze - Puigo (Supreme Echo) LP
White Hills - Three Quarters (Roadburn) LP
Moonrises -  Hollow Watcher (Logan Hardware) LP
23 Skidoo - New Testament (LTM) LP
Split Cranium - Blossoms From Boils (Hydra Head) LP
Iron Dogs - Burned Alive (indie) 7"
Twitch - Things / Pick Up Is Illegal on 401 (Supreme Echo) 7"
Ancestors - First Light (Tee Pee) LP
Crystal Haze - DNJ (Acid Nightmare) LP

RECORD STORE DAY...April 21st, 2012

Saturday, April 21st ……@ Birdman Sound….
Live Action !

4:00 PM…..Mark McIntyre (TBWNIS/Weapons of Mass Seduction)

4:30 PM…..The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol

5:30 PM…..Dead Wrestler




Birdman opens at 10 AM on Saturdays and hands down has the best selection of wax in the city! Trust me…we are chock a block full of killer freakin’ tunes as always cuz every day is record store day here and has been forever!