NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT [Episode #456 ~ 08-09-31]

Pictured: The late Terry Reid.

The hall was filling and I was beginning to wonder if I’d find a place to sit when Michael Lydon came over with two tickets down front, stage left. We found our places in the press of youth, some in little pullover sweaters, some hairy mountain freaks, all seeming gentle. The Bob Dylan song on the public address system ended, a fraternity-brother voice boomed Welcome and introduced the first act, Terry Reid, one week shy of his twenty-first birthday, who looked gentler than anybody. Though he never arrived, Terry and his trio had been for the past year or so the coming thing in English blues. But his act seemed not to move this crowd, who may not have known that English blues bands were supposed to play and scream as loud as possible. Knees pressing into my back, a girl in a sorority blazer sat beside a boy with short, neat hair and a tan sports jacket. I was seated on the aisle; to my right were three pretty girls in three sizes, each with dark hair and dark eyes.

As Terry screamed “I Got a Woman,” the girls, Spanish-blooded, told me they were sisters: one fourteen, one twenty, and as Terry, with one blue spot on him and his flat-top guitar, introduced a song called “Bunch Up, Little Dogies,” the third sister, too cute to be a minute over seventeen, a little guerrilla in the battle to see who will wear a crown, came to my side, and I began to see what the tour was about. When we are young, innocent, and ignorant, and we look and smell good, all that is required is a little rhythm—what could be more revolutionary, more troublemaking, than bringing rhythm to the scent of the classroom? We looked at each other, our heads, our hair touching in the crowd, and clasped hands, her skin soft as you might expect, nearly any seventeen-year-old is soft, but not every one is so serious and quiet.

— Stanley Booth, The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 457 of No Condition Is Permanent:

FIRST SLICE O’SCHEIßE...

Love Unlimited Orchestra — “Bring It On Up” — The Best of Barry White’s Love Unlimited Orchestra

C.S. Crew — “Love Is Peace” — Funky Pack

The Surfers — “Widget” — Surf Guitars Rumble Vol. 1

Waiphot Phetsuphan — “Mia Chaa (My Darling)” — Thai Beat A Go Go Vol. 2: Groovy 60’s Sounds from the Land of Smile!

Jimmy Myers & Tex Regan — “Pretty Baby Rock” — Ultra Rare Fortune & Hi-Q

Hany Mehanna — “Less Al Thulatha” — Music for Airplanes: A Collection of Instrumental Showpieces and Scores for Egyptian Films and TV-Series 1973-1980

M. Frog ( a.k.a. Jean Yves Labat) — “We Are Crazy (Instrumental Version)” — M. Frog

IT’S MADISON TIME…