adam jam the president of music
summoned a brand new bag
oh those cool be-bop cats playing on
the melodiotron
laying down some deep groove
high in the small hours
in some basement kingdom
all lit up with little LEDs
twang twang twang goes old bass moan
rumble rumble bang bang
the drummed wires half in time
slipping in some strange stuff
takes me back to mixolotyl
and the ancient electric prophesy
and the ripped up strings that were coiled down
and we listened so much we wore silver strips off the sound
and adam jam compressed all the sugary singer
for in truth
the lambless jam was who i am
and we plucked our fluted liars
and god helped the triers
with hoods n friars
we blew up the horn
we called upon the yet unborn
adam jam unto himself
speaks to you now:
the samples of myself
i freely give away for a price
i sing this song
unmastered as it is
the machines are there
the possibility doth exist
drag summer into your head
your guitar gently sleeps
yet you wake upon some treble cliff
strung out between the pearl inlaid necks
looking for a bridge looking for a newline
the moon is singing something
every song that ever was
every dream you ever really dreamed
every sweet n kind dream soft as theme
oh its a wonderful wild music week
and the how the beat has turned on me
and how the key eludes me in spades
yeah adam jam
president of sound
island bound
howl like a hell hound
looping round n round
let all notes be free
let the pianos feed upon the raw audience
let the violins rule the mob
let the bloody trumpet shriek in victory
ah men
34 comments:
Music is like love – it knows no boundaries and has no limits. Couldn’t imagine a beat turning on you though or even a key eluding you. With your creativity I’m sure you’d make it fit, and we’d love it!
Whoosh...Excellent Kilbey-fix.
Ps. Have a good gig in Melby.
//
I'm getting about 20 hits a day on my site! It's from people who want me dead. (o:
We've had all this shit many times before from this whacko - he's the reason Steve switched to comment moderation:
His name's Barry.
He wanted to collaborate with Steve.
Steve said no.
Barry recorded a one-chord new wave cover instead.
It flopped.
Barry lives with his mom and often doesn't take his medication.
Barry blames Steve for his plight and hounds the comments with bullshit.
Half the time he pretends to be other commenters just to stir the shit even further.
Why is he still here? Who the hell knows.
Steve once asked us all not to make any response to him whatsoever, no matter what he said. Might be a good idea to go back to that?
christ, i can't imagine my life without music....what a barren thing it would be.....
my little one's been invited to join the school band...got her heart set on learning the clarinet but she'd also be happy with the trumpet or drums.....good on ya fluffy duck!!!
love always.....
Dear, Adam jam, President of Sound,
I hope this doth not mean thou hast hit a creative wall.
xoxo
Ps: the photos in negative are eerie :-)
"We listened so much we wore silver strips off the sound" I like that line.......
Just got through confirmation from Amazon UK that 'No Certainty Attached' has been posted. Yeah, I know I'm ages behind loadsa folk, but hey.
Been enjoying September Music Month, and hope the demos (are they?) can be firmed up (ooh that bum guitar note!!).
Also,I remember playing UTMW with some folk in the past and, you're right, it was shite with us doing it!
Some other random thoughts:
See Mark Burgess (Ex Chameleons) is playing with assorted musicians in different towns throughout the
US. Watched a crackly sound quality, sideways video (!) of 'In shreds' in Los Angeles 30 August (see YouTube), but I could still sense it was a cracking performance.
See, The Chameleons were another of my favourite bands who emerged in the 80s who also succeeded in producing some timeless music (Second skin, View from a hill, Swamp thing, Monkeyland).
'In his autumn before the winter comes man's last mad surge of youth!'
'What on earth are you talking about?'
(Ha!)
Was also looking at some The National videos (Available, Murder me Rachael) after reading that the Dessner twins are doing some kind of music/art-related project as The Long Count.
Oops, who am I to be saying such stuff in Mr Kilbey's blog comments, and potentially inviting a cutting one-liner from the great anonymous insulter? Just a buddy, matey, and yeah I still enjoy me swimming!
SJM
Oh, and just so you know, my litmus test for a band in the days of the 7" single was whether I could hack the b-side, and, for me, 'Busdriver' passed the test.
By the time I reached the b-side of 'Almost with you' it was like WTF???. (Is it just me, or does the start of Oasis 'Shock of the Lighning' remind of 'Life Speeds Up'?)
My thinking doesn't follow yours, we are parallel beings. I peer, you then review
Shucks, off on one! WhooooH!
DC: "You are not a human being. You are BEing human for the time being."
all this waiting waiting has really fucked up my relationship with Mary so thanks for everything, dreams do never come true for me...
Jonny is never going back to Hollywood
MY guitar gently weeps. But not in a good way
You and MK, have a great night! Those lucky Mexicans.
xoxoxo
Puppet puppet, string string.
Puppet puppet, string.
How's the Superfund going?
How's the Superfund going?
Any wally can write a song.
Any wally can write.
You don't need to be a dictionary,
But you can be a dick.
....hope the gods are smiling on you tonight.....
love always.....
I walked out of your gig tonight.
25 bucks to see you sing to a backing track is a f**king rip off.
even worse is the room full of people who thought that it was good. your music with your normal band takes me to heaven.
sorry to see you as Australia's MILLY VANILLY tonight. Steve, dont become shit, just get old and rock.
love from nicholas ogburn
Wow Man, this blog goes well with the old Daptones records sampler I am jamming right now.
cheers SK
Thanks steve
been away
returned to feast on a couple of weeks' worth
beautiful songs
brilliant words
gorgeous images
but so awful so upsetting
to have to spit out the blighted bits
i feel so heavily sad for you
imagine creating something like this
only to have someone pollute it
smear it with their mental bacteria
burden you and your fiends
with their puerile rank stinking boredom
and self-hatred
and in the face of such generosity
a comment was made
the stain will be at the melbourne show
if the sideshow is known to you and others
why not reveal their naked shivering form?
you have to try something new
something bold and extreme
before it destroys you
and your lovely blog
i understand why ignoring doesn't work
or withholding publication
it would only mean a more private torment
you need our help
so use us to chase him/her back to the ordinary hell
from whence he/she dragged their bent frame
alternatively
liked the suggestion
surely blogger can do something for you?
Steve, what are your thoughts on the biography of you that came out recently?
KT
Athens, Georgia
SK,
Have you checked this out?
http://soundexchange.com/
Just heard about this on the radio today and thought of you. Apparently they keep the royalties of any any artist they can't "find" (and apparently they don't look).
John
What news from melby olde time bean?
a jam, oh what a pickle!
we have a story for you today Mr K
Ha!
how 2 say
bad letter
me horrible nasty...money ,mine,eh? m...
'matter to discuss with you'
arrive saturday
me no sleep
sweat..brain boil...sweat...brain boil
Sat...Sun...Mon
Zopiclone from doc
after advice from wife
'me worried'she kinda say
Me kinda ok weds
(calm b4 storm)
Weighed me'sel
20p at market
lost 5kg in 2 weeks
aaskt questions Thurs morn
say nothing nothing, say nothing
oops...yes, yes...no...no comment (too late)
No charge...yet...ooh the latency
'did you ever fall asleep and dream that you died?'
nah, i never landed mate.
in mine i ended up hurtling towards an ever growing spinning turntable...
(don't think it was the crappy blue one ma folks bought in Malta circa 1970 but, hey it was dream!...and it had FUCK all to do with...'You spin me...', ok babies?)
Guilty as sin? Pick your cross, folks!
(apart from exemptions under mitigating, extenuating, fallow hill. followfart
circumstances////the world of legalities, and others...'come dine with wine, and oyster feast...')).
===
...An afterthought
b4 i switched on this thing again i'd beeen allowing myself the fair, open and legal liberty to write whatever i thought about
whenever i thought about it,
occasionally without even trying to punctuate...double check spelling...make literal connections between the sentences and paragraphs...
find the right connecting keys...
get yir lawyers!!!
...
Ach,' am awa' tae dae a waz afore a mak masel scarce in the hubbie o' th hoose...
too mch (not enough?) w(h)ine?
Och...on days...off days
on...on...on days?
Happens
(the crux is , yeh...i remember...stuff to do
Got to go
xx(x)
Rave on John Donne.
xJen
Some pics (found on Flickr -- user mandy-pixels/Mandy Hall) from the KK gig last night. Damn, you guys clean up well!!
Click here
unbound ramblings of the
positively unhinged
uh oh
we're off again
the kraken has been raised
how much sleep was that?
or did i just try to keep my eyes closed?
opened eyes
looked out the window
at a light(e)ning autumn sky
well before sunrise
i see a solitary star
look away and think that i catch
the blink of the tail
of another shooting across the canvas
now how many times has that happened through the years?
I picked up a pencil and started writing this stuff on A4
with no great awareness of where or whether i'm writing over my words
or if they''re even legible
is this the mania or the depression?
or that symbiosis of the two that we find oh so fascinating?
i'm in me jim jams
dco i want to jump on me bike
and go looking for coins and notes in the city centre
or down to the seaside
take the air and kinda chill?
or should i go back to bed and lie down
knowing that my mind is
off on one
big time?
i've praised your lyric 'he was standing in the rain to catch some snow' b4...
last week it was absolutely c huckin it down
tail end of a big tropical storm
'worst' rain for 39 years
the paper said the next day
i'd said to my wife
as i put on my waterproofs
'I'm off out to make the best of the good weather, cos you don't know when we'll get it again'
art therapy...creative writing
just letting loose
going with the flow
'des[ite impossibility infinity had been reached'
an absolute hoot, ta
(ooh, look who he's trying to be like'
wot? me? myself?
no fuckin choice
(carp trout fillet o fudge)
used to smoke fags
stitch together the rizlas
polish of the spirits
(make sure they're all shiny for the next visitors to the pavilion)
Today
just now
none of that shit
(and still i hadn't switched on the light 10 mins later)
Oh well that's my 3 pages of A4
as the book i read years ago recommended
Wot now?
(But who says you have to stop just as you get started
cos sometimes it only happens in bursts
Oh me
The tap! the tap!!!
(and now it gets light as i finish typing up what i've written)
Why bother, some may say
Because
maybe it matters to someone else
and there will be a recognition
of that place where the tears well up
Ain't my birthday, couldn't see the moon
may be a festival for someone somewhere?
Have a nice day.
i dunno, must be a phase of the moon or a solar flare or a planetary alignment because there are some odd offerings here in the comments.....
love always....
Steve, you're gonna cack yourself: Did you know you were intervieweed by Raymond from Everyone Loves Raymond??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwu7FgLWxVE
The KK show was done perfectly to present a brilliant album... Great to see Graham Lee on pedal steele.
Good god! Now i've seen it all. Kilbey in a tux.
Lookin sharp there young man! It's a bit weird though after the shorts and label shirts. But i suggest you get used to it. i see award ceremonies in your future.
SK you lost your mystic, and I threw out all your music cd’s. I went back to buying U2, REM, Ian McCullock, and Brett Anderson. This nonsense that you write is not art.
Hi sk, well done on Thursday night, KK were magnificent, I was on such a high that night, your vocals and music were flawless and so dreamy, took me to the other place, thats for sure!:)
To that person who walked out of the show in a huff and soooo disappointed...the vocals were LIVE, the guitar was LIVE, the drums/percussion were LIVE, the pedalsteel guitar was LIVE, the backing tracks were there to enhance the songs, which they did beautifully. If you hung around a bit longer you would have realised this and actually enjoyed the show instead of getting on your high horse and storming out,and what do you define as a "normal" band????? MilliVanilli my arse!
Thanks again sk/mk for a spectacular LIVE show
love always,
Amanda
im so happy for you anon 7:39, that shitty music u bought sure does suit your lovely ass personality, now do us a favor and leave you f@#$%ing retard!
mary (im not scared to hide behind an anon)
...it is predicted
that i die
...in a puddle
of my own vomit.
i do not look
forward to that day...
...Anonymous
what Amanda said ;)
xxxx
Toot...
2 the anonymous scabs
ya should flak off
or fuck off!
or fall off
like the ring worm (s) you’ve become
The sad anon has no talent
except to cut down others
how sad this is for
the anon pig...
must have a thin skin
hiding away
on their keyboard
of sadness...
You weasels
must be really great artists
to judge Kilbey.
You snails should sleep shallow
well tonight...
Knowing that the shark
of true self...
of thought might
dissolve you...
You bitter
anon bastards.
(yet not all anon...)
Best to you Dr. K
as I daze along into-midnight...
J.
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