Mark Landsman's 83' "Thunder Soul" documentary on Houston's Kashmere Stage Band (as produced by Jamie Foxx, 2010) isn't featured on Now-Again's 2cd + 1dvd package (NA-5085, 2011). But it does feature there's a 12' making of, footage of a 3' live version of "Makin' whoopee" (1972) and a 27' documentary by Charles Porter (1973 - check the KSB on holiday in Paris, Brussels, Louvain, Waterloo, Breda and Bonn). It's a mighty package with a 40 page booklet to boot … but it has only one flaw: there's no song author credits, making it difficult to find out which tracks are KSB originals and which are cover versions. Speaking of which: expect more "Shaft" covers in a future post + find a free download of Egon's extended edit of James Brown's "Super bad" (as featured on the 2005 US - but not Jazzman's 2002 UK - edition of "Texas Funk: Black Gold From The Lone Star State 1968-1975" v/a cd) via the Now-Again site:
http://www.nowagainrecords.com/tag/kashmere-stage-band/  [5 pages!]
http://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2010-03-12/977581/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5599377
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/23/140539483/thunder-soul-70s-sensation-dusts-off-its-groove
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/28/140891879/summer-school-funk-five-tracks-out-of-1970s-houston
http://www.filmindependent.org/news-and-blog/mark-landsman-on-his-influences-and-thunder-soul/
http://edendale.typepad.com/weblog/2010/03/sxsw-2010-mark-landsmans-thunder-soul.html
http://stonesthrow.com/news/2011/06/kashmere-stage-band-thunder-soul-official-movie-trailer
http://www.indiewire.com/article/toolkit-case-study-the-long-road-of-thunder-soul
http://www.indiewire.com/article/interview_thunder_soul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmere_Stage_Band
http://funky16corners.lunarpages.net/?p=2009
http://stonesthrow.com/funky16/kash.html
http://thundersoulmovie.com/
http://kashmere.org/

Hard to find info on Dave Hamilton on the web that isn't already on Ace's site - or picked from the booklets to their releases ...
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=8719
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=7331
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=4653
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=4747
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=1033
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=1012

An excerpt from Jean-Christophe Averty's chroma key masterpiece "Melody" (1971, here in its entirety) which will be screened at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille (France) on 2011-10-04 alongside other extraits … Dixit Richard Metzger: "what is little known, even to fans of the album, is "Melody", the half hour, shot on videotape visualization of the album, created by Gainsbourg and director Jean-Christophe Averty and starring himself and Jane Birkin. It was included in the career-spanning Gainsbourg 2dvd box set "Serge Gainsbourg: d’autres nouvelles des etoiles" that came out in 2005." Incidentally, the two instrumental versions below are from 2011's Gainsbox … Hey and let's not forget Jean-Claude Vannier's important involvement either!
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Christophe_Averty
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_de_Melody_Nelson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_de_Melody_Nelson
http://www.heure-exquise.org/actualites_fiche.php?id=52
http://www.disvoir.com/fr/fo/a/82.html  (ISBN 2906571199)
http://www.metacritic.com/music/histoire-de-melody-nelson
http://www.radio-canada.ca/par4/salon/averty_homme.html
http://www.kqek.com/dvd_reviews/m/3391_Melody1971.htm
http://dogmatika.com/dm/features_more.php?id=1675_0_5_31_M
http://www.ina.fr/recherche/recherche?search=Gainsbourg&vue=Audio
http://www.ina.fr/recherche/recherche?search=Gainsbourg&vue=Video
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews24/Serge_Gainsbourg.htm
http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/vingtras/050810/jean-christophe-averty-ever
http://www.discogs.com/Serge-Gainsbourg-DAutres-Nouvelles-Des-Étoiles/release/1932048
http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/melody_a_film_starring_serge_gainsbourg_and_jane_birkin/
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_second_thought/serge-gainsbourg-histoire-de-melody-nelson.htm

RIP Larry Wild Man Fischer ! 1944-11-06 > 2011-06-16.
http://www.markprindle.com/fischer.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Man_Fischer
http://mog.com/DashboardDJ856/blog/2823832
http://www.rhino.com/article/wild-man-fischer-1944-2011
http://php.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/FAQ/fischer.disco.html
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/the-legend-of-wild-man-fischer/417
http://www.cultusonline.be/index.php/muziekartikels/303-how-to-buy-wild-man-fischer.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/arts/music/wild-man-fischer-outsider-musician-dies-at-66.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/wild-man-fischer-outsider-musician-who-was-discovered-by-frank-zappa-but-could-never-transcend-his-psychiatric-disorders-2318335.html
http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/the_fischer_king_rip_larry_wildman_fischer/
http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-larry-wild-man-fischer,57809/
http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=W
http://www.rhino.com/artist/Wild-Man-Fischer
http://www.derailroaded.com/

Goodbye Alphonso Mizell (1943-01-15 > 2011-07-11) … now truly sky high … Thank you for funkin' up our lives, Fonce!
http://www.themizellbrothers.tk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizell_Brothers
http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Mizell%20Brothers.html
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/video-archive/lectures/uidcall/337/
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/07/rip_alphonso_fonce_mizell.php
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/genre/randb-hip-hop/alphonso-fonce-mizell-of-the-mizell-brothers-1005271092.story

Kinda klumsy, I'll admit, how some of us are voicing our distress at the Fukushima tragedy by posting this Kraftwerk song, isn't it … To me, Hikasu's is the most appropriate cover version today. (Meanwhile, I really hope the use of sayonara will stay scarce, even though we may have strong feelings that some government officials and Tepco / Tokyo Electric Power Co. should resign some time soon … Somehow I'm confident they won't hala-kiwi themselves in the plant to make up for their mistakes. I do hope they'll have to answer to the people of Japan for their fatal lack of judgement.) [Tnx OD + bonus.]

The bitter wailings of the master of regret: Michael Chapman … Since discovering Chapman's music around 1986, I've never taken those people seriously who find Leonard Cohen's music depressing. (Cohen has tremendous wit, actually.) Michael Chapman (do not confuse him with Family's Roger Chapman) has worked with Ronson, Dunbar, Buckmaster … and has recorded his best work for Harvest. After reissues by BGO, C5, Repertoire and See for Miles, the San Francisco label Light in the Attic is the latest to rerelease him. They're starting with his second album "Fully Qualified Survivor" (1970). Hopefully, "Rainmaker" (1969), "Window" (1971) and "Wrecked Again" (1971) will follow, and "Millstone Grit" (Deram 1973), "Deal Gone Down" (Deram 1974) and some of his lesser known later work (on Decca and beyond) as well. (Meanwhile, Chapman has released twenty-six solo guitar versions of tunes spanning his entire career via the "Trainsong: Guitar Compositions 1967-2010" 2cd on Tompkins Square - whose site fails to state the cat. no. or barcode of their release, sadly.)