EUGENE CHADBOURNE & JIMMY CARL BLACK - THE JACK AND JIM SHOW - THE REFLECTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF JIMI HENDRIX

• Eugene Chadbourne & Jimmy Carl Black: The Jack And Jim Show - The Reflections And Experiences Of Jimi Hendrix
      (20??, cdr, Germany, inkanish records)

I recently came across this re-issue of "The Reflections And Experiences Of Jimi Hendrix".
The original 2001 release, also released on Jimmy Carl Black's DIY Inkanish Records label, had Eugene, Jimmy Carl and Black Paddy on the album cover.
I don't know when this re-issue got released or even if there are other versions out there, but I'm glad I found it.

Eugene Chadbourne and Jimmy Carl Black plus Pat ‘Black Paddy’ Thomas (piano) did a Jimi Hendrix tribute show on October 26, 2001 in Emilia, Italy.
The album presented Zappa’s ‘Hey Punk’ mixed with Hendrix’ ‘Hey Joe’ as FZ took the chords of Jimi’s song as inspiration.

 Here's what the duo looked and sounded like in 1995:

BOOGIE STUFF - HAVE MERCY!

• Boogie Stuff: Have Mercy
      (2004, cd, Germany, sky records)

Another nice find.
German band Boogie Stuff released "Have Mercy!" in 2004.
The album presented 15 tracks and featured Jimmy Carl Black doing vocals on three (live) tracks:

• The Indian Of The Group
• Who Did You Love
• Black Limousine

Boogie Stuff is a great blues band. Jimmy Carl Black's guest appearance is the icing on the cake.

Here's 'Black Limousine' !

THE GRANDMOTHERS PROMO BOOKLET

I recently came across this promo booklet for The Grandmothers.
It's about Jimmy Carl Black's The Grandmothers, with whom he recorded "Dreams On Long Play".
The 20-page (plastic ring binder) booklet was probably released around 1990.
It presented a picture of the band and a set of articles, all xeroxed.

THE GRANDMOTHES - THE WEASELS SESSIONS '93

• The Grandmothers: The Weasels Sessions '93
      (2026, download / streaming, --, digital music platforms / muffin records productions)

Featuring Jimmy Carl Black, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Roland St Germain, Linda Valdmots, Ener Bladezipper and Sandro Oliva !

1. Progress
2. The Quartet
3. Prelude to the Eric Dolphy Memorial BBQ (Live)
4. I Can't Breath
5. '59 Chevrolet
6. Chest Pain
7. The Austin Chronicle
8. Lady Queen Bee
9. Primal Jazz (Live)
10. Soft Construction with Sharp Interlude (Live)
11. Be All You Can Be
12. Silicone Hump
13. Where Were You (Live)
14. King of My Castle
15. Transitions
16. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body (Excerpt)
17. My Car
18. Idiot
19. Do You Think My Pants Are Too Tight (Live)
20. Let the Good Times Roll
21. The Eternal Question (Live)
22. Trouble Every Day (Live)
23. Plastic People (Live)
24. Primorial (Hingshammer Version)

Excellent news !!
Check out your digital music platforms for this release !!

EUGENE CHADBOURNE & JIMMY CARL BLACK - THE JACK AND JIM SHOW - JACK AND JIM PLAY THE MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA

• Eugene Chadbourne & Jimmy Carl Black:
  The Jack And Jim Show – Jack And Jim Play The Music Of Frank Zappa
      (2002, cdr, Germany, inkanish records)

I somehow missed this when it got released back in 2002. Glad to have found a copy.

“Jack And Jim Play The Music Of Frank Zappa” was the third release in a series of tributes by Jack and Jim.
The first one was “Pachuco Cadaver”, the tribute to Captain Beefheart, and the second one was “Reflections And Experiences Of Jimi Hendrix”.

[1] from the “The Taste Of The Leftovers” CD,
recorded in Italy and Slovenia in 1995, feat. Sandro Oliva.
[2] from the “Uncle Jimmy’s Master Plan” CD
recorded during 1994-95
[3] from the “The Early Years” CD
[4] from the “Pachuco Cadaver” CD

01. I’m Not Satisfied [1]
02. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama [3]
03. Mom And Dad [2]
04. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance [2]
05. Love Of My Life [1]
06. Concentration Moon [2]
07. Lonesome Cowboy Burt [3]
08. Willie The Pimp [4]
09. Trouble Coming Every Day/ Oh No! [3]
10. How Could I Be Such A Fool [1]
11. Help, I’m A Rock [1]

GERONIMO BLACK - GERONIMO BLACK

Somewhere in the early seventies, Jimmy Carl Black and some his friends put together a band called Geronimo Black.
They released a first album in 1972. An eponymous album. It got a worldwide release.
The band featured Denny Walley, Bunk Gardner, Tjay Contrelli, Tom Leavy, Andy Cahan and, of course, Jimmy Carl Black.
A very fine album indeed.

In 1995, One Way Records released the album on CD.

But Jimmy Carl Black also released the album as a CDR on his private Inkanish record label. 

The below album cover is taken from the copy I brought home from Zappanale.
It's a later Inkanish edition than the release mentioned on discogs as the label of the CDR has the album cover printed on it.

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JIMMY CARL BLACK'S INKANISH RECORDS LABEL

Over the years, I've acquired quite a few of the Jimmy Carl Black albums that he released on CDR on his Inkanish Records label. All of these found their way into The Others Of Invention book series from a couple of years ago.
And I even found a handful of 'new' ones last year, at Zappanale. Some were titles that I knew, but with different artwork, plus a couple that were actually new to me.

In the meantime, they're becoming relatively old, so some of these can't be played anymore. Like the two shown below.

• various artists: inkanish records presents a tasty little sampler
      (????, cdr, Germany, private release / inkanish records)   

• eugene chadbourne & jimmy carl black: the jack and jim show - uncle jimmy's master plan
      (????, cdr, Germany, private release / inkanish records) 
  = also issued by Eugene Chadbourne

Anyway, if you have any info on the different Inkanish releases that got issued, or on the year they got released, please let me know.

 

BLACK BROWN STONE - RADIO ONE "CUCAMONGA"

• black brown stone: radio one cucamonga for belgian national radio
      (2008 (2008, cdr, Germany, inkanish / private release)

Recorded in 2006 by Jimmy Carl Black, Steven De Bruyn and Jos Steen, and produced by Zjakki Willems for the Belgian Cucamonga radio show, the recordings got released by Jos Steen on his Soj Neets label in 2007.
Jimmy Carl Black released the recordings on his Inkanish label in 2008.
At least two different album covers were used by Jimmy Carl Black. I found this second version last year.

The (excellent) album includes the trio performing FZ's 'Willie The Pimp'.

THE GRANDMOTHERS - THE EU GRANDMOTHERS FEATURING CANDY ZAPPA

• The Grandmothers: The EU Grandmothers Featuring Candy Zappa
      (2002, cdr, Germany, inkanish records)

Jimmy Carl Black issued quite a number of CDR albums on his Inkanish Records label between 2000 and 2008.
I had never seen the above pictured one until I picked up a used copy at Zappanale last year.

Subtitled “Promo CD For The 2002 Tour”, this album was a compilation that presented material from The Grandmothers’ “Eating The Astoria” and Nigey Lennon’s “Reinventing The Wheel” albums.

 
The band called themselves The EU Grandmothers and featured Jimmy Carl Black and Sandro Oliva. At the same time, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Roy Estrada and Napoleon Murphy Brock presented themselves as the Grandmothers Re:Invented...

To make things even more confusing, the material that was taken from the "Eating At The Astoria" album and that is presented on this disc, featured Jimmy Carl, Sandro, Don & Bunk...

1. Grandmothers Introduction
2. Peaches En Regalia
3. Call Any Vegetable
4. Any Way The Wind Blows
5. Lady Queen Be (J.C. Black)
6. Messin' In The Kitchen (N. Lennon)
7. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
8. Big Leg Emma
9. Yer Wife Don't Like Me (N. Lennon)
10. Brown Shoes Don’t Make It
11. Junk Food (S. Oliva) / Mr. Green Genes / Junk Food (reprise) (S. Oliva)
12. Uncle Meat

EUGENE CHADBOURNE & JIMMY CARL BLACK

Eugene Chadbourne is a DIY (Do It Yourself) artist.
He releases his music on CDRs that he packs in old used record sleeves or other cardboard material, and distributes these during concerts (and through his webshop).

Browsing his webshop, I came across an album I hadn't heard of previously.
"Horror Part 9" (actually the ninth volume in his "Horror" series), featuring Jimmy Carl Black.

The Horror Part Nine Band was an ensemble created for a special event in a year when I had “carte blanche” at the Vandouevre-based Action! festival. As such, the ninth volume in the series began its life as a stage performance that would have been best documented on film. The sound recording of the event originally was available only to punters purchasing the Horror Box Set and was not available individually. In the first of three acts Jimmy Carl Black recites Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, act two pays tribute to a creepy monster created by my oldest brother that I call the Hopping Fiend. In the final act Ray Dennis Steckler’s concept of monsters attacking a movie theatre audience was revisited on the French audience…

Dr. Chad's webshop :
https://eugenechadbourne-documentation.squarespace.com/

JIMMY CARL BLACK - FEB 1, 1938 - NOV 1, 2008

a tribute to Jimmy Carl Black
by The Muffin Men feat. David Morley Hale
from a couple of years ago.

 

RECENT RELEASES BY EUGENE CHADBOURNE

A couple of months ago, I ordered a couple of Eugene Chadbourne's latest releases.

Not only has Eugene Chadbourne a very specific and unique style of playing and performing, he's also an accomplished D.I.Y. (do it yourself) artist, producing his albums on CDR, packed in all sorts of paper work (from photocopied papers to reworked old cardboard vinyl covers) and distributing these from his home office or during his concerts.

His output is quite impressive and hard to follow, but I do try to keep track as he did tour with Jimmy Carl Black as 'The Jack And Jim Show" quite some years ago, and he's also known to play a lot of cover versions including tunes by my favorite artists.

• eugene chadbourne and jimmy carl black: the jack and jim show: zappa day
      (2020, cdr, usa, chadula / private release ) 

Recorded during Jack and Jim’s final tour in Japan in 2008, at the Pit Inn club in Tokyo, Japan. Featuring Eugene Chadbourne on banjo, guitar, vocals and rake, and Jimmy Carl Black on drums and vocals, "Zappa Day" presented an (almost) all-Zappa set.

• eugene chadbourne: the dust blows forward
      (2021, cdr, usa, chadula / private release) 

Part one of two, "The Dust Blows Forward", and including the Captain Beefheart piece with the same name. Featuring Schroeder and Jan Fitsen on a couple of tracks...

• eugene chadbourne: the dust blows back
      (2021, cdr, usa, chadula / private release)

Part two of Two, "The Dust Blows Back", including another version of the same Captain Beefheart tune.
It also includes two Frank Zappa pieces, featuring Jimmy Carl Black.

https://eugenechadbourne.com/

MONSTRE / EUGENE CHADBOURNE / JIMMY CARL BLACK - THE CHAD BLACK MONSTER SHOW

• monstre / eugene chadbourne / jimmy carl black: the chad black monster show
      (2007, cdr, france, l'eglise de la petite folie)

French improvised music ensemble Monstre teamed up with Eugene Chadbourne and Jimmy Carl Black at the Festival Invisible in April 2006. A recording of the concert got released on CDR. It was also made available through Bandcamp.

I just love this kind of stuff.

You can check it out here :

JIMMY CARL BLACK

I've updated the Jimmy Carl Black discography a bit.
Added info for :

SANDRO OLIVA - CICCIO / SAUNA

• sandro oliva: ciccio / sauna
      (1998, cdr, italy, private release)

I recently got hold of this 2 track promotional CDR single by Sandro Oliva.
The liner notes say 'Both songs are alternate mixes of the ones included in the "Heavy Lightnings" CD.

As far as I know, "Heavy Lightnings" got released in 2004 and it didn't include any of those two tracks. But then again, maybe there was an earlier version of "Heavy Lightnings" that I still need to discover.
'Ciccio' and 'Sauna'. Two fine zappa-eque tracks that feature none other than Jimmy Carl Black on percussion.
Nice.

Sandro Oliva for those of you who might not know him, toured and recorded with Jimmy Carl Black, Don Preston and Bunk Gardner as The Grandmothers, but he also released some great music before and after that.
He also played a memorable concert at Zappanale (with Tim op het Broek on vocals). Who remembers that ?

GERONIMO BLACK

From Glass Onyon PR

Geronimo Black “Freak Out Phantasia” Features Previously Unreleased Live and Studio Sessions Now Available on Vinyl/CD

These previously unreleased live and studio sessions are a loose exercise in spontaneity, and sheer art, which has been lost in the mists of time. Geronimo Black, a truly underrated band from Los Angeles, had existed long before its self-titled debut album released officially by UNI Records in February 1972.

Composer, arranger, keyboard player, and founding member Andy Cahan, was also part of Dr John's band at the time. Despite the fact that nearly all his players were part of the busy schedule of the evolving Frank Zappa's band Mothers Of Invention, Cahan attests that, “it was a real band with every intention of getting a record deal. Of course, since Jimmy Carl Black, Ray Collins and Bunk Gardner were from Zappa's original band, that was a big selling point to record companies.”

Talking about the songs on “Freak Out Phantasia” release, which preceded the first official album, Andy mentions that The Beatles were his main influence. Also, he name checks other luminaries such as The Zombies, Kinks, Lovin' Spoonful, Hendrix, Cream, Dave Clark Five, and The Beau Brummels. The live output found on this release is part of their non-stop gigging system. It's worth pointing out that around that time, they were playing gigs with The Eagles, Delaney and Bonnie, The Byrds, Eric Burdon, Joe Cocker, Ike and Tina Turner, The Standells, Canned Heat, Southwind, Taj Mahal, Little Feat, and many others.

Some songs herein included were recorded in a prison. Even doing very well on their live adventures, in terms of breaking through in sales, Geronimo Black never had the same lucky destiny of many of their Californian contemporaries. Signing a record deal with Uni Records around Christmas time, they were essentially deemed a tax right-off and were billed thousands of dollars on no income.

Back to the present, some highlights of Munster Records' compilation include “Topanga Canyon People” and “Ooh Poo Pah Doo” (both live recordings showing their total intensity and stoned freak-out atmosphere, recalling Zappa's sound, which obviously they were part of). “Let Us Live” is a superb song, with a bluesy-pop-twisted Southern rock vibe. An alternate version of “Siesta” is another key song, and in some ways resembles “Flute Thing,” a classic instrumental by The Blues Project. Now it is time to enjoy these recordings because they “reveal the raw passion and excitement we had on stage,” as Andy concludes. Includes CD with four bonus tracks.

GERONIMO BLACK

Soon to be released on the Munster Records label :

http://munster-records.com/en/label/munster/product/freak-out-phantasia

Jimmy Carl Black, Andy Cahan, Ray Collins and Bunk Gardner

JON LARSEN - PORTRAIT OF JON LARSEN

• jon larsen: a portrait of jon larsen
      (2010, cd, norway, zonic entertainment)

Jon Larsen released this compilation album on his Zonic Entertainment label in 2010. It includes 6 tracks from his 2007 "Strange News From Mars" album, featuring Tommy Mars, Arthur Barrow, Jimmy Carl Black and Bruce Fowler !!

GERONIMO (FLASH)BLACK

The first track on the Geronimo Black album : 'Low Ridin' Man', plus track 8, 'Gone'.
Love it.
Jimmy Carl Black, Bunk Gardner, Denny Walley, Tom Leavy, Andy Cahan, Tjay Contrelli.

BUNK GARDNER - BUNKMANIA

• bunk gardner: bunkmania
      (2018, cd, usa, private release)

Bunk Gardner joined The Mothers Of Invention in early 1967. Before that happened, he had already participated in the recording of "Themes From The Hip" by the Bud Wattles Orchestra.
After his years with The Mothers, Bunk formed Menage A Trois with his brother Buzz and with John Balkin, and he recorded with Geronimo Black.
Bunk did keep on playing Zappa's music as part of The Grandmothers and with Don Preston as The Don And Bunk Show.
"Bunkmania" collects material from all of these sessions.
In super-fine quality.
Personally, I'm very happy with the Menage A Trois material that can be found on this album.

Beautiful album in a fine digipack.
Essential if you want to know what one of your Grandmothers' career was all about.