BP Fallon

Duck Dunn – Booker T & The MGs brilliant bassplayer – died in his sleep in Tokyo earlier today. He was 70.

Booker T & The MGs – Al Jackson Jr, Booker T Jones, Duck Dunn, Steve Cropper

Writes BP Fallon:
“I last saw Duck Dunn when Booker T & The MGs backed Neil Young at Finsbury Park in London in 1993. To stand there at the side of the stage and watch Neil and his harmonica splendidly croak and wheeze through Dock Of The Bay backed by Booker T Jones on organ, Steve Cropper on guitar and Duck Dunn on bass – who’d all played on Otis Redding’s sublime Stax Records original written by Redding/Cropper – these guys joined by Jim Keltner on drums who was ably filling the huge hole left by the murder of MGs drummer Al Jackson Jr in 1975… well, this was magic, Neil Young out front thrilled and honoured to have these legendary and lyrical Memphis musicians as his partners in rhythm and rhyme, Booker T’s organ swirling, Cropper’s guitar delicate, Duck Dunn’s bass pumping and throbbing, the very heartbeat of soul. So special. God bless you, Duck Dunn”.

Booker T & The MGs – Green Onions

Neil Young & Booker T & The MGs – Dock Of The Bay

Neil Young & Duck Dunn, Finsbury Park, London 1993 by Jimmy Newark

Booker T & The MGs – Green Onions LP cover

Wang Dang Doodle Band Of The Week – from San Francisco
– The Mickey Hart Band

00:00 BP Fallon & Vanessa 4 play
00:24 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:34 Let There Be Light – The Mickey Hart Band
04:42 Slow Joe Rain – The Mickey Hart Band
09:37 BP verbal
10:16 This One Hour – The Mickey Hart Band
18:24 End Of The Century – Royal Trux
25:19 Window Shopping – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
29:45 Money – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
33:01 Cut The Deck – The Mickey Hart Band
40:18 BP Fallon The High Priest Of Happiness
41:07 Peace In The Valley – The Rev Lonnie Ferris
43:35 Psyched Out And Furious – The Flaming Sideburns
47:44 Skunk (Sonically Speaking) – The MC5
51:52 Drop The Needle – Black Pistol Fire
53:49 Beelzebub – Black Pistol Fire
55:51 Starlight Starbright – The Mickey Hart Band
62:41 BP a bientot
64:12 Through Endless Skies – The Mickey Hart Band
71:24 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Hear here!
Wang Dang Doodle featuring The Mickey Hart Band, on BTR

Black Pistol Fire

The MC5 – their 1st LP

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

The Flaming Sideburns – Back To The Grave

Royal Trux

“Angels flying too close to the ground…”
by & © BP Fallon

Wang Dang Doodle Artists Of The Week – from Detroit roots
– Andre Williams & The Sadies

00:00 BP Fallon hears that train a-comin’
00:12 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:22 I Gotta Get Shorty Out Of Jail – Andre Williams & The Sadies
03:55 Your Old Lady – Andre Williams & The Sadies
06:46 Hear Ya Dance – Andre Williams & The New Orleans Hellhounds
11:23 BP Fallon Hound Dog Man
12:17 Love Interruption – Jack White
14:47 Fly Farm Blues – Jack White
18:01 The Seventy Year Old – Andre Williams & The Sadies
19:42 Here Be Monsters – Tieranniesaur
25:14 More Than Your Mouth Can Hold – Silverhead
28:35 Hello New York – Silverhead
31:50 What New York Used To Be – The Kills
35:01 Geronimo – BP Fallon
35:13 Junkie Youth Blues #33 – The Fuzz
38:34 Talkin’ Bobby Dale’s Hard Luck Blues – Jesse Dayton
43:58 Chasing Dragons – Gemma Hayes
47:45 BP verbal
49:19 One-Eyed Jack – Andre Williams & The Sadies
53:05 Used To Call Me Baby – Split Lip Rayfield
56:21 The Rockier Road To Poland – Shane MacGowan & The Aftermath & Heavy Friends
59:52 BP au revoir over the rainbow
60:51 Don’t Take It – – Andre Williams & The Sadies
62:09 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Hear here!
Wang Dang Doodle featuring Andre Williams & The Sadies, on BTR

Andre Williams & The New Orleans Hellhounds

Annie Tierney of Tieranniesaur & BP Fallon & Bob Geldof
by & © lib-lab

The Fuzz

BP Fallon & Shane MacGowan by Joey Cashman

Jesse Dayton & BP Fallon & Michael Des Barres & Danny B. Harvey
& Jimmy Quill at Red Horse Ranch, Texas by & © Little Deb

Bandits! BP Fallon & Clem Burke at Red Horse Ranch, Texas
by & © Glen Brown

BP Fallon by Mike Bogart/Milk

BP Fallon will be DJing as part of The Coachella Festival festivities in Palm Springs this weekend – at the Electric Room/Milk Studios pop-up aka Electric Milk at The Riviera Palm Springs Hotel, 1600 N Indian Canyon Drive – presented by Nur Khan and Mazdack Rassi.

The rock’n'roll legend will also be at the Rolling Stone Rock Room at The Riviera where he’ll be joined by New York DJs David Katz and Cash plus The Cosmic Kids, with additional appearances by surprise guests who can’t be named for contractual reasons.

Rolling Stone Magazine – Rolling Stone Rock Room returns to Coachella

Festivalgoers can RSVP to rsrsvp@rollingstone.com Entry is first come first served and RSVP does not guarantee entry.

As foreplay to the Coachella parties, BP DJed in Hollywood at The Writer’s Room:

“The line was out the backdoor as the infamous BP Fallon spun records to the delight of everyone who could get in…”

Read the whole review and see more pix on Milk Made

BP Fallon and wild camera in fashionable Hollywood by Milk

Wang Dang Doodle Artist Of The Week – from London
– Steve Marriott 21 Years Gone But Not Gone

Steve Marriott Jan 30th 1947 – April 20th 1991 RIP

00:00 Hi And Happy – BP & Tara & Ashley 4 play
00:21 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:31 High And Happy – Steve Marriott
03:05 Love Interruption – Jack White
05:36 The Kids Don’t Dance – The Happen Ins
09:30 American Beat – The Head Cat
11:07 BP verbal
12:34 Louisiana Blues – Steve Marriott
16:16 You’re Not The Only One – Black Pistol Fire
20:00 Love Is Dead – Kopek
23:58 Street Rat – Steve Marriott
26:39 BP rabbit
27:36 Bluegrass Interval – Steve Marriott
31:33 Never Say Never – Ian McLagan & Patty Griffin
34:58 New Year’s Eve – Tom Waits
39:22 New Year’s Eve At The Gates Of Hell – Ray Wylie Hubbard
42:44 Gramophone
42:51 Mother Blues – Ray Wylie Hubbard
48:43 The Eagle Flies On Friday – The Head Cat
52:00 Hambone – Steve Marriott
54:44 BP au revoir
56:17 Lord Let Me Hold Out – Steve Marriott
59:40 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Hear here!
Wang Dang Doodle featuring Steve Marriott 21 Years RIP, on BTR

Small Faces – Steve Marriott & Kenney Jones & Ian McLagan & Ronnie Lane

Steve Marriott in the Small Faces

Ronnie & Steve, bless ‘em both

Ian McLagan

Black Pistol Fire

The Happen Ins by & © Alexandra Valenti

The sound of music…

Tara & Ashley by & © BP Fallon

And!

Small Faces & Stanley Unwin – Happy Days Toytown – the joy of life

Humble Pie with The Blackberries – Black Coffee – Steve Marriott mindblowing black vocal in this raw celebration of the joy of music

God bless you, Steve x

Levon Helm May 26th 1940 – April 19th 2012

So Levon has left the building.

God, Levon you were great. That voice that carried the soil of Arkansas in its soul. That perfect unhurried drumming. That mandolin dancing in your hands.

Ah, The Band. Three superb frontline singers, all gone now – Rick Danko and Richard Manuel and in this extraordinary triad the most memorable vocalist Levon Helm, hunched behind the drum kit and leaning into the mic and singing of an America long gone and maybe never born.

Levon Helm – you had dignity and authenticity and you made me dance.

“I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin’ about half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head…”

You can now, Levon. Thank you sir and Godspeed.

-BPF, Laurel Canyon, April 20th 2012

The Band & The Staple Singers – The Weight from The Last Waltz

The Band – Up On Cripple Creek from The Last Waltz

Bob Dylan & The Band LA 1974 – Robbie Robertson, Bob, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Levon Helm. Garth Hudson not visible – unless that’s his silhouette

Bob Dylan has posted this message on his website bobdylan.com
“In response to Levon’s passing…

“He was my bosom buddy friend to the end, one of the last true great spirits of my or any other generation. This is just so sad to talk about. I still can remember the first day I met him and the last day I saw him. We go back pretty far and had been through some trials together. I’m going to miss him, as I’m sure a whole lot of others will too”

Bob & Levon enjoying a spot of ping pong – as one does – in 1974

BP Fallon by lib-lab

BP Fallon makes a rare live DJ appearance tonight when he spins at Nur Khan and Mazdack Rassi’s Electric Milk party at Writers Room, 6685 Hollywood Blvd – alley behind Musso And Frank’s off Hollywood Blvd between Las Palmas and Cherokee.

With so many people in LA – musicians, fans and benign lunatics – awaiting next weekend’s second installment of The Coachella Festival, Electric Milk will throw a party each night at Writer’s Room before returning to Coachella for more Electric Milk fun and frolics there.

BP will also be DJing at the Electric Milk Coachella parties.

Wang Dang Doodle Artist Of The Week – from Austin
– Danny B. Harvey

00:00 BP Fallon blessings to Barney McKenna
00:45 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:55 American Beat – The Head Cat w/ Danny B. Harvey & Lemmy & Slim Jim Phantom
02:32 Pure White Cadillac – Big Rig Jacknife Rock w/ Danny B. Harvey (gtr) & Jimmy Quill (lead vox)
06:52 Detroit City – Drivin N Cryin
11:20 Katie Callous – The Mexanines
14:15 BP verbal
15:11 (Let’s Go) Psycho – Danny B. Harvey & Brigette Handley
18:06 Tip It Over – Little Barrie
23:26 Mother Blues – Ray Wylie Hubbard
29:16 Shining Star – Henry McCullough
34:26 If I Lay Down In The River – Deadman
37:57 BP rabbit
39:09 Movin’ On – Danny B. Harvey
42:21 The Devil’s Guitar – Pete Holidai
45:08 Nailgun – Boom Chick
46:36 Cryin’ Rooster – Boom Chick
49:03 One More Way Of Moving On – The Sweet Nuthin
52:37 Eagle Flies On Friday – The Head Cat w/ Danny B. Harvey & Lemmy & Slim Jim Phantom
55:55 BP au revoir
57:08 All Night Truckstop – Danny B. Harvey w/ b/vs Danny B. & Jimmy Quill
60:39 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling

Hear here!
Wang Dang Doodle featuring Danny B. Harvey, on BTR

The Head Cat – Lemmy & Danny B. Harvey & Slim Jim Phantom

Danny B. Harvey & Lemmy (Note Marshall equipment)

BP Fallon & The Twenty Flight Rockers – Michael Des Barres
(Silverhead) & BPF & Danny B. Harvey & James Intveld (drums;
guitar w/ John Fogerty band) & Nigel Harrison (Silverhead/
Blondie/Iggy’s band/BP Fallon & The Bandits)
Photography by & © Christopher Durst

Danny B. Harvey & Slash

Danny B. Harvey & Wanda Jackson

Wanda Jackson & Danny B. Harvey

Lemmy & Wanda & Danny B.

The Head Cat – Danny B. Harvey & Lemmy & Slim Jim Phantom

Jesse Dayton & BP Fallon & Michael Des Barres & Danny B. Harvey
& Jimmy Quill at Red Horse Ranch, TX by Little Deb

Danny B. Harvey plectrum

And!

Danny B. Harvey guitaring wild at Red Horse Ranch in Texas with BP Fallon & The Twenty Flight Rockers – Van And Gloria

Barney McKenna – I wish I had someone to love me

Barney McKenna December 16th 1939 – April 5th 2012
God Bless you, Barney. A beautiful man, one of the greats. Thank you.
Love you, Barney x

The Dubliners – God Bless Ciaran Burke, Barney McKenna, Luke Kelly and Ronnie Drew. Keep her going, John Sheahan x

BP Fallon & Matilda by Glen Brown

“Right, that was good!”. Filmed at Jimmy Quill and Harper’s party at their Red Horse Ranch in Texas by Brian McDermott

Blueswailin’! Matilda serenades BP, Glen Brown photographs

And because she’s in the video too – Brittany Clay by BPF x