00:00 BPF & Girls Together Outrageously
00:21 Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:31 Yourself – Saint Lips
03:13 Coming Down – The BellRays
06:09 U. R. A. Fever – The Kills
08:22 BP verbal
08:50 Losin’ Control – Saint Lips
12:20 Asahara’s Nightmare – Cheap Freaks
14:59 I Heard Wonders – David Holmes
20:26 Crown Of Age – The Ettes
22:37 BP rabbit
23:17 Louisiana Blues – Steve Marriott
26:59 Lend Us A Quid – Steve Marriott
30:51 Bluegrass Interval – Steve Marriott
34:08 BP mouth
34:34 Little Sister – Saint Lips
38:03 Surf Solar – Fuck Buttons
48:35 Electric Landlady – Kila
53:12 Emer’s Dream – Colm Mac Con Iomaire
56:17 BP bows to the universe
57:07 Summer Rain - Saint Lips
61:18 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling
00:00 BP Fallon opens the door
00:05 BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle – The Blind Boys Of Alabama
00:18 Hei Nah Lah – The Asteroid #4
05:24 BP verbal
06:34 Hands Together – Global Sound Lodge w/ lead guitar by Slash
10:42 Dead Mantra – The Dead Skeletons
19:12 All I Want – Sunsplit
21:40 BP rabbit
23:00 Neda (unfinished) – Global Sound Lodge
29:57 Down By The Sea – Wooden Shjips
40:47 BP mouth
41:17 The Ballad Of Sam And Ester (unfinished) – Global Sound Lodge
45:37 The Ballad Of Sarah And Jack – David Holmes
50:01 The Ballad Of Sallie Mae – Tall Tall Trees
54:14 BP blessings
55:13 A Love Supreme (unfinished) – Global Sound Lodge
60:43 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling
February 12th 1970 saw BBC TV’s ‘Top Of The Pops’ first broadcast of the classic performance of ‘Instant Karma’ by John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band with – from left to right – John Lennon [vocals & piano], Yoko Ono [knitting & Kotex eyewear], the Beatles’ road manager Mal Evans [tambourine], BP Fallon [bass guitar & hat], the Apple Records official House Hippy Richard DiLello [camera], Klaus Voorman [bass guitar] and Alan White [drums].
‘Instant Karma’ produced by Phil Spector.
The following week John Lennon was to be heard being interviewed on BBC radio by Emperor Rosko and telling his host “BP Fallon playing the bass guitar, that’s concept art”.
“I can’t play bass” says BP today, laughing, “but it’s better than whacking a tambourine into John’s left ear and almost putting him off his singing”. Which – as our next two pictures show – is what BP did the previous week on the Top Of The Pops of February 5th 1970…
Poets Of Rhythm, Art From The Heart, People For Peace:
Yoko & John with Peter Fallon and Eamon Carr’s Tara Telephone
‘Capella’ publication, the very edition – ‘Capella 3′ – that contained the drawing that John Lennon had done for ‘Capella’ the previous year at his and Yoko’s Amsterdam Bed-In.
‘Capella 3′ cover artwork by Jim Fitzpatrick.
Yoko & John photographed 1970 by Richard DiLello.
Photograph printed 1970 by Pete Saunders for Peter Fallon.
“And we all shine on…”
Photography: A Misfit, a Teddy Bear and flowers, Strawberry Fields Central Park New York City by BP Fallon
00:00 BP Fallon opens the door
00:09 Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:18 We Fall Away – Sunsplit
05:49 Straight Lines – Humanzi
09:01 BP rabbit
09:34 The Stride – Clague
12:06 Strange Locomotion – Siren
14:58 His Guiding Hand – Medicine Head
18:55 BP verbal
19:31 Down By The Sea – Wooden Shjips
30:22 Could Be, Doesn’t Matter – The Heads
34:15 Shorter – Humanzi
41:07 BP mouth
42:02 Black Sunrise – Humanzi
46:44 Genuine – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
50:36 More Mess On My Thing – The Poets Of Rhythm
54:29 BP says it was 40 years ago today
55:05 John Lennon sensibly doesn’t give a fuck
55:09 BP exits stage left, smiling
55:39 Amsterdamaged – Humanzi
59:42 And the jingles jangling go auld triangling
Posted by BP Fallon on Thursday Feb 11, 2010 Under BP Fallon
eBay has revealed this little bargain:
BP Fallon’s ‘Fame #9′ rare white, yellow and black tricolour vinyl 7″ 45 – only 150 of these records were pressed at United Record Pressing in Nashville with 100 sold in person at the Third Man Records store in Nashville at $5 each and 50 of these tricolour singles inserted randomly into world-wide mail-orders…
We’re happy anyway. We wish you the same. Happy everything.
Image: Wax into gold – BPF ‘Fame #9′ rare tricolour vinyl 7″ 45 single.
Image (top): 4 X 4 on Third Man Records – top left clockwise -
Wanda Jackson, BP Fallon, The Black Belles and Carl Sagan.
The original Third Man Records sleeves for Wanda/BP/BBelles:
Photography by Jo McCaughey
We prefer this kind of war, where idiots show themselves to be idiots to everyone but idiots. We salute The White Stripes. War is over if you want it. Rock’n'Roll.
Image: The White Stripes ‘Get Behind Me Satan’ album cover.
Even Meg’s apple can’t tempt Jack from gazing in wonderment at
BP’s single or into space somewhere
00:00 – Dave says “Shut up!” and BP says “Why am I getting echo?”
00:26 – Rock’n'Roll – Led Zeppelin
04:04 – I Wanna Be Your Dog – The Stooges
07:08 – Fallon & Fanning: John Bonham and ‘Starship’ and Ron Asheton
and “the lonely and sad death of Kurt Cobain”
11:50 – The Man Who Sold The World – Nirvana
15:24 – Fallon on Fanning: Courtney in the Hole and Bobby Fuller on fire
18:10 – I Fought The Law – The Bobby Fuller Four
19:21 – I Fought The Law – The Clash
21:54 – Fallon on Fanning: Strummerville and Buddy Holly and King Curtis
24:27 – Reminiscing – Buddy Holly & King Curtis
26:22 – Fallon on Fanning: “The most obnoxious group ever, Queen”
plus Richie Valens and Zeppo and Mrs Valens and Dr John
30:20 – Spanish Stroll – Willie De Ville
32:58 – Fallon & Fanning: Willie De Ville
33:50 – The Wizard – Johnny Thunders w/ BP Fallon (harmonica/vox)
35:36 – Fallon & Fanning: “Hold on a second now!” says Dave and BP talks about Johnny Thunders and Chris Wood of Traffic and Phil Lynott and Steve Marriott
36:19 – Daddy Rolling Stone – Johnny Thunders & Phil Lynott & Steve Marriott plus Steve Jones & Paul Cook
39:17 – Fallon & Fanning & Marc Bolan
41:59 – 21st Century Stance – Marc Bolan & BP Fallon
44:16 – Fallon & Fanning: The Prophecies Of Sages Marc to Jimi to Henry McCullough
47:42 – Red House – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
51:25 – Fever – The Cramps
52:46 – Fallon & Fanning: Lux Interior & Bryan Gregory & Johnny Kidd & Mick Green
54:16 – Shot Of Rhythm’n'Blues – Johnny Kidd & The Pirates w/ Mick Green
55:20 – Fallon & Fanning & John Lennon
56:29 – I Am The Walrus – The Beatles
60:02 – Fallon on Fanning: plane-crashes & murders & “John Lennon and The Beatles changed the world with their attitude” to Michael Jackson RIP at The Apollo in Harlem
62:38 – I Want You Back – The Jackson 5
64:17 – Fallon on Fanning on ‘Death By Doctor’
65:35 – Little Sister (false starts) – Elvis Presley
67:35 – Fallon & Fanning: Elvis & Lady GaGa & ‘I Believe In Elvis Presley’
70:24 – I Believe In Elvis Presley – BP Fallon
BP Fallon’s Wang Dang Doodle with Band Of The Week – from Philadelphia – The Asteroid #4 And! BP Fallon talking to Phil Lynott from ‘The BP Fallon Orchestra’ 1982
The Asteroid #4 ‘These Flowers Of Ours’ album cover
00:00 – BP Fallon announces today’s menu, loosely
00:27 – ‘When in doubt fuck it’ sez John Lennon
00:29 – Ramalama Boogaloo Wang Dang Doodle – Ronnie Drew
00:39 – Hei Na La – The Asteroid #4
05:41 – Flight Of The Feathered Serpent – Fuck Buttons
15:06 – BP verbal
15:13 – War – The Asteroid #4
21:25 – Phantom Limb – Fuck Buttons
26:24 – BP outros & intros
27:23 – BP Fallon talking to Phil Lynott from
‘The BP Fallon Orchestra’ 1982
28:32 – Bad Experience (Live) – Auto Da Fe & Phil Lynott
34:39 – Tribute To Sandy Denny – Phil Lynott & Clann Eadair
38:49 – BP chinwagging
39:30 – Rough Steez – Fuck Buttons
44:12 – Tempomaniac – Bipolar Empire
47:27 – Hold On – The Asteroid #4
52:29 – BP rabbit
52:55 – Where The Hell Is Henry? – Chuck Prophet
55:09 – I Couldn’t Sleep For Thinking Of Hank Williams – Henry McCullough
58:58 – Shining Star – Henry McCullough
64:08 – BP does the ‘I Did It Highway’ boogie, for now
64:58 – I Look Around – The Asteroid #4
68:06 – And the jingles jangling go auld triangling
Photography: BP Fallon & Phil Lynott at ‘Glen Corr’, Howth, Dublin 1982
by Caroline Lynott
Posted by BP Fallon on Tuesday Feb 2, 2010 Under BP Fallon
Photography: BP Fallon and Jack White by Jo McCaughey
at Third Man Records Nashville Tennesee
with wondrous words by Allan Jones Uncut magazine March 2010
