Showing posts with label King Khan and BBQ Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label King Khan and BBQ Show. Show all posts

Friday, August 15, 2008

Doesn't Mean I Didn't Try



Here's a King Khan & BBQ Show live CD that I picked up along the way, and since it's a bootleg, I'm gonna post all ten tracks just for the hell of it. If you want, there's also a couple of videos on this disc that you can find on YouTube.

If you've never checked out The King Khan & BBQ Show live, be prepared for one of the craziest high-energy shows you'll ever see in your life. I saw them towards the end of last year at Cafe Nine in New Haven, one night after a show in NYC that apparently involved fire and lots of broken equipment from all the stories I was hearing (that's on YouTube, also, if you wanna hunt that one down). King Khan wears a dress and a wig and plays lead, while Mark "BBQ" Sultan sits down with a beat-up little National guitar and plays drums with his feet, and not only do they have a million great songs-- if you're at all into the Oblivians - Dirtbombs - "Flies On Sherbert" rockabilly thing then you'll die, trust me-- but their deadpan stage patter is friggin' hilarious.

Like I said, I'm including all ten tracks here (even the :23 long "Death Metal Ending"), which are all very good sound quality; but if you'd rather pick and choose I'd suggest starting with some of the covers first, like the cover of Johnny Thunders' "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory", which is great, along with the Stones' "Out Of Time" and the Circle Jerks' "Operation" (yes!).

If you've never heard The King Khan & BBQ Show before and less-than-pristine live tracks aren't your thing, I'm also including a bit further down some studio tracks from the debut King Khan & BBQ Show LP/CD that first came out around 2005 on Goner and in Europe, which was then was re-issued by In The Red last year.


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The King Khan & BBQ Show -

"Pig Pig"

"Chuck-a-Muck"

"Fish Fight"

"Too Much In Love"

"Operation"

"Death Metal"

"Guess I'm Fallin' In Love"

"Out of Time"

"You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory"

"Death Metal Ending"

(these files are now listen-only)



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"Waddlin Around"

"Shake Real Low"

"Got It Made"

(these files are now listen-only)


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