Advanced Demonology Podcast Lesson 3

This month's lesson: Winter. Here at Advanced Demonology East, we are balls-deep in snow, ice, freezing temperatures and darkness. It's a bizarre, awful, terrible way to live. Swilson got smart and moved to the West Coast. I am not that bright. I don't know what my problem is. And neither did a lot of tonight's performers, as you will soon hear. This episode, we present you with songs about winter, performed by a variety of artists from genes as far ranging as 80's acid punk to  60's soul. We've also got Mexican psychedelic rock, French femme-pop, dusty country, fragile folkies, and of course, all the proto-metal and occult rock you can handle as you favorite sorcerer-slash-broadcasters take you on yet another journey into the darkest corners of rock n' roll.

All this and more in Lesson 3 of Advanced Demonology!

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Stay warm (and evil) out there!

Fink Out!

Tales of the Rat Fink (2006) DVD
Directed by Ron Mann
Starring Rat Fink!
Shout Factory

Fun, eye-opening documentary about Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, creator of Rat Fink and the entire Kustom Kar movement, by junk culture king Ron (Comic Book Confidential) Mann. Brilliantly and subtly animated, using a cartoon Rat Fink as the erstwhile guide, John Goodman's voice as Big Daddy himself, and a variety of celebrity voices (including Jay Leno)  as Roth's many cars, this movie traces Big Daddy's career from his teenage gearhard days to his final years as the undisputed king daddy of customized car creations. Along the way, Roth pioneers just about everything cool about the 50's and 60's, from t-shirts with designs on them (entirely his idea, if the doc has it right), to drag racing and skateboarding, to model monster kits, to using fiberglass to create wild new car shapes, a technique that was later plundered by Detroit with nary a thank you to ol' Ed. It's really hard not to be in awe of the guy, really, even when they show a few of his foibles, including a 'flying' car that lost a propeller during it's first exhibition, nearly decapitating some startled on-lookers. We owe a lot to this guy, that's for sure. Don't expect any dirt, as "Tales" is purely a valentine to the dearly departed big daddy, but even despite it's sweet nature, Tales rocks and rolls along nicely, thanks in no small part to the groovy animation and the tasty soundtrack by the Sadies. Think Fink!

- Ken

A Dystopian Future.... Robots, Apes!!!

Music and Video By Artist and Drummer Seth Meisterman

Jimmy Castor (1947-2012) R.I.P.

Farewell Jimmy Castor, the cosmos just got funkier.

New Episode of Advanced Demonology podcast coming soon!

Swilson and I are cookin' up a brand new show packed with four hours of wintry okkult-rock slabbage that will freeze your blood and blacken your heart!

Source materials this time out: vinyl, reel to reel, 8-track, one Edison tube and an EMF Reader.

So far, it sounds like this:

Stay tuned!

Edgar Broughton Band: ACID ROCK!!!

Hippie Death Goddess (of the Day)

Gunilla Thorn was/is a Swedish pop-singer who recorded a handful of brooding girl-group songs in London (with legendary genius/madman producer Joe Meek!) in the  60's.

So did many young ladies, of course, but none of them had jet back hair, an icy stare, and a name like Gunilla fuckin' Thorn. That name pretty much screams for an umlaut or two.

They didn't usually pose brandishing swords like a black metal moll, either.

Gunilla's recorded legacy is sparse, but well worth the hunt. Check out the great Bubblegum Soup blog for more info!

- Ken