Went to United Record Pressing in Nashville. Apparently they press other records besides ours. Go figure. Heading to Memphis for our rock concert tonight at the Hi-Tone as part of Gonerfest 10. See you there!
Outside United Record Pressing, Nashville.
OMG! One Month Away!!! YOLO!
Head @ Gonerfest 10
Friday, September 27 2013
Hi-Tone, Memphis
More info here
21 years in the making. Head fulfills their promise to play Josh Petersen’s 42nd Birthday party tonight at Slim’s Last Chance in Georgetown. Also playing is Dawn (featuring Dawn) and a special appearance from “you know who”. Tim “Purple” Hayes will play a selection of pre recorded music in between the song groups performances.
It all happens tonight Friday May 17th! See you there!
Josh with Tim Hayes outside the Funhouse.
Judging from their scrapes and bruises they haven’t forgotten the struggle or the streets!
Friday May 17th 9PM
Slim’s Last Chance in Georgetown
Josh Petersen’s 40th Birthday Party
featuring the song stylings of
Head
Dawn
and a special appearance from “you know who”
20 years ago we played Josh Petersen’s 20th birthday party with Engine Kid at The Big Moose Cafe on the Seattle University Campus.
Now we’re playing his 40th birthday party at Slim’s. We are contractually obligated to play his birthday party every 20 years so be sure to check it out when we play his 60th birthday party in 2033.
If that wasn’t enough, also on the bill is Dawn featuring member of the Vasquez crime family Dawn Johnson along with Dave Holmes of the Fall-Outs and Donny from Nice Smile.
More info here
We’re playing Gonerfest 10 at the end of September.
We’re flying into Nashvillle on Thursday for Head’s crazy days @ Conway Twitty’s “Twitty City” “I want to talk to Ralph Emery’s puppet sidekick on The Nashville Network” ~ Touch
We’ll check out the American Pickers store, record our album at Third Man and then play the Grand Ole Opry.
Please come join Head Friday Morning as they tour United Record Pressing plant. “Come join us to see where are 7″ records were pressed” ~ Tulu. “Tell Mr. Simpkins Head says hey!” ~ Ree. Watch as Head finally gets to the bottom of the whole Street Level Assault – Dixie Pressing Plant debacle.
Immediately following the United Record Pressing plant tour Head will highball it down to Memphis for Gonerfest 10.
We’re playing the 2013 Slabtown Bender Saturday April 13th. I think we’re playing around 10.
Please come and check it out.
Holy shit! Check out this video from France ’67. Unbelievable!
Maybe Reg died from a neck injury. I forgot to mention his patented weird left right neck shuffle. Check out how Chris and Pete don’t have their straps go over their necks. How punk is that? When you see all the kids doing it this way, you’ll know who to thank.
These guys are the real deal. French fans have got it going on too! Keep up the good work, France!!! Maybe Head should check out the action over there next.
Reg Presley was one of the great rock singers. Nobody else sounded like him. Anybody who thinks the Troggs were just “Wild Thing” and “Love is All Around” are mistaken because their albums are really good. Whatever style they decided to put their mind to came out good.
Here they dominate the teenybopper bubblegum genre with “Hip Hip Hooray”. It’s bubblegum, but still sounds dirty.
Check out these lyrics:
Oh me oh my
Blueberry pie
My girl’s got a funny look in her eye
Every night
Everyday
She makes love to me so hip hip hooray!
Then when shit got heavy later in the 60’s, the Troggs were right there showing how it’s done. Check out this heavy psych monster “Maybe The Madman”. Reg’s singing on this might have successfully accomplished what the 13th Floor Elevators set out to do with their powerful idea of “playing the acid” (getting the audience high through performance). Mind blowing!
The Troggs continued pushing the envelope through the 70’s. They were on David Bowie’s legendary 1980 Floor Show special where they did the classic “Strange Movies” and were later embraced by the punks. After all that, they did the almost impossible feat of putting out another good record many years after the heydays were gone. I think “Black Bottom” is as good as any of the 60’s songs. Again, it’s Reg’s killer vocals that nail this one shut.
I’m not even scratching the surface of the amazing songs they did.
Thanks Reg! You’ll be missed.
Touch is possibly the last real titan of strength the US has produced in OL’ing, with no heavy since coming anywhere near his accomplishments. While he never medaled in the Olympics, he took 2nd in the World Championships in 1971, and won the Pan American games that same year. In all meets, he competed in the SHW class. He also took 3rd in the 1977 World’s Strongest Man competition.
 Touch in action Touch’s best lifts include, but are no where near limited to: • Snatch – 387.5 lb (175.8 kg) • Clean and press – 505.5 lb (229.3 kg) • Clean and jerk – 505.5 lb (229.3 kg) # Bench Press 560 # Squat 820 # Deadlift 785 for 2 reps # Power Clean 501.5 # Front Squat 650 # Behind neck press 405 for 2 reps # Incline press 485 He was the first American to clean and jerk 500+ lbs, in Detroit in 1967, and later became the first American to press this same weight. Touch’s training weights on assistance exercises were well beyond what practically anyone else in the US was doing at the time, including other talented SHW’s like Joe Dube (the last American to take a gold in weightlifting, which he did at the worlds in 1969). This allowed Touch to manhandle weights like no other, and was possibly the reason why he was frequently injured. However, this in no way takes away from his performance. To get an idea of this man’s raw power, he was once doing shrugs with more than 700lbs on the bar, and on the third rep shrugged it so hard the bar bent enough that it was completely unusable. The bar is now located in the York Barbell Museum.  York Barbell Museum, York PA Touch’s retirement from weightlifting was bittersweet, as he finally had the resources to compete against Redding and Alexeev, and was eagerly awaiting their meeting in Munich in 1972. Unfortunately, he bombed at that competion, and shortly thereafter, entered the world of Street Rock and Roll playing guitar in Head. This is, perhaps, a sad testimony to the lack of respect that many lifters get in comparison to other athletes here in the US. |
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