Thursday, July 12, 2007

A rare underground pic featuring vintage '60s NYC, and one of my all-time fave Donovan tunes

Since I'm on a '60s kick with these latest posts, I link to a wonderful bit of vintage NYC footage from filmmaker Robert Steinbrecher. The film is called "What the hell is this?" and is scored to one of my extreme faves, Donovan's "Epistle to Dippy," a film that sounds extraordinarily trippy, but "Don" himself claims it merely was intended as a note to a childhood friend he hadn't seen in a while. "Looking through crystal spectacles/I can see you had your fun...."


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21st century Scopitones — and a new yé-yé rocker!

Had never heard of the lovely and talented Mareva Galanter before the YT explosion of clips. Here is here modern take on the Scopitone:


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And here is a terrric pop-rock number that reflects a little White Stripes/Stooges in its nasty guitar — sublime!


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