Ladies & gentleman, El Solitario is proud to present the 11th take on ESMC’s <<REWIND, a series of interviews with the people that rock our Moto-World®, centered around the music that shaped their lives. Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything

For the 11th <<REWIND, we asked our buddy and great artist Nicholas Coleman, about those ten records he would take to a deserted island. 

NC: Holy balls! I’m sorry for the delay—I just realized it got stuck in my draft outbox and didn’t get out to you! and i realized it was missing a section…Hopefully this isn’t too rambling….

I had a pretty interesting and funny childhood growing up in Provo Utah. Some of my earlier memories with music growing up are from hanging out with my dad in his studio. Not a music studio but one where he was painting in. I often would sneak in when he wasn’t looking and paint on his paintings. I want to think I got away with something I think he may have just loved that I took an interest into what he was doing! In his studio is where I heard music that I still listen to today. From The Rolling Stones, Heart, Moody Blues and even Rod Stewart. I’ll try and skip Rod Stewart these days if I can. But one record that I still love is 1: The Rolling Stones Through a Glass Darkly, favorite song still is ‘She’s a Rainbow.’ At least I’m pretty sure that’s the name of the song. I’m not a memorize the album names and song guy. Although after a while you learn things by auditory osmosis! 

 

 Growing up in the 1980’s was pretty funny. You’re music options were dictated by whose mom or sister was driving the car. A great memory is listening to quite a bit of The Beach Boys at my friends the Murphy’s house. I have a funny memory of a road trip to California listening to a Michael Jackson cassette on repeat from my spot in the back of a Jeep wagoner. When I say back, I mean the way back with the luggage and no seat belt. But here I am today still alive. So no worries. If I’m honest, Michael Jackson was pretty awesome. They put out a “Making of…” Thriller VHS tape with his transforming into a werewolf that still is pretty amazing. He even gets to be a zombie, and you can’t forget his awesome knife fight dance in Billy Jean.  So I might just have to put as number 2 as Thriller on my list. 

 

My older brother whose 8 years my senior had a pretty killer stereo. I was often told “not to touch!” Whenever he was gone I was in there listening to whatever I could. There was always Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys and I cant forget INXS’s devil inside. Still love Oingo Boingo’s ‘Dead Mans Party.’ My sister also had interesting taste. Besides the cover art, Def Leppard’s Hysteria was pretty rad. ‘Pour Some Sugar on me…” was on constantly and played again and again. That just might have to go on the list! 

About the same time my parents bought a CD player. It wasn’t one of those small Sony discmans but an actual unit that played one CD at a time. I think it even cost like 500 bucks! I remember it being Christmas time and my older brother bought home probably his first CDs. The cover art has the tail section of an airplane. The Beastie Boys, License to Ill and a Run DMC álbum with a purple and green cover, with the words, ‘Raising Hell.’ I have a funny recollection of being pretty excited to see them as I helped my brother take the almost impossible sticker things that held those cases together! My grandparents were visiting and my grandfather asked to see what I was looking at. Without hesitation I handed them to him. His look of disappointment was very real as he looked back at a 9 or 10 year old who had just handed him the ‘Raising Hell,’ album. Pretty funny looking back on it now! As much as I enjoyed sneak listening to Run DMC. I still absolutely love the Beastie Boys. License to Ill was the best! 

I can’t forget that somewhere in the early 90s I went though all the Beatle albums. Hard to grow up without hearing the Beatles somewhere. I was old enough to start tracking albums down by myself. I even tried to track the albums in chronological order. The great day of getting on the bus to head to the Mall…yikes! To the Sam Goody store to look through the Myriad of CDs – tracking down Beatles Albums was tricky in those days. No internet, no written down catalogue anywhere! The discovery and the chase was amazing. We live in an age of instant gratification, which really does suck the fun out of a lot of things. The reward when after a month or so of not going to the music store and then hoping that they got something “new” in was pretty special. 

The White Album is my favorite for now and my song would have to be ‘Happiness is a warm gun.’ My dad had an old record producer friend Snuff Garrett that sent us a bunch of Beatles records when he found out I liked the Beatles. I still have them all!

As I got older your music choices lead you in all kinds of directions. Mine took me through a lot of Beck. That guy never seems to age, and I still listen to his music. I use to download his music videos for whatever reason I can’t say. It took for ever and basically that one file was just about your whole computer. I have quite a few favorites but I think Ill go with Devils Haircut on this one. From 1996 Odelay album.

 

I can still say I love Neil Young. There are quite a few favorites but I think Down By the River is at the top of my list on the album Everybody Knows this is Nowhere. Got to see  him in the late 90s at the HORDE festival along with Lenny Kravitz, Rusted Root, Primus and I think Ben Folds Five, Dave Matthews and the guy who plays the harmonica and I can’t remember his name for the life of me. There was an amazing sunset that night too i can recall and I almost made a move on my high school crush, but I totally chickened out.

I wasnt into the Grateful Dead although I had quite a few friends who were. After Gerry Garcia died I did start listening to Phish. There are a few years Id like to get back…David Matthews, Widespread Panic and a few other bands that dont quite make the playlist anymore. One band I still love from my informative years was The Motherhips, they had an awesome sticker that you will have to google. One of my favorite songs is Del Mar Station from 2001 Green Hills of Earth Album. Still so so good. 

It really is hard to leave anybody out, music shapes you and stays with you. Tom Petty, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Steve Miller Band, Rush(exit stage left) Sublime, Stranglers, Nick Cave, White Stripes, When I lived in Brazil I couldnt help but love a band called legiao urbana — so good! So many I can’t think of off hand and if youre still reading I commend you.

My last band I will mention is Radiohead. Its complex and timeless and seems to change with your brain over the years. Certain parts build and you can’t help but want to listen. The album OK Computer Electioneering.

Im still always in search of new thoughtful complex music. I can honestly say Im late to the game. Typically even back in high school if some one I knew who I didn’t like liked a certain band that would put me off for a long time. My mom told me she couldn’t stand Elvis because the super annoying girl in her class was obsessed. Im sure quite a few of us have felt that way. Now Im going to go turn on the stereo. Remembering and trying to categorize this outside my brain has made me want to go and listen to some old music.

Thanks for reading!

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La entrada << REWIND 11: NICHOLAS COLEMAN se publicó primero en El Solitario.

For the 10th <<REWIND, we had the chance to chat with our dear Bob AKA: The Bloody Beet Roots, while he was in LA recording with Tom Morello, and he told us about those ten records he would take to a deserted island.

The Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks

“Anarchy in the UK“ was the first vinyl I ever bought. Shortly thereafter, the Sex Pistols became one of the most influential bands of my life and punk settled in as a lifestyle. Fate brought me to meet Steve Jones on his radio show in Los Angeles 20 years later. We became good friends and when I’m in LA, we always have good chats over dinner at Da Pasquale on Santa Monica Boulevard. Life can be surprising. 

The Prodigy – The Fat Of The Land

This record changed the rules of electronic music forever, bringing the energy of rock into the rave, and vice versa. Without the genius that is The Prodigy, my TBB project would have never existed. I consider them pioneers. In my opinion, no one has managed to think so far ahead of their times like this group did. RIP Keith Flint, forever in my heart.

Chemical Brothers – Surrender

If there is anyone who has taught me not to demonize four-on-the-floor to the alternative rock audience, those are The Chemical Brothers. Their masterful use of chord progressions and grooves that are never taken for granted made this album a milestone in the universe of contemporary music. As far as my favorite songs from this album, it’s hard to choose – there’s one for every hour of the day.

The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

I was a young child when I picked up this vinyl for the first time, attracted to the multicolored cover, I was absolutely NOT aware of what could happen to me in the future. So much so that this record accompanied my whole childhood. Little did I know that when I grew up, I would be lucky enough to collaborate with Sir Paul McCartney on a song. As I said before, life really is incredible, 

Rage Against The Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles

If there was one thing that I have always tried to imitate, it’s the chaotic energy that this band was able to release live. I have consumed, studied, and decomposed this record in all its parts and what remains is still one of the best records ever written and performed, period. And what do you know, I got a message from Tom Morello to talk about producing his new album. It’s happening now in 2020. Am I repetitive if I say life is a fucking adventure? Let’s go!

Refused – The Shape Of Punk to Come

This is hands down, one of the most avant-garde punk records in the history of this genre. It was shocking for me to listen to this piece of work, it has all the elements to win over any stage in the world. Refused release their best live, and songs like “Rather Be Dead” or “New Noise” are still anthems of the freedom we should learn to follow. Newer generations of artists should absolutely study this piece of music in order to understand how to make a revolutionary album.

DJ Shadow – Endtroducing

This record reminds me of how much research and crate digging DJs used to do in the 90s. The art of sampling was an intense study which required an extensive knowledge of music. I advise you to listen to this record with clean ears, with an inclination to open your mind. DJ Shadow is another pioneer that must not be forgotten and this record affirms that statement. 

Massive Attack – Mezzanine

Ever heard of trip-hop? This album definitely changed the history of music. It made me discover the importance of going slowly; of going deep. In its own way, this too is a punk record – it is subversive, dense and suffocating, sometimes claustrophobic. I loved Massive Attack.

Wendy Carlos – Switched on Bach

Back in the 60s, Wendy Carlos took a collection of pieces by composer Johann Sebastian Bach and made incredible transformations in a totally electronic key using a Moog synthesizer. What else can I say? Overall, it’s just so minimal yet so accurate in detail. It was one of the first visions of classical music translated into a language that, at the time, was blasphemous. I consider it pure art, in its beauty and never cold performance of a solid pillar of modern music.

Jay-Z – The Black Album

The Black Album is a great record that should have been Jay-Z’s last – it’s his best from my point of view. It has innovative sounds and it’s certainly a piece of history that nestled Jay-Z in the collective imagination. It teaches listeners how to reinvent yourself without losing artistic integrity, an excellent lesson still today. This album continues to sound new.

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La entrada << REWIND 10 : SIR BOB CORNELIUS RIFO se publicó primero en El Solitario.

For the 9th <<REWIND, we had our real Mr. Wolf, and asked him about those ten records he would take to a deserted island. As it couldn’t be other way, Fita, (as most people around here know him), gave us 13!  A chameleonic motherfucker,  and a true inspiration for this mad house, he is the man behind some of El Solitario’s biggest gear changes, (like our very own wolf!), and also plays a key role in our vital and musical explorations. Life member of the organization SinSal Audio, has been promoting super music in Galicia for almost two decades and still walks on the wild side

When I asked him to write his rewind I knew this would be a seriously heterogeneous & well executed gem, but with this resume, all expectations he blew up again. Mr Wolf I love you, and… thanks for being around

Enjoy!

The velvet Underground – st (Mgm, 1969)

Year 1989, i was 14. I used to hang out with my friend Roi. Roi has a brother who showed us for the first time this vinyl, he was older and cooler than us, so we thought, let’s pretend be like him!. I remember recording a tdk (ferro not chromo, I was poor) with this record on side A and “Strangeways here we come” from The Smiths on side B (tapes rulezzzzzz). I’m 41 right now and this record lasts as top of the tops. And I still have this tape, a fully highlight on my emotional inventory. What can I say about it?? I felt in love with music listening to “The murder mistery”. First coffees, first time smoking hashish, first time getting immerse in noise, spoken word and dark atmospheres feeling the music inside my veins, completely shocked. I don’t know why, because I couldn’t understand a shit about lyrics like this one by Maureen Tucker: “please raise the flag, rosy red carpet envy / english used here is messenger is nervous / it’s no fun at all, out here in the hall”, but I felt a truly connection with the things they talked and my teen brain. I use to come back to this record frequently, I always feel safe and sound with this guys on the cover immortalized by Billy Name. I don’t feel this picture like a cover, I feel it like a family portrait.

Sonic Youth – Confussion is sex (Neutral, 1983)

Things were quite intense with drugs in the 90’s, I started to notice that I felt like an island with my school friends, so I started to find shelter in music. I had a music fella who lived one hour from the city, so I had to take a bus to meet him. I bought a discman, and my ost during the trip used to be Sonic Youth’s masterpiece “Confussion is sex”. Nothing could have a happy ending with this cover and lsd together. Damn!!!! where did you find this sound??? We’re not talking here about guitars, we’re talking about razor blades, hypnothic drums, insane vocals. Years later I saw them for the first time playing live and things never went the same. Once you meet the washing machine, you never come back. Ah! I didn’t tell you, Kim Gordon is my step mum.

Beck – One foot in the grave (K, 1994)

The reason I bought my first acoustic guitar.

Sepultura – Roots (Roadrunner, 1996)

Probably I could choose Metallica’s “…and justice for all” or Sepultura’s “Arise” with my favourite metal song ever “Dead embryonic cells”, but finally I choose “Roots”. I never, never, never felt so invincible with my headphones like the days I walked the streets with this powerful record kicking my brain. See the faces of people surrounding you while you’re getting crazy with this stoned sounds??? Priceless! Clearly i was levitating, saying goodbye to the pavement and welcome the clouds.

Smog – The doctor came at dawn (Drag city, 1996)

I bought my first guitar when I was 24, and a few months later I discovered Mr. Callahan. If I have to resume this album with one word, for sure would be “pussy”. Meaning pussy like the “break heart thing”. This whole album is so fuckin’ eerie, probably best album cover ever, and also the title. For sure Mr. Callahan must have been pretty disturbed during the recording. For me was the same, I used to exorcize my own demons with the guitar, inspired by Mr. Callahan songs. Listening on loop this blue gem staring at the roof, analyzing the architecture of the spider webs, and looking at the drops falling from the windows on the rainy days, and the pussy thing stirring my heart with a knife.

Alasdair Roberts – The crook of my arm (Secretly canadian, 2001)

On my late 20’s the pussy thing left me alone, isolated. It’s hard to notice when you lost your wind and nobody cares a shit about you, probably because it’s impossible to share your own spirals. For me was a treasure discover Mr Roberts. I moved to a small apartment and I used to feel comfy with the complete sadness, probably I was depressed even I didn’t realize it, I remember taking the car on night travels to nowhere listening this record. Haunting voice and probably the most sincere guitar player I ever listened to. Years later I had the chance to meet Alasdair and I asked him: how did you know the song of my soul? He laughed, I laughed, circle closed.

Bird Show – Green inferno (Kranky, 2005)
Bird Show – Lightning Ghost (Kranky, 2006)

On 2003 or 2004 I read an article in The Wire magazine talking about New Weird America, term coined by David Keenan to describe the music at the Brattleboro Free Folk Festival in 2003. On 2005 I released my first record, with the help of Apenino, inspired by the bands that were part of the New Weird America movement. And thanks to Sinsalaudio I had the chance to see them playing live and also meet them. I’m talking about: Six Organs of Admittance, Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, Fursaxa, P.G. Six, Excepter, Wolf Eyes, MV & EE, Panda Bear, Josephine Foster, and a long long etc… One of this incredible bands, and one of my favourite gig ever: Town & Country. I followed their own paths, their own side projects, and I discovered one of my favourite artists, Ben Vida. His personal project “Bird Show” collided with my personal situation. I was in the middle of nowhere trying to kill myself, yep, sounds crazy right now, but it’s important to remark the fact of being rescued by Ben Vida’s records. I was living a “Green inferno” and Ben’s sounds reflected my feelings. One year later, Ben released “Lightning Ghost” and finally I had my resurrection. One friend told me that something was going badly in my head if I liked this music, but he was wrong. I’m fine because of this music. Since then, on my birthday, I always listen to “Field on water” on my way to the ocean for a swim.

Lichens – Omns (Kranky, 2007)

If you’re here still reading, probably you noticed I’m a bit creepy, stuck in the “transcend thing”. And probably like you, I don’t know where the hell I come from or where I’m going. Just saying: I’m vegan, I live in the closest house near the woods and I love to swim naked in the ocean. Yep, a sort of neo-hippy-outsider. I don’t belong to earth, and still in my 40’s I don’t know where my planet is, but for sure, the traditional or folk music there, is the one contained in this album. Robert Lowe aka Robert A. Lowe aka Robert A.A. Lowe aka Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe aka Lichens IS THE MAN. Hypnotic, overwhelming, mind-blowing, Mr Lowe has some really big ghost inside him, it’s fascinating and terrifying at the same time. Here’s my own “ladies and gentlemen we are floating into space” moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMjJ2oMXI8

Triple Burner – st (Madrona, 2006)

Harris Newman is a remarkable sound engineer. He has mastered albums related to the Constellation Records’s crew, I mean: A Silver Mt Zion, Molasses, Vic Chesnutt, etc… and also a gifted guitarist, he played in bands like Sackville, Hrsta, and under his own name, Harris Newman. On 2006 he released an album with Bruce Cawdron, on drums, a fuckin’ masterpiece. Yep, there’s a lot of John Fahey here, psychedelic and raga-based output. Harris reveals his guitar like a herd of horses, completely trapped on gallop. I don’t have a story beyond the album, but if I have to talk about music I can’t forget this pearl.

Viking Moses – Crosses (Poptones, 2006)

I love the real story under this record, you can read it here: https://vikingmoses.bandcamp.com/album/crosses
I have my own story with this record, with my loved one. Three or four years ago we went on holidays to an amazing place during the summer. I remember the warm light of the sunset invading the car, listening “Dancing by the water day” I got the feeling that Brendon Massei tried to explain with this record. Since then, I listen to this record only on summer holidays. Highlight: Brendon’s verses on “Crosses”: “without love, life is gone. without life, love goes on and on.”

Jolie Holland – Catalpa (Anti, 2003)

Winter never starts until you pick “Catalpa” from the shelf for the first time.

Bear bones, lay low – El telonero (Kraak, 2012)

Everybody has a “sex record”, probably Marvin Gaye on top, for me “Lavande Apaisante” is sex in itself. You don’t need a woman, just listen and waaaaaaaaa aaahhhahh hahaha aaaaaaaaaait.

Bob Marley & The Wailers – Exodus (Island, 1977)

I could go on and on with more records, songs and stories but it’s time to end. At this point I have to recognize that the motorcycle world joined my life recently. I met David for the first time when I was 14 or 15 I guess, our paths crossed 3 or 4 years ago. I discovered El Solitario, Valeria, the minisolis and his dogs, Rayo and Lola. We built together (and lazlito too) in one weekend my first bike, and during those summer days Lola passed away. I remember it was sunday, and we spent the whole afternoon listening to Bob Marley and giving Lola one of the greatest days possible. The last November one of my cats died after 15 years together, when I was diggin’ the hole to bury her I put “Three little birds” because you don’t have to worry about a thing, ‘cause every little thing gonna be allright.

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La entrada << REWIND 9 : MR WOLF se publicó primero en El Solitario.

For the 8th <<REWIND, we had Lennard Schuurmans in the house and asked him about those ten records he would take to a deserted island. Eccentric and avant-garde, this designer and sidewalk mechanic is above all an extremely sweet mofo.  As most of you will already know, Lennard is a good friend and a very important part of El Solitario’s universe. This  artist, living motolife in Amsterdam, is also the organizer of the Rusty Gold Swap Meet and the man behind the always rad www.bubblevisor.blogspot.com (Yes we fucking love blogz!@#)

Okay ESMC, lets’ start with the best
The rest is just in random order
Chances With Wolves on East Village radio – Yes I know, it’s not an artist or album but this radio show truly changed my life for ever and I’ve been listening to these shows every week since my friend Niels Wolf (how appropriate, haha) told me about this radio show. They have the goal to never play the same song twice, they play all kind of music, mostly classic hidden gems and overlooked beautiful failures so their show is more focused om emotion than on genre. The good thing is you can download all their shows (over 300 episodes, two hours each). Check it out, you wont regret it.

Devendra Benhart – Mala 2013

Best track -> “Fur Hildegard von Bingen”
This album sounds so good, beautifully warm songs with a lot of depth and brilliant hypnotic grooves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04dL5DVNYqc

Aphex twin – Come to Daddy – 1997

Wow, this EP blow my mind in the 90’s. Such an eclectic mix of sounds and rhythms. Favorite song -> “IZ US”. The track Come To Daddy and the video clip is so super hardcore and scary. The track IZ US is almost the exact opposite, super relaxed, laid back and atmospheric. I love that contradiction.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II – 2013

Brilliant album, saw them live at the Lowlands festival 3 years ago, sucked big time to be honest but I love their studio albums. Favorite track -> “Swim and Sleep(like a shark)”

Whitey – Lost Summer – 2012

– favorite song -> “Dead Eyes”
I never heard of Whitey before I watched Braking Bad on Netflix.
And that’s not very strange because Whitey is doing it a little different than most other artist. He’s not on Spotify or Itunes, Whitey only sells his music via Bandcamp, still he recently passed his 15 millionth online play..!
Great artist, cool attitude.

Doe Maar – Dorris Day en andere stukken – 1982

– Favorite song -> “Vergeet Me”
The dutch dub/ska/reggae group Doe Maar was so hugely popular in the Netherlands they stopped in 1984 because they could not handle their own succes. They could not perform any longer on stage because of all the hysterical teenagers almost dying of anticipation. I always wondered what the inspiration was for their sound. It still happens to me that I hear a song and than I think, “maybe this was an inspiration for their sound at the time!”.
Their sound is something like a mixture of the Clash, the Police and the Cure and I’m sure they would dig the Gorillaz, if they would have existed at the time.

LCD Soundsystem – Sound of silver 2007

– I love the track “New York I love you”, it’s one of those songs that always keeps coming back in my mind for some reason. It’s so melancholic, maybe that’s why. Or maybe it has something to do with New York. When I was there for the first time I thought, shit, tis is it, I need this in my life. I’m such an emotional little kid you know, haha!
I wish LCD Soundsystem still made new songs. I like how they jam in a song. The build up is so hypnotising and strong. Their groove reminds me a little of Underwold’s album “Beaucoup Fish”. Also one of my favorite albums.

Beasty Boys – Aglio E Olio 1995

– This EP was released after the Beasty Boys realized that they had written too many hardcore punk songs for their next record. When I listened to this EP I was just starting get more into punk and hardcore music and the energy and fun of the record was so intense I had to buy it. Just imagine, it’s eight songs but only ten minutes, ha!
Best track is “Brand New”

Pharcide – Labcabincalifornia

First Hip Hop album that I bought, still one of my favorite 90’s HipHop albums. Best track – Runnin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJAsMo-A_q0

U.N.K.L.E – The Time has come EP

This record came out in 1994 I think. At the time I was very much into “trip hop”, it was the new cool sound.
I was also listening to hip hop, weird electronic music, punk, soul, and drum ‘n base and old records from my dad. One of my dreams when I was 17 was being a eclectic DJ myself so I bought two fake Technics turn tables and a Numark mixer and I started collecting records. After a while I found out my that one of my favorite record labels was Mo’ Wax. I was also very much into graffiti writing at the time and one of my big heroes was Futura 2000. So when I saw this obscure Mo’ Wax album featuring the art work of Futura 2000 I bought it instantly without hesitation. The owner of Mo’ Wax James Lavelle made this album with Tim Goldsworthy and this was the first incarnation of U.N.K.L.E. I don’t care so much for all the records that followed from U.N.K.L.E. but this “The time has come” EP is brilliant.

PS
I’m constantly collecting new songs. It’s hard to find good music but it’s not impossible. I can’t stand listening over and over to the same tracks so I always need new songs in my live.
That’s why I started collecting songs on Spotify since last year. If you are like me, please start following me (Lennyway) on Spotify and check my playlist “Starred” so we can we can share good songs.

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La entrada << REWIND 8 : LENNARD SCHUURMANS se publicó primero en El Solitario.

For the 7th <<REWIND, we had Roland Sands in the house and asked him about those ten records he would take to a deserted island. Yours truly, I must admit, was shaken by the emotion and honesty of the below selection. Rolando you fucking rocked my day and I’m proud of that!

Enjoy:

Roland: , I will do this now. I’ve been waiting and letting this marinate as old records continue to pile up in my office. I’m drawing this list mainly from Vinyl that was in my parents collection growing up and now are in my collection. I also just received a box of records from my grandpa which included some very old and excellent recordings from Bob Wills, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson.

1.Journey to the center of the Earth, Rick Wakeman

This was to me like a journey inside my own head when I was 10. I used to space out on Saturdays with my dad’s headphones, take a break from being a kid and simply dream on an epic scale. I imagine this record helped to open up some doors which hadn’t been opened yet. It gave me that big, I am the world and the world is me feeling in a natural way.

2. Red Headed Stranger, Willie Nelson

My dad was always a country fan. I grew up listening to Willie, Hank Jr. and Waylon Jennings. Time of the Preacher still makes me tear up. Willie had the ability to touch your heart in the simplest carnal way.

3. Straight outta Compton, NWA

This wasn’t quite an album. It was a dubbed and redubbed tape that I got from a friend when I was 14. Nobody was allowed to listen to this stuff back then. Our parents weren’t having the Nigga’s with Attitudes in the house or in our possession. It was basically like getting caught stealing. But this pretty much started my hip hop obsession when I was younger. These dudes lived pretty close to us so it wasn’t quite so far away. We actually hung out with Easy E when I was in High School a few times. Apparently white kids were the Cool thing to have around. Like an accessory for rappers. He let me hold his Machine gun and we polished the wheels on his 454 Chevy Truck. Seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcdAlXF2GZN4-kPltbe2WLCJSVRHU-9Eh

4. Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd

First time I ate LSD I was 16. I was at a where house party in the Shady zone of downtown Long Beach. Sublime was playing and there was a mosh pit. I thought moshing with a 40 Oz. was the thing to do. It was not and I went head first into the concrete with the bottle in my hand. I nearly cut my pinky off about the same time the Acid was hitting. I spent the rest of the night holding a bloody hand while coping with a very heavy experience. We went back to my good friends house and Dark Side of Moon guided me thought the evening. Acid’s not for everybody, but I wouldn’t be doing what I do today without that experience. Sometimes you need to lose your mind to find it.

5. Bad to the Bone, George Thorogood

This was how I grew up pre Jr. High. Listening to Rocky Blues with my dad. I went for a ride with my dad to his buddy Dave Hetland’s house in his El Camino. He had swapped the El Camino wheels for Iroc Camaro wheels which was hot shit at the time. On the way home we outran a train and jumped a set of railroad tracks all while my dad was finishing off a sixer of Coors. He never left the house without a beer in the car back then. Pretty sure Bad to the Bone was on in the car when we jumped the tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLryIEvuNuRzvTwr4QOHySCYxYjtV3qx7Q

6. Under the Big Black Sun, X

My introduction to punk rock. My parents used to get dressed up in black and go see X with their friends. It was like this secret they had that they wouldn’t talk about. It seemed like a mystery back when I was 10 years old. I felt like I had to sneak listening to the records.

7. Hasten Down the Wind, Linda Ronstadt

My mom had a heavy influence on the record collection early on. I listened to a lot of really great stuff from Fleetwood Mac, Emmy Lou Harris and Dolly Parton. I really liked Linda Ronstadt. I maybe had a crush on her a little, Crazy was a great song. Down so Low which I’m listening to right now takes me right back to my parents wooden floor and the pot plant my dad had in the living room of our old house.

8. Killer on the Rampage, Eddie Grant

Electric Avenue was maybe my favorite reggae song outside Bob Marley. Legend was a huge part of my youth, but I always really liked Eddie Grant. He was like the reggae under dog to Bob Marley and I always pulled for the underdog.

9. Zenyatta Mondatta, the Police

I still can listen to this entire album and love every song. Don’t stand so close to me, the angst!! Temptation, frustration so bad it makes him cry. Come on Sting!! I think it was OK to be a perv back then. Fuck around these days and get your name in the papers.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FOBZsL-8-DB15ILYkw1Gsx81ZX8a-IM

10. El Loco, ZZ Top

Maybe it was the bags of weed on the cover or maybe it was the good timey party atmosphere these dudes always threw down but I love ZZ top. Party on the Patio, Tube Snake Boogie, Ten Foot Pole. I used to dance in my sox and tightey whities to this shit on Sunday’s.

Now you got me started I had to throw in a few more.

1984, Van Halen

First Record I ever bought myself.
Art on the cover was epic, I was going to church at the time. The image of the Angel baby with a pack of smokes basically defined what I was going through as a mischievous child. David Lee Roth got more pussy than Tampax or so I thought at the time and I liked his pants so I dug the album and the drums on Hot for Teacher.

Thriller, Michael Jackson

I used to break dance to Wanna Be Startin Something at after School Church camp in elementary school. I had parachute pants and we used to rip up cardboard boxes and do backspins.

SuperTramp, Breakfast in America

Take the long way home always stuck in my mind. It brings back memories of working in my dad’s shop when I was like 12 years old, doing every odd job he could find to keep me busy and out of trouble. It also reminds me of when I smashed my thumbs playing cymbals and he drilled my finger out on a drill press and squirted blood all over the shop. This was the working man’s ballad.

Bravo amigo!

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For the 6th <<REWIND, we had Mark Hoyer in the house and asked him about those ten records he would take to a deserted island. Mark is the editor in chief of the world’s largest magazine, the American Cycle World. Mark is an avid rider and shows some commitment to old british iron. Drives an old E-Type and rides Nortons and Velocettes. Cleared this lovely masochistic tendency, its no surprise that the he also takes his musical experience seriously.

Hi ESMC, first off, my list goes to 11! Shut the hell up about it.

I’ve been crazy for music all my life. When I was in high school, I spent money I didn’t have on sound equipment that was ridiculous for a 10-by-10-foot bedroom and I still have speakers that are way too big for the space they’re in. A few years ago I finally had my pair of 1950 Stromberg Carlson hi-fi tube amps rebuilt and run one per channel for stereo from my old Dual 701 turntable–not always, but for the right music at the right times, which is most music a lot of the time. Vinyl truly is great and my favorite way to listen, but CDs have their considerable merits and MP3s generally sound like you’re listening through loaves of horrible American white bread, but are pretty damn convenient. I like music, you know, because of how it sounds.

There’s nothing from the current century on the list because I think for me I need a lot of time for these kinds of things to settle in and to make sure the relationship is right for us. (But check out Sturgill Simpson’s “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music.” Oops, is that 12?) Two final things: ESMC’s picking of “albums” is so last century. I’m totally into it but pop-music culture is almost down to “buying riffs.” And limiting this to 10 (or 11 or 12) albums is ridiculous, but when there’s a job to do, you do it.

Zen Arcade

Husker Du

Brought brains, melody and scope to punk (post) in an entirely new way. For popular music, I think it is one of the most historically significant records (actually a double LP), but also I bought it new in ’84 during the real formative years for exploring music in life. So it’s sort of doubly powerful for me in that way. A punk “Quadrophenia.” If I had to pick only one, it might be this.

Requiem

Giuseppe Verdi

The whole Requiem is magnificent, but the Dies Irae, really is the Day of Wrath brought femur-shaking life in music. There are many Requiems, and one of the most famous is by Mozart, but he can kiss Verdi’s ass on this one. This is not for headphones and don’t you dare do it on MP3. You need massive power, a non-compressed recording and huge speakers to move the air and pummel your being. I have the recording by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert Von Karajan. Freaks me out every time.

Van Halen

Van Halen

Pure American party-boy rock ’n’ roll with a dark edge, and more individual guitar notes and drum beats than should fit into the number of grooves on an album. There were good records by them after this but none had the same Eruption of energy, power, creativity and overall fuckyeahism. We used to split the signal to a pair of huge amps and four giant speakers at parties in high school. Epitomized a rad party at the time for us and the record absolutely rocks.

Love Devotion Surrender

John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana

Two of the greatest electric guitarists who ever lived (and are still living…) on one album, McLaughlin exploding of the right channel and Santana out the left. I swear my spinal cord vibrates on “A Love Supreme” when they trade riffs back and forth. Great drumming/percussion and organ work help glue together the purely insane and not-quite-cohesive Latin/Indo-influenced guitar duo. I’m really in this record for the track listed above, and the other interpretation of a John Coltrane song, “A Life Divine,” together about 18 minutes of mind-blowing virtuosity gone semi-wild and exploding with the duende.

Quadrophenia

The Who

A rock ’n’ roll epic free of the campy bullshit that sometimes dragged down the band’s other albums. It is beautiful and delicate and also rocks, made great use of ambient sounds and did all this while telling a big story. Keith Moon seemed tight, focused and amazing on drums and I love John Entwistle’s bass work (he’s my favorite ever) as it drives so much of the music and he plays well beyond the standard bassist’s role in rock music. Really, the whole band seemed like they were at the height of their powers. I bought the album when I was about 12 years old and have been playing it ever since.

Piano Concerto No. 2

Rachmaninoff

Swirling, dark and romantic, like being in the eye of the giant storm on Jupiter. But one composed of emotions and a Steinway and an orchestra. Sergei Rachmaninoff was known for having massive hands, and many say it had something to do with the nature of his compositions, but the artfulness and beauty of this work is epic and moving in a way I’ve never experienced with any other music. Forget his hands, its his brain and soul at work here. You’d expect one of Rachmaninoff’s own recordings to be the best, but I have to say I favor Vladimir Ashkenazy’s work with the London Philharmonic and Andre Previn. Which I realize is a bit like saying you like the Rachmaninoff cover band more than the original, but, hey…

Tago Mago

Can

Hard to believe this massive double album came out in 1971 because I think it would have sounded progressive ten years later and still sounds current to my ear. I hear echoes of Can’s influence in so many bands in the decades since even though this was weird German progressive work. All you can do is listen to this one. I have it on gray vinyl and it sounds great through tubes but there’s a 40^th anniversary edition on iTunes, so it’s out there however you want it. I realized typing this that I play the 1971 record on a 1971 German-made Dual turntable. It was meant to be!

The Night

Morphine

A sax player who plays two horns at once and Mark Sandman with a voice of gold-plated smoke, Morphine met its end when Sandman collapsed on stage in Italy during a concert in 1999. He wasn’t exactly known for a healthy lifestyle—no kale salads here, I think–and smoked a ton of cigarettes according to lore. He was also the amazing bassist, playing a two-string instrument with astounding effect. I’m a fan of all their albums, but The Night manages a powerful, consistent mood with really wide texture range. I saw them live in L.A. and the energy in Sandman was impressive considering he looked half-dead. Which, based on photography of him, was a pretty normal look.

Luna

Astor Piazzolla

If you’ve never heard of a bandoneon, it’s a squeeze box particularly popular with Argentinian tango artists. Astor Piazzolla is one of those, but his music is so much more than just tango. Luna is an amazing live recording of his last concert with the New Tango Sex-Tet.

Don’t Sweat the Technique

Erik B and Rakim

I just like this one. Great rap delivery and writing with standup-bass, real-drums jazzy backup. These guys should have been bigger than they ended up being. Public Enemy also comes to mind, and Snoop Dogg’s Doggy Style is hard to beat, but Erik B and Rakim feels more musically progressive and interesting to the brain as well as the rock-it! heart. Like, you invite Snoop to your party, but you’d want to hang out with Erik B and Rakim.

Nevermind

Nirvana

A great album that signaled a change in rock music and culture and made loud-soft-loud songs a new institution. I love the lyrics and the playing and remember the shock of hearing the album for the first time. But what I love most about Nevermind is that it murdered hair-band music forever.

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For the 5th <<REWIND, we had Gary Inman in the house and asked him about those ten records he would take to a deserted island. Gary is one of ESMC’s favorite writers, a fast racer, Sideburn Magazine’s editor and a family man. Having grown up on an overaccessorized vespa listening to  Punk & Ska, it was providential that he’d become a music man. His life on two wheels pushed him towards motorcycle journalism and today he is one of the sharpest and most controversial pens in the industry. From the Sahara to the go fast turn left tracks of the DTRA or Casey Stoner’s Ducati In Philip Island, Gary always carries his grooves with him and why deny it, he is a kickass dancer too!

Voila!@#

Hi ESMC, here is my selection!

• The Sonics – Boom

The greatest garage band of them all, hence the fact you might have actually heard of them. Every song is a killer. To think this LP was released in 1965. I don’t own a single Beatles record, but I own a lot of Sonics discs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt416kX0tMY

• Love – Da Capo

When I was in my teens and early-20s I was such a snob when it came to music, that I wouldn’t even pick up a Love LP because I thought it was too 1968 for me. I just wanted hard, garage punk from 1964-66 and a band called Love didn’t sound tough enough. Then I heard them and fell in love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz6VfFNLAlM

• The Ramones – Ramones

Changed everything for me. I was introduced to them by a couple of brothers, the Shaws, who lived near me but were a few years older. One became a nuclear physicist, the other a policeman. I didn’t see that coming. The Ramones – classic dumb punk. Often copied, never bettered.

• The Beach Boys  – Pet Sounds

When I was very young I liked all the surf songs of the early Beach Boys. I borrowed Pet Sounds from a friend whose dad had it. I listened to it once and gave it back, because there were no surf tunes on it. Then my tastes matured. I want God Only Knows played at my funeral. You’re all invited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBdCunNbeH4

• Rocket From the Crypt – Scream Dracula Scream

Best live band I’ve ever seen. Side one of the LP starts like a top fuel drag race and barely slows down. On A Rope is a classic single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3qcmiSq3RA

• Back From the Grave compilations

The best garage punk compilations of unknown 1960s raw, Kinks-inspired, no-hit wonders, on the Crypt label.

• Little Barrie – King of the Waves
  Among all these ancient discs I felt I should include a newer one, this cracker from the British three-piece. Lewis the bassist is restoring a grasstracker sidecar his dad used to race.

• Jonathan Richman – Action Packed

It’s a bit of a cop-out, because this is a best of, but I love all Jonathan’s output (he also releases LPs sung solely in Spanish), and this has so many sing-a-long hits. One of the few CDs my kids will let me play in the car.

• The Mummies – Play Their Records
  Lo-fi garage punk band from the eary-90s. I set off from England to Belgium on an ancient Lambretta, with my girlfriend (now my wife) on the back to see them play a squat club called Le Pits in Kortrijk. The scooter broke down before we even reached the ferry port in England, so we got the recovery truck to the ferry terminal, locked the Lambi up behind a hotel and continued by train. A memorable trip, mind-blowing gig, great LP.

• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus
  Nick Cave is the only singer/songwriter/rock star/ whatever I can think of who just keeps getting better*. This is my favourite LP of his, and it’s a double, so there’s lots of it.
  *Maybe Jack White too.

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For the 4th <<REWIND, we’ve decided to ask Paul d’Orleans, (AKA: The Vintagent), about those ten records he would take to a deserted island. Paul is a man of various talents, among which we can recall the fabulous writer, the hobo painter, the mad tint type photographer, the good drinker, the gnarly rider, the eternal Peter Pan and probably the most knowledgable motorcycle historian alive! But despise all of this he is a super cool dude and we love him. We first met Paul in Toulouse at the Southsiders MC anniversary party in 2010 and immediately felt the connection which still rocks our universe nowadays.

Voila!@#

Hi ESMC!

Alright bitch, you’ve thrown down the gauntlet…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLIUHIrfu1w 

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For the 3rd <<REWIND, we’ve decided to ask Nicolai Sclater, (AKA: Ornamental Conifer), about those ten records he would take to a deserted island. A man of many talents among which we can find the awesome sign writer, the street poet, the motorcycle builder, and our brother. Behind Ornamental Conifer, Nico is revolutionizing sign writing, a once feared to disappear craft, taking it to new levels striking the contemporary art world. We first met Nico in Sideburn’s Rollerburn Party and immediately felt the connection. Only a couple of months after, him and Maxwell Paternoster spent some time with us in our HQs and spread their cheeky awesomeness and love all over ESMC’s universe which is still present today. Voila!@#

Hi ESMC!

Tracy Chapman // Self Titled Debut Album // FAST CAR
Sitting in the back of my Mum’s Mini Cooper, driving as fast as she
can, recounting stories of her youth when you used to sit as the
navigator to a Rally Driver, thinking she was the best mum in the
world

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orv_F2HV4gk

Dire Straits // Brothers in Arms // Money for Nothing

Listening to my dad yelling ‘Get your chicks for free’ and looking out
the window at our chickens and wondering what the hell he was going on
about, and what on earth is a Microwave oven? Ours was wood fired…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwDDswGsJ60

Nirvana // Nevermind // LITHIUM

Sneaking into my sisters bedroom, whilst she was going out for a
“WALK” with her boyfriend, and stealing her cassettes to listen to on
my walkman in the bathroom… as a lonely little brother, lost in rural
surroundings with no friends around the opening line always pleased
me… ‘I’m so happy because today I found my friends, their in my head’

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu7j7g9Nt14

Beastie Boys // Ill Communication // Flute Loop

My first ever cassette I owned, got it for christmas, but I knew where
my parents stashed my gifts, so one day when they were shopping I took
the take from its hiding place and listened to it whilst riding my BMX
around the neighbourhood before they returned, I remember flipping the
tape and fast forwarding it so I could flip it back and listen to
Flute Loop over and over again…. Never got bored of that song… I even
acted surprised on christmas day and played it over and over right
through dinner…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLFlW3UaQuU

Gravediggaz // Niggamortis // 1-800 – SUICIDE
The first cassette i decided to buy for myself, with my own money,
except the shop would not sell it to me as it had PARENTAL ADVISORY on
the front, so I had to go home after school and walk back to the music
store with my dad and he handed over my Car Washing money for the
tape… 1-800- Suicide particularly stood out, a little white kid, whose
parents had to buy the album for him somehow loved this song he knew
absolutely nothing about, still do, to this day I wonder if he really
did chew his arm off to make an escape..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTXeg-Swq9w

Jimi Hendrix // Electric Ladyland // ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
I recorded this song of a BMX video, it was ANTHEM and it was on
ground chucks section I think, I loved it, it made me want to ride my
BMX in the woods, and I did… for years…

www.dailymotion.com/video/xnjshq_jimi-hendrix-all-along-the-watchtower_music

Pharcyde // Bizarre ride to the Pharcyde // YA MAMA
When I got my first car, I installed a stupidly large stereo with a
sub woofer and would drive around with all my windows down, playing
this song which is basically a bunch of guys taking the piss out of
each others mums, i thought it was hilarious, looking back i must have
looked like a ride dickhead…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7t_lTqE3RQ

Black Lips // Good Bad Not Evil // Bad Kids
First gig I ever got pissed on… Loved it… We weren’t too posh to mosh….

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Pag_iQ170

The SCABS // LEAVE ME ALONE
WHy don’t you leave me alone, why don’t you just fuck off home… The
scabs were true british punk, realeased four songs then split… hating
each other… great song to put on when the night is over and you want
the cunts to leave your dinner party so you can drink alone… (not to
be confused with the belgian SCABS, they’re weak

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AO0JH7UaBw

Pharell Williams // Girl // HAPPY
Sorry!!!! My guilty pleasure, it makes me happy… I’m not gonna lie…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRMOMjCoR58

Love you brother… hope this is ok…

xxxx

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Ladies & gentleman, El Solitario is proud to present the 2nd take on our <<REWIND, a new series of interviews with the people that rock our Moto-World®, centered around the music that shaped their lives. Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

For the 2nd rewind, we’ve decided to ask Vincent Prat about those ten records he would take to a deserted island. A man of many talents among which we can find the motorcycle builder, the photographer, the surfer, and our family’s grandpa. Vincent Prat is also the creative force behind the Southsiders MC & the coolest Motorcycle Party in the world, Wheels & Waves. We first met him when he came out with the Channel Triton and since then has been a reference star in our firmament. Et voila!

Hi ESMC!

LA Woman: The Doors

My father’s fatal error… he bought the new LP on a friend advice … that’s how Rock infiltrated our house. i was 11.

My dad decided to banish this record because of violence.Listening to that vinyl was kind of prohibited!

Fantastic Jacket, the font used is a big part of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhZFhvG6OkM

Transformer: Lou Reed

few years later, Transformer was a universal rock hit, not agressive, the hot voice of Lou Reed is still one of my fav.

I was 12, I heard for the first time about Homosexuality, very subversive in 74.

I saw Lou Reed 3 times always a deception…The cover photo on the jacket is also a universal picture today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH2EgYq_NCY

Who’s next: The Who

because I’m not a Beatles guys nor a Rolling Stones fan.The Who where the violent alternative and sometimes they come back on my turntable…

Who’s next and the use of Synthetizers and sequencers with Pete Townshend behind the keyboard was very innovant for the period.

I saw “Tommy” the movie, a few years before( in 73), and despite the fact i’didn’t understand nothing, i really loved the madness of these guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44dzUArKmYI

Jimi Hendrix Axis/ bold as love.

What an Icon !!!! a big turn in my life. Jimi’s is a virtuose but don’t forget to listen to his musicians…, we can feel all the roots in their veins…

This album will stay beside me for all my life

I would die for a Concert with Jimi in Hell !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPjmHtE7jdA

Raw Power: The Stooges

Violence before Punk, a music fitting perfectly with hard nights, bikes and rebellion.

Iggy, one more legend in my top ten of Rock godfathers

My favourite: Search and Destroy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDNzQ3CXspU

Rattus Norvegicus: The Stranglers .

My elder sister came back from London summer 77 with the LP. i loved that unique sound, mix of a super agressives Bass and Guitars , B3 Hammond hot Organ and Butcher voices, ah ah !! real punks …

great band on stage !

the best Punk cover ever!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0q3ZUNh9lI

Faith: The Cure

My depressed years started with the Cure they called it cold Wave, one of the many genres who succeeded to Punk music.

Saw them 3 times live, best period was 79.

All cats are grey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmKX-VekF2s

Fire of Love: The Gun Club

Back to West coast Punk this time, LA punk music and garage were my thing in 82/83/84, X, The Cramps, The Fleshtones, The Unknowns, The Plimsouls

Jeffrey Lee Pierce singer of the Gun Club looking like a crazy Fletcher Christian in The Bounty,was my hero. He still keep a place i my heart.

Ghost on the Highway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmNnKrT8jMk

Herehear: Joshwink

I discovered modern electronic music in 94, Joshwink’s album marked my life for another 180° turn. I was borried by Rock and in search of new sound

Joshwink from Philie was the answer. Of course i don’t listen techno music anymore, but free parties were a great experience.

DJ’s were not considered as stars, obviously their musics came on CD’s or MP3 played on computers and contributed a lot to the dematerialization of music, which is a real disaster!

New groove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abAChcmZQ_A

Richie Hawtin  DE9 Closer to Edit 

Dub to the perfection. The art of Djing at the upper level. 10 years ago, I was lucky to live a quadrophonic experience with that album in a perfect conditions auditorium (Sonar 2003). I can say his music talks to your cortex !

I saw him 10 times on stage, always a big journey !!

sit on the sofa and listen to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MSymIy9eCY

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Pic: ©Hermann Koepf

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