Black Panthers LP

While we're on the subject of The Panthers, try this sucker on for size. Our one and only album.
Recorded in 1999 by Rob Mayes at The National Grid studio back in Christchurch, NZ.
There's not that many copies in circulation so hopefully this download will mean it makes it to a few more ears around the globe. 200 copies on black vinyl exist. Some cd's floating around. Thankfully on the day of the recording everything came together and everyone played really well and behaved themselves. Rob did a great job of handling all the controls...
Tis a bitchin peice of rock if you ask me. But then i'm obviously a biased customer (having been in the band and all). You kids can make up your own minds.
Maybe some monks in tibet will download it and start a cult dedicated to Panther worship.......executing other monks who refuse their doctrine......
That would be cool.

Black Panthers LP download. MP3@320kbs

Or you could buy a copy here...

Black Panthers on Discogs

Black Panthers 'Classified Material'

Here's some live & rehearsal Black Panther recordings for all you sicko's out there that enjoy this kinda stuff.
 
The first two songs 'Tell you mama' and 'Peel my banana' were recorded live at the old 'Jetset Lounge' in chch with Lynton on drums. One of our last live performances i think. 'Peel my banana' is the only song outa this lot that was ever recorded in a studio and released.

'Pinky red' was an un-realised number. Never really came to fruition. Still, main riff's pretty good.

'Jailbait' was originally entitled 'Date rape' but after more than one complaint we changed the name. Never had a completed structure for this song but played it live a few times anyway.

'Livin' one foot down' is actually Ben (drummer) singing. Matt played drums and hollered too. Just a jam we had that had some potential.

'The cowboy song' is Vaughn (bass) singing. Again an unfinished song with potential but the guts of it was there. Kinda sleazy..... if we'd done another album it would have been stuff like this. Porn rock or something.

'Real cool time' is indeed a Stooges cover. How predictable (talk about wearing your influences on your sleeve.....). We played this live & off the cuff at a party before we ever rehearsed it. Hilarious. Some people loved it........and some hated it (of course).

How dare we destroy such a classic......

Have fun with it.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/2nuih4iqa026e84/Black%20Panthers%20Classified%20Material.zip

Mothgods studio recordings

Here's a few studio recordings by The Mothgods. Our only studio efforts actually.

Two different band line-ups recording two different sessions.

V1: Bob, Pete, Darryl (Tracks 1-3).
V2: Bob, Tim, Paul (Tracks 4, 5).

Recorded at Nightshift studios, Chch by Arnie between 1993-96.

The way i hear this stuff now is that it's a bit 'naive' really. Recorded before we finally got into the swing of things and then failed to do anymore decent recordings. Lack of money probably the main reason for that. Some of the later Mothgods songs appear on my 'Strange conversation' CD. Notably 'Come back simon', 'Clouds' and the 'Without eyes' number (which was an instrumental in the Gods). They were recorded post band breakup but i still managed to rope the lads in to play a few tracks. Most likely i enticed them with promises of free homebrew....or lunch. All said and done, i prefer the rough as guts ' Live in the lounge' stuff over this because it's more fun. But then, this is still worthy of an archive...

One time before a gig, Pete, Darryl and myself had a cracker car accident after pulling out of a bottle store and running into an oncoming Commodore. Both cars were right-offs. Luckily no-one was injured but we were in shock for a while. We were sitting around on the footpath and people from local businesses were bringing us cups of tea. Then the cops showed up and we discovered our driver didn't have a license and it wasn't his car but his girlfriends. The cops were not impressed (neither was the girlfriend).

Originally released as a cassette (pictured).

Here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/vxe9el29rs84mk6/Mothgods_Studio_Mp3.zip

Kate in the lemon tree

Here's something i've been meaning to post for a while now. Some fabulous 'Kate in the lemon tree'.
I went to a party with Tim (mothgod's drummer) sometime in the mid-nineties and was feeling very cynical until this band started playing. I couldn't believe my ears! Great songs, great playing......really fucking wild stuff.
I discovered a while later that they lived down the road from me in Cambridge Tce (literally a stone throw). The whole band (five of them) lived there and they'd created a pretty serious band house for themselves.
The lounge was basically a rehearsal space if i remember rightly.

I've been trying for the last few hours (in vain) to find a birthday card they made me once. I was going to post it on this blog. On the front they'd drawn a wineglass and written 'Happy Birthday Rob', inside it said, 'From the 'How do you do club'. They'd (Chris and Pete i think....) knocked on my door and got me outa bed at about 8am on a freezing sunday morning to give me some cold, burnt toast on a plate and the card.
It wasn't my birthday.

Other strange events were to follow. These guys were up to mischief.....
Another night at about 3am (and again, freezing) we were woken by these guys chasing each other, waist deep in the Avon river across the road (after screaming their lungs out in a sing-along under the bridge).  
Then there were the occasional street antics. Pete and Simon were busking in the city one night late on a friday. Both playing snares and hi hats and jammin some wild stuff. My buddy ALC5 and i were heading to the pub and ran into them. People were trying to give them money which they were adverse to, so then either Pete or Simon would stop playing, pick up the money and throw it back at them.
Art, not money.... thanks. Love it.
Then there was the party we had where one of them drank spilt beer off the kitchen lino....
the list goes on....could write a book really.

The first two songs on this download are from a tape Simon gave me years ago (titles unknown, also ripped as they were on the tape. Don't blame me if there's an intro missing...!).
The rest comes from a CD i have which is NOT the album they released '50 Years of Shark' but contains some of it i believe.
Pete, Simon, Chris, Ian and Hamish (Nans) were 'Kate in the lemon tree'.
Jump in the deep end and give this a listen....highly recommend it.

Hope they don't knock on my door at 8am with some cold burnt toast.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/w2wdt4smz6971xr/Kate_in_the_lemon_tree_Mp3.zip

Jammin with the ALC5

Rob (left), Al (right) in the garden at Matai st, 1991.

Here's a couple of tunes knocked out by myself and my old buddy Al.

I jammed with Al quite a bit during the 90's. We also had a band for a while which we didn't really have a name for. That band consisted of me and Al on guitars, me on vox and a drum machine. We played a few gigs here and there (mostly supporting the black panthers i think) but sadly there's no actual recordings made of that project. I thought i had a live set in the tapebox somewhere but as yet i ain't come across it.

Al was also the secret 5th member of the black panthers and played keyboards on a couple of tunes during live performances. Namely on our cover of Deep purples 'child in time'. Ha. That was so much fun to play. Especially with Matt and Vaughn trying to reach those outrageously high vocal notes. Again sadly, no recording of that exists that i know of. But then, as my grandmother used to say: 'What you never see, you never miss'. I think she was bang on the nail with that one.

Now that Al is no longer with us i value any recordings that we made together that much more.

Hope you can find some value in it too.

Photo is of me and Al in the yard at Matai st. With a glass of homemade plonk i believe.

There's two tunes here...... enjoy.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/1a7rb1082e8i37e

Steve and Rob - One afternoon

 

Here's a little gem....

An afternoon of hangin out with my friend Steve ( Reay ). 

Steve came over to my house and decided we were doing an album. That afternoon.
We had no songs, had not rehearsed, and frankly i thought the idea was a bit..... ambitious.
Steve was convincing however and soon enough we had 14 songs and a 25 minute album!
All recorded hastily on my Sony mono walkman for a real low-fi sound.

Unlike the Rob and Stefan demos (where we'd actually rehearsed) these are right off the cuff tunes never attempted or even thought of before or after. 

We used to make a lot of home-brew me and Steve. It got quite competitive over who could make the strongest shit. Steve ended up being the winner with his 11% home-brewed lager. After drinking large amounts of that one night i barely made it home (i lived about 200 meters away). 

Stagger stagger....... fall fall....... thankfully i didn't fall in the river,

Check it out. two guys, two guitars. Acoustic madness.

Recorded around 1995? Somewhere in that ballpark anyways. 

Here's the download link:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/0ggg1vs1pe63v4u 

Single girls vid

Secret Circle

Here's another monster from the tapebox....

Think spicey cup of tea, meditating on a persian rug while having a massage. Instumental journeys developing (or unravelling) all on their lonesome. Galaxies collide.... and divide.... and seperate.

These are lengthy jams with my friend David Rayner and a few other crew. Recorded 1995 or thereabouts. Every few weeks we'd get together and bash out a few numbers. We used to swap instruments a bit too so it's hard for me to tell who's playing what but i'm playing drums for about half of it and guitar for the rest. And also maybe bass on a track or two. David Rayner plays bass, drums and possibly guitar and some other percussive instruments. Other crew involved include Hilary (percussion (tabla / bongos etc)), another David (percussion) my ex-girlfriend Sonya (keyboards) and a hippy called Jody on guitar (if it sounds 'funky' it's probably him playing, not me). David recorded all of this with one stereo microphone and a tapedeck. I can't remember what type it was but i recall it being rather high end gear and hence these recordings sound excellent aside from the occasional imbalance in the volumes of things.
At one point you can hear i'm playing guitar far too loudly and hence get told off by all present.
Typical guitar player 

We never had a name for this project and we never played live either so i've taken the liberty of calling it 'Secret Circle'. 
Recorded at 58 Matai St West, Christchurch, New Zealand. Another great old mansion that was knocked down to make way for numerous townhouses. Hooray for progress..... 

At least the reverberations of the old house continue to bounce around the universe. 

And here they are.....

CD 1 = http://www.mediafire.com/file/2h5m8k0549wmfk7

CD 2 = http://www.mediafire.com/file/cbbfcf9annhaflx

There's about 90 mins worth of it here. Divided into two downloads so if you don't like the first one, you don't have to waste your time downloading the second one.

Bob's top 10 for 2012

Recently i picked up a local music rag with all the writers listing their fave Top 10 albums for 2012. 'Burn after reading' comes to mind. 
I didn't like any of it one bit.
Therefore i've come up with my own Top 10. Bob's Top of the Pops.
Lap these up chums. Do someone a favour and put one of these in their xmas stocking.
You could make a friend for life (or an enemy forever.....).

Actually, now that i look at this list.... i was listening to all this shit last year!

oh well, the song remains the same.....

and in no particular order.

1. Pelican - What we all come to need (heavy intrumental rock)
http://www.discogs.com/Pelican-What-We-All-Come-To-Need/master/191881
2. Godflesh - Messiah (Godflesh in a better mood than usual)
 http://www.discogs.com/Godflesh-Messiah/master/13286
3. Chrome - Blood on the moon  (All Chrome is good Chrome....well, up until 'Third from the sun' anyway)
http://www.discogs.com/Chrome-Blood-On-The-Moon/master/56941
4. Wicked lady - The axeman cometh  (A lost 60's classic! Pure genius)
 http://www.discogs.com/Wicked-Lady-The-Axeman-Cometh/release/3696449
5. Sunn O))) and Boris - Altar ((( needs lots of brackets... and earplugs)))
http://www.discogs.com/Sunn-O-Boris-Altar/master/1500 
6. Saint Vitus - Born too late (Metal meets punk and goes to bed within smelly sheets)
http://www.discogs.com/Saint-Vitus-Born-Too-Late/master/30106 
7. Warning - Warning (Great weird german industrial disco... or something)
http://www.discogs.com/Warning-Warning/release/644599 
8. Hawkwind - Warrior on the edge of time (Lemmy plays bass on this album. Nuff said)
http://www.discogs.com/Hawkwind-Warrior-On-The-Edge-Of-Time/master/28179 
9. Mig 21 - Hot to trotsky (Awesome Christchurch industrial pop madness)
http://www.discogs.com/MiG-21-Hot-To-Trotsky/release/1145433 
10. Jesu - S/T (first album) (slow, sludgy and makes you cry)
http://www.discogs.com/Jesu-Jesu/master/25266 

 None of these are downloads. That would just be silly.
Go and buy them. 
Preferably on vinyl.
And buy a new stylus while you're at it.

Into the void - Live at the dux de lux

I remember sometime in 1989 or thereabouts, my flatmate Dianna came home from seeing these guys and said to me: "my god rob, you HAVE to see Into The Void!" 
She was emphatic. 
It was basically an order. 
So weeks later i obeyed...... like a trained seal.
The pub was dark, the red light glowed, the smoke machine bellowed and Into The Void screeched and growled through a sinister set of art rock noise to the arm folded, seemingly unimpressed masses. They were awesome! I was gobsmacked.
I also recall a time a year or two after that event when i dragged my friend Steve to see them. he was involved in the scene in Dunedin and hated Christchurch bands. Into the void changed his mind. He just stood there with his mouth open (though i have a feeling medication contributed to his feelings of elation).
ITV are survivors too. Still playing occasionally, even though half the band live in Melbourne and the other half in Christchurch.
This live recording is made all the more poignant by the fact that the dux (currently reinventing itself elsewhere) is no longer in its original location,  thanks to the enormous earthquake that flattened half the city. It sux not having the dux.... you couldn't beat the location.
I don't know who recorded this but the quality is really good. There are also two songs (trk 4 & 8) whose titles remain unknown thus far. If someone knows what they are (James.... i know you're out there....) please enlighten us. 
 
Christchurch rock veterans...ITV.....

 (Since posting this, James has sorted out the tracks for me so she's been reloaded with all titles intact.....  thanks Jimmo!).

 http://www.mediafire.com/file/vn0q8rpcp1m3t3w

Mp3 @ 320 kbps

Rob and Stefan's manic guitar sessions

I used to jam with a guy called Stefan back in '92 -'93. Our general routine was thus: Stefan would come over to my house with his guitar and two half gallon jars. Then we would walk to Harringtons brewery and get the jars filled with beer. Upon returning to the house we would plug into my Fender amp, drink beer and make some noise. Most of these sessions i would record a few tunes that seemed at the time to have some merrit. These tapes have been at the bottom of my cassette box for 20 years or so and i've only now ripped them to digital media (ditching about half of it due to either poor quality recording, or if it was simply rubbish i wouldn't let my dog listen to).
We weren't really planning a band or anything but considered playing in cafes (or somewhere other than pubs) for a laugh but that never eventuated. Sad, because i would have loved to torment the villagers with this crazy shit. Not all of this stuff is sonically challenging though. There are a few mellow and spacious moments where the villagers are lulled into a false sense of security.

Stefan's guitar sound is more 'bass' sounding due to to fact that he ripped the frets out of it and half the time he's playing it like a bass too. Fingers, not picks. There's no overdubs or anything on these tracks. Just the two of us playing guitars and drinking. 

Recorded at 329 Cambridge tce, Christchurch, NZ. for those of you with an eye for posterity.

Download the whole shebang. 50 mins of sheer terror!: http://www.mediafire.com/file/6doht2cjs48smou

Or you can listen to and / or buy the real thing here: http://albertsbasement.bandcamp.com/album/rob-stefan-manic-guitar-sessions

Pretty wack on vinyl

Now available! 'Pretty wack' on vinyl. Ltd edition blue vinyl pressing.

Email  bobcadillac1@gmail.com  if you want a copy. Cost is $15.00 (Aus). Postage incurs additional cost and will depend on where you live!

You can also listen to the whole album and / or buy a copy here:

http://bobcadillac.bandcamp.com/

And see the Discogs site for more info......

http://www.discogs.com/Bob-Cadillac-Pretty-Wack/release/3557551

wrap your ears round this baby....

Black Panthers / Deep inside.... what?

Ah yes well.... its not my fault i was in a band with a bunch of perverts!

Made by us in fact. Alan Cameron filmed it and edited it. And with a limited array of tools at hand. RIP ALC5. Respect.

Black Panthers / You ain't around

Black Panthers Live at Christchurch Television School. 1997 again.....

Black Panthers / hey hey

Black Panthers Live in Christchurch. 1997 by my reckoning.....