Thursday, November 29, 2012

ROCKIN' OUT, FUNKIN' IN, JAZZIN' UP and SOCKIN' IT ABOUT . . . THE ALL NEW GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 12 (The last one for 2012) IS UP AND PODCASTED FOR YOUR LISTENIN' DELECTATION ! ! !























AHHHHhhhhhh  YES ! ! !
GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 12 IS WAITING FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT . . .
THIS TIME WAGRadio's DJZigZag MIXES OLD - MILLIE JACKSON, CASSANDRA WILSON & CHIC . . . WITH THE NEW - NAZIZI, KON & THE GANG, LOYAL FLAMES and AVANT.  BRO' ZAG MIXES IN THE JAZZIE - WAYNE ESCOFFERY with THE IRIE - ROMAIN VIRGO, POPCAAN, DEMARCO for A GROOVIN' BLUE TO END THE YEAR ! !
DELECT, ENJOY and SAVOUR ! ! !

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Sunday, November 25, 2012

LOOKIN' OUT THE WAGRadio STUDIO 'B' WINDOW AT THE FRASER RIVER AND THE NEW PORT MANN BRIDGE. WORKIN' ON THE LATEST GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 12


GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 12 IS BEING READIED FOR PODCAST !  
AND AFTER THAT IT'S CHRISTMAS 2012 GROOVIN' BLUE . . . 
BUT LET'S NOT GET AHEAD OF OURSELVES.  THE LATEST G.B. SHOULD BE READY FOR THE LOYAL WAGRadio FANS IN THIS THE LAST WEEK OF NOVEMBER, 2012.
FEATURED ARTISTS include . . .  FAITH EVANS, WAYNE ESCOFFERY, R KELLY, AVANT & KEKE WYATT, PHAROHE MONCH, TRE WILLIAMS and the REVELATIONS, MILLIE JACKSON and so many . . . .  MORE !  YES ! ! !

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Photo: Ebba Reiter

Friday, November 23, 2012

THE FINEST JAZZ SINGER TO COME OUT OF CANADA? YOU BE THE JUDGE . . . Ms. JOANI TAYLOR - THIS SUNDAY 1:00 to 4:00 - PAT'S PUB (The Patricia Hotel - 403 Hastings Street East)



SUNDAY, NOV. 25th 1 - 4 in the afternoon . . . IT'S Ms. JOANI TAYLOR.  A GEM OF A SINGER.  LARGELY UNHERALDED BY THE PUBLIC (although she is an award winner and JUNO nominee).  A READY-FOR-NEW YORK KINDA CHANTEUSE ! !  
AND SPEAKING OF READY  !  !  !   Ms. TAYLOR'S BACKUP QUARTET IS MORE-THAN-ABLY FILLED by Mr. HENRY YOUNG on GEETAR, DOUGLAS LOUIE on KEYBOARDS, PAUL BLANEY on BASS and BLAINE WIKJARD (pronounced "wikjard") on DRUMS.

THIS SUNDAY - THE PATRICIA HOTEL - 403 EAST HASTINGS STREET - IN THE HEART OF EAST VAN ! ! ! 
COME EARLIER AND ENJOY THE GREAT FOOD, MEET OLD & NEW PALS - - - THEN  DANCE TO THE MUSIC or SIT AND DIG THE SOUNDS . . .

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

THE MOST WONDERFUL BLOG 'VANCOUVER WAS AWESOME' HIGHLIGHTS ONE OF TWO NEW WORLD AFRICAN MUSIC CLUBS FROM THE 1960'S WITH A MEMORY-STRETCHING '66 PHOTO OF THE MOONGLOW CABARET and some REMINISCENCES by TOMMY CHONG.


Excerpt from the blog; VANCOUVER WAS AWESOME
http://vancouverisawesome.com/2012/11/21/vancouver-was-awesome-moon-glow-cabaret-1966/

The Moon Glow was already closed for a few years when this photo was taken, but in the late 1950s and early 60s, it was an R&B club. Tommy Chong talks about playing there with The Shades, his band from those days:
"The Moon Glow was owned by Daddy Clark, a railway porter who loved The Shades and wanted to see us back together. Railway porters played a big part in our development as blues musicians because they were the ones who brought records up from the States, turning us on to Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, who did tunes like “Sexy Ways,” “Annie Had a Baby,” and “The Twist.” They brought us the latest records from Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, and a host of other blues artists who were otherwise unobtainable. We would learn these great tunes and then play them for a grateful audience, who would be hearing them for the first time, since they were never played on the radio."
The VANCOUVER IS AWESOME blog goes on to say . . . 
Tommy Chong became well known in the local live music scene and had a brush with fame when his band, Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers, signed with Motown. After that effort fizzled, Chong turned his brother’s topless bar at Main and Pender, the Shanghai Junk, into a comedy club where he paired up with Cheech Marin to form Cheech and Chong.

WAGRadio contributor and co-host and former DJ on Canada's first underground radio station CKLG-FM - Mr. Mike "KingaDaBlues" Cvetkovich has talked to DJZigZag in length about the Moon Glow Cabaret in Chinatown (just up the block from Sweet Daddy Fonk Wong's house).  Mike C. has regaled DJZZ with stories of legendary Rhythm 'n' Blues artists like saxophonist Joe Houston playing the Moon Glow.
For VanCity musicologists the band Tommy Chong talks about was known to East Van Black Music lovers as the Calgary Shades because there was already a dynamic group in VanCity known as The Shades [Charlie Austin (pn), Gordie Richardson (dm), Tom Wilson (sx), Danny Raceovich (gtr), Ron Kasaka (bs), Don Wilson (sx) and lead vocalist - the mighty Laverne Gerrard - brother to Donny].  The (Calgary, AB) Shades were so good and of such a high musicality though that the West Coast group soon became known as The Vancouver Shades.
DJZigZag remembers walking into the Britannia High School gymnasium in the early sixties and hearing the unmistakalbe beginning strains of "Honky Tonk" by Bill Doggett's combo.  It wasn't Mr. Doggett's group playing though.  It was The Calgary Shades with Tommy Chong on guitar, Wes Henderson on bass, Bernie Sneed on organ and his brother Floyd Sneed (Three Dog Night) on drums with the soulful lead R'n'B vocals by Tommie "Little Daddy" Melton.
DJZZ feels that even King Records' owner Syd Nathan would have thought he was listening to the original hitmakers rather than this young group of lads from Alberta, Canada.
ZigZag also notes that the Stratford Hotel was the away-from-home overnight lodgings of the Winnipeg porters making a turn-around run from Manitoba to B.C. and back home again.  In his youth, DJZigZag was a porter on the C.N.Railways and got to know many of the brothers who the company lodged in the Stratford Hotel.  
Mike Cvetkovich would shop at two record stores in Washington State.  Bob Summerise, a well-known discjockey, owned what was Mike C.'s favourite record store in Seattle.  The 2nd store in the city's black Central District was called Little Record Mart.  Owned by Ms. Ollie M. Frazier this was the younger DJZigZag and pal's record store of choice in the Emerald City.  Ms. Frazier often asked Mike if he would save her some postage as well as time and take 45 rpm (7 inch) records to the owner of "the Stratford".  These same records were the Calgary Shades musical inspiration.  Vancouver was awesome but also a small town in the 1960's - especially if you dug New World African Music.

Read Tommy Chong's books "The I Chong: Meditations From The Joint" (Simon Spotlight Entertainment / 2006) and "Cheech and Chong: The Unauthorized Autobiography" (Simon and Schuster / 2009)

Thanks, once again, to Jason Vanderhill for hippin' us to this latest post from VANCOUVER IS AWESOME.

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

A MUSICAL HERO DURING DJZigZag's TEENAGE YEARS. THE INCOMPARABLE HOWLIN' WOLF ! ! HERE HE SINGS "SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD".




THE BACK-UP BAND IS LED BY GUITAR GIANT HUBERT SUMLIN and SAX GREAT EDDIE SHAW.  THAT'S ROBERT PLUNKETT ON DRUMS and more-than-likely EDDIE SHAW's SON VAN SHAW ON GUITAR or BASS.  IT COULD ALSO BE SHORTY GILBERT on BASS.
LET US KNOW IF WE'VE GOT ANY NAMES WRONG.
THE GIG HAPPENED IN 1974 AND DA WOLF IS IN GREAT FORM and LOOKS GOOD ! !

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

*** ARTWORK FEATURES THE ORIGINAL HOME OF BILL & BOB'S RECORD SHOP - THE SAM KEE BLDG. - 10 WEST PENDER STREET in VANCOUVER, BC CANADA's CHINATOWN (where the EAST END begins) . . .



This original painting by Vancouver, Canada artist Carolyn Jia depicts the Sam Kee Building at the corner of Pender and Carrall streets in VanCity's Chinatown.
The bottom part of the narrowest building in the world (Ripley's Believe It Or Not) is divided by a staircase which leads to a 'room' which runs the full length of the top of the structure.  To the right of those stairs as our view shows was the home of Bill & Bob's Record Shop owned by Bill Reiter (aka DJZigZag) and Bobby "Pea Dow Cha Siu Wat Dan Faun" Garrison.
It was the second record store in VanCity to sell only New World African Music.  Heart and Soul Record Store on Commercial Drive (owner: Russell Mar) was the first.  Bill & Bob's operated in the late sixties for two and a half years.

To buy an inkjet print, framed 12" x 16" of "Narrow Chinatown" by Carolyn Jia go to this site . .

http://reflections2013.tumblr.com/post/33821627873/16-6-narrow-chinatown-by-carolyn-j-inkjet


* Thanks to Jason Vanderhill for hippin' us to this.

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Saturday, November 3, 2012

THIS IS A BIG CHOON FROM WAGRadio's GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 11 . . . SWEET VOICED VIVIAN GREEN and her HOT, HAWT, HAUGHT single "ANYTHING OUT THERE" . . .

BOY, AIN'T THIS A UNIQUE VIDEO ! ! BILLY MARTIN & WIL BLADES AT THE MAIN PUB IN MANCHESTER, CONNETICUT . . .

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SIX - COUNT 'EM SIX - CAMERA ANGLES ON THE DRUM/ORGAN DUO OF BILLY MARTIN and WIL BLADES . . . PLAYING A CUT "MAE MAE" FROM THEIR NEW Cd and ALL IN AN INTIMATE CLUB SETTING.
THIS WILL BE ENJOYED BY ALL Y'ALL !

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MASH UP A HANK BALLARD COIFFURED BROTHA WITH A FILM MAKER THAT OBVIOUSLY IS A FAN OF THE BRIT T.V. SERIES "MISFITS" and YOU GET THIS "ADORN" video featuring MIGUEL . .



A FIXATION ASSOCIATED WITH WHITE TILED BATHROOM WALLS AND FETISHLY 'TIED-UP' NET STOCKING FACED WOMEN CAN GET A GUY IN TROUBLE.  
DJZigZag sez HE SPEAKS WITH AUTHORITY ON THIS MATTER.  THIS BEGS THE QUESTION - WHAT DO OUR MAIN MAN & MIGUEL GET UP TO WHEN THEY LEAVE THEIR PERSPECTIVE STUDIOS??
MIGUEL's "ADORN" IS ONE OF THE HUGE GROOVIN' BLUE HITS FROM THE SUMMER/AUTUMN and finally HERE IS THE VIDEO (already viewed by almost eleven million peeps).

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