Proper Gander

At the same auction a couple of cool Pans are also up. Eye candy if ever I've seen! Not Loveless but Lovelots!

The real deal

The first year 1936 61ci EL Knuckle up for Auction in California in June. Gonna fetch a few bob!

Stolen BSA in Kent - HELP!

There are some shitty people in the world and one of em have have stolen Roo's beloved Beezer, it's been his daily transport for 20 years - please help us track this bike down and return it to its rightful owner! If you know of anything or find anything suspicious please comment here or email info@dirtybobbers.co.uk and we'll pass it on. Thanks -

"My BSA A7 was stolen last night/early morning. I live in Tonbridge, Kent. The bike details are Reg TSL 120, engine number CA7 4727, frame GA7 6363, colour green, tls front brake, alloy rims, alloy head. If you are offered this bike or suss bits of an A7 please hold them until I get there, feel free to make sure they can't run. Roo."

Uncle Frank's got the answers

scored this cool book off evil bay for 15 sheets the other day. Been outbid a few time in the past on copies. My dog-eared first edition (not the one shown) is a cool little font of knowledge on twenties and thirties american bikes (HD/Indian/Henderson). The questions on all lips answered in a no nonsense thirties style - love it. Grab a copy if you can!

Lyric for the day

always talk about the money
always talk about the honey, baby

what's your name, what's your name
take it down to the river

paint your soul
it's not my fault

devil take my soul if you want it
bring you back to me for just one more night
devil take my soul if you want it
bring you back to me for just one more night

Devil Take My Soul - Son Of Dave

Being also a son of a Dave I was intrigued by this guy (aka Benjamin Darvill). Bit of a dodgy past in Canadian band Crash Test Dummies but after settlin in London he found his art with the Harp and a Akai Headrush pedal, meant for guitar that you push one button to record and another to play it back. Little Walter sounding harp with hip hop style drums with his mouth. It's a wierd but working mix. check him out...

Lyric for the day

Well, I done got old
I caint do the thangs I used to do;
I'm a old man

Well, I done got old
I caint do the thangs I used to do;
I'm a old man

I don' look like I used
Can't walk like I used
Cain't love like I used
Now things have changed
And I done got old
I caint do the thangs I used to do;
I'm a old man

Junior Kimbrough - Done Got Old

Charlie Feathers called Kimbrough "the beginning and end of all music." Long time mate of RL Burnside also a Fat Possum label mate. He used to run a juke joint caled Junior's joint and when he died his sons continued until it burned to the ground in April 2000.
He was the real deal!

The Test Of Time

check this out...this picture sums it up for me...modified redskin in the thirties! love it

Proper Gander

Check this nice K that I saw on the Den Of Sportsters blog. Hooligan bike!

Lyric for the day

Tell Automatic Slim , tell Razor Totin' Jim
Tell Butcher Knife Totin' Annie, tell Fast Talking Fanny
A we gonna pitch a ball, a down to that union hall
We gonna romp and tromp till midnight
We gonna fuss and fight till daylight
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long
All night long
All night long

Howlin Wolf - Wang Dang Doodle
written by Willie Dixon

Chester Burnett aka Howlin Wolf was 6 feet, 6 inches and close to 300 pounds with a voice compared to "the sound of heavy machinery operating on a gravel road"

He would both take the house down and scare the punters half to death!

The Wolf avoided pitfalls of alcohol, gambling and women and unlike other blues artists was always financially successful.
He was quoted 'I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.'

Eye Candy

Saw this Hammer Sycle build on the 13th Chopper Street blog! mmmmmm...nice!

Stockers

The Stockers - Leighton, Steve, John and Eddie have welcomed a few folk into their fold.....in their words "We’re all chuffed to bits to grow the Stockers in the right direction… all ages, all walks of life, one common interest… collecting, riding, building, customising and choppin’ up motorcycles. Damn! if this was a club we could have some kind of weird initiation involving chickens but it aint a club - just a group of folk with a common interest, if it sits well… jobsa good un’"

check out the site http://stockersspeedshop.co.uk/

Proper Gander

Another nice bike from the DB nicked pics thread....love this in every way!

Lyric for the day

Some bright morning, when this life is over
I'll fly away
To that home on God's celestial shore
I'll fly away
I'll fly away, oh glory
I'll fly away, in the morning
When I die, hallelujah by and by
I'll fly away
When The shadows of this life have gone
I'll fly away
Like a bird from these prison walls I'll fly
I'll fly away
I'll fly away, oh glory
I'll fly away, in the morning
When I die hallelujah by and by
I'll fly away

I'll Fly Away - Trad Gospel

Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss did a great version of this song on the O Brother Where Art Thou movie by the Coen Brothers. Dreamy, soaring....bluegrass Appalachian style.

Eye Candy

There is a thread on DB where pics nicked from other sites get posted. Don't know anything about this Pan cos it was posted there but it sure is pleasing to the eye!

Lyric for the day

Good evening ladies and gentleman, it is an honor to be here tonight with you everybody. I wanna say hello and welcome to the party. We are Blues Explosion and wanna play some rock 'n' roll. Now ladies and gentleman this is not the devil's music but it feels like the devil’ time. We are not in the service of the devil but sometimes I feel his sick breath on my behind. Said I feel so bad sometimes. I wanna sing about it in my song, I want everybody, I said I want everybody…

I want someone to help me with these blues
I'm gonna hang up my rock 'n' roll shoes
Take one in the head and one off the wrist
Won't you help me, please help me Miss
Check it out now

Help These Blues - Jon Spencer & The Blues Explosion

The Blues Explosion were the first band I heard playing the Blues with their own tastes/ experiences as the driving force. They were not 'Pony Tail' blues, trying to mimick the Delta/Chicago sound and describing it as high art but playing the blues from what they knew - NY punk/trash. It worked. Just because your not from down south don't mean you do not have the right to play the blues - just play from your heart and experiences - simple!

Lyric for the day

I ain't gonna tell nobody, '34 have done for me
I ain't gonna tell nobody what, '34 have done for me
Took my roller¹, I was broke as I could be

They run me from Will Dockery's, Willie Brown, I want your job
They run me from Will Dockery's, )Willie Brown, I want your job
Buddy, what's the matter?
I went out and told papa Charley, "I don't want you hangin' round on my job no more"

Charlie patton ' 34 Blues

Charlie was the "jack-of all-trades bluesman" who played deep blues, white hillbilly songs and nineteenth-century ballads. Played on Dockery's where others like Rober Johnson, Son House and Chester Burnett played. He was the Father of the Delta Blues. Only one photo of him existed and that is contested.

McQueen's Machine

One of my favourites a 1940 Indian 45ci Sport Scout

Lyric for the day

Tell You a little story and it won't take long,
'Bout a lazy farmer who wouldn't hoe his corn.
The reason why I never could tell,
That young man was always well.

He planted his corn in the month of June.
By July it was up to his eyes.
Come September, came a big frost.
And all the young man's corn was lost.

......

He turned his back and walked away.
Sayin: "Little miss, you'll rue the day.
"You'll rue the day that you were born.
"For givin' me the devil 'cos I wouldn't hoe corn."

Alison Kraus & Union Station - The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn

Jerry Douglas plays a mean dobro on this track, unbelievable! Sung by Dan Tyminski of Soggy Bottom Boys fame. Bit partial to some Bluegrass and this track does it for me.
About a bloke who does it his way, even though it goes all wrong. Got admire him for trying but his sweetheart don't, she refuses to marry him.

Another Knuck in a VL Frame

found another. this time Dale Walksler from Wheels Through Time did a 36 EL in an early VL frame.

Lyric for the day

You know the woman that I love
The woman that I love
I stol't her from my best friend
But you know he done got lucky
An he done got her back, again

Devil Got My Woman - Skip James

Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James sharecropped, made bootleg whiskey, played guitar in open D minor tuning and developed the three-finger picking technique. Re-discovered at the same time as the masterful Son House in '64, he found long awaited recognition with Chris Thomas King covering his "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" for the film O Brother Where Art Thou and Cream and Deep Purple covering his 'I'm So Glad'.