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L.A WITCH – ” Play With Fire “

Posted: January 20, 2022 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Where L.A. Witch’s self-titled album oozed with vibe and atmosphere, with the whole mix draped in reverb, sonically placing the band in some distant realm, broadcast across some unknown chasm of time, “Play With Fire” comes crashing out of the gate with a bold, brash, in-your-face rocker “Fire Starter”. The authoritative opener is a deliberate mission statement.

“Play With Fire” is a suggestion to make things happen,” says Sanchez. “Don’t fear mistakes or the future. Take a chance. Say and do what you really feel, even if nobody agrees with your ideas. These are feelings that have stopped me in the past. I want to inspire others to be freethinkers even if it causes a little burn.” And by that line of reasoning, “Fire Starter” becomes a call to action, an anthem against apathy. From there, the album segues into the similarly bodacious rocker “Motorcycle Boy” a feisty love song inspired by classic cinema outlaws like Mickey Rourke, Marlon Brando, and Steve McQueen. At track three, we hear L.A. Witch expand into new territories as “Dark Horse” unfurls a mixture of dustbowl folk, psychedelic breakdowns, and fire-and-brimstone organ lines. And from there, the band only gets more adventurous.

“Play With Fire” is a bold new journey that retains L.A. Witch’s siren-song mystique, nostalgic spirit, and contemporary cool. Despite the stylistic breadth of the record, there is a unifying timbre across the album’s nine tracks, as if the trio of young musicians is bound together as a collective of old souls tapping into the sounds of their previous youth.

The songs are Effortlessly cool, there’s elements of punk and surf in there and the vocals make the listening nice and easy, nothing jarring here just feels like a smooth ride in the california sun. 

“Los Angeles has always been a home for misplaced souls, and L.A Witch has the sound to go with it, dripping with nostalgia, heavy reverb, and glamour.” – NYLON

“Sanchez sounds like she genuinely might steal your car and your soul, and then drive them both through the darkness to Hell.” – VICE

“As one might expect of a band called L.A. Witch, this West Coast trio plays pitch-black pop-rock wrapped in blankets of reverb.” – Consequence of Sound 

Originally Released August 21st, 2020

The ROLLING STONES – ” The Last Time ” Released 26th February 1965

Posted: February 26, 2016 in MUSIC
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“The Last Time” is a song by the The Rolling Stones,  It was the band’s first single written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. originally recorded at RCA Studios in Hollywood, California in January 1965, “The Last Time” was the band’s third UK single to reach No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart, spending three weeks at the top in March and early April 1965.

On this day February. 25th  in 1965: The Rolling Stones debuted their single “The Last Time” on the BBC-TV music program ‘Ready! Steady! Go!’; one month later, on March 27th,backed with B side of “Play With Fire”, released on Decca Records, in the UK, it topped the charts for 3 weeks, on Decca Records

Although The Last Time is credited to Jagger/Richards, the song’s refrain is very close to “This May Be The Last Time”, a 1958 track by The Staple Singers. In 2003, Keith Richards acknowledged this, saying: “we came up with ‘The Last Time’, which was basically re-adapting a traditional gospel song that had been sung by the Staple Singers, but luckily the song itself goes back into the mists of time. The Rolling Stones’ song has a main melody and a hook (a distinctive guitar riff) that were both absent in the Staple Singers’ version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xZksYrWai8

Footage still exists of a number of performances of this song by the Rolling Stones in 1965: from the popular BBC-TV music show Top of the Pops, the 1965 New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert and American TV shows including The Ed Sullivan Show,Shindig! and The Hollywood Palace. A full live performance is also prominently featured in the 2012 re-edit of the 1965 documentary “Charlie Is My Darling“. The footage confirms that the rhythm chords and guitar solo were played by Keith Richards, while the song’s distinctive hook was played by Brian Jones, suggesting that Jones may have composed that riff.

A popular song in the Stones‘ canon, it was regularly performed in concert during the band’s 1965, 1966 and 1967 tours. It was then left off their concert set lists until 1997-98, when it reappeared on the Bridges to Babylon Tour. It would later appear on some of the band’s setlists in 2012-13 on the 50 & Counting tour.