June 29 – On This Day!

1993: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Jabberjaw, Los Angeles, CA, US

1996: Twenty Miles – recording Ragged Backyard Classics at the Fun House by Jerry Teel (https://www.instagram.com/teelmusic/)

Photo: Ali Smith (https://www.instagram.com/mommaloveali/)

1998: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands – CANCELLED
w/ Add N to (X) and The Gluemen

Thanks to Arne for the poster image (https://www.instagram.com/labasheeda_amsterdam/)

2001: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Festival Insolent, Le Pavilion, Quimper, France

Image: Mik Back (https://www.instagram.com/mik_back/)

2004: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Babylon, Ottawa, ON, Canada
w/ Double Pumpers

“The packed club was nice and sweaty by the time Spencer (wearing an alarmingly hot pair of PVC pants), drummer Russell Simmons and second guitarist Judah Bauer took the stage. Burdened with a guitar and vocal duties as he is (and he practically swallowed the microphone at times), Spencer is deprived of the acrobatic opportunities of someone who only has to hold a microphone, but he made up for it with some knee drops and the occasional leap while howling his way through a long set of deconstructed, if not totally destroyed blues.

The audience was enraptured and moved along in time to the music as well as they could; you could feel the floor heave.

The set culminated in some cacophonous manipulation of a pseudo-Theremin that had everyone in the club brave enough not to bring plugs sticking their fingers in their ears.

After listing a long litany of his travels, Spencer then declared “But I’ve never seen anything as craaaaazy as O-ta-waaah!” – but he probably says that in every town.” – Andrew Carver

Live Photos: Andrew Carver (https://natcaprock.blogspot.com/2007/12/boxing-day-blues.html)

2009: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (Russell Simins and Elegant Too Remix) – released

The Russell Simins and Elegant Too remix was only available digitally and is still available as a FREE download from the Elegant Too soundcloud page (https://soundcloud.com/eleganttoo/heads-will-roll).