The Perlich Post

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Happy 85th Birthday George Clinton!

Celebrating the 85th birthday of P-Funk mainman George Clinton with a few clips and interviews. Cheers George!

R.I.P. saxophonist Plas Johnson, 1931-2026

Sadly, saxophonist Plas Johnson – best known for the Pink Panther Theme – passed away just days before his 95th birthday.

Watch an interview with Plas Johnson conducted by Mark Rowe in 1996 right here.

Midweek Mixdown: On The Brink, Return Of The Instro-Hipsters

Nick Saloman of Bevis Frond notoriety curated the fab On The Brink selection of groovy 60s UK instro swingers back in 2007.

On The Brink: Return Of The Instro-Hipsters

Grooviness From UK - Sitars, Organs & Fuzz Guitar Music

On the Brink is a collection of 20 previously uncomped and absolutely superb UK instrumentals from the '60s and early '70s, assembled by legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head, Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond).

Presenting session men discovering sitars, orchestras getting into the freaky side of things, hip theme tunes, Hammonds, fuzz and brass. Somehow sophisticated and cheesy simultaneously, these acts created their own musical world of Chelsea apartments, mini-mokes, dark velvet bespoke tailoring and the dolliest birds this side of Battersea Bridge. Welcome to the soundtrack of your own unmade Swinging London movie. Artists include: Mike Vickers, Jim Sullivan Sound, the Shock Absorbers, Wynder K. Frog, Rita, Offside, Les Reed Orchestra, David Smith, Keith Mansfield Orchestra, the Dave Davani Four, The Fidd, Ken Woodman's Piccadilly Brass, the John Schroeder Orchestra, Trax Four, the Mike Cotton Sound, Lee Mason and his Orchestra, the Vic Flick Sound, the Chris Barber Soul Band, Brian Bennett and Stanley Myers. Listen via Youtube right here. Check out Mike Vickers' title track below.

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Rick White reunites with Eric's Trip bandmate Julie Doiron for Together

Rick White & Julie Doiron's new album Together is out now via Blue Fog Recordings.

Writes Rick about Together...

Written, performed, recorded, mixed and painted by Rick. Finished with Julie in April 2026.

As you all may know, Julie and I started a band together shortly after we started dating as teenagers in 1990. That band was called Eric's Trip and we made a bunch of music together over the next 6 years. It all of course fell apart with our young love and we went out separate ways for a while.

In 2001 we decided to get the band back together for one more X-Canada tour, it went great and we got along really well again. In 2006 we played the first Sappyfest in Sackville NB and i started work recording her next solo album "Woke Myself Up." I also played some guitar, bass and drums, it was nice having her out here at my home studio recording with me again. I did her next record as well in 2009, then the "So many days" LP in 2012. Just me and her together for a week, i played all the drums, bass and any guitar tracks besides hers. We worked on it really hard and well together and were really happy with how it turned out.

Then i quit making music for 7 years.

I eventually started back up, and ever since i've thought about writing an album for Julie and i to record together. In early 2026 i contacted her about it and we finally made plans for her to come up and get it done. I collected a bunch of songs i thought would be appropriate, and wrote a few more just for this project. We had a great week together hanging out, reminiscing and recording. We didn't wanna do a folky adult kinda album, we kept it peppy and heavy and tried to retain some of that youthful magic we had originally created together. It all turned out awesome and we're very pleased with the results. I hope you all dig it too.

You can order a nice vinyl copy from our blue fog recordings big cartel web store right here. Comes with a download code for this bandcamp digital version. You can also get Together via Bandcamp right here.