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Post by fange on Oct 11, 2021 9:06:49 GMT
Robby Krieger has an autobiography coming out, and is flogging signed copies online to the first buyers.(If not sold out already)
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Post by clive gash on Oct 15, 2021 16:00:32 GMT
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 24, 2021 11:59:38 GMT
Something I learnt today: "Sugar And Spice", the Searchers hit that I know better via the Cryan Shames cover on Nuggets, was written pseudonymously by Tony Hatch.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2021 12:46:48 GMT
There are countless Glasgwegians who take or took their cue from this guy, the dress sense, the sneering contempt for anything considered mainstream and of course the drugs...... Primal Scream were the epitome of average and songs like "Country Girl" are testament to this.... What a fanny man!!!! |
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Post by fearlessfreap on Oct 24, 2021 12:58:16 GMT
“..in one of a number of lines you somehow imagine not in Gillespie’s voice, but that of the late Rik Mayall.” |
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Oct 24, 2021 13:01:21 GMT
Such a prick. I'm glad the review got the FLAVA of the man
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2021 13:31:30 GMT
I'm glad Petredis has called him out on his bullshit. The music press were always oddly sycophantic towards him. |
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 25, 2021 1:06:17 GMT
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 25, 2021 5:27:37 GMT
I know I've posted a bunch of these lately, but this is the first one I've seen that isn't just someone (woodenly) reading a vintage article. It's also the first time I've seen the libelous Harold Wilson postcard, which I've always been curious about.  |
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 28, 2021 4:43:45 GMT
Was just listening (for the first time, I swear) to an episode of the Grateful Dead podcast Deadcast, and this one was talking about the convoluted history of the John Phillips composition "Me And My Uncle", a Western ballad that holds the curious distinction of being the Dead's most-performed song. The first to record the song was Judy Collins, on her 1964 live album (Phillips himself never recorded it until about twenty years ago; he swore that he didn't remember writing it). Judy says (on the podcast) that she dropped acid for the first time with Phillips in 1963, and he taught her the song while they were tripping. But Bob Weir said that he learned the song from "a hippie named Curly Jim." Curly Jim turns out to have been Jim Stalarow, a Texas folk singer who claimed to have actually been there when Phillips drunkenly composed the song in a Dallas hotel room in 1963, and to have contributed to it; a couple of years after that, he was the original manager of the 13th Floor Elevators and got that band their first record deal (resulting in their only hit single), as well as coining the term "Psychedelic Rock" to describe their music; a few years after that (having left Texas for Haight-Ashbury) he was the first to distribute a powerful new Owsley formulation which he (Curly Jim) dubbed STP. Sounds like an innarestin' guy. |
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Post by rayge on Oct 28, 2021 11:45:27 GMT
Just b een reading that Robbie Krieger bvook that Charlie linked to, and he mentioned this, which I never heard of before: a festival pre-Monterey and Woodstock with an extraordinary line-up |
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 28, 2021 15:47:57 GMT
Just been reading that Robbie Krieger book that Charlie linked to, and he mentioned this, which I never heard of before: a festival pre-Monterey and Woodstock with an extraordinary line-up Some years ago someone found some rolls of film that turned out to be excellent b&w photos from this event and put them on YouTube, slideshow style: This, incidentally, was Ry Cooder's only live appearance with the Magic Band. Two songs in, a nerve-racked (and possibly hallucinating) Don Van Vliet abruptly turned around mid-song and walked off the back of the stage. Cooder, who had already put up with quite a bit from him, quit and didn't look back. |
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Post by Charlie O. on Nov 11, 2021 18:18:59 GMT
Just learnt two things about comic actor/Spinal Tap guitarist Michael McKean: he played on the Left Banke single "Ivy, Ivy"/"And Suddenly", and his father was one of the founders of Decca Records (the U.S. label, I'm assuming).
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Post by Charlie O. on Nov 11, 2021 21:51:34 GMT
Coincidentally, just a couple of days ago I Wiki'd an actress I'd just seen on an early Partridge Family episode, just because her name sounded familiar - Annette O'Toole. I still don't know why the name seemed so familiar to me, but I learned that she's married to McKean, and co-wrote with him three of the songs in A Mighty Wind (there, it's "music stuff" now).
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Post by Charlie O. on Nov 13, 2021 8:05:05 GMT
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