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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 13:00:25 GMT
Never really paid much attention to Guthrie if i'm being honest, but his music was much more social that I imagined it to be. Gonna check out some more of his stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 14:34:20 GMT
I watched the BBC4 one on funk the other day. I enjoyed it, although it suffered from a lack of depth and the attempt to impose a kind of "funk will always survive" narrative by tagging on a Robin Thicke video at the end was glib and superficial. They would have been better off concentrating more depth on the key years.
I still enjoyed it though because funk is, relatively speaking, under-exposed in media terms. I mean we seem to get a documentary on punk every few months with the same old faces and stories, but I'd not seen many of the musicians in the funk doc interviewed before. And bands like Sly and The Family Stone and Funkadelic have such interesting stories that they're crying out for their stories to be told in depth.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Apr 23, 2019 14:54:26 GMT
I watched this two-part Elvis thing over the last couple of nights  and it was very very very very good. I didn't know Tom Parker didn't let Elvis leave the US because he (TP) would probably have been arrested upon re-entering the country as he wasn't legally an American citizen! And all those shitty films...it's like Elv did nothing much of value for a whole decade (1958 - 1968). A great shame. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 15:13:06 GMT
I watched 15 feet from Stardom a month or so ago. Good documentary on back up singers.
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Post by fonz on Apr 23, 2019 16:50:20 GMT
I’m rewatching Sonic Highways. Got a 4dvd extravaganza for a fiver, with extras. Luckily most of the extras aren’t Foo-specific.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2019 6:18:23 GMT
Bayou Maharajah about New Orleans pianist James Booker was fascinating. Man he could play. His playing was adored by his musical contemporaries. His personal life was riddled with drug addiction and prejudice. He was gay and a genuine eccentric. He packed a lot in.
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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Apr 24, 2019 10:07:53 GMT
Bayou Maharajah about New Orleans pianist James Booker was fascinating. Man he could play. His playing was adored by his musical contemporaries. His personal life was riddled with drug addiction and prejudice. He was gay and a genuine eccentric. He packed a lot in. Yeah, he was a character. He taught Harry Connick Jr piano as well. I first heard his music when Owen off BCB sent me a CD years ago. He described him as a man who "made Little Richard look pretty staid and sensible by comparison". |
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Post by fonz on Apr 24, 2019 12:55:47 GMT
Bayou Maharajah about New Orleans pianist James Booker was fascinating. Man he could play. His playing was adored by his musical contemporaries. His personal life was riddled with drug addiction and prejudice. He was gay and a genuine eccentric. He packed a lot in. Snigger |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2019 0:24:46 GMT
Bayou Maharajah about New Orleans pianist James Booker was fascinating. Man he could play. His playing was adored by his musical contemporaries. His personal life was riddled with drug addiction and prejudice. He was gay and a genuine eccentric. He packed a lot in. Snigger Chuckle |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2019 0:26:32 GMT
Bayou Maharajah about New Orleans pianist James Booker was fascinating. Man he could play. His playing was adored by his musical contemporaries. His personal life was riddled with drug addiction and prejudice. He was gay and a genuine eccentric. He packed a lot in. Yeah, he was a character. He taught Harry Connick Jr piano as well. I first heard his music when Owen off BCB sent me a CD years ago. He described him as a man who "made Little Richard look pretty staid and sensible by comparison". They were really close. Almost like a father son relationship. I do like how Connick Jr demonstrated Booker's style in the doco. |
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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Apr 25, 2019 9:54:31 GMT
We wound up in a late night bar in the French Quarter a few weeks ago, and there was a mildly stoned and drunk young guy playing the piano, sometimes messing around and comping, and then slipping in and out of various New Orleans standards. He was obviously good, despite being a fair way over the herbaceous border.
He had a tips bucket beside him so I stuck a few dollars in and asked him for some Booker, and he turned in a version of Junco Partner that the man himself might have been proud of. That was pretty cool.
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Post by Cousin Lou on Apr 25, 2019 12:36:41 GMT
I watched this two-part Elvis thing over the last couple of nights and it was very very very very good. I didn't know Tom Parker didn't let Elvis leave the US because he (TP) would probably have been arrested upon re-entering the country as he wasn't legally an American citizen!And all those shitty films...it's like Elv did nothing much of value for a whole decade (1958 - 1968). A great shame. Was that it ? I have always understood that Parker was sought for murder in the Netherlands and that he feared being outside the US would expose him to a possible extradiction to the Netherlands. |
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Apr 25, 2019 13:12:49 GMT
I think we're both right. Apparently he was born in the Netherlands (Breda) and was only in the US because he jumped ship there. He knew it wouldn't be wise to leave US territory.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 16, 2020 17:19:03 GMT
Watching this YouTube documentary on SF's prime punk club:
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Post by cousinlou on Jul 17, 2020 7:34:06 GMT
I didn't know Tom Parker didn't let Elvis leave the US because he (TP) would probably have been arrested upon re-entering the country as he wasn't legally an American citizen! That, plus wanted for murder in the Netherlands ( where he was from) |
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