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Listening to a lot of Wilson lately. Always liked him

NAZARETH the most under appreciated, recognized band in history!
enjoy!

Michael Jackson doctor Conrad Murray 'hid drug dose' -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12116280

Michael killed by big pharma pro. pills!

Happy Birthday to DAN AYKROYD..

July 1, 1952

http://www.danaykroydonline.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Aykroyd

1754, from Fr. palatial "magnificent," from L. palatium (see Churak)

I just found out about this board.
What a great board.
I am in anytime on this discussion thread.

I was doing a search for a different post and encountered this one I wrote 5 years ago and figured a reply to it would make for a good before/after picture.

5 years after the post I'm replying to, my daughter's at a brass clinic in Arkansas right now and is attending a trumpet seminar in England next month then starting college in August at one of the 3 colleges she applied for, all of which offered her full or nearly full rides to major in trumpet performance.

In that time she's been 1st chair at her high school since fairly early in 8th grade, gets 1st chair at any state band camp she does, so has had to attend a different state every year so she's not always on top of the same mountain, has gotten 1 ratings at District and State all but one time (a 2 at State that we strongly disagreed with) playing extremely aggressive songs usually in the domain of professionals, including a brutally aggressive song her Senior year with nothing but positive comments from the judge, has become very good at bass, drums, french horn, tuba, and many other instruments and is learning piano, and is a very prolific composer. She keeps me busy a lot at night helping her arrange and record songs on our basement recording studio.

So what I mentioned in that post about that week being pivotal has proven true 5 years later and though she decided to not even try for Julliard or the like (too stoic for her liking), she's heading off to college soon as the next step in pursuing a career as a musician.

Can't tell I'm proud or anything like that, right? hehe

Addendum: I can tell by the comment near the end about a wall full of guitars that when I wrote that post, we were a very small site and I was doing my work from a spare bedroom at the house (which has since had a wall taken out to double the size of my daughter's room), and look at us now. Palatial office in downtown Boogerville and a large part of a public company, and it's gone from just me and Matt to several people Stateside and a number of UK-side folks dedicated to iHub and SI.

Saw Jerry Lee Lewis at the Chase Park Plaza..St. Louis...New Years Eve...1973.....used to go see Ike and Tina across the river at the Blue Note Lounge...East St. Louis..cir 1964...and of course Chuck Berry at the Quadrangle....Washington U. Cir. 1965. The Grateful Dead would play Fri. and Sat. night at the Fox theatre with The Mothers of Invention and the New Riders of the Purple Sage....we would trip our brains out...cir. 1968..1969...ah the memories...

Hi Volakin,

A quick search shows that Elvis vinyls from the 50's and 60's are worth between $50 and $2000 depending on the title and the condition.

Do you have some old Elvis vinyls?

What are 50's 60's Elvis vinyl worth?

Yeah, I know what you mean, Orig.

But, somehow I’d prefer the board to be silent rather than contain the odd obituary.

Id

Thanks for that Id.

Nice to see a posting here.

It's been a while!

Wilson will be sadly missed.

Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American R&B and soul singer. Known for his raw, passionate delivery, he was a major figure in the development of Southern soul music.


One of the most popular black singers of the '60s, Wilson Pickett helped introduce the aggressive style of rhythmic style of soul music. Aided immeasurably by the excellent studio bands backing him at the Stax Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, and The Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals Alabama, Pickett scored a series of R&B and pop hits on Atlantic Records between 1963 and 1972 that included "In the Midnight Hour," "Mustang Sally," and "Funky Broadway."


In 1964, Pickett signed with Atlantic Records and did his early recordings in the Stax studio in Memphis, Tennessee with Booker T. Jones and Steve Cropper of The MGs. Cropper co-authored three of his early hits, "In the Midnight Hour" and "Don't Fight It from his debut album The Exciting Wilson Pickett that established him as a major soul star. The album also included "Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)," "She's So Good to Me," and "Land of a 1,000 Dances," all recorded at Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals.


Wilson Pickett was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.


A cut and paste compilation from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Pickett
http://www.history-of-rock.com/wilson_pickett.htm

Id

http://www.musicforamerica.org/files/music/hq/01%20My%20People%20Are%20Rising.mp3

Hi There, KK…

Yup! Damn shame that fantastic voice is now silent.

I also am awaiting the re-release of "It Ain't Easy".
If ya can’t wait till September, see iffin’ ya can find:
“A Thrill’s a Thrill” (The Canadian Years). A Double CD that I’d highly recommend if you’re a Baldry fan. (If anyone’s not a Baldry fan, then buy it anyway, and you’ll likely become a Baldry fan!)

"Boogie Woogie"… There’s another Baldry song named “Busker” (“It Still Ain’t Easy” CD). It’s a story of the busker profession as seen through the eyes of a boy… John knew how to tell a story!

Back to “Thrill”...
It has a live version of “Boogie Woogie”, but sadly it lacks the monologue.
Other selections on “Thrill” include: “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”, “A Thrill’s a Thrill”, “Morning Dew”, “It Still Ain’t Easy”, “Midnight in New Orleans”.
There are others. Those were (some of) my favorites.
The other musicians are excellent too! Heck, would anything short of perfection be applicable given Mr. Baldry’s experience?

Sooner or later, those ‘broiled hills’ will benefit from the remnants of the hurricane season. Let’s hope the swing isn’t too radical.
Our summer has been kinda benign. ‘Cept for the increased (and now decreasing) hours of sunlight, generally it’s been warmer since the snow and ice has melted, but nothing extreme… Mostly mundane.

Life... keeps popping up new projects… Tough to finish those old ones with those new obstacles in the way… Someday I’ll catch up. Yeah, Right!

Have a good one!

Id

Howdy Id...

Been a long time. Just happened to catch the Long John Baldry posts. Dang. Sorry he is gone.

I spent close to 20 years trying to track down a copy of "It Ain't Easy". Heard it on a weekend in the mountains of the western part of Virginia and fell in love with "Boogie Woogie" (forgive me for shortening the title). Every visit I made to Ann Arbor after that involved at least one stop at PJ's Used Records on Packard. One day I found it. It was in great shape.

Good to see that it will be released on CD in the fall. I will be on the lookout. One cannot have too many copies of a good thing.

Hope you are well. Life is copacetic in the broiled hills of nj.
ksquared

Thanks Castle, the names Malo and Suavecito conjure vague memories, but the lyrics don’t match.

I suppose that the correct answer is a different song, or faulty memory syndrome. Retro-thought says that I haven’t heard *that* song since that concert. Perhaps (in my memory’s defense) it was a ‘Local Hit’.

Thanks again,
Id

Carlos Santana's brother, Jorge, formed Malo. Suavecito was their only official hit.
This link has their discography:
http://www.mp3.com/malo/artists/10220/songs.html

I became aware of LJB through Elton John's history way back when...

Since the early 1990s,he was also known in Canada for his extensive voice work in commercials.
Yup, Castle. Hearing that voice in those commercials always brought a smile to my face. It was SO recognizable.

I saw him live in ’71 (give or take a year). He was the opening act at the Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) Arena for a three band performance. I can’t remember the names of the other two bands. The second band’s leader was Carlos Santana’s brother who had a ‘hit’ about California sliding into the Pacific via an earthquake. (I can’t remember the title of the ‘hit’. Help me out here please.) Probably wrong, but the headliner might have been Steve Miller. The point is that the opening act was much more impressive to me than the mid or headliner acts.

The show was about an hour and a half late to start… supposedly due to PA system problems… (There was no action around the mixing console etc. during the delay.)

An hour or so into the delay, one at a time, a few of Long John’s backup musicians came on the darkened stage for a ‘sound check’.
His lead guitarist was very ‘ordinary’ sounding at first; given that the acoustics of that enlarged barn would explain that.
THEN… He began to “tune in” to the acoustics of the barn, and used the ‘environmental sound’ of the venue to his advantage. He changed his playing style to suit the environment’s acoustics. He sounded absolutely great!
Long John did that too, with no practice.

None of the other members of the other bands (IMO) did that. Their music and style was more important than the venue’s acoustics.

Perhaps that’s why Long John Baldry and his entourage were the headliners that night in my mind. They earned it!

Long Live Long John Baldry and his music!

Id

RIP LJB... another obit...

Blues star Long John Baldry dies


Baldry pictured in 2001 holding a picture of himself with models

British-born blues singer "Long John" Baldry has died aged 64 after fighting a chest infection for four months.

Born John William Baldry, he passed away at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada.

Baldry - whose only UK number one came in 1967 with Let The Heartaches Begin - was a friend of Paul McCartney and inspired Eric Clapton to play guitar.

He also performed with Rod Stewart and Elton John before a Grammy nomination in 1998 for narration work with Disney.

Founding father

Baldry - who leaves behind siblings Margaret and Roger, as well as long-time friend and partner Felix "Oz" Rexach - started his career playing folk and jazz in the 1950s.

He became one of the founding fathers of British Rock 'n' Roll in the 1960s and appeared at The Cavern in Liverpool, becoming friends with McCartney.

Baldry was invited to perform on the Beatles' internationally televised special "Around the Beatles" in 1964, along with P J Proby and Cilla Black.

He performed with influential British bands Blues Incorporated, and Cyril Davies' R&B All Stars in the 60s.

Later, he fronted the Hoochie Coochie Men, which included Rod Stewart, who later joined Baldry in Steam Packet, also featuring keyboardist Brian Auger and singer Julie Driscoll.

After a brief period with Bluesology, which featured Elton John on keyboards, Baldry went solo.

'Boogie Woogie'

With production assistance from Rod Stewart and Elton John, he recorded the album, It Ain't Easy, for Warner Bros. featuring his signature song "Don't try to Lay no Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock n' Roll."

After emigrating to Canada in the early 1980s, he recorded for EMI Music Canada, and since 1991 recorded five albums for Stony Plain Records in Edmonton, Alberta.

The label is set to re-release Baldry's Warner Bros. albums, It Ain't Easy and Everything Stops for Tea, in the autumn.

Since the early 1990s,he was also known in Canada for his extensive voice work in commercials.

He also narrated on Winnie The Pooh recordings for Disney and was the voice for Robotnik on the popular Sonic The Hedgehog computer game.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4709509.stm

edit:
more from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_John_Baldry

Long John Baldry – 1941 to 2005

JOHN WILLIAM BALDRY - 1941 to 2005 - Long John Baldry passed away at the Vancouver General Hospital, July 21 at 10:30 pm after fighting a severe chest infection for the passed 4 months. He was surrounded by friends and loved ones and is now at peace. John Baldry will be remembered by his music and the love he generously gave to all those who came in contact with him. Our world is a lesser place without him, for John was a person that enhanced this world with his enormous presence and talent. John Baldry walks with God. - Frank Garcia

Long John Baldry is the definitive British Blues legend. He's been living and working in Canada for most of the last 25 years (residing now in Vancouver). LJB continues to tour and record for his international audience. Be it traditional or Electric, Pop ballads or Rock n' Roll, he is the deep Blues. LJB's earliest influences were Big Joe Turner, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Witherspoon, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and Bobby Blue Bland. Nicknamed 'Long John' because of his 6'7' height, he's credited to have been one of the main forces in British Blues, Rock & Pop music in the 1960's. Long John has performed and recorded with many of Rock n' Rolls most famous artists. The musicians who have played in LJB's band read like the roster of the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Jimmy Paige, Jack Bruce, Rod Stewart and Elton John, are among the far reaching musical tree Long John Baldry has claim to.

The Making of a Legend by Rod Stewart (Reader’s Digest/Dec/2004)
"For me, just shaking his hand – knowing all the great musicians whose hand he’d shaken before –was mind-blowing. But so was John. Picture this elegant man with a proper English accent, never without a tie, a towering six-foot-seven. I was a huge fan and I was intimidated by his offer. Rod Stewart wasn’t in demand in those days; no one was interested. I immediately said yes. John had a knack for discovering talent. Ginger Baker, Jeff Beck and Brian Jones all worked with him early on. Elton John played piano in one of his bands, other Rolling Stones too – Charlie, Ron Wood, and Keith. In 1962, when the Rolling Stones were just getting started, they opened for him in London. Eric Clapton has said many times that John was one of the musicians that inspired him to play the Blues. And for their internationally televised special in 1964, the Beatles invited John to perform his version of 'I Got My Mojo Working'. In those days the only music we fell in love with was the Blues, and John was the first white guy singing it, in his wonderful voice. It was the true Blues and everyone looked up to him." -The Making of a Legend by Rod Stewart/ Readers Digest

Since 1964 Long John has released over 40 albums, exploring a variety of musical styles, but always returning to his Blues roots. Now with the pending release of his landmark recordings, (produced by Rod Stewart and Elton John), 'It Ain't Easy' and 'Everything Stops for Tea', LJB will tour extensively in 2005 in support of these long awaited sessions, featuring his signature 'Don't try to Lay no Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock n' Roll'.

http://www.johnbaldry.com/index1.asp

Id

Just a little copy and paste job, K²…
Along with some removal of white space.

I never saw the gentleman perform live. Actually, I was not a *big* fan of his. That is not to say that I didn’t appreciate his music… I certainly did. Perhaps the best way to put it is that I kinda took him for granted… His music was always there.

On June 10/04, on the way home from work, I stopped off at a music store to pick up a couple CDs. I considered searching out the ‘Mr. Charles’ section, but decided to check out his discography first. I did that later in the evening.

That evening, it seemed that most of the TV channels were running special reports on his life. I turned on the VCR, directed its sound through the stereo and turned on the sub-woofer.

That bittersweet evening left me with a newfound appreciation for his great talent. Lotsa great music! Perhaps one of the more enjoyable video clips was of his appearance on a very popular TV show that I had forgotten about. There he was, Mr. Charles and seemingly the complete cast of *main* stars from that show, doing a song together. That cast of characters is better known as The Muppets.<g>

The next evening, the pickins were very slim in the ‘Mr. Charles’ section at the CD store. I did buy “The Very Best of Ray Charles”. Timeless stuff!.. And Yes! More of his CDs are to be purchased.

The Genius may have passed, but fortunately his music will always be with us.

Id

P.S.
Ray Charles and Ballet… Doesn’t surprise me a bit.
Might be a neat story to clear the cobwebs of, and post here?

And thank you, Id... great post.

The only time I saw Ray Charles live was at the New York City Ballet... one of their more interesting programs.

Celebrities tend to leave in threes... Ronald Reagan, Ray Charles, and Marlon Brando. What a combination.

Rest in peace Mr. Charles.

ksquared

Mr. Ray Charles
September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004

http://www.raycharles.com/

Ray Charles has the distinction of being both a national treasure and an international phenomenon. He started out from nowhere; years later finds him a global entity.

Hundreds of thousands of fingers have hit typewriter and word processor keyboards telling and retelling his story because it is uniquely American, an exemplar of what we like to think is the best in us and of our way of life.
The Ray Charles story is full of paradoxes, part and parcel of the American Dream.Rags to riches. Triumph overcoming tragedy. Light transcending darkness.

The name Ray Charles is on a Star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame. His bronze bust is enshrined in the Playboy Hall of Fame. There is the bronze medallion cast and presented to him by the French Republic on behalf of its people. There are the Halls of Fame: Rhythm & Blues, Jazz, Rock & Roll. There are the many gold records and the 12 Grammys...

There is the blackness and the blindness. There was the extreme poverty; there was the segregated South into which he was born.
It is music, Ray Charles' single driving force, that catapulted a poor, black, blind, orphaned teenager from there to here.

"I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of..." he remarks in his autobiography. "Music was one of my parts... Like my blood. It was a force already with me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water." "Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically."

Ray Charles Robinson was not born blind, only poor.
The first child of Aretha and Baily Robinson was born in Albany, GA, on September 23, 1930. He hit the road early, at about three months, when the Robinsons moved across the border to Greenville, FL. It was the height of the Depression years. And the Robinsons had started out poor. You hear folks talking about being poor," Charles recounts. "Even compared to other blacks. . . we were on the bottom of the ladder looking up at everyone else. Nothing below us except the ground."

It took three years, starting when Ray Charles was four, for the country boy who loved to look at the blazing sun at its height, the boy who loved to try to catch lightning, the boy who loved to strike matches to see their fierce, brief glare, to travel the path from light to darkness. But Ray Charles has almost seven years of sight memory - colors, the things of the backwoods country, and the face of the most important person in his life: his mother, Aretha Robinson.

St. Augustine's was the Florida state school for the deaf and blind. Ray Charles was accepted as a charity student. He learned to read Braille and to type. He became a skilled basket weaver. He was allowed to develop his great gift of music. He discovered mathematics and its correlation to music. He learned to compose and arrange music in his head, telling out the parts, one by one.
He remained at St. Augustine's until his mother's death when he set out "on the road again" for the first time as a struggling professional musician.

The road to greatness was no picnic, proverbial or literal. In fact, while earning his dues around and about Florida, he almost starved at times, hanging around at various Musicians' Locals, picking up gigs when he could. He began to build himself a solo act, imitating Nat "King" Cole. When he knew it was time to head on, he asked a friend to find him the farthest point from Florida on a map of the continental U.S.

Seattle, WA. For Ray Charles, the turning point.
In Seattle he became a minor celebrity in local clubs. There he met an even younger musician, Quincy Jones, whom he took under his wing, marking the beginning of an inter-twining of two musical lifetimes...

It was from Seattle that he went to Los Angeles to cut his first professional recording. And it was in Seattle, with Gossady McGee, that he formed the McSon Trio -- Robin (son) and (Mc) Gee -- in 1948, the first black group to have a sponsored TV show in the Pacific Northwest. Along the way he'd shortened his name in deference to the success of "Sugar" Ray Robinson.

As Ray Charles, he toured for about a year with Lowell Fulsom's band. He formed a group and played with singer Ruth Brown. He played the Apollo, the landmark showcase for black talent. He aspired to Carnegie Hall, then as now epitomizing the pinnacle of artistic success. These were also the years that brought Charles the first band of his own, his first big hit record, "I Got A Woman."

By the early 1960's Ray Charles had accomplished his dream. He'd come of age musically. He had become a great musician, posting musical milestones along his route. He'd made it to Carnegie Hall. The hit records ("Georgia," "Born to Lose") successively kept climbing to the top of the charts. He'd made his first triumphant European concert tour in 1960 (a feat which, except for 1965, he's repeated at least once a year ever since).

He'd treated himself to the formation of his first big band in 1961. In 1962, together with his long time friend and personal manager, Joe Adams, he oversaw construction of his own office building and recording studios in Los Angeles, RPM International.

He had taken virtually every form of popular music and broken through its boundaries with such awe inspiring achievements as the LP's "Genius Plus Soul Equals Jazz" and "Modern Sounds in Country & Western."

Rhythm & blues (or "race music" as it had been called) became universally respectable through his efforts. Jazz found a mainstream audience it had never previously enjoyed. And country & western music began to chart an unexpected course to general acceptance, then worldwide popularity. Along the way Ray Charles was instrumental in the invention of rock & roll.

In 1966 Thomas Thompson wrote in his profile of Ray Charles for Life:

"...his niche is difficult to define. The best blues singer around? Of course, but don't stop there. He is also an unparalled singer of jazz, of gospel, of country and western.

"He has drawn from each of these musical streams and made a river which he alone can navigate."

His music is still marked by the unpredictability that is the genius of consummate artistry. He is master of his soul, musically and personally.

To this day he selects and produces his own recording material with utter disregard for trends. He doesn't find the time nor necessity to write as much as he once did, but what he gleans, "from the attic of my mind, " either old or new, is inevitably surprising, unique, "right."

In the past decade he has taken on George Gershwin ("Porgy and Bess"), Rodgers and Hammerstein ("Some Enchanted Evening," "Oh What a Beautiful Morning") and "America the Beautiful" -- all with resounding, if unexpected, success.

Despite his intense reticence to expose the personal portion of his life to public scrutiny, Ray Charles is as outspoken about his opinions on matters of global interest as he is about matters of music.

As a Southern Black, segregation was Ray Charles' dubious birthright. But racial tension and friction were not a part of his early rural years. At St. Augustine's the rules of segregation were strictly adhered to, both for the deaf and the blind children, a fact that even young Ray Charles found ironic.

"I knew being blind was suddenly an aid. I never learned to stop at the skin. If I looked at a man or a woman, I wanted to see inside. Being distracted by shading or coloring is stupid. It gets in the way. It's something I just can't see."

It was on the road in the 1950's that the realities of segregation, its evils, its injustices, even its ludicrous moments, became apparent to Charles and his troupe of traveling musicians. It was a concert day in Augusta, GA that brought the issue of segregation vs. civil rights to a head for Ray Charles.

"A promoter insisted that a date we were about to play be segregated: the blacks upstairs and the whites downstairs.

"I told the promoter that I didn't mind segregation, except that he had it backwards. . . After all, I was black and it only made sense to have the black folk close to me. . . Let him sue. I wasn't going to play. And I didn't. And he sued. And I lost."

This was the incident that propelled Ray Charles into an active role in the quest for racial justice, the development of social consciousness that led him to friendship with and moral and financial support of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960's.

"...early on, I decided that if I was going to shoot craps on anyone's philosophy, I was putting my money on Martin Luther King Jr.

"I figured if I was going to pick up my cross and follow someone, it could only be Martin."

Despite his deep commitment to King and the cause of black Americans, Charles came to the logical conclusion that there was no place for him physically in the front lines:

"First, I wouldn't have known when to duck when they started throwing broken bottles at my head. And I told that to Martin personally.

"When he intentionally broke the law, he was hauled off to jail. And when you go to jail, you need money for lawyers, for legal research, for court fees, for food for the marchers. I saw that as my function; I helped raise money."

His awareness of racial injustice was not limited to the home front: The same years he fought the war against racial injustice in the American South found in Charles a growing awareness of racial injustice abroad, particularly the notorious policy of apartheid in South Africa.

Modest to the point of mum about his humanitarian and charitable activities, Ray Charles makes an exception for the State of Israel and world Jewry.

Among the many, the world leader Charles has most enjoyed meeting is David Ben-Gurion, with whom he had a conversation of many hours during a concert tour of Israel not long before Ben-Gurion's death.

And the award among the hundreds he claims to have touched him the most is the Beverly Hills Lodge of B'nai Brith's tribute to its "Man of the Year" in 1976.

"Even though I'm not Jewish," he explains," and even though I'm stingy with my bread, Israel is one of the few causes I feel good about supporting.

"Blacks and Jews are hooked up and bound together by a common history of persecution. . .

"If someone besides a black ever sings the real gut bucket blues, it'll be a Jew. We both know what it's like to be someone else's footstool."

But it all comes back to music, so inseparable from Ray Charles.

He keeps rolling along, doing what he does uniquely and wondrously well.

Ray Charles is a national treasure and a global phenomenon for this reason:

He is music; he is himself; he is a master of his soul.





Thank-you Mr. Ray Charles,
Id

I've watched and listened to that solo repeatedly. We even strung up one of our favorite basses (the Jay Turser, which only recently got replaced by my Geddy Lee Jazz as my favorite one) like the one Vic uses in that solo (A-D-G-C) so we can work on learning to play that solo. It's an ongoing endeavor that'll never be completed. I couldn't become that good in a lifetime of doing it part-time. Vic's been doing it for a living since he was a little kid.

Heck, you just got me in the mood to watch that disk again. Now I'm gonna have to look around for it. The 200-disk jukebox croaked a while back and we haven't replaced it yet (still trying to decide which one to get), so all the disks had to be moved to a closet.

Bob, the DVD "Live at the Quick" was one of my Christmas presents.
My first chance to watch it was today.
“Wow!” is an understatement!

There is not a superlative strong enough to describe Victor Wooten’s “Amazing Grace”. ‘Amazing’ just don’t come close!

Thank you for pointing out this extraordinary group of musical talent.

Id

Today's Birthdays:

Rock musician Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) turns 60 years old today.

Singer Christina Aguilera turns 23 years old today.

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Rock on, Keith! Christina should only hope to last so long. Could it be the ...... heroin???? LOL

Todays Birthdays:


John Davidson Singer 62 (Don't look it does he?)

Jeff Baxter Rock musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan) 55

Ted Nugent Rock musician 55 (Ol' Cat Scratch Fever himself - Wild man)

Happy Birthday all!

Birthdays today, November 30th:

Dick Clark Producer-TV personality (''American Bandstand'') 74
Teddy Wilburn Country singer 72
Jimmy Bowen Country singer, recording executive 66
Rob Grill Singer (The Grassroots) 60
Luther Ingram Singer 59
Roger Glover Rock musician (Deep Purple) 58
Shuggie Otis Musician 50
June Pointer Singer (The Pointer Sisters) 50
Billy Idol Singer 48
John Ashton Rock musician (The Psychedelic Furs) 46

Dick Clark ..... 74 yrs old today? Somehow, I just don't believe that .... 80 I'd believe ....

June Pointer, 50 ? Dang, I am getting old!

Thanks, N Lion.

Just gotta remember to program a VCR to capture it.

Yup, It's pledge time for our area PBS station too.

Id

Yep, that's it. This is pledge time for these stations, and if history is any guide, this particular show will air about 5 times over the next 2 weeks. If you have a PBS station, I'm sure it will be on @ some point.

N Lion, Is this a link to the early history of Rock and Roll show?
http://www.pbs.org/whatson/stations/description.html?station=KSPS&title_id=26005&date=2003-1...

In a brief search, I can’t find the PBS web page for the program.

Uhmmm… In my baseball (slow pitch) days, I played left field and may be wayyy out there now?

Id

Anyone interested in the early, early history of Rock & Roll, the latest edition of WQED's Rock series will be airing in Dec. over Public T.V. stations across the country.

Watching it now - Paul & Paula, Brian Hyland, Gary "US" Bonds, Darlene Love (Chrystals), Gary Pucket, Bo Didley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gerry & Pacemakers, Manfred Mann, & many, many more.

Great show - great series.

Nice tribute, gp. Thanks. eom

This date in history:

2001: Rock musician George Harrison of the Beatles died in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer; he was 58.






While My Guitar Gently Weeps


I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you.

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you.

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
Look at you all...
Still my guitar gently weeps.

Doctor, Doctor
Give me the news...

Dang sad. RIP, Mr. Palmer.

Robert Palmer, Singer With Image of a Pop Romeo, Dies at 54
By JON PARELES
Published: September 27, 2003

Robert Palmer, a debonair English singer who channeled his fondness for American rock and soul into a string of hits in the 1970's and 80's, died yesterday in Paris. He was 54 and had resided in Switzerland.

The cause was a heart attack, said his publicist, Elizabeth Freund. He was found dead in his hotel room in Paris, where he had gone for a short trip with his companion, Mary Ambrose.

With his suavely grainy voice and songs like "Addicted to Love," "Bad Case of Loving You" and "Simply Irresistible," Mr. Palmer presented himself as a pop Romeo. The 1986 video clip for "Addicted to Love," which showed Mr. Palmer backed by a band of deadpan models in little black dresses, cemented his image. But his tastes were more eclectic than his hits suggested. Through more than a dozen albums he mixed his own songs with carefully selected cover versions, delving into reggae, standards, bossa nova and African rock. He had just released the album "Drive" (Compendia), which reached back to the blues.

Mr. Palmer was born in Batley, in Yorkshire, but his father was a civil servant with Britain's Royal Navy, and he spent much of his childhood on the island of Malta, growing up without television or movies. He began singing as a teenager, working with the Alan Bown Set in the late 1960's and then with a band that first called itself Dada and then Vinegar Joe, which released three albums in the early 1970's.

For his first solo album, "Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley" in 1974, Mr. Palmer sought out American funk, working with the Meters, from New Orleans, and with Little Feat. "Pressure Drop," in 1975, drew on reggae (the title track was a Toots and the Maytals song) and featured one of Mr. Palmer's own soul ballads, "Give Me an Inch." Mr. Palmer moved to Nassau in the late 1970's, and had his first hit with the Caribbean-flavored "Every Kinda People" in 1978. He began producing his own albums with "Secrets" in 1979, which included his hit version of a song by Moon Martin, "Bad Case of Lovin' You." His 1980 album, "Clues," included "Some Guys Have All the Luck," which later became a hit for Rod Stewart.

In 1985 Mr. Palmer made an album with Power Station, a rock group including the drummer Tony Thompson from Chic and two members of Duran Duran. It had hits with a version of T. Rex's "Bang a Gong" and with "Some Like It Hot" but disbanded because Mr. Palmer was unwilling to tour.

He brought Power Station's lean, riffing rock to his own biggest hit album, "Riptide" in 1985, which included the No. 1 hit "Addicted to Love" and a No. 2 follow-up, "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On." He moved to Switzerland, and his hits continued with "Simply Irresistible" from his 1988 album "Heavy Nova," which also dipped into South Arican pop, bossa nova and ballads.

Through the 1990's he continued to try various styles. He sang Tin Pan Alley standards on his 1992 album "Ridin' High," showed off African and Caribbean influences on "Honey" in 1994, reunited with Power Station for a 1996 album, "Living in Fear," and released an album called "Rhythm and Blues" in 1999. In 2000 he recorded a live album at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, and he turned to old and recent blues for "Drive," which was released in May 2003. He died shortly after taping a retrospective program, "My Kinda People," for Yorkshire Television in England, due to be broadcast in November.

He is survived by Ms. Ambrose; by his children, James and Jane, from a former marriage; and by his parents, Les and Ann Palmer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/27/obituaries/27PALM.html

Robert Palmer dead @ 54:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s954807.htm

Addicted To Love - one of the best videos ever, IMO.

NLion ...

I've never been a huge C/W fan either. I followed it quite a bit for a few years beginning around the mid-to-late '80s in the heyday of Clint Black, Reba, George Strait, Garth, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Suzy Bogguss, Holly Dunn and others. George Strait is still going strong according to the charts.

I've never been to FanFare but have seen Reba, Garth, George Strait, and the Highwaymen in concert. I can imagine that seeing Sara Evans up close and personal made FanFare worth your long trip. <g>

When TNN abandoned country music and country radio became more like contemporary pop/rock, I tended to move away from it.

Justin, a Texan with no hat or boots

Justin,

Being the C/W fan you are, have you ever heard or gone to FanFare in Nashville? I was there this past June - amazing since I've never been a huge C/W person. However, it was really a great time and I actually enjoyed a lot of the music. Some of those people are just Rock'n Roll with cowboy hats, IMO.

Saw Montgomery Gentry, Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson, Sara Evans, Brad Paisley, and a whole bunch of performers I'd never heard of. Worth the trip if you've never attended - I enjoyed the comradery of the fans too. The drive was a killer tho!

Thanks Justin and condolences
on the Horns' loss. I know the pain of succumbing to an old rival. Stinks.

At least it was not a conference game and it is still early in the season. A lot can happen between now and the end.

They didn't show your game up here. I kept an eye on the score via the text at the bottom of the screen and could not believe what I was seeing. Bet the kids are in for some tough practices this week if turnovers were the problem.

Come join us on NCAA (http://investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=1293)... we could use another fan who knows how to discuss the game intelligently... I'm just there spewing pure emotion. <g>

GO.BLUE!ksquared.

Push comes to shove...

I am on the side of the record companies even though my group used to record songs played on the radio. At least the radio stations were paying the royalties and the practice was not as easy or widespread as downloading music on the net.

I also understand the temptation because I think the CDs are overpriced. Albums used to be about $5 a piece (around $3.00 in college). When the CDs came out the music jumped to $15 or $20. I assumed it was the new technology and that as demand increased the prices would come down as they did with vinyl... tvs, vcrs, dvds, microwaves... etc. They haven't. I know I think twice about buying as I usually only like one or two songs and consider the rest throwaways.

Apparently there are mixed reviews of the industry's actions among the artists themselves.

File-Sharing Battle Leaves Musicians Caught in Middle
By NEIL STRAUSS

Since the Recording Industry Association of America began its campaign against file-sharing services and unauthorized song swapping online in 1999, it has offered one chief justification for its actions: downloading songs is stealing money from the pockets of musicians.

But the musicians themselves have conflicted responses to file sharing and the tactics of the association, a trade group that represents record labels, not the musicians themselves, who have no organization that wields equal power.

So, many musicians have found themselves watching helplessly from the sidelines as the recording industry has begun suing people who are their fans, their audience and their consumers — who also share music online without authorization. Last week, 261 lawsuits were filed, the first battle in what the association says will be a long campaign of litigation against the most active music fans sharing songs on services like KaZaA.

"On one hand, the whole thing is pretty sick," said John McCrea, a singer and songwriter in the rock band Cake. "On the other hand, I think it'll probably work."

Many musicians privately wish file sharing would go away, though they are reluctant to admit it, because they do not want to seem unfriendly to their fans. So they have been happy to have the industry group play the role of bad cop. But with the escalation of the battle last week (with lawsuits filed against, among others, a 71-year-old grandfather and a 12-year-old girl), some musicians say they are beginning to wonder if the actions being taken in their name are a little extreme.This is especially true because, regardless of file sharing, they rarely see royalties.

"It would be nice if record companies would include artists on these decisions," said Deborah Harry of Blondie, adding that when a grandfather is sued because, unbeknownst to him, his grandchildren are downloading songs on his computer, "it's embarrassing."

The artist Moby, on his Web site, offered a similar opinion, suggesting that the music companies treat users of file-sharing services like fans instead of criminals. "How can a 14-year-old who has an allowance of $5 a week feel bad about downloading music produced by multimillionaire musicians and greedy record companies," he wrote. "The record companies should approach that 14-year-old and say: `Hey, it's great that you love music. Instead of downloading music for free, why don't you try this very inexpensive service that will enable you to listen to a lot of music and also have access to unreleased tracks and ticket discounts and free merchandise?' "

A few artists, like Metallica and Loudon Wainwright III, have come out strongly in favor of the record industry's crackdown. It could be seen as a gutsy move, considering the criticism Metallica faced from music fans when it campaigned against the file-sharing service Napster, which was declared illegal.

In a new song, "Something for Nothing," Mr. Wainwright makes fun of the mentality of file sharers, singing: "It's O.K. to steal, cuz it's so nice to share." As for the lawsuits, he said that he was not surprised. "If you're going to break the law, the hammer is going to come down," he said.

At the same time, other influential musicians and groups — like Moby, System of a Down, Public Enemy, and the Dead — contend that the record industry's efforts are misguided and that it must work with the new technology instead of against it.

But most seem ambivalent, or confused.

"I see both sides," said Rodney Crowell, a country music singer and songwriter. "In some ways, I think the record companies have it coming, but at the same time, being a writer and therefore in the business of copyright, they're saying it's impacting our business by 30 percent or more, so we have to do something."

The Recording Industry Association says there has been a 31 percent drop in sales of recorded music since file sharing became popular more than three years ago, but statistics from Forrester Research show that the sales decline since 2000 has been half that, or 15 percent, and that 35 percent of that amount is because of unauthorized downloading.

The situation has become so thorny that many top-selling artists, even those who have been outspoken about embracing new technology, declined to comment on the lawsuits on the record, for fear of upsetting their labels. In interviews, some musicians and their representatives said that their labels had asked them not to talk. And in a dozen cases, record labels did not grant interviews with musicians on the subject.

"I don't think anyone really understands the impact of what's happening, and they don't want to make a mistake," said Allen Kovac, who runs 10th Street Entertainment, an artist management company in Los Angeles. "The impact of lawsuits on fans is a double-edged sword. If you're a record company, do you want record company acts being persona non grata at every college campus in America?"

Much of the stated concern over file sharing has centered on the revenue that record companies and musicians are losing, but few musicians ever actually receive royalties from their record sales on major labels, which managers say have accounting practices that are badly in need of review. (Artists do not receive royalties for a CD until the record company has earned back the money it has spent on them.)

Even the Backstreet Boys, one of the best-selling acts of the 1990's, did not appear to have received any CD royalties, their management said.

"I don't have sympathy for the record companies," said Mickey Melchiondo of the rock duo Ween. "They haven't been paying me royalties anyway."

Musicians tend to make more money from sales of concert tickets and merchandise than from CD sales. In fact, many musicians offer free downloads of their songs on their Web sites to market themselves.

For some of them, the problem with file sharing is control. Before a CD is released, early versions of the songs often end up on file-sharing services, where fans download the music under the misconception that it is the finished product. Other times, songs online by one act are credited to another act. And fans exchange studio outtakes, unreleased songs, and live performances that some artists would prefer remain unheard.

Serj Tankian of the hard-rock band System of a Down, for example, said he thought that the free exchange of songs by his band and others online was healthy for music fans, but objected when that free exchange included unfinished studio recordings.

Ween, which recently left a major record label, Elektra, to release its records independently, has found a way to coexist with file sharing, which the band actually supports by encouraging fans to record and trade shows.

At the same time, Ween fans police eBay for people who are selling live recordings and KaZaA for people who are leaking songs before an album is released. "Before `Quebec,' came out," Mr. Melchiondo said, referring to Ween's latest CD, "our fans would message people on KaZaA who were sharing tracks and ask them to take the music down. And they also mounted a campaign where they put up fake copies of our record to throw people off."

Mr. Melchiondo said that Ween's fans acted out of respect for the band, not because of intimidation from the record industry or sympathy with it. "We never asked them to do this," he said. "They just took it upon themselves."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/technology/14MUSI.html?hp

Congrats on your victory, Ksquared ...

I was out during the latter half of the afternoon so missed your game if it was on TV here.

Condolences on the Longhorn loss

Tough afternoon for the 'Horns, especially with a high ranking on the line. Turnovers were very costly, and taking a gamble by declining a penalty to give them another shot at a first down seemed unwise to me -- that sort of decision seems to backfire more often than not.

I've watched the Penn State - Nebraska game off and on this evening -- close game here at the beginning of the second half.

Justin, not seeing orange on the Tower tonight

You figure pretty accurately, Justin C....

1969 into 1970. <g>

They were seniors... from the old school before my group came in and created the ultimate in corruption. The spoiled brat generation... rebels with a pseudo cause.

God bless them... I bet they are respectfully sad right now.

Wish I had realized his greatness while he was still living and breathing. So it goes.

I have the Highwaymen CD... will have to give it another listen. It did not grab me on the first go round... bought it more for the historical significance than anything else.

Weekend is great so far... 38 to nothing. And that was with the second string in for a smidge of 3rd quarter and all of the 4th... no sense risking injuries. ND who? HAR! Love humiliating the pope's team. <g>

Condolences on the Longhorn loss... geez... I was aggravated with disbelief. True bummer.

Mellow day in the hills of nj... rainy and cool... minor chore day. Work left to be done but then there is always tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeping in their petty pace...

About to sign off and go to sleep with Nebraska - Penn State... Sure hope PSU shocks the prognosticators with a win... and that I am awake for the victory. We'll see.

Take care... enjoy the night.
ksquared

"He truly was for the working man."

Truly, excel... truly.

I believe you are correct from the info I've gathered over the past couple of days... and he was for "him" purely because it was meet and right so to do... not because it would buy votes.

God bless you, Johnny Cash.

You were one of the good ones... may you rest eternally in whatever realm you find peace.

ksquared

Afternoon / Morning Central, Ksquared ....

I wonder how [the three Johnny Cash fans] are doing right now.

If I figure correctly, their listening sessions would've been around 1970 when Johnny was at the peak of his renewed career with Folsom Prison Blues and his TV show. As A&E pointed out, after his TV show went off the air in 1971, his new career sank as quickly as it had risen three years earlier. So it would be interesting to know if the three ladies continued their interest in him over the years, particularly with his more recent critically acclaimed CD releases. And what do you suppose happened with their "straight-laced" approach to living during the 1970s and beyond?

I enjoyed Johnny Cash's TV show back in the days when TV seemed to be more fun than it is now, even with the extra hundred or so channels. And I enjoyed seeing him with the Highwaymen group (with Waylon, Willie & Kris) at the Astrodome back around 1990. Great show.

Hope you're having a good weekend.

Justin