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Entered at Wed Jun 19 08:47:24 CEST 2013 from (82.69.47.175)

Peter V

Subject: Jammin'

Link to Watkins Glen article by Pat B, one of the most interesting things in the library. Many bands have a warm up that they call a "jam" but as it tends to follow a pre-established riff pattern and melody with solos, it's more like "Untitled instrumental." See Watkins Glen "Jam".

There is a jam with all three bands that was labelled "Watkins Glen rehearsal" or "Watkins Glen Soundcheck," though on the TAPE ARCHIVE on the site it's labelled as "All three bands played in the encores." Pat! Another bit of research. Rehearsal or encores? This comprises:

Around & Around

Mountain Jam

Johnny B. Goode

Not Fade Away

Mountain Jam

Let Me Wrap You In My Arms

It's labelled as sound "VG" which means it's a different copy than the tape I heard which I'd label as sound quality "FA" the second letter standing for "awful." I was discussing the Chuck Berry song most likely to be chosen to jam on, and my friends agreed it was Johnny B. Goode, at least in Britain.

Entered at Wed Jun 19 06:56:20 CEST 2013 from (98.149.168.95)

Sebastian

My dad and I will be doing a signing at Indigo in Toronto in the fall.

Entered at Wed Jun 19 04:47:07 CEST 2013 from (108.199.117.100)

Todd

Subject: Jam Bands

Kevin J., Interesting distinctions between the 3 groups that appeared at Watkins Glen, and surely must have partaken in some jamming at some point. Let me consult my trusty CD of Live at Watkins Glen for reference. Whoopsie....seems to be more of a bonus tracks sort of disc.

Anyroad....
Grateful Dead: "A jam band"
Allman Brothers: ""A band that jams"
The Band: "We don't jam"

Entered at Wed Jun 19 03:08:45 CEST 2013 from (96.30.173.135)

joe e j

Subject: Gourds

Link to Gourds cover of R/L Thompson classic.

Still taking credit for introducing GB to the Gourds w 'Gin & Juice'.

Entered at Wed Jun 19 02:47:33 CEST 2013 from (108.199.117.100)

Todd

Subject: Ice Ice Baby

I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
Just sayin'........

Entered at Tue Jun 18 22:33:57 CEST 2013 from (70.53.47.168)

Kevin J

From a recent Gregg Allman interview with Melissa Ruggieri: “The Brothers are not a jam band – we’re a band that jams. I’ve heard that damn expression so many times. It’s b.s. There has to be some semblance of order, otherwise you’ll sound like the Grateful Dead.”

Entered at Tue Jun 18 21:50:16 CEST 2013 from (70.28.32.74)

Landmark

Loved the Neil Young one. The Gregg Allman was okay but nothing special. I just finished the Howard Kaylan one "Shell Shocked" and enjoyed that one a lot. A lot of fluff but plenty of info. Overall a fun read

Entered at Tue Jun 18 20:26:00 CEST 2013 from (83.249.143.62)

NorthWestCoaster

Subject: "Dead" gbers

Thanks Brown Eyed Girl and Bill M and Kevin J. for response.

Beside Empty Now some other immortal gbers will definitely go to rock history like the Dutches NORBERT who saved gb when it was in danger and RAGTIME - the classical music virtuos. Furthermore my compatriot KALERVO... Hyvää juhannusta!

Entered at Tue Jun 18 19:18:08 CEST 2013 from (69.158.84.185)

brown eyed girl

NorthWestcoaster....Great to "see" you again. Besides JT....You're Dylan's biggest fan in the world. I was also until just before "Mississippi".

The Weight: When a Song Becomes an Anthem

I'm in the middle of Carole Pope's autobiography....Very creative community between our comedians and more alternative musicians. So Bill M....What I really want to know is MF still married to the go-go dancer? And....Dusty Springfield and Carole shacked up right in my hood and I didn't even know it! ;-D

Also, reading a bio on Amy Winehouse. I didn't know that the song Melanie Martinez sang on The Voice "Too Close" was by her last partner...Alex Clare...and I still haven't finished Clinton Heylin's book on Van. I also want to finally read.....A memoir by Fidel Castro on CHE.

Entered at Tue Jun 18 18:58:37 CEST 2013 from (108.90.18.26)

Pat B

Entered at Tue Jun 18 18:51:45 CEST 2013 from (108.90.18.26)

Pat B

I imagine a RR autobiography will cause seismic shifts among a certain portion of Bandom, especially if he explains what his concept of songwriting is. It will also be interesting to see if this journal he kept really exists and becomes a reference source.

Entered at Tue Jun 18 18:51:18 CEST 2013 from (129.98.207.164)

Jed

Thanks Kevin-enjoyed your review.I'm on my second listen & loving every minute.Thanks BEG-loved the videos.&,interesting how noone has yet commented on the Rick,Richard,Paul CD.Perhaps the topic was beaten to death in past GB discussions.

Entered at Tue Jun 18 18:23:11 CEST 2013 from (82.69.47.175)

Peter V

Funny, some of the best rock autobiographies are unexpected. Tommy James' "Me, The Mob & Music" is the one I'm half way through. Great stuff on Roulette and Morris Levy.

Also, I picked up the Status Quo one in a charity shop for £1. I had no interest in the band, but they tell their story very well indeed. I bought it for record label stories and information, intending to skim through for stuff on the Pye and Vertigo labels, and ended up reading it all. They have a clever format: Frances Rossi and Rick Parfitt take alternate chapters, and cover the same periods from their different viewpoints. It works.

Entered at Tue Jun 18 18:21:03 CEST 2013 from (83.249.143.62)

NorthWestCoaster

Subject: Empty Now

Of course, I made my EMPTY NOW pilgrimage complete by visiting the grave of ALBERT CAMUS (the great son and Nobel Prize winner born in Constance, Algeria) and 'Les Saintes Maries De La Mer' where Dylan wrote "Sarah". Empty Now used to refer to this song often. COUNTRY JOE McDONALDS's song "Air Algiers" must already be well-known in a forum with this level of dignity.

On a serious side: after the battle of Harmageddon there are still a few people left, we Finns and Algerians.

Entered at Tue Jun 18 18:19:14 CEST 2013 from (68.171.231.84)

Bill M

Kevin J: I almost posted a link showing MMO'H fronting Songship in the '70s. Same guitarist as on "Miss America", Rusty McCarthy from the Soo.

Entered at Tue Jun 18 18:16:17 CEST 2013 from (156.47.15.10)

David P

Entered at Tue Jun 18 17:50:23 CEST 2013 from (70.53.47.168)

Kevin J

Bonus Tracks: Over 90% of the time – a total waste of time. I am actually at the point where I detest the additions – as they serve more as an irritation than a pleasure.

Spell-Caster…..come on back!……The Hawks need you. Just asking……Is it too late for the “new NHL” to start calling hooking and holding again?

RR’s biography: Announced on his Facebook page that it will be published Fall 2014. Mini-tour with Garth, Mary Margaret O’Hara and a few others would be wonderful. Hoping Adam can get an interview with RR to coincide with this as well....at least someone might ask guitar questions!

NWC: Your list of greatest songs ( or song ) still makes me laugh.

Entered at Tue Jun 18 17:40:19 CEST 2013 from (83.249.143.62)

NorthWestCoaster

Subject: The greatest gber ever

I sat in Marseille Aeroport among Algerians heading to Empty's hometown Constance and remembered this gb.

Entered at Tue Jun 18 16:46:55 CEST 2013 from (99.141.20.127)

Adam

I was not aware of these bonus tracks, until Garth & Maud told me about them awhile back. These were basically just individual titles reissued for those who want the bonus tracks.

Entered at Tue Jun 18 15:35:36 CEST 2013 from (69.158.84.185)

brown eyed girl

Thank you Bill. I really like.....MARY MARGARET O´HARA Help me lift you up (lyrics included).

Entered at Tue Jun 18 15:26:27 CEST 2013 from (204.138.59.92)

Bill M

Subject: another Mary Margaret song ...

... but this time from her one and only album - from 1988.

Entered at Tue Jun 18 15:09:45 CEST 2013 from (69.158.84.185)

brown eyed girl

Joe Cocker - Out of the Blue (1994)

SERENITY...Your beauty radiates on these pages as you know how to see someone else's with warts and all....Thank you. :-D

Entered at Tue Jun 18 15:05:35 CEST 2013 from (72.224.51.211)

JoeFrey

Subject: The Band SACD

Mobile Fidelity is issuing SACD and vinyl 180g LP versions of The Band. No release date given but based on past performance, I expect we will not see this until the fall. Now let's see, this will make how many versions of this great album that I will have purchased?? Joe

Entered at Tue Jun 18 15:04:00 CEST 2013 from (69.158.84.185)

brown eyed girl

Mary Margaret O'Hara - Out of the Blue

Entered at Tue Jun 18 14:59:51 CEST 2013 from (99.245.109.0)

John D

Adam, do you have to buy both volumes; in order to get the two bonus tracks and are all the other tracks the same on each volume? Also who does the bonus numbers. I bought the original; when it was first released and of course there are no bonus tracks.

Entered at Tue Jun 18 14:45:44 CEST 2013 from (204.138.59.92)

Bill M

Adam, Jed and Kevin J: Good to see nice things being said again about Garth's "Canadian Celebration" project. I agree that Mary Margaret O'Hara takes "Out Of The Blues" to places undreamed of, partly via a Streetcar Names Desire (the little bit of Blanche and Stanley posturing in the "He knows, he knows ..." lines). My other favouring is the Road Hammers' version of "Yazoo Street Scandal".

Sadavid, and also any Remains fans out there, may appreciate the link to the Checkerlads 'big' song, "Shake Yourself Down" from '66. The Road Hammers' drummer, Corbett Frasz, is the son of the Checkerlads drummer.

Entered at Tue Jun 18 11:54:58 CEST 2013 from (122.59.251.42)

Rod

I've seen a few articles (probably from the same source) that say Bob Dylan and The Band set up Shangri-La together. I always thought it was Rob Fraboni and The Band's project.

Entered at Tue Jun 18 02:18:11 CEST 2013 from (99.141.20.127)

Adam

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Kevin J

-Garth Hudson's celebration of the Band cd is brilliant..........while latest offerings from Kings of Leon. Jeff Beck and Townes Earle all ranked highly with me this year........The Garth cd is so good on so many levels that it strikes me as almost criminal that it has not received the credit it deserves...........think about the majority of the "Tribute" records put out over the last 20 years....at first they were a treat because it was just nice to hear superstar acts doing underappreciated artists.....but they quickly became predictable and it was rare to find a great cover......the horrific Kinks cd is a good example of how sloppy and pathetic many of these things have become ( see Bon Jovi and "Celluloid Heroes" for 7 minutes of Hell in case any is needed ) ................Enter Garth with the Band idea and just think about how this whole thing would have gone with just about anybody else.in charge.......They would have ticked off the 7 or 8 signature songs and then offered them up to the biggest of the stars assembled..............What we would have been left with is an album full of lame attempts to re-create masterpieces......an example of which is the only misfire on the album where Blue Rodeo take on King Harvest and come up well short..........a few observations on the album:

- The song selection and track order is exquisite............the more I played this the more I kept thinking about what kind of contributions Garth must have made to the Band ( far besides the great playing we all have appreciated for years ) that went unnoticed.

- Danny Brooks take on Forbidden Fruit is great and really sets the stage perfectly for the album.................Mary Margret O'Hara interpretation of "Out of the Blue" - this one took a few listens to get by the loungey feel and absence of guts that Robbie's best ever vocal conveyed but by the 10th spin or so I was completely won over...it just gets better and better in fact..........Neil Young - an astonishing take on "This Wheels on Fire" - takes a good song and makes it great ( so good that I simply would not have beloved it possible to turn this song out in the way that he and The Sadies did ) .........Suzie McNeil's blistering version of 'Ain't Got No Home" is the cut that completely establishes the brilliance of this album and the genius of Garth Hudson........who else would have chosen this song to go on a tribute record and to put a 200 mph version of it at the 5 spot on the album is inspired beyond belief....a great take that floors the Band version......................another gem is Kevin Hearn's take on :"You ain't going Nowhere" .......The Sadies do a wonderful version of "The Shape I'm In"..............the toughest assignment may have been given to Raine Maida to do "The Moon Struck One" ( let's just say Neil Young, Bruce Cockburn and Blue Rodeo were likely given their choice of material and Raine Maida was not ) anyhow.......he takes the song to heights never imagined possible and for guitar nuts amongst us throws in the only Robbie style guitar on the entire record.....a transcendent take..................Interesting sidebar: I purchased 5 copies and gave them out as Christmas gifts to some family and friends.......in all cases the reaction back was extremely favourable - with "Out of the Blue" mentioned by all and Neil Young and Kevin Hearn - also cited

Entered at Tue Jun 18 00:29:11 CEST 2013 from (82.69.47.175)

Peter v

Entered at Tue Jun 18 00:05:46 CEST 2013 from (174.44.139.55)

Jed

Finally picked up 2 CDs I've wanted for awhile.Garth's Canadian Celebration of The Band,which I'm listening to now-It knocks my socks off.Cant wait for the wife to come home-I know she'll really dig it.The fact that its Garth's favorite Band songs is tremendous and I love the ones he's selected.The production is steller &,as expected,Garth's playing is the best.The performances,and many of the performers I've never or rarely heard,are first rate,creative.These are not imitations or covers,they are individual interpretations of the essence of these songs.The artists seem to go inside each song pulling out that essence-with Garth laying and maintaining the musical foundation.Magnificent,and too many great performances to pick my favorites,and oh so many. The 2nd cd,Rick,Richard,and Butterfield at the Lone Star was a different and difficult experience.We attended the shows over the years with varied Band members at the Lone Star,including hearing and seeing the music from this cd.The sound is far from ideal,but it captures the music and intent.Some of the music was strong,beautiful and evocative of all those 80's shows we saw over the years.But there was a sadness,a disorganization,some may say it was loose.Rick sang with great inner beauty particularly on Unfaithful Servant,and Richard's singing and keyboard work were excellent.Paul had some very good harp playing and hot vocals going albeit inconsistently.I guess it captured a time and state of mind and being that had some good things going but some bad realities as well.But,what I recall and still hear,is that Rick and Richard still had their gifts,their youth and their beautifully sweet personalities as seen and heard in their music.

Entered at Mon Jun 17 23:49:00 CEST 2013 from (108.90.18.26)

Pat B

Some photos I linked a year ago.

Entered at Mon Jun 17 22:51:24 CEST 2013 from (204.138.59.92)

Bill M

Subject: "Til We Meet Again"

I don't yet have the Olds album, but I just noticed in Peter V's review that the closing song is "Til We Meet Again". I'm not saying that Garth wouldn't have known the song otherwise, or that he got to choose what to do on the Olds album, but it was for decades Don Messer's theme song, sung by Marg Osbourne and Charlie Chamberlain at the closing of every episode of "Don Messer's Jubilee" on CBC radio then TV. In Bob Mersereau's book on Canadian albums, Garth goes on at some length about the influence of CBC variety shows on himself and the others growing up.

Entered at Mon Jun 17 22:36:44 CEST 2013 from (204.138.59.92)

Bill M

Entered at Mon Jun 17 22:08:35 CEST 2013 from (156.47.15.10)

David P

Several of the songs on Van Morrison's "Moondance" album were remixed. The original LP pressing included a version of "Into the Mystic" that featured a tambourine and a "foghorn" sound (organ with two saxes with a tremelo effect) prominent in the mix. Most later versions of the LP and CD versions used an alternate mix, sans tambourine and the foghorn muted. The 2008 Rhino remastered LP version included the original version.

Another example is the first U.S. & Canadian stereo LP pressing of Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited", which included a version of "From a Buick 6" with a harmonica intro. Later LP, as well as CD versions, included a different version without the harmonica at the beginning.

Entered at Mon Jun 17 20:57:07 CEST 2013 from (70.53.47.168)

Kevin J

...just the thought of crazed-empty-goofball reality tv nothings walking in Rick D's footsteps makes me wanna.......oh, let's pray no one from the Kardashian gang was allowed near that property! Wonder if that wallpaper is still up?

Entered at Mon Jun 17 19:07:22 CEST 2013 from (156.47.15.10)

David P

Interesting that rapper Kanye West worked on his new album "Yeezus" at Shangri-La studios in Malibu. As Jon Caramancia described the scene in yesterday's New York Times article, "Behind Kanye's Mask":

"The original studios were built under the supervision of Bob Dylan and the Band in the 1970s -- some of "The Last Waltz" was filmed there -- and the property was bought in 2011 by the producer Rick Rubin, the man whose brain Mr. West had come here to pick. Together they sandpapered off the album's rough edges, rerecording vocals and sometimes writing entire new verses. Even as the deadline loomed, Mr. West made room for an appearance at the baby shower of his girlfriend, Kim Kardashian, who's expecting their first child. As the days passed, the songs noticeably morphed, becoming more skeletal and ferocious."

Funny, that when the Rolling Stones covered "Under the Boardwalk", the bad boys of rock chose to sing the bowdlerized version of the refrain line.

Entered at Mon Jun 17 18:25:18 CEST 2013 from (82.69.47.175)

Peter V

I guessed that as the "fallng in love" was the Bowdlerized version it was probably done second. My friend said the stereo LP version jars every time … the phrasing on other bits of lyric is different too. It just shows it's what we know and love with music rather than intrinsic quality … I prefer the LP take. Cross reference is to the Capitol stereo versions of earlier Beatles albums, which no unbiased new listener would prefer to the mono, but it's what you remember at a time when this music was important to you.

Entered at Mon Jun 17 18:08:12 CEST 2013 from (68.185.20.94)

JQ

"He's the 2nd best singer around now."

Entered at Mon Jun 17 18:01:53 CEST 2013 from (156.47.15.10)

David P

What I recall reading was that they originally recorded the song with the "making love" lyrics in the later refrain of the song. Reportedly someone with Atlantic objected, apparently considering it too risque for the sensibilities of white teenagers at the time. The Drifters then re-recorded the vocal tracks later that day, to overdub "falling in love" in place of "making love." This censored version was then mixed to mono and used for the original 45 single release. However, the mono mix master was later destroyed. The only remaining master tape is the stereo mix with the original "making love" lyric.

Entered at Mon Jun 17 17:19:47 CEST 2013 from (70.53.47.168)

Kevin J

JQ: Thank you for that quote from L. Cohen on George Jones…….perfectly said and I agree completely……Along with Marvin Gaye, the best I have ever heard.

Entered at Mon Jun 17 16:18:22 CEST 2013 from (131.137.247.6)

sadavid

Subject: cloning the Greatest Hits

Peter V: not sure if this relates to your Drifters discovery . . . "it turns out that many oldies hits have been re-recorded by the original artists in recent years, and in most cases for a simple reason: royalties."

Entered at Sun Jun 16 22:04:41 CEST 2013 from (99.237.0.147)

Serenity

WOW!! Hi guys!! So nice to be back here again. Sure have a lot of reading to do.. Thanx to all for the great posts and links..

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BEG:You amaze me beyond words. Your posts, links,etc. are always sooo interesting..NEVER change. You are the best ever, and we all love you for all that you do to keep us informed...LUVYA xoxo

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NORM: Have fun at the wedding..

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Some sad news:

Mumford & Sons Bassist Rushed to Hospital for Emergency Brain Surgery

June 11, 2013 by Dan Clarendon

Ted Dwane on Instagram

Photo:Ted Dwane of Mumford & Sons .

Update: It looks like Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford are at the hospital waiting to hear news about Ted Dwane's surgery. Our fingers are crossed!

Original Story, 12:55 p.m. EST:

Mumford & Sons bassist Ted Dwane is in the hospital today, June 11, for an emergency surgery after doctors discovered a blood clot in his brain.

As a statement from the band on its official website reports, Ted was taken to a hospital yesterday, June 10, after feeling unwell for a few days. A scan revealed a clot on the surface of his brain which required an immediate operation.

The band announced, with sadness, that it would be postponing three shows this week in Dallas, Texas; The Woodlands, Texas; and New Orleans, La. but promise that all tickets would be honored at the rescheduled dates. They also say that they have no plans to change any more tour dates.

Ted — who also plays drums and guitar — has been with the British band since its formation in 2007. After hit albums Sigh No More and Babel, Mumford & Sons has reaped multiple Grammy Awards helped lead the recent revival of the folk-rock genre.

Here's wishing Ted a speedy recovery and many more years of success with the band.

Source: Mumford & Sons' official website

Until next time LOVE AND PEACE

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Dunc

Subject: Norbert's post

I don't think that post is from Norbert

Entered at Sun Jun 16 15:26:15 CEST 2013 from (184.144.110.182)

brown eyed girl

Paul Simon - Father And Daughter

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brown eyed girl

For all the Dads here... :-D

Keith Urban - Song for dad
lyrics included

Entered at Sun Jun 16 14:12:08 CEST 2013 from (82.69.47.175)

Peter V

A friend asked me if I could put a single on CD for him the other day because he couldn't find a copy. It was "Under The Boardwalk" by The Drifters. I said, 'That's easy. I've got it on half a dozen compilations.'

'You haven't,'he told me, 'You've got the LP version, which has a "we'll be making love" replacing one of the "we'll be falling in love" lines.' There's no "making love" on the single.

I said they'd probably cut it in, but he said no, the whole record sounds different. A bit of research and he's quite right. The original mono 45 is not just a different edit, it's a different recording of the song, and yes, it does sound different.

So 45s still have a purpose.

Entered at Sun Jun 16 00:13:28 CEST 2013 from (88.171.122.91)

Norbert

It's a pretty diverse and varied website so I like.

Entered at Sat Jun 15 14:49:00 CEST 2013 from (184.144.111.202)

brown eyed girl

Garland Jeffreys & Larry Campbell @ Brooklyn Recording 5.29.13

Bookstores in Toronto...Really miss some of our independent stores like Edwards, David Mirvish Books on Art, Britnall's, The Cellar. In those days my money was spent on books and music. Now I only occasionally go to Indigo Bookstore (mostly when students give me gift cards). BMV in three locations is my store now. When in NYC I always go to The Strand. Recently I found three books to add to my collection of one NY writer. The only writers I have all of their books would be Simone De Beauvoir, Jay McInerny, and Fernanda Eberstadt. For children's books....Robin Muller.

Entered at Sat Jun 15 03:16:39 CEST 2013 from (63.142.158.9)

JQ

"I like country music but I love George Jones. His is the best voice ever. He's working with the best musicians in Nashville and its an absolutely impeccable production, sometimes over the top, but it doesn't matter, you trust the voice. That element of trust is critical."

From the Mojo obit, 7/13.

Entered at Sat Jun 15 01:04:50 CEST 2013 from (184.66.137.72)

JT

Subject: Book stores

As for book stores that are independent, they are clearly in major trouble. In Victoria, Munro's continues to prosper and there are some used stores around. But it seems that the writing is on the wall for others. In Toronto, many have disappeared.

Entered at Sat Jun 15 01:02:51 CEST 2013 from (184.66.137.72)

JT

Subject: Local' record 'stores

After all the negative comments regarding local record/cd/vinyl stores, we all seem to (except Joan unfortunately) have a place to go still to search out what we hope to find. In Victoria, within walking distance of the office, is Ditch Records and Lyle's. A vinyl store is also present not far from those in Fan Tan Alley. It has been there a long time and apparently is going strong. No sign of any demise for these. In Toronto, Vortex records continues 2 blocks away from where we live when we are there. I hope that these stores will continue to thrive. I am certainly trying to do my part.

Entered at Sat Jun 15 00:11:59 CEST 2013 from (82.69.47.175)

Peter V

Entered at Fri Jun 14 21:41:21 CEST 2013 from (174.44.139.55)

Jed

BEG-thanks much for the link.I sent to my wife since she and I will enjoy looking through it.But,the words book depository,in my mind,are usually linked to 11/22/63.The mind seems to lock in on something from younger days and there it stays.Nevertheless,a great site!

Entered at Fri Jun 14 19:10:12 CEST 2013 from (74.108.32.67)

Joan

I'm not sure how it works with Amazon out of US, but the shippers are limited to the amount they can charge for shipping (like $2,98 for cds) Maybe if you bring it up to Amazon they can do something about it. Also some "shopbots" will give m you all the prices plus the shipping charges.

I'm forced to shop Amazon because there is no record stores left in Nassau County ,Where I live. Last one , HMV closed two or three years ago.

Peter I agree, Beautiful Old is just lovely to listen to. I went to school in Ohio and I always have liked Beautiful Ohio.

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David P

My local store is withing walking distance from a train station, so it's very convenient to visit on my commute home. I also often have work-related business to take care of in that area. As there are many different shops in the vicinity, I can also pick up other things on the trip, such as fresh bread, wine & cheese.

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Peter V

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David P

My local independent store, Decatur CD, which also sells vinyl, posts a new release list on its webpage each week. If they sell out, or don't have something in stock, they will order it and have it within a day or two.

Entered at Fri Jun 14 14:53:34 CEST 2013 from (24.108.143.105)

JT

Subject: Shipping

In fact, John, shipping is how so many of these companies make their money. If you watch all the TV ads for unusual products, after they say "But wait" and then offer you a second identical product instead of only one, they speak briefly and in rapid fire wording about shipping. It is the shipping that makes them a fair amount of money. I usually only order from Amazon directly and not any of the others who advertise there for this very reason. Even Amazon sometimes has shipping costs that are excessive. You have to be wary as you now know and read the shipping line carefully before the click.

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Peter V

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JT

Subject: Blind Boy Grunt in the UK 2013

Bob Dylan will be in Glasgow, Blackpool, and then finally The Royal Albert Hall in London to finish his European tour in November 2013. First time back to that venerable hall since 1966.

Entered at Fri Jun 14 14:20:18 CEST 2013 from (99.245.109.0)

John D

Thanks for the info A :-)

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brown eyed girl

I still have my Knockin' On Dylan's Door On The Road in '74 a Rolling Stone book...cost....1.50. I just checked Book Depository which doesn't charge for shipping....not available but there are other books by Ben Fong-Torres.

Entered at Fri Jun 14 14:03:20 CEST 2013 from (99.245.109.0)

John D

Well Peter, I decided to order a copy of "Knockin' On Dylan's Door"; from Amazon this week. I had a copy; but can't find it. It is an account of Tour 74; by Ben Fong-Torres. The used paperback was $11.95. No problem. Unfortunately, I order by 1 click; so you don't see your complete bill right away. Yesterday morning I got my electronic bill. $35.00. $23.95 for shipping. For shipping!!! I must come clean to say that I had to order the book at the low price; from a third party company that is under the Amazon banner. Amazon themselves never charge me that much for shipping. I tried to cancel; but it was already being shipped. It's happened to me twice now. Live and learn and no more 1 click for me.

Entered at Fri Jun 14 13:24:31 CEST 2013 from (184.144.110.224)

brown eyed girl

Baby, do you understand me now?
Sometimes I feel a little mad
But don't you know that no one alive can always be an angel
When things go wrong I feel real bad.

I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Thanks Jon Lyness...I'll probably be seeing Mavis Staples once again on June 22 at Nathan Phillip's Square (sitting outside tent).
Btw, Bill M....same day as Junction Festival.
Her song "Keep Your Eye On The Prize" from a previous recording produced by Ry Cooder....We'll Never Turn Back......always helped me when I didn't think I could carry out something. It worked! I have this year off!!!!!

Peter....Thanks for posting link to The Beautiful Old. I really like artists like Graham Parker, Garth Hudson and Richard Thompson.

Hi Bob F. I apologise as I keep forgetting to respond to your last post.....I do know about bullying first hand here and elsewhere. Pit bulls tried to run me out but my spirit won't allow it. One way females bully is to intentionally exclude others.
At school we have a Roots of Empathy program where a mom and her baby come into the school each week and the kidzzzzz learn about empathy.
"Roots of Empathy is an evidence-based classroom program that has shown significant effect in reducing levels of aggression among school children while raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy."
It's one way we address bullying in the school system.
Even though I'm not back to work until the fall....Today I'm off to a workshop on autism. Now those kidzzzzz.....either really respond to music or they don't. It was a Backstreet Boyzzz song that connected with one student. Yeah, there's even a song of theirs that I brought into the classroom because I knew the kidzzz were digging them at the time. Another reason I sometimes watch shows like American Idol and The Voice is that the performers cover songs of many artists from many genres and I try to keep up with what's from the past and the present......Keeps my spirit young....and then if I'm bullied.....well.....I might crank up Tupac's music.... :-D

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Peter V

Mention of Eric Burdon reminds me to ask about his recent album, 'Till Your River Runs Dry." I found it hard to get a copy at all. Nowhere had one. He had the bad luck to be released at the point everyone thought HMV was going bankrupt, and shops weren't allowed to order, and companies were declining to supply HMV anyway. HMV survived, shorn of over a third of its shops, but Eric Burdon's well-reviewed record got lost. I haven't given it enough time yet. Maybe today. Mention of Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood reminded me of what an instinctively great singer he is. Interviews at the time of release mentioned how he suffered from racism (because he was white) from the members of War.

Another example of why the record shops are in trouble is Laura Marling's "Once I Was An Eagle." You'd think that getting long five star reviews in all the serious papers and monthly music mags was a recipe for success, but I spent two weeks, looked in four different HMV stores and three indies and never saw a copy. Reluctantly I ordered mine from amazon. I say reluctantly because each time I do this I think it another nail in the coffin lid for record stores. But if they don't read the reviews and order in the well-reviewed stuff, what can they expect?

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JT

Subject: 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood'

Kevin J: Good vision but no rumble. My comments always were directed at those who are sexist, elitist and closed minded. BEG was the target and others have been in the past. It is those comments which I called 'crap' and not anything BEG has ever said. As others have said, she (and others) are what make this GB special. So as Eric said so eloquently... 'intentions are good'....misunderstood'.

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Far East Man

Subject: Bessie

Thank you Jimmy - I always loved that song. Until all the info came out - I always thought it fit in quite nicely with the other basement tracks. It has that terrific quality - it could only be done by "The Band". The drums, bass, organ and the vocals are pure, so imaginative. Norah Jones does a nice take on it. As for all the research -I'll stick with Bob Seger -"Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then......".

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brown eyed girl

Hi Kevin! I'd like to say that I missed you, but if Westie is still around....He's gonna call me a harlot again. ;-D
Many thanks for alerting us to a longer interview with Robbie and Sebastian and for your song of the day. You really got me....I thought it might be a cover of that other song....lol
Here's my song of the day.....I think this one is Joseph Arthur's gem on The Ballad of Boogie Christ.

GARTH HUDSON WITH JOSEPH ARTHUR...I USED TO KNOW HOW TO WALK ON WATER.

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Rockin Chair

Subject: Definitly Crazy!

Kevin, you ain't getting high chewing the bark off birch trees.........wwwwhatttt! have you been smokin' boy?

I'm away agin tomorrow morning to go up to Shearwater, near Bella Bella, (Indian Territory) and load a load of logs.

Now I'm gonna tell alluh-yuz. There ain't nothing like driving down the solitude of the Nimkish Valley, 2 hours thru' nothing but trees, hardly any traffic.......listening to the Brown Album. Except for the truck that I'm driving, (an 07 GMC Sierra) I could have gone back in time. There is nothing much changed there from those days when I worked in Port McNeill and listened to the Band, Johnny Rivers, singing Harold Dorman's old "Mountain of Love", Chuck Berry's Mabiline, listened to Van. If you drive along like that and let your mind go back into the music, it's like you really are back there.

Y'all have a good week.

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Jon Lyness

Subject: Mavis!

Nice news: new album by Mavis Staples, produced by Jeff Tweedy, out in two weeks.

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Kevin J

Subject: Song of the day - Linked Marty Stuart Going Going Gone

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Kevin J

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Peter V

Subject: The Beautiful Old - Garth Hudson

You should enjoy this video sampler for "The Beautiful Old", featuring Garth on so many tracks. If you haven't got it yet, you probably need it!

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Jimmy Nelson

Subject: Always loved this song by Rick

On "Bessie Smith" ...

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Kevin J

Pat B: I doubt Steve would have had issues with Crawford.....1.) He is a local Montreal kid and played his juniors in the QMJHL so Steve would have been familiar with him , and 2.) He has played sensationally in these playoffs, unlike Niemi the last time the Hawks were in this same position........While his knocks on Antti Niemi were a bit over the top, the goaltending in the 2010 Stanley Cup final might well have been the weakest from both sides ( Philly and Chicago ) ever on display......

.......anyhow, Crawford has, at least for me, now leaped into a front runner status for starting Team Canada goalie at 2014 Winter Olympics..........a few defining moments for me.......the number of truly clutch saves he has made all through the playoffs and his jumping in to help Toews in Game 5 vs LA. The way he did that said a whole lot about him......funny side note....Niemi has developed into a very fine goalie...top 2 or 3 in the league.....Hoping so badly that the Hawks whack the Bruins....I detest everything about that team......coach, style of play, all of it.

Whole Lotta Love: I watched the whole interview with Sebastian and Robbie Robertson...........a couple of things...........at about the 3/4 pole, I was thinking Sebastian might just jump up and exclaim "Hey, hold on, HE didn't do the damn book all by himself you know!"...............a sweet moment near the end was when Sebastian laughed about taking his dad to a RUN-DMC concert and also as a young kid asking his dad to teach him how to play Zep's "Whole Lotta Love".

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Joan

Subject: TV music / Contest

The link is to a Gand vs Doors contest. Vote

Did anyone catch The Daily Show with Mavis Staples and The Colbert Report with an hour of Paul McCartney last night? It is probably on line.

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Mike Nomad

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Peter V

Same in Greece, SADavid, even 30 years ago. (Greek coffee being the same as Turkish coffee). You had to specify Greek coffee and everyone thought Nescafé was cool. It's a language point, because they used Nescafé generically, so you could have a Nescafé (or perhaps nescafé) made by Maxwell House. I suspect it has now changed and like everywhere else they just go for Italian varieties. Last time I was in a Turkish restaurant in Britain I asked for Turkish coffee and they said they hadn't done it for years, too much hassle to prepare. They had a Gaggia machine and did a very nice double espresso.

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sadavid

Visited Turkey, about fifteen years ago.
We were looking forward to the Turkish coffee, but everywhere we went we were offered tea (nice, regular black tea).

If you asked for coffee, they'd nod vigorously and say "Nescafé!"

I guess it was a new thing . . . everyone seemed very proud to be able to furnish you with a cup of instant . . . .

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brown eyed girl

...and for much needed laughter from YouTube: Stephen Harper does PM impressions

"Stephen Harper does comedy impersonations of PM Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney, among others, in this video that surfaced under the YouTube banner 'Steve Harper' this week."

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brown eyed girl

The Band’s Robbie Robertson Gets Children’s Book Biography

SEBASTIAN...Could you please ask Robbie if he will be coming to Indigo Bookstore in Toronto to promote this book? Both of you? Just asking so that I don't preorder it if he will be in town to sign it.

I previously had Robbie sign Myron Zabol's (buddy of imagezulu) photography book PEOPLE OF THE DANCING SKY which includes a brief song lyric by robbie with some photos from Six Nations, Brantford, Ontario....Rob Bowman was also sitting beside Robbie at Indigo Bookstore and seemed to look like he wasn't even aware of this book at the time.

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John D

I found myself going back to Rick Danko's first solo album, yesterday. I believe it was the best of his solo recordings. "Sip The Wine, New Mexico and Java Blues" really stand out for me. What a voice.

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Peter V

Tales of coffee

Like Australia, Britain had major Italian immigration in the 1950s, and in London you’ll always find decent coffee in one-off small Italian places, invariably better than the chains. Apparently, a significant proportion of Italian prisoners of war never went home … after 1943 when Italy switched sides, they were allowed to do farm work and many married and stayed.

Anyway, my tale for today. The Trust House-Forte international hotel chain started in Britain, but that Forte family had two other less successful brothers. One owned three large restaurants with attached coffee shops in central Bournemouth, the other an ice-cream factory and restaurants in Poole and Llandudno. I worked washing-up in a Poole one once as an Easter holiday job, then a couple of years later in 1966, got a temporary job making coffee (the word barista was unknown) in the Bournemouth one.

This was first-rate Italian coffee, and many tourists were astonished at how powerful it was. All went well for four days, but on the Friday the owner waddled in, looked at me and said ‘Go next door. Get a haircut.’ I declined (it was shoulder length, no more), and he snarled ‘Sack him,’ at the manageress. She said, ‘What now? We have to pay him until 5.30.’ He said, ‘OK, put him in the kitchen. I can’t have long hair like that in front of customers.’

When I was teaching English, we did regular courses for hotel and catering staff from Europe, and I know that in catering, dismissed employees ALWAYS leave the premises at once. I was too nice a lad to do what others do in that situation, having no grievance against the customers, only the management. But I was put in the kitchen (which was huge and baked for all the restaurants) and assigned the job of marking fruit pies with A for apple or B for blackberry with cut out pieces of pastry. I immediately pointed out that as they only had two kinds of pie, a simple circle on the apple and nothing on the blackberry would serve to distinguish them, but I was always a smartarse.

Anyway, I worked diligently all afternoon. I was so keen to go back the next day and see how they had displayed the resulting pies in sets of four with F, U, C and K inscribed in pastry on the top.

Years later in the 1980s, we had an office 200 yards from that restaurant and had our coffee in the coffee shop every morning. It was still fantastic.

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Jed

I love R&R,the blues,jazz,and The Band music(yes,The Band is its own musical genre).I love Dylan,Beatles,Allmans,Dead,Miles,Monk,Coltrane,and much more,although not enough newish music(post 70's-I know I'm stuck in a musical time warp-but it's what I enjoy).Lately,I seem to listen to songs that are best described as ballads.Whether by The Band or its members,Gegg Allmans anthology(acoustic,softer music-ballad oriented),Jerry Garcia or Dylan,I seem to listen to all the ballads.What happened to my rock?My Roll? We all go through musical phases.Whatever that is.

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Dlew919

Brown eyed girl: love your work. Always have, always will.

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JT

Subject: Vinyl Addiction

Bill M, with his comment regarding paraphenalia, got me thinking. Here I purchased 3 vinyl recordings from The Band (again) and when I was in there at London Drugs, I saw vinyl by Leonard Cohen, Steely Dan, of course Beatles, and Bob Dylan. Now I have most of Dylan mint on vinyl (and many more) but Leonard Cohen (not so much, except for the newest album). (When was the last time we used the word 'album'). It makes me want to grow my moustache back and get my fringe jacket back. It reminds me of seeing Jimi Hendrix on the circular stage at MSG when I was 19. The whole experience of buying vinyl has 'got me reelin', round and round'. And this in the middle of a working afternoon in Victoria.

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Pat B

If Steve were here, he's be telling me what a bad tender Corey Crawford is, even as he leads the Hawks to the Cup.

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Joan

BEG you are a treasure. I'm so glad you are back posting. Yyou were missed.

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David P

Subject: Local Color

BEG: Interesting that Joseph Arthur recorded a series of songs at the Highland Inn in Atlanta. It's an old, refurbished hotel just down the street from the legendary Manuel's Tavern and The Carter Center. Just a couple of blocks around the corner is the Little 5-Points area.

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brown eyed girl

Joseph Arthur sits down for an intimate late night session at the Highland Inn in Atlanta, GA on February 10th, 2010....
"Honey and the Moon".
Ok Pat B....I see your eyes rollin'.....probably thinkin'......Now she's obsessed with JA instead of Louuuuuu. ;-D
(Go Hawks....Only....because Boston barely beat The Leafs).

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brown eyed girl

Welcome back Westie! I still ain't scrubbin' any floors for ya. lol
Hey check out Tom Jones and...David Clayton-Thomas in 1969 from the Big Jim Sullivan Show. At first I thought they were going to perform....."Spoonful" because of the beginning bass riff....written by Dixon but when I was young and growing up in a small city.....I thought Cream wrote it.

It's all good JT. :-D

Butch...You're very lucky to have found a good woman.
Would you believe that if I hadn't attended Eric Clapton's Guitar Festival I would have been in NYC this week to see Vivino, Ciralante, and Jim Weider...(road warriors introduced Jim to me when he had his Guru band.....and.......I just found out recently.........that JOSEPH ARTHUR will be peforming this Thursday at the Bowery Ballroom!

Ari.....Maybe you can see JA for me and enjoy the great writing and energy of a real artist......and tell him that I received his CD and now waiting for his poetry book and.........that JT is now a fan!!

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David P

Forty-three years ago this month The Band began recording at the Woodstock Playhouse with a young wizard pop star at the board. After two brilliant albums, things had begun to change in the group's dynamics. And yet, after several stages of mixing, another great record emerged.

On the turntable this week is the excellent Mobile Fidelity LP reissue of "Stage Fright."

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Rockin Chair

Subject: What goes up...........

I'm with you there Jerry. David Clayton Thomas stays on top and he is great.......Well I made it home from that last drag. Never shut my engine down for 5 days dragging that gawd damn camp.....got some good pictures too.

I think you smiled on me Joan, we lucked out with good weather all the way.

London Drugs has a really big store in Courtenay. Not long ago I wandered thru' there, as Susan loves to go into London Drugs. I was going to post this then. The CD racks in the electronics department are great. There was 4 different CD's of the Band in there, including MFBP, the Brown Album, greatest hits, and shit.I forget the last one. Also a lot of Dylan, Van the man, in all a huge selection.

Well now I have a big chore. Susan's son Ken, now at 40 has finally found the girl to marry. They live in Estevan, Sask. They all of a sudden decided to come out for a visit and get married while they are out here. Up on the top deck of the Rockin Chair...get married at sea. Susan found a lady, Justice of the Peace who is happy to perform the ceremony, and thinks this is exciting. I think it will be fun.

Bill and Kevin, you guys can have your caviar, I don't like the stuff, but you both get yer asses out here, I'll feed you some smoked salmon.

Hope every body is well and happy. I have to leave again Friday, run up to Bella Bella, and load a load of logs on my barge and transport down to Beaver Cove and pitch 'em off.

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JT

Subject: Missing out on beauty

And BEG, from where I sit, I don't think you are missing out on any beauty.

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JT

Subject: Valuable assets: Keep it up please

Everything you post, BEG, is of interest. The crap is the negativity that some people put forward regarding taste. The reason I read (and write) here is because I want to read what you and others have to say and what you enjoy. It is because of you that I found Joseph Arthur. It is because of others that I found other performers. The exchange of information here from you and others is what GB is all about. There is no crap! Even the friction that sometimes develops here leads ultimately to stimulated views and thinking. So no sexism. No elitism. Keep it up! You are what makes this site what it is! And it is good!

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brown eyed girl

JT....My feelings, ideas and thoughts aren't crap....They just are....I never posted how I really felt at the time but after watching Joni's interview.....I felt I needed to......my right. Period. There's nothing crap about me.....I've given my time, effort and heart to this site.....willingly.......crap isn't in my vocabulary as I try to be open minded about everything in life and when I'm not open to life, music.....I miss out on a lot of beauty. :-D

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JT

Subject: Opinion and personal taste

We are past that! I read John D and BEG and all other opinions on music with equal interest. They are all valid because they are personal taste. If I like certain music or Starbucks coffee, so be it. Their my taste buds and my ears and brain. If I chose to share that with you in an open forum, thats my business. If you don't like it... So keep on posting and no more crap. No one should leave. We are past that!

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David P

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Butch

Yo B E G,,,, Ya shoulda said Something!! We'd have loved to hang with ya,,, Great Night! Love The Rascals! Thanks for all you folks did for me/us when I was sick & waiting for my Miracle! 8 years post-transplant,,now,,, thank Gd, Bd

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brown eyed girl

....and thanks to Kevin J.....Ethel Smith (Hammond organ) 2 of 2 - Tico Tico from the film Bathing Beauty (1944).

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brown eyed girl

Thank you Peter!!!!! It's one of my favouite videos too!!!! They're just groovin' here......and Bob's hair is at it's best, as I never liked those really long locks. ;-D
Did I tell you that I saw them when I was maybe around 20 or was it early 20's and Ben Harper saw them when he was 12? (chanelling Rollie here) Would you believe we have that BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS video of STIR IT UP downloaded on my iMac? It's a good thing we do, as recently someone stole his imagezulu's crumpler bag that had his iPod, and many things totalling around 1600.00 due to polarized prescription sunglasses, etc. The two women who had stolen his bag were seen on video at King/Yonge.

Hey Butch I saw you walk by me in NYC as I was waiting to go into the theatre to see THE RASCALS. I wanted to tell your partner that I was one of the people who was sending her email re ZZZZ's painting to raise money for you when you needed a new liver......as Louuuuu now has.

It was very telling John D when I previously posted that I was watching American Idol because I just happened to see Joshua Ledet and I really appreciated him because of his soulfulness and he was only 19. Some of the boyzzz here went at me as if I don't know anything about "good" music and then you posted that you watch The Voice.....which I also watched if I happened to lock into a particular performer and all of a sudden you got a different reaction.......I still posted anyway because no one here can tell me what to like and what not to like. I've seen tons of bands in my time and I'm clear on what I dig......The Voice is a different style of show but it's the same thing........My point....was that "good" music can be found anywhere and that if your heart and mind are open....You will find it anywhere.....not a rant just dealing with sexism here and expressing myself as one of the few female posters still posting.....main reasons being to discover Band related links to promote legacy of The Band and to share music from many genres.....

Remember "pretty little girl" from way back Peter? I ended up meeting her in Toronto and she left the GB because of sexism here.......Here we are in 2013 and the same shit.....

Anyway, I agree that Amber Carrington and Sasha Allen are really good vocalists. I really liked the Swon's Brothers' cover of Darius Rucker's "Wagon Wheel". Danielle Bradbery is great too......and at only 16.....She has a looooong life ahead of her to receive many accolades. I'm rooting for MICHELLE CHAMUEL because I've already downloaded her covers of "Grenade", "True Colours" and Pink's "Just Give Me A Reason"......I've playing them over and over on my Nano while I'm walking around the city or rowing away on the rowing machine at the gym. It's really cool how Usher and Michelle have bonded and how they've locked into each other musicially and personally.....very cool.

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John

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Adam

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Peter V

Subject: The Best of Old Grey Whistle Test

The link goes to my all-time favourite Old Grey Whistle Test performance. This one's for you, Angelina!

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Peter V

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Peter V

27 11 1973 new york dolls, michael chapman(B.B. King on film, 'promised land' The Band)

What is fascinating is that was one of the most famous shows, where Bob Harris outraged The New York Dolls by introducing them as "mock rock."

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Peter V

Subject: The Promised Land & Felix The Cat

The explanation … the second item on The Old Grey Whistle Test TV show was always a track to a black & white cartoon. They had a technique where they altered the frame rate to the beat so it appeared to be synched to the music (well, in 1973 a lot of the watchers were in a state where it probably worked just with imagination). Being chosen for that slot was quit an accolade, and it went to significant releases where the artists couldn’t be present, either because like The Band they weren’t in the UK, or like The Rolling Stones because they were too big to do the show. If anyone wants to search the archives, I mentioned another Band track being done this way. My memory was King Harvest, but by the time the TV show started this was already an “oldie.” Just thinking this morning, I wonder if it was The Shape I’m In … I say this because I always see three cartoon animals strutting down a street as it starts.

If you follow the link, you’ll find the Old Grey Whistle Test cartoon with music was a fondly-remembered thing in the UK. None of them apparently survive, but on the link someone has re-created the idea with a song by Simon Sessler (who I hadn’t heard of). Note that the cartoon has a connection to the lyric or the title and these were great cartoons.

The Old Grey Whistle Test didn’t do lip synch, but early on, like Top of The Pops followed British Musician Union rules … it had to be partly live, so they recorded a new, live in studio instrumental track before the live transmission to get it right, and did the vocal live to it. That was abandoned by 1972, when it became totally live.

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Billy C. (Friend0

Dlew, Krispy Kreme Donuts used to be scrumptuous. They've become awful, but not as awful as Dunkin Donuts have.

I'm taking a different path on the trail of tenderness. Any of you whom may ever wish to communicate, can email easily enough. Todd, Lars, Peter, Jan, David P. Dlew, and others have my email address if you don't. Or you can email me through my website, which they also have if you don't.

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brown eyed girl

Maybe The Hawks (Go Hawks) actually performed on AB...but then they wouldn't have performed CC. Hmmm....

"After a warm reception, the Arkansas native decided to build his musical career in Canada. In the spring of 1959 Hawkins and his band stopped in New York and successfully auditioned for Roulette Records, resulting in 1959’s Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks. The same band, with the addition of bassist James G. Evans, played on the follow-up, Mr. Dynamo. "Forty Days" reached number 45 on the American charts in July of 1959, while "Mary Lou," which sold 200,000 copies in its first week, reached number 26 in October. Despite having a hit on the chart and an appearance on American Bandstand, Paulman, Jones, and Evans eventually quit over money issues and returned to Arkansas. "The Hawks," noted Wallis, "rarely stayed as a settled unit for very long." In 1960 the evolving lineup, including luminaries such as Fred Carter Jr., Stan Szelest, and Roy Buchanan, toured and recorded The Folk Ballads of Ronnie Hawkins."

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Pat B

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JT

Subject: Correction

Typo: cds ... not css.

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JT

Subject: Vinyl Band

This evening, I purchased MFBP, The Band and Cahoots on 180 g vinyl. This may be the nth time I've done that but I wanted mint copies for my recent turntable. As the kids say: (paraphrased from NYTimes article) " Listen to css? Why would I do that? That's what my dad does?"

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Adam

According to my sources, The Band only appeared on TV broadcasts 3 times from 1969-1976. The Ed Sullivan show in 1969, the Syria Mosque footage for Dutch TV in 1970, and Saturday Night Live in 1976.

I found online a book excerpt from "Popular Music on British Television" that in 1973, promoting Moondog Matinee, their Chuck Berry cover "The Promised Land" was used as the soundtrack to a 1930 Felix The Cat cartoon, and used as a promo. What was the point of that? They should have just filmed them performing the song.

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brown eyed girl

"Helm was a junior in High School when Arkansas-born rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins heard him play the drums and hired him as a drummer for his band. Too young to drink legally, Lavon relocated with Hawkins to Ontario, Canada where the gigs paid better. “Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks” played six nights a week in Ontario. They were moderately successful- good enough to intersect with Dick Clark’s rock-and-roll money machine and appear on American Bandstand."

"Along with “Up on Cripple Creek” and “Rag Mama Rag,” Levon invited us into the Silver Rush of Colorado, and then to the devastation of a defeated but still proud South at the end of the bloodiest conflict in American history. Robbie Robertson wrote it, but it will be forever associated with Levon Helm’s vocal artistry and accent. That bugged me at the time, and has all down through the years since I first heard the plaintive lament to a society scourged by war and privation. Depending on whose version you are listening to, the lyrics can be heard as:

“Virgil Caine is my name And I served on the Danville Train Till “So Much” cavalry came- or wait, “Stonewall’s Calvary?” And tore up the tracks again…..”

Whatever, right? Just a song, right?

But “so much” doesn’t make much sense. And Stonewall Jackson never had any Cavalry. His brigade was an infantry outfit, and their marching skills were renowned as “Jackson’s Foot Cavalry.” No horses. And Jackson was killed at the battle of Chancellorsville in 1863, just down the road from Refuge Farm. And why would he be tearing up the tracks in the Confederacy, anyway?

But Robbie and Levon were right. The correct lyric is “Stoneman’s Calvary,” and therein lies a harrowing tale, if you haven’t heard of it."

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dlew919

It failed in Australia: mostly because you could buy a better cup of coffee next door for about 1/2 the price. Since the 1960s, we've had Italian coffee (espressos, capuccinos, latte's (which used to be called cafe au lait...). Indeed, Australian baristas invented the flat white. But Starbucks. Overpriced, underflavoured (and bizarrely overflavoured with the crap they put in). No competition. Krispy Kreme donuts as well didn't do sow well. McDonalds continues to thrive.

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brown eyed girl

Michelle Chamuel

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brown eyed girl

Disc 3 Song 10 from AB.

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brown eyed girl

Who are you rooting for John D on The Voice? I've downloaded a few tunes by Michelle Chamuel so far.

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Kevin from Northeast PA

Subject: American Bandstand

Maybe this has been discussed before and I missed it but did the Band ever play American Bandstand? I was reviewing the Album Listings (again !) and don't recall seeing this before. Web page link above links to CD on this site.

I remember a lot of old clips (like Ed Sullivan) but never any Dick Clark Bandstand clips. Or, was this some type of "pre-recorded" tape.

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Bill M

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Al Edge

Hey Dave P.

Starbucks may suck for a variety of reasons not least their coffee but their guy/gal who drew up that Band song list sure has an instinct for The Band. That is one terrific selection. Throw in We Can Talk About It Now for Ophelia and if you ask me it's no more than a midge's widger away from the perfect 16 song list.

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Peter V

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David P

I would also point out that the Starbucks compilation is reasonably priced at $12.95. You can easily spend more there on a couple cups of coffee and pastry items.

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Peter V

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Jon Lyness

For a one-disc compilation I actually think that does a nice job. The expected hits are there for the casual fan, but I like the inclusion of Ain't No More Cane, Whispering Pines and the live cuts.

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David P

Yet another single-disc compilation entitled THE BAND has recently been released by Starbucks Opus Collection, receiving in-store airplay and available for sale at the coffee shops. What distinguishes this release is its nice eco-friendly digi-packaging with separate booklet, both featuring great group photos, many by Elliot Landy. Booklet contains a brief history of The Band and detailed descriptions of each of the 16 songs. Included are:

THE WEIGHT, CALEDONIA MISSION, TEARS OF RAGE, AIN'T NO MORE CANE ON THE BRAZOS (The Basement Tapes Columbia version), KING HARVEST (HAS SURELY COME), UP ON CRIPPLE CREEK, WHISPERING PINES, STAGE FRIGHT, THE SHAPE I'M IN, WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE, LIFE IS A CARNIVAL, RAG MAMA RAG (from Rock of Ages), MYSTERY TRAIN, IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE, OPHELIA and THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN (from The Last Waltz).

More on the sound quality when I get a chance to listen.

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Butch

Ari Good on you for taking that drive,, a Great Drive,,, Hope you took the 243Spur road down to Turkey Scratch, like we did last King Biscuit Festival, in Oct. Nice set of plaques across from A.B. Thompson Farm Store, on the Spur,, honoring Levon,,, It is where Jasper Diamond Helm & the Helms lived, too. Drive up hiway 49 aways, approx 5-6 miles north of Marvell & you will find The Helm home,, on a plot of land with 2 other tin-roofed "shacks",, Planned to be a part of Delta Cultural Center's exhibit on Sharecropping culture, soon, i was told,,, Also i hope you stopped in Marvell to say hello to Fireball? Levon's best friend from childhood, Fireball has the best Helm stories,,, lol Shadden's never re-opened after Wayne passed, but that killer Bar-B-Q vibe still hangs in the air, there. Love the Delta folks,,, Butch-man

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David P

I believe that limited edition reissues from the Audio Fidelity label are usually limited to a run of 5,000.

Link above to an informative thumb-nail sketch regarding "What is music music mastering anyway?"

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brown eyed girl

Hi sadavid. Yes, I posted her interview below. Last night on CBC the interview was around five minutes. The one you and I posted is almost two hours. Apparently they actually talked for three hours. I'm so glad that I'll be seeing her once again next week. When I saw her and Dylan on the same bill, I was disappointed that they didn't perform together but I'm not surprised. She's got the guts and intellect and heart and creativity to put Dylan in his place at times. And for those of you here who continually bashed her for being at TLW.....GET OVER IT!

LONG LIVE JONI MITCHELL

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sadavid

Subject: Joni interview

BEG: thanks for the reminder . . . video of the full interview is now up, see [My link].

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David P

Ian Woodward: The Audio Fidelity hybrid-SACD version of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II, a 2-disc set mastered by Steve Hoffman, was released about a week ago here in the U.S. It is a limited edition with each one containing a gold sticker indicating its release number on the outer cardboard slipcase (mine was #2258).

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brown eyed girl

Joni Mitchell's Interview on CBC.

Judy Anne succinctly sums it up for us...

"Joni's painting style looks somewhere between Emily Carr, the Group of Seven and of course, Van Gogh. She is one of the most creative women this country has produced. She is ours and ours alone. You gotta love Joni. For those of us who grew up listening to her she is role model for the independent woman who sees her life as a canvass."

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brown eyed girl

Joni Mitchell reflects on her life and legacy

Exclusive CBC interview in advance of her appearance in Toronto

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brown eyed girl

The art of Joni Mitchell

"We devote the entire program on Tuesday (10:00 today June 11) with Jian Ghomeshi on CBC's Q Radio) to an in-depth, and very revealing interview with Joni Mitchell. She will be in Toronto June 18 and 19 for the Luminato festival, where she will be reciting poetry (Yeah, I will be there next Wednesday!) at a tribute concert in her honour. But music and poetry are not Joni Mitchell's only gifts. She's also won acclaim as a painter. In advance of the festival, she welcomed Jian and a CBC crew into her home in Los Angeles, and gave us a rare view of the studio where she paints, as well as some remarkable, rarely seen paintings"

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Al Edge

Pete - can you look at your e-mail and get back to me.

Cheers.

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Peter V

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Bill M

The Robbie guitar on this one's pretty good too - by Domenic Troiano would be my guess. Sounds like Robbie's early band-mate Scott Cushnie singing, which makes sense because Hawkins had hired him back to help run the Hawk Records operation. I'm sure that while Buddy Carlton and the Stratotones really did exist, and really recorded for Hawk, that they had nothing to do with this one. Note that it's written (and therefore produced) by Fred Carter, another former Hawk that Ronnie'd hired back to help out.

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Bill M

Here's a link to what I think is the finest example of the Robbie Robertson school of Toronto guitar playing that wasn't by Robbie himself. This is the '65 version of Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks (aka the Disciples) with hair-raising guitar work by Bobby Starr, James Cotton guesting on harmonica and Fred Carter producing.

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JT

Subject: Todd

I have always been and continue to be an admirer of the work of Todd Rundgren since I heard Nazz walking along Yonge St. south of Bloor blasting out of a clothing store, 'Something, Anything' is a great album. I love his ballads and I think "One More Victory" is a song so full of heart and soul that I listen to it often. He is a master and is one of the musicians who wrote the book on 'creative'. I can't finish without mentioning "Is It My Name", a great rock song.

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joe j

Just heard 'Something/Anything' by Todd Rundgren for the first time in about thirty years.

Also checked out a couple more GB faves.

Peter V.: I believe you've reminded us of Forevermore on a few occasions. I'm good with that.

Landy: Lon & Derrek. Honestly, I'd never heard this one before. I'm going to play it again right now. Kind of a Todd Rundgren vibe to it too.

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Kevin from Northeast PA

sadavid - loved that vinyl link. I have a Dual 1229 which is almost identical to the 1219 in some of thier pics. I think the only thing difference is mine has a strobe. Nice to see all that vinyl...

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Bill M

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Solomon

Ari : Did you find any trace of the Helm family? I thought the way Levon described the way he grew up in Arkansas as the best part of his biography.

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Ari

Drove in to Marvell, Arkansae last night. Really beautiful here, much farther from Memphis than I thought.

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John D

I have all these old cassettes. Two have my Grandfather being interviewed for historical reasons and the other is my daughter at age 4 and a half, singing the soundtrack from Coal Miner's Daughter.

I saw this cassette recorder that attaches via USB to your computer and I was able to run off my material and then edit them. I don't own a traditional cassette recorder anymore. Good buy; but there sure was some rumble; when playing cassette's of that vintage. Just found my interview with Roger Daltry; on their first farewell tour.

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John D

I love London Drugs. I visit them every time I am in Vancouver to visit my daughter. I wish they were here in Ontario. Where else can you fill your prescription and buy a TV at the same time. Love it!!!

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Peter V

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Peter V

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Bill M

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JT

Subject: More signs

And it was the 180 g vinyl by the way. (I believe that is the better grade?).

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JT

Subject: Sign of the Times

Yesterday I was in London Drugs on Yates St. in Victoria buying an adaptor for my trip to UK and Scandanavia (they have electronics /computersin this store - apothecaries have certainly come a long way). As I walked by the cashier's and towards the electronics/computer area, I saw a section with vinyl records! And in that section were Big Pink, The Band and maybe one other for $19.99 Canadian. The cds in that store are being cleared while the vinyl is prominently displayed. I would never have predicted this in an age of media evolution. It has obviously occurred to even the lower level businesses who sell all kinds of stuff that they can make money on vinyl.

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sadavid

Subject: vinyl porn

For the vinyl guys . . . now showing at the Kopeikin gallery in Los Angeles, "World Record" -- some photographs of the actual albums (none of the best ones, c'est la vie) from Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. On classic turntables. Open thumbnail in new window for highest resolution.

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brown eyed girl

"I'm a long-time fan of The Band, so I naturally love the playing of Garth Hudson. Because I'm playing keys again (after some time playing only acoustic guitar) I happened to look up Garth's entry in Wikipedia. I may be the only one who didn't know this, but Garth's sound is not Hammond but Lowrey! :freak: Not only that, but according to the Wikipedia article, Garth made a point of avoiding the venerable B3. WTF?!

From Wikipedia:

Upon joining The Hawks, Hudson also took the opportunity to negotiate a new Lowrey organ as part of his package. This is significant as he was one of the few organ players within the rock & roll/rhythm & blues community to pointedly eschew the Hammond organ. The Lowrey organ offered a different mix of features and Hudson stayed with Lowrey right through Ronnie Hawkins/The Hawks, Bob Dylan and The Band, playing three different models: originally a Festival (FL) console which was replaced by a Lincolnwood TSO-25 during 1969. Later still, Hudson played a horseshoe console H25 model, as depicted in The Last Waltz.

Is there anyone else out there who fails to bow down before the B3? Is the Lowrey sound reproducible on a clonewheel? What isthis "different mix of features" offered by Lowrey? (Actually, any tips on mastering Garth's tone & style would be appreciated--this will be my project for the next few months! :cool"

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brown eyed girl

Joe J... :-D

"Filmed in Bob Dylan's trailer (suburb of Toronto) while he was working on the Hollywood movie HEARTS OF FIRE, in which Dylan played a retired rocker called Billy Parker. This clip (part 1 of 4) is part of a BBC 'Omnibus' documentary called 'Getting to Dylan' (1987)

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Bill M

Ben P: David Clayton-Thomas's autobiography is worth a read. He tells how he was Ronnie Hawkins' auxilliary frontman in the Levon and the Hawks days, but only for gigs in town. I know from others that Hawkins often had extra players around that he didn't take on the road (including an extra sex and a trumpeter as well as Jerry Penfound and our guys for a time)

At the same time, DCT was doing teen dances with his own group, DCT and the Shays. While the Shays were a couple years younger, and had in Fred Keeler and Gord Fleming a powerful guitar-organ pairing that certainly came within hailing distance of the Hawks. They also played little but blues, and had a big regional hit with their first record in '64, "Boom Boom", produced by Duff Roman. So it was natural that the hit-seeking post-Hawkins Hawks would go to Duff Roman in the hope that he could do the same for them. Recordings were made, but nothing was released at the time (see "A Musical History").

Although he doesn't mention it in his book, DCT did mention in earlier interviews that another singer doing much the same thing at the same time was Eugene 'Jay' Smith. While Eugene has never, to my knowledge, claimed to have been more than a regular guest with Hawkins and the Hawks until later, in '63 and '64 he too had his own little blues band, Jay Smith and the Majestics, with a terrific sub-Robbie in Bobby Starr. The Majestcs too had a regional hit in '64, "Howlin'", with a killer solo by Starr.

As we know, Hawkins replaced the departed Levon and the Hawks with Robbie Lane and the Disciples. And when the Disciples left, Hawkins assembled a new Hawks that included the above-mentioned Jay Smith, Bobby Starr, Gord Fleming - and Sandy Konikoff, who jumped ship to take over from Levon on the Dylan tour.

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joe j

Subject: hey all

Haven't posted for some time but I'm spending a pleasant Sunday evening checking out some links you guys have posted re unappreciated music. Love it all, Joe Arthur (BEG, I've been listening to him for a while), Hans Staymer, Randall Bramblett, Mike Finnigan.

Been working long hours but a month ago took in the first of two Cohen shows in St Johns. Venue a five minute walk from our favourite restaurant; show a four hour love fest; dude did a dozen encores inc. 'Save the Last Dance',; venue a ten minute walk from our son's new home. Perfect evening.

Life is good.

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John D

Ian. I did see Jimmy Smith live at the Colonial Tavern here in Toronto and he was in fact, playing a B3.

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John D

Subject: Ian Woodward

Here is the link to the mysterious album that Mike and Dylan were a part of.

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Ian Woodward

Questions mainly:

1) I'm not an instrument nut but I saw Jimmy Smith once and I think he played a B-3. I also record a photograph in a jazz magazine of him taking his instrument out to one of the pirate radio ships. Would this have been a B-3, too?

I don't recall Mike Finnigan playing with Dylan. When was that, please? \3 Originally, the then-forthcoming Hybrid SACD of "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol.II" was said to be a numbered limited edition. Did this happen? And, if so, what does it say on the packaging about this?

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Billy C. (Friend0

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brown eyed girl

JOSEPH ARTHUR FINDS FOCUS WHILE SEARCHING FOR REDEMPTION ON ‘THE BALLAD OF BOOGIE CHRIST’

BY REVEREND JUSTITO

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brown eyed girl

The Eagles, interview: 'Rock’s become very shallow and trite'

The Eagles are touring the world and have a new DVD out, but, as Joe Walsh and Don Henley tell Neil McCormick, they're 'not sure if you can change the world with music anymore'.

"Joe Walsh has played the guitar solo in Hotel California thousands of times, in rehearsal and on stage. “I never get tired of it,” he drawls.

“It’s still a challenge. I really have to pay attention. I mean, I can play it crappy. But I like to play it good.” Recorded in 1976, the twin guitar weave of Walsh and Don Felder, dovetailing and splitting, spiralling into the ether, then combining for a syncopated coda, may well be the most famous guitar solo in the history of rock music. “We had an empty page, the song was sung and we had spaces to figure out what to do,” says Walsh. “Don and I agreed that we would make individual statements in the body of the song and team up at the end. So we sat down in the control room, pretty intense, and went at it: 'Ok, you do this.’ 'No, no, no, I gotta do this.’ Don and I were competitive, we always tried to one-up each other, and we did that in Hotel California, except at the end we decided to team up, ’cause that way nobody would win.” Walsh laughs. “Yeah, it was a tie. Maybe everybody won.”

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brown eyed girl

Joan....Thanks for the short clip with Robbie and Sebastian.
Here's a bit more info from a site I sometimes order books...Book Depository.
For those of you looking for other children's books, I just recently received another book by J Jon Muth..._Zen Ties_.
Also have _Zen Shorts_ and the fabulous _The Three Questions_.

Legends, Icons & Rebels
Music that Changed the World
Written by Robbie Robertson, Jim Guerinot, Sebastian Robertson and Jared Levine

Part memoir, part tribute, and all great storytelling ...

"Music industry veterans Robbie Robertson, Jim Guerinot, Jared Levine, and Sebastian Robertson invite young readers to share with them in celebrating twenty-seven musical legends. Short profiles chronicle personal stories and achievements of extraordinarily talented artists whose innovations changed the landscape of music for generations to come. Carefully compiled like any great playlist, the line-up features originators, rebels, and risk-takers across diverse genres. From Ray Charles to Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry to Bob Dylan, Robertson shares anecdotes about these artists and the influence they had on his own musical journey. Always respectful of their reader, the writers never shy away from speaking about the difficult challenges these recording artists faced and the very human foibles that sometimes led to their tragic end. Most of all, it's the authors' passion and insights into these personal stories of creativity and collaboration -- and the power of music to shine a light on injustice and foster change -- that will fascinate, enlighten, and inspire music fans of all ages."

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Jed

I started on piano and organ and although my singing is not very good I could do it.On bass I was pleased just to hold down the bottom,but no singing.Harmonica sure kept my mouth shut.And,guitars-forget about it-never could sing and play.

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Peter V

Part 2 (post 1980) is on TV tonight. There were some interesting bits, and Frey was often right … Meisner only wanted to sing Take It To The Limit" if he felt like it, and seemed to fail to understand that people wanted to hear it. They never came across as dumb, and Frey (can't remember if it was in reference to Felder or Leadon) pointed out that they failed to understand that Henley was the best lead singer in the band, and the first choice on a song, which was astute. I was mildly surprised that he had realized it too. It's that thing about a "signature" voice rather than ability to sing. You always know it's Henley.

On reluctant bassists, I'm reading the badly-edited "33 and a third" series book on "The Notorious Byrd Brothers." Editors should know that nothing is "very unique" nor "extremely unique" even if the writer doesn't. The book points out that Crosby tried to play bass before Hillman joined The Byrds, but was completely unable to play bass and sing at the same time, in contrast to Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson. Or in fact Rick Danko, Chris Hillman. Timothy Schmidt, Jack Bruce, John Wetton, Alan Gorrie and many others. But playing bass while singing is a particular thing that seemingly some people who are otherwise accomplished musicians just can't do. One comment years ago was that it helped if your first ever instrument was the piano rather than the guitar.

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Rod

Billy C, agree with you totally about music being a job. For me it's a hobby - it didn't dawn on me until quite recently (I think someone here pointed it out) that professional musicians may see it quite differently. There are some people I work with that I don't like (only one or two fortunately) but we still work together to achieve a common goal. The main difference I see is that we share a boss telling us to pull our heads in. Not sure if that is always the case with bands other then they are tied to the same contract.

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Jed

Some bands have members who hate one another,yet make some tremendous music in the midst of the turmoil.One band that immediately comes to mind is Cream.In a sense their music reflects the rage,albeit performed with great brilliance.Eagles reflect marshmellow fluff performed with utter disinterest.The one eagles show I saw in 76 was a snooze feast.I'm not a huge fan of Walsh's playing yet he was the highlight of the evening.Had Henley and Frey smashed chairs over one another they might have stunned their listeners awake.Cream keeps me on the edge of my seat,even on a recording!

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Billy C. (Friend0

Some people can do things for the job. Years ago i worked with one musician I really disliked working with and got great musical results.But it sucked. I was into it before he showed himself and had to stick it out to get through that part of it....So idid, and it worked out tot hat extent.
Recently, I worked with a name, who was a egomaniac, control freak, and way too far impressed with himself. after two incidents in a matter of little time, i pulled the plug.Aborted what we were going to do together. Maybe it cost me, maybe it didn't. But I'm not about to be miserable and try to make music.

there's enough exceptionally talented people who are nice enough ( and there's some beautiful people too, some really great people) , that noone needs to be miserable working with other musicians or creators.. Noone's gonna be perfect- we all have to make allowances for our friends, family, and co workers. And we need them to dso the same for us. but the idea is to minimize the bullshit, find good spirited people.... when you can have a choice- when you can survive some other way, there's no need to be miserable, and truth is, you'll proabbly get better results some other way if you work with people you like. ....think abut it this way- what if the guys in the Eagles tried working with people they like and making new music, starting from scratch kissing the eagles good bye- as opposed to staying together as The Eagles and just making money. What great creations might they not be making these days? it;s easy tpo say when millions are not staring you in the face, but, is not the idea to make great music?

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Billy C. (Friend0

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Jed

The Eagles.When I think of the brilliance,and visionary music of The Band it's kinda difficult to conjure up the minimally lasting impact and easy listening of The Eagles.All a matter of personal taste,of course! Now Dolan is another thing.His tenure as Knicks owner-horrors at times,mediocre sometimes.And really good at times-despite Dolan.But,still no champs since 73.He is a very lousy team owner-a spoiled child of a rich father,and even worse a terrible musician who forces his employees to listen to his band.This and Eagles could be too much to take,but I'm happily enjoying a killer set from Warren Haynes and Govt. Mule from Mt. Jam in Hunter,NY,live on the Internet.(hope you all realize my comments are all said with a spirit of fun-never know how communication comes across in Internet land)

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Far East Man

Subject: Glenn Frey

I do plan to check out the Eagles doc at some point. Frey must have hated coming back to Henley when it became clear who had the real talent. "Party Town", "The Heat Is On", "Smuggler's Blues" are no match for "End of The Innocence" and "Boys of Summer". Joe Walsh is a recovering addict - bless him. The gifted Don Felder, long gone - was the Mick Taylor of that band - unbelievable player. Frey made a lame remark about Tom Waits hating there cover of Ol' 55 - it's a nice cover but Frey is all ego - Tom Waits is in another league - crept for $.

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Peter V

Just watched the Eagles documentary part 1, to 1980 on BBC. Executive producer Glenn Frey. I could never understand why there were so many negative comments here about them until tonight. Frey is clearly a nasty control freak, but Henley, whose work I admire hugely, comes across as a pure politician, coldly intoning bland pre-prepared statements from on high. Joe Walsh is the last guy you'd want a hotel room next to, and sounded out of it,, though still articulate. Someone said here that late arrival Schmidt was the only pleasant guy in the band, and that is how it came across.

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Billy C. (Friend0

Subject: Day jobs

He owns the Knicks.

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Joan

Subject: Robbie and Sebastians childrens book

LInk to a conversation about the new children's book

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JT

Subject: The 'Voice' David Clayton Thomas

David Clayton Thomas can sing! He continues to sing and 'the voice' is exceptional and remains provocative. Aside from his well known body of work with BST following the Shays and Bossmen, his more recent work (the cds are available) as solo artist remains top notch. His interpretations are great and with his friends, he continues to deliver. Highly recommended. I had the privilege of hearing him at the Concord in those early years. He was great then and he remains so.

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John D

Well Ben, David was the front man for a group called David Clayton Thomas and The Shays. You can hear some of their tracks on YouTube. A very young Freddy Keeler who was there lead guitar player; was from the RR school of playing. An amazing R&B Band. David has spoken about being in Ronnie's band for a short period of time; but Bill M might know more about that. I don't remember it myself. The Shays were really launching; after Levon & The Hawks left Ronnie Hawkins. I'm told by Duff Roman; who produced the original DCT & The Shays material that they will be released on CD soon. That will be GREAT! My old vinyl is pretty scratchy. They were a dirty gritty R&B combo; which also featured Gord Flemming on organ. It was as some say, "The Toronto Sound."

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John D

I own the boot of the Cash/Dylan sessions and have had it for some time. It obviously is not real studio quality; but I figured that's what you get.

This morning I happened to be listening to the same track, "One Too Many Mornings" from the Chimes of Freedom Tribute Album. It is credited to Johnny Cash & the Avett Brothers. Well it's actually the Dylan/Cash; from '69 and the Avett Brothers are added. My whole point is that the track is absolutely pristine studio quality; which makes me think that out there somewhere, the Cash/Dylan sessions are in some studio in mint condition. Not that of the boot; which has been the only one available to the public. The New version of One Too Many Mornings is produced by Rick Rubin. I wish they would release an official copy of the Cash/Dylan sessions.

Chimes of Freedom Credits.

Musicians:

Lead vocal, guitar by Johnny Cash

Additional vocals by Bob Dylan

Additional vocals by Seth and Scott Avett

Acoustic guitar by Seth Avett

Banjo by Scott Avett

Produced by: Rick Rubin

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Ben Pike

Subject: Spinning some wheels

Used Amazon for a past blast, the nearly forgotten if ever really noticed album "David Clayton Thomas", found very reasonably priced on an import DVD. Sounds like what it probably was, a rush job to cash in on the hot but splintering "Blood, Sweat and Tears." Still, and in despite of the lush arrangements knocking up against the muddy mix job, the album has some toe tapping moments, and is more dedicated to expanding gospel pop than even BS and T. Dave sounds great. Oddly, the most horn drenched tune is "Don't Let It Bring You Down," credited to "Neil Diamond(!)" while Gary Wright gets the nod for Edgar Winters wonderful "Dying To Live.(not a bad version either)" Thomas's own song, particularly in view of "Spinning Wheel" and "Go Down Gamblin." is undistinguished. The songwriter promised by those hits never materialized. I never really got what, if any, relation Thomas had to The Hawk, but he was from Canada.

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brown eyed girl

TUESDAY JUNE 18 AND WEDNESDAY JUNE 19

JONI: A PORTRAIT IN SONG - A BIRTHDAY (70) HAPPENING LIVE AT MASSEY HALL

Artist Info
Featured Artists

Kathleen Edwards
Herbie Hancock (June 19)
Glen Hansard
Esperanza Spalding (June 19)
Cold Specks
Liam Titcomb
Rufus Wainwright
Lizz Wright

Band: Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Brian Blade (drums), Melvin Butler (saxophone), Jon Cowherd (piano & keyboards), Bill Frisell (guitar), Jeff Haynes (percussion), Marvin Sewell (guitar), Christopher Thomas (bass).

Additional performers will be added.

Direction by Brian Blade & Jon Cowherd
Produced by Danny Kapilian

JONI MITCHELL WILL BE ATTENDING BOTH CONCERTS!

I've seen her with Dylan at Maple Leaf Gardens and in Niagara Falls, New York during the Rolling Thunder Revue Tour but never at Massey Hall or smaller venue. :-D

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brown eyed girl

...and I think Joseph Arthur's niece begins video of "It's Ok To Be Young/Gone" from The Ballad of Boogie Christ....Someone else thinks it's the daughter of the one who took the video..... :-D

I've also now pledged on Willie Nile's latest CD. I've seen him a couple of times in NYC at Garland Jeffreys' gigs at Joe's Pub and the Cutting Room....adding some punk energy from Buffalo one New Year's night!

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brown eyed girl

All The Old Heroes...Joseph Arthur from latest CD The Ballad Of Boogie Christ.
The Band are included....

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JT

Subject: Bruce Cockburn at Butchart Gardens Aug 14

Anyone who is in the Victoria area on 14 August should come out that evening to the beautiful Butchart Gardens for this special event. Bruce Cockburn is one of Canada's treasures and he will be playing in a magnificent setting outdoors. The Gardens itself is a place of beauty with its rose garden, Japanese garden and fountains. This should be a special evening.

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Rod

Only The Band could take a song like LBV and make it danceable. They were really at the top of their game (performance wise) around this time - and this is the best version of that song I've heard.

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Jimmy Nelson

Subject: One of my favorite Richard Manuel vocals

The 'Across the Great Divide' series tackles one of my all-time favorite Richard Manuel vocals, and one of his most often forgotten ones, too ...

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Bill M

John D: The book is called "Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years". From the late '80s. As you can see at the link above, you can get it for a song online. Odd that it costs less to ship from UK to Cda than from the US. I always prefer ABEbooks.com because more of the dealers are domestic.

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John D

Bill what is the actual title of the Patrick Humphries book? Trying to find it on line.

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Bill M

"Beginning gently with the vivid image of two old men, seated alone together like bookends, the song progresses ..." Coulda been talking about Robbie's "Rockin' Chair" rather than Paul Simons "Bookends". Humphries doesn't make the point at all, but his characterisation of "America", the song from the same S&G album, is certainly similar to what's been said about Big Brown, which I believe Robbie said could have been titled "America". Hmmm.

Later on in the book, Humphries goes off on an odd little tangent:

"Manfred Mann had a hit in 1968 with the engaging 'My Name Is Jack', written by one John Simon, who many rumoured was in fact Paul Simon. There are elements of Simon's writing style in the song, notably the line 'The Greta Garbo Home for wayward boys and girls', but there really was a John Simon and he had in fact co-produced a number of songs on 'Bookends'! Our Mr Siomon made one of his rare guest appearances on an album when, in 1968, he appeared on the double album, 'The Live Adventures Of Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield'; the two former Dylan sidemen had recorded a slow, bluesy version of 'Feelin' Groovy' which Simon enjoyed, and he went into the studio to add his own harmonies."

If only he'd noted John Simon's involvement with the Band, and the pre-Band in the basement tapes days, and that with Dylan vanting to be alone and with the dog Hamlet / Jack running around all the time, there are decent grounds for seeing Big Pink, the house, as the Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys (for sure) and Girls (one must assume).

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brown eyed girl

....and Rick's outtake "Long Black Veil" from FX, but I think this one was previously posted.

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Jed

Loved the videos and thanks so much for posting them.Brings nice memories of when the movie was released to theaters and the wife and I brought our kids to see it.Everytime we took them to a R&R movie we rewarded the kids with their favorite basketball jerseys.Concert for George,A Hard Days Night,Festival Express-man,they have a lot of really cool jerseys.And,my younger boy,now in college,is a huge fan of Levon and he joined us at a whole bunch of rambles.His taste was most certainly influenced by the movies,and in addition to jerseys,he's gone on to become quite an accomplished hoops player!

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David P

John D: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, under license from Columbia/Sony, has been reissuing many Dylan albums recently in both the SACD and vinyl formats. Not too long ago I mentioned the MoFi SACD version of The Basement Tapes here.

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Bill M

Subject: digging a hole ...

Here's another follow-up to Landmark's note about great records that stiffed, "Dig A Hole" by the Hans Staymer Band. Among other things, I really like the banjo harmonics around 2:35-2:50. Since the whole album is at the link, you might also check out their version of "WS Walcott" at about 11:05 and the terrific "Mama Can't You Hear Me Calling" at 17:25.

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brown eyed girl

I can't find yet.....video of I Used To Walk On Water with Garth's keyboard playing which begins the song and continues throughout but here's Joseph Arthur's info and Black Flowers video with Garth on keyboards.
The video also shows him surrounded by his art work at one of his shows. I am soooo into his music and art. I can't believe I didn't know about him all these years and it was only by fluke I found him with FISTFUL OF MERCY....Unbelievable as I'm so drawn to amazing singer songwriters.....He's only 42 and has said in one interview that it's not an option to use anymore.....Here's hoping Arthur.....One minute of each day at a time.....

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John D

You're so right David. Sitting next to me is that mint piece of vinyl. I burnt it to CD, knowing it will probably never see the light of day on CD. By the way, regarding those Dylan re-masters on Amazon. Talked to a friend of mine at Sony Canada yesterday and those re-issues don't even show up; in their catalog. The reason is probably that they are imports and it's up to the discretion of Sony Canada to choose which imports to release here. He agreed they would be great to put out.

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brown eyed girl

Thank you Adam for the Levon and Garth outtakes at FX. We're all insatiable for any videos as they didn't tour extensively.

Speaking of Garth Jan H....If you're still updating on your site....You'll need to add Garth's latest contribution to his discography section.

I received yesterday JOSEPH ARTHUR's CD THE BALLAD OF BOOGIE CHRIST and GARTH HUDSON'S keyboard playing has the perfect feel (few years ago taped) with Joe's singing and lyrics of "I Used To Know How To Walk On Water".
Ben Harper adds his magic at the end of the song as well with added backing vocals and.....unexpected trumpet playing by John "Scrapper" Sneider....Beautiful collaboration by all!!!!!
It's one of my favourite songs so far as I've already played it many times and continue to find more beauty each time I play this song......
Garth also is on keyboards on "Black Flowers".

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John D

Thank you for those links Adam. I was at the Festival Express; in Toronto. Quite a night. Crowds of kids tried to knock down a large gate to get in for free and the police; on horseback charged into the crowd to keep control. I remember these kids throwing all sorts of debris at the horses. Not the best moment of the night; but the Band were great!

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Peter V

Classic stuff … lovely floppy drumming from Richard and piano from Garth too. Great to see it. I still wonder why the 90s Band never did it … Levon co-composition, interest in switching to guitar … as he did to bass.

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Adam

The Genetic Method / Chest Fever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvcdo5rK2So&list=HL1370599292&feature=mh_lolz

Jemima Surrender – Levon on guitar (wide shot) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM4-T83_WOA

Jemima Surrender – close up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMuScXgc9Ls

The two clips of Jemima are actually from different shows, explaining the difference in audio. The full shot is from the final show in Calgary, and the close up is from the first show in Toronto.

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Adam

Pat, really cool to see Levon with the SG. It's a great combination for rhythm guitar with Robbie's Tele.

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Rod

Subject: wrong link

The Weight - Pittsburgh 1970

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Rod

Subject: Jemima Surrender

great video Adam. Never seen a vid of Levon playing guitar before. He looks a bit like Dave Rawlings there. I haven't seen this video before either.

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Todd

Subject: Festival Express

Great find Adam. Thanks for the heads-up.

Intereresting that the sound is somewhat better on the close-up clip as compared to the wider shot. Much more clear and present. I would think that both clips would have the same audio source. But this is encouraging. Can't wait to see what else surfaces. Right at the end of one of the clips, you can hear a couple of lines from 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'. That would be awesome to see and hear.

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Pat B

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Little Brøther

Subject: Early '60s Remote Control

The concept of "off-topic" doesn't really apply here, but I will admit that it's a bit silly to pop out of the GB Archives just to comment on Kevin J's remote control post(s) from the other day. That said, I can't resist, so:

When I was 6 or 7 years old (c. 1964, give or take a couple of years), I went with my parents to visit an uncle we didn't see very often. He must have had a Zenith TV, because it had the first remote control I'd ever seen

Of course, I was fascinated by it.

I'm pretty sure it was wireless. It was huge; I had to use both hands to hold it.

What I remember most is that it operated by mechanically changing the channels; when you pressed the button, you would hear a loud "thunk-thunk-thunk" and the channel-selector dial on the TV would turn accordingly.

It was mesmerizing. We now return to your regular programming.

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Adam

“ANOTHER TANTALIZING EXCERPT OF THE BAND'S PERFORMANCE AT FESTIVAL EXPRESS IN JULY OF 1970. LOOK OUT FOR THE RE-RELEASE OF THE FILM WITH TONS OF NEW EXTRAS COMING LATER THIS YEAR OR EARLY 2014.”

“Jemima Surrender” – Levon on guitar (wide shot)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM4-T83_WOA

“Jemima Surrender” – close up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMuScXgc9Ls

Sign the petition to get this released in 2013!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/release-the-band-festival-express-live-in/

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David P

Subject: Mike Finnigan

Mention of the soulful Mike Finnigan brings to mind another overlooked gem he recorded as a member of the Jerry Hahn Brotherhood, the self-titled 1970 LP released by Columbia.

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Bill M

Peter V: No foolin! Simon Caine's bassist was Dennis Pendrith, whose name you'll see if you click See More in YouTube. He was and is one of the very best around. While the group Simon Caine could be seen as having simply evolved from a little band from Willowdale (Simon Caine and the Catch), that would be considerable understating Pendrith's pedigree. By 1970 he'd already passed through several of the storied (and talent-filled) Toronto bands - Luke and the Apostles, Livingston's Journey, the Gnu (Ugly Duckings) and Olivus. The latter was the new name for the Flying Circus, which was essentially Rick James's new Mynah Birds minus Rick and plus Bruce Cockburn (as per a long post from a couple weeks ago); Dennis took over for Neil Merryweather when Neil decided to return to his old buddy Ed Roth (see ditto). Anyway, when Olivus split, Pendrith went with Cockburn into a new version of Three's A Crowd, and when Cockburn went solo, Pendrith was at his side - for at least the first half-dozen albums, as well as most of the '70s stuff by Murray MacLauchlan and David Wiffen.

As a result of the GB's recent focus on the Hammond organ, I've been listening a lot to "2B3: The Toronto Sessions", with Bill Payne, Richard Bell, Doug Riley, Michael Fonfara, et al. Richie Hayward on drums and Dennis Pendrith on bass, always solid, often great, sometimes spectacular.

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Peter V

Looking in the iTunes store reminded me that I wanted to check out Jemima Surrender by Fight The Big Bull, which is an earlier Matthew E. White band. I only did the sample bit but it's a really bizarre version. It's on various sample sites.

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Peter V

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David P

Subject: Vinyl Siding: Underappreciated Gems

Digging deep into the record crates, a couple of overlooked gems immediately come to mind:

HAPPY & ARTIE TRAUM self-titled 1969 Capitol LP
features "Going Down the Road to See Bessie"

LIGHT OF THE NIGHT -- Randall Bramblett 1976 Polydor LP
features the funky "King Grand" with Allen Toussaint on piano (see link)
Randall later re-recorded the song as a member of Sea Level with Chuck Leavell

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John D

Subject: Mike Finnigan

I bought his solo album as a Japanese import years ago. He of course has played Hammond B3 behind just about everybody; including CSNY and Bob Dylan. The link above is his version of Jesse Winchester's Mississippi Your On My Mind. The other track is I love from that album is Southern Lady, a duet; with Maria Muldaur.

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Peter V

There is a book … 500 Lost Gems of the Sixties by Kingsley Abbott. The content is excellent, and everything is copiously illustrated too. He was going to go on to do the 70s and 80s singles, then another set on albums. They aren't on amazon.co.uk and I checked the lost gems.co.uk website and it doesn't look as if the series ever happened. The first book is excellent.

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JT

Subject: The underappreciated album

The discussion surrounding songs and albums which failed to make an impact but are perceived to be of high worth and quality suggests that thoses with lots of knowledge (Bill M) and experience (John D) might consider doing research and writing a book on the subject. We all have albums and music that somehow we found and appreciate that no one else knows about. These albums sat in record bins for years at 99 cents or less but now with those kinds of record stores closing (less 'collectors' stores around now though in Toronto we still have a few), that music is harder to find. I think the idea that this GBs knowledgeable people list work like this here is a great idea. I'd love to know what I've missed (I bet its considerable). So, I for one say "Keep it up". Lets see some lists and reasons why.

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Peter V

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Peter V

Bill … I now remember them saying that the "Yours" album had sold better in Canada than anywhere else. It's very obscure in Britain, though it's the pre-band to the AWB.

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Bill M

Peter V: Thanks for posting the Forever More cut. Still great to hear. John D and/or his colleagues at CHUM-FM played one or two other cuts from the album in the early '70s, and I remember being pleased to find it on the delete rack at the Radio Shack around the corner in '73 (when we'd just moved next door to a Manuel cousin). I found the Jim Messina and the Jesters LP on Audio Fidelity in the same rack. And also the Simon Caine LP, with any number of songs that would count as neglected gems - to me if not Landmark. One's at the link - quite Bandish I realise now.

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Joan

Happy Birthday!

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David P

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John D

After searching out the item you just mentioned, I can't believe what I have missed over the past year. Freewheeling, Bringing it All Back Home, Blood On The Tracks and the Basement Tapes, all released on Hybrid SACD. Can't believe I missed those. The greatest hits vol II is $50.00 American. Might have to take these slowly :-)

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brown eyed girl

For those of you who know Northern Boy....It's his BIRTHDAY TODAY!

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David P

This week I've been listening to the new hybrid-SACD version of "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II", a great sounding 2-disc set just released by Audio Fidelity. Two Band-related highlights include the live Isle of Wight version of "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)" and "When I Paint My Masterpiece." The loose, rollicking romp of the former, with Robbie's biting solo, shines like never before. And Dylan's take on the latter, recorded in March 1971, features the all-star cast of Leon Russell, Jesse Ed Davis, Carl Radle, Jim Keltner and Don Preston, who also lend a hand on "Watching the River Flow." The sonics on this reissue are stunning at times, casting these familiar tunes in the warm glow of digital sound remastered with care.

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brown eyed girl

....and most current and present Joseph Arthur..."SAINT OF IMPOSSIBLE CAUSES"!
His latest CD "THE BALLAD OF BOOGIE CHRIST" is in the mail!!!!!

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brown eyed girl

dlew919...Looking forward to checking out your blog. Wow....You even taught reasoning......No wonder you appear to be one of the least combative and pleasant members here! ;-D

I Miss The Zoo...Joseph Arthur...I'll be receiving his poetry book of the same title soon. Can't wait!!!!!
I also have one of Jim Carroll's poetry books signed...._The Book Of Nods_. I have no idea how my brother gave me that one as a gift.

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brown eyed girl

I think Gregory Abbott started out in the financial world and then came up with this one smooooth, sexy song.
Another one would be Roy Hill for non-Brits. I have the LP...."Join Me" and "Liner To Tangiers" were favourites in 1978.

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dlew919

Subject: a non-controversial blog entry...

and for those who ever wondered what I look like, there I am. And that's a JBovier ELS solidbody mandolin I'm holding...

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dlew919

Happy Birthday!

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Peter V

Subject: Beautiful Afternoon

My first shot is "Beautiful Afternoon" by Forever More which Dunc knows. 1970. It should have been a huge hit, but RCA in Britain had the knack of failing to promote so much good stuff around then … a year later David Bowie woke them up.

The other that came to mind is "Try Again" by Supertramp, 1970, but that's not been YouTubed so you'd have to sample it on iTunes or Lost FM.

Just thought … I heard both these live on successive days in 1970!

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Landmark

Last night, I had dinner with an old friend. Over the course of the evening, we discussed old favourite songs of ours that no one else seemed to know. I've posted one that I always liked that never went anywhere. Especially odd when you study the pedigree of these guys.

Let me know what you think or post similar songs that you loved that no one else knew. I'm sure Peter will happily join in on this one.

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John D

You remember Ken Griffin? All this time I thought you were about 19 years old. :-)

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Peter V

Subject: The Digital (lack) of economy

Just got this article sent me from yesterday's Guardian … it quotes Barney Hoskyns, but that's incidental. It's on the world where "Kodak used to have 140,000 employees. Instagram has 13." It came to me from a writer's group, but it applies just as much to musicians, photographers, journalists.

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Billy C. (Friend0

Subject: Another Youngblood

Lonnie Youngblood is a regular who stops in the club to listen. First time i saw him perform was last night. the man is a fine singer- also a saxophonist. Hendrix not only bacxked him up, but also hired him for work that appeared on what i tihnk was the last release of hendrix studio recordings - see the link.

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Serenity

Report: Paris Jackson Hospitalized After Suicide Attempt

Mother says Michael Jackson's daughter has 'a lot going on' June 5, 2013 2:25 PM ET

Paris Jackson

Michael Jackson's daughter Paris was reportedly rushed to the hospital late last night after a suicide attempt. Jackon's mother, Debbie Rowe, confirmed the news to Entertainment Tonight, saying the 15-year-old has had "a lot going on" recently.

Los Angeles County fire officials say they received a 911 call reporting an overdose at 1:15 a.m. PST. Jackson is also said to have had cuts on her wrists. She was taken to a Los Angeles-area hospital.

Paris Jackson Gives First Solo Interview

The reasons behind Jackson's supposed suicide attempt are unknown, but a source close to the family speculated that one reason may be that the she wasn't allowed to attend a Marilyn Manson concert scheduled for June 6th at Gibson Amphitheater.

Jackson tweeted lyrics from "Yesterday" by the Beatles last night: "Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away / Now it looks as though they're here to stay," though many song lyrics appear in the teen's Twitter feed.

June 25th will mark the fourth anniversary of her father's death. Paris Jackson's grandmother, Katherine Jackson, is currently in the middle of a civil trial over a wrongful death suit she filed against the concert promoter AEG Live.

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Cya soon xoxoxo

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Serenity

BEG: Thanx for the wishes. It was a wonderfull day.. You are sooo funny..I'll bet the poem/song was for our Norm in BC?

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NORM: Be careful and hope things go well on your trip..

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PETER and the rest of you posters? Thanks to you for all the reading..Not finished yet, but enjoying every one of them..

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JOHN D: I remember Ken Griffin and his, "You, You, You" very well. I,too, remember The Ames Bros. as they were faves of mine..

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I heard something today on "The Doctors" TV show I didn't know..They had the deaths of celebs which was very interesting.. It was on Bob Marley's death.. If he would have listened to his doctor, he wouldn't have died. He had melanoma under his big toe, and the dr. told him to amputate it, but he refused. Therefore the cancer went through his body to his brain, and that's what killed him..

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Leave it to mau to bring sad news..Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris "tried" to commit suicide early this morning.

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Until next time PEACE AND LOVE xoxoxo

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Pat B

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Billy C. (Friend0

David, a few months back, Stuff did perform one of those Georgia songs... Midnight Train to Georgia, and Gaffney was mercurial on guitar, Bennet saing it purty. Whole band was outa this world. this band does the original justice, no joke. Not every song every night, but at least part of every song every night.But even on thise not perfect nights, when they catch, then it's on. seen em over half a dozen times in just over three months , and never been disappointed at all. the mjority of the showsd been off the chain from the get go. John D. - SG is Levon thin.Still wouldn't suggest anyone fuck with him. Could probably hurt ya real bad if he needed to.

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Joan

Wishing you blue skies and calm seas, Take care.

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David P

Stuff was a great group. Sadly, guitarists Cornell Dupree & Eric Gale and keyboardist Richard Tee are no longer with us, but live on in their music. Who can forget Mr. Dupree's graceful licks on Brook Benton's cover of Tony Joe White's "Rainy Night in Georgia."

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Bill M

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Pat B

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brown eyed girl

Not sure when in the mid-late seventies I saw Santana but they either performed this song or Samba Pati......two of many favourites.

Santana always says Long Live Coltrane!

I say Long Live Santana!

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brown eyed girl

......and Santana's Persuasion with the original line up!!! Greg Rolie singing and playing Hammond organ, the very young Mike Shrieve and Sheila E's Dad on percussion.

Eric Clapton!.......Ask Carlos to play guitar at your next Festival!!! Eric did however, say there may not be anymore.......
Santana's band just like The Band and every other band who started out together....If they had a special thing going.......once one member left.......magic gone!

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brown eyed girl

Garth Hudson, The Band, Lowery, and other trivia

Thanks so much John D! I loved the Rascals' show so much that I may go again!!

You're welcome Kevin J! I had no idea that it was only two musicians. I only heard Leeeee Michaels on 8-track so what did I know then? Not much...

I guess I'm back to singin'.... ;-D

I ain't gonna work on Westie's tug no more
No, I aint gonna work on Westie's tug no more
Well, I wake up in the morning
Fold my hands and pray for rain
I got a head full of ideas
That are drivin' me insane
It's a shame the way he makes me scrub the floor

I ain't gonna work on Westie's tug no more.
I ain't gonna work on Westie's tug no more
I aint gonna work on Westie's tug no more

Well, I try my best
To be just like I am
But everybody wants you
To be just like them
They say sing while you slave and I just get bored
I ain't gonna work on Westie's tug no more.

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John D

Billy C. What a night. I always loved Stuff. Hell, just to be in a room with Steve Gadd would make me happy. Good for you. Mr. Gadd will be here in Toronto at the end of the month for the Toronto Jazz Festival. I'm glad Gordon Edwards has kept the spirit alive.

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Rod

I don't know much about keyboards but I reckon Garth always looked good behind the Lowrey (even if you could only see his head) and a bit exposed behind the modern "controllers". The new technology has made the keyboardists life a lot easier but those big rigs sure looked cool.

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Billy C. (Friend0

Stuff blew the off the jpoint tonight. Packed bout a hundred into a small room and another 50 to 100 in the bar and lounge areas.

James Allen Smith, the keyboardist has been in the hospital, and tonight, their usual night, became a fundraiser for him. 8 oclock start, as opposed to 10.

the sound of Gordon Edwards bass always makes me exceedingly happy. I mean really makes me happy. Whatever was going on, it had some extra special something tonight - he and Jimmy go back over 40 years. The rest of the band Mick Gaffney on guitar, Clint DeGanon drums, Roy Bennet , bass when Gordon sits, vocals, when they have em, the amazing Alex Foster on saxes, scorched, and from the beginning they had another sax player, who plays with them occasionally, LEon Pendarvis on B3 (musical director of The Blues Brothers and Saturday night Live), and another killer piano player, whose name escapes me. All, as exceptional as can be, and all burning. Pendarvis is one of those rare players... Thorugh the course of the night, Jonny Rosch, the x player, Leon, Mel Davis, and one more guy, traded places between the two keyboards. Other horn players joined, trombones, trumpets, some voclaists sang, including a woman named Ella, who had to be pushing 80 but did Take The A Train and scat sang like nobody's businass, had everyone delerious, Freddy harris and( a serious badass)and Gary seeger took up the guitars for while, and Freeddie Harris Jr played some wild shit on a steel drum kit.

The music went non stop fro 8 till 12:30, and when i say Baaad, i mean Baaad!As baad as it gets.

Steve Gadd (he and Chris Paker being the original drummers), his wife, and son, watched the first set. this was some of NY's finest players coming otu and helping one of their own.

the sound of Gordon Edwards bass still got me fucked up. The sounds are leaving too fast, and when you get ear to amp with the guys that sound so damn good, it so damn beautiful, but then when you realize it; scoming to an end,it's a bitch.

oh- how could i forget? Bernard Burdie, another guy who goes back 45 years with Jimmy Allen Amith, was there all night. As was Stanley banks, who comes and plays occassionally. Both Purdy and BAnks carried the bucket through the crowd personally gathering money for Jimmy. Purdy plyed twice, maybe about 40 minutes all together, and got up and danced for about ten minutes- All alone, in front of the stage. i mean really hoofed it. and he ain't no youngster. . stanley banks plyed bass a few times, probably about an hour and half. Stanley has been with George benson for a very long time.

Kevin- hardly anyone lfet before the end tonight. that does have soemthign to do with the ealry ending, but, noone was leaviung this show.Cause it was for Jimmy, and cause of the music and the amount of badasses in the joint.

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Kevin J

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Bill M

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Lars

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dlew919

I can't guarantee the food nad beer will still be here when you get back ;) Be safe!(of course, you can always have my beer: I don't drink the stuff)

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Rockin Chair

Subject: People try to put us d-down!

You all sound like a bunch of old fuddy-duddys! I heard that brown eyed girl is one of those Tranna Harlots!

Now a while back I told you how I had to tow that gawd damn old ferry boat turned into a logging camp....big pig of a thing. I got home for one day from another job. I got to leave tomorrow morning and move that gawd damn pig again. I have to tow it half way down BC.

I really am tired of this shit..........I was only kidding Angelina. I'm onery.......Y'all sit around here chatting away and having fun......I got to go out there an' work my ass off.....I got none of it left......tired of this bullshit.

I should be rich like that gawd damn JT.........I guess I'm just not smart enough.......oh well.........

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John D

Hey BEG! The Rascals will be at the Royal Alex, Aug 13-25th. This is the play written by Steve Van Zandt. Tickets on sale June 15th.

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Bill M

Kevin J: Organ+drums wasn't an uncommon lineup back then, perhaps emerging from strip clubs (like the Warwick and the Zanzibar here). Teegarten and Van Winkle and the Mike Quatro Jam Band come to mind. A really good pair called God and Eye played an afternoon set in my highschool gym in '70 or '71; I never heard of them again, but would love to know more if you have.

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David P

The genre of music known as conjunto features the diatonic accordion, along with the bajo sexto (Mexican 12-string guitar), electric bass and drums. One of the leading conjunto artists, accordionist Flaco Jimenez, has often described it as "Mexican hillbilly music." Many years ago, Germans who settled in South Texas and Mexico introduced the accordion.

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Kevin J

Subject: Stan Rogers

Hard to believe it's been 30 years.

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Kevin J

What a link.......and ladies and gentlemen.....that's how The White Stripes were born....wow!

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brown eyed girl

...and here they actually are together....
"Lee Michaels recorded and performed with just one other musician, a powerhouse drummer by the name of “Frosty” (Bartholomew Eugene Smith-Frost). The sonics they produced were amazing for a two person ensemble."

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brown eyed girl

Sorry John D....I forgot to say that I had not seen that you also posted Leeeeee Michaels singing "DYKWIM". Here's the cut I really meant to post so that we can see him actually play. I always loved that he includes his own name in the song and his signature....."oooh's".

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brown eyed girl

Jon Lord talks about his Hammond organ sound.

Thank you for sharing John D. One of the reasons I like Mink Deville's band is that the keyboard player would play accordion and a concertina at times. :-D

One of the memorable, magical moments from the school which I will be leaving this fall was when a student called the school and asked for me to come to the phone. I picked up the phone and he.....Sang the chorus of Harry Belafonte's "Angelina"
"Angelina, Angelina, please bring down your concertina
And play a welcome for me 'cause I'll be coming home from sea"

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sadavid

Subject: Garth's two-step

David P: Thanks for that reminder; great, great track.

I love Mr. H's zydeco 'On a Night Like This.'
Naturally, the original is not on YouTube, but this is a pretty decent cover . . . .

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Pat B

Adam, hard to say what is the industry standard anymore. The B3 jazz genius Joey deFrancesco uses a clonewheel now. Both the B3 and Garth Lowrey's weighed about the same, but the B3 was indestructible. There are remarkable B3 survival stories that have become minor epics.

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David P

For a spicy dose of cajun flavor, check out Emmylou Harris' great cover version of Rodney Crowell's "Leaving Lousianna in the Broad Daylight" (from her 1978 album "Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town"). It features Garth on accordion and Rick on fiddle & background vocals.

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Peter V

Subject: The Birth of Robin Hood

You'll want to hear them doing a vocal as well. This is "The Birth of Robin Hood" when they switch to guitar and concertina (instead of melodeon and fiddle). This is live, and the more polished version on iTunes from "The Works" album adds more musicians including Eliza Carthy on backing vocals. This song, ancient as it is, is my most-played of the last month.

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Peter V

John D, you might enjoy checking out Johnny Spiers of Spiers & Boden. The link goes to "Gooseberry Bush" live. Stay till Jon Boden comes in on fiddle for Laudanum Bunches. Johnny Spiers has four beautiful antique melodeons on stage, and is a masterly player. If you check I-tunes, the versions on "The Works" album are often more elaborate remakes of earlier versions. Prickle-Eye Bush is a good one to try. The instrumentals are all stunning (try The Cheshire Waltz) … they vary, but they're usually melodeon plus fiddle. I had a brief chat about accordion jokes in the interval (having seen a T-shirt with one earlier in the day) and mentioned that Garth knew lots of them … he told us a few in 1999 at The Forum.

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John D

Hohner Accordion Symphony Orchestra on Amazon. Garth and I discussed them years ago and he was very aware of the orchestra.

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John D

This may be the one site that no one will snicker at me for playing the accordion. I played accordion for years. In fact, I played in an Accordion quintet and an accordion orchestra. The orchestra and the quintet played classical music. In fact you should hear the Hohner Accordion Orchestra perform the William Tell. As we did, they use electronic accordions as well. In the orchestra I played what is called a "bass" accordion. That means there are no buttons on the left and the keyboard is tuned like a bass guitar. So I was playing all the bass notes amplified. So much for me.

My point is that the piano accordion is not difficult to master; but the melodeon; or as I've always called it, the diatonic accordion is difficult. This is the accordion of choice for the music of Louisiana. The biggest difference is that you always have to remember; which way the bellows are moving. Are you taking the bellows out; or in. Why? Here comes the memory hard part. Depending on which way you are moving the bellows, the note changes key! That's why you really have to know what you are doing. I almost bought one; while in Eunice Louisiana; from Marc Savoy of the famous Savoy family; but the thought of learning it made be uneasy. Even today, I can play right hand on the accordion; or other keyboards; but the left one......well that's another story. Thanks for reading and thanks to Garth; because on this site there are no polka jokes :-)

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Peter V

Anyway, we were commissioned to split a larger Hammond, I think it was a C3 rather than a B3, and we accepted thinking it was just a few more wires to cut and solder. It was a nightmare … the soldering wasn't the problem. The issue was that the weight was not evenly distributed and that the bottom half of the organ immediately collapsed once we'd sawed through it, not being as well-balanced and rigid as the L-100. Of course the collapse disconnected a bunch of wires. We had to start again. We were awake for two days continually doing that job as the band were about to go on the road, and as I've mentioned before, we were in a room with one record player and just the one LP, Bridge Over Troubled Water, which we left on replay. Having decided the business was not viable, we donated the soldering iron after the job, suspecting (rightly) that they might need to use it again from time to time. I worked with them a few months later, and used it a few times myself. I will say I saw that organ on stage several years after that, and it was still working, though somewhat frayed along the joins.

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Adam

But didn't Garth also use a Hammond organ on The Band's final recording - "One Too Many Mornings" in 1999?

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Peter V

The discussion on the Lowrey rang bells for me when he mentioned the melodeon sound (button accordion). I’ve been immersing myself in English new folk recently and watching Bellowhead, Spiers & Boden and Fay Hield, I’ve been struck by the difference melodeons, concertinas and fiddles make to the overall sound. Bellowhead also use a helicon (think curly tuba) for the bass line. This means sounds elide, and also there’s an underlying drone effect which is something fixed interval instruments with keys and frets don’t get in the same way. It fits English music where there is so often an extended wavering note in the singing, an influence that goes right through from early folk to why English prog sounds distinctive. Scottish bands of the jigs and reel era also used concertinas and melodeons when they couldn’t use bagpipes. Reading about the Lowrey, and then adding Rick’s fretless bass era connected.

On this English new folk, can I recommend a project I’m only two twelfths into? In 2010, Jon Boden (of Bellowhead) announced his “Folk Song A Day” project, when he set out to record 365 folk songs in a year, at one a day. Many are unaccompanied, or have one instrument … often fiddle or concertina. The aim was to create an archive of folk song from his extensive research into traditional songs, and some are solo versions of songs Bellowhead or Spiers and Boden did. Some are classics like Wild Mountain Thyme, and Big Rock Candy Mountain. Most are obscure. You can only buy them as downloads, either a song at a time, or a very reasonable £7.99 for a month, with 30 or 31 seasonally selected songs. I’m downloading a month at a time … otherwise it would be an indigestible feast, and have enjoyed May and just started on June. They’re on iTunes (UK at least) and amazon. I’ll go right through at one a month till next April.

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Pat B

The B3 is harmonically much more limited than the Festival, and Garth's Lowreys used tubes--lots of them--to create the organ harmonics, unlike B3s. Both organ types do use tubes in their preamps, and the Leslies also used tubes for amplification. Garth had his organs modified so he could overdrive the tubes in the preamp which introduced levels of distortion which he could control. The Lowrey also had a pitch bend on the volume pedal which Garth also modified. The Hammond does not have pitch bend, something Garth used a lot.

Garth was much more interested in synths beginning in the mid-70's and said goodby to the organ right around that same time. The tube based Lowreys are tough to take out on the road, and I would be curious as to the reasons he has used a B3 recently.

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Adam

In our interview published August 2012, Garth nicely explained some of the reasons he chose the Lowrey organ for his instrument. “One of the goals in orchestrating Band songs was to make the background or keyboard work somehow fit an era, or imply a certain life situation. Another of the goals was to give each song a different sound. Listen to the melodeon sound from the Lowrey organ, which you hear in 'Tears Of Rage'. For the first part of the piece, the Lowrey is soft, a pure sound, like a muffled flute with no vibrato in the background of the verse. In the chorus, it sounds like a melodeon or harmonium, an old pump organ, accordion like with a slow attack. The Hammond organ does not do this.”

I think the Hammond B3 organ, with Garth Hudson in control, is a beautiful combination. Of course, any instrument at all that Garth chooses to play is a beautiful combination. It is cool to see him play a Hammond, because he can get so many different sounds out of it. And he really does get tones and textures out of the instrument, recalling his classic Lowrey work, that would not be available to others. We actually did get to see Garth play on one of his Lowrey organs at the Tarrytown “Songs Of The Band” concert. It was not one of the large, horseshoe consoles from the original quintet. It was roughly the same size, layout and look of the Hammond B3 (also present), but the sound was unmistakable. That swirling, shaky, “expanding wild vine” sound with the pitch bend and everything!

After that concert, my father and I sat down to dinner with the Hudsons. It was a very intimate, beautiful experience that I really treasure so much. I asked Garth about his old horeshoe Lowrey organs, and discovered that his Lowrey H25 console from “The Last Waltz” is in the possession of the Rock Hall Of Fame… and they are not willing to give/sell the instrument back at a fair price for it’s owner. It has long been in my mind to organize some sort of initiative/fan support/fundraiser to get the iconic instrument from “The Last Waltz” back into Mr. Hudson’s care.

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Todd

Subject: Somebody To Love

The other day, my father told me that he had always liked Jefferson Airplane doing the song 'Somebody To Love'. Really threw me for a loop, as my dad has never mentioned this before, and is a fairly buttoned-up straight laced traditional jazz fan. Never knew that he dug the San Francisco sound, although he has previously expressed a fondness for other Bay area alum, including CCR and some of the Grateful Dead music (Not the spacey jammy noodlely stuff), but still......my Dad? Summer of Love era music?? Never would have guessed it!

Next I'll be finding out that he's got a Hammond B3 hidden in the basement.

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Bill M

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Kevin from Northeast PA

BEG - I always heard the same thing as you, "fourteen" and I always crank up "have another hit - of Fresh Air".

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brown eyed girl

(Fresh Air) Have Another Hit...Quicksilver Messenger Service...I heard this band and Lee Michaels a lot at home as my older brother had good friends in Cali and would visit them in Laguna Beach so I guess that's why we had West Coast American music blaring at home...

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brown eyed girl

I would hear the music of American or British Rock of Louuu, Bowie, Rod the Mod, Uriah Heap, Freeee....or West Coast American Rock of Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service via of my older brother's music collection....and this one...One of John D's fave and mine....Great grooooove.

"Been forty (*I always heard fourteen) days since I don't know when
I just saw her with my best friend
Do ya know what I mean?
Do ya know, know, know what I mean"

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David P

The credits on John Hammond's 1965 album "So Many Roads" list Eric Garth Hudson on Hammond organ.

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Kevin J

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Pat B

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Pat B

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Peter V

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David Marsh

Subject: Child abuse

Always supporting all those who expose this massive problem of "Child Abuse" in our communities,from all your friends at Tom Thumb and friends. Thank you.(Please Like).

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Kevin J

Bonk: Belated best wishes......I hope that you are feeling better.

BEG: Funny where a simple question about identifying an organ player can lead this place......bathing beauties and all.....wild! I knew the main bits about Hammond but so much I didn't know....I had assumed the old boy was a musician but alas no.....an example of a straight desire for profit mixing nicely with creativity........which brings us back to someone like Simone Felice who you wonder if in an earlier era could have been ruthlessly promoted by a big bad record company......and moved up and away from playing for just Peter and a few of his neighbors this far into his career.

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Peter V

Thanks, Jon. Yes, we have tickets for Winchester, a 55-seater. The updates on his site never got through to us, but I happened to be in a secondhand record shop (a friend of mine) a few weeks ago when the venue phoned through to say they'd just booked him, so we got tickets instantly. But having seen the schedule, I might try earlier in the tour too … especially as my daughter is due to give birth the actual day we're seeing him in Winchester, which could mean last-minute cancellation.

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JQ

I remember this one by Dave Baby Cortez. A double entendre title that hadn't occurred to me before -

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Pat B

Lee Michaels, killing it.

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David P

Although Chuck Leavell is from Alabama, he and his wife Rose Lane own Charlane Plantation in Dry Branch, Georgia, near Macon. It contains over 2000 acres of forest land which also features a sustainable quail & deer hunting operation with a lodge.

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Jed

Thanks BEG-gotta find time later to listen. Billy-if not this life we may have met in another!LOL And the name Jed is pure fabrication so I'm not(directly) in the entertainment business.

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Jon L

Peter V, I imagine you're on this already but Simone Felice has a ton of UK tour dates through June and July. Hope you can make it...

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John D

I just checked a review of his album "5th"; which included the above link and it indeed says he plays Hammond and Pipe organ on the album. This track is definitely Pipe, I believe.

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John D

Subject: Lee Michaels

Always loved the organ in this one and it always sounded like a pipe organ to me.

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brown eyed girl

Sorry, Hammond Organ Solos Parts 1-3 altogether here!

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brown eyed girl

For Pat B, Jed and myself, and all the other organ freaks on this site...Hammond Organ Solos - Part 1-3 beginning with ELP, Deeeeep Purple, Booker T playing the song I witnessed at Eric Clapton's Guitar Fest.......

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brown eyed girl

You're welcome JD!

Procol Harum 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' 1967

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John D

Thank you for your very kind words. Very much appreciated!

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Rod

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Peter V

The first users of Hammonds in rock is a line of enquiry. It was used in R&B and jazz earlier, and you could argue Bill Doggett was rock way back in 1956, but one early user was Felix Cavaliere's predecessor in Joey Dee & The Starliters, Carlton Lattimore. I started Googling, and the references all fail to mention the two early British ones, Zoot Money, certainly using one by late 1961, and Georgie Fame, around the same time.

Looking up Joey Dee makes me think that one of those gigs you'd go back and visit in your rock & roll time machine, would be Joey Dee & The Starliters with The Ronettes joining them on dancing and vocals before Phil Spector spirited them away.

The pub quiz question that fools many is "What did Tommy Tucker play on Hi-Heel Sneakers?" The answer being organ.

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brown eyed girl

.......and Jed I also saw the same week Felix Cavaliere on organ.....with The Rascals!!!!

Kevin J....It was very sweet of you to also wish Serenity a Happy Birthday as she is so kind to everyone on this site.
And I loved the video of Ethel Smith and The Bathing Beauties. Thank you! Thank you!

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Billy C. (Friend0

Jed, i'd be surprised if you and i don't know each other or at least each other's faces. I don't know if Jed is your real name but there's only one yiden named Jed i know of and he is a heavyweight in the entertainment industry. In any event, in your backyard you have a wide assortment of seruious B3 players. Garth ofc ourse, being the buddha of the B3, but you also havce Jeremy baum and Pete Levin. Jeremy was amazing at 16, now he is all of 43. Pete Levin, is another master.All over the place still, I;m sure you'll have otrher vchances to see him play sooner, but June 27 Gabe Butterfield has his Butterfield Blues Band playing Bearsville, Levin,Jimmy Eppard, Jim Curtin on bass, Gabe on drums. Kal David joining during his yearly visit.

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John D

Subject: You You You

Can't believe it. Gave up a few years back trying to find it and right after I posted I couldn't find it.....there it was. Took me back to my Grandparents playing it over and over again. Sounds like skating music now; but for some reason I have wonderful memories of it.

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John D

When I was a boy Bill, my Grandfather had a 78 of Ken Griffin playing, "You You You." I loved it. I think the Ames Brothers did a vocal version of it. Pretty much impossible Griffin recording to find now. I've tried.

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John D

Thanks Pat B. By this site, it looks like it's Ries.

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Bill M

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Pat B

John D, here's the wiki link on the tour.

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Bill M

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Kevin J

Thanks Pat......I really enjoyed that link on the history of the Hammond.

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Jed

Yup,I saw your posts about the crossroads show.In fact,I'm glad you mentioned Booker T since I should have included him amongst my favorites.Garth,I've had the privilege of seeing many times whether in 76 at the Palladium with The Band,in many reformed eras of The Band as well as numerous gigs,particularly those in the Woodstock area,with Levon or Rick at The Lake-sometimes with barely enough in he room to make a minyan(10 people)LOL. I cherished the time in the 80's and 90's when the fellas would pop into Lake,Tinker Street Cafe,Uncle Willie's,etc. to sit in with whoever was playing.Garth was a more rare sighting,but his sit ins with Levon and The Barnburners were lots of fun.Meeting and talking with Garth is also a special memory,albeit a unique experience.

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John D

Sorry Pat. Don't see any name. Oh we'll, I guess it doesn't really matter in the end.

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brown eyed girl

Daryl Johnson!! Yes, I remember now why there was something about him that I couldn't shake.....I saw him and Emmylouuu's band on the same bill as Neil Young and Crazy Horse. He also did back up work for her on my favourite recording thanks to Daniel Lanois.....Wrecking Ball.

The most stylish musicians....The Band are included.

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Pat B

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brown eyed girl

THE ROLLING STONES PROJECT WITH TIM RIES, BERNARD FOWLER, AND DARRYL JONES

Btw, John D...May I say that you have never looked better than when I last saw you at Hugh's Room for Levon Helm's Tribute. Also, your partner in life was stunning. There was something about her that I really liked. I guess when you meet someone you either feeeeel it or you don't.

Hey Jed...Did I tell you that I was at Eric Clapton's Guitar Festival and fianlly....witnessed the great Booker T on Hammond B organ?!!! I also saw Garth with the Dixie Hummingbirds playing the same organ in NYC!! Shhhh....I dig Pat B because he can play organ too.... :-D

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John D

I don't know JT. The orgasn player looks heavier than Ries. Damn doesn't someone have a program from the current Stones show; or do they not name the sidemen?

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Jed

I am passionately in love with the sound of the Hammond B-3.While I'm primarily a bass and guitar player(quite a below average one at that!) I grew up playing the piano.My late parents were both superb musicians and we had this wonderful pump organ in our basement that I loved playing-it was as close as I'd ever get to a real cool organ.I have always been fascinated by the sound of the organ,and Garth,Jimmy Smith,Gregg Allman,Steve Winwood and others have been my personal favorites.I was interested to hear,on the you tube,that there was a portable B-3,which I'd love to hear in person to see if it is anything like the real thing.It sound good on the video but Im not sure if this is good thing or not for this classic instrument.In sound quality are we talking something like analog vs. digital here? And the historical video and some others look excellent as well.Most grateful that these you tubes were posted here!

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Pat B

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JT

Subject: Reis again

Having seen photos of Tim Reis, I think (having again looked at the video) that it looks like him.

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JT

Subject: Baby Face

I just recalled Dave 'Baby Face" Cortez (Clowney) and looked him up. Not sure if his was a Hammond?

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Peter V

That discussion got me to look out "The Rolling Stones Project" by Tim Ries … I haven't played it for years. I've been enjoying his collaboration with Norah Jones on "Wild Horses" an old favourite. If you look up Tim Ries's website and discography, he does play piano on some things.

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John D

Here's one of the video links Pat.

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JT

Subject: Hammond heaven

Brilliant stuff, Pat. Its addition to popular music had a huge impact. Before Jimmy Smith and Booker T (did he play Hammond?), was there a Hammond or organ presence in popular music? If so, where can it be found?

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John D

Pat have you had a chance to play (what they call) the "new B3?" Looks portable; but according to YouTube video sounds just the same.

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Pat B

John D, yeah, I've spent some time on those youtubes. Brilliant stuff. You might like this link.

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Pat Brennan

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JT

Subject: The Mystery keyboard

So what is the consensus if there is one. Who is playing a keyboard beside Chuck Leaveall on "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (AC Centre 2013 May 26)on the video supplied you know where? Clearly Chuck is there and as John says, there is someone behind and next to him. Who is that someone?

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John D

If you scroll down the page you will see Tim Ries on the far right. I believe that's Bobby Keys to the left; with the hat on?

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John D

Subject: Website for Pat B Think you'll like this Pat

You can probably tell by my question earlier about the organ player in the Stones that I am an Organ freak; when it comes to any kind of music. This video was well put together. I think probably that is why my favourite period of Dylan's music; was in the sixties; when we would surround himself with Al Kooper & Garth Hudson. Mike Finnegan is one of my all time favourite players. If I may, I will throw in piano player Paul Griffin.

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brown eyed girl

Sorry John D!!! Mick very barely even introduced MICK TAYLOR....not that he needed introducing but still.......Mick Taylor.....Write a tell all book and recoup some of your money....Maybe Levon was right.....maybe.

Keith on Jimmy Fallon's show....."Keith Richards makes it sound as if Taylor would be re-joining the band for more than just one song live, as it would be exciting to have a "three-guitar attack" on stage, however this proved to be less than accurate when the tour began."

David Powell....So Chuck Leavell is an Alabama tree farmer too!

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John D

BEG. Chuck is indeed the piano player; but if you watch the link to the video I posted, you see Chuck on piano and a guy behind him on organ. That's the identity I am seeking. The organ player. It's funny that you can go to the Stones website and they don't identify any of the backing musicians for the tour; although we do know who some of them are.

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brown eyed girl

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brown eyed girl

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brown eyed girl

Jerry T....Rolling Stones at Toronto's Phoniex Club in 2005...10.00 gig. Interview with Keith Richards where he confirms it is Chuck Leavell. Keith refers to Chuck as a.....real musician. Darryl Johnson played with one of imagezulu's fave musicians of all time.....(especially to early 60's....Miles Davis). Darryl had a definite presence all night long. Some musicians can just stand there and exude musicality and subtle coolness. I kept thinking....There's something about this guy.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO SERENITY!!!!! I hope the sun was shining down on you as you bring sunshine to us!

SERENITY....Thanks for the info on Louuuuuu. I knew something was when he cancelled so many concerts.....He's not only a survivor.....but had the strength and commitment to turn his life around via AA and NA and then he found Tai Chi and he still rocks.....and photographs......I never had the chance to meet him..... :-(

Hi Bill M. I knew you were talking about Paul James. If you would have joined us at Levon's Tribute at Hugh's Room you would have met my friends again who know Paul because of their children. They were the ones who told me that he stayed at his home in the west end one night. Wow....I'll never forget seeing Dylan at the ACC and Paul joined him for one or two songs and he just beamed....beamed with joy while playing with Dylan.

Hey Kevin J.....Are you out on the prowl again? I never liked "Emotional Rescue" until at the ACC.....We had so much fun singing along all the ohhh ohhh ohhh parts and all. Mick has the ability to make you fall in love with all the songs. I never liked "Midnight Rambler" either.....until Mick Taylor is right there playing live!!!!
And yes Kevin the video with Richard Manuel was previously posted. I remember it was CLAIRE who helped out by using tinyurl in order for me to post it at the time. And it was JERSEY GIRL who had posted a Robbie video and then from that time onward......I was enthralled with youtube......but I do take responsibility for my addiction JG. ;-D

I think Alexis P Suter was in town last night at our Waterfront Festival????

If anyone has the time to help out.....The young fans sitting beside me at the Rolling Stones concert kept telling me not to buy an iPhone but the latest (for a minute).....Samsung smart phone. Any thoughts? I have an old iMac which I would have to replace if I did buy an iPhone so......I would love to hear from the younger Band fans and the ones of a certain vintage as Bumbles used to say. I miss you Bumbles......

JOSEPH ARTHUR....In one of his videos about his heroes.....THE BAND are included!

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JT

Subject: Tim Reis piano

On a biographical site on line regarding Tim Reis, it notes that he plays piano as well as sax.

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JT

Subject: Keyboards in the RS at Air Canada 2013

John D: I watched the film of "You Can't Always Get What You Want". It looks as if Chuck Leavell is the front keyboardist but there seems to be a second one just beside and behind him. Who that is may be a mystery. Does Tim Reis also play keyboards? He is said to be sax player. ( '...by bassist Darryl Jones, keyboardist Chuck Leavell, backup singers Bernard Fowler and Lisa Fischer and saxophonists Bobby Keys and Tim Ries.') Anybody know if that is him as suggested or if it is someone else?

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John D

Pat I have interviewed Tim. I interviewed him because of his work as a sax player; with the Stones. He had just done a jazz album of Stones tunes. It didn't look like him in the video; but you never know? Thanks Pat.

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JT

Subject: Nags Head North

I remember the event at Nags Head North well. I remember seeing Paul James open for Dylan at Canada's Wonderland. I was in the first row. He was great as always. Then when I heard that they were at that establishment I was sorry I missed that because it was in my backyard in those days just a few miles away. It made the papers. I didn't know about the Vancouver part until I read this.

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JT

Subject: Jay and the Americans

Billy C: thanks for letting me know. I thought that Jay and the Americans were always a class act primarily because of the singers and the production. The emotional impact was there.

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margahayuland

Subject: Margahayuland

margahayuland http://goo.gl/YuF5p

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Billy C.(Friend0

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Pat B

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John D

I love that story Bill and thanks for bringing it up. Nothing like a great story that's 100% true & the way it actually happened.

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Bill M

BEG: in talking about the guitarish who jammed with Dylan at the Inn on the Parking Lot, I neglected to mention his name - Paul James, as you know. At his show a couple weeks ago he also told how he first met Dylan. He was playing at the Nag's Head North and did his usual crowd-pleasing dance around the room and past the bar, where he found himself nose to nose with an anonymous guy he recognised as Dylan. Dylan said he get up to jam next set, and suggested that he be introduced as a hitchhiker from Vancouver - which is what happened.

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John D

Rolling Stones May 26th Toronto; with local choir singing You Can't Always Get....Who is playing organ; with the Stones? I can't see clearly enough in video and can't find any info on it.

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Serenity

Thought you guys would be interested in this:

Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar

By The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – Fri, 31 May, 2013

The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.

TOP 20 CONCERT TOURS

1. (1) Taylor Swift; $1,829,176; $82.25.

2. (2) Bon Jovi; $1,563,980; $91.52.

3. (3) Kenny Chesney; $1,532,732; $76.97.

4. (5) Pink; $1,094,422; $76.06.

5. (6) Maroon 5; $900,793; $66.93.

6. (7) Jason Aldean; $761,942; $53.52.

7. (8) Muse; $523,368; $56.31.

8. (9) Leonard Cohen; $499,280; $109.36.

9. (10) Carrie Underwood; $487,752; $61.01.

10. (11) Barry Manilow; $424,962; $67.49.

11. (12) Kid Rock; $364,151; $53.28.

12. (New) Motley Crue; $346,888; $81.30.

13. (13) Jeff Dunham; $231,914; $43.82.

14. (16) Tiesto; $217,393; $42.23.

15. (15) Diana Krall; $191,525; $85.21.

16. (17) Heart; $176,362; $74.03.

17. (19) Chris Tomlin; $168,412; $27.99.

18. (18) Shinedown / Three Days Grace; $166,118; $39.46.

19. (20) "Winter Jam" / Tobymac; $156,781; $12.46.

20. (21) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds; $137,872; $52.76.

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CYA soon xoxoxo

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Kevin J

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Rod

Pat B you are right that it doesn't sound like Richards drumming style. I hope that it is him. He would have been touring a lot with The Band around this time so he would have had plenty of practice under his belt.

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Todd

Subject: Way Back

Not to pile on, but the thing that struck me about the Way Back video is that all of the people in it are pretty cool......legends really, with tons of cred. Problem is there's nothing cool about this video. Sebastian's harp playing is the only thing that has any grit to it.

The song itself seems fine and a nice sentiment. Just a little limp for all of these heavyweights.

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Billy C. (Friend0

if you go to all music for Tar beach, the 1993 release the song was on, you'll sse drummer credits for steve gadd, levon, charlie drayton, steve jordan, jerry marotta, and leo adamian. No richard. OF course, they may have recut the song again in , or they may have used original recordings going back to 85, 86- i've no idea. and also, allmusic does not always get credits right.but they do correct when advised. i do have the dsic , may have to locate it here and give a listen

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Pat B

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Kevin J

Remote controls.......From google..........Milestones:

- 1893 A remote control was described by Nikola Tesla, in his patent, U.S. Patent 613809

- 1950 The first TV remote control, called "Lazy Bones," was developed iby Zenith

- 1955 Zenith engineer Eugene Polley invented the "Flashmatic," the industry's first wireless TV remote

-1956 Robert Adler's  "Zenith Space Command," remote control went into production \

Funny...my Dad always bought Zenith.....I never knew they were a pioneer in this area.

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Bill M

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Peter V

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Kevin J

Remote Controls for TV's: A while back Paul McCartney was on Larry King.....and KIng asked him about a meeting between The Beatles and Elvis...........McCartney laughed and said it was quite uneventful as Elvis just sat there.....but the one thing the guys couldn't stop talking about afterwards was that Elvis was changing channels on his TV without having to get off the couch......he was using a remote control.......that was mid 60's!..............my earliest memory of having one was 1980.........

Happy Birthday Serenity!

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Serenity

JOAN: Thanx heaps for the wishes, It was a great day. My girls took me to a cat show [the judging kind]. We are great lovers of cats. One has 3. and the other has 2..I loved every minute of it.. My fave is a persian and ragdoll and Scottish Fold..Beautiful..

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JT: Go to my earlier post on Lou Reed and get the Rolling Stone article. He was a very sick man, so we all wish him a speedy recovery with our prayers..

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Cya soon xoxoxo

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JT

Subject: Get well, Lou Reed

BEG and others: Lou Reed is recovering from a liver transplant in Cleveland. His wife Laurie Anderson, confirmed that he was gravely ill for a few weeks but is now doing well. At age 71, his previous life experiences finally seemingly caught up with him. This so far is good news! Lot so articles to read on this.

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JT

Subject: John Sebastian

Thanks for alerting us to that video with McGuinn, Spector and Manuel and Anderson backing John S. It was good to see Richard looking so well. I appreciated it greatly. The song is so light and 'poppy', it floats. It had the lightness of The Lovin' Spoonful without the subtle grit that made them great. It won't make my library. But the memory of Richard was worth the watch. And to see him dance... well, that's nice.

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JT

Subject: Remotes

My Sony TV of the 70s had a remote control. It had 5 buttons only and did very little. The TV still exists and works but it is in storage in a remote storage space with the remote. I even remember more remotely that older TVs had remotes control to turn TVs on and off.

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Joan

Wiahing you a very happy belated birthday.

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Serenity

Subject: Lou Reed, etc.

Thanx, you wonderful posters.. Haven't had time to read all, but plan to later.

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BEG: Thought you would be interested in reading this, as I know he is a fave of yours..

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Had a birthday last Saturday and 2 of the wonderful gifts I rec'd from my girls: The LEVON HELM tribute DVD, AND an original autograph copy from ROBBIE"s "Contact" album. She sent for it and to see his signing with my name was a thrill to behold!!

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CYA soon LOVE AND PEACE xoxoxo

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Billy C. (Friend0

Ah, some things just last forever. And take on deeper hues ( of meaning) and signifcance.Sometimes, the Gb is a just a learning process, an unfolding discovery, a fountain of informtation and almost seems to exist by or for a manifest destiny, or some predetermined fate.

With the temporary reappeareance of Dr Osaba last night, in the midst of a extended exchange about the Inn on The Lake in Niagara Falls and mirrored ceilings, , one can't help but winder why Viagra and Niagara are so close in spelling but even closer in sound. Would it make sense to name something for an opposite- Niagara Falls- Certainly you wouldn't want to associate Viagra with falling. However, maybe the merchandisers were going for the associations of largest vertical height and flow rate?

Once mirrored ceilings enter a conversation, all bets are off.

Pete, if any young children ever ask any of us that same question, an alternate answer would be- to help locate the remote control for the television. I'm guessing remotes were not yet in existence at that time.

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Rod

If you can overlook the obvious eighties-ness of that video it's not too bad. The big crime is that Richard gets so little attention. He does some nice drumming but it was a crime he didn't get to sing. Perhaps in the mid eighties The Band were under-appreciated but these days I suspect that Richard is more widely respected than any of the others.

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BIlly C. (Friend0

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John D

It's interesting to note that the video was apparently released in 1986; according to the credits. Richard would be gone by March of that same year.

I always loved the way Richard played drums in that unorthodox style.

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Kevin J

BEG: I love ya..........my guilty Rolling Stones pleasure is "Emotional Rescue".....I note some reviews dismissed this as a bathroom break number...but I always really liked that song.

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