The Band Guestbook, April 2019

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Peter V

Amazing find. A clip from "Ready Steady Go" - The Rolling Stones and presenter Cathy MacGowan in the RSC miming contest to "I Got You Babe." Only 129 views too.

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jh

Subject: JRR in Billboard Magazine

Published yesterday: "Lifetime Award Honoree Robbie Robertson On His Career-Long Quest To 'Do Something Magical'"

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Bill M

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Peter V

BUT Arts Centres are different. They usually don’t use ticket agencies at all, so sold out means sold out. At a mile and a half from home, I’d try for returns on the day though. The Unthanks often are sold out.

We had some great theatre tickets in London for the week of my knee operation and returned them. No refund, but I’d rather someone saw it. The box office called back, thanked me, and said the director had told them to give them free to any drama students queueing for returns. I was pleased.

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brown eyed girl

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Sinead O'Connor...Jealous
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Dunc

Subject: Thank you, Canada

Couldn’t get tickets for the Unthanks. Both Scottish shows sold out weeks ago. This is a pity because the gig is being held at the local arts centre about a mile and a half from my door. The box office was closed on Sunday because of cuts, not religious reasons. But about eight years. Ago I was on the island of Raasay and at the play park it said ‘Don’t Play On The Swings On a Sunday’

Sometimes I miss out because I don’t know the concert is on because I don’t get two papers every day as I used to and because promoters don’t advertise in newspapers the way they once did.

Last Five played. Thank you Canada.

The Band King Biscuit Flour Hour Live at the Carter Baron Amphitheatre, Washington D C, August 29 th 1976. Great stuff.

Joni Mitchell Court and Spark. Twisted was written by Miss Annie Ross.

Leonard Cohen Old Ideas. Love this album, greatly enhanced by the female voices.

R Dean Taylor The Essential Collection. Indiana Wants Me is a British classic and There is a Ghost in this House is a Northern Soul classic.

Gordon Lightfoot Complete Greatest Hits. Really enjoyed seeing Gordon in concert the year before last. Brilliant band.

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Bill M

I think I heard of "Wipeout" before heard it. It still had cache circa '68. Some of my school mates were forming little basement bands, and I recall one of them praising his drummer as someone who could play "Wipeout". This may have been the same guy on the same school bus who opined that Ringo wasn't much of a drummer because he couldn't play a roll. I took this to be true at the time.

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b.lee

Subject: Wipe Out

I once played with a drummer who could sit there with a straight face and say, "Wipe Out? Never heard of it." The ensuing attempt by (often inebriated) patron to SING the drum solo, priceless. I played with another drummer who intentionally butchered said solo so spastically as to be equally hilarious. Not, generally, a welcome request for an accomplished percussionist. But a lot of fun in the right context!

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Peter V

Sunday … and had they chained up the swings, too?

(Anyone who doesn't understand that is not listening to enough Michael Marra.)

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Dunc

Thanks JQ and Peter.

I enjoyed the review, Peter. It seems to have been a great concert and a bit different. I went down to get tickets for the concert, which will be in a venue near me, today, but the box office was closed. Used to open on a Sunday. Hope to get tickets during the week.

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JQ

Dunc introduced me to Michael Marra here and I’ve been happily mooching through his catalog ever since. Michael Hurley lives and still performs here in Astoria and I find similarities between the two. MH had a bit of fame, a well regarded collaboration and connection with the Holy Modal Rounders and has also been part of the folk scene since the early 60’s.

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Peter V

Subject: The Unthanks review

My review of The Unthanks at Wimborne, Dorset linked. This is the unaccompanied tour … just the three women. No instruments. Support was the Scottish-songwriter Tim Dalling … one of the most cheerful support sets I've seen. And he asked how many of us knew Michael Marra, and played his tribute Mr Michael Marra. As Dunc has been saying, Michael Marra is essential listening.

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Peter V

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brown eyed girl

I am the spring, the holy ground,
the endless seed of mystery,
the thorn, the veil, the face of grace,
the brazen image, the thief of sleep,
the ambassador of dreams, the prince of peace.
I am the sword, the wound, the stain.
Scorned transfigured child of Cain.
I rend, I end, I return.
Again I am the salt, the bitter laugh.
I am the gas in a womb of light, the evening star,
the ball of sight that leads that sheds the tears of Christ
dying and drying as I rise tonight.

JD...Ha, Ha, Ha. ;-D

Bill M...Thanks for the Marley info. :-D

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brown eyed girl

Oh What A Feeling (A Vital Collection Of Canadian Music) featuring The Band...The Weight and Robbie Robertson...Showdown At Big Sky

Last 3
Pink...Try
Patsy Cline...You Took Him Off My Hands
Patty Smith...People Have The Power

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John D

Yes Bill M I knew Billy since Courtice High School. Later I would manage a band from Courtice, Ontario called Linda & Te Chancellors. Bill was the drummer and yes he could do a magnificent "Wipe Out."

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Bill M

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Pastor Osas Ben

Subject: Naléhavě potřebujete peníze? Můžeme ti pomoct!

Naléhavě potřebujete peníze? Můžeme ti pomoct! Jste podle současné situace v potížích nebo hrozí vám v nesnázích? Tímto způsobem vám dáváme možnost nového vývoje. Jako bohatý člověk se cítím povinen pomáhat lidem, kteří se jim snaží dát šanci. Každý si zaslouží druhou šanci a protože vláda selže, bude muset přijít od ostatních. Žádná částka není pro nás příliš šílená a splatnost určujeme na základě vzájemné dohody. Žádná překvapení, žádné další náklady, ale jen dohodnuté částky a nic jiného. Nečekejte déle a komentujte tento příspěvek. Uveďte částku, kterou chcete vypůjčit, a my Vás budeme kontaktovat se všemi možnostmi. Kontaktujte nás ještě dnes na

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Bill M

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Bill M

Peter V: That tidbit will require a substantial rewrite. I gave it some thought, starting with Queen Glenda, sensing she's lost, asks a peasant she encounters, "Pardon me my good man, but would you point me towards the White Cliffs of Dover?" Unfortunately, I fell into "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and can't get out.

"'oo are you then?"

"I'm your queen, Glenda."

"We 'aven't got no queen. No king neither. We're an autonomous commune …" "Buh, buh .." "Oh, piss off!"

[Silence ensure - not even the sound of coconuts, as Glenda Lear travels alone.]

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Pat B

I get to do this again. Sold out--which attests to Chicago's good taste

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Peter V

Bill. On Lear, Disinclination to ask for directions … he walked over a small drop thinking he was jumping off the White Cliffs of Dover.

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Dunc

Subject: Bluetooth Audio receivers for older amplifiers

I bought a Bluetooth Audio Receiver for about twenty pounds, which allows me to stream music from my i pad (or phone, but I use my i pad) through an older but decent amplifier.

It was simple to attach.

John D, I play Amazon Prime music through it and the sound is really good. I notice Amazon Prime Music is gaining good reviews in hifi mags, but I'm not a big reader of them.

I also play the links on this website and other Youtube music through it and there is a huge improvement in sound quality compared to listening straight from laptop or tv etc. I have decent speakers.

Default will always be CDs and definitely one of the boons of retirement is having time to listen. I'm gaining studio album completeness on artists or certain eras in artists' lives. Just now I'm into Gene Clark, and bought Gene Clark and the Godsin brothers this morning. First time I heard it.

But I have now had that experience of three or four of my CDs deteriorating, which is frustrating. Like their owner, getting old.

But Amazon Prime Music has let me sample bands, listen to material not of my era, play hits I once owned, and listen to concerts I wouldn't buy etc. Lots of advantages. And good sound using the Bluetooth receiver.

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Bill M

Has anyone tried presenting Queen Lear? Glenda J's involvement would have been a reasonable opportunity to (re)try. Would have required some rewrites, I imagine, but I don't recall the king going on about strictly male stuff like his prostate or his disinclination to ask for directions.

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Peter V

Glenda as King Lear. I haven’t seen it, and I know it’s on Broadway now. Generally, there is too much “gender-blind” casting but she should carry it off. 82? It’s hard work. Ian McKellan was 76 when he did it. Antony Sher was 66, both playing old, but it’s a huge part to work through physically. I’ve reviewed seven King Lears on my blog. The play is always cut and it’s a question of where the cuts fall. It’s less successful as a “star vehicle” with Lear keeping all the lines and then cutting the other characters’ lines. Link is to the Stage index on my blog – Shakespeare first and alphabetical. Links to all seven reviews.

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Bill M

Subject: interviews by and re Rick

Jon L: Thanks for the link to Rick. Baseball been berry berry good to him. I appreciated that it led me to another clip, this time Glen Silverthorn talking about for formation of the Starlights and Rick's eventual move to the Hawks. Glen displays an amazing memory for players and venues.

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JQ

PV - Glenda Jackson? Any thoughts? She’s 82 now, time flies.

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magnus and linda

Subject: the band is a good band

dritbra side!!!!

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Jon Lyness

Subject: Rick Danko interview 1985

Found in my Youtube travels: a quite entertaining if scattered 1985 backstage interview with Rick Danko, Blondie Chaplin and Gene Clark about their then-current projects and tours. Rick gets in a few great lines early on, and rather hilariously tries to cut some radio promos at the end. Enter "interview rick danko blondie" in the Youtube search engine.

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Bill M

Subject: lost Marley live tapes surface

BEG: This note's for you.

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jh

Love for Levon... from Robbie

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NorthWestCoaster

Subject: Hackers? But why?

I would appreciate if Jan The Man tells us why this site was down. None any of my business but discent people seem to be worried. I am a real internet paranoid - maybe a paranoid alcoholic, too, but it is another story - and therefore use the same Linux system as Edward Snowden and blocked coin miners and all ... POOH ... there is no end to that!

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Peter V

Last few. After one of my two favourite secondhand record stores sourced three boxes of pristine blues albums a couple of weeks ago, the other just bought in another large box. I came away with several. I’m steadily working my way through them. Last five:

Albert King: Albert

Buddy Guy: Hold That Plane

Both of the above have big horn sections and are very much blues in the 1970s.

Buddy Guy and Junior Wells: Drinkin’ TNT and Smokin’ Dynamite. Live at Montreaux.The sleeve says Buddy Guy didn’t like the back-up band he had been given, so asked Bill Wyman backstage to put together a new one at virtually no notice. Bill grabbed Dallas Taylor, plus Pinetop Perkins from Muddy Waters’ band and off they went.

Then I’m still working on the Nancy Sinatra Toppermost, so have been playing her all week.

Nancy/Lee Three from 2004

Nancy & Lee Again.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the first Nancy & Lee album from 1968 is one of the truly great albums of the late 60s, and consistently under-rated

LINK to SOME VELVET MORNING b Nancy & Lee. One of the weirdest songs of 1968.

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JQ

John D - Thanks for breaking this alarming spell!

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Lisa

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John D

Beg looks like you froze the Guestbook. Hahahaha.

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brown eyed girl

ARCHIVES
Colour them Big Pink
Pioneers? In a way. They’re the band from Big Pink, and they have launched the new “Canadian sound” in rock.
Alexander Ross
Feb 1, 1969

Last 2
Ollabelle...Featuring Fiona McBain and Amy Helm...When I Remember To Forget
Orbison and KD Lang...Crying...I saw Roy at Ontario Place in 1983 for 7.00!!
As Tom Petty said in an interview...No one can sing like Roy...fave song...Evergreen...but...Garland Jeffreys is also a gifted natural singer as well... :-D

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Dunc

Thanks Peter. Will take final grandchild.

Thanks, Dag. Ended up playing several Levon clips.

Forgot Eric Clapton had recorded Eddie Boyd songs on the excellent British blues players’ album ‘From the Cradle.’ I would have gone and played it, but tried to a couple of months ago, but it had deteriorated - the first of my albums which would not play. But I bought a new copy this morning.

Playing ‘Journeyman’ just now. Great blues.

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Peter V

Subject: Missing Link review

For those wanting to take grandkids to see a film over the holiday … my review of "Missing Link" is linked.

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Rod

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John D

Dag, thank you for Valley of Tears.

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Dunc

Thanks Northwestcoaster. I remember that Boyd Fleetwood Mac album - the piano on the front. I still have Fleetwood Mac playing ‘The Big Boat’ and ‘Just the Blues’ with Eddie Boyd. It’s really the Peter Green Fleetwood Mac hits which I still think are brilliant. I love’Need Your Love So Bad’.

Had a great holiday in Helsinki. Lovely city.

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Dag B.

Subject: Levon Helm - Valley of Tears

RCO sessions...

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JQ

NWC - Sounds like you’re still at it with both hands full; they say it’s good to keep busy now. For me it’s both hands too: a wife and, currently at least, Redbreast 12 Irish Whiskey - the Pot-Stilled one. I think there’s a few varieties. $75 for a 750 here where spirits are heavily regulated. I’ll put one or the other down though if I come across a good, non beverage, pain killing potion.

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NorthWestCoaster

Subject: British blues

In these days our "British" blues band would have had its 50th Anniversary. BIG TIME, PEOPLE,BIG TIME! (...hmmm... I have heard it somewhere...) Think about it: play the blues again, holding our groupies (later on our wives, actually) with the one hand and a bottle of relatively cheap Finnish vodka with the other hand. Hairs washed with a cheap shampoo, snow which never melted down under Selmer amplifiers during the winter in our rehearsel local...

WARNING: Gpers with weak nerves should stop reading RIGHT NOW! At least under the dotted line.

. . . . . . . . . .

Status: Our blues band - 1) Divorced 2) Dead 3) Divorced and dead. So what I do now is to hold my wife with one hand and with other hand very expensive French Cognac.

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NorthWestCoaster

Subject: British blues mentioned here in gb

British blues still gets me going... not that I listen to it too often anymore! It was nice to play back then and not too heavy task for a bassist. - I would like to recommend EDDIE BOYD (american) who played with FLEETWOOD MAC in '7936 South Rhodes' LP. Eddie fell in love with a Finnish womwn and lived his last years in Helsinki Finland during my Helsinki years and was a great blues profile. Maybe you won't see ice bears in the streets of Helsinki but definitely not real blues men every day.

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Peter V

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JQ

Subject: Jake X Fussell - New Record

PV and everybody here - Here's a review of JXF's upcoming new one. It sounds like it will be brilliant, although I think it'll be hard to beat his first two.

Bonnie "Prince" Billy weighs in on Jake here too. I don't know much about him. I've heard a couple of his songs that I like and he pops up often in folk music circles. New Whaling is one of his I like.

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Lane Campbell

Subject: Great Website

Hello there - this is a terrific website that I reference often - a couple of comments on things out of date: (1) The "Who Plays What Instruments on Band albums" link is dead. (2) Paolo Demaria's email is inactive. Just trying t'be helpful. Love the site!

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Dunc

I enjoyed the post, Peter. I really enjoyed the blues years. Last week, I bluetoothed the Cyril Davies rare ep. It takes me back to my teens and being introduced to it in a poorer and rougher part of the city when my friend who obtained the ep ‘had to get married’ and was living in a cold water flat. Chipping in money for a few beers and listening to those recordings of Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee and Blind Willie McTell.

And yes the blue men could sing the whites. I think all the great blues players came from the Deep South...of the Thames, London and the South East. So the blues players I saw were Chicken Shack, Fleetwood Mac, Tony McPhee, Groundhogs, Stan Web Band, Ten Years After, Ginger Baker’s Airforce, Edgar Broughton Band, Graham Bond Organisation, Eric Clapton....Loved them all.

Also, acoustic players would come up from London and you would get two or three players in an evening. I remember a great evening with the late Jo Ann Kelly, Dave Kelly and another guy. Jo Ann Kelly was one of the few girls. Artists like this would drive up from London and do two or three gigs for example Aberdeen, St Andrews and Dundee then the part timers had to be back at work picking cotton in West Ham in the morning. Peter’s story, the folk singer, explains how they would crash somebody’s flat to save on expenses. But there were crashes with bands.

In Scotland we had the superb Stone the Crows with Maggie Bell and Les Harvey, so cruelly electrocuted on stage, Jim Dewar and Tam White. Ah the Blues years.

Currently playing one of the truly iconic Blues Albums - Out of Our Heads, UK. Absolutely Brilliant. ‘Oh Baby. (We Got A Good Thing Going).’

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John D

The album that Peter mentioned is selling "used" on Amazon.ca for $36.00.

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brown eyed girl

Last 4
Natalie Merchant...Where I Go...I appreciated her more when she went solo. When I saw her with 10,000 Maniacs music didn't resonate with me except for one song...Trouble Me
Nicki Minaj...Last Chance
Nina Simone...Sinnerman...First time I heard her music was at partner's loft.
Norah Jones...Turn Me On

Levon Helm, The Band, at home, Los Angeles 1975 by Barry Schultz

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Dag B.

Subject: Dutch Television Music & Interview (Pittsburgh 1970)

Looks like the video of the original broadcast is lost but I see there's audio of it listed in the Tape Archive at this site. Does anyone have it? I found Robbie's interview from a German broadcast but it has a translating voice-over. I'd like to get the original audio and sync it up with the video...

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John D

Peter V thanks for the second time in the last month for a tip of what appears to be a great music book.

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Peter V

Those British guys want to play the blues so bad, and they do …

Sonny Boy Williamson as quoted in The Last Waltz. Who the guys were was argued for years, as both The Animals and the Yardbirds made live albums with Sonny Boy in England. Then Paul Jones mentioned Manfred Mann backing Sonny Boy on a live TV show and getting into an argument. That made three contenders until …

I checked out the smaller branch of my local independent store today to see if they had any different Record Store Day stuff left. Yes! Sonny Boy Williamson’s last ever recording, done in London in 1965. It was on the iconic Marmalade label (Brian Auger, Blossom Toes) and was called “Don’t Send Me No Flowers.” If you could find one, it was rated at £80, but I think that’s under-estimating it. He recorded with the Brian Auger trio (Micky Waller on drums) plus Jimmy Page on guitar and Alan Skidmore and Joe Harriot on saxes. Anyway, 1000 numbered copies are released on the ‘Reel” label for Record Store Day. I have it in my trembling hand. That will be this afternoon’s listening.

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Bill M

As for the Plant show, while I'm sure the early-May operation will work out well, just in case you might prepare to call out for "Escalator" rather than "Stairway".

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brown eyed girl

Canadian Music Week
To Present
ROBBIE ROBERTSON
With Lifetime Achievement Award
At The Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards
May 9, 2019

Last 14
Macy Gray...She Ain't Right For You
Madonna...Secret (Club Mix)
Mamas and The Papas featuring...Cass Elliott and Michelle Phillips
Mariah Carey...We Belong Together
Marianne Faithfull...Why'd Ya Do It...The ultimate song about jealousy and infidelity...Live Blazing Away version with Garth Hudson
Mary Chapin Carpenter...Shut Up and Kiss Me
Mary Margaret O'Hara...Out Of The Blue
Mavis Staples...991/2
Mazzy Star..Fade Into You
Melanie Martinez...Too Close cover by Alex Claire (live The Voice)
Michelle Chamuel...Grenade cover by Bruno Mars (live The Voice)
Michelle Shocked...Anchorage
Molly Johnson...Ooh Child/Redemption Song
Monica...Why I Love You So Much

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Todd

Hi Haso, Yes, I recall seeing that performance of Ophelia back a while ago. It’s a good one, and I remember being excited that they were finally doing one from The Band! I like a lot of those Tip of the Hat things that they do..I’ve also seen that PFC version of Come on in my Kitchen which is really well done. Pretty cool that Sebastian & Robbie are aware of them too. I wonder how long they’ve known about them. The first time I saw Larkin Poe, was on PBS, backing Conor Oberst at a House of Blues show in Boston; then I started searching around YouTube for more material from them. I would say they were fairly unknown to me until a couple of years ago, and I try to pay attention.

Who knows, maybe Robbie or Sebastian saw some of the exchanges that we were posting about them here. The only high profile exposure gig they had that I was aware of previously, was an opening slot for Elvis Costello and an appearance on the New Basement Tapes project. But I don’t know what Robbie’s involvement may have been (if anything) on the New Basement Tapes.

Sounds like the Love Rocks project serves a pretty good cause. Hopefully will continue as a annual or more frequent event.

Speaking of drummers, I was crossing the street in Hell’s Kitchen in NYC yesterday, and a fellow passed me going the opposite direction that looked a lot like Steve Gadd. I suppose if he's not on tour, it's possible it could have been him.

Loosely tying together another connection having to do with drummers, Robert Plant, and Amy Helm, The drummer on her recent album that was mentioned the other day is Jay Bellerose. Jay played on the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss ‘Raising Sand’ album from some years ago. I feel like he added a lot to the feel of that album, just as with Amy’s. I saw him play with Amy in Fairfield CT a year or so ago, and she was pretty excited to have him sitting in with her that night, and she said what a special drummer he was. His wife, Jennifer Condos, also played bass on Amy’s album, as well as appearing in an all women group that Amy put together for a nice series of shows called “Skylark”.

Peter V. Didn’t get to any record stores yesterday. Although I was in Manhattan, by the time we saw a matinee, went to a museum, and had something for dinner, it was time to head home. Enjoyed hearing about your finds too. Especially the Dylan one. I’d assume that one probably sold out.

Jan H, Great photo link to The Band’s first concert at Wonderland! Nice shot of Richard on the drums, and a cool motion blur photo of Rick on bass.

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jh

«50 years later: Seattle photographer releases never-before-seen photos of The Band's first show» (thanks to Dag B. for posting the link on Facebook)

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Peter V

Ringo revolutionized rock drumming by eschewing the chopsticks grip which people like Shadow’s drummer Tony Meehan had inherited from big band players like Gene Krupa, in favour of holding both sticks like hammers , the better to make an impression on the customers at the back of a crowded dance hall. But when he got to the studio Ringo proved to have a lot more subtlety than anyone suspected.

Again that had its basis in his physical make up. He was born left-handed but his grandmother was superstitious and wouldn’t allow him to use his left hand. Therefore he learned to play on a right-handed kit but always had to begin his fills with the left hand. This is why no other drummer can imitate what he does on Ticket to Ride from Help, or Come Together from Abbey Road. In the time it took him to get from one area of the kit to another he would create pauses which were every bit as much part of his style as the times when his sticks were coming into contact with the skins.

David Hepworth from ‘It’s All About the Drummer” in “Nothing Is Real.”

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brown eyed girl

Last 5
Lady Gaga...Perfect Illusion
Libby Titus...Kansas City (K.C. Lovin')
Linda Ronstadt...Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
Lone Justice featuring Maria McKee...Shelter
Victoria Williams and Louuu...Crazy Mary

I don't have many LPs as I no longer have a record player. All my recordings were given to me when I worked at a music store when I was a student. The other ones were given to me from my partner who found most of The Band records and a couple of Dylan recordings from a used music shop. Here are some of of my special records.

Ricci Martin (Dean Martin's youngest son)...Beached...Produced by Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche...Always used to watch the Dean Martin show weekly.
Mink DeVille...Cabretta
Genya Raven...Urban Desire...Really enjoyed seeing her at The Rivoli...one song with Louuu...Aye Co'Lorado
Toronto's Rough Trade with Michael Fanfara...Recorded From The Studio Directly Onto The Master Disc
Tears Are Not Enough...including Richard Manuel
Cat Stevens...Tea For The Tillerman...Audiophile
Tony Bird from Malawi...Really enjoyed his show at Hotel Isabella
Joni Mitchell...Court and Spark...Nautilus Half-Speed Mastered Series

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Peter V

Who else did Record Store Day? Some of it is disconcerting - prices are even higher this year. In the "Sale" box at the side of the shop I noticed The Nazz rare double album I bought last year. Price reduced from £42 to £14. Not a good recommendation for paying this year's prices. So I bought …

Bob Dylan- Blood On The Tracks, replica of the Test Pressing acetate. The one of the alternate versions presented in the correct order which he did NOT include in the box set recently, thoiugh you could have assembled it. Bastard.

Otis Redding & Booker T & the MGs - Live at Monterey. I used to have the old two sided Hendrix / Redding LP years ago, but it went. Always one of the candidates for Best Live Album. Nice to add Booker T's intro set before Otis joined them on stage.

Max Richter, La Prima Linea - I'm working my way through Max Richter soundtracks. This was the only "essential" one on my Record Store Day list. They only had one copy too. I listen to Max Richter for some time most days now.

The Rolling Stones: She's A Rainbow 10" single

Morning Dew at the BBC - a 45 single with two BBC Radio versions of the song played on air in 1967: Procul Harum on one side, The Move on the other.

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haso

Subject: the Poe

Todd: have you caught Megan & Rebecca's Ophelia they do as part of their tip-of-the-hat series? It's just the 2 of them, in like their study or something, recording on a computer. If memory serves, they have 40+ tunes in their t-o-t-h series. Have to agree that that's a helluva backing band (plus P. Shaeffer on keys).

I know Norm is onto Playing for Change; quite recently the L. Poe women did Come on into my Kitchen on the PfC site. Worth a look-see. And in the comments from Mark Johnson, the major domo of PfC: it was Sebastian and RR that put them onto Megan & Rebecca. Fair enough on Love Rocks. Looked like it's a fundraiser deal that has to do w/ feeding people who are underserved by modern American food industries. Didn't know if you were clued into that in more detail.

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Todd

Subject: Friday Wrap Up

It's been a busy week, so this the first chance I've had to pop back in and thank you all for your comments.

Bill M, I’ve seen a couple of clips of Amy Helm and Matt Andersen on YouTube. Never seen Matt live in person, but it seems like that should be a good show. He’s got a pretty powerful voice.

BEG, ‘Wang Dang Doodle’ was one of the first things that really grabbed my attention when I first saw Amy with Levon and the Barnburners at Chicago Blues in NYC. I think it was December 2000. Ive been a (super) fan ever since! Glad you got to see “You’re a Big Girl Now”. I didn’t get to that one, but it seems like it was a nice idea for a show.
The music photographers link that you posted looks pretty good. Will explore that in more detail.

Dunc, You’re welcome. I’ve done some Band pilgrimage stops, but they’ve all been in the Woodstock, NY area. Haven’t been to any of the Canadian locations, but sounds like a good trip. I know that some of the ladies that used to visit here, made a stop at Junior’s Farm (I believe) up in Simcoe some years ago..

Jon L, Yeah, I thought that was a fun performance too. I’ve also been enjoying Amy’s latest album. I picked up a rose colored vinyl version when I saw her here in Connecticut back in February. All the songs you mentioned are great. I also love the job she does on Allen Toussaint’s ‘Freedom for the Stallion’. She can sing a lot of different styles, but I think she really shines as a Soul singer. She also does a great version of T-Bone Burnett’s ‘River of Love’. Heartbreaking and beautiful, and I love the way the drummer (Jay Belarose) kicks it off with a beat very similar to the beginning of the Ronettes ‘Be My Baby’. I thought it was kind of fitting as the album was recorded in a classic LA studio. Not necessarily the one that Phil Spector used, but close enough to that part of the world, as opposed to NYC or upstate NY. I think being in a different space and place imbued the album with a unique style and sound. Credit also to producer Joe Henry, who has a knack for putting songs together with voices.

Haso, I know next to nothing about the Love Rocks concert. Just happened to stumble across it while looking around to see what the Larkin Poe gals had been up to lately. Pretty good exposure for them I think, and they did a pretty good job on ‘Ophelia’! Nice to have folks like Steve Gadd, Will Lee and Larry Campbell ,among others, in your backing band, even of only for one song!

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brown eyed girl

Subject: GARLAND JEFFREYS :-D

"I'm retiring from performing! After more than fifty years of performing, I’ve decided to hang up my rock and roll shoes. There are a few more shows on the books in the next couple of months but after that it will be only the occasional guest spot or something in that vein. I’m not going to stop writing songs or recording. As you can imagine, it hasn’t been an easy decision since you know how much I love being on stage! But the time is right. I want to thank everyone for coming out to see me over all these years and for being there for me.

Here are the final shows:

May 4: My Father's Place, Roslyn, NY | Band Show
May 9: Double E, Essex Junction, VT | Trio Show | CoBill with STEVE FORBERT!!!!!..Who will be at this show and report back??!!
May 10: City Winery Haymarket Lounge, Boston, MA | Trio Show
June 29: City Winery, New York, NY | All Star Tribute Show with Special Guest Artists | 76th Birthday Celebration...

My gratitude for the times I've had performing around the world is hard to describe. I hope to see you at one of these shows."

LONG LIVE GARLAND JEFFREYS

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haso

Subject: forbert

Angie: thanks for that "early Forbert" link. Enjoyed a couple of those tunes (including "Cellophane News"). Having looked over the post, I definitely remember seeing one of those album covers back in the day. Now I need to call up Willie P. Bennett on the youtube. Only had known his name before from John Starling introducing "White Line" on a Seldom Scene album.

Todd: what do you know about this Love Rocks concert/fundraiser that your Larkin Poe link came out of? Quite a list of guests; including Mavis.

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Jon Lyness

Hi BEG! Just received an email: City Winery promoting what is billed as Garland Jeffreys' final NYC show this June as he retires from touring.

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Jon Lyness

Subject: Amy Helm

Todd, the clip of Amy singing and drumming is a blast.

I've really been enjoying This Too Shall Light, her most recent solo album. She pushes out in some different directions with a more contemporary sound, and I think she has found her voice as an artist in a big way. An amazing cover of Rod Stewart's "Mandolin Wind" is one of the clear highlights. For Band fans, notable tracks include a fun, funked-up cover of "The Stones That I Throw" (the old Hawks tune), and an incredible heartfelt acapella take on "Gloryland", which I believe was the final song they performed together at Levon's final concert in the weeks before he passed. Highly recommended.

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Jon Lyness

Jan, I've been obsessed with that Danko/Busey/Butterfield SNL clip since you posted it. Thought it was gone from the internet forever! Thanks for digging it up again.

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brown eyed girl

Russ and Gary's "The Best Music Ever"
The Toronto Sound Of The 60's

Last 5
K.D. Lang...A Case Of You (Joni Mitchell)
Kate and Anna McGarrigle...Heart Like A Wheel...One of the sadest songs.
Kate Bush...Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Katy Perry...A Part Of Me
Kim Burrell (Gospel...A Change Gonna Come...sung at Whitney Houston's Funeral)

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brown eyed girl

Bob Dylan Through The Years

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brown eyed girl

See link if interested in photography and music.

Hi Bonk. Yes very strange and mysterious as to the fact that photos of the Concord Tavern seem to allude us. The librarian tried to help me but no luck, except I didn't even know about the outside plaque...lol...I am always on the wrong side of the street (just like only seeing one side of a wall on Yonge street and missing The Band on the wall mural) buying my Piri Piri chicken at The Red Rooster.
I did send jh a photo of JT meeting Robbie at Indigo Books. That photo meant a lot to him as when he lost it while moving he asked for it again. I also have one with him and Heather Reisman. I always thought that his father was the only owner of The Concord Tavern, but he told me that he was part-owner. When I met a police officer waiting in line from visiting a friend in Florida; he told me that a lot of shenanigans to put in politely were going on all the time at various clubs in TO.... ;-D

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BONK

Hi Angie. For about two years up until Jerry T passed, I had Mike Filey and Victor Russel, Toronto's head archivist at one time, looking for anything on the Concord. It was not to be and it frustrated Victor and JT to no end. Victor even had a bunch of his archival friends looking and they couldn't find anything. Mike Filey even put it in his column in the Toronto Sun. There's probably a ton of pictures out there but they're in private collections and forgotten. You also have to remember that in the 50's and 60's taking a picture in a bar was taboo and not allowed. Both my father and my uncle used to sling beer in the Concord in the 50's and early 60's and my uncle told me no camera allowed. It's strange, but I asked JT on many occasions why his dad never saved anything from those days and he never, ever answered me.

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Dunc

Thanks, Bill M. Enjoyed it. It took me into watching BARK doing Acadian Driftwood. I bluetoothed it.

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Dunc

Thanks, Bill M. Enjoyed it. It took me into watching BARK doing Acadian Driftwood. I bluetoothed it.

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Bill M

Sorry Dunc. Maybe this one will open, seeing it doesn't appear to be an 'official' version. To tell you the truth, I've been listening to Tom / Lee non-stop since my last post because YouTube just lines up what songs it wants to play and plays them unbid. So I was just listening to his solo version of "Brave"; it's good, but not stunning like his duet with Holly Cole on BaRK's "Kings and Queens".

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Dunc

Thanks, Todd.

Enjoyed website, BEG. I visited a lot of the sites on my Band pilgrimage day. I had done my homework.

Bill, link won’t open this side of the pond. Thanks.

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Bill M

Dunc: "Mohawk", the latest CD by BaRK's Tom Wilson - using his Lee Harvey Osmond alter-ego) in sitting in the car player. I picked it up on the weekend along with a previous one, "Beautiful Scars". The link is to my favourite song from that one, "Hey, Hey, Hey".

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Bill M

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brown eyed girl

Yonge Street: The Heart of Music City
Heritage Toronto

Great site including once again The Band mural on Yonge street but....still no Concord Tavern! :-(

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brown eyed girl

The Friar's Music Micro Museum Officially Opens (someone looks familiar in photo)
Dec 10, 2018
Nick Krewen

Bill M...I always check the Danforth Music Hall board as I walk on by also. The only time I saw a show there was....Louuuu with Jim Carroll reading their poetry! I witnessed Louuu at his most vulnerable as no guitar or persona to hide behind. My brother one year even surprised me with a Christmas gift of Jim's Book Of Nods signed. His Basketball Diaries was made into a film where I think first time I saw Leo DeCaprio.

Will be by the Grand River on the weekend but hope I'm home in time to catch The Toronto Raptors begin their playoff series with......no one knows as yet. Spicey P most improved player this year! Here's hoping he receives the award to honour his relentless hard work and drive to improve daily. His energy is contagious and a joy to witness.

Hi Todd...The few times I've seen Amy Helm in TO, NYC and New Jersey...Still play in my mind when she sang "Wang Dang Doodle" with Levon and band and Dylan's "You're A Big Girl Now". Thanks to the Crabstar I met her. I loved how attentive Amy was especially with the very young fans. You are her superfan Todd!

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Bill M

Mention of Amy Helm reminds me to note that Amy will be opening for the great Matt Andersen here on May 10 and 11. I happened to take a minute to look at the list of upcoming shows when I happened to be walking past the Venue - the Music Hall on the Danforth - yesterday.

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Todd

Subject: Birds of Chicago

Hey JQ, Yeah, pretty cool eh? I'm glad that you liked it. If it wasn't for the Amy Helm connection, I probably wouldn't have heard of them either.
The woman playing the banjo and singing in the City Winery clip is Allison Russell who sings harmony vocals on Amy's album 'This Too Shall Light', which was released last year. I don't know much about them, but will definitely explore further.

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JQ

Thanks very much for that Todd. I’d never heard of them. That’s brilliant songwriting, just sublime in its optimism in the context of today. Plus a reference to John Prine! It’s storytelling verses remind me of Ralph McTell’s Streets of London, although much happier and hopeful.

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Todd

Subject: OK, One more - Larkin Poe - Ophelia

Here's a recent one from Larkin Poe doing 'Ophelia'. This is at Love Rocks NYC at the Beacon Theater. Lots of heavy weights at this gig including Steve Gadd on drums, Will Lee on bass, and you can see Larry Campbell in the background strumming a mandolin.

Good performance, but there was a technical problem with one of the amps in the beginning and you can't hear Megan's lap steel at first. You can see the tech trying to sort it out as the song kicks off, but nothing seems to be working.
Ultimately Megan takes matters into her own hands, pulls the main cord out of her pedals, and plugs directly into an amp. Through all of this she never misses her vocal part, never looses her cool, and they get the volume up just in time for her solo. Was impressive how she maintained her composure in front of a big audience, and never missed a beat. A true professional.

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Todd

Subject: Last One

Here's the official video for 'American Flowers' from Birds of Chicago. Probably better sound quality than the live version I posted below. It has kind of a live recording in a living room type of feel. Nice banjo and acoustic guitar work.

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Todd

Subject: Birds of Chicago - American Flowers

Here's another performance from the Birds of Chicago. This is from City Winery in Chicago...same tour with Amy Helm & Luther Dickinson as the previous clip. I have to say, this kind of blew me away.....the songwriting and performance is sublime. In my opinion, it can live alongside many of the works by folks like Dylan, John Prine, Neil Young etc.

Kind of a somber tune, but ultimately a hopeful message. Really beautiful and maybe helpful to anyone who's grown cynical or weary from all of the shenanigans we are bombarded with anytime you turn on the news these days. Have hope! There is still a lot of goodness in the world.

"I have seen American flowers all across this land
From the banks of the Shenandoah, along the Rio Grande
Do not fear the winter blowing in the hearts of men
I have seen American flowers they will bloom again

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Todd

Subject: Amy Helm - Drumming Singer

Well, we all know what a great singing drummer Levon was, but here's Amy Helm working the snare, singing her heart out and having a blast. Looks like she paid attention along the way!
This is from the "Sisters Of The Strawberry Moon tour with Luther Dickinson & the Birds of Chicago" at City Winery in NYC. Fun stuff.
Tasty solo from Mr. Dickinson too.

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Dunc

Thanks Bill M and BEG. I like Willie P Bennet songs. Last five played

Camera Obscura ‘My Maudlin Career’. I like this Scottish band and John Peel championed them before his death. Sadly the keyboard player died very young.

Women of the World Take Over’ Karine Polwart. A new version of Ivor Cutler’s song by the excellent Karine Polwart. I think you’d like her BEG. She began by teaching philosophy to primary pupils. Have a look on YouTube.

The complete works of Robert Johnson. First time I’d played this for a couple of years.

The Beach Boys ‘Pet Sounds’.

Tom Waits ‘Closing Time’.

Very envious of you guys who attended Last Waltz tributes. Wish I was going tonight.

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Bill M

BEG: That post you linked to was actually by Anthony Carr - in a note to local sax ace Russ Strathdee, who must be pushing 80 but still sounds terrific. I saw him play well at a musical wake for guitarist-engineer George Semkiw last year and amazingly at a similar event for drummer Sonny Milne two years ago. He's in the video at this link, which is the current version of Little Caesar and the Consuls.

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brown eyed girl

"I have never met you personally – but I certainly remember you – and your wonderful playing! It was you – the late Bert Hermiston and Jerry Penfound – who inspired me to “keep trying!” And it was Garth Hudson, The Band’s (keyboards & sax) who actually taught me that run up in “Honky Tonk” that I could never quite get! Of all The Band guys, Garth was the most generous with his time and patience, trying to teach this kid some sax while the bouncer, Nick Fotes (now an agent), turned a blind eye to this snot-nosed under aged pest!"

Toronto Sounds of the Sixties
Russ Strathdee.

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brown eyed girl

Bob Dylan in Hyde Park? He is still an icon but live he sounds like a pub singer with a throat infection

In her latest column examining a burning issue of the week in culture, Lucy Jones reacts to the news that the legendary singer-songwriter will headline British Summer Time 2019

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brown eyed girl

haso...More Steve Forbert. One of my faves is "Cellophane City".

The Early Career of Steve Forbert
Posted on 23 Dec 2018
Frank Moraes

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Bill M

Subject: Crowbar

The story is that Crowbar took it's name from Ronnie Hawkins told them when they gave their notice at a time when things seemed on the uptick - i.e., when John Lennon was chumming around with Hawkins and the group had just opened for Joe Cocker with Mad Dogs and Englishmen in New York City: "Why, you guys could fuck-up a crowbar in 15 seconds flat." Or similar words.

The original lineup had a bunch of Yonge Street veterans - Kelly Jay Fordham, who'd been in Hawkins' orbit since the very early '60s, John 'Johnny Rhythm' Rutter, who'd been ditto, drummer Larry Atamanuik, pianist Richard Bell and singer-harpist Richard 'King Biscuit Boy' Newell - plus guitarists Rheal Lanthier and John Gibbard and bassist Roly Greenway, who'd been playing just as long, but not in Toronto. By the time "Oh What A Feeling" (linked) was recorded, Bell had left for Janis Joplin, Atamanuik for Seatrain and Rutter and Newell to do solo work. Joe Chirowski (ex Mandala) had joined on organ, and the new drummer was a Levon-trained prodigy, Sonnie Bernardi (whose parents had run the coatcheck at the Concord Tavern).

John D was at some of the early recording sessions, so might have stories.

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Lisa

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jh

Subject: Don’t try this at home

Available again after being removed from YouTube: Danko, Busey and Butterfield on SNL back in the day. %-)

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Bill M

We went to the monthly pub night at a local historical building, with entertainment provided by the Hawk’s Nest. This turned out to be three older guys (i.e, in their 60s and 70s). Of course I’d wondered if there was a connection with Ronnie Hawkins’ home base above the Nickelodeon on Yonge Street in the ‘60s, but it wasn’t until about song three when they announced they’d do a Ronnie Hawkins song, which turned out to be “Bluebirds Over The Mountain”, that I was sure there was. Turned out to be tenuous – that the leader had played in no-name groups up and down Yonge in the ‘60s and wanted to honour the memory in some way.

Funny what you learn later in life. Turns out that my wife had always liked “Bluebirds Over The Mountain” but didn’t know until then that it was Ronnie Hawkins’ local hit version that she’d avidly sung along with as a girl.

Last Three:

Crowbar's debut album, "Bad Manors". From '71 but just keeps getting better. Few Canucks of my vintage can remain unmoved by the intro (and the rest of) "Oh What A Feeling", but this time what got me was the twin lead guitars of Rheal Lanthier and John Gibbard on "Murder In The First Degree".

Willie P Bennett's debut album, "Tryin' to Start Out Clean". Dunc, this has the originals of "Driftin' Snow", "White Line", "Don't Blame Your Blues On Me" and "Willie's Diamond Joe".

Time/Life's "Classic Jazz: Jazz Greats". A two disc comp whose highlights for me are Jimmy McGriff's "I've Got A Woman" (which I hear as a had something to do - even if just the undertoeing bass - with Hawkins'/ Hawks' "Who Do You Love", Mingus's "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" (which I hear as a prelim sketch of his phenomenal "Better Get Hit In Yo Soul"), and Sonny Rollins' "I'm An Old Cow Hand".

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Dag B.

Subject: Name that tune

What's this song, performed by Rick Danko in November 1978?

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haso

Subject: kids & Forbert

Not to worry, Angie. Your kids are your students. As my daughter says, "I don't need to have my own, I might have 1500 in a season, that's just fine (she's an outdoor educator). But, yeah I did try to infuse them both w/ good music. I remember right after her older brother was born, a friend in Maine (who I believe had little use for current trends and whose microbiology-professor husband had built his own harpsichord) told us we'd have to start playing just classical music. Fortunately I didn't listen to her; they were both weaned on our 5, the Allbros, Charlie Daniels, Little Feat and their mother's collection of the Beatles, Yes, etc. Only thing they couln't stand (sorry, Norm) was Asleep at the Wheel.

I got to follow up on your S. Forbert suggestions. He was hereabouts awhile ago at a tiny venue, no more than 100 seats crowded into a barn. But I missed it.

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brown eyed girl

STILL ALIVE ON ARRIVAL: STEVE FORBERT, HONORARY PUNK
SHELAGH LITTLE
OCTOBER 1, 2018

"In his new memoir, Big City Cat: My Life in Folk Rock, the groundbreaking singer-songwriter Steve Forbert recounts his early days as part of the downtown NYC scene, where he was equally comfortable playing at Folk City and CBGB. He also talks about his managers, Danny Fields and Linda Stein, and his clashes with the Ramones."

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NorthWestCoaster

Subject: My friend Ragtime

Good to see RAGTIME here again!

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brown eyed girl

...and since Steve Forbert is mentioned in John Simon't article here's Steve whose voice is always comforting. He is an amazing performer as well. I ran into Blind Willie McTell at Hugh's Room when Steve performed. I thanked him for his music helping me deal with grief as his voice is just....so soothing and his lyrics resonate even though he's from the south and I'm from the north. Mr. Maximus took a photo of us. Steve now has a brown eyed seaside girl from Joisey. :-D

Steve Forbert Tries to Leave the Past Behind in 'Tryna Let It Go': Video Premiere
12/20/2018
by Gary Graff

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brown eyed girl

Last 6
Jackie DeShannon...Put A Little Love In Your Heart
Janet Jackson...That's The Way Love Goes
Jann Arden (Canadian) with Jackson Browne...Unloved
Jennifer Lopez...I'm Into You (featuring Lil Wayne)
Jessie B (featuring BoB)...Price Tag...Whenever I was in New Brunswick along the Miramichi with my friends who grew up there; we would work out a in the local gym for the week and this song would always come on.
Jhene Aiko...Bed Peace (featuring Childish Gambino)...First came out I couldn't stop listening to it.

Dunc...Happy Happy National Tartan Day

haso...Always good to see you here. You as well as many others here are so lucky that you can share music with your kids or at least be a part of their musical journey. I wasn't fortunate to have my own children as I met partner later in life....Other partners wanted to have children but.....Instead I shared my music with my students over the years and had a Music Appreciation Club for all grades as well. I ran into one who I taught in grade four and is an adult now. I apologized for the terrible year...it really was for many reasons. Ahhh...He was such a sweetheart as he right away said..."You taught us I Can See Clearly Now!"
Anyway, since you like John Simon I've linked an article I might have posted before.

John Simon on the Band, fixing The Last Waltz and taking credit: Something Else!
Interview 2014

Pat B... :-D

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NorthWestCoaster

Subject: Fleetwood Mac / Brexit

I recommend Fleetwood Mac article on Toppermost. Our eminent Peter V is one of the authors. - I have gone thru my stereotypic memories on UK after this article on these Brexit days: Mary Quant, Mersey beat, Carnaby Street, Fish and chips, Mini Cooper S rally cars with the legendary 'Mini Finns', mini skirts, British blues, Twiggy, Shrimp, . I hope they reinvent themselves!

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haso

Subject: John Simon

Forgot, I read his tome back around Nov or so. Made me want to hear more from him. I find he has a distinctive "voice" and a rather different vantage than most anyone else.

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haso

Subject: tributes, other old comments

Thanks for your ideas on tribute stuff, Angie. And especially the hark-back to seeing Garth in NYC. I notice that you're listening to your cd's the way I've started lately, working through the alphabet. I haven't gotten very far, still in the A's and just got past Neil Young, going the other way. (Probably need to use the $ I've been saving for a pair of Bose headphones to getting a cd player added to my work van; maybe I'd actually listen to some. Sounds like my partner shares w/ yours... not all that interested in listening to music when we are driving somewhere together.)

So don't have 5 right now.

Can report on a local "N. E. Seacoast - The Last Waltz". Not at all bad; a batch of local musicians. It was also good in that it was a fundraiser for an arts collaboration that supplies gear, instruments, art supplies and the like to regional school kids who can't afford it. My partner and adult daughter both enjoyed it almost as much as I did. Highlight at the end was the leader of a local band called "Soggy Po' Boys" doing Shape I'm In, Van and Muddy's tunes from the flick. He really hit on all cylinders.

Let's see: the only pieces from Scorcese that were left out were N. Diamond and Stage Fright. Both of Dylan's parts and Released were in. Also they covered LiaCarny, did Down South as an encore, even Evangeline including an accordian and a 4 part bluegrass version of 4 or 5 verses of Old Time Religion. Plus the woman who did Coyote also added in a tune from Blue and the title track of C&S. And, they even opened the show w/ reciting Ferlinghetti's Loud Prayer. The lead guitar did an excellent job of channeling RR throughout, I would assume not all that easy to do.

We sat in back next to a couple who sang along a lot as well. The "he" of the couple is a local sound engineer, so many of the local musicians knew him. He related doing sound for Ricky Danko at some small venue in Northern NH, approx. Oct.'99.

So, Norm I did survive a bit of snowboarding quite nicely, 3 weeks back. Sunny day w/ stunning views of our Mt. Washington. And, being the Monday after St. Patrick's, lift tix were $17 ea. What's not to like. And since Siri kept playing Latinx music and my daughter got tired of translating the lyrics to me, she changed it to a healthy dose of Little Feat for the last 1/2 of the ride.

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Pat B

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Peter V

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brown eyed girl

The Hawks and The Band Concerts from Kansas City....

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brown eyed girl

When the Band recorded for the Mob Roulette Records and Ronnie Hawkins by Jim Linderman

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brown eyed girl

Before Punk....Videos of Jackie Shane and Gord Lewis and Friends included.

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Bill M

Outside the car, I admit that I'm doing a quick run through a late-'70 album by the Fabulous Inkspots (i.e., the Canadian franchise of the Inkspots name). I keep the album because their guitarist at the time is a friend of mine. The friend aside, all the members are guys from the US who'd toured into Canada in the '50s or '60s and never left. Most would have had vocal-group pedigrees, and cycled through local franchises of other name groups like the Platters. I suspect that similar is true in the UK, and maybe even the US to some degree.

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Peter V

As an example of prime film Americana, I've linked my review of "The Highwaymen" a 2019 Netflix release with Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson and Kathy Bates. It's the Bonnie & Clyde story seen from reverse - the law men. Beautifully filmed 1934 Texas and Oklahoma (though it was actually mostly filmed in Louisiana).

Five.

The Healing Game De Luxe Remaster Van Morrison - CD1, original album plus B-sides and live Full Force Gale, St Dominics Preview

CD2- outakes and other versions, plus sessions with John Lee Hooker & Carl Perkins

CD3 - Live in Montreaux 1997, with a beautifully recorded live Tupelo Honey / Why Must I Explain in that superb 90s medley.

The Best of Nancy Sinatra (special focus on the stuff with Lee Hazelwood)

Love Can Be Found Anywhere (Even in a guitar) - Albert Collins. 1968

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brown eyed girl

Bill M...I always like reading about The Hawks and their matinee shows. When I first met JT via email and later in person; he always talked about this time as he was a teenager and would see The Hawks at The Concord. His father was a part-owner. He always wanted a photo from the inside of the Club. I checked at the library via archives and no such photo where you could really see what the place really looked like. I only found one of the outside.

And here's one for MAGNUS HOIBERG. My first DJ track in my collection. I caught the film last weekend so it had even more meaning.

Solomon...I had no idea that the UK celebrated Mother's Day on a different day than Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand. Thanks as I then was able to send K Viney a message and a photo exemplifying that women who especially have two jobs throughout their lives.....are SUPERWOMEN!

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Bill M

BEG's link is worth opening because some additional paragraphs - notably the second and seventh, make it clear that DCT was actually in the Hawks with our guys, and not just someone who got up to sing during the Saturday matinees. He said pretty much the same thing in his autobiography of a few years ago.

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brown eyed girl

David Clayton-Thomas talks The Hawk, The Band, Neil, Joni, and Toronto in the 60's
Wed, Sep 10, 2014.

"The Hawks, they were the best rock and roll band I've ever heard, today, before or since. When they became The Band and put out that first album, I threw a party and had all my friends come over, saying this is the album of the decade. I guess the spiritual leader was Levon, Robbie was always very business savvy, and the rest of the guys just wanted to party. When you watched the show, you never thought, this guy is the star of the show, and this guy is the sideman. It was very much a band, and I fell in love with them."

"One of the characteristics of those gigs is that you played matinees on Saturdays. And at the afternoon matinees, there would be no liquor served. So all the young musicians could get in, and everybody used to come down on Saturday afternoon and jam with The Hawks. And they were glad to have you because they were glad to get the afternoon off and take a break. So on Saturday afternoons, we all would turn the club over to everybody sitting in. We were all basically exhausted, because we did five shows a night. Forty on, twenty off, all night long. By Saturday, we just wanted a break, so the fact that all the young musicians could get in, it turned into a free-for-all, a jam session every week."

"One of the things that gets missed in the history is that those were tough bars. They were full of steel workers from Hamilton and lumber jacks from Sudbury, and everybody's in town with a week's pay cheque and just looking to party, and if they didn't get laid, have a fight. Ronnie was such a genial, loveable kind of guy, but he was a tough son of a bitch. Nobody messed with him. And you pretty much had to be that way in those days."

Last 5
Emeli Sande...Next To Me
Emmylouuu Harris...Where Will I Be
Etta James...I'd Rather Go Blind
Eurythmics Annie Lennox...You've Placed A Chill In My Heart
Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians...What I Am

Stan L...I also knew about the gig as I receive notices about certain venues but I'm really selective now when it comes to The Band's music. Really glad you enjoyed The Band Tribute. Sometimes it's really hard for me to allow others to sing The Band's music 'cause they're not The Band.....However, once I mentally separate the musicians covering The Band's songs I can get into it too but they have to be really good. The first Tribute I saw was in NYC with Garth Hudson and Buddy Cage....so much fun. Also this show was the first time I was at a Club in NYC on my own. My friend from the Village couldn't attend show as she had to go out of town last minute so left tickets. She left me a note to contact her partner. Well, he couldn't make show either. So I was able to get a refund for one ticket and knowing that I'd see Garth and Buddy at The Bottom Line eased my anxiety of attending on my own. At that time I hadn't even been to a Club in TO on my own either. So...my love of music took over as I wasn't going to miss this show....I joined a friendly looking group of people...and sang along with them thinking at times...hmmm....Is there someone at this table from The Band site 'cause they knew all the words.... I also had to see the venue where Louuu had performed didn't I? : -D So glad I did! Next time was with Blackie and The Rodeo Kings and Garth and Maud Hudson as well as many other musicians at The Glenn Gould Centre. It was at this show where I witnessed Maud Hudson singing Don't Do It from the female perspective....with such sexiness in tone.....so good Maud! I think even my partner was ok with this show...maybe. Lol.

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Ragtime

Subject: Scott Walker's "Overture"

The guy really knew how to create suspense, but I don't hear DSCH in it, apart from the rhytmical motive, but I'd say Bernard "Psycho" Hermann more like.

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Mike Nomad

In Edith Iglauer’s 1988 memoir “Fishing With John,” about commercial fishing along the British Columbia coast during the 1970s, mention is made of a certain Gordon Jones, one of the many fishermen she encountered while working on her husband John Daly’s troller. Wonder if this individual is a relative of Norm’s? Mildly curious.

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Peter V

Try David Hepworth's "A Fabulous Creation" on the story of the LP from 1967-87. Brilliant on The Band, on John Simon … great on everything. One of the best descriptions of being a record fan in the 70s that I've read.

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John D

Thanks to Peter, I am currently reading the Graham Nash Autobiography. It is a hell of a good read. Thank you Peter. You can get up off your knees now. A little knee surgery humour there.

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Peter V

Subject: Music to Shakespeare

That's a great one. Mostly productions put any songs or lyrical sections to modern music. The really great ones at theRoyal Shakespeare Company had music written by Jon Boden and by Laura Marling. They sell CDs of music, but irritatingly not the ones by those two. It's also common to incorporate rock songs … Macbeth recently had Paint it Black and a hilarious In Dreams sung by King Duncan before he went to bed and got murdered.

We were at Shakespeare's Globe last week to see Edward II (the one with the dreadful death by red hot poker) and I asked why they hadn't released the Globe 2017 "Twelfth Night" on DVD yet … most productions are on DVD. I was told that because they'd used so many known rock songs, it was a permissions minefield. Hence it's good to get music written.

My blog (home page linked) has reviews of recent stuff with music … Macbeth is a few posts down.

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Peter V

Subject: Fleetwood Mac Toppermost

Over at the Toppermost website, a three part article on Fleetwood Mac is up. Partone is by Andrew Shields (the Peter Green era 1967-1970), Part two is by David Lewis (The Bob Wech & Others Era 1970-74) and Part 3 (The Buckingham-Nicks era) is by me. It’s one we discussed for years … was it one band or several bands? The answer was the three part article. Do comment over there.

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Bill M

Subject: Figgy Duff

Peter V: Just in case Joe J hasn't already brought this to your attention, the link is to another instance of lyrics by William Shakespeare, music by someone else. In this case it's "Honour, Riches" (from "The Tempest") by Newfoundland's great Figgy Duff, whose leader, Noel Dinn, is credited with music and arrangement. This is from their second LP, from 1983. Wikipedia says their first was done in 1980, but they'd been around for a few years by then, but apparently had to wait until punk kicked off more of a DIY ethic across the music spectrum here and more indie labels appeared. I saw them twice, both times early on - first when I happened to be walking through town in Banff, Alberta in the summer of '78 and they were playing for free outside (which I later learned was called 'busking'). Captivated, I made a point of seeing them in Toronto the following year.

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Bill M

Subject: Figgy Duff

Peter V: Just in case Joe J hasn't already brought this to your attention, the link is to another instance of lyrics by William Shakespeare, music by someone else. In this case it's "Honour, Riches" (from "The Tempest") by Newfoundland's great Figgy Duff, whose leader, Noel Dinn, is credited with music and arrangement. This is from their second LP, from 1983. Wikipedia says their first was done in 1980, but they'd been around for a few years by then, but apparently had to wait until punk kicked off more of a DIY ethic across the music spectrum here and more indie labels appeared. I saw them twice, both times early on - first when I happened to be walking through town in Banff, Alberta in the summer of '78 and they were playing for free outside (which I later learned was called 'busking'). Captivated, I made a point of seeing them in Toronto the following year.

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