The Band Guestbook, May 2019

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Peter V

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand

Robert Plant - Lullaby & The Ceaseless Roar

Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (thanks to Dunc)

The Felice Brothers- Undress

Frank Sinatra - Sinatra & Company

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Glenn

Leon opened for The Band when I saw them at the Greek Theatre (an outdoor venue) in Los Angeles, August 25, 1976. A review in a local newspaper had this to say about Leon: "To get an indication of what his performance is like, picture the entire Greek Theatre catching on fire and a seated Leon continuing his singing totally unaffected by the entire spectacle."

As I recall, this was The Band's final show in Los Angeles, and I don't think they had yet announced the Winterland gig as their final live show.

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Bill M

Peter V: Thanks for the Plant news. Was Grace one of the BeeGees' wives?

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brown eyed girl

:-D

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Peter V

Subject: Saving Grace, with Robert Plant

Review linked of Saving grace, Robert Plant's new band. Appalachian folk, spirituals. Completely mesmerizing. No album yet either.

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Dunc

I actually owned on cassette the album, Downtown Tonight by the Welsh band, Racing Cars. I really enjoyed the track on the album ‘They Shoot Horses Don’t They’ which was inspired by the film. I have just played it on YouTube and still think it is a great song.

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Dunc

In 1969’, I went dancing to bands. I saw the Poets.

I went to the cinema and enjoyed the American films ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’, ‘They Shoot Horses Don’t They’, ‘Midnight Cowboy’ and ‘Easy Rider’.

Very different films from living in a Scottish scheme, whereI really enjoyed working class life.

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Dunc

Very interesting post JQ. Thank you.

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jh

Subject: For Pat B et al.

TNDODD vocal track in MPEG-3 format.

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Wallsend

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Wallsend

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JQ

Jake’s new one - Out of Sight - comes out next week. I think he’s in that space now where the critics have taken notice but he’s still pretty unknown. Amanda Petrusich of The New Yorker gushed out over his last one.

Nick’s new one - Love Starvation - is just now out. It’s a 4 song deal with Los Straightjackets. They’re a good & fun backing band but I do miss the exquisite work, for a 20 year run, he did with Bobby Irwin and Neil Brockbank, both of whom passed away a couple years ago. Another collaborator on those records was the great Geraint Watkins; he’s still with us but isn’t on the new one.

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JQ

He was an interesting gent. I never saw him perform live but a few times in clips; I think he was on SNL a couple times. Whatever song of his I heard I liked but I never got around to buying anything. He had a unique act & stayed in character. Pokey LaFarge might be mining a similar musical vein.

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John D

Leon Redbone has died at the age of 69.

A post on Redbone’s website confirming his death contained enough deadpan humor and obvious fiction that it was almost certainly prepared in advance by the singer himself. “It is with heavy hearts we announce that early this morning, May 30th, 2019, Leon Redbone crossed the delta for that beautiful shore at the age of 127,” it read. “He departed our world with his guitar, his trusty companion Rover, and a simple tip of his hat. He’s interested to see what Blind Blake, Emmett, and Jelly Roll have been up to in his absence, and has plans for a rousing sing along number with Sári Barabás. An eternity of pouring through texts in the Library of Ashurbanipal will be a welcome repose, perhaps followed by a shot or two of whiskey with Lee Morse, and some long overdue discussions with his favorite Uncle, Suppiluliuma I of the Hittites. To his fans, friends, and loving family who have already been missing him so in this realm he says, ‘Oh behave yourselves. Thank you…. and good evening everybody.'”

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Jon Lyness

Subject: Creedence...

Norm, I've been on a huge CCR kick in the last few months. Just finished reading John Fogerty's autobiography. It's amazing that those dozens of classic songs were all bashed out in about 2.5 years... from 'Suzie Q" mid-68 to Tom Fogerty leaving the band beginning of '71. I've been making my way through the classic CCR albums. And I've got a ticket to see John Fogerty live this summer... can't wait.

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Norm

Subject: It's clear as Mud

Been very busy. Took a look in here and looked over some of this 1969 memory. Very surprised at the recollections. I must have been in another world. There was no mention of one of the most important and popular bands of that time./n Creedence Clearwater Revival were and still are attached to Vietnam. Some of the inspiration for John Fogerty's writing is Vietnam. Funny for that time no one (that I noticed) mentioned Bob Dylan at that time, or Gordon Lightfoot. That was a great amount of the music that I played then. Also Savoy Brown, Hendricks. My list was a great difference than what I see here.

I was in a logging camp with my first home, first wife, and first child trying to start a life and make a living...........back to stripping varnish on decks and getting all I can done while the sun shines.

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Fred

A couple of my daughter's friends have married Marines.

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Peter V

We spent two or three years hotly debating that one!

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Peter V

He told me that over a beer and said it was the spookiest event of his life. He said, “That’s also when I knew we were totally infiltrated and totally fuck*d”. He said it happened to every new radio monitor too.

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Rod

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haso

Subject: JQ, Santana

Peter: thanks for clearing about up your take on Carlos. I've never actually seen him and mostly go by the 1st 3 lp's. That and Mrs. haso never gets tired of them. She has a thing for drums, especially congas & timbales... hey maybe that's a good retirement gift when the time comes/lessons etc. That said I certainly know what you (all those w/ similar comments) mean about volume and distortion. Only time I've seen Los Lobos, they were way too high for a 750 to 1,000 capacity club. Have found a couple of u tubes of Carlos worth watching, 1 from 1970 at Tanglewood on Wolfgang's Vault and another one when he got a Kennedy Center honor; even though he doesn't play, his facial expressions (especially during Buddy Guy) are worth the time.

Ditto Lisa, JQ. Interesting selection of stuff you heard then, in SE Asia. I've wondered how accurate that Robin Williams film (Good Morning V) was on music. That comment on who talks brings to mind a friend I worked w/ for about 5 years... radio man/Marine/Purple Heart & a couple of bronze stars. Only time he'd talk was about feeling safer out in the bush than waiting on base for a furlough flight and having to treat what they were charged w/ performing mentally like he was back hunting deer in the State of Maine. (Which I don't say as some backhanded comment about the native population, in any warzone, really.) It also brings to mind a study I read about once where they's surveyed veterans from our Civil War on thru 'Nam and found that something like around 95% of those tending to march in parades afterwards were not folks that had seen any substantial action.

Yeah, Lisa, I too remember saving up for lp's, although here south of the 48th parallel, is it?, FM was just making it around 69-70. In St. Louis, if memory serves, KSHE-FM had a big kite flying contest every summer w/ all-day tunes. Most likely Vanilla Fudge among other sets. Problem was, I don't think I had a driver's license until sometime in the winter of 71 and even then, no way my folks would let me take the family Ford into the city on a hot summer Saturday.

TNTDODD: wouldn't play for me either, Jan. I always thought it was mud, as well. Why not some rehash: any clarity on R. E. Lee? The out-of-work general or a paddlewheeler?

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Lisa

JQ, I'm glad you escaped relatively undamaged. Really interesting what all the different guys liked to listen too. People forget now, that music in the 60s just wasn't available to hear the way it is now. You pretty well were stuck with AM radio, and if you really liked somebody, you saved up and bought the LP.

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Bill M

Re TNTDODD, I hear 'mlud' or 'mlood' - can't decide which.

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Jed

Mud.

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Pat B

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John D

Happens around 2:22 of the song. Unless there's a blip at that very same moment, it still sounds like Blood; on this take anyway. Don't know if this was the final take.

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John D

"I swear by the mud below my feet." That is the line I just copied from the official lyrics of the song. We've all said Joan Baez got it wrong by using the word "blood" instead of "mud." Well I just replayed that line a number of times and it sure sounds like Levon is singing blood instead of mud. Maybe it's the tape; but give that line a listen; since now we have the isolated track.

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Wallsend

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JQ

Over there we had nothing to spend our pay on; particularly if one was under 21 and wasn’t allowed buy beer at the camp’s club. So the pay would lie dormant and grow (my memory is that it was around $120 monthly) until you saved enough to buy sound systems and cameras from Japan by mail order. I had my stuff sent home but some guys set theirs up in the barracks. So the soundtrack of that year improved greatly from Inagoddadavida. Because of a type of informal but rigid segregation the various demos would play their type of records, at volume, all the time. Blacks did soul & Motown. Non southern whites played AOR and 60’s pop. The southern guys played C&W - for some reason those from the south were the largest group. I had never heard those accents before or the redneck life’s ethos. The radio station played AM pop. But no group had very many records so there was a lot of repetition. It helped that if someone new arrived they might have new stuff, mostly in these new fangled cassettes. I think I first heard Music From Big Pink (I had heard The Weight on the radio beforehand), CTA, the first Led Zep, Rotary Connection, Cheap Thrills, Jeff Beck and loads of country stuff: George & Tammy, Porter & Dolly, Buck Owens, Charlie Pride (“he doesn’t sound black!”), etc. I don’t recall anybody having the Brown Album; I did somehow have the Time magazine with them on the cover so I knew about it. I read Catch 22 and Slaughterhouse 5 there and both had a big impact on me.

I still have all my gear but nothing works now, though it did great for nearly 30 years. The public radio station where I volunteer is interested in a couple components. It includes: A Sansui 5000 amp - Pioneer PL 41 turntable - Teac reel-to-reel - Pioneer CS88 speakers and 2 smaller ones and a small portable cassette player. And a Pioneer reverb amp which I can’t recall ever even hooking it up - the word was “you gotta hear Hendrix with this!” Sorry if all this is boring but I’ve been in a Vietnam reverie for awhile now; it’s the 50 year thing I think. I’ve found that people like me who like to talk about it usually weren’t in much serious danger, the guys that saw and did terrible things generally don’t talk at all and then the bullshitters that just make stuff up. My only PTSD-like thing is a recurring nightmare where I get sent back for another year, it’s extremely mild trauma compared to many others.

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Stan L.

Subject: TNTDODD

Amazing! Are any other isolated tracks available?

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jh

TNTDODD vocal track

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Peter V

That 33 / 45 switch was a swine in the 60s. Far worse now when you have to lift off the platter and move a rubber ring. Understandable confusion. I just played the Vanilla Fudge. OK., way over the top, but still a magnificent beast.

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Wallsend

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Wallsend

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Pat B

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Bill M

Re Santana, I saw Carlos and half his band playing with John McLaughlin at Maple Leaf Gardens in '72 and it was totally amazing. Totally.

Re Vanilla Fudge, a musician told me in the late '70s that their arrangement of "You Keep Me Hanging On" was borrowed from the Mandala. So I asked Domenic Troiano, who hesitated and then said, "I hadn't thought about that, but I guess that's right."

Wallsend: I stayed a few days with a second cousin and her chiropractor then-husband in Eleebana in '82. Looking at a map to remind me of the spelling, I noticed that there's a bigger town named Wallsend straight west of Newcastle. When it was time for me go, the cousin-in-law dropped me off where the Pacific and Hunter highways meet. He suggested I'd see more of the real Australia if I took the Hunter, which I did, ending up in Linsmore at the end of the day.

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Jed

Peter-I’ve seen Santana quite often and they were great(twice),too loud and distorted (often) or too reliant on some bad material(rob Thomas years). The most disappointing was in Bethel about 3-4 years ago-we had front row seats and I ended up sitting in the back in an effort to deal with the loud and distorted sound. The best was in the early 90’s when he was very unpopular (the venue was half empty) and he played Radio City.Two nights of pure magic. Although I wish he’d stop talking/lecturing during shows!

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Peter V

Musically in Summer of 1969 … I was doing Ken Dodd twice nightly, so listening to Happiness, Tears and 8 x 10 which could put you off music for life. The “group” on the show were The Grumbleweeds. As ever, the instrumentals for the dance troupe from the house band were the highlight of the evening. On good stuff John Mayall, Jethro Tull, Family, Colosseum, Blodwyn Pig, Hard Meat, Mott The Hoople (very early). Ginger Man (John Wetton’s band) several times just before they split- including their last three shows. They were the most Vanilla Fudge sounding UK band of the era, and their version of You Keep Me Hanging On was even longer than VF’s original.

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Fred

Golden State in 5.

Although an Ontarian...really can't bring myself to cheer for teams from Toronto (the lone exception being the Argos for some unfathomable reason....must be the double blue).

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Fred

The memory from that year which is indelible....one night in July my dad and I went out for ice cream. Our car stopped at a red light. There was a teenage girl standing on the sidewalk waiting to cross. She was wearing a denim jacket and jeans,had long shiny black hair and didn't seem that tall. I was in the backseat, looking out the window and I flashed her a peace sign. She responded in kind with a big smile.

Groovy, man.

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Fred

Started 1969 as a 5 year old and halfway through the year became 6. ; )

Sometime prior to the baseball season I became a member of the Bank of Montreal's Official Rusty Staub Fan Club.

I also discovered baseball cards that spring thanks to my mother, who was a grade 2 teacher so she routinely confiscated students' cards during lessons...to give them back the next morning, but the cards spent the night at our house where I perused them. (I had discovered hockey cards in '68 in the same fashion)

First card, in the first pack I ever bought was Ernie Banks.

I remember liking Up Up and Away a lot at the time.

My first celebrity crush...Goldie Hawn, which lasts to this day. (I'm sooo jealous of Kurt Russell). For some reason (which I still haven't figured out) my parents let me watch Laugh-In (and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, too). I didn't get 90% of the jokes, but Arte Johnson's "Very interesting, but stupid" made me laugh and it is a line I still use to this day. Just ask my wife or daughter. : )

I remember watching The Monkees TV show (I wanted to have sideburns like Mike Nesmith when I got older) and The Banana Splits on Saturday mornings.

I remember being on the Shaffer's lawn (yes, THAT Shaffer family...we lived across the street) one Saturday morning with some other older (by a year or two) kids when a convertible pulled up...the teenage sister of one of the kids I was with, along her boyfriend and her pals. Anyhow her boyfriend asked me who I was, where I lived and "What does your old man do?" To which I replied somewhat miffed "He's not old, he's 44". Which got a chuckle from one of the girls in the car.

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Pat B

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Roger

Subject: Wallsend - email me...

Hey Wallsend - bet you know my mates Mick and Val - let’s take it to email - roger at edents dot uk

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Peter V

I was a fan of Santana, especially Caravanserai. Then I saw them live here and as I have said, they were about the worst major band I ever saw. Stadium amps in a 1750 seat classical hall, sound horribly distorted, weird mix, sounded out of tune. I can go back to the albums though and put that down to drugs and arrogance- them, not me! I’ve read enough people who say they were brilliant to accept it was an aberration or an anomaly.

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haso

Subject: the trialogue

Let's see, 1969. I was leaving pop behind too, or would soon. Trading in Jan & Dean for our 5, Arlo, John Prine, Sonny Boy, B.B., Steppenwolf and Creedence. Summer after freshman year in high school. Headmaster not unlike Wallsend's although not a total right wing guy. But, just like Wall, he'd ask me about once a year, "isn't it about time for a haircut?" No, I never did quote him Neil's freak flag lyrics; but yeah we liked to think we were politically active. I remember writing a poem for the 4 college kids killed at Kent State (Neil's "Ohio). Also remember reading cover-to-cover the official report on the Chicago 7 and all the doings at the Dem's Convention in '68. Trying to do the same now w/ Mueller via the Wash. Post.

I meant to ask, Peter: you were not a fan of Santana.

JQ, you are right on. Many owe more than an apology, but that'd be a start. Is it possible to call J. Bolton a "security" advisor; kinda more an oxymoron. But then again, on a different bent, even as a Mayflower descendant, I happen to think we are all "illegal immigrants". Unless you're American Indian or as you in the North have it, 1st Peoples. Weren't none of us invited here. And Massasoit only suffered the Pilgrims because his own tribe was decimated by white folks diseases and he feared the Narragansetts more than the interlopers from the Atlantic Ocean.

Angie, good on ya Raptors.

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Wallsend

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Roger

Subject: Hey Wallsend

Wallsend - you’re from Newcastle! I know it well. In fact I was looking earlier this evening at pictures of the freighter that ended up on the beach back in 2007(?).

I’m currently in Munich with friends, who both taught at Newcastle Uni.

...and I guess that explains your moniker.l

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Bill M

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Peter V

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Peter V

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Lisa

Funny you should mention 5th Dimension. To refresh my memory I looked up the top songs of 1969. I was surprised at how few I actually remembered, but right up there was 5th Dimension. I always liked their bright, immediate sound, and used to like singing their songs. My then boyfriend's sisters and mine were BFFs back then, and used to speculate endlessly "Just think if they got married!" We were highly romantic figures to these little girls, and once I was doing the dishes with her, singing "Wedding Bell Blues", a song that suited my range, or so I thought, when she looked up at me with large, sympathetic eyes and said, with a world of meaning, "You like that song, don't you?"

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Bill M

The summer of '69 - for me the period between grade 8 (senior public school) and grade 9 (high school), meaning the worrying prospect of returning to being in the youngest, pickonablest cohort around. On the good side, it was the summer that another guy and I were allowed to set off on a week-long canoe trip in Algonquin Park a few hours north of Toronto. Just lakes, bush, mosquitoes and other paddlers. I remember a 1.25-mile portage, followed by 200 yards of paddling and then a half-mile portage. Our canoe's yoke broke the first day, so it took both of us to carry it, then walk back for our gear, then rewalk the portage. I have no idea what our mothers were thinking - I'd never even been in a canoe before, and couldn't swim at all! Because we got back a day early, the canoe trip was followed by my first experience hitchhiking - miles down the highway through the park to a Rangers' station where they could use a bush phone to call our mothers (who were running a Girl Guide camp elsewhere in the park) to come fetch us.

Musically, I was still into top 40, and recall "Aquarius"/"Let The Sun Shine In" by the Fifth Dimension, "Good Old Rock And Roll" by Cat Mother, and "2525" by Zager and Evans. I remember getting tired of all of them.

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Wallsend

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Lisa

I was just wanting to maybe open up an area for us to talk about - sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't! - all memories are welcome, and I'm sure they'll be different for everybody.

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BONK

You're a good person JQ.

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HQ

I wrote my note poorly and didn’t mean to imply Lisa in anything I wrote, or anybody here. I used the word “you” incorrectly altogether. I should have said we or they or some people. Sincere apologies to Lisa for that impression. I do totally stand by the opinions I gave though. As far as the past goes, I believe it’s essential to know history as a means to not repeat mistakes. If we hadn’t swept Vietnam under the carpet we might have been better able to see the folly of the Iraq caper. History is still the best method we have to explain the present and forecast the future.

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BONK

Your post to Lisa JQ was a little harsh. She was answering a post about a time in our lives that was magic to some of us. No doubt you seen some shitty things that didn't tie into how you were brought up. But it's past history and you can't change it.

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JQ

Thanks Lisa, and I didn’t mean you of course; I could tell that. But when we’re thanking vets from Vietnam, or Iraq, or Afghanistan, (or soon enough Iran?) then I believe apologies are in order. And stop saying they’re fighting for our freedom - that’s just a deadly lie. And if you really you want to help our GI’s then stop electing people like Nixon or the preternaturally stupid W Bush or this current twat.

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Lisa

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JQ

Hi Lisa - 50 years ago on Thursday last, as an 18 year old mama’s boy, I stepped off the plane and into Vietnam. I grew up on the beach in SoCal where there is basically no weather, never hot or cold and almost always sunny. When that plane door opened - at 3am! - I was hit with 100 degrees and 100,000,000% humidity - how can it be hot and wet at the same time?? Fuck me I thought, first thing I’m going to find a priest and he’ll get me out of here. I didn’t do that, as if. And 365 days left to go. The soundtrack to those first few days sucked too: all I heard was Inagoddadavida. With the preceding months of training I basically missed all of 1969 and when I got home everything was changed. And please don’t tell me thanks for my service unless there’s an apology included.

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Wallsend

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Lisa

It was rather a golden one for me. I had just moved into a studio apartment with my now husband, semi-scandalizing everybody (living together wasn't that accepted back then, and we were pretty young), so we were in that first heady rush of it just being us, the freedom of it! I was actually attending a business college where I learned to type, but never did fathom shorthand, and he was working just down the block so we would nip away to a little park and have lunch together too. That incredible feeling of being a grown-up!

What were you all doing?

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brown eyed girl

A little music...When I worked at a Record Store and Music Department at a huge store; I got to know via friends someone who actually was there! Wow!!
August 16 - 18, 2019
To celebrate Woodstock’s 50th anniversary, join us for three more days of peace, love and music on screen.

On August 18, 1969, over a million young people descended on Max Yasgur’s farm in Woodstock, New York. What was meant to be a simple concert became the defining event of a generation—and an everlasting symbol of the power of the collective human spirit.

Take a trip back in time with Jimi, Janis, The Dead, David Crosby, The Band, Arlo Guthrie, and the many artists that provided the soundtrack to a festival that proved that, even in the most tumultuous of times, people can tune in, turn on, drop out, and come together for a shared experience not soon to be forgotten.

Sunday August 18, 2019 TLW showing@ 3:30. Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema as well as one of my School's showing of Alice's Restaurant, etc.

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brown eyed girl

Also want to give a huge shout out to Milwaukee Bucks' Malcolm (name after Malcolm X) Brogden for his good looks.....Ah come on, he's a darling.....and he's a pretty good player to boot.....but more importantly for his real passion in life.

Bucks’ Malcolm Brogdon: ‘My life passion is not basketball. It’s helping people.’ The third-year guard discusses his efforts to bring clean water to East Africa

Planning trip to visit cousin in Sydney, Aussieland. Anyone have any fave spots to explore please email or post when time permits. Thank you!

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brown eyed girl

What a Kawahi what a Kawhi what a mighty fine Kawhi Leonard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At the grocery store yesterday all I heard were a lot of people talking about a historic win as was heard on the radio. Our ambassador Drake's enthusiasm......just like mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are regular players, All-Star players and then there are SUPERSTARS...like Kawhi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jed is our biggest US Raptor fan. Thank you! Btw I respect very much and admire that Steph apparently is the peace maker on a team with huge egos and talent. However, when he takes out his mouthguard and dangles it in and outside his mouth when he makes free throws...really bugs me even more than his dagger threes. Anyway, no matter what happens The Raptors and Kawhi have brought much needed joy to Toronto and Canada. Last year it wasn't music that uplifted me....This time it was Kawhi and The Raps. :-D

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Solomon

drummagazine

Happy Birthday Levon !

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Bill M

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Jed

Man,what a game. Who would ever have thought Canada would have home advantage and would be hosting game one of an NBA championship series. As always,Kawhi was otherworldly-a follow up of his missed free throw and the last rebound he got were game savers and clinchers. His magnificent dunk-WOW! And Lowry truly showed himself as a playoff all star-what a tough competitor who proved all the critics wrong. I believe the Warriors will win but who knows given Kawhi and the Raptors great 3-2 zone defense(or alternated with 1-2-2 zone). A telling footnote in the post game interviews-both the Bucks coach and Giannas,neither with any USA HS or college experience,kept calling the “d” a double team-do either really understand the difference between a double team and a zone? Probably have someone on their staff who knows the difference?

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Peter V

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Peter V

Link to the infamous interview with Boris Johnson in 2013.

JQ: I don't know. There is a large section of the Conservative party uniting to "Stop Boris" and he has to get through ballots of MPs until it narrows down to two candidates and a popular vote of the party members (124,000). If he got to the party members vote, he would almost certainly win. Several major figures have said they'll leave the party if he becomes leader. The thing is, no one else stands out among a bunch of bland candidates. For me, Michael Gove is an even nastier piece of work than Boris. They will be focussed on Boris's ability to win popular votes - he became Mayor of London, usually considered a safe Labour job.

The parallels with Trump are extraordinary - Boris just shrugs off any accusations, and indeed congratulated the interviewer afterwards.

At least I guess he doesn't have the "connections" necessary for someone who ran Las Vegas and Atlantic City casinos and did major construction in NYC.

It's past time for both major parties to break up. The far right Brexiteers are wagging the Conservative dog, and the far-left Corbynistas are wagging the Labour dog. Our best hope is moderates leaving both and forming a Centrist alliance.

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Wallsend

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Rod

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JQ

PV - Really??

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John D

Subject: Happy Birthday Levon a day early

Miss you every day Levon. One of the greatest drummers; in my lifetime.

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Bill M

Subject: covers

Dag: Thanks once more! I really like what Evans and Konitz did with the lyrics on their version of TMSO. I'd never heard of the Romans ("He Don't Love You") or Danny and the Islanders ("Hey Boba Lou"), but I figured they must be New Jersey groups who'd seen the Hawks in action. Wrong, wrong, wrong. The Romans were from Arkansas, so may have been tipping their hat in the direction of a local hero, Levon. And Danny (and the Islanders) were/are Finns. Danny's real name is Ilkka - couldn't be our Ilkka, could it?

The link is to another cover of "He Don't Love You", by the Soul Set, though they or their people decided to call it "Pin The Tail On The Donkey", perhaps to differentiate it from the A-side of the 45, a vocal cover of "He Don't Love You (And He'll Break Your Heart)".

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Jon Lyness

Facebook post from Robbie: "solo album is complete. coming this fall." !

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Dag B.

Subject: Cover versions

Click in the upper right corner to switch to list view, click on a title to stream it. Listen to Shepherd's version of 'Whispering Pines' at your own risk.

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brown eyed girl

JED...I am on LOAD MANAGEMENT!!

We haven't won anything yet....but thanks kindly for your support of the RAPTORS!! :-D

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Jed

BEG-the most cohesive defensive unit I’ve ever seen since the Bulls of the 90’s and....Kawhi! He is a beast. He is steady,mature,experienced, and a beautifully gifted athlete like few ever seen. One more win-I’m rooting big time for this team,and for good old Canada to play GS in the finals. Two of the most cerebral teams in the game’s history.

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brown eyed girl

Neal Preston photographs The Band...and many others.

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brown eyed girl

"Like many here at The Lake, I'm not only a Bruce fan, but a music fan who has many loves. One of my other loves is The Band. Now, I've always thought that Bruce must have at some time dug The Band and maybe taken in something from them, as I, personally, have always heard it when I listen to Greetings & WIESS.

I knew that on September 1st, 1971, The Bruce Springsteen (Blues) Band played The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down at Garfield Park in Long Branch. I doubt anyone would play a cover song unless they, at least, quite liked it, so that event has always been the foundation of my thinking that Bruce was 'under the influence', so to speak..

Fast forward to August, 1987, and although he was doing a lot of club appearances that summer, my next piece of evidence is when he paid a visit to Levon, who was playing with his Woodstock All Stars band at The Stone Pony. I can't remember where I read or heard it from, but I believe they'd met several times before this, and considered each other friends. Anyway, Bruce joined in for the last two songs of the evening, which were Up On Cripple Creek and Lucille.

Six years later on May 2nd 2012, at the Prudential Center, Newark, Bruce paid tribute to Levon, who ten years after his original diagnosis, died of throat cancer. ( I'm not saying it didn't happen, I think it did, I've just never heard it from anyone involved with Levon or the wider The Band circle, so we'll just say it's alleged that Bruce offered Levon a rather large cheque to cover costs when he was struggling to find money for medical bills etc a few years into his illness. Levon declined and raised cash with the Midnight Rambles at his barn )

So, there's my evidence, so to speak and now finally to the point :lol: I'll be honest, before reading Clinton Heylin's book ( remember...we were talking 'bout that? Loooong time ago! ) I had never read the Rolling Stone's review of Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J It interested me a great deal that Lester Bangs didn't just hint of any influence of The Band, he just came right out and said it! - "He's Been influenced a lot by The Band"

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Bill M

Thanks for sharing, Takayoshi./n My current listening is "The Name is Ned", a two-CD anthology of recordings by Handsome Ned, a hugely important fixture on Toronto's Queen Street West scene of the '80s. And then he OD'd. See link for a short film bio. On OPM Records, so a labelmate of Garth.

Before that it was a two-fer CD of the second and third Rhinoceros LP's from '69 and '70. Wonderful stuff. To think that at least four of the original guys are still active, 50 years later. Hats of to John Finley, Alan Gerber, Michael Fonfara and Danny Weis. And before that was Mary Margaret O'Hara's must-have "Miss America". Album of the year in the UK when it came out, but basically nothing since beyond a soundtrack, a so-so Christmas thing with a couple of other singers and scattered appearances on stage and tape. Notable among the latter is when she took possession of Robbie's "Out Of The Blue" on Garth's tribute to the music of the Band.

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Takayoshi Hattori

Subject: Rick Danko Nagoya 1978

Jon, thank you for your interest to my comments. In comparison with Rick Danko's shows of later years, his show in 1978 gave me impressions that his performance with his youthful voice was rather rough rock'n'roll style. But it was acceptable enough for me. At first, I was surprised with musical differences between his and The Band's. However, I was so glad that I heard his singing youthfully and strongly.

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Jon Lyness

Subject: Rick Danko Nagoya 1978

Takayoshi, that's fascinating to me that you attended a show on Rick's 1978 tour. I'm not sure we've ever heard from someone that saw Rick solo so early. Can you give us some of your impressions?

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Peter V

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Wallsend

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Pat B

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Takayoshi Hattori

Subject: The Band in 1977-78

Dag B, thank you very much for your labor of love on The Band in 1977-78. I am very interested in the composer's credit information on "Sip The Wine."

In regard with Rick Danko, I would like to provide additional information on his Japan tour 1978.

May 11 & 12, Sunplaza Hall, Tokyo; May 13, Shibuya Kokaido (Shibuya Public Hall), Tokyo; May 15, Kyoto Kaikan (Theatre Kyoto), Kyoto; May 16, Nagoya Shi-Kokaido (Nagoya Civic Assembly Hall), Nagoya; May 17, Kouseinenkin-Kaikan (Employees' Pension Insurance Hall), Osaka.

As I went to his show in Nagoya, I introduce the set list of that show as follows: This Wheel's On Fire / Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever / New Mexico / Sweet Romance / Christmas Must Be Tonight / Once Upon A Time / Great Balls Of Fire / It Makes No Difference / Small Town Talk / Cryin' Heart Blues / When You Awake / Tired Of Waiting / Sick And Tired / What A Town / Sip The Wine / Java Blues / (encore) Stage Fright.

Personnel is Rick Danko (vo, b, g); Terry Danko (acc. g, b, vo on "Great Balls Of Fire"); Michael De Temple (elec. g); Walter Richmond (p); Gerald Peterson (sax, clarinet); Denny Seiwell (ds) and Gregg Thomas (ds). An opening act is Jay Ferguson. Was Rick's show with twin drums rare?

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Dag B.

Subject: Levon Helm - Working In The Coal Mine

1980 B-side, apparently a 'monitor mix'

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Eulalie

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Peter V

Subject: We Move As One

Just to combine two recent posts, the link goes to the incredible Agnetha Falksog singing "We Move As One" which was written by John Wetton and Geoff Downes, and they sing the backing vocals too.

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NorthWestCoaster

Subject: ABBA

You guys post on ABBA just to see if I am awake and sober. Yes, I am awake. - I always remind people of their musical background, no matter what the forum is: schlagers, female jazz singers, traditional Swedish folk music, hootenanny. The Band, why not, but most unlikely.

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Peter V

Subject: Beefheart and Bones

Link to Michael Marra's song about record collections. This is a live piano version (much nicer on the record) but someone has cut it together with pictures of the LPs.

I recall the transaction. John had been in Family, who were on Reprise, and anytime they called in, they were invited to pick up any Warner-Reprise albums they wanted, hence the Grateful Dead. The conversation started with mention of our multiple copies of MFBP, which we wanted to swap one of for "Recall The Beginning- A Journey From Eden" by Steve Miller. John declined to swap that, but offered the Grateful Dead (he'd lost his copy of MFBP to a friend he shared a flat with). He wanted us to know he hadn't bought them. He told me he'd seen the GD live, and they spent 20 minutes tuning, then started playing under the misapprehension that they had succeeded.

Decades later we were driving somewhere and I'd put a copy of "Recall The Beginning" on the CD player. I'd eventually found a German LP, and transferred it to CDR. He listened intently, not having heard it in years, and said "I was right not to swap that."

It finally came out on CD last year. Easily the best Steve Miler album (though Steve Miller hated it)and one of the albums I'd keep if I had to reduce my collection to the Best 100.

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Dunc

John absolutely got the bargain.

When Michael Marra sang his song related to separating couples splitting the record collection, there was always a knowing round of applause from certain members of the audience.

Thanks Dag.

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Peter V

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Peter V

NO, Bill, no, and thrice times no! Surely no collector places LPs flat on top of each other in a box. LPs should always be stored vertically, not horizontally. A wine box, taking 12 bottles, is about 13 inches wide. Therefore to transport LPs, take one wine box, drink all twelve bottles, then stack the LPs vertically in the box with Amazing Rhythm Aces facing you and working back to Warren Zevon at the far end. Or depending on your taste, ABBA to ZZ Top. Or to be really clever, do it reverse with Zevon at the front, so when you take them out A is to the left Z to the right. Of course this is an example. In practice I would have 30 wine boxes and box one wouldn’t get as far as The Band.

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Bill M

I guess it's a horrible sexist part of me that immediately thinks that the woman has absconded with the guy's record collection. BEG aside, I can't imagine a woman hanging on to MFBP.

Full marks for realism in another area, though. Most of us who keep a shelfful of favourite LPs A to Z would, when charged with moving them, would start at the left end, grab a handful and put them into a box and then continue rightward, meaning the final handful - XTC, Neil Young and Frank Zappa - would be at the top of the box. When we get to the new place, we'd start at the top of the box and shift the handfuls back onto the shelf, again starting at the left. So XTC, Young and Zappa would be at the left end, and ABBA, Bananarama and Band would be at the right end. Just like the video. As I said, full marks to the film crew.

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Rod

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Dave H

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Peter V

Blink and you miss it, but it's there. A tribute to their taste. ABBA reminds me that it's Eurovision Song Contest tonight.

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Dag B.

Subject: The Band in 1977-78

Contents (remember the document is searchable): Islands, Rick, Levon, Medicine Hat music, Oingo Boingo, Live at the Roxy, sideman sessions, Anthology, The Last Waltz film & record and more.

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Wallsend

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Pat B

ABBA and The Band?? Check the video at :58.

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Rod

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Peter V

Subject: Performance

My 60s Film Retrospective series continues with Nicholas Roeg’s 1970 film Performance, (FOLLOW LINK) starring Mick Jagger, James Fox and Anita Pallenberg. It was filmed in 1968, but the studio was so shocked that its release was delayed two years. Launched to horrendous reviews, it became a cult classic and one of the most influential films from its era. The 60s series will be continuing rapidly with additions while I recuperate from a knee operation so can’t do theatre or current film!

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Bill M

Pat B: A gold star for you!

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Miles

I have a sneaking suspicion that the new documentary will be The Last Waltz version 2. Robbie will be the star, and the other guys were just along for the ride. I hope I'm wrong. Thoughts anyone?

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Pat B

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Bill M

Subject: Romie-0 and Julie-8

Thanks Dag! Amazing that this has been hiding in plain sight for so long. Note John Hall among the Woodstock musicians involved. Trish Cullen was in a bunch of Toronto groups, including Rough Trade, whose co-leader, Carol Pope, may well be a sister of writer Elaine. Both Carol and then-life and -music partner Kevan Staples had been Nelvana illustrators before this, and their early rhythm section was also drawn from Nelvana. And those two guys were still at Nelvana when I used to drop in there to see a good friend of mine who worked with them at the time. I will reach out to him to see what he has to say. Ironically, the last time I saw him was at a TLW tribute show.

Pat B: You, and you alone, might appreciate the fact that the drummer just mentioned (Bob Ablack) had been in the group that became Merryweather - along with Neil Merryweather, Ed Roth, Richard Bell et al.

Anyway, that's clearly Richard singing - note the pronunciation of 'car' and 'away' if nothing else.

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Lisa

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Dag B.

Entry from "The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons"

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Dag B.

A couple of newspaper cuttings from 1979.

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Pat B

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Lisa

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Pat B

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Dag B.

Subject: Romie-0 and Julie-8 (1979)

"A modern musical-fantasy interpretation of one of the world's greatest love stories. Romie-0 and Julie-8 are two robots who fall in love, despite the fact that they were built by two competing manufacturers who spare no effort in keeping the two robots apart. This animated program features the original songs and voice of music star John Sebastian as well as Richard Manuel, formerly of The Band, who performs a comic song celebrating the glory of scrap junk."

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Jed

Kawhi is going to need an awful lot of help to beat the Bucks. Particularly defensively. And Siakem,Lowry, Gasol and others must be aggressive on offense. Kawhi will face a much tougher team defense in the conference finals and it should be a great series. I’m rooting hard for Toronto. But I believe the Bucks may have a slight edge.

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Peter V

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Dag B.

Subject: Hungarian phrasebook

Looks like Garth appeared on these albums by hungarian musician Gábor Presser: Csak dalok (1994) and Kis történetek (1996) and Angyalok És Emberek (2000)

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Pat B

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Peter V

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John D

I've had the pleasure to spend time with Garth; over the years; both professionally and personally. Spent a wonderful all night session; in his music room; with both he and Maud.

He is incredibly quiet; almost to the point of being shy; but I get the feeling his mind is always working to deliver great moments. My opinion. I was at at a press party at the Inn On The Park once and ended up sitting alone with Garth. I said to him that it had been quite a journey for The Band; up to that point.

He got a little smile and said to me..."John, it's a long way; from Port Dover to Malibu." I've found that when Garth has something to say he will say it. Otherwise.....

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Peter V

Subject: Film review

Back to my 1960s films revisited series. The Rise & Rise of Michael Rimmer (FOLLOW LINK TO REVIEW) was filmed in 1969, and released in 1970. It stars Peter Cook as the manipulative political pollster who takes over the country and decides to govern by referendum. Yes, that’s why it’s being quoted fifty years later. The comedy is laden with the cream of British comic actors … John Cleese, Arthur Lowe and many others. The review (obviously) mentions Brexit.

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Wallsend

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Peter V

The military war ended in 1648, but many date the end of the English Civil War with the execution of King Charles I in 1649.

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Bill M

A headline in today's Guardian points out that it's been the longest UK parliamentary session "since the civil war". Note that they don't mean the US civil war that ended in 1865, they mean the UK civil war that ended in 1653.

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haso

Subject: big pink

Been out and about lately, so I apologize for late catching up. I'd agree, I'd like more to go to Shangri-La than the house by Overlook Mtn. No one else seemed to mention the Rolling Stone you-tube where Garth goes back to visit, maybe 3 or 4 years ago. I always loved the way he just sat down at the upright in the Basement and started doodling around. Kind of classic Garth.

Doesn't Rick Rubin own and run S-La as a recording studio still? Always wondered how it made out w/ last year's fires above Zuma Beach... my wife's late uncle's house in the same neighborhood went completely poof.

PSB: good to see your contribution. Is your health holding out ok?

Well, Angie, now that our Celtics imploded, I believe I'm due to root for your Aves (I prefer to think of them as like buteos, accipters or other falconiformes, not extinct reptiles).

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Bill M

Peter V, John D: I don't know "Move Over Darling". Is is in any way musically similar to the "Move over honey" line in "One After 909"?

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Bill M

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Pat B

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John D

Peter, Move Over Darling also my favorite. Peter, have you ever heard this of Doris Day? It’s said that Paul McCartney was a very big fan and for awhile was visiting Ms. Day on her birthday yearly; in Carmel Valley.

My wife and I saw her home in 2012. A very long driveway from the highway. It’s a very well kept secret by the locals; but a fellow at one of the wineries told us; since we promised only to look from the road and NOT to go down the driveway.

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Peter V

Subject: Doris Day RIP

Link is to "Move Over Darling" perhaps my favourite of hers.

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Eulalie

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Bill M

Subject: que sera, sera

Doris Day, RIP. I always liked "Que Sera, Sera" anyway, but I especially liked its appearance at the start of the '90s Australian film "The Last Days of Chez Nous", which ended with the brilliant, dissolute Sly and the Family Stone version of the same song.

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brown eyed girl

... and here once again is the post that was missed in the What's New about Robbie's night when he received Canadian Lifetime Achievement Award at Canadian Music Week.

DD: "But you're a famous guitar prodigy; they said by the time you were 16?

RR: I was on a mission, and so at some point I did say to myself, and this was probably when I was 13 years old, I did say, I'm getting as good at this as any of these guys and I'm just 13. Can you imagine when I'm 14, you know. So by then I could see a light, I could see something I was drawn to.

Have a great week and long Victoria Day weekend. So looking forward to reflecting on The Band and Kawhi by the lake! :-D

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brown eyed girl

For those who missed previous post on Robbie's CTV interview. Check link again and look under Browse Videos and you will find Robbie. I know Robbie gets all the accolades....doesn't seem fair when The Band were an ensemble. I think Robbie gets all the accolades because he didn't detest the "suits" as Levon did. I have the book on The Band and Dylan in '74...Apparently it may have been the time when Robbie became so enamoured with Hollyweird....Anyways, Robbie was approached for the Doc....He's a magnet for magical things happening to him. Apologies also for another previous post on the night Robbie received his latest award......I pasted One Were Brothers instead of Once Were Brothers. I have to admit that Robbie's voice in the latest interview trouble me....Hope he's really healthy and that I'm just being overly concerned for nothing.

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brown eyed girl

JED...Mother's Day is not always easy...If my mom was still here she would have also been watching the game as she watched all the basketball games by the Grand River as well as football, baseball, hockey....Last night I literally screeeeeamed for many seconds at the top of my lungs!!! First time I heard Kawhi talk about God is good and that everything happens for a reason. I sure feeeeel blessed to witness his brilliance...I watched every single game this season while partner watched on another floor something else...lol. Congrats also to Philly. The addition of Jimmy Buckets who has always been a real threat no matter what team he plays on and professional sharp shooter Reddick and Harris along with Joel....many threats. I wasn't worried about Simmons. Kawhi is sooooo special even among superstars....because he can play offence......and defence. I am going to continue to enjoy his game for as long as he's a Raptor...His second child was born in the same hospital where JT worked btw.... :-D

Even just as important to the win....MARC GASOL....What a man, what a man, what a mighty fine man....from Barcelona on the Raps!!!! He takes the time to console Embiid after the game....wow. Joel after the game made sure he told the world not what Marc shared with him but how much RESPECT he had for Marc.

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Jed

Wow-a masterful game. Not the prettiest or the most efficient but a grind it out game 7 the way it’s supposed to be. What can be said about Kawhi? I always felt that LeBron,Durant and Kawhi were the three best in the game. Some will argue-Greek freak-well now we get to see the next series-potentially epic!

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Pat B

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Eulalie

I can't help it. I been hearing Levon's laughter since I read about this trip down Robbie Lane the other day. Maybe RR's on the coke again.

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brown eyed girl

Robbie Robertson Explains Why New The Band Documentary Won't Be a Puff Piece
5/10/2019
Karen Bliss

"Of the documentary, he told Billboard: "It's highly influenced by Testimony and, and as the filmmakers have gone deeper and deeper into that world, it has taken in more things than just what I was talking about in telling this story. The people that are working on it are fantastic. I'm honored to have Imagine Entertainment behind this. This project originated in Canada and the filmmakers were the ones that came to me and said, 'We have to make this documentary.'"

Robertson is composing music for Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film Lifetime Award Honoree Robbie Robertson On His Career-Long Quest To 'Do Something Magical' The doc also includes rare archival footage and interviews with many of Robertson's pals, including Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Martin Scorsese, Taj Mahal, Peter Gabriel, David Geffen and Ronnie Hawkins.

"I have no idea what they said about me," said Robertson. "The filmmakers aren't going, 'We're trying to see if we can get a bunch of famous people in this.' They're really focused on the filmmaking and telling a story that we haven't heard before. I'm looking forward to seeing what they're doing. There's great people involved in it."

Go Denver Nuggets with Kitchener, Ontario's Jamal Murray!

GO RAPTORS!!!!
Thanks for the great ride this year and hope today's not the last time Kawhi plays in Toronto as a Raptor."

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brown eyed girl

Happy Happy Mother's Day!

Mama Liked The Roses...Elvis Presley

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Pat B

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Dag B.

Subject: Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen has performed live with Robbie, Rick and Levon (see link). He's done "The Weight" & "Up On Cripple Creek" in concert and did "Rag Mama Rag" 13 times in 2006, it says here.

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Dave H

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brown eyed girl

'One Were Brothers' doc showcases life of Robbie Robertson
CTV News video
May 10/19

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Brothers of Band

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Bill M

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brown eyed girl

Robbie Robertson gets CMW's Lifetime Achievement Award, and he thinks 'it's quite wonderful'

Robbie Robertson is the recipient of the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award in the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame from Canadian Music Week (CMW). Robertson says he's just finished a new album, which will be out in September. (Paul Borkwood/CBC)

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Peter V

Bill, for the full TWOF aesthetic experience you need a British copy with a Marmalade label and sleeve. Easily the most common Marrmalade single. There”ll be one on the discography here. Mine, I expect. Also one on my Big Pink 50th article on my site. If I see one in a store I’ll pick one up. Actually seeing one is disappointing because every other Marmalade single is rare and valuable. I see the sleeve and hope it’s BlossomToes.

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Bill M

Wallsend: Thinking of you and your catheter there, of course.

Pat B: I knew that Frey played with Seger in the olden days, it hadn't occurred to me that he'd be on that record. But I can hear it. But that drumming - why does it sound so unusual when I can sing more of than song than just about anything else I own?

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PSB

Subject: New Robbie documentary on The Band

Lots of info in the link. Looks like fun.

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Wallsend

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Pat B

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Bill M

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Jon Lyness

Peter, best of luck with recovery.

Since we often talk here about what we're listening to: in the last month or two I've really been connecting with John Fogerty's Creedence Clearwater Revival and solo work. I've always liked the big CCR hits, but have been taking a deeper dive and just finished reading his autobiography. Fans of The Band would recognize his somewhat Robbie-like dynamic in CCR--as he increasingly wrote and arranged every song for every album, the rest of the group started to tune out and resentment simmered. A lot of things make his story unique though; it's a fascinating read. He does mention The Band in a playful aside: he was jealous that they got on the cover of Time Magazine in 1970--and pissed that they covered Long Black Veil before he could get to it. ;)

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Peter V

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Peter v

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Wallsend

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Dag B.

Oh wait, I was looking at the track list for the 10-cd set, not the 38-cd set.

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Dave H

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Dag B.

Subject: Woodstock

Looks like the set will only include 5 of the 11 songs performed by the Band...

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Peter V

Thanks PSB. Let’s hope they do The Band separately eventually. I don’t think I can take 38 discs of Ten Years After and Santana

Posting from hospital. Had the second knee op earlier today. Lots of wires and tubes attached so excuse any strange comments as painkillers hit in!

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PSB

Subject: The Band's Woodstock set to be released

The Band's set at the original Woodstock Festival will be released as part of a massive 38 disc set.

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Dunc

Thanks very much BEG. Just played your two recent links. Great stuff. Playing the links through my speakers brings the voices of Garth and Robbie alive. Last five played.

Storyville by Robbie Robertson. That’s a coincidence because it must be quite a while since I played it. Really love the album and really enjoy Robbie’s collaboration with Paul Buchanan on ‘Breaking the Rules’.

Mid Air By Paul Buchanan. I think Paul Buchanan is very talented. Hats was recently voted Scotland’s best album by a national newspaper.

McCartney - a recent buy. I am collecting and really enjoying the remastered McCartney and Wings albums. I had quite a few of them on cassette!! Unsure of how far I’ll go.

My Maudlin Career by Camera Obscura. Really enjoy this album and relates to indie pop and the era when Scotland was the centre of the British pop industry. John Peel championed them and they were doing very well then sadly their piano and organ player, Carey Lander, lost her life to cancer and they stopped playing. They have recently reformed and are going to play gigs. Try the song French Navy, BEG.

Ode to Bobbie Gentry The Capitol Years. Peter the V got me into Bobbie Gentry’s music. Hope you are well, Peter.

Thanks again, BEG.

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brown eyed girl

Peter V...Uhhhh....First sister morphine has to kick in of course. :-D

"EPISODE 98 – ROBBIE ROBERTSON Following the publication of his fascinating memoir Testimony, Robbie Robertson joins Simon and Brian to talk about his songwriting process across a range of projects, from his early work with Ronnie Hawkins, to classic songs for The Band like ‘The Weight’, ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ and ‘Ophelia’. Robbie also describes creative collaborations with Martin Scorsese and Eric Clapton (‘It’s In The Way That You Use It’) and details the processes behind solo tracks like ‘Somewhere Down the Crazy River’ and ‘This is Where I Get Off’."

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brown eyed girl

Feb 16, 2019
The Band's Garth Hudson sat down to chat music, touring, songwriting and more.

Peter V...Hope everything goes well tomorrow. Arnica today and every two hours tomorrow....Naturopath brown eyed girl. ;-D

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Peter V

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Rod

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Lisa

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Pat B

Check out the reviews. A lot of happy customers.

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Wallsend

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Wallsend

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Mike Nomad

Hmmm, now. The bulldog in Lady and the Tramp . . . . Geez, what the hell wuz his name . . . . Gus? Jake? Could it have been Butch?

Why not just draw him a picture and be done with it?

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Pat B

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Peter V

Starts out with Wallsend mentioning a potential trip to a conference there. Then people remembered a person from there who used to get extremely vituperative and aggressive about stuff. He was named after the bulldog in Lady & The Tramp.

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John D

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John D

Maybe it's a need to know basis; but could someone explain the New Paltz thread. It seems to start out of nowhere and then continues. I tried to go back and find out where it started. Can't find it. It seems to start with NorthWestCoaster. If this is a private thread I understand; but I find it confusing. Just sayin'.

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Peter V

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JQ

I think I might have actually been threatened once; can’t recall why though. I don’t think it took much to rile the bollix.

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Pat B

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Peter V

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Pat B

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Wallsend

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Wallsend

I thought about posting something on similar lines but I thought it best to let sleeping dogs lie.

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Peter V

Elsewhere P.P. Arnold EP, live in 1967 and 1968.

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NorthWestCoaster

Subject: Wallsend and New Paltz

Thanks for supporting me for many years ago. A Finn never forgets it. The Band profile from New Paltz was furious because I called him for a politician. By all means go to New Paltz and give my regards... Give regards from Norbert, too! (hehe...)

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Solomon

Barney talks about The Band and Steely Dan from October 2018. Book Stew: Episode 61 at YouTube.

Thanks Jan! Looking forward to that one later.

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jh

Subject: The Band live in Texas, 1974

Decent audience recording, published on YouTube a couple of days ago.

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Dunc

Thanks Bill M. Interesting. I think ‘There’s A Ghost In My House’ is a great soul song, wonderfully produced. And somewhere tonight in the UK a group of Northern Soulers will be dancing to it, surely the sign of a great song.

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Bill M

I was early for a meeting so killed time by browsing music magazines in a drug store. The current issue of "Classic Rock" is built around a list and discussion of the 50 greatest rock albums of the 1960s. Nada by our guys - not Big Pink, not Big Brown. Blue Cheer is in there at #17. (I must say that the magazine's taste is otherwise pretty good.)

And one of the glossy British ones that I always confuse with each other has an interesting article on John Lennon's activities on the cusp of Beatles to Plastic Ono. There's a fair bit about the bed-in in Montreal, but nothing that I noticed about the appearance with Clapton, Voorman and White (and Yoko) in Toronto. We found it hard to get over John's appearance here, and were peeing our pants for months, anticipating his promised return for a Peace festival with god knows who in tow. (That was where Ronnie Hawkins entered the picture, I believe, and nobody was better that Hawkins at getting in the local newspapers.)

This anticipated Second Coming inspired at least three worthy rock songs by local artists: "Get Back John" by the Inner City Mission (really the renowned Toronto cast of "Hair"), which made the charts nationally; "Johnny Peace" by the great Nucleus; and "The Prince Of Peace (Is Coming Back)" by Hawkins' recently departed backing group, Crowbar. The latter was written by original (but by then former) Crowbar member John Rutter - the man known as Johnny Rhythm when he fronted Robbie Robertson's old group the Suedes.

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Bill M

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JQ

Hi Bill M - That’s a record I’ve never tired of, especially River Man. Is that a drug song, seems that could have been the case with a few tracks? From what I recall reading pot was ND’s main thing. Loads of speculation through the years about Mr Drake: gay or straight, manic or profoundly sad, hallucinogens or junk, highly intelligent or crazy, etc. In Joe Boyd’s authoritative White Bicycles he could also only offer speculative answers on all that too. He says Linda Thompson once offered herself to him but no go.

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Bill M

Bonk: Thanks. I know Gerry - and was at the first few meetings of that society (in the late '80s), but I'm not on Facebook so haven't kept up. I'm sure Gerry's posted a photo of us all at one of the first meetings; I'm in it but was doing my best to hide behind someone else at the back. If you look you'll see a guy with what looks like a very wide head - because part of it was mine. Of the other two main sparkplugs behind the society, one was the son of Carl Banas, the radio announcer who pretty much single-handedly introduced the great Jamaican ska/reggae pioneer, Jackie Mittoo, to the MoR masses across Canada in the early '70s. Jackie was the co-founder / keyboardist of the super-important Skatalites and also a very busy Studio One sessionman (including the Wailers) in Jamaica before moving to Toronto in '68.

Dunc: If you're a pre-'80 Neil Young completist, you probably know (if not have) his very first 45, "Aurora", that Neil and his band the Squires released in '63. It's totally instrumental but for the producer saying "Aurora" in a big DJ voice at the start. That was a Winnipeg DJ named Bob Bradburn, who turned up at one of the society's meetings.

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BONK

Hey Bill. There's a pretty informative group on Facebook called 'Canadian Records And Artist"s Appreciation Society' Lot's of stuff on Yonge Street bands from the early days including the Hawks. I think John D is a member. It's run by Gerry Miskolczi. Cheers, Carl

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BONK

Hey Bill. There's a pretty informative group on Facebook called 'Canadian Records And Artist"s Appreciation Society' Lot's of stuff on Yonge Street bands from the early days including the Hawks. I think John D is a member. It's run by Gerry Miskolczi. Cheers, Carl

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Bill M

My current listening is Nick Drake's "Five Leaves Left". I gather that it's about his final days as secret agent 005, when he was forced to depart the group hard Labour activists that he'd infiltrated. Leftist lovers left behind.

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John D

Thanks Bill. Randy sent me a bunch of re-issues at the time and I thought it was a part of it.

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Bill M

John D: Randy Bachman deserves credit for digging up and reissuing lots of early Lenny Breau recordings, but I know he had nothing to do with this one. As I believe George Sukornyk says in his notes, he had the tape for decades before deciding to let it see the light of day - and looked around for a respectful label to put it out. That label subsequently reissued another of George's tapes, Lenny and Don Franks and Ian Henstridge - but no Hawks.

Bachman and Breau did go way way back to the early '60s though, with Breau as the teacher / mentor, as Randy always acknowledges. Neil Young was involved too to some degree - this all having taken place in Winnipeg - which is why both Randy and Lenny are acknowledged on the back of the second Buffalo Springfield album.

Dunc: The Hawks and RDT would certainly have known each other, but I doubt there's any recorded evidence. Note the Levonish drumming on Taylor's first 45 (linked). That's Jack Posluns, who Robbie used to watch play bongos in an east end park when he was young. And I believe it's Robbie's buddy Pete Traynor on bass. Certainly it's Traynor with Posluns comprising the rhythm section on the Johnny Rhythm record released in '61.

To bring Neil Young back into the picture, when the Mynah Birds (with Neil and Rick James) were signed to Motown, they were assigned to work with producer R Dean Taylor. R Dean Taylor co-wrote some of the songs the Mynah Birds recorded, though I don't think any of them were written with Neil.

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John D

Thanks to Randy Bachman for the Breau/Hawks connection.

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Dunc

Thanks, Bill. Just recently played the album a couple of times. I once wanted to hear Band members on every track they played. I was once a Garth obsessive, if you remember, and collected Garth on albums by other bands - Willy ClayBand, Four Men and a Dog, but I thinned out collection...had to! Yes that’s the article.

The combination of Amazon music and that twenty quid Bluetooth receiver I bought has opened up a lot of new musical avenues for me.

I know R Dean Taylor’s Greatest Hits and think he’s a good writer. The only Band connection I have with R Dean Taylor is Rick singing ‘I’ll Turn To Stone’ on his ‘Crying Heart Blues album. The song was written by Holland Dozier Holland and R Dean Taylor. I love Rick’s version.

I think Rick is brilliant at soul and used to have a wish that he would bring out a soul album like the brilliant album made by Aaron Neville.

Do you hear of R Dean Taylor around Toronto?

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Bill M

Dunc: Yes indeed, Rick and Levon acquitted themselves quite well on those jazz recordings - who knew! They'd clearly been paying attention when they used their time between sets to catch jazz musicians at other clubs up and down Yonge. You mentioned an article, which I'm guessing is the one at the link. That Breau was forced to or felt he needed to change his name to Martin is a sad reflection on Canadian bigotry of the time. 'Breau' would have been thought of as too 'foreign', no matter how short and easy to say. If Rick had been a frontman back then, 'Danko' may have become 'Clare' or something.

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Dunc

Subject: Lenny Breau

Hi Bill M, I recently listened to Lenny Breau’s recordings with Levon, who was 21 and Rick, who was 18 recorded in Toronto in 1961. It took me a long time to come across them. Rehearsals were held at Ronnie Hawkins’ house. Great mainly jazz guitar playing. Rick and Levon take on supportive roles, but were obviously entrusted with the gig. There is a good article on Jan’s site, which I had read a couple of times in the past. The Band guys are great musicians.

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Bill M

Subject: Robbie's Canadian Music Award

Coming up soon - next week.

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Bill M

The link is to a 1965 cover of "She's About A Mover" (and flipside) by Jimmy Royal and the Hawks - which is pretty damn close to Jaime Royal (Robertson) and the Hawks. But Jimmy, who I'd not heard of until today, was a Londoner who released a ton of UK 45s in the '60s, mostly as James Royal, it appears. Real name, Jim Nairn.

(Wallsend: He's said to live now in Toowoomba, in case you care to stop by and ask him where he got the name.)

I just came across him because one of his subsequent hits was written by two guys from near Chatham, Ontario (between Windsor and London, Garth's two early haunts) who travelled steerage to Liverpool in '64, hoping to become another Beatles. Gerry and the Pacemakers said, essentially, "Nothing's happening here; you have to go to London". They did, and soon recorded and LP as the Guardsmen, then did records as Harper and Rowe and then the Slade Brothers, all the while successfully peddling their songs. One of them, Ralph Murphy, remains a very successful songwriter, now based in Nashville. /n Peter V: Any of these names mean anything to you?

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Wallsend

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Mac Olinksly

Hello everyone, how's everybody doing today?

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Bill M

Peter V: Your suggestion that it was Andrew Loog-Oldham made me realise that I have hadn't the foggiest idea what the guy looked like. And now, thanks to Google Images, I can say that you are likely correct.

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brown eyed girl

HAPPY MAY DAY

10 songs for the working class on MAY DAY -- from Bob Dylan to the Gang of Four, John Lennon and David Allan Coe

Tammy Wynette...D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
Tanita Takaram...World Outside Your Window
Terri Ellis...Call On Me
TLC...Red Light Special
Tracy Chapman...Be Careful Of My Heart

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Peter V

A friend from London just told me the same - Unthanks sold out. I've found this - they sell out very fast. Book the October tour!

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Dunc

Thanks Bill M. And I’ve stood outside all three sites, if I got it right. We also went up to Yorkville to see where Neil Young and Joni Mitchell played. Neil Young is important to me, Bill, and I concentrate on Neil Young up until 1980. You can’t do it all.

The Band live in Washington, see below, really highlights how exciting and effective (that’s the word) Robbie’s guitar playing is and maybe gives you a hint of the earlier days. Great guitar playing. I love the Band. \I'm glad Robbie appreciates the rewards he receives.

I loved Cathy McGowan’s style. Great clip. The Bluetooth really brings it alive. I used to sell Afghan and leather jackets in the style that Brian Jones is wearing at Pettycoat Lane. Then nights out in the Kings Road looking for Cathy McGowan. Brilliant days.

The receptionist at the Arts Centre told us The Unthanks sold out very quickly. There is a waiting list for returns so I’ve no chance. It’s disappointing because it’s near my house...I don’t have to trail up to Glasgow. I also like the intimacy of the theatre. It’s where I went to see Michael Marra regularly.

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Peter V

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Bill M

Peter V: Fantastic - loved it, even Wyman unable to finish his one line without cracking up with embarrassment. Who's the guy holding hands with Mick?

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