Rick Derringer - Teenage Love Affair (1974)
'I’m a few days late on this one. From the same LP as Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo, this is much more pop, almost power pop. R.I.P."
It was an instant cosmic need
I don’t think I was ever his biggest fan and he didn’t really travel well into the UK or Europe I guess. homegrown homespun rocker for sure and of his kind amongst the very best at what he did - we can’t afford to keep losing these fine fine rockers . . . . . . can we?!
Appreciating one of the most widely-admired songs in all of popular music, and one the modern era’s finest poems.
Suzanne takes you down to a place by the riverYou can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night foreverAnd you know that she’s half crazy, and that’s why you want to be thereAnd she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from ChinaAnd just when you want to tell her that you have no love to give herShe gets you on her wavelength, and lets the river answerThat you’ve always been her loverAnd you want to travel with herAnd you want to travel blindAnd you think you’ll maybe trust herFor she’s touched your perfect body with her mind
This just in from the dread Flickennabokk
"Having marked the 80th birthday of Christy Moore earlier this month, only right that we now celebrate the 70th of his little brother Barry. Known to the world as Luka Bloom, his 2005 album 'Innocence' is one of our favourites, a superb collection of intimate and compassionate songs."
Hang on one cotton picking minute! Luka Bloom is my hero Christy Moore’s little brother Barry?!?! shut the front door! I adore both their singing and didn’t know this and now I am old and obviously getting infirm? How the feck did that just happen?!🚪
Kate Rusby told me? . .. . . In her Facebook comments!!!! Yes THE Kate Rusby!
I have been a fan of both and didn’t know they were brothers!!!!!! Say what now!?
I need to lie down!
“They will always see me as the guy on the cover of All American Boy and it’ll never enter their mind that blues really was the music I grew up listening to and loving, and in some ways the success through rock corralled me into being a rock guy for so long.”“For me, music comes in two varieties, It’s either good music, or it’s bad music, and any music that’s good in general I’ve always liked. So, it’s hard for me to do just a basic kind of in one little teensy slice of the pie kind of thing. So, when I go in there and change a lyric like in ‘Still Alive and Well,’ I say, ‘Jesus Christ has risen up to heaven from the grave, and he’s still alive and well.’”What are the boundaries? ‘If 6 Was 9’ [by Hendrix] – to me that is blues, too. The song ‘Sometimes,’ the second one on the album, has blues roots and even though it’s kind of rock; it’s still blues, and the same thing with a smooth song like ‘I Still Love You.’ That’s still, to me, real good blues.”His contributions to the world’s encyclopedia of musical history spans not just history but genres. “I play biker bars and places where pretty rough characters hang out, certainly ungodly, and what they advised me was, ‘Wow, you’ve been given an opportunity to go out there and get in the inside in the belly of the beast, so to speak.’”
On This Day in 1966, Bob Dylan's World Tour with the Hawks came to a dramatic conclusion at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Bob had a few things he wanted to get off his chest. Read all about it in JUDAS!
http://www.route-online.com/all-books/judas.html
Bob Dylan Speaks, Royal Albert Hall 1966
in between songs . . . . . .
On this day in 1966, Bob Dylan and the Hawks played their final night of the tour at the Royal Albert Hall, London. There was the usual mix of enthusiasm and antagonism from the crowd. The Beatles were in a box for the show, John Lennon echoed many who’d witnessed the shows when he said ‘about five or six people booed … and everyone else in the audience were shutting them up’. The combination of being demob happy and totally wired meant Bob opened up to the audience between songs like never before. He told them that Visions of Johanna wasn’t a drugs song, that he liked all his old songs, that he doesn't use the word 'rubbish', wouldn't pick it up even if it was on the street, that he’d been playing rock n roll since he was ten, he even offered them a whole minute to shout out whatever they wanted to get off their chest... plus there was an extended rap on the Mexican painter story before Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues. But you can listen to it all, compiled on this video here. At the end of the show, the curtain comes down on the most extraordinary tour in Dylan’s long and varied career. He was never going to be the same again.#Dylan66
The Neville Brothers - Hey Pocky Way / Walk on Gilded Splinters (live in New Orleans) 1991
Found this on Facebook and the fan page Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Herb Bermann
‘Electricity'
The unsung Beefheartian master poet
Facebook notes "A video I first posted in 2015 of poet and writer Herb Bermann reading his own words for "Electricity", the classic track from the debut Captain Beefheart album Safe As Milk, released in mid 1967. Herb wrote the words for 9 of the 12 tracks on the album, working with Don Van Vliet who admired Herb's writing greatly. Herb also wrote the words for 4 of the 8 tracks on the follow up album Strictly Personal, released in late 1968, but he was not credited on that second album at all."
Youtube notes "THE MYSTERY MAN FROM THE MAGIC BAND: Captain Beefheart Collaborator's Original Lyric Sheets and Stories" is a book by Herb Bermann.
It includes 64 Lyric Sheets, an Introduction by John "Drumbo" French, an Interview by Derek Laskie, a Foreword by Alec Baldwin, and a cover photo by George Herms.
Herb Bermann was credited as co-writing eight of the songs on Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's debut album Safe As Milk (1967); it would have been a completely different record without him. According to one observer:
"[Captain Beefheart] called the guy 'The Poet.' For a while he was positively gagging us all out with it! 'The Poet said…' or 'The Poet is HEAVY, man!' I mean none of us could believe it…. You'd have thought Salvador Dali had walked in!"
Yet Bermann kept silent about Captain Beefheart for almost 50 years—so silent that some people said that Captain Beefheart had invented him. Now Bermann shares his story! Fans will be charmed by Bermann's descriptions of how his songs came to be written. They may also be surprised to learn just which songs he says he wrote. Included is a facsimile reproduction of his original lyric sheets, with dozens more songs that were never produced. Bermann's story reveals previously unpublished information about the early work of Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Neil Young and Steven Spielberg. It also introduces us to an artist whose work and influence have been generally overlooked.
Price: $25
Pages: 116
Size: 8.5" x 11"
ISBN: 9780982014011
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