Island Life: Bye, bye, you peculiar guy.
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I've got Beethoven in the player in the car,
Wishbone Ash on vinyl in the garage
And a Lady Gaga riff as an earworm...I've got tickets to The Specials,
Hallelujah Picassos on casette
Lucinda Williams plucks my strings
And I'm a near-obsessive Stones fan.The Trojan 3-disk ska sets,
Sit beside my Bally Sagoo collection
So they can blow smoke rings at Billy Bragg
Who is co-habiting with Bob Seger in the bottom drawer.[ I, personally, cannot play a musical instrument, cannot sing or whistle or hold a tune at all, but I have a somewhat eclectic taste in choons. ]
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How about Jerry Jeff? Got any of him?
I FEEL LIKE HANK WILLIAMS TONIGHT
Well, I could live my whole life, without a phone call
The likes of which I got today.
It was only my wife, said “hello” then “goodbye”.
And told me she's going away.Well I didn't cry, It was all cut and dried.
I hung up before I realized.
Turned up my stereo, I walked to the window,
Stared at the storm clouds outside.Chorus:
And I play classical music when it rains,
I play country when I am in pain.
But I won't play Beethoven, the mood's just not right –
Oh, I feel like Hank Williams tonight.There's no explanation, not even a reason,
No talk of the good times we had.
Was it me, was it her, I don't know for sure,
And that's why I'm feelling so bad.Chorus:
Hey, I play jazz when I am coufused,
I play country whenveer I lose.
Bird's saxaphone, it just don't seem right
Now, I feel like Hank Williams toight.Lately I've been thinkin', I just might quit drinkin'.
Now I don't know all-in-all.
I just might stay home, get drunk all alone,
And punch a few holes in the wall.Chorus:
But when I'm rel high I plyay rock'n'roll,
I play country when I'm losing control.
I don't play Chuck Berry quite as much as I'd like,
Now, I feel like Hank Williams tonight. -
heh, all this prog talk got me visiting youtube to hear some Fruupp - you know it's the real deal when you read comments like this...
''Fabulous band! Saw them at Cleo's Derby too! ALSO at the Kings Hall Derby. The bassist/singer used to sit in a wingbacked armchair, under a standard lamp and read the tale of the prince of heavens eyes...great stuff!''
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Do I earn the chocolate fish for actually owning the Rock n Roll Circus DVD?
I should think that earns you a truckload of choclatey marshmellowy sugar rush badness.
From memory, Jethro Tull is on that as well. The 'Stones sang but mimed their instrumentation to backing tracks..again, this is from memory. Marianne Faithful sang 'Something Better' and looked terrified. (I don't own it but watched it at a mate's place one, not long after it came out. I was a bit disappointed in it, to be honest).
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David I'll see your Jerry Jeff and raise you a couple of Robbie Fulks:
Every Kind of Music But Country
Well, I've been hounding her for such a long time
Trying to impress her with my hillbilly whine
But she told me I was barking up the wrong tree
She liked every kind of music but country.Every kind of music but country
She liked it fast, she liked it loud, she liked it funky
She liked everything about me, 'cept for one thing
She liked every kind of music but country.Well, I thought I had a big one on the line
She said listening to music was her favorite pastime.
But she told me I was trying to swim upstream
She liked every kind of music but countryShe saw I had a guitar in my hand
(But she never heard me playing until the night she heard my band)
But she thought I was a hick until the night she heard my band
And now she can't remember having told me
She liked every kind of music but countryand
The Buck Starts Here
Lyrics
I never knew this place had so much empty space
Until tonight, when you walked right out the door
And so I walked to our bedside and pulled out that 45
That laid for years behind our chest of drawers.At first, it looked too worn to play, the label all but washed away
Then I made out the name of my old friend
Thirty years, and a scratch or two, but when the needle hit the groove
I knew it was crying time again.The Buck starts here
With Hank sure to follow
Turn him up loud and clear
He's singing my sorrow
Let the sad songs roll on
Through a house filled with tears
Where the good times is gone
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I was a bit disappointed in it, to be honest
Yep, there's a reason it went unreleased for thirty years.
I read somewhere the Stones were so disappointed by their performance they offered the footage to the Who to rebrand it "The Who's Rock n Roll Circus". Apparently they'd been there since 9am the previous morning and were filming about 4am.
The Taj Mahal clip with Jesse Ed Davis is a highlight for me.
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Atomic Rooster anyone? Anyone?
I heard some of their choons at the end of the first series of Life On Mars the other day and had to go resurrect a couple of albums. Great stuff.
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still rather like "the Weight"
Well, glad you brought The Band into it.....The Last Waltz has to be one of the greatest concerts ever, we owe Scorcese a favour for that one. Of the many great performances, hard to pick the best but Joni Mitchells 'Coyote' is just brilliant...never tire of it.
Oh. And fair to say that MJ never picked up on any of Ian Anderson's 'dance' moves.....
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How about Jerry Jeff?
Now 've seen everything A Jerry Jeff reference on PA. He was alt country before alt country if you know what I mean.
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Andy, might I point you in the direction of this?
A trawl of your local interwebs might find a copy somewhere.
The complete soundboard recording was used for this elaborate four CD set of The Band's farewell show of Thanksgiving Day 1976. Recorded at San Francisco's Winterland, the concert was filmed for commercial release by Martin Scorsese. In the subsequent three LP soundtrack, some songs were eliminated; and the song sequence was shuffled around to create a better flow.
The Complete Last Waltz restores all of the omitted tracks, and is sequenced exactly as the concert was performed -
If anyone needs me, I'll be over here quietly weeping at The Band's version of 'Long Black Veil'.
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3410,
There is also an official "Complete Last Waltz," at 4 CDs, but apparently the bootleg version is quite different (official version remixed, I suspect.)
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There is also an official "Complete Last Waltz," at 4 CDs, but apparently the bootleg version is quite different (official version remixed, I suspect.)
The original LP release was a triple disc set, and I think it was expanded for CD to four CDs. The main difference (apparently) is that after the concert The Band overdubbed their parts (some more than others, I believe Danko redid all his), which made cutting the film very difficult for Scorcese's team as the footage didn't match the music. The Bootleg version is the original recordings before overdubbing
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The old picture theatre in Avondale had a phase in the mid 80s of running famous rock movies. I think it was on Sunday nights - I remember me and a bunch of flatmates busting a gut to get back from Waiheke one weekend in time to see 'Kids Are Alright'.
"Last Waltz" was one of them. One of my flatmates was mildly stoned and she got the giggles over the yodelling in 'Up on Cripple Creek'. Oh, and Van Morrison's flares. She thought they were hysterical.
Anyway...they also had 'Song Remains the Same'; there was a David Bowie live in concert film, 'Gimme Shelter', among others.
At the end of this run of rock films they showed "This is Spinal Tap". Brilliant.
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Oh, and Van Morrison's flares.
As I recall, this ridiculousness is exacerbated by his squat little rock kicks. I suppose we can blame all the blow they were doing backstage.
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they also had 'Song Remains the Same'
Don't you reckon the added dimension of pictures (John Bonham being a country squire) made Moby Dick even more boring? The rest of it (for viewing context, see the post that starts this thread) was pretty exciting for a country boy like me.
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As I recall, this ridiculousness is exacerbated by his squat little rock kicks. I suppose we can blame all the blow they were doing backstage.
Which brings in the story of Neil Young's nose candy being air brushed out of the movie.
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3410,
Hey, Tony. Thoughts on Archives ?
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Hey, Tony. Thoughts on Archives ?
Well I had most of it anyway-even some of the unreleased stuff but the sound quality is excellent. Including 2 live discs already released was a bit off though. Only went with cd set as Blu Ray would have worked out at $500-$600 before I bought a player. DVD not much cheaper. The Blu Ray features would be great to see though. I think the next volume will be more interesting as it will cover a period where he made and scrapped entire albums as well as performing some fairly pivotal concerts.
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3410,
Hmmm. I agree, pretty much.
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Don't you reckon the added dimension of pictures (John Bonham being a country squire) made Moby Dick even more boring?
At least it gave us something to watch while we wondered "when will this end?"
Moby Dick has a killer start and end. It's just a pity about the endless middle bit.
Drum solos were a hard/prog rock institution in the '70s. Dark days.
But for endless instrumental solos, yould have to go a long way before outdoing Cream.
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