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Post by Ayinger on Oct 2, 2008 17:40:44 GMT -5
.... Still possibly the most goosebump inducing sound in rock and roll history: Daltrey's screaming "YEAH" towards the end of "Won't Get Fooled Again"!!! Good God that never gets old. have you see the who documentary, 'the kids are alright'? besides being treated to TONS of footage of keith moon's unbelieveable drumming style (AND pete and roger and last but not least the immense talents of 'the ox'!!)..there's footage of a concert done in london with like 4 cameras working it, where at that crescendo of 'won't get fooled' pete townsend fucking takes OFF running from stage left toward the stage right wings and as he hits the chords during daltrey's scream he leaps and then slides on his fucking KNEES right AT the camera that's stage right....honestly it's probably the most breathtaking MOST rock and roll move EVER. i've written about it here before but my GOD it bears repeating just fine thankyouverymuch....... I'd just written on another board about seeing that entire concert on PBS a couple Saturdays ago -- NOT The Kids Are Alright doc., but the show the "Won't Get Fooled Again" was taken from. As I said, watching Townsend you'd think he was coked out of his mind from how he was bouncing about all through the concert -- amazing that he could be playing at the same time. "My Wife" was totally vicious...... Believe this is the Live Kilburn 1977 show that is to be released on DVD very soon..... |
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Post by RocDoc on Oct 2, 2008 17:56:36 GMT -5
yeah that show was staged by the producers of 'kids are alright' to have live footage for that documentary.
boy did they ever get THAT done.
esp if it's as good as you're saying don.
wow.
i think 'kids' had 5-6 songs from that show.
i hope to god they did find all the footage, because even in the restored 'kids are alright' they had spots where the flashed 'segment unrestoreable' or some such shit because they thought they had nothing to fill the gaps with.
there's actually an interuption in that won't get fooled segment that i'm talking about.
set my teeth on fucking edge, that did.
i mean, i have a vhs of 'kaar' from 25 years ago which is complete tho pretty shitty quality, but the segments are all there.
of course the extras of the restoration of 'kids' had separate cameras on all the players PLUS 2 more that for a couple, three songs you could manipulate them to whichever view interested you the most.
THAT is going to definitely be a must-have...sorry that i missed the pbs broadcast.
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Post by strat-0 on Oct 10, 2008 17:49:45 GMT -5
Man. Got to get in here more. Who. BBS.
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Post by ScottsyII on Oct 14, 2008 21:52:22 GMT -5
Ditto - been away for a long time and feel sorely absent from all the proceedings that have been going on all over these boards...
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Post by JACkory on Oct 28, 2008 15:10:58 GMT -5
LONDON (Reuters) – British rockers Led Zeppelin are looking at the possibility of touring and recording without frontman Robert Plant, who has resisted pressure to reunite with his former bandmates, the BBC reported.
The band, which sold an estimated 300 million albums and is considered one of the most influential in rock music, briefly regrouped for a one-off charity concert in London in December, 2007, leading to calls from fans for a full reunion tour.
Guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist/instrumentalist John Paul Jones are both understood to be keen to return to the stage, as is drummer Jason Bonham, the son of original member John who died in 1980, reportedly after a bout of heavy drinking.
But Plant, who has forged the most successful solo career of the surviving band members, has always appeared reluctant and last month issued a terse statement confirming his intentions. "Contrary to a spate of recent reports, Robert Plant will not be touring or recording with Led Zeppelin," he said.
Jones told the BBC's Radio Devon that the band had already tried out possible replacements for Plant.
"We want to do it. It's sounding great and we want to get on and get out there," he said at a guitar show in Exeter, southwest England.
"It's got to be right. There's no point in just finding another Robert. You could get that out of a tribute band, but we don't want to be our own tribute band," he added.
Jones said Led Zeppelin, which broke up in 1980, planned a tour and a new record.
Other big pop acts have re-formed with new performers brought in, most notably Queen which has been working with Paul Rodgers on lead vocals in recent years replacing Freddie Mercury who died in 1991.
I'm sorry, but that ain't gonna cut it. Like Plant or not, it can't be Zep without him.
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Post by JACkory on Oct 28, 2008 21:02:27 GMT -5
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Oct 30, 2008 22:45:48 GMT -5
JAC, speaking of lookalikes, from the pictures I've seen of you posted on this website I swear I thought I saw you at Six Flags over Georgia in Atlanta a couple weekends ago. No kidding. This guy was a spitting image of you, dude. So much in fact that I came up to him and said, "Jackory?" He said, "Whu?" I said, "Um, is your name Jackory?" He said, "Um, no" and smiled and kept walking with his wife/girlfriend. U sure that wut'n you, man? Nah, I know it wasn't. But I would like to know if you have a twin because I mean it when I say "spitting image".
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Post by JACkory on Oct 31, 2008 10:43:47 GMT -5
I wish it had been me. I could use a visit to Six Flags, though Atlanta is a long drive. Would probably opt for the one in Texas.
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Oct 31, 2008 20:17:12 GMT -5
Yeah, SF over Texas is better. I went there a couple years ago. Of course everything has to be bigger and better in Texas which makes for an incredible amusement park.
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Post by RocDoc on Nov 15, 2008 16:40:09 GMT -5
Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell dies in Portland hotel roomby Joseph Rose and Stuart Tomlinson, The Oregonian Wednesday November 12, 2008, 8:28 PM
Mitch Mitchell, the iconic drummer who provided the explosive heartbeat of the Jimi Hendrix Experience on rock classics including "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" and "Purple Haze," was found dead early Wednesday in a Portland hotel room.
Mitchell, 61, who pioneered a fusion style that allowed him and one of history's greatest guitar players to feed off each other, died of natural causes, the Multnomah County medical examiner said. He was found about 3 a.m. in his room at the Benson Hotel in downtown Portland.
Considered one of rock's greatest drummers, Mitchell was behind the kit at Hendrix's legendary sets at Woodstock, Monterey and the Isle of Wight.
Mitchell's final performance was Friday night at Portland's Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. It was the last stop on the West Coast leg of the Experience Hendrix tribute tour.
Looking pale and tired, he played only one song before the sold-out crowd, said Terry Currier, owner of the Music Millennium record shop.
"A friend who was waiting outside the Schnitz to get an autograph told me he saw a couple people helping Mitch walk into the auditorium that night," Currier said. "He didn't seem to be in great health."
Born in England in 1947, John "Mitch" Mitchell was a child actor who quickly moved on to music, becoming an accomplished jazz drummer before the age of 20. Eventually, he became Hendrix's most important musical collaborator, said Jacob McMurray, senior curator at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Hendrix's boyhood home.
The museum's centerpiece is the world's largest collection of Jimi Hendrix artifacts and memorabilia, including the drum set Mitchell played at Woodstock in 1969.
"Jimi was an amazing guitarist and he needed somebody behind the drum kit who could hold his own," McMurray said. "That was Mitch Mitchell."
At 5-foot-5, the wild-haired Mitchell was a small guy who played "lead drums," combining meat-and-potatoes beats with rapid-fire jazz in the three-person group. He was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame as part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1992.
Hendrix's manager treated both Mitchell and original bassist Noel Redding as paid employees, limiting their rights to future revenue. In the 1970s, according to Eddie Kramer's book "Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight," Mitchell was forced to sell a prized Hendrix guitar to pay the bills.
"The bonds between Jimi and Mitch kept them together," McMurray said.
Mitchell and Hendrix recorded several tracks on their own, including "Fire," "Voodoo Child" and "Manic Depression," before bringing in Redding to finish them, McMurray said. Hendrix died after a drug overdose in 1970. Redding was 57 when he died in 2003.
Bob Merlis, a publicist for the Experience Hendrix tour, said Mitchell obviously wasn't feeling well during the last couple stops on the 17-date tour.
"We thought it was the flu," Merlis said.
Mitchell told Merlis he planned to stay in Portland for a few days to wind down from the tour before heading home to his wife, Dee, in England.
Sgt. Brian Schmautz, a Portland police spokesman, said an employee at the Benson called police after discovering Mitchell's body. Since police didn't suspect any foul play, Schmautz said, "we weren't involved beyond that."
Tom Chappelle, a deputy medical examiner for Multnomah County, said Dr. Christopher Young conducted the autopsy on Mitchell's body Wednesday afternoon.
"At this point, we're still saying natural causes," Chappelle said. "Cliff wants to talk to (Mitchell's) family first before releasing additional details."
Merlis said Mitchell was a "really warm, enthusiastic guy who was a lot of fun. He didn't hold back and liked to talk about Jimi" from their first meeting in a sleazy London club in 1966 to watching Hendrix light his guitar on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival a year later.
Judging from Mitchell's MySpace page, most of his friends and fans had not heard about his death by late Wednesday. The last post was from Sept. 27. On July 9, a fan wished him happy birthday.
But at Trade Up Music in Southeast Portland, the instrument shop's 27-year-old drum specialist remembered Mitchell as a "mind-blowing" musician.
"He came along at a great time," said Joey Ficken, who also plays in the band Sea Wolf. "He came along when there weren't really rock guitarists and rock drummers, and all these styles of music came together. People were seeing something they had never seen before."
These days, drummers tend to stay in the background. They really aren't like Mitchell any more, Ficken said.
"He was a star. People still idolize him."
-- Joseph Rose and Stuart Tomlinson; josephrose@news.oregonian.com
i just saw this on a blog today....no other major news outlets to my knowledge. wtf? i read his fantastic hendrix bio, and he seemed very down-to-earth tho understanding his own talent (w/o OVERestimating it)and how lucky he'd been to be in the right place at the right time to match his talent's with those of hendrix. no-one else fit hendrix as well, in terms of drummers imo. another great one, down.
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Nov 22, 2008 12:54:03 GMT -5
Sad.
That guy was one of my all time favorites.
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Post by maarts on Nov 26, 2008 20:44:42 GMT -5
Experience in the sky....
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Post by RocDoc on Dec 2, 2008 18:15:23 GMT -5
Rest In Peace Munetaka Higuchi
(ӗΞ @F, Higuchi Munetaka)
(born December 24, 1958 in Nara, Japan - November 30, 2008)
Munetaka Higuchi, the drummer and co-founder of the Japanese heavy metal band Loudness, passed away on Sunday at about 10:00 a.m. in a hospital in Osaka, Japan. He was 49. Akira Takasaki, the guitarist who met Higuchi during high school before forming Loudness, announced the news on his personal website on the same day. The official website for Loudness had announced in April that Higuchi had been diagnosed with liver cancer, and later reported in September that Higuchi went through two rounds of chemotherapy. Higuchi left a message on the website on October 16 that acknowledged that his condition had gotten worse, despite an operation to remove half of his liver.
legendary drummers be taking it on the nose, no?
a fucked way to go, regardless.
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Post by Ayinger on Dec 15, 2008 20:11:09 GMT -5
in the dark days before any [glow=red,2,300]JUST SAY NO[/glow] campaigns, we in the 70's had this little ditty on the radio to keep us in line:
"Once You Understand" by 'Think' ---- oh gawd help you if you even remember the song....this is so horrible it's great! Plays like the opening Finklestein Shit-Kid bit from Up In Smoke.
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Post by maarts on Dec 16, 2008 9:17:35 GMT -5
*sigh*
Legendary folk musician Davey Graham passed away on Monday. He was 68. Graham's manager Mark Pavey told the Guardian: "He was diagnosed with lung cancer only weeks ago and suffered a seizure at his home at around 3.30pm yesterday."
The guitarist was noted for his role in the 1960s folk revival, and his impeccable acoustic style influenced everyone from Bert Jansch to Paul Simon. Born to a Guyanese mother and a Scottish father, Graham took up the guitar in his teens and was later discovered by blues musician Alexis Korner. Korner once wrote that Graham was "a genuinely gifted guitarist who, rightly, refuses to let himself be fenced into one field of music."
His debut release in 1962, the EP 3/4 AD, contained his most famous composition, Anji. Inspired by his girlfriend at the time, the song took on a life of its own (hence the varied spellings of its title) as it was covered by many artists, including Simon and Garfunkle on their 1966 album Sound of Silence.
Graham is credited with touching on a wide range of influences in his music, particularly jazz and blues, as well as elements from a wider world of sounds, such as Indian or Arabic, that were not particularly well-known at the time.
Pavey said there would be a private funeral held for Graham this week and a public memorial service is being planned for January. Further details of the service will be posted on Davey Graham's website.
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