DOCSLIB.ORG

Dulcie Taylor Amy Mantis & the Space Between Asa Brebner

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Dulcie Taylor Amy Mantis & the Space Between Asa Brebner •Our 35th Year Proudly Promoting All Things Music• FREE! December 2020 Asa Brebner Tribute Elvin Bishop Dulcie Taylor Amy Mantis & The Space Between Reboot: Elvin Bishop - November 2005 In the business of music, you’d be hard who played blues in Oklahoma. It was pretty Pepper Shakers. As I got a little better, I was able at that time so we gravitated right for each other. pressed to find a more down-to-earth guy than hard getting started. I had those little pawn shop to get gigs with people like JT Brown. He was kind METRONOME: What year did you go solo? Elvin Bishop. Since the age of eighteen, he’s been guitars with the strings two inches off the neck. of a known saxophone player around Chicago. Late sixties maybe. I’m not good with dates. quietly storing away stories and tales of a career It’s a tribute to human persistence that I stuck Hound Dog Taylor... you’ve probably heard of METRONOME: Was it The Elvin Bishop Band? filled with larger-than-life events. From playing with it at all. him. Junior Wells gave me a few gigs. He was nice Yeah. with great Chicago bluesmen like Muddy Waters, METRONOME: What was your first pro gig? enough to. Then I got with Butterfield. METRONOME: What was the name of your Lightnin’ Hopkins and Albert Collins to jamming Before I got with [Paul] Butterfield, I played with METRONOME: How did you meet Paul? first record? with Jimi Hendrix, Elvin Bishop has done it all some little bands. When I got to Chicago, I was I met him the first day I was in Chicago. I was It was the same name. It was on Fillmore with little revelry or fanfare. Maybe that’s why his supposed to be going to the University of Chicago. just walking around the neighborhood checking Records. The label that Bill Graham had going. career has lasted for more than four decades. But When Clive Davis was running Columbia at the time as Bishop puts it, “I don’t really dwell in the past. I I signed the contract, they always put your picture live more for the moment.” Still, he still has plenty in Billboard. They got some old hippie in the office to talk about. and made him put a suit on and we went out in I caught up with Elvin by phone at his California the middle of the street and took a picture. When home one sunny October afternoon. The following we got back to the office, they pasted Clive Davis’ is a glimpse into a man that has, more or less, face on his body and sent it to Billboard (laughing). seen it all. METRONOME: Were you always a ES-335 guitar guy? METRONOME: Where were you born and Yeah. raised? METRONOME: What inspired the song “Travelin’ I was born in Glendale, California, but it was Shoes?” really kind of an accident. This was 1942 and my I don’t remember writing that tune. I know that Dad was stationed there in the army. Then from it was roughly based on an old Gospel song. the time I was about two, I lived on a farm in Iowa METRONOME: How did you hook up with ‘til I was ten. Then we moved to Oklahoma. I lived Mickey Thomas for your hit, “Fooled Around there until I went to Chicago in 1960. and Fell In Love?” Did you write that song? METRONOME: What made you get into the Sure I did. Mickey Thomas... that’s another music business? Gospel story. He was singing with a Gospel/Rock Just hearing blues on the radio. I went crazy group... this great performer named Gideon. He for it. had a group called Gideon & Power. He was a METRONOME: Were you living in Oklahoma? black guy from Philadelphia and in his younger Yeah. days was on Gospel tours with all the great guys METRONOME: Who were some of the people like Sam Cook & The Soulsters and The Mighty that you were listening to? Clouds of Joy. Anyway, Mickey was originally from I really like Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Caro, Georgia, which is a little town on the Georgia/ Lightnin’ Hopkins, Muddy Waters... Florida line. This guy Gideon would go through METRONOME: How did you break in to the the south recruiting singers and he found Mickey business? down there. So he took him out to the West coast, I moved to Chicago in 1960. That was really a I heard him, got a chance to jam with him and we lucky thing because Chicago blues and all the main just sort of fell together. guys were just thriving; young and strong. Muddy METRONOME: How old was he when he sang and Little Walter... Howlin’ Wolf and Magic Sam... that song? METRONOME: You were a young man yourself, Middle twenties, probably. eighteen years old? That was kinda like my cover story. I really wanted stuff out and there was a guy sitting on some steps METRONOME: When you toured for that single Yeah. to get into blues. I got together with some of the playing blues on the guitar and drinking a quart of and album, was he in the band? METRONOME: Had you been playing guitar for black dudes that worked in the cafeteria and we beer... it was Butterfield. Yeah. a while at that point? worked up some tunes and played different little METRONOME: So you struck up a friendship METRONOME: How long was he with you? Yeah, but not really raising no hell because gigs. Then I played with a band called Larry & The with him and remained friends until his death? A couple of years. We did a live album during nobody in my family played. I didn’t know anybody Crowd Chasers. Another one called The Salt ‘N’ There were very few white people in the blues that period called Raisin’ Hell and Mickey’s on that. You Break... We MISC Buy~Sell~Trade Fix! Thousands of LPs, We repair: Guitars, Amps, Keyboards, Effects, Stereos, 45s & CDs In Stock VCR/DVD players, D.J. Gear, Recorders & more! Plus MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DVDs, Books, Memorabilia, SERVICE CENTER T-Shirts, Posters & more 4 Haviland Street • Boston [email protected] (617) 247-0525 Across the street www.facebook.com/vinylvaultstore from Berklee College www.MISCFIX.com He’s a great singer. being a songwriter, if something bad does happen, METRONOME: Where did you meet? METRONOME: When you do go out on the road, METRONOME: Up until that album and song, I have a chance to write a song about it and start I met him on the West coast. We used to hang do they provide you with a backline or bringing you had a funky, country blues/roots base, then trying to get feeling better about things... get back out quite a bit. The most fun I ever had in my life your own gear? you took a step into commercial viability. Was on the good foot... get the shit outta my system. was shooting dice with Albert Collins. He was fun I bring my stuff. The bass player and drummer that a conscious effort on your part? I’m grateful to have had the blues there at my to jam with, but boy he would keep you rolling. get a backline, but I prefer to bring my sound with No. No. No. I’m probably the least scheming guy disposal because I think it was invented half way He was so much fun. We’d be shooting dice and me. I haven’t had good luck taking a chance on you ever met. Everything that happens is a surprise for that purpose. By people that had a lot of rough he had a saying for everything. He’d say, “C’mon what they provide. to me. I’m always the last guy to find out about experiences and needed a way to feel better about Aidy Mae”... he was shootin’ for an eight. If he was METRONOME: Who’s playing with you what ever it is. There’s a lot of luck involved in the life. I think it’s a good vehicle for that kinda thing. shootin’ for a ten, he’d say, Ten top buckets and nowadays? music business. The media is supremely powerful METRONOME: Where did you record the pans.” He’d say, “If I don’t hit my pint, that meat Mostly the guys on the record. The band is and over 90% of the people, all they know is what album? ain’t greasy.” smokin’. the media feeds them. You’re lucky if you get to Right at my house. METRONOME: Are you a guitar collector? METRONOME: Who is your bass player? hook up with that media machine. If they happen METRONOME: Will you tour for this album? No. I’m strictly a guitar player. A guy named Tim Walker. He’s from South to have a viable category that they can cram you I don’t exactly tour. I play gigs. I’ve got a nice METRONOME: How many guitars do you own? Carolina. comfortably in to, then you’re very lucky. That was family and a beautiful place here (California) and Maybe three or four. METRONOME: Is Bobby Cochran still playing the one and only time in my career that there was I’m kind of a serious gardener. I raise, pretty much, METRONOME: Do you own an acoustic? drums for you? a category that big media could use. This was my own food.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Brevard Live January 2016
    Brevard Live January 2016 - 1 2 - Brevard Live January 2016 Brevard Live January 2016 - 3 4 - Brevard Live January 2016 Brevard Live January 2016 - 5 6 - Brevard Live January 2016 Contents January 2016 FEATURES DAVE MASON Columns CARROT TOP COMES HOME Meet Dave Mason for an evening of If you ever have the chance to see Car- rock music history as he retraces the ear- Charles Van Riper rot Top’s show, either on the road or in liest days of his career with Traffic and 20 Political Satire Vegas - make sure you do. It’s a laugh a later the classic recordings that launched minute riot from beginning to end, and his solo career. Calendars he never pumps the breaks once. Page 17 25 Live Entertainment, Page 11 Concerts, Festivals ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION TRAVIS TRITT With 15 albums of outstanding song- Local Download He has received two Grammys and four writing and entertaining live perfor- 33 by Andy Harrington CMA Awards. Tritt has also charted mances, Atlanta Rhythm Section em- Local Music Scene more than 40 times on the Hot Coun- bodies all that the phrase “classic rock” try Songs charts, including five number implies - despite of being labeled as a Behind The Scene ones: “Help Me Hold On,” “Anymore,” southern rock band. MIFF Scenes by “Can I Trust You with My Heart,” “Fool- 34 Page 18 Charles & Lissa ish Pride”, and “Best of Intentions.” Page 12 JOHN MASSUNG Flori-duh! The work of John Massung takes the 36 by Charles Knight ABBA MANIA viewer, quite literally, above and beyond Billed as the world’s number one tour- the standard perception of our local par- The Dope Doctor ing ABBA tribute concert, Abba Mania adise.
    [Show full text]
  • A Denial the Death of Kurt Cobain the Seattle
    A DENIAL THE DEATH OF KURT COBAIN THE SEATTLE POLIECE DEPARTMENT’S SUBSTANDARD INVESTIGATION & THE REPROCUSSIONS TO JUSTICE by BREE DONOVAN A Capstone Submitted to The Graduate School-Camden Rutgers, The State University, New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies Under the direction of Dr. Joseph C. Schiavo and approved by _________________________________ Capstone Director _________________________________ Program Director Camden, New Jersey, December 2015 CAPSTONE ABSTRACT A Denial The Death of Kurt Cobain The Seattle Police Department’s Substandard Investigation & The Repercussions to Justice By: BREE DONOVAN Capstone Director: Dr. Joseph C. Schiavo Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) musician, artist songwriter, and founder of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band, Nirvana, was dubbed, “the voice of a generation”; a moniker he wore like his faded cardigan sweater, but with more than some distain. Cobain’s journey to the top of the Billboard charts was much more Dickensian than many of the generations of fans may realize. During his all too short life, Cobain struggled with physical illness, poverty, undiagnosed depression, a broken family, and the crippling isolation and loneliness brought on by drug addiction. Cobain may have shunned the idea of fame and fortune but like many struggling young musicians (who would become his peers) coming up in the blue collar, working class suburbs of Aberdeen and Tacoma Washington State, being ii on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine wasn’t a nightmare image. Cobain, with his unkempt blond hair, polarizing blue eyes, and fragile appearance is a modern-punk-rock Jesus; a model example of the modern-day hero.
    [Show full text]
  • 100 Years: a Century of Song 1970S
    100 Years: A Century of Song 1970s Page 130 | 100 Years: A Century of song 1970 25 Or 6 To 4 Everything Is Beautiful Lady D’Arbanville Chicago Ray Stevens Cat Stevens Abraham, Martin And John Farewell Is A Lonely Sound Leavin’ On A Jet Plane Marvin Gaye Jimmy Ruffin Peter Paul & Mary Ain’t No Mountain Gimme Dat Ding Let It Be High Enough The Pipkins The Beatles Diana Ross Give Me Just A Let’s Work Together All I Have To Do Is Dream Little More Time Canned Heat Bobbie Gentry Chairmen Of The Board Lola & Glen Campbell Goodbye Sam Hello The Kinks All Kinds Of Everything Samantha Love Grows (Where Dana Cliff Richard My Rosemary Grows) All Right Now Groovin’ With Mr Bloe Edison Lighthouse Free Mr Bloe Love Is Life Back Home Honey Come Back Hot Chocolate England World Cup Squad Glen Campbell Love Like A Man Ball Of Confusion House Of The Rising Sun Ten Years After (That’s What The Frijid Pink Love Of The World Is Today) I Don’t Believe In If Anymore Common People The Temptations Roger Whittaker Nicky Thomas Band Of Gold I Hear You Knocking Make It With You Freda Payne Dave Edmunds Bread Big Yellow Taxi I Want You Back Mama Told Me Joni Mitchell The Jackson Five (Not To Come) Black Night Three Dog Night I’ll Say Forever My Love Deep Purple Jimmy Ruffin Me And My Life Bridge Over Troubled Water The Tremeloes In The Summertime Simon & Garfunkel Mungo Jerry Melting Pot Can’t Help Falling In Love Blue Mink Indian Reservation Andy Williams Don Fardon Montego Bay Close To You Bobby Bloom Instant Karma The Carpenters John Lennon & Yoko Ono With My
    [Show full text]
  • Crossing Over: from Black Rhythm Blues to White Rock 'N' Roll
    PART2 RHYTHM& BUSINESS:THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BLACKMUSIC Crossing Over: From Black Rhythm Blues . Publishers (ASCAP), a “performance rights” organization that recovers royalty pay- to WhiteRock ‘n’ Roll ments for the performance of copyrighted music. Until 1939,ASCAP was a closed BY REEBEEGAROFALO society with a virtual monopoly on all copyrighted music. As proprietor of the com- positions of its members, ASCAP could regulate the use of any selection in its cata- logue. The organization exercised considerable power in the shaping of public taste. Membership in the society was generally skewed toward writers of show tunes and The history of popular music in this country-at least, in the twentieth century-can semi-serious works such as Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Cole Porter, George be described in terms of a pattern of black innovation and white popularization, Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and George M. Cohan. Of the society’s 170 charter mem- which 1 have referred to elsewhere as “black roots, white fruits.’” The pattern is built bers, six were black: Harry Burleigh, Will Marion Cook, J. Rosamond and James not only on the wellspring of creativity that black artists bring to popular music but Weldon Johnson, Cecil Mack, and Will Tyers.’ While other “literate” black writers also on the systematic exclusion of black personnel from positions of power within and composers (W. C. Handy, Duke Ellington) would be able to gain entrance to the industry and on the artificial separation of black and white audiences. Because of ASCAP, the vast majority of “untutored” black artists were routinely excluded from industry and audience racism, black music has been relegated to a separate and the society and thereby systematically denied the full benefits of copyright protection.
    [Show full text]
  • HEADRUSH MODELS LIST ALL MODELS and REAL REFERMENT TABLE Headrush Firmware 2.1.1
    HEADRUSH MODELS LIST ALL MODELS AND REAL REFERMENT TABLE Headrush Firmware 2.1.1 AMPLIFIERS MODEL NAME TYPE BASED ON 1 59 TWEED BASS Combo Fender ’59 Bassman 2 59 TWEED DELUXE Combo Fender Tweed Deluxe 59 DELUXE GAIN Fender Tweed Deluxe 3 Combo MOD (Gain Mod) 4 59 TWEED PRINCE Combo Fender ’59 Princeton Fender Deluxe Reverb 5 64 BLACK LUX NORM Combo (Normal) Fender Deluxe Reverb 6 64 BLACK LUX VIB Combo (Vibrato) 7 64 BLACK VIB Combo Fender Vibroverb 8 65 BLACK MINI Combo Fender Champ 6w 9 65 BLACK PRINCE Combo Fender Princeton www.robyrocks.it 12.10.2019 - Roby Rocks 65 BLACK PRINCE 10 Combo Fender Princeton Reverb REV Fender Super Reverb 11 65 BLACK SR Combo “Blackface” Fender Twin Reverb 12 67 BLACK DUO Combo “Blackface” 13 67 BLACK SHIMMER Stack Fender Dual Showman 14 66 AC HI BOOST Combo Vox AC30 Top Boost 66 AC HI BOOST Vox AC30 Top Boost 15 Combo MOD (Mod) 16 66 FLIP BASS Stack Ampeg Portaflex B15-N 17 BLUE LINE BASS Stack Ampeg SVT 300w 69 BLUE LINE Ampeg SVT 300w 18 Stack SCOOP (Scooped) 19 65 J45 Stack Marshall JTM45 Marshall Super Lead Plexi 20 67 PLEXIGAS VARI Stack (Variac Mod) Marshall Super Lead Plexi 21 68 PLEXI EL84 MOD Stack (EL34 tubes mod) www.robyrocks.it 12.10.2019 - Roby Rocks Marshall Super Lead Plexi 22 68 PLEXIGLAS 100W Stack 100W Marshall Super Lead Plexi 23 68 PLEXIGLAS 50W Stack 50W Marshall JCM800 24 82 LEAD 800 100W Stack (Normal) 25 82 LEAD 800 50W Stack Marshall JCM800 50w 82 LEAD 800 BASS Marshall JCM800 (Bass 26 Stack MOD Mod) 82 LEAD 800 27 Stack Marshall JCM800 (Bright) BRIGHT 82 LEAD 800 TS Marshall
    [Show full text]
  • LIVE BAND KARAOKE Song List
    LIVE BAND KARAOKE Song List Sorted by Artist Artist Title Key Format 3 Doors Down Kryptonite Bmin B 4 Non Blondes What's Up A B AC/DC Back In Black E B Ace How Long Has This Been Going On Bb B Adele Rolling in the Deep Cm B Aerosmith Big Ten Inch A B Al Green Let's Stay Together F B Al Jarreau We're In This Love Together Bb B Alan Parsons Project I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You Cm B Alanis Morrisette All I Really Want Bb B Alanis Morrisette Ironic NEW B B Alanis Morrisette Thank You NEW G B Alanis Morrisette Uninvited NEW D B Alanis Morrisette You Learn NEW Ab B Alanis Morrisette You Oughta Know F# B Alannah Myles Black Velvet E B Alicia Keys Empire State Of Mind F# P Alicia Keys If I Ain't Got You G B Ambrosia Biggest Part of Me Bb B America Ventura Highway D B Amy Winehouse Valerie Eb B Amy Winehouse Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow C B Animals House of the Rising Sun Am B Anita Baker Sweet Love NEW Bb B Aretha Franklin Chain of Fools Cm B Aretha Franklin Natural Woman A B Aretha Franklin Respect C B Arianna Grande Dangerous Woman Em B Atlanta Rhythm Section So Into You Fm B Atlanta Rhythm Section Spooky Em B B.B. King The Thrill Is Gone Bm B Bad Company Can't Get Enough C B BadFinger No Matter What A B Bare Naked Ladies Jane A P Barry White Can't Get Enough of Your Love Babe F B Beach Boys Sail On Sailor G B Beach Boys Surfer Girl D B Ben Folds Brick D P Ben Folds The Luckiest D P Bill Haley and the Comets Rock Around The Clock A B Bill Withers Ain't No Sunshine Am B Bill Withers Just The Two Of Us F#m B Bill Withers Use Me Em B Billy
    [Show full text]
  • Feature Guitar Songbook Series
    feature guitar songbook series 1465 Alfred Easy Guitar Play-Along 1484 Beginning Solo Guitar 1504 The Book Series 1480 Boss E-Band Guitar Play-Along 1494 The Decade Series 1464 Easy Guitar Play-Along® Series 1483 Easy Rhythm Guitar Series 1480 Fender G-Dec 3 Play-Along 1497 Giant Guitar Tab Collections 1510 Gig Guides 1495 Guitar Bible Series 1493 Guitar Cheat Sheets 1485 Guitar Chord Songbooks 1494 Guitar Decade Series 1478 Guitar Play-Along DVDs 1511 Guitar Songbooks By Notation 1498 Guitar Tab White Pages 1499 Legendary Guitar Series 1501 Little Black Books 1466 Hal Leonard Guitar Play-Along® 1502 Multiformat Collection 1481 Play Guitar with… 1484 Popular Guitar Hits 1497 Sheet Music 1503 Solo Guitar Library 1500 Tab+: Tab. Tone. Technique 1506 Transcribed Scores 1482 Ultimate Guitar Play-Along Please see the Mixed Folios section of this catalog for more2015 guitar collections. 1464 EASY GUITAR PLAY-ALONG® SERIES The Easy Guitar Play-Along® Series features 9. ROCK streamlined transcriptions of your favorite SONGS FOR songs. Just follow the tab, listen to the CD or BEGINNERS Beautiful Day • Buddy Holly online audio to hear how the guitar should • Everybody Hurts • In sound, and then play along using the back- Bloom • Otherside • The ing tracks. The CD is playable on any CD Rock Show • Use Somebody. player, and is also enhanced to include the Amazing Slowdowner technology so MAC and PC users can adjust the recording to ______00103255 Book/CD Pack .................$14.99 any tempo without changing the pitch! 10. GREEN DAY Basket Case • Boulevard of Broken Dreams • Good 1.
    [Show full text]
  • Artist List the Following Is a List of Some of the International Musical Recording Artists We Have Worked With
    Artist List The following is a list of some of the international musical recording artists we have worked with. Festivals Classical Rock Sierra Nevada World Music Festival Itzhak Perlman Sublime Silver Dollar Fair North State Symphony Long Beach Dub All-stars Redwood Jazz Festival James Galway Fleetwood Mac Blues By The Bay Pepe Romero Huey Lewis and the News Spirit West Coast Emerson String Quartet Ratt Joshua Festival Lynn Harell ICP Mustard Festival Barbara Streisand Aerosmith Stand and Be Counted Dudley Moore Floater Rock of Ages William Bolcom ZZ Top Tehema District Fair Garison Keeler Air Supply Grand Funk Railroad Jazz/Swing Tower of Power Blues Chris Botti Gwar BB King Miles Davis Rob Zombie Tommy Emmanuel Carl Denson Rick Derringer Maceo Parker Earl Hines Pat Travers Far and Away Brothers Kenny G Jefferson Starship Rod Piaza Eddie Daniels Allman Brothers Ron Thompson and The Resistors Clark Terry Iron Butterfly Terry Hank and The Souls Rockers Maynard Ferguson Tesla Norton Buffalo Cherry Poppin’ Daddies Foghat Roy Rogers Big Bad Voodoo Daddies The Tubes Smokin’ Joe Cubecki Bobby McFerrin The Guess Who Joe Lewis Walker George Shearing Flock of Seagulls Sista Monica Oscar Peterson Kid Rock Maria Muldaur Judy Collins The Lovin’ Spoonful Pete Anderson Leon Russel Tommy Castro Band Country Suicidal Tendencies Paul deLay Taylor Swift Creed The James Harmon Band Dwight Yokem The Fixx Lloyd Jones Charlie Daniels Band Papa Roach Chris Cain Band Tanya Tucker Quiet Riot Coco Montoya Lyle Lovitt Chicago Peter Welker Billy Ray Cirus Anthrax Paul Mitchell Chris LeDoux MXPX Elvin Bishop Bucky Covington Motorhead Earl Thomas Chad Brock Chavelle David Zasloff Clint Black Coal Chamber The Commitments Neal McCoy Flogging Molly The Drifters Amy Grant A.F.I.
    [Show full text]
  • Der Verzerrte Gitarrensound Entsteht, Wenn Bei Einem Reinen Gitarrensignal Zusätzliche, Ursprünglich Nicht Enthaltene Teiltöne Hervorgerufen Werden
    J. J. Altersberger 2 Distorted Sound. Die Verstärkung [...] Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Einleitung ..................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Fragestellung und Zielsetzung.................................................................................... 5 1.2 Vorgehensweise und Methodik .................................................................................. 6 1.3 Untersuchungszeitraum .............................................................................................. 6 1.4 Begriffserklärungen.................................................................................................... 7 1.4.1 Der Sound................................................................................................................ 7 1.4.2 Verzerrung............................................................................................................... 8 1.4.3 Spielweisen............................................................................................................ 10 1.4.4 Die instrumentale Rockmusik im Zusammenhang mit der elektrischen Gitarre... 11 2. Die elektrische Gitarre................................................................................................ 13 2.1 Akustische Gitarre mit Stahlsaiten, die Archtop Gitarre und die Resonator Gitarre 13 2.2 Die Entwicklung der ersten elektromagnetischen Tonabnehmer............................. 15 2.2.1 Das Prinzip des Tonabnehmers ............................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Playaway Pre-Loaded Audiobooks Are the Best Way to Listen, Unplugged and Uninterrupted
    The iconic bassist and co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you’d want from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star. In Acid for the Children, Flea takes listeners on a deeply personal and revealing tour of his formative years, spanning from Australia to the New York City suburbs to, finally, Los Angeles. Through hilarious anecdotes, poetical meditations, and occasional flights of fantasy, Flea deftly chronicles the experiences that forged him as an artist, a musician, and a young man. His dreamy, jazz-inflected prose makes the Los Angeles of the 1970s and 80s come to gritty, glorious life, including the potential for fun, danger, mayhem, or inspiration that lurked around every corner. It is here that young Flea, looking to escape a turbulent home, found family in a community of musicians, artists, and junkies who also lived on the fringe. He spent most of his time partying and committing petty crimes. But it was in music where he found a higher meaning, a place to channel his frustration, loneliness, and love. This left him open to the life-changing moment when he and his best friends, soul brothers, and partners-in-mischief came up with the idea to start their own band, which became the Red Hot Chili Peppers. With an original poem by Patti Smith introducing this unique memoir, Acid for the Children is the debut of a stunning new literary voice, whose prose is as witty, entertaining, and wildly unpredictable as the author himself.
    [Show full text]
  • BOB DYLAN 1966. Jan. 25. Columbia Recording Studios According to The
    BOB DYLAN 1966. Jan. 25. Columbia Recording Studios According to the CD-2 “No Direction Home”, Michael Bloomfield plays the guitar intro and a solo later and Dylan plays the opening solo (his one and only recorded electric solo?) 1. “Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat” (6.24) (take 1) slow 2. “Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat” (3.58) Bloomfield solo 3. “Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat” (3.58) Dylan & Bloomfield guitar solo 4. “Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat” (6.23) extra verse On track (2) there is very fine playing from MB and no guitar solo from Uncle Bob, but a harmonica solo. 1966 3 – LP-2 “BLONDE ON BLONDE” COLUMBIA 1966? 3 – EP “BOB DYLAN” CBS EP 6345 (Portugal) 1987? 3 – CD “BLONDE ON BLONDE” CBS CDCBS 66012 (UK) 546 1992? 3 – CD “BOB DYLAN’S GREATEST HITS 2” COLUMBIA 471243 2 (AUT) 109 2005 1 – CD-2 “NO DIRECTION HOME – THE SOUNDTRACK” THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 7 - COLUMBIA C2K 93937 (US) 529 Alternate take 1 2005 1 – CD-2 “NO DIRECTION HOME – THE SOUNDTRACK” THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 7 – COL 520358-2 (UK) 562 Alternate take 1 ***** Febr. 4.-11, 1966 – The Paul Butterfield Blues Band at Whiskey a Go Go, LA, CA Feb. 25, 1966 – Butterfield Blues Band -- Fillmore ***** THE CHICAGO LOOP 1966 Prod. Bob Crewe and Al Kasha 1,3,4 - Al Kasha 2 Judy Novy, vocals, percussion - Bob Slawson, vocals, rhythm guitar - Barry Goldberg, organ, piano - Carmine Riale, bass - John Siomos, drums - Michael Bloomfield, guitar 1 - John Savanno, guitar, 2-4 1. "(When She Wants Good Lovin') She Comes To Me" (2.49) 1a.
    [Show full text]
  • The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel
    REVIEWS "Describing the parabolic ups and downs of the career of Hole drummer Patty Schemel, tricked-up docu Hit So Hard features never-before-witnessed tour documentation recorded on Schemel's own Hi-8 camera, including her extended stay at the digs of band frontwoman Courtney Love just before Kurt Cobain's suicide. This recently recovered ace-in-the-Hole footage is supplemented by helmer P. David Ebersole's newly shot interviews, presented in split-screen or apportioned in brief bursts. Pic benefits from the percussionist's plainspokenness, and should attract grunge curiosity-seekers in theatrical and tube play." VARIETY "A raw, unflinching look at Schemel's hard-knock life." WALL STREET JOURNAL "Necessary viewing for any Hole fan. The footage was ample and intimate -- scenes of Schemel passed out in her hotel room after shooting heroin, Love moshing backstage at Lollapalooza with the Offspring's Dexter Holland and, most eerily, Love at home with Kurt Cobain and Frances Bean. It's heartbreaking." SPIN MAGAZINE "Hit So Hard links one milestone of Schemel’s survival to another with a caustic grace lent by the subject herself: Alcoholic at age 12. Out, tormented lesbian at 17. Junkie by her early 20s. On and off the wagon numerous times by her late 20s. A homeless, crack-addicted, music-industry exile by the end of the ’90s. It’s all there in the open, backed up with fascinating, never-before-seen archival footage featuring Love and her husband Kurt Cobain." MOVIELINE "This pull-no-punches portrait of the hell-and-back life of Patty Schemel is no ordinary rockumentary.
    [Show full text]