The Chats never let us down.
I See Your Guitar Lesson & Raise You A Bass
Kate Clover
Enjoy. We need more concerts in Los Angeles storm drain canals.
Forgotten Gem
Probably my favorite EJ song. It’s the second half of a medley that opens Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. It (along with the opening song, the instrumental Funeral For a Friend) got quite a bit of airplay on FM radio when the album was released. This was the glory days of FM, when stations played deep tracks. You never heard it on AM, which stuck to singles. It gets left out of “best of” compilations, and many EJ fans don’t know it. I don’t get why. This song has everything going for it, including a killer bass line. It’s one of the songs I used to teach myself bass when I got one in 10th grade.
Nice Song Ray
When you’re ignorant, everything is new and exciting.
I had no idea that Mr Davies wrote this tune until I learned it in the episode of Waterloo Sunset, which just dropped. It’s awesome.
As are the Pretenders live in London.
LOL Rock
Dolly/Carly/Lionel yes, but Devo, MC5, Eurhythmics, Judas Priest hell no.
20 Years
Hard to believe, but Up The Bracket turns twenty this year. If a better album’s come out since, I haven’t heard it.
Are You Adequately Prepared to Rock?
These guys were so great before drugs and dysfunction overcame them.
Hit Factory
I always forget they’re Californian, as it seems like they could have spewed forth from Appalachia, or anywhere.
Fogerty’s ’68-’70 run was nuts:
- I Put A Spell On You
- Proud Mary
- Bad Moon Rising
- Green River
- Down On The Corner
- Fortunate Son
- Travelin’ Band
- Who’ll Stop the Rain
- Lookin’ Out My Back Door
- Long As I Can See The Light
Been reading more about them, their implosion, all the record label nonsense.
I was alone when I made that [CCR] music. I was alone when I made the arrangements, I was alone when I added background vocals, guitars and some other stuff. I was alone when I produced and mixed the albums. The other guys showed up only for rehearsals and the days we made the actual recordings. For me Creedence was like sitting on a time bomb. We’d had decent successes with our cover of “Susie Q” and with the first album when we went into the studio to cut “Proud Mary.” It was the first time we were in a real Hollywood studio, RCA’s Los Angeles studio, and the problems started immediately. The other guys in the band insisted on writing songs for the new album, they had opinions on the arrangements, they wanted to sing. They went as far as adding background vocals to “Proud Mary,” and it sounded awful.
Oh!
Whoa.
I like the studio version better than any of the live youtube-ables. One of my favorite S-K tunes.