Mar 282012
While sammymaudlin and Mr. Moderator are en route to a meeting of epic proportions, why don’t you come and join Buddy Miles and his band in dancing to the music? Just feel like you want to, and don’t feel shy! It’s all right.
While sammymaudlin and Mr. Moderator are en route to a meeting of epic proportions, why don’t you come and join Buddy Miles and his band in dancing to the music? Just feel like you want to, and don’t feel shy! It’s all right.
Fingers crossed that you two seal the deal with those IFC execs to bring Saturday Night Shut-In to TV.
Something like that is just one of the topics on our plate. I just touched down. Will meet Sammy in 2 hours.
Currently reading Cherie Currie’s biography Neon Angel. Didn’t know her twin sister Marie and Steve “enemy of the Hall” Lukather were married. Huh? Learn something new everyday.
I heard that Earl Scruggs just died. Anyone more familiar with his banjo playing want to do a RTH obit?
I heard a nice Scruggs obit on All Things Considered on the way home from work. Bela Fleck said he was an influence . . . and Steve Martin tweeted about it. When I first moved to DC, I knew a girl who’s dad played in the Seldom Scene so I got into bluegrass for a brief time — I mean Foggy Mountain Breakdown is kind of intense. I am pretty sure saw his son or grandson, Chris, in a latter version of BR-549 a few years ago. He’s also excellent.
On a lighter note – I saw Noel Gallagher at the Warner Theater last night in DC. Got to talk to lots of Brits in the crowd who share stories about how many times they saw Oasis, where they saw them, etc. I told a couple of folks about this Hitler reacts to the Oasis breakup video — they had not seen it.
http://youtu.be/Q6IyGAvbOs4
Noel was very funny with the stage banner.
1. He says his house is “bigger than the fooking White House” but “it’s not white.”
2. He told people shouting out Oasis songs — “I know all the fooking titles to those songs. I’m not playing any of them. I don’t fooking do anything anyone tells me to do, except my wife.”
That’s stage banter — banter!
I saw Oasis play in a bar in Northampton about two weeks before Supersonic was released, again a few weeks later at the Town and Country Club in Kentish Town, London. Both times they were quite extraordinary, the second time I tried to persuade my mate that I’d heard some Bee Gees influences and he wouldn’t have it until about six months later when Noel Gallagher gave an interview to either Uncut or Mojo and cited their early work as something to be cherished.
About five years previously I’d been casually passing the time of evening with Clint Boon of the Inspiral Carpets on the subject of the first ? and the Mysterians album when Noel G had come and dragged him away from the bar to get ready to play. I’d considered asking Clint Boon for his autograph, but missed a trick by not asking the roadie for his. Of the two, Clint Boon seemed the nicer person.
Saw Oasis again at Glastonbury the only year Mrs Happiness came with me, which was probably about 1995. They were the only band I managed to get her anywhere near and she grumbled all the way through the set. We were about a mile from the main stage and they seemed to have lost their spark by then. Saw them again a few years later and it all seemed rather laboured and ploddy as they struggled to make anything they’d recorded after the second album sound any good. A great shame, because for about a year they were untouchable, with great songs pouring out of them.
In common with most kids of his age, our eldest makes those Hitler parodies, I’ll check that one out when I’m on a PC which doesn’t crash when I switch Flash on. Downfall is a superb film, highly recommended to anyone not allergic to subtitles!
I heard that as well, I picked up a pile of Beverly Hillbillies DVDs not long ago and our kids love them as much as I used to when I was their age, only the other night they were watching the episode when Flatt and Scruggs visit Cousin Pearl with their wives. I read in an obit that the two had fallen out when Scruggs came out against Vietnam. I don’t know much about them otherwise, but the theme tune to the Beverly Hillbillies introduced and popularised the concept of Country and Western to Britain practically single-handedly.