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Hey, I forgot abt those cats ! Here's something from the other end of the spectrum, though. James Blood Ulmer goes futuristic & back to basics all at once ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAEhQf-WUUM [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAEhQf-WUUM

Slim Harpo = Mick Jagger's fave bluesman (give the vid a minute---it gets hot !) [video:youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LimUFNB52Q0 [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LimUFNB52Q0

Betcha didn't know she did this [video:youtube]

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk-kQSz-Qv0 From Jim Page's 2nd job scoring a film [video:youtube] & Betcha don't expect this !! Page says Combs actually arranged all the non-gtr parts [video:youtube] Had enough ? Well, don't miss this !! [video:youtube]

EAP had the option to do what he wanted to at almost any time. His contracts w/Parker or rec co.s or film co.s weren't life-long. They were periodically renewed. He chose to continue as he did. Most fans of the early Elvis, I suspect, unequivocally consider Parker the worst thing that happened to him professionally. Presley didn't even benefit financially as much as many think. Like several other major music figures he naively signed over 50% of his gross income to his manager. Parker actually made more than EAP did !

EAP didn't sign an endless contract to act in those films. He periodically had the option to get out of that situation but opted to keep at it. One can only presume he was happy to do so. I'm not aware that any of his film contracts precluded him performing live & they definitely didn't interrupt his recording career. I'm not a hater of his films, per se, but the musical material he accepted for them was often execrable & a demonstration of his lack of concern for either basic quality or for his fans. Big diff there is that when the Beatles realized they didn't have anything to contribute by continuing their films, they stopped, except for McCartney.

Why ? He agreed to do them, profited from them, most of his real fan base came from them. To pretend he was somehow not part of their often lameness is to ignore the nature of his attitude toward music & his art. On top of that there's his well-documented personal attitudes toward others. To give him a free pass on his poor choices is to paint a false picture of him. Of course, he's not the only entertainer who was/is a mix of such contradictions (one of my personal heroes, John Lennon, was also a bit offtrack at times & let's not even start on Bob Dyl) but he's the one under discussion here. As has been discussed before & I demonstrated in the post above, I find great value in some of what he did but EAP was a very curious mix of great skill/talent + stunning, bewildering lack of concern with musical value. That's why I chose the "Edge of Reality" clip above.

Gee, so relieved I was able to be here today & avoid the "deadline" ! He'd likely be tryna get any current president to update his fake Double-Secret-Undercover-Anti-Drug Agent/Rock-Division badge... ...if he hadn't died from apoplexy when Lisa Marie married Mikey Jackson. Elvis's greatest & worst musical moments (plus a palate cleanser): [video:youtube] Thanks, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58z-eRUFt_E [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58z-eRUFt_E Much as I'd like to leave it there w/ the evidence of EAP's inability to discern good from bad in plain sight, I also recognize that, kinda like America's other great EAP (Eddie Allan Poe), he was a mashed-up bundle of contradictions. So...here's a clip that "explains" the mystery of EAP as much as may be done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-VSn-NHK2Q [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-VSn-NHK2Q

1st, the backslap... [told ya it was coming...] So, I guess, the thing I do in offering context or background or simple celebration to this list of names, is, while you criticize it, what might be a good thing ? Then the voice of reason... I, for one, am not here every day. Plus maybe even go to a site where one can actually communicate appreciation to those we hope to honor (take a hint abt Jerry Donahue, for ex)

At risk of provoking the usual defensiveness some exhibit, I find it funny (well, almost) that someone who's insisted repeatedly & vociferously on the "right" to post whatever they want, related or otherwise, wherever & whenever they want, would get uptight abt anyone tryna put a little context behind this endless list of names which, for the most part, delivers nothing concerning why anyone should care abt or honor those mentioned. Otherwise, what really is the point ? :idk

...... That would be in the context of Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (December 31, 1943 October 12, 1997, known professionally as John Denver) & his James Vernon Taylor- (born March 12, 1948~not dead yet) -tromping hit song "Country Roads".

I almost fergot that JD wrote one of pop music's most enduring anthems, of such import I feel it's only proper to post it here instead of prying it into the prior entry. Toots Hibbert says "John & his friends can pass the pipe around my campfire anytime !" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PEHg4pxTk8 [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PEHg4pxTk8 Whirling halfway 'round the world to another island, we find that uke master Iz Kamakawiwo'ole, also knows what's what when he hears it. While based on Toots's arrangement catch his locally focused lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZw5AC_re6I [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZw5AC_re6I I can't leave out this ref since, well, it's Mr Ray Charles & while he, too, cops the reggae feel just take a moment outta yer busy day & dig his vocal [video:youtube] As was once said, "May you never hear Jimi Taylor again !"

One of the 1st pop entertainers to openly & casually include allusions to, uh, herbal aromatherapy in his songs. [video:youtube] Also worthy for stating his love for his Honey b/c she "filled out his census"...or is it "filled up my sensi" ? & for having the courage to perform the slow waltz w/himself herein executed.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch7JGUIx1WU [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch7JGUIx1WU Further, here he invited one of the most talented but neglected singers of her & our time, Cass Elliot (aka the female Dave Crosby). Do it & done, John ! [video:youtube]

What ? Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson had the same BDay ?! & it's today ? [video:youtube]

This one's only a brief feedback moment within the track [2:35~2:40] but I strongly suggest listening to this in full. Almost the entire track (from 0:55~ the coda) is a gtr solo by Elliot Ingber, aka The Winged Eel, once a member of Zappa's early bands, later leader of the Fraternity of Man & here a member of a mid-period version Captain Beefheart's Magic band (later also of various combos & session incl. Little Feat).... Anyhow, this is built on what we might call the FZ style (long repeated vamp w/free-from gtr improv). Let yer ears have at it ! [video:youtube]

[video:youtube] OR Magic moment = 1:50~1:59 [video:youtube] You may now carry on carrying on

[video:youtube] [video:youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWPsjGnLexg [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWPsjGnLexg [video:youtube]

One for Xmas...or maybe in this case XMAX ! [video:youtube]

Really nice double-level feel there att the beginning w/ the 12/8 perc under the slo-mo foreground. The controlled burn that starts at 2:40 is tremendous. An extremely well constructed track ! I don't think I've ever even heard of this band---thanks for bringing them up, HH ! -------------------------- [Oddly, when I listened to it, the YT selected follow up was The Byrds's 8 Miles High...not exactly the same kinda thing but, perhaps, equally left field.]

I like a combination of dist + vol ped that allows me to pull in a bit of grind to color phrasing. To me this is the most like a human vox. No specific peds endorsed.

How abt... [video:youtube]

How abt a band that's both fantastic & real "When the story feels exactly like a dream y'don''t know what it means...." [video:youtube] Really, can yer best fantasy beat that ?

This is, w/out doubt (& I'm currently detailing the MPlayer site history), the most ridiculous thread in the history of this forum.

And this time, it didn't. Good to see you CAN teach a new dog old tricks. :)p Watch out, I'm barking right back yer back !!! OOOOPS -- where I now ??? "Wouldnt it? Shouldnt it ?" Heck, buddy, we got a great pop tune there already dont we ? Mary Lillion got a hard drum crack [great production, drawing onna a lotta stuff beyond the obvious ] but I still gotta give the ranking here to Big Money's fingers !! That's a cat !