Mark Stein & his encounters with Hendrix & Tommy Bolin

[Pilgrim]

Herr Jones is a Brit national treasure.

This may be a minor thread derail, but thank you for posting that.  I must be neglecting the works of Leonard Cohen, but I had never heard that number before, and Jones sells it beautifully.  That was a memorable cut.

Here's Cohen live with a version that has a few more verses...

[gearHed289]

Herr Jones is a Brit national treasure.

He's Welsh. 

[uwe]

Let's see, how shall I put this without hurting feelings ...

(innocently and somewhat guardedly, adopting a faux stiff upper lip Brit accent)

Now, did I say he's English, Thomas dearest? 

England, Wales & Scotland (as of now at least) = (Great) Britain

Only Northern Ireland is not. That is why it's "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".




But the US of A should really be returned to benevolent British administration if you guys don't learn anything right at your high schools anymore. 

(Uwe impishly ducks and scurries away ...)

[uwe]

PS: Twenty-three years with a Brit law firm kinda rub off. 


As penance, go back and listen to all UK albums and ponder on the meaning of the name while counting out the meters. 

[uwe]

This may be a minor thread derail, but thank you for posting that.  I must be neglecting the works of Leonard Cohen, but I had never heard that number before, and Jones sells it beautifully.  That was a memorable cut.

Here's Cohen live with a version that has a few more verses...

Herr Cohen is/was a North American*** treasure.

*** Tom, for the avoidance of (your) doubt that term includes Canada as well as that one (or two?) nation(s) under and over it.



PS: Cohen's genial-embarrassed smile after his totally botched keyboard solo at 1:40 when the audience cheers and claps is priceless: "You're very kind today."  He was a lovely man. I saw him three times on those last tours.

[lowend1]

Flash thought: The Rods version is a bit heavy-handed, nein? And I do miss the organ, jawohl.

Soul ballads by heavy metal beasts need attention, care and a lighter touch ...

I can't think of an occasion where The Rods WEREN'T heavy-handed, here apparently having consulted with Klaus & Co for creative input re album covers and promotional photos..

[uwe]

I'm possibly being unfair, but I found that there was always something ANVIL'ish about them. That fine line between touchingly valiant for the Metal cause and slightly embarrassing.

Let's put it this way, there are bands of the hard & heavy genre (and I use the term encompassively) from NY like Vanilla Fudge, BÖC, The Dictators, Elf and The New York Dolls and there are others more like Twisted Sister, Manowar and The Rods. Kiss falls somewhere in the middle, they had moments in both camps. Not all bands from NY are created equal.   (I'm aware that there might also a difference whether you stem from NYC or New York State.)

And in any case, I prefer the later Elf line up with Craig Gruber (Ronnie was fine as a bassist, but Craig was gifted and added something) and Steve Edwards replacing David Feinstein to the original four piece of the debut album. I loved Mickey Lee Soule's piano drive and songwriting in that band and both came more to the forefront after Feinstein had left.

[gearHed289]

Let's see, how shall I put this without hurting feelings ...

(innocently and somewhat guardedly, adopting a faux stiff upper lip Brit accent)

Now, did I say he's English, Thomas dearest? 

England, Wales & Scotland (as of now at least) = (Great) Britain

I stand corrected! That whole England/Great Britain/United Kingdom thing is confusing. And according to DNA testing, I'm about 50% Irish, 25% Scottish, rounded out by English, Welsh, and French. So mostly "Atlantic islander". 

[gearHed289]

PS - Vanilla Fudge was supposed to play about 2 miles from my house tonight, but it's been postponed. No new date yet.

[uwe]

I stand corrected! That whole England/Great Britain/United Kingdom thing is confusing. And according to DNA testing, I'm about 50% Irish, 25% Scottish, rounded out by English, Welsh, and French. So mostly "Atlantic islander". 

Ah Tom, you know me, I'm not the guy to dwell on things like that, you cute little geography & national boundaries specialist! 

There is even weirder stuff though like the status of the Isle of Man located between Ireland and Great Britain or the Channel Islands Jersey and Guernsey (all "self-governing British Crown Dependencies" with the UK in charge of their military defense, yet neither a part of Great Britain nor the UK nor ever a part of the European Union, even pre-Brexit).

50% Irish, so potato harvests are a natural concern to you, Catholic too then?

[gearHed289]

Potatoes  - what CAN'T they do? Yes, of course raised Catholic, but I left it behind during my high school years. Two of my 3 older sisters went to Catholic school. They were the wildest partiers of the family in the 70s.

[uwe]

I'm a church tax paying (we have such a thing in Germany, you can opt out, I never did, it's a percentage based on your income) card-carrying agnostic (since I was about nine years old) Catholic and refer to myself as "culture-Catholic".

And of course Catholic enough to know how that church tax paid over decades without ever making usage of the church services provided might come in handy one day, I swear there ain't no heaven and I pray there ain't no hell. Selling of indulgences, after all a glorious Catholic invention, is a thoroughly reassuring concept. 

[Dave W]

... Selling of indulgences, after all a glorious Catholic invention, is a thoroughly reassuring concept. 

I got 95 these and a hammer...

Gonna party like it's 1517. 

[uwe]

You darn Lutheran lout! 

[Dave W]

"...you can eat my Diet of Worms!" lol