So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Basvarken]

Hope he sticks around for a while with those guys.

Does he ever? He never seems to stick around with anyone too long.

[uwe]

That's the issue of his life. Something snapped after filthy lucre lured him away from his beloved Trapeze. That band was his first and true love.

Well, he didn't really exactly ever leave Deep Purple in a strict sense; Lord, Paice & Coverdale all left him and Tommy Bolin (without telling, the management did months later, both he and Tommy were surprised by the news) because they couldn't live/tour with their antics anymore.

[gearHed289]

Nice that they show older folks in the crowd. 

Isn't this the band that was put together by some rich guy who pays these guys to be in his band? Glenn has done better in recent(ish) years. I liked California Breed.

[uwe]

"Isn't this the band that was put together by some rich guy who pays these guys to be in his band?"

Yup, David Lowy, if only he'd call me!

He'd make a good fit here. Has, uhum, pertinent interests, that is his 1944 Spit in the background (flyable condition).

https://australianaviation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/0I0A3260_1170.jpg



Ole Glenn hasn't had it this good since "Deep Purple Starship" Boeing 720 days of Purple yore ...



He's honest about it too, he says he "appreciates the comfort" and the professional organisation with The Dead Daisies. Plus you get nice recording locations too, what's not to like?

https://milocostudios.com/studios/la-fabrique/intro/

I'd join The Dead Daisies in a heartbeat, cruise to your retirement in style!

They're not a bad band either, Rob and I saw them in 2015 in Utrecht, NL (I was there for paratrooper training  ), as opener for Whitesnake, the pre-Glenn line-up with Corabi and Mendoza. They're a real rock band in the "classic rock" field, not just a millionaire's whim.

[TBird1958]

"Isn't this the band that was put together by some rich guy who pays these guys to be in his band?"

Yup, David Lowy, if only he'd call me!

He'd make a good fit here. Has, uhum, pertinent interests, that is his 1944 Spit in the background (flyable condition).


Ole Glenn hasn't had it this good since "Deep Purple Starship" Boeing 720 days of Purple yore ...



He's honest about it too, he says he "appreciates the comfort" and the professional organisation with The Dead Daisies. Plus you get nice recording locations too, what's not to like?

https://milocostudios.com/studios/la-fabrique/intro/

I'd join The Dead Daisies in a heartbeat, cruise to your retirement in style!

They're not a bad band either, Rob and I saw them in 2015 in Utrecht, NL (I was there for paratrooper training  ), as opener for Whitesnake, the pre-Glenn line-up with Corabi and Mendoza. They're a real rock band in the "classic rock" field, not just a millionaire's whim.

Short legged thing......Where's my Mustang, or better, Corsair?!

[uwe]

I once read from a pilot who flew all of them that carrier-based fighters - even flawed ones like the Corsair which was mainly operated by the Marine Corps Aviation Units from Pacific island landing strips (and did of course great from there)  - were by necessity creatures of compromise and not thoroughbred interceptors. He further wrote that in typical dogfight scenarios, Zeros, Hellcats and Corsairs (great planes they all were for their given purpose) would have been hopelessly outclassed by strictly land-based fighters such as Bf 109, FW 190, Spitfire, Thunderbolt and Mustang. In the Pacific, nearly all fighter-to-fighter combat took place between aircraft designed for carrier duty, they were all one "class" so to say. (And once US interceptor ingenuity in the form of the Mustang saw more deployment as the US closed in on Nippon, the Japanese were at a loss what to do, especially at high altitudes never deemed relevant for naval air combat. Hell, even the Lightning did well in the Pacific - mind you, against carrier-based Japanese fighters! -, put up against Bf 109s or FW 190ies in European skies, however, it left the Luftwaffe unimpressed.)

The argument seemed to make sense to me. It works both ways: Attempts to (re)design the Bf 109 for service from the Reich's planned (and eventually scuppered) Graf Zeppelin carrier project created barely flyable monstrosities. It was part of the reason why the whole project failed, not just the fact that the rough North Atlantic (plus the generally bad weather prevailing there) is not an ideal carrier environment like the Pacific.

Observation: That sleek Rolls Royce Merlin engine sure is a determining design feature - looking at the snout of that '44 Spitfire you'd be forgiven to think you have a Mustang snout before you. I'm not the greatest Spitfire look (it's a very pure design, I'm happy to admit that) fan on earth (more the Hawker Tempest/Typhoon guy), but David Lowy's '44 specimen is probably the most beautiful Spit I've yet seen. I don't really like the look of a Bf 109 either, my heart is with Focke Wulf 190 A or D types, just as I prefer a Thunderbolt visually over a Mustang (another pure and sleek design, no doubt). I guess I'm a radial engine guy.

[gearHed289]

Good for Glenn! Yeah, I can definitely see the appeal of that at any age.

[uwe]

More Dr Hook - I love the way Ray Sawyer "plucks" that battered Jazz (he's generally not credited as playing bass with Dr Hook, perhaps a one-off on this track), totally in a style of his own:

[uwe]

Très cool.

[TBird1958]

I once read from a pilot who flew all of them that carrier-based fighters - even flawed ones like the Corsair which was mainly operated by the Marine Corps Aviation Units from Pacific island landing strips (and did of course great from there)  - were by necessity creatures of compromise and not thoroughbred interceptors. He further wrote that in typical dogfight scenarios, Zeros, Hellcats and Corsairs (great planes they all were for their given purpose) would have been hopelessly outclassed by strictly land-based fighters such as Bf 109, FW 190, Spitfire, Thunderbolt and Mustang. In the Pacific, nearly all fighter-to-fighter combat took place between aircraft designed for carrier duty, they were all one "class" so to say. (And once US interceptor ingenuity in the form of the Mustang saw more deployment as the US closed in on Nippon, the Japanese were at a loss what to do, especially at high altitudes never deemed relevant for naval air combat. Hell, even the Lightning did well in the Pacific - mind you, against carrier-based Japanese fighters! -, put up against Bf 109s or FW 190ies in European skies, however, it left the Luftwaffe unimpressed.)

The argument seemed to make sense to me. It works both ways: Attempts to (re)design the Bf 109 for service from the Reich's planned (and eventually scuppered) Graf Zeppelin carrier project created barely flyable monstrosities. It was part of the reason why the whole project failed, not just the fact that the rough North Atlantic (plus the generally bad weather prevailing there) is not an ideal carrier environment like the Pacific.

Observation: That sleek Rolls Royce Merlin engine sure is a determining design feature - looking at the snout of that '44 Spitfire you'd be forgiven to think you have a Mustang snout before you. I'm not the greatest Spitfire look (it's a very pure design, I'm happy to admit that) fan on earth (more the Hawker Tempest/Typhoon guy), but David Lowy's '44 specimen is probably the most beautiful Spit I've yet seen. I don't really like the look of a Bf 109 either, my heart is with Focke Wulf 190 A or D types, just as I prefer a Thunderbolt visually over a Mustang (another pure and sleek design, no doubt). I guess I'm a radial engine guy.

I really should have insisted on  you seeing this fellow when you visited, alas the time just wasn't  there.

   

I dig this one though...........
 


My '64 did arrive, it's a road warrior for sure, broken headstock and heavily check'd. Absolute dream to play, best neck on any bass I own, and that pickup! It's cranked down flush with the ring and still has this great voice. Now that I own one I think Gibson was way ahead of it's time with this bass, it is of course beautifully flawed with the frail headstock, no surprise that so many are broken. This thing just has an amazing voice even with a set of somewhat dead nickel rounds on it, my one regret is not buying one many years ago, it's just that good to my hands and ears.

   

[uwe]

Razorback T-Bolts and Corsairs just look magnificent, true WW II fighter porn! Squeeze me 'til the kerosene runs down my legs, baby!

That chick with the battered Bird II ain't bad either.

[uwe]

The Oils are back to form! Agit-prop rock never had better melodies/harmonies.



If you are wondering where the/a bassist went: They lost Bones Hillman, their longstanding bassist, to cancer in late 2020, he is still credited as playing bass on the new album ('RESIST') where this track is from (which might then also still feature him, sure sounds like him, pick-played bass marching stiffly ahead of the beat  ), but they obviously couldn't bring it over themselves to have someone else play bass for him in the video. Instead they - poignantly - left his bass on a stand in the vid.



Let's not have a Fender cancel culture here, ok:

[slinkp]

I think Bones logged more time on the P-bass than the Bird.
CENSORED BY UWE - HIGH COMMISSIONER OF THE GIBSON MINISTRY OF TRUTHI loved his playing, and he added such a great lift to their vocal harmonies, so many great parts after he joined.
Check out this version of Hercules with previous bassist Peter Gifford:


Compared to this one with Bones ... poor mix but his beautiful high notes cut through:

[uwe]

Yup, he sings the falsetto parts well. Maybe he was hoping to join the Eagles as replacement of ole Timothy? 





Yeah, sure, Timothy recorded all his vocal parts with the perfectionist Eagles while he was playing bass at the same time. 

Immaculate 'less is more' solos by Don Felder.

[uwe]

I know. Total heresy for Walsh fans. But I really dug this line-up. And not just as a Tommy Bolin fan boy, I liked the singer's voice, Roy Kenner. Ironically, he is the guy that puts many people off with the Bolin- and Domenic Troiano Gang line-ups. I never got that, to me he has a very American sounding (he's a Canuck) Doobie Brothers style "essentially smooth, but with some grit" voice. I think that fitted well with the Gang's style, they weren't exactly early Grand Funk Railroad in heaviness, you know. (And Walsh's nasal organ - which I like - didn't sing from the heavy rock hymn sheet either.)



It's criminal that no remastered boxed set of the whole of the James Gang's work exists.

I even liked the post-Bolin stuff even though that was even Doobie'isher, the then-vocalist reminded me of Ted Nugent alumni Derek St. Holmes a bit ...







That was a good line-up. Which cannot be said of their last album "Jesse Come Home", where they really crapped out.