So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Dave W]

Red dirt music from Stillwater, Oklahoma

[uwe]

Nice harp!

[westen44]

Maui concert out now too.

I just saw that, too.  Also, only moments ago, I found this about Hendrix which I thought was very good.  I agree with Patti Smith's analysis of it all. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebaltin/2020/09/19/patti-smith-on-jimi-hendrix-he-was-everything-you-wanted-in-a-rock-and-roll-star/#445e412f7085

[uwe]

This is nice ... (he's rerecorded the complete Tea for the Tillerman)








And I still have a crush on her! Quirky version too.

[uwe]

From Russia (or Middle Earth) with love ...

[uwe]

He's still got it.

[uwe]

That new BÖC album seems a promising affair, just like they should sound - and even one of the new boys gets to sing lead (never mind BÖC's collective, slightly corny vampire obsession  ):



Trademark Buck Dharma sound:

[Dave W]

A friend sent me this. Never heard of them. Found out that The Boys became The Action, never heard of them either. But it's a cool beat tune from the era (1963), and there's an pre-Baldwin early Gretsch 6070 and what I think is a White Falcon.

[amptech]

A friend sent me this. Never heard of them. Found out that The Boys became The Action, never heard of them either. But it's a cool beat tune from the era (1963), and there's an pre-Baldwin early Gretsch 6070 and what I think is a White Falcon.

Very nice! That 6070 looks just like mine, and the recording sounds like it's a 6070 too.
And lots of guitars in the background..

[uwe]

Some driving bass there!

And judging from the vocal melody in the verse, I guess Kim Fowley must have known that song and remembered parts of it 13 years later.

[Pilgrim]

Nice to see something with a couple of classic Gretsch instruments!  I agree, looks like a White Falcon, including the bumper pad on the back.

[Dave W]

Some driving bass there!

And judging from the vocal melody in the verse, I guess Kim Fowley must have known that song and remembered parts of it 13 years later.

Good point.

OTOH I think Really Gonna shake owes a lot to Chan Romero.

From 1959

[uwe]

Just when you think you knew everything about Cher's chequered career, you learn that she once fronted a rock band called Black Rose (with no doubt some romantic inspiration from her then heartthrob Les Dudek - also in the band - and perhaps attempting to flee her late 70ies Las Vegas show image); she sure had the rock chick visuals down pat, precursing her lesbian look in Silkwood (the movie with Meryl Streep) a few years later (I know, I know, Cher's voice has proved divisive here in the past  , but I like it, it's highly recognizable and no other female singer matches it):





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ierBelhdoNw&list=RDierBelhdoNw&start_radio=1&t=175

[Dave W]

I remember that, must have been 40 years ago. When I saw them live on Midnight Special, they were just introduced as Black Rose, no mention of Cher. Then the music started and we looked at each other and said "Is that Cher?"It was strange, Cher prancing around as an anorexic rock chick. Didn't last long.

That was the original Cher, before all her body parts were replaced.

Coincidentally, I shared this on Facebook today.

[uwe]

Yes, they consciously tried to underplay her. That didn't really work - just as it didn't with Tin Machine and David Bowie.

And now for something completely different: I stumbled across this because Cherie Currie had covered it. I didn't know the original, nor that they were Brits nor that they were Pete Townshend protegés or that he played bass on their album (with quite some Entwistle inspiration if I dare say!). Listening to it now, his voice is quite present in the backing vocals.