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Highlander · March 23, 2015, 04:19:46 PM

I'm keeping out of this... I don't like the look of where this is going...

uwe · March 24, 2015, 08:31:55 AM

Any rants yet about Paul Rodgers not showing up for the funeral? Those two never had much to say to each other since Free days, I remember a recent interview where he was still exasperated about Rodgers' perceived slights of him. Rodgers was either callous or Fraser a drama queen with a chip on his shoulder. Probably both.

Doesn't deter from the fact how melodic a bass player he was, how good a songwriter, that it was brave for him to come out and that he gave aids and cancer a long hard fight. I liked this song long before I knew that he and not Robert Palmer had written it, I guess it was an early cry for tolerance:

Dave W · March 24, 2015, 07:01:53 PM

I haven't seen any rants. And in this case when there was known animosity, I wouldn't expect anything from Rodgers. They last worked together nearly 45 years ago and didn't like each other.

uwe · March 25, 2015, 05:34:25 AM

They gigged together at that second Woodstock festival as Free - by all accounts that wasn't a rosy affair either.

Droombolus · March 25, 2015, 08:31:59 AM

As much a I like Every Kinda People, I like Andy's Be Good To Yourself by Frankie Miller even better .......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXGhYRM_BNM&list=RDTXGhYRM_BNM

uwe · March 26, 2015, 05:00:08 AM

Frankie was great.

Dave W · March 26, 2015, 07:50:06 AM

The only Frankie Miller I'm familiar with is a country singer. But that was nice.

Droombolus · March 26, 2015, 08:02:33 AM

Quote from: uwe on March 26, 2015, 05:00:08 AM
Frankie was great.

He's had a stroke or two but he's still alive ......... Apparently there were recent plans for a Fraser/Miller project .......

Basvarken · March 26, 2015, 08:19:33 AM

Frankie Miller was a great singer.
His version of Lennon's Jealous Guy is the ultimate version for me. (when you hear this version you know exactly where the Black Crowes got their inspiration)

Yesterday I saw this nice documentary about him on YT

uwe · March 26, 2015, 11:54:45 AM

Dave, he is in that Jess Rhoden league of white soul Brit Blues singers from up north. The people who were too young to sing at Woodstock and hence never got as far as their buddy from Sheffield. His greatest European hit was this here:

Accused of being a sell-out, I always liked it for its country roots.

And you might have heard this here from Bob Seger (= stadium rock) because he covered it (Seger was a big Frankie fan and there are similarities between the two, Frankie returns the favor here by covering Seger's Fire Down Below at the end):

4stringer77 · March 26, 2015, 01:10:43 PM

Joe Cocker must have been a Frankie Miller or Robert Palmer fan too. Bob Seeger is within the six degrees of separation from Andy also.

Highlander · March 26, 2015, 04:56:41 PM

Got to see him back in the day... stunning... not had a lot of luck in his life though...

This is the original version of this song, with FM dueting with Phil Lynott...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNoMSi1ztt0

Droombolus · March 27, 2015, 04:34:52 AM

Don't think Bonnie Tyler will be on anyone's fave list here, but I always loved Tears, her duet with Frankie ( who also wrote the song )

Quote from: Basvarken on March 26, 2015, 08:19:33 AM
His version of Lennon's Jealous Guy is the ultimate version for me.

Hell yeah ! Mrs Droombolus favores the wimpy Bryan Ferry version ( conveniently released after Lennon's death ) but I never budged !

uwe · March 27, 2015, 06:39:45 AM

"Bob Seeger is within the six degrees of separation from Andy also."

Wot, the Detroit macho-man is gay too?

westen44 · April 16, 2015, 06:19:35 PM

I prefer John Lennon's original version of "Jealous Guy" by far. There is so much emotion there. It's really authentic, especially when you consider that he sang some of those later Beatles songs when he was pretty spaced out. But that wasn't the case when he was doing most of that solo stuff. Still, I'm all for people covering "Jealous Guy," if they feel like it. In some cases, the covers are the only versions that people are going to hear.