mroldies wrote:

gopher wrote:

mroldies wrote:

The DVD booklet states in the introduction:
In January 1995, a major rock'n'roll event took place at Massey Hall, Toronto to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of Ronnie Hawkins, Canada's own larger than the rockabilly legend.

WOW! ok... wait a minute, i'll be back after i'm done ordering this pupster.
 

gopher,
You used the interesting word "pupster." Can you explain its meaning to me? Is it American slang?
I'm Central European and only self-taught when it comes to English. Does it just mean "a little thing"?
 

easily done, i hope. except for the "ster" which might be complicated, but may be explained as "one of" perhaps. pup being a young puppy, or new dog (or idea, thing, something of value, of that nature) added to the family, or in this case the family of one's musical understanding and appreciation.

yes, it is slang, if not meant to refer to something new or young in particular, then something of an affectionate nature such as one might have for a puppy most certainly.

hope that helps, or is even remotely enlightening in any sense..
 

mroldies wrote:

The DVD booklet states in the introduction:
In January 1995, a major rock'n'roll event took place at Massey Hall, Toronto to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of Ronnie Hawkins, Canada's own larger than the rockabilly legend.

WOW! ok... wait a minute, i'll be back after i'm done ordering this pupster.
 

like, for example, who or what's 60th birthday? songs and lineup look great, though i've never heard of lawrence gowan, should i have? is this possibly from a cbc broadcast? as you'll see, no background or context is given, was anybody here at the show? thanks in advance...
https://www.amazon.com/Let-Rock-60th-Birthday-Concert/dp/B000A88F5Y/ref=sr_1_10?keywords=ronnie%27s+dvd&link_code=qs&qid=1645517680&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-10
 

any news about renewed tour plans with burton, or has that been scrapped? might they still record again anew, regardless?

alangee wrote:

Eminem is nominated for the RRHOF. How is Eminem rock n roll? He's not, as are a number of other rappers already in the hall and others who aren't remotely rock n roll. Call it the Music Hall of Fame if you wish, but it's not even close to being the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame anymore.

i don't think the hall's awards were ever intended to be of 'rock'n'roll' fame, per se. the name was, and is, simply a marketing tool. i believe the awards exist, for as much reason as any other, to sell box sets, streams, or whatever other product by any kind of popular act or artist with enough exploitable back catalog to likely merit present commercial attention.
 

https://jambands.com/news/2022/02/05/poet-joy-harjo-named-first-artist-in-residence-at-bob-dylan-center/

Cloud9 wrote:

Ray Charles would be my first choice, with Solomon Burke a close second.

i initially thought of solomon too. but simply as a pure singer, regardless of range or depth, i don't think percy sledge can be beat.
 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/30/arts/hargus-robbins-dead.html

Little Rich wrote:

Very interesting.  I remember the Ventures being the creme de creme of guitar instrumentalists and have several of their early albums.  Seems like, for whatever reason, they kind of faded off into the sunset., with solo guitarists, like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, stealing the spotlights.  I have often wondered what happened to them.  I really enjoyed their music.  Maybe I was "off-base."  The percussion was somewhat de-emphasized, focusing more on the guitars, BUT, I enjoyed the percussion as well. 

apparently the ventures have been hiding in your plain sight. looking at their discography, it would appear they never broke up or went anywhere and were active well into the 2000's. a live album from tokyo 2006 is available, and a couple more albums issued until the end of that decade, though i can't say whether those were new or reissue recordings.
 

aflem wrote:

It will be showing in "selected theaters," which probably means not many of them, on Jan. 21st. If the trailer is any indication, I hope to one day see the whole thing. 

Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road Review

i dunno about all that, but the film has been available on my tv cable (suddenlink) pay per view channel for well over a month
now. i watched it, i think it was $6.99, about three weeks ago. mostly real good, if a little too staid in spots. the concept isn't the greatest, as asking wilson questions on a road trip was... well, ya know, brian just isn't always the most engaging conversationalist when he's not singing. well worth watching, however...
 

Roman wrote:

I had the good fortune to interview her back in 1980 when she had an album out called Siren. I don't recall much about the record but the title was appropriate as she was hotter than a two-dollar pistol. 

i loved the "siren" album. in fact, i cranked it up so loud once that it cracked my living room window. it was produced by genya ravan (ten wheel drive), and featured lots of the better musicians in the nyc punk scene of the time.

much later, i read an interview in which ronnie said she didn't like the album at all, thought it was too noisy and modern sounding; she apparently didn't care for being associated with punk, and also complained of ravan's cocaine use during the sessions.

regardless, it was a really well done album which certainly introduced her to a new audience, if nothing else.



 

Cloud9 wrote:

Not hard to believe McGuiness & Flint (and friends) would cover anything The Band did... There were times I wouldn't have been able to tell for certain which band I was hearing... particularly on songs like "Malt & Barley Blues"... That could have just as easily been one of The Band's arrangements.  Now, I too have to go look for "Lo & Behold"... any tips as to where to find it??
 

amazon has a pricey, but i'd say worth it, import cd:
https://www.amazon.com/Behold-Coulson-Dean-McGuinness-Flint/dp/B000OT6WMW/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=coulson+dean+mcguinness+flint+lo+and+behold+cd&link_code=qs&qid=1641966259&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-2
 

being a gopher, it beats me why sonny curtis would be splashing again now. guess i'm about to find out, though. he's supposed to be on "cbs sunday morning" at 9am est. i'm sure it'll be up somewhere on cbs.com, the tube or somewhere, if you missed it.

Lorne wrote:

gopher wrote:

Lorne wrote:

With it being a Carole King song, I was a bit surprised when I didn't find more versions ... the only other one shown at https://secondhandsongs.com/work/178662/versions#nav-entity is by Dutch singer Margriet Eshuijs. However, I think that the fact that King didn't record it would have meant that most other artists wouldn't be aware of it, unless they were fans of what Reeves was doing in the 1970s. So that's interesting to know that Moreland did perform it, even if he never recorded it. 

i don't know if ace was particularly a reeves fan, but he was a song farmer, and certainly looked for anything he dug, which could work for him... my original copy of the chess lp, "folk festival of the blues" curiously disappeared from his vine st residence during the time, but i'm sure somebody made good use of it, and, no problem, i've got a cd copy now. 

Understood, and "fan" might not have been the best word choice there ... a better way of putting this would be to say that I figure anyone knowing of that song back then would likely have found out through it being an album cut by Reeves, and because her album wasn't successful it would have taken some level of awareness of what she was doing at that point. But certainly someone could have brought it to Moreland's attention as a possibility for him as well. 

macon radio was, certainly in regard to r&b, not static at the time, a.m. or f.m. it's quite possible ace heard it on the radio. or, somebody could have left martha's record at his house too. who knows? ace tried to get the song around to folks, in any case.
 

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/punk-legend-patti-smith-gets-the-key-to-new-york-city/3468900/