The Kink Kontroversy - The Kinks

Scott 4 - Scott Walker

It was a 14 performance tour and that was the last night. But I bet you will get the opportunity to see them play together again since they made a lot of money on this tour and they don't seem to hate each other like what went on in Cream.

Here is the set list from the Hollywood Bowl show. It turns out I only missed the first three, although two of them are favorites:


01. Had To Cry Today
02. Low Down
03. After Midnight
04. Presence of The Lord
05. Sleeping in the Ground
06. Glad
07. Well Alright
08. Tough Luck Blues
09. Pearly Queen
10. There's A River
11. Forever Man
12. Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Steve Winwood solo
13. Driftin' - acoustic
14. How Long Blues
15. Layla - acoustic version
16. Can't Find My Way Home
17. Split Decision
18. Voodoo Chile

Encore:
19. Cocaine
20. Dear Mr. Fantasy

It was a great show and the first time I've seen Eric Clapton live. I was there more for Clapton than Winwood. They played an amazing cover of Voodoo Chile. The show was supposed to start at 8pm. I thought there would be an opening act that would play for about an hour. It turns out these guys went right on at 8pm, so I missed the first 30 minutes. Not sure if they played any Derek & the Dominos songs. It kills me if I missed that. They also played Layla acoustic, like on the unplugged album, instead of the Dominos version. That was only thing I was disappointed with. But I've got to tell you Eric Clapton is such a fucking great guitar player. I'm so glad he's still alive and I can see him play. Amazing.

Who produced the Shirelles? "Baby Its You" sounds like a Spector type of production.

Based on the guys you mention--Spector, Wilson, etc.--you NEED to look into Bob Crewe.

He produced the Four Seasons?

"Coming Down Again" on Goats Head Soup by the Rolling Stones

That song sucked.

did you read this thread: http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,7156.20.html?

or was it purely coincidence?

someone posted Paul's piano demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcDXTNHmO8w&feature=related

Whoops! 

The closing song on Paul McCartney's album Ram, "The Back Seat of My Car," is probably one of the best Beach Boys knock offs I've ever heard. I'm really impressed and moved by it. I was reading on Wikipedia that Paul presented this song to the Beatles in a "late Beach Boys style" during the Get Back sessions. It would have been interesting to have the Beatles tackle this with George Martin producing.

Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett

Confessin' The Blues - Little Walter

Someone made a font using the Beatles logo called Bootle and you can download it here:

http://cooltext.com/Download-Font-BOOTLE

What font did the Beatles use for their name? You can see it prominently on this drum at the beginning of Let It Be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NNTWQnersQ

thanks.

What's the point of a Beach Boys reunion? None of them can sing anymore accept for Al Jardine. They've all lost their voices, so that means no Beach Boy harmonies. Just a bunch of old men croaking.

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

Derek & The Dominos - Layla (album)

I'm not a musician and don't play any instruments, so I don't really understand when people say LSD and other drugs made it possible for Brian to compose his best music. Don't you think he was probably more influenced by what his contemporaries were doing and his own musical taste?

This doesn't quite fit the timeline being discussed and doesn't necessarily involve LSD but... close enough.

This is from Phil FANG Volk's website.  www.philfangvolk.com   He was the bass player for the original Paul Revere & The Raiders for those too young to know or those who lost too many brain cells along the way!  I think it's a good website which deserves broader reading to understand this guy's perspective and a good insight into the era but to get to this specific spot on his site click History then scroll down to Ricky Nelson's Stone Canyon Band 1970.  This is about halfway down just below the picture of the Nelson family on the staircase.  He was back on the road with Paul Revere during a hiatus with Ricky Nelson.

"The strange part about this gig I did with Paul in 1970 was the fact that Brian Wilson made one of his rare appearances with the band and he kind of sat at the piano in a semi-catatonic state during the show occasionally singing and playing, and occasionally just staring into space. After the show, he dashed from the stage, ran out the back stage door, and proceeded to crawl his way up a steep grassy knoll, where he continually slipped backwards from the damp grass on the slope. He was screaming and crying like somebody was hurting him or chasing after him, and he was trying to escape. His wife followed him up the hill, reassuring him that no one was chasing him, that all was safe, and he didn't need to be afraid. There was no riot, no crowd scenes, no fans pulling on his clothes or hair, and it was safe to come back inside the auditorium. It was quite a sight for me to behold. This once magnificently creative and powerful songwriter/composer/musician and leader of one of the greatest bands in rock history was having a major paranoid, delusional episode right in front of our eyes, and it was scary to me that he was so out of touch with reality. His wife and bandmates had apparently seen this quite often in different variations, and they all seemed fairly underwhelmed with the whole episode– took it in stride– as if it was business as usual, but for me, it was shocking and sickening to witness. Not long after that, he spent the next few years of his life under his blankets at home with a 24hour a day therapist by his side trying to get him back in touch with the real world. Finally after so many years, it's nice to see him back in the loop, recording and touring again at age 60, but I'm sure the rehabilitation was a very long, and dark period in his life. I'm sure he suffered a great deal, but I often wonder how his excessive drug use in his "glory days" may have contributed to his tragic demise into "never-neverland." I've wondered the same about the tragic loss of Rick Nelson..."

The paragraph quoted continues and so does Phil's story but that's the BW part.

Thanks for sharing this story. I'd never heard it before. I appreciate stories like this because I sometimes feel bad wondering if Brian had it in him to make more great music, and then I realize he is a sick person and has been that way for a LONG time.

Where are these pictures you're talking about? I'm on the 'In Concert' page and all I see are pictures from the liner notes of the album.

I saw Gran Torino and I thought it was a great film. One of the best I've seen in a long time.

(no one's proposed that a new mono mix from the multi's be done). 

That is a f#%$ng great idea! Why the hell didn't they do that for the 40th anniversary?

Layla - Derek & The Dominos

Interesting.

Mono.

I just read a post on this thread that said people who are interested in pop music, at some point in their lives, work their way through the Beatles catalog. And yes, that applies to me.