Wow. Thanks for posting, I guess.
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:56 (five years ago) link
“Jimmy Wilsey of the Avengers was a young musician doing really interesting stuff that was really supportive of the song,” Klaus Flouride, bassist for the Dead Kennedys said in an interview with the online site MusicRadar"
Avengers were so great, their music still sounds amazing
― Dan S, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
Anyway.... Wilsey used to post quite a bit on the Telecaster Discussion forums. Some great info there - recommend this thread for anyone interested in the 70s punk scene in SF.
Intense vivid memory of seeing Chris Isaak covering "Heart Full Of Soul" on Johnny Carson in 1987 and thinking to myself "that's exactly how I want my guitar to sound"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=304DVYd9SXc
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
Whatever you think of Chris Isaak or the song's overexposure, "Wicked Game" is an all-timer, if only for the guitar sound.
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 08:04 (five years ago) link
It's definitely worth owning his Best Of compilation.
Dude's songs are helped by always immaculate production.
― triggercut, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 08:24 (five years ago) link
The male Lana Del Rey
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 09:19 (five years ago) link
spot on
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 12:02 (five years ago) link
I love all his stuff, but especially Forever Blue and San Francisco Days. Totally classy, great songs and playing. He did OK for himself, but I was just thinking yesterday about a different timeline where he covered "Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon" and it was used in "Pulp Fiction." Isaak's "Solitary Man" is super:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBV3topsAVg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link
lol Siegbrain totally!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
Lots of guitarist biographies released this year, but this is the one I'm looking forward to the most.
https://www.seattlestar.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cover.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 September 2022 05:58 (one year ago) link
"Wicked Game" alone is sufficient to ensure his place in the pantheon.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 2 September 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
Love that guy’s music and the fact that he played both bass and guitar at such a high level. Apparently he had the classic super-addicted musician personality so I believe there will be a lot of S, D and R&R leading to agonizing inevitable slow and steady decay and organ failure.
― I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 September 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
He was quite a bit older than Isaak, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 September 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
Isaak thoughts for the day:
San Francisco Days is the shit. I considered getting the red vinyl from RSD last year but apparently it's *not* the shit. The CD sounds pretty incredible anyway.
I haven't heard anything of his since The Baja Sessions, but everything up to and including that is pretty terrific.
He was always a musician following his own path, and he'd exclusively be a cult figure if "Wicked Game" didn't happen. As it is, he's both a minor legend and a cult figure. I think the LDR comparison is pretty apt, and he's also a bit like Richard Hawley. They're all retro-styled artists who manage to carve out a singular voice in a style which doesn't hide its influences and in fact displays them proudly, and never at all feels like a crummy watered-down version of the supposed real deal imo.
"can't do a thing to stop me" is the one that gets in my head the most, when "Wicked Game" doesn't.
― omar little, Friday, 21 April 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
I love the esprit du corps of "Two Hearts."
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 April 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
timeless + classichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HLGHF-K75Y
― StanM, Friday, 21 April 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
He's so good. Funny, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 April 2023 23:25 (one year ago) link