C or D: Emitt Rhodes?

I've been aboard for years and prefer "Mirror" over the first. If you can find it, I say buy it.

Does anyone know what ever happened to him? I think he's still alive and after a 4th album whose name escapes he pretty much disappeared from music. And considering he was a teenager when he started that must've put him in his early 20's at that point.

I have heard that Rhino Handmade or Hip-o-Select are working on a box of all his stuff which I'm looking forward to.

Finally, just found this interview from 1997 which might be of interest

http://www.buhdge.com/audio%20buhdge/rhodes_audio.htm

i'd like him better if his name was "emit," as in emit death rays from my intergalactic fender rhodes.

Just found this after finally getting as copy of his first record; it's one of the saddest things I've read in a while

http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=583&IssueNum=33

there is a comp out now on Hip-O select which combines all three of the solo albums and some other things (although not everything) that apparently sounds amazing. I really love his first album.

kewl!

That's a good article ^up there too.

'you take the dark out of the night' = amazing song

Sad and kind of o_O interview on WFMU that aired today.

i once had a long confused (maybe drunken) conversation with a friend where I said "this guy sounds more like mccartney than mccartney!" and my friend said "you think he sounds like mccartney? i don't hear that at all!" and we went back and forth for a long time. but it turned out i had been saying emmitt miller, the old minstrel "lovesick blues" guy and had completely confused my friend. true story!

anyway, been meaning to get that hip-o comp -- worth it? i've only heard the s/t.

i like that story. reminds me of the time when i was drunk and i kept saying something like: "i hate george clinton! why does everyone love george clinton so much! i don't trust him!" and my friends looked at me weird cuz i meant to say bill clinton.

I can only imagine what a mindf**k of a record McCartney and Rhodes would've made together if they had joined forces back in the day.

but it turned out i had been saying emmitt miller, the old minstrel "lovesick blues" guy and had completely confused my friend. true story!

haha!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ZIjbRj8xs

anyway, Emmit Rhodes s/t is absolute classic, it includes "Somebody Made For Me" one of my all time favorite pop songs

I like This American Dream as well

what's interesting about that FMU interview? i can't listen to it right now. worth it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTHgr19CaRk

Maybe that should have its own thread.

Been listening to the Hip-O-Select. The American Dream drags a little but the s/t is great and don't notice too much of a dropoff in quality in the other two.

anyone ever see this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLL8CsVeOiE

No!

Awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLYUJbvBFU4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypoMlWQ9xwU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL4Tcw77LNo

dope

I'd wondered for eons why this guy disappeared after 1973, and just read that his ABC contract demanded 6 albums over the span of 3 years and he couldn't keep up. They sued him and he started working behind the scenes instead. Imagine chasing a guy this talented away from a recording career because he worked slowly. jfc!

RIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emitt_Rhodes

RIP Emitt.

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/emitt-rhodes-rip/

I'd wondered for eons why this guy disappeared after 1973, and just read that his ABC contract demanded 6 albums over the span of 3 years and he couldn't keep up. They sued him and he started working behind the scenes instead. Imagine chasing a guy this talented away from a recording career because he worked slowly. jfc!

True but then I wonder why he didn't reduce his workload by just getting Leland Sklar and Waddy Wachtel and whoever to play on his records instead of trying to do everything himself - he'd even taken up the saxophone on his final (70s) album!

He was really into doing stuff by himself. I actually was just looking at my vinyl Farewell To Paradise (his last album for ABC/Dunhill), and his liner notes are very defensive about controlling all aspects of his music as an artist.

I've always been amazed he never found work as a professional songwriter, but I guess he was a little too early for that to be a viable career path.

Farewell To Paradise liner notes (for context, I believe he already been sued by ABC/Dunhill for breach of contract before recording the album)

If gold is valuable because it is scarce, then sincerity must even be more valuable because there is so precious little of it. I'm seldom attracted to liner notes. I've only taken the time to read just a few...those I have, in so many words, praised whomever for his or her musical genius. I find it difficult to do the same.

If I possess a talent, it surely must be patience. Someone said something about the world stepping aside when a man knew what he wanted. I've known for some time and the world hasn't yet made it any easier for me. Those things I cherish most I worked long and paid dearly for. I am a recording artist not just a songwriter or musician. I have taken total responsibility of my art. Avoiding the temptation of using others to conceal my weaknesses. My works are sincere and entirety my own.

Re-Upping broken Youtubes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgmioAfzhXE

The Merry-Go-Round on Hollywood Palace w/Don Knotts

Cool! Have The Bangles weighed in yet?

Susanna tweeted, but she's the only one I follow. Dunno about the others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLYUJbvBFU4

"Birthday Lady" promo film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypoMlWQ9xwU

"Really Wanted You" promo film.

I remember seeing a clip of him on the Whistle Test, but it's not up atm.

There's also a Palace Guard clip up ("Falling Sugar") but I don't think Rhodes is in it. The guy miming drums doesn't look like him.

That Brooklyn Vegan notice has some good stuff but too many popups. They do have vimeo embeds though, so there's that. Anyway here is a link to the doc, The One Man Beatles. https://vimeo.com/266426996

This is probably his last interview: https://mediumfidelitymusic.wordpress.com/2020/07/19/example-post-3

Flatmate who confirmed his passing is in the vimeo.

anyone ever see this?

― buzza, Sunday, January 27, 2013 3:46 PM

No!

― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, January 27, 2013

will finally watch this!

It's kind of bittersweet and sad and depressing- surprise! - but well-done and affectionate. Now is a perfect time to watch.

A few of the singles off the last album, none of which I have listened to yet, are credited to Emitt Rhodes, Richard Thompson and The Bangles. Not 100% sure what this means.

Seems to mean backing vox by Vicki and Debbi Peterson and electric guitar by Richard Thompson. Pretty nice.

They're stray singles from a project just prior to that last album, with Thompson & The Bangles featured guests.

Seems like two of the three songs on the singles are on the album as well.

His voice seems to have followed the opposite trajectory of that of Alex Chilton’s.

XP My bad. I misread something about them not being cut for or included on that album.

They were released and then pulled a few years earlier because of a legal issue.

I’m feeling some kind of connection with Arthur Alexander, don’t know if it’s just a simple connecting of dots: huge talent with a gift for melody and melancholy but no head for business, gone into hiding for decades, some kind of last comeback that is artistically successful but goes nowhere or is cut short, the word “rainbow.”

jeez, that doc was so sad

Which one was it? Original YT link seems to be gone from your 2013 post

posted above by JRatB
https://vimeo.com/266426996

Ah I see, thx buzza

RIP, one of the great one-man bands. Also non-LP single Tame The Lion is one of the great anti-war songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q81q4AkmEaw

A little more from the guy who did that last interview, with a cameo by Paul Schrader. https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/07/emitt-rhodes-dead/

Doc was so sad it gave me nightmares. Well I might have had them anyway but still.

guy did some nice stuff i've listened to last couple days (i def mustve heard a bit over the years), but why curse anyone with 'One Man Beatles'?

Yeah, stupid title. Also I'd like to read something about Emitt Rhodes that doesn't mention Paul McCartney for a change.

i think the title probably says more about how his biggest fans perceive him. i've known a handful of beatles worshippers who are so tragically devout that it's almost like nothing else will do and acts like emmitt rhodes, badfinger, and ELO just kind of fill this void for them.

never any love for key's "fit me in" though

Some fun promo videos of his popping up on Twitter:

RIP Emitt Rhodes "Really Wanted You," 1971 promo video. Fare thee well, Mr. Rhodes. Thank you for all the great music. pic.twitter.com/K8JQa9wjiY

— Nikki Kreuzer (@NikkiKreuzer) July 19, 2020

RIP Emitt Rhodes. Heres's a 1971 promo film for Birthday Lady, somewhat surprisingly filmed at Bristol Temple Meads. The full thing is here https://t.co/Wg2ntgBjG9 and here's a promo for Really Wanted You also filmed at BTM https://t.co/u5ETQoEe4Q pic.twitter.com/y0jXOAns89

— Birmingham 81 (@Birmingham_81) July 19, 2020

Some fun video promos of his popping up on Twitter:

RIP Emitt Rhodes "Really Wanted You," 1971 promo video. Fare thee well, Mr. Rhodes. Thank you for all the great music. pic.twitter.com/K8JQa9wjiY

— Nikki Kreuzer (@NikkiKreuzer) July 19, 2020

RIP Emitt Rhodes. Heres's a 1971 promo film for Birthday Lady, somewhat surprisingly filmed at Bristol Temple Meads. The full thing is here https://t.co/Wg2ntgBjG9 and here's a promo for Really Wanted You also filmed at BTM https://t.co/u5ETQoEe4Q pic.twitter.com/y0jXOAns89

— Birmingham 81 (@Birmingham_81) July 19, 2020

Cool.

Never cared about Counting Crows, but I have a newfound fondness for their bass player for his work with Emitt.

The doc is kind of depressing and Emitt was depressed and yet the older Emitt doesn’t seem like a betrayal of the younger one, rather a natural extension thereof and there is something eminently lovable about his withdrawn yet warm presence, if I may allow myself to go there.

i think the title probably says more about how his biggest fans perceive him. i've known a handful of beatles worshippers who are so tragically devout that it's almost like nothing else will do and acts like emmitt rhodes, badfinger, and ELO just kind of fill this void for them.

I mean some Beatles fans might as well be Zappa or Dead fans, they way they go on.

Personnel
Emitt Rhodes: All instruments and voices.

Keith Olsen is an interesting interview – “Where’s the charm?” he asks when told that Emitt was working with other musicians after 40 years in an actual studio.

I think I expected that documentary to be more depressing than it was. Rhodes is a depressive but not smotheringly so. And hey, he did do an album, even if it’s hard for me to reconcile the “To Make You Feel My Love”-esque vibe of that material with anything he did earlier in his career.

Right, exactly.

Keith Olsen is an interesting interview – “Where’s the charm?” he asks when told that Emitt was working with other musicians after 40 years in an actual studio.

https://tapeop.com/interviews/33/keith-olsen/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8reWSwi_gFA

The first solo record never gets old for me. I should give Mirror more of a chance.

If it hasn’t been done yet, somebody should interview Keith Olsen about Curt Boettcher before he kicks the bucket too. Boettcher worked on Rhodes’ S/T.

Olsen just died in March unfortunately.

goddammit

"Mirror" is as good as the first album, in my opinion, a bit less twinkly but that's a good thing.

I was finally listening to Mirror as a separate entity within the box last night. Sounded good. Saw that about Keith Olsen last night, RIP. He was so good in the doc. He was kind of super-grouchy about the whole thing but you could clearly see the affection there, or so I imagined.

I didn't realize (until reading about him after the documentary) that Olsen also played bass on The Music Machine's "Talk Talk" and that first album.

Me neither.

This ipre-Music Machine tidbit is interesting too, from his NYT obit:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/arts/music/keith-olsen-dies.html

He studied music at the University of Minnesota but left to play bass in different bands and toured with the singer Gale Garnett before joining the Music Machine

I guess what is appealing here is the kind of classic sitcom love/hate/Ernie/Bert/Felix/Oscar duality here between a world-class producer/ engineer and an idiosyncratic DIY depressive

Who were joined at the hip for a few minutes there in some fashion. "Where's the charm?" indeed.

Adding to the Fleetwood Mac connections, Richard Dashut worked w/Olsen on Farewell To Paradise.

...which I'm spinning rn, and I must say whenever Rhodes isn't being a surprisingly good soulboi, these acoustic-based tracks seriously look ahead to the s/t Mac LP. FWIW, Olsen/Dashut we're working on Buckingham-Nicks at roughly the same time.

Has this been mentioned yet?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/arts/music/emitt-rhodes-singer-dies.html

He had worked as a staff producer for the Elektra label, producing an album for the Canadian performer Bim and a 1976 novelty single by the actor and comedian Gabe Kaplan, “Up Your Nose” — a catchphrase from Mr. Kaplan’s hit TV show, “Welcome Back, Kotter.”

https://www.facebook.com/justinfielding/videos/10157640042786680

https://www.facebook.com/alexjulesHELLO/videos/10110075241067939

Wow. Love seeing/hearing him singing along with that piano

Yeah, that was really sweet.

He appeared on the David Frost Show on January 20th, 1972... along with Joseph Bologna and Vittorio De Sica!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1763979/

Feel like I just saw some of that, maybe it's in the doc?

Other relatively recent ER recordings out there, his rendition of "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" for a Bee Gees tribute, recording of "Time Will Show the Wiser" with Iain Matthews on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Vernier_Band_Sessions.

I guess I posted video of him strumming guitar for that Bee Gees thing yesterday.

Truth be told I don’t usually go for the one man band thing, for one thing in the case of Macca I’d prefer if he had somebody named Ringo or Jim on drums, and I resisted it in Emitt’s case quite a bit, but if that’s the way he wanted to go than I’ll have to take it, ultimately sounds pretty good. Splits the difference between Elliott Smith and Prince in their one man band incarnations.

i briefly thought a poll along the lines of “best album where every part is performed by a single person” would be a good idea until i remembered this place is overrun by the sort of people who would ruin the fun by voting exclusively for klaus schulze records or something

No doubt.

anyway your posts since the revive have been a pleasure and frequently otm, thanks James

Thanks! But listening to the Vic Damone version of “Farewell to Paradise” right now, let’s see how we all feel after I get through that.

One list thing before for now. Found this old school fan page that has some good photos on it. Enjoy! http://www.emittrhodesmusic.net/

Before I go for now.

That site has photos of The Merry Go Round performing - and competing! -on The Dating Game, which I don't think has been mentioned on this thread.

Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT_Q2YNHFug

Emitt in the center, Joel Larson over on the right.

...and on the left is Rick Dey, who co-wrote "Just Like Me" by Paul Revere, and who later died in the '70s by overdosing on nitrous whippits at a party.

Thanks. Btw you were right about the Bangles/Richard Thompson collabos, those versions are different from what was released on the album.

This playlist has pretty much everything Emitt did, although not “Listen, Listen” for some reason, which doesn’t seem to be on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/user/toddrawson/playlist/6FzdMIavNLfZYH7zKt0DTn?si=p7wTRpyMT1y-PkJmpx-k-w

There was a comp called Listen, Listen that had the Merry-Go-Round album, singles-only stuff like "Listen, Listen" and "Missing You" along with what I think of as the 0th Emitt album, the Wrecking Crew stuff released as The American Dream, but that comp didn't seem to make it to the streamscape.

yes, put out by the great joe foster's rev-ola label.

I don't have anything by him, but I must have flipped past this album a million times in 99-cent bins in the late-'70s/early-'80s. One of many I stupidly passed over.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/Emitt-Rhodes_Mirror.jpg

I am starting to suffer from a little bit of withdrawal now that the well of internet Emitt ephemera seems to be running dry (Note to budo jeru, I never considered myself the biggest fan or fanboy, but something about the highly functional under-achieving mild depressive I can relate to for some reason)

FB says he had been planning to marry his fiancée of a decade after teh COVID-19.

Also Bangles page reposted Debbi's post and one of the first responses was by F.J. McMahon.

wow that's fucking way cool !

Thought it might be somebody with the same name but it was totally him.

Wait, who is FJ McMahon?

You never heard Spirit of the Golden Juice? One-off 1969 Vietnam-vet lost psych/folk or folk/psych cratedigger classic.

Thanks. Btw you were right about the Bangles/Richard Thompson collabos, those versions are different from what was released on the album.

Um, HI DERE!

i can't believe FJ mcmahon is just on facebook

Ha, yeah exactly

anyway

a little bit of withdrawal now that the well of internet Emitt ephemera seems to be running dry

i still haven't made it through everything you've shared / referenced here, so perhaps you can share my anticipation vicariously

Thanks. I found one more thing of interest. May try to wait a beat before posting.

Will say one thing though: depressive or no-depressive, guy always had great hair.

I'm back. I can't help it.
(He can't help it, James Redd can't help it)

Listening to the tribute on SiriusXM Volume West. Michael Des Barres compared Emitt to Nick Drake, fair enough. Chris Price, who produced his last album telling interesting stories about how he met Emitt and about Emitt's day job at Mike Nesmith's Elektra studio where among other things he engineered Judee Sill's third and last and unfinished for a few decades album.

Keep getting this Chris Price mixed up with Chris Thomas and Bill Price.

This interview is great. Clears up a lot of stuff.

The three Bangles/Richard Thompson recordings were an offshoot of the recording sessions shown in the doc which, as C. Grisso/McCain pointed out, were pulled because of litigation. Rainbow Ends was actually recorded a few years later, this time in Emitt's home studio but with outside musicians coming in.

So hopefully Keith Olsen was satisfied charm-wise.

Two videos I cherry-picked off fan page coming up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPHIsrjh84Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcs78yiq_s8

The bandleader on the latter was his flatmate who reported his passing, I think.

The one-two closing punch on the Collected Contiguous Works of titular album closer "Farewell to Paradise" and the non-LP "Tame the Lion" is really strong. Vic Damone version of "Farewell to Paradise" is not bad either. And, sorry if I'm late to the party, but slowly starting to think his lyrics are pretty strong, sometimes seemingly formulaic at first blush, but open closer examination often a cut above.

I kind of want to join the Official Fan Forum, but then maybe
I will feel more guilty about picking off their stuff.

Seems like there is no approval process so I am in!

Now more photos show up in my feed.

join and just keep posting the good stuff here, you have our blessing

Okay, I don't know if you consider a video of photos posted by his friend "good stuff" but here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uarlsqwCtXQ

Think the group is public anyway so you can see everything anyway, just more likely to see stuff as a member and I can chime in if I really feel the need.

Listening to the tribute on SiriusXM Volume West. Michael Des Barres compared Emitt to Nick Drake, fair enough. Chris Price, who produced his last album telling interesting stories about how he met Emitt and about Emitt's (-day-) job at Mike Nesmith's Elektra studio where among other things he engineered Judee Sill's third and last and unfinished for a few decades album.

This interview is great. Clears up a lot of stuff.

Also, that makes sense re. Rainbow’s End being recorded later – the doc was 2010-11 and the record wasn’t released until 2016 or so. Seems fitting that he got fucked by the industry right to the end.

Re. his lyrics, I agree – one of my favorite tunes of his has always been “Live Til You Die,” but it was only this week that I really listened to the lyrics, poss. with an eye toward his innate unhappiness. In retrospect they feel a bit like him shouting into the abyss:

I have to say the things I feel, oh
I have to feel the things I say
You must live till you die, you must fight to survive
You must live till you die, you must feel to be alive
You must live till you die
See the sun rising in the east, welcome warm days
Feel my heart flying every time we're alone, babe
Everything around me has been changing so
I can't let go, oh no, no
You must live till you die, you must fight to survive
You must live till you die, you must feel to be alive
You must live till you die
Feel the earth trembling, have you heard distant thunder?
Everything's moving what's this feeling I'm under
Everything around me has been changing so
I can't let go, oh no, no
You must live till you die, you must fight to survive
You must live till you die, you must feel to be alive
You must live till you die, you must live till you die
I have to spin the spinning wheel, I have to kneel that way
I have to say the things I feel, I have to feel the things I say
You must live till you die, you must fight to survive
You must live till you die, you must feel to be alive
You must live till you die

OTM. He even had a way with titles. I finally learned yesterday whilst listening to the Chris Price interview- in the SiriusXM Volume West archive, through Sonos, that the last album is in fact called Rainbow Ends.

Here is some kind of “official” playlist of covers of his songs (it’s owner/creator is listed as Emitt Rhodes), in case we didn’t have it linked here yet.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5rYo0km9q4cWvoN6jRQDqg?si=bPs83hgoRL-Vg8QejiGotg

Maybe Emitt and not Elvis Costello is the real Cole Porter of Rock.

Hope you folks watched "One Man Beatles" before it went off of vimeo because of you.

Am I allowed to say I don’t care for any of his 2000’s work? As noted, it’s great he recorded anything again. And I’m sure I could find some parallels with his earlier work if I squinted hard enough. But honestly I’m not really sure I want to.

That Bangles cover of Live really hits the spot.

I’ve heard that cover many times through listening to the album it is on, but it has been hitting the spot for me these days too.

No worries if you don’t like the latter-day material, it’s sonically so different. I like it much more than most comebacks. Not sure if it is up there with Arthur Alexander, who I mentioned upthread but it’s close.

Meant to say it’s in the running

Lefsetz weighs in

Somebody quoted that whole thing on the fan group, maybe the bass player on Rainbow Ends and several people thanked him for expressing himself so beautifully

Hot off the presses! youtube.com/watch?v=MJu1yaIQZr4

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJu1yaIQZr4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJu1yaIQZr4

Handsome young chap. Weird to have him singing and playing to a backing track though.

Those are those Whistle Test clips I was talking about upthread! From one of the first episodes, iirc. There used to be an account on YouTube that had at least about 70-80 uncut episodes, presumably taken from original tapes (had the official BBC countdown leader and title cards), which was where I first saw it.

Another red hot release, coming right up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXy9xOc-rxQ

Sad and kind of o_O interview on WFMU that aired today.

He’s a little out of sorts for this interview but it’s as expected with what we know about him by now and ultimately still charming.

At the end Michael Shelley says the 2010 interview was one of his favorites and that somebody made a Youtube video with pictures of ER in the background.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfqEhZO7I3w

.

This interview is indeed O_o. Fasten your seatbelts before listening.

Which reminds me I just came across this:

In 2001, Rhodes and his daughter were in a car accident after Rhodes lapsed into a diabetic coma while his car was stopped a stoplight. The car rolled into a truck and crashed.

In 2001, Rhodes and his daughter were in a car accident after Rhodes lapsed into a diabetic coma while his car was stopped a stoplight. The car rolled into a truck and crashed.

― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs)

he mentions that accident the first time he shows up in that doc!

Hm, barely remember that, don't know what else I was doing while I was watching, thanks.

Before I sign off for today, here's a link to a Steve Hoffman thread discussion, about some of his business troubles, mostly involving management and publishing: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/emitt-rhodes-on-hip-o-select.182344/page-7

Maybe I was in a pre-diabetic coma myself.

I still remember how excited I was to hear that 2010 interview on WFMU and then being just completely flattened and bummed out by it. Rough stuff.

I suspect, based on his fearful and pretty nasty homophobic comments in this and one other interview I’ve read online, comments uttered without any sort of “one of the boys” jokiness, that Rhodes went through or witnessed some physical abuse that fucked him up. Or possibly he was repressed? Who knows? And this is on top of all the record contract grief. He just reads like a heavily battle-scarred person. Sad.

I mean...

https://scrammagazine.com/emitt-rhodes/

emitt makes an appearance at around 1:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNyoAyo9088

https://i.imgur.com/OIlRtDo.png

from p. 9 here:

http://krlabeat.sakionline.net/issue/4dec65.pdf

so david beaudoin actually wrote a book in 1997 about his experience with the palace guard and the hullabaloo. based on the title, i wonder if he talks about the sexual abuse that emitt brings up in those two interviews:

https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1550493239l/1589699._SX318_.jpg

I suspect, based on his fearful and pretty nasty homophobic comments in this and one other interview I’ve read online, comments uttered without any sort of “one of the boys” jokiness, that Rhodes went through or witnessed some physical abuse that fucked him up. Or possibly he was repressed? Who knows? And this is on top of all the record contract grief. He just reads like a heavily battle-scarred person. Sad.

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee)

i don't know emitt's life or what he went through.

i know there are many, many kinds of trauma and abuse - physical, sexual, emotional - and they are all damaging. i know that trauma and abuse is far more common, particularly in cishet-identifying men, than is readily acknowledged. i know there is a lot about rhodes' life that i have seen, uh, very commonly in, particularly, amabs who have gone through trauma and abuse, who are socialized to handle trauma and abuse in a certain way, for whom trauma and abuse are _normalized_.

i know that trauma and abuse is not a matter of "victims" and "abusers" but is a cycle, a pattern of behavior, that is instilled. i am not surprised to learn of the things that emitt rhodes has to say about gay people. whatever he went through, whatever brought him to that point, i think he is responsible for what he has said and done, and i do not think anything he may or may not have done exculpates him.

i very much enjoy much of emitt rhodes' music. i am saddened, but not surprised, to learn how difficult his life wound up being, how much hurt and pain he went through, and i am glad that he is not suffering anymore.

Man, reading that long interview the good Capitaine Jay Vee posted. Every time I see the name of the manager who messed him up I keep thinking "the bass player for the Monks!?" Sorry, my mind has a mind of its own.

I am still a little 🤯 after listening to the 2010 interview and reading that other interview.

On a lighter note, that interview also has this great exchange:


Kim: Your label mate, at the time, over at A&M was Phil Ochs, who was going kind of psychedelic…

Emitt: Nobody liked Phil Ochs. Did you like Phil Ochs?

Edwin: I loved his music.

Kim: I heard he was a horrible human being, by all accounts, but I still liked his records.

Emitt: You mean you liked him??
(The waiter walked up at this point to ask if we needed anything and Emitt addressed him.)

Emitt: Ever heard of Phil Ochs?
Waiter: Uhhh…

Emitt: How old are you?
Waiter: I’m nineteen.

Emitt: No, you’ve never heard of Phil Ochs. Forget it.
(The waiter left and we continued this thread)

...and this:

Kim: But you’d go back in time and kill Hitler?

Emitt: (chortling) Oh, I’d kill Hitler, no prob! I’d kill Saddam Hussein. Show him to me, I’ll go for him. (drives his butter knife against table repeatedly)

Kim: Put the knife down.

Are you posting that to go with NTI's "lighter note" or...?

the things that count as "a lighter note" these days...

Well, I thought it was funny (like a Simpsons gag..."Dad, put the butter knife down...")

well, it wasn't funny when my wife said it to me this week.

Reading that interview (and remembering others with him), I get the feeling he had to have been an aspie. The stubbornness, the feel for perfectionism, going from zero to tmi so rapidly in conversation...

Ya think?

going from zero to tmi so rapidly in conversation...

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain)

haha, now are you talking about rhodes or about me? :)

Relatedly, there was this in that interview:

Edwin: What other instruments do you play besides guitar, piano, bass and drums?

Emitt: Nothing. Is there anything?? For me it’s one-four-five. It’s Pythagorean Theorum. For me it’s mathematics. I love Pythagoras. Everybody else in rock and roll loves Pythagoras, too, even if they don’t know it. I’m just telling you that Pythagoras was a wonderful guy. He lived a long time ago, nobody knows him and nobody cares. He gave us do re mi fa sol la ti do. Without him… somebody else would have had to do it. I love math. I love science. I love that stuff.

Edwin: Yeah, math and music are pretty much synonymous.

Emitt: It’s Pythagoras. You split the string in half and you get an octave. You split it into thirds and you get a third.

the homophobic shit in those interviews is so heinous, and ER brings it up so abruptly, it's just really difficult to read.

That is really unpleasant, and the grandiose I Am A Scientist stuff doesn’t help any.

its always amusing to me when dudes in music learn like one scientific term or basic concept, and then immediately imagine themselves as a timeless polymath renaissance man. "I bring so many disciplines to bear on my music - art, history, science. For example, like Nicola Tesla, I too think outside the box when creating my music."

OTM. I started a whole thead about this.
Math & Music: The Severed Alliance. Some Recent Academic Approaches (Do Not Read If You Hate Drums)

I guess my thinking about it ended up being, "yes, there is some relationship between math and music, but it is vastly overstated by various people for various people and there are very smart people who are on record as saying that this relationship is vastly overstated."

It's like the "I am smart so I can deduce everything from first principles."

I'm axiomatic, like Euclid.

Ilx0r Euclid, Euler to thread!

Not to throw more fuel on the fire, but wondering how long it will take for this kidney stone of information to pass through my system.

Ilx0r (-Euclid-), Euler to thread!

Real quiet on this thread today

Yeah, a little too quiet

That interview with Scram magazine is pretty horrific. The whole sexual abuse story he tells, the bit about the guy who was abused getting arrested outside the club where they had played as teenagers with a bomb or explosives, wtf? Also, though they've censored the names of the people involved it's fairly easy to find out who they are - and the guy he accuses of the abuse is still alive.

I saw that. He was named after Gary Cooper!

The interview is from 2016, so nothing seems to have happened about these accusations. Not that Emitt Rhodes in 2016 is any kind of reliable witness on anything. judging by that interview.

Sorry, that’s the kind of datum my Aspie mind gravitates to when there is some horrific reality I don’t feel that comfortable discussing.

Sometimes some of those uncensored names show up on the Fan Page, but mostly just echoing Emitt. Can’t seem to find anything about the contents of that book.

Are you sure that interview is from 2016? I don't remember seeing a date, thought it was older. Here's another interview, not sure if it was linked yet, not sure if I need to read another interview with him right now myself: https://thelosangelesbeat.com/2012/04/long-time-no-see-los-angeles-beat-exclusive-interview-with-emitt-rhodes-part-1-of-2/

This popped up recently and there are even some rumors about who it is about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiQs3yKfys8

xp i'm actually not sure if emitt is actually in the video i posted.

i started reading a lot about the palace guard, orange-empire records, and the hullabaloo to find out more about the scene that was going on. it's particularly disturbing how much the contemporary promotion hypes the fact that it's a place for the TEENS, where the KIDS can finally come hang out after hours and see their favorite pop groups.

(xxp) Might not be 2016, thought I saw that somewhere.

Seems like with the political references being made that Scram interview was from the mid-2000s, possibly around the time the Rev-Ola Merry-Go-Round comp came out.

these two quotes appear right next to each other in kate sullivan's 2001 oral history of KROQ:

GARY BOOKASTA (founder, KROQ AM and FM): We wanted to call it "KROK," but it was already taken. It was [DJ] Humble Harve's idea to use the Q. He ended up killing his wife, but Phil Spector and I went to bat for him in court. He only got two years [for manslaughter].

SHADOE STEVENS (DJ, 1973-74, 1976-79): KROQ was the inspiration of Gary Bookasta. Gary was a con man. He had an almost mystical ability to make people believe in him. He pulled together 13 partners, who built this radio station in Burbank. It took off like a rocket.

Self-XP I see on the Scram site that the interview was put online in early '16, but issue of the mag it appeared in was published in 2003.

yeah i mean why else would he express the desire to murder saddam hussein

Yes, so those allegations have been out there for a hell of a long time.

All of this is not seeming to have much effect on my ability to listen to his music this afternoon, somewhat surprisingly or not.

A lot of these things were an open secret – Bob Markley and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Kim Fowley and the Runaways. I keep hoping Ugly Things will do an exposé on sexual abuse in 60s garage rock circles. It’s def. a part of the history.

This popped up recently and there are even some rumors about who it is about:
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I think every music scene ever has had creepy, manipulative older guys who hang around it - Markley and Fowley are textbook examples.

Where are these? I didn’t see anything in the comments.

Back in the day, Fowley came over to hang out in Glasgow for some reason and had all these indie rock scenesters from the Pastels and Teenage Fanclub running about after him like he was some fucking genius - while he was trying to touch up all their girlfriends. He played some shit gig with Norman Blake on guitar and somebody from the BMX Bandits on bass or whatever and I remember someone saying after it, "Do you want to hang out with Kim?" and I was like, "I'm not going anywhere near that talentless cunt".

Good for you.

_Where are these? I didn’t see anything in the comments._

Some family friend on FB Fan Page said it was about a decade older celebrity Emitt was dating that his dad didn’t like. Although a decade older than Emitt at the time is like what, mid-to-late twenties?

I think every music scene ever has had creepy, manipulative older guys who hang around it - Markley and Fowley are textbook examples.

not only were there aspects of that scene that might have encouraged the presence of predatory behavior, it's precisely that, for fowley, being a sexual deviant / creep who bragged about hanging around high schools trying to pick up underage girls, that was all self-consciously part of his image / "appeal"

cf. the fugs' "dirty old man"

Oh yes, definitely the 60s was perfect for these sorts of creeps, and eventually you end up with Manson .

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YCrx84lPEG8/maxresdefault.jpg

cf. Charlie Chaplin and his brother Syd tbh.

I read the 2012 LA Beat interview (2 Parts, BTW). It's a bit different than the Scram one, way more deep-dive discussion about musical theory and science. Extra-Value stuff on the background of and what went wrong with the Bangles/Thompson singles, plus complaints about how poorly mastered he felt the Hip-O Select comp was.

Also something vaguely endearing about Rhodes using these interviews to finesse nice meals and drinks in sit-down restaurants.

'Nice' being relative since one of them was at Red Lobster.

he does seem to like drinking

Yup. Probably not the best thing for a diabetic.

I don't usually go for these things, but this just appeared and is kind of sweet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tnIxYw1HvI

Moral of the story: guy was in general a much, much better editor of himself when he was composing and recording music then when he was talking trash whilst throwing his blood sugar further out of whack with one too many margaritas.

It makes total sense that even though he sounds so much like McCartney he is more of a Lennon loyalist. Let me go out on a challops limb and say that “Birthday Lady” is a much better written song than “Birthday.”

Guy on the fan group has a big box, a big stash of photos Emitt gave him that he is slowly posting one by one. Some pictures of him in the Emerals have gone up recently.

If you care about that, you don't actually have to join since the group is

Public
Anyone can see who's in the group and what they post
Visible
Anyone can find this group.

is there a link to this fan group ? where is the fan group ?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/377708406418400

Do not read if you hate home recordings of Emitt Rhodes's songs.

I was trying to cherry-pick for y’all but maybe you want to see the raw data for yourselves.

You can also go to the related page
https://www.facebook.com/EmittRhodes

DO U SEE?

the fan group is an amazing spectacle, but i'm unsure how much of it has to do with my otherwise 0% exposure to facebook

like this one guy tried to correct a poster by informing him that emitt's first band was actually spelled emeralDs, and then when somebody pointed out that no it's actually the emerals he doubled down and said, "what, didn't they know how to spell ?" lmao like dude, just enjoy the photos of 14yo emitt

Wonder if that dude will do that every time the other dude posts another pic of Emitt in his green Emerals shirt behind his green Emerals kit.

Here's something interesting: those UK promo films were shot in Bristol, in Temple Meads Station.

Bristol Temple Meads

Anyone listen to this album he produced called Thistles, by Bim or BIM or B.I.M.? Just tried the first few tracks, not grabbing me.

Just Bim, it seems.

STE weights in, on Emitt and Peter Green. https://sterlewine.substack.com/p/farewell-to-emitt-rhodes-and-peter

Apparently Miss Mercy of the GTOs was a friend of Emitt's. Also just found this thread, budo jeru: One man albums

At least according to Emitt's (best?) friend, who also made this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8oWG2wU9Yk

Also meaning in addition to co-producing The One Man Beatles.

thanks for that thread link, James

i also checked out the bim record and failed to see the appeal

I couldn’t get into it either. Think opinions on it are mixed

Haha:

Anyone mention Emitt Rhodes yet?
I admire any musician who can play drums - I don't admire drummers themselves, they're despicable.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:15 PM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Those Emerals picks coming fast and furious. Also somebody let it slip that Emitt's fiancée owns that page, apparently.

xp does Dada(ismus) still post here, under a different name maybe ?

Pics. Pictures, not guitar picks, although who knows, maybe not just yet

Dada(ismus) posted on this very thread the other day. Tom D.

oh wow. that explains so much. love dada / tom's posts

Re. his lyrics, I agree – one of my favorite tunes of his has always been “Live Til You Die,” but it was only this week that I really listened to the lyrics, poss. with an eye toward his innate unhappiness. In retrospect they feel a bit like him shouting into the abyss:

This came through the wormhole:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/2002/01/27/emitt-rhodes-lost-38/bd09f24e-7afd-4575-8ad0-0c0938c433c1/

It's not typing! Google is my co-pilot:

Ever find yourself running, running, running away
Ever find yourself hiding from the things that you feel
Ever hear yourself crying, crying, crying to someone
Won't you look down from Heaven, won't you prove you are real?
Ever lose yourself searching, searching, searching in darkness
With your questions unanswered, never knowing the truth
Ever feel yourself dying, dying, dying a slow death
Heavy laden with burdens that are stealing your youth
Ever find yourself running, running, running away
Ever find yourself hiding from the things that you feel
Ever find yourself running?

And I would agree ... one of the things I love about his lyrics is that they convey really heavy emotions and thoughts with an economy of vocabulary. So when you come across a couplet like "Heavy laden with burdens that are stealing your youth" you almost catch yourself to make sure you heard it right.

Yes indeed.

Wonder which Beatles song(s) he actually sang with The Palace Guard. You see or hear "Michelle," "Yesterday," "Norwegian Wood" and "We Can Work It Out." The last one seems to have be mentioned that enough I'm inclined to believe it.

If you don't like Bim, budo jeru, then you probably won't like this version of "Ever Find Yourself Running," by - wait for it - Marriage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxorx0OLnzU

Ciao, Paradiso!
https://variety.com/2020/music/news/emitt-rhodes-appreciation-singer-songwriter-john-wirth-1234721593/

That was great. Thanks for sharing!

Yeah, that was really an A+ version of the classic Emitt encounter we've come to expect.

I finally learned that The Merry-Go-Round had a couple of bass players, that Rick Dey replaced Bill Rinehart. I guess I think I knew Joel Larson came and went and there was another drummer at one point, couldn't tell you his name though.

xxpost Great piece! Thanks for sharing it.

Haven’t giving you anything in almost twenty-four hours so here is this little tidbit I have been saving

I was afraid of that, didn’t quite work on the phone. Hang on a sec, please.

think this will work though

Guys, come on over to my new thread

Take us to lunch first.

Ha!

There is a Mexican restaurant up the block that makes a good iced margarita with a nice view of the Empire State Building from the sidewalk seating that I think you will like.

Feel like maybe NTI should give the last album another chance or two. Despite the deepening of the voice, the divorce discussion and the different production, underneath it all there is still his strong melodic sense.

In my mind “Isn’t It So” is getting mixed up with “Nobody Knows” by the Raspberries. Come to think of it, why isn’t Tim Ellison on this thread?

I’ll def. give it another chance – I hadn’t realized this but the supporting cast alone is insane (Hoffs, most of Jellyfish, Aimee Mann – according to a review I saw).

Isn’t It So finally clicked with me a week or so ago – the version I have on the Listen, Listen comp (recorded in 1980) has some questionable sax but a great chorus, and kind of suggests an alternate career as an MOR hitmaker. But the version on Rainbow Ends is nice as well, the strings give it a sadder, more elegiac feel.

Yes, those folks are all on there, although sometimes hard to pick them out of thie mix.

This version, I assume.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhn_uXhtOn0
Yes, I can see how the sax would be pretty off-putting.

But the vocal is excellent.

Some more stuff from that same period, apparently. Seems to be for some Elektra project, maybe. These really don't sit well with me although the second never reappeared in any other form as far as I know so may be worth giving a try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG97BYSQ0JQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWIriVsDRXg

Or this. Think this stuff has already been mentioned upthread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPxbMaXOdoY

This seems an improvement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzs7Crv_3bM

Done a decade or two later.

Oh wow I’m loving the “all synths” Emitt Rhodes. Really cool.

Radio Moskow interview from Thanksgiving 2011. Interview starts about minute 70, music a few minutes before, maybe minute 67. https://echo.msk.ru/sounds/833165.html

Lasts about ten minutes. He's in good spirits.

Some serious ping-pong stereo on The Merry-Go-Round album, thought my earphones were broken for a moment.

As I converge upon the heat death of this thread, remarking that the versions of “You’re A Very Lovely Woman” on The Merry-Go-Round and on the, um zeroth solo album are exactly the same but one is maybe thirty seconds longer.

Some more stuff from that same period, apparently. Seems to be for some Elektra project, maybe. These really don't sit well with me although the second never reappeared in any other form as far as I know so may be worth giving a try.
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I read something similar. I even heard that two of the three songs were "Isn't It So" and "More Than A Smile Will Do."

Finally listened to these. The "all synths" Emitt Rhodes is really more like Steely Emitt -- jazzy chords and melodies and heavy, er, Rhodes. "Isn't It So" is probably the best of the lot.

Here's a recent-ish interview that isn't online but the preview is: https://tapeop.com/interviews/33/emitt-rhodes/. Might be pretty interesting.

I'm finally putting on Farewell to Paradise ... will report back but I like some of the Mellotron stuff in the first few tracks.

You have to subscribe to Tape Op to get the rest of that interview (and to find out where they ate).

Speaking of "Steely Emitt", Gary Kato mentioned in the liners to the Merry Go Round comp that in the late '80s his band Bullet backed Rhodes on some "Steely Dan-quality" demos of new compositions.

Can't believe this only emerged within the last several hours. Jackie De Shannon singing "Live Till You DIe" - recorded at American Studios! Yet another dot to connect in my Arthur Alexander, um, "Theory."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMPUQECIiIM

Guess this stuff lay in the vaults until two years ago, Damn you, Emitt!
https://jazzchill.blogspot.com/2018/04/jackie-deshannon-stone-cold-soulthe.html

That cover came out as a bonus on the RPM reissue of Jackie’s “Songs” fifteen years ago or so, for what it’s worth.

Thanks. Saw that a couple of, um, songs, from that session made it onto Songs, maybe they were even re-recorded, didn't know about bonus track reissues in the interim.

So do you guys know where that house is on the self-titled cover?

Also, um, one of Emitt's ex-wives seems to be a member of the Fan Forum.

Definitely her.

that's interesting and also weird. will she tell her story ? will the fans be kind to her ?

the woman who took the photograph on the jackie deshannon album cover was married to composer teiji ito, maya deren's widower, and was the administrator of the deren estate until her death in 1999:

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/17/classified/paid-notice-deaths-ito-cherel-winett.html

No to the first question. To the second question, they mostly turn a blind eye if they are aware of it at all. Although one person posted this on a thread she started:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEuiyOcGfz8

His other ex-wife is on there too. I kind of feel unclean knowing this. Now that I have reported it, I will slink away in shame.

...for Mexican Coffees at Red Lobster?

Ha, I saw that coming a few light years away, using my homebrew telescope. Do you know how a telescope works? Do you know what parallax is?

I've read books.

Heh.

The other ex made it pretty clear she doesn't want her story told.

Wonder which one is heard at the end of “Bubble Gum The Blues.”

So as this posthumous boom of interest is winding down for me, not much more info is emerging, mostly some intriguing photos from a friend Emitt had given them to, who is turning them over one by one like playing cards. Well, there was that one Xmas card from Emitt, his wife and first son posted by a guy who played with Billy Joel in the early ( Attila?) days. There is still the ever-present curious cat part of me that wants to hear the gory details of all of his family troubles but highly doubt these will come to light. Do feel after extensive (re)listening that despite the way his career played out his musical legacy is strong, that he was much more than just a stuntman, a footnote, a might-have-been, currently residing in the where-is-he-now file.

There’s always a temptation to want to know more with these guys – to learn where and why things went off the rails and how it all maybe kind of could’ve ended differently. But I almost always find that when I do learn more—say, reading the Gene Clark, Dennis Wilson and Billy MacKenzie biographies—while I’m glad I dug deeper I’m invariably kind of bummed out and feel like I need to take a shower. Mental illness sucks that way.

I feel comfortable concluding that learning more about Emitt would almost certainly end the same way.

Otm

I feel a little bit like that already, just perusing the minimal posts of his exes.

There are a few nice pictures that keep emerging from various shoeboxes in the other place, including one of Emitt with what seems to be Jack Nitzsche along with this guy, https://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=288534&title+Harvey-Bruce-RIP, the man who signed Emitt and introduced him to Keith Olsen.

Nitzsche earlier arranged and/or produced one of the Palace Guard singles, which iirc he was dismissive of in the big interview/discography overview he did in the late '70s in BOMP!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNLhvQvaoAU

Was thinking this thread would mention Emitt, but no: Thoughts on hum?

https://purepopradio.com/2017/08/25/pure-pop-radio-in-conversation-podcasts-emitt-rhodes-airdate-march-20-1997/

I may watch this tribute thing at 3PM PDT on FB this evening.

Tribute was kind of touching if a little thrown together. In other news, pictures are showing up of Emitt's induction into the Hawthorne Hall of Fame, courtesy of his ex-wife and others. Most interesting is a picture of Emitt and his fiancée at a restaurant she liked- at LAX!

that was presumably the proud bird, which is actually next door to lax, with a view. a strange little la landmark.

That’s the same place he went with the TV producer in 2006.

Some people keep referring to the earlier version of "Isn't It So" as one of three songs, but I think they are confusing this with the three songs with Richard Thompson and the Peterson sisters.

Pretty good writeup and interview:
https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/the-one-man-beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbndpazF_DU

https://joeromersa.disco.ac/playlist-new/3888115?date=20200722&user_id=61581&signature=0Fv07nNrCKE58bD4f6pdviksEqo%3AaI7He6nO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn28MvHuREk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49w0SsrqKmg

Morbius's sister recently posted a high school photo of him on Friendbook and for a beat or two I really thought it was something from the Emitt Rhodes group. #OneThread

My top artist of the year, 0.005%ile.

And The Merry-Go-Round came in number five.

you love to see it

I owe it all to you guys and this thread. Mulțumesc!

it's been a journey for sure!

Yeah, a real journey...to the nearest Red Lobster!

lol

Never gets old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvSVMtuDf6w

the photos from the magic mountain music festival are super cool

Wonder if anyone ever revealed who "You're a Very Lovely Woman" was supposed to be about.

Finally watching that video I just posted. Not sure if there is anything new in it.

I walked by a hand car wash on an industrial street of woodside queens this morning and heard With My Face On the Floor blasting. It was an odd location for that.

This cool, new-to-me track giving me heavy Emitt Rhodes vibes though I think Rhodes would've taken this up several notches lyrically
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QziYUqeSVe0

HB, ER!

So he got a Grammy RIP nod.

And something kind of sweet on social media about him.

So he got a Grammy RIP nod.

Ah, didn’t know. That’s great.

#WhenWorldsCollide

I also think any Eagle who says they weren't blowing rails and listening to this song from five years earlier on repeat when they wrote "Hotel California" is lying.https://t.co/F7RAWxN0lB

— Tyler Mahan Coe (@TylerMahanCoe) May 7, 2021

!

But came to post this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7kR8IcJGR8

I came to watch the Merry Go Round (and Jerry Butler) but stayed for the Happy Jack dance party.

!!!

Ha, dan otm.

Came to post that today is apparently a special day for Emitt.

Just saw a Father's Day weekend photo of Emitt on F-Borad, very sweet.

New cover of "Promises I Made" by Black Keys guy mentioned here.

Feels a little too slow to me upon first listen, but the story is nice.

“And of course the Emitt Rhodes song at the end [Promises I’ve Made]. I think that was the first song I recorded, and it was on the day that Emitt died. That was what set the fire for everything because I liked this new recording set-up and how it turned out, so I just kept going”.

Sounds like he was trying to make sound like something off Abbey Road. #onethread

Sixth anniversary of the release of Rainbow Ends today.

I just won a vinyl American Dream (2nd edition) on eBay!

Wow!

Mrs. Redd is watching some new Star Trek thing and there is an Emitt-looking guy on the screen right now.

No doubt headed to the Space Lobster.

That vinyl copy of American Dream I got is gorgeous...the prior owner(s) took really good care of it. Might be my favorite Emitt release.

Also noticed some Emitt included on the playlists last shared here: Obscure Singles Heard at CVS

“Isn’t It So” is my jam.

Not sure what this adds but, one of his exes posted it so: https://www.splicetoday.com/music/the-rise-and-fall-of-singer-songwriter-emitt-rhodes-the-one-man-beatles

And then someone else close to him eplied about the relatively happy ending.

Where is that? Do you have to register to see it?

What, the reply? They mentioned it on Friendbook.

Is “Isn’t It So” about his mother? Although it is obvious written to seem as if it is about an ex.