little richard - C or D?

Shouldn't there be some way to make good on this while he's still around

― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 4:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

so otm
unfortunately this felt true of bo diddley and i don't know that there's some dramatic change after death

amazing dude - totally loving the drumming on this early stuff

sometimes that's his road drummer, but more often than not it's the great earl palmer.

little richard's specialty recordings are totally deathless.

what's the deal with the man hisself? his autobio not only has him coming out, but discusses certain things in, um, graphic detail. but in other contexts he just plays dumb or even offended when asked about his sexuality.

obviously a complicated man lolz

Hard to summarize his crazy career, but I tried.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6uzaNElJRo

classic and classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4M1W0OPGjM&feature=related

I've got the "Georgia Peach" comp and it's frickin' perfect from start to finish.

"Georgia Peach" is brilliant, but volume 2 of the (two-part) series, "Shag On Down By The Union Hall" is even a little better. If you can believe that!

the vhs wobble on the clip above sounds like some awesome pedal effect

damn the stories about this guy (including those he told)

Lucille?!?!?!

You won't do your sister's will

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHlRa-RPjWE

80 today. Probably still insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3-OaNevkfg

love him, his nearly unhingedness is just reet.
HAve him popping up on my walkman quite frequently and love it each time.

Also got Esquerita popping up quite a bit, the cd version of his 1st lp. Lovely stuff in places a bit straighter but he's still got that wail which is something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUvHBirr1PI

Watch the whole thing. You will not regret.

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/719-prayers-for-richard

Hope he had a nice 83rd birthday despite his hip pain since the flawed surgery

i cant really listen to prince today but richard is my replacement.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07697wn

this is a great programme.

id love to hear richard on the radio every week.

also feels fitting as without little richard, im not sure there would be a prince, though princes eventual disavowal of his gender-questioning work/image was one of the things that most dissappointed me about his later career.

also feels fitting as without little richard, im not sure there would be a prince

Who would have thought he'd outlive him?

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

The beauty is still on duty.

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/music/2009/galleries/rock-a-likes-dave-grohl-anthony-kiedis-and-other-rockers-strike-familiar-poses/rock-a-like-prince-and-lil-richard-79447/25164365-25164367-large.jpg

i ADORE little richard. why there is no

no richard = no hendrix, prince, and actually, no james brown, cos JB started out as a LR imitator

...as did Otis Redding.

How dare you revive this thread right now, scared the hell out of me. Jerk.

I did wonder.

I'm going to start reviving random old musician threads just to freak everyone out. Jerry Lee Lewis c/d. Chuck Berry c/d. George Clinton c/d ...

RIP Justin Bieber

I have wondered if the manic energy translates to modern ears. Have loved him since i first heard him and do hear echoes of him in the Stooges etc etc.
I remember hearing him being played by a DJ at a bnightclub around 20 years ago and thinking it was healthy but did wonder what the teens in the club thought of it since it was just an alterantive club not a specialist place.

BUt yeah that early Specialty stuff is right off the wall and you can see how it would have been revelatory to those hearing it for the first time as near contemporaries back in the mid 50s on both sides of teh Atlantic. Seems to have been an artist that a lot of the people who go onto the moddish beat stuff in the mid 60s and then possibly the harder rock of the 70s cite quite frequently.
The 60s soully stuff is also good.

As is Esquerita his possibly more outrageous contemporary. Worth checking out anyway.

as far as the early rock guys go - Elvis, Chuck, Buddy, Jerry - I rank Little Richard's early singles over all of them just because they *really* rock, in contemporary sonic terms, in the way the others don't. I mean "Keep a Knockin'" is such a beast, it is so frenetic and loud and raucous. The smaller combo-oriented stuff of the other guys, great as they are, doesn't have the same level of propulsion and volume. Like I have a little bit of a hard time picking out which instruments are doing what in that recording, the piano/horns/guitar all kind of smear together in this jumbling orgiastic rhythm. and that voice! goddamn.

i love all of those guys but i love richard most of all, he really feels like the one early-rock guy who completely transcends his era and will always sound amazing. oddly i feel like he gets much less attention than some of the others, i don't think i've ever seen anyone discuss his early stuff at length the way ppl will dissect elvis's sun singles or a single chuck berry lyric. that said i've never really delved into any of his post-50s work apart from a few singles -- curious if there's any overlooked classics.

More or less agree with last two posts.

Watching the Dortmund 88 video and at 4:20 Prince totally does a Little Richard "shut up," albeit not in Richard's voice.

He says it a little around 8:30 too. Maybe it is more common than I thought, although the only two entertainers I have heard say it a lot are Little Richard and Milton Berle.

Watched the mtv special on the purple rain premiere and Richard is there, saying 'Prince is this generation's version of me'. There's an interview wuote from Prince saying he wouldn't be bought by a label like they might have bought Richard with a new car or whatever. I've seen Richard interviewed about Prince several times. But never known if they met or performed ever. I fantasized secretly about Prince covering something by him on piano. But can't remember if it ever happened.

Just saw some intranetz story on a webboard about Prince snubbing Richard at a Purple Rain afterparty, but not sure of the validity of it.

Maybe he gets less attention because his biggest songs (Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally, Good Golly Miss Molly) are not necessarily the truly frantic shit (Jenny Jenny, Keep a Knockin', Rip It Up). Part of that might be overexposure and part might be due to many different versions of these songs he recorded. It's like explaining to people who only know I Feel Good that James Brown is the deepest, rawest music ever.

Hearing 'I don't know what you've got but it's got a hold on me' a few years ago sent me on a huge Little Richard kick.
Of the early guys, I don't really want to pick one, but I do think Little Richard kind of mops the floor with all of them vocally.

the "You! And You! And You! .... Not You!" at the beginning of Hound Dog cracks me up

Happy 84th!

The beauty is *still* on duty!

Or as Chuck Berry calls him, "Youngster".

When I saw this thread got revived I had feared 2016 had one last kick in the teeth for us. Long live Little Richard!

Happy birthday to the Quasar of Rock

85 today. Last man standing?

http://i.pinimg.com/originals/aa/67/cd/aa67cdb20019a81c542cfe35e7fdd08e.jpg

Well there's the guy standing next to him there....

I'm not sure either of them stand much these days.

Bendy--that's what I meant, which one? (You're probably right, Josh.)

Ah gotcha. Lewis has Satan on his side, unfortunately.

people, watch this IMMEDIATELY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Z2rQZeoWk&

Utterly vital performer.
The Specialty stuff is some of the most immediate, visceral music ever isn't it?

I saw the 2nd half of a doc on him on i think Sky Arts a couple of weeks back. Is that going to be the same one being talked about here a few months ago.
Thought it a pain id missed the beginning anyway.

It is streaming on channel 4 atm

Would have been 91 today. I was in a middle school, so was able to talk about him and play a clip for three different grade 7 classes. This is my fifth year of supplying since retiring. I think money is about 60% of why I keep going (even though I'm fortunate enough to not depend on it), 30% is that I'd go stir crazy if I didn't, and--not to flatter myself, but I really do feel this way--10% is that if I stop, no one will ever tell them about Little Richard.

Shut up!

(Sorry, couldn’t resist)

Preach on, brother!

Saw the "I Am Everything" docu recently, quite liked it - especially because a good portion of it is directly from Richard over the years.

FWIW, I don’t remember anyone ever mentioning Little Richard once when I was in school. I only learned about his music through the Beatles and as much as I love Little Richard now, I can’t imagine what else would have led me to his work - maybe the obituaries surrounding his death or maybe William Klein’s film, but that would mean many years later. (I didn’t see Klein’s film until sometime during the 2010s.)

John Waters maybe

aw, Little Richard was the first artist i really loved, along with James Brown maybe.

He had a big feature in the Life mag Dec 92 "40 years of rock n roll" special edition that i swiped from my grandfather. I got into music using that pub as a guide to the library's AV collection, which also featured lots of Richard.

i actually made my own Little Richard figurine out of polymer clay, since i couldn't find one in any stores.

Also wanted to say something about the beauty still being on duty

The doc is good