C or D: Emitt Rhodes?

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.