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Alex Chilton and Hi Rhythm Section:Boogie Shoes: Live On Beale Street
― dow, Friday, 10 December 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
MAGNET Magazine@MAGNETMagazineHappy birthday #ChrisBell (@BigStarBand, @chrisbell_story, @ArdentStudios).
You gave us light. Read two exclusive excerpts from “There Was A Light: The Cosmic History Of Chris Bell And The Rise Of Big Star” (@PermutedPress):
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https://magnetmagazine.com/2019/01/15/magnet-exclusive-excerpt-from-there-was-a-light-the-cosmic-history-of-chris-bell-the-rise-of-big-star-by-rich-tupica/
― dow, Saturday, 12 February 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
That book is good, I have it.
― Ferryboat Bill Jr. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 February 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
good stuff, alex chilton was/is the coolest
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Sunday, 13 February 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
how did it take me this long to realize that line from "in the street" is "wish we had a joint so bad" i always just kind of blurred it over for some reason.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Sunday, 13 February 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
What did you think he was singing? Serious question
Wish we'd had/adjoined so bad
― a (waterface), Monday, 14 February 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
Never thought it could be anything else.
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 February 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
i've heard that song a million times and never thought about what he was singing there, haha
i should start listening to words in other songs, see what's there!
― snarl self own (Karl Malone), Monday, 14 February 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link
Worth a try, what have you got to lose?
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 February 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
I've spent the last 30 years thinking it was "wish we hadda joined some band" and frankly wish I still did.
― cw, Monday, 14 February 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
Never been sure if the joint is a spliff, or a crashpad (cos they're hanging out on the street)
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 February 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
I always like it when this thread is revived because I think mark s's opening comment taught me not to get upset about opinions on a music message board
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 February 2022 19:22 (two years ago) link
Karl unfamiliar with joints?Nope that’s not it
― calstars, Monday, 14 February 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link
I can see the confusion since the song or album or anything else the band did otherwise doesn't have much of a stoner vibe.
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 February 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link
Aside from the entire third/sister lovers album of course
― calstars, Monday, 14 February 2022 21:09 (two years ago) link
Right I knew that would come up. But is it even a stoner vibe, exactly?
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 February 2022 21:11 (two years ago) link
huh? oh sorry man--is stoner vibe about exactly tho?
― dow, Monday, 14 February 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
But is it even a stoner vibe, exactly?
Any downs at allAny downs at all
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 February 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
alex chilton tilted toward harder drugs, i think. chris bell seems like the most stoner of all stoner guys of all time.
― snarl self own (Karl Malone), Monday, 14 February 2022 21:28 (two years ago) link
in general big star codes way more with drinking imo
― snarl self own (Karl Malone), Monday, 14 February 2022 21:29 (two years ago) link
otmhttps://popturf.com/locations/music/big-star/tgi-fridays-former
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:19 (two years ago) link
“Play it for me guitarist”
― calstars, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 02:04 (two years ago) link
ilxor tylerw:
nearly half of the setlist is made up of covers, including tunes by the Kinks, Loudon Wainwright III and T. Rex. Perhaps the most interesting of these is the only (as far as I know) known Big Star version of the Velvet Underground’s “Candy Says.” Remarkable that, along with his later cover of “Femme Fatale,” Chilton was so tuned in to the softer side of Lou Reed’s songwriting at this point in the 70s. Most of the proto-punk/punk scene focused on the other extreme of his stuff, right?
― dow, Friday, 1 April 2022 19:52 (two years ago) link
At least once, also covered "The Bed" (but as he says, "no tape has emerged"---has it?)
Started to doubt myself about this factoid but here’s where I got it — holly George warren’s Chilton bio. pic.twitter.com/vktevlinm4— Tyler Wilcox (@tywilc) March 31, 2022
― dow, Friday, 1 April 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link
Here's some anecdotal evidence that he may not even have known about some of the other side of Lou Reed's songwriting:
― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link
"Sweet Jane" was already becoming a bit of standard among those 'in the know' in those pre-Rock'n'Roll Animal days: Mott The Hoople recorded it at Bowie's urging as the opening cut on All The Young Dude's, and I was recently reminded the Brownsville Station included it on Yeah! (the album which gave us "Smokin' In The Boy's Room").
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 April 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
Wow at Brownsville Station. Mitch Ryder was apparently into Loaded, believe he covered something off of it, "Rock & Roll" maybe.
― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link
Then the Runaways borrowed his arrangement for their version.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 1 April 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
XP Yeah, "Rock & Roll" on the Detroit album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mag6jxiHXXk
Steve Hunter on guitar and Bob Ezrin producing.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 April 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link
Yes, was just reading about that connection.
― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 20:57 (two years ago) link
yeah, that's a good album---I always liked Ryder more than xgau, and I'd give this an A minus:
Detroit [Paramount, 1971]Despite the old strain and stridency, the way Mitch Ryder swells with an infusion of the Host upon contact with a Wilson Pickett song is more welcome than ever. So is former Detroit Wheel Johnny Bee--these days any drummer who can play rock and roll without turning into some machine is a precious resource. And whoever told Mitch to put Ron Davies's "It Ain't Easy," Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock," and the Velvet Underground's "Rock 'n Roll" on the same album wins a James Taylor dartboard. B+
― dow, Friday, 1 April 2022 21:02 (two years ago) link
Seems like Brownsville Station could have done Chilton & Co. a solid and covered "Don't Lie To Me".
Pulled out my vinyl Yeah! and their "SJ" cover has a chiming electric guitar part straight out of "September Gurls" while Alex may have appreciated them marrying "Barefootin'" to a T. Rex "Bang A Gong"-style riff.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:34 (two years ago) link
From Dave Marsh’s Lou obit:
So I turn around about the third time I’m playing the tracks back to back, top volume on those huge speakers we had (the floor speakers in the huge square cabinets, ElectroVoice maybe?) and there stands Johnny B, Mitch Ryder’s great drummer and one of my mentors in how to listen and what to listen to. And he’s doing one of his B things–Stewart will know what I mean, with his jaw dropping and his fingers poppin’–because Mitch’s rehearsal upstairs had just ended. And then the rest of the band comes in and we are all standing there with our brains in tatters. Six months later, I’m sitting at a table at the Waldorf, some room where Mitch is doing an debut party for his Detroit, and they hit “Rock’n’Roll,” which they’d worked up about a day after first hearing it. We were sitting right up front, and Lou leans over from across the table next to us and says, “That’s what that song was supposed to sound like.”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:03 (two years ago) link
Was trying to remember that story, thanks!
― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
lou borrowed Detroit's guitarist for rock'n'roll animal.
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 1 April 2022 22:47 (two years ago) link
Producer too, if I read C. Grisso/ McCain’s post correctly.
― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link
Yeah, Ezrin brought in Hunter and another Detroit (this case, city, not Mitch's band) guitarist, Dick Wagner, to play on Berlin and then the Rock N Roll Animal tour + album. Wagner was leader of the Frost, holding their own between Stooges, MC5 etc., but one prob may have been that they were on Vanguard. Also good with Ursa Major, which incl. Billy Joel early on, then a guy from Amboy Dukes.Ryder quoted Reed's comment in his often scary and scarry autobio, but I didn't repeat it because hadn't seen verification.Bringing it back to Chilton, he and Ryder both settled into working the oldies band and solo newies circuits: "Time to make another $9000 album for Germany," Ryder cheerfully announced to an interviewer. Europe has been his base for a long time.
― dow, Saturday, 2 April 2022 01:09 (two years ago) link
So about this new Guided By Voices song.
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 April 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link
I like it. Pollard’s output has been generally strong with this latest lineup.
― ColinO, Monday, 18 April 2022 17:02 (two years ago) link
Why talk about it here? Not policing, just curious.
― dow, Monday, 18 April 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
It's a tribute to Big Star called "Alex Bell".
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 April 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
The title kind of broke my brane.
― Wile E. Kinbote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 April 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
Ha, it took me seeing the 7" cover art to actually understand the title.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 April 2022 17:45 (two years ago) link
I assume he wanted to avoid confusion with the former Hull City striker.
https://www.programmecollector.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/book_chillo.jpeg.jpeg
― Où est Lee Mason de fromage? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 April 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
a musical tribute to alex trebek and kristen bell
― na (NA), Monday, 18 April 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_classic_big_star_songs_that_arent_big_star_but_a_studio_project_du
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 July 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
I love the whole record, but those three songs are certainly Radio City highlights. It's hard to imagine the record without them.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 18 July 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
Wow, never knew! Also hilarious to picture Chilton pointing to a Dolby Noise Reduction button or switch and saying "what's this Dolby fucker do?" That's like a perfect throwaway line in a Coen brothers movie.
― birdistheword, Monday, 18 July 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
Who would ever have thought that the personnel on a Big Star album was somewhat ambiguous?
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 21:31 (one year ago) link
also: that big photo from three months ago-doctor, my eyes!
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link