Yes, he has done a lot of great things apart from Whole Wide World:Reconnez Cherie, Semaphore Signals, Take The Cash, A Pop Song, Hit & Miss Judy, and many more ranging from gritty pub rock to pure unabashed pop.
He also recorded / gigged as / with Captains Of Industry and The Len Bright Combo but I believe he's reverted to being Wreckless Eric again now. Approach later recordings with incresing caution!
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― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 24 April 2003 10:44 (twenty years ago) link
― pauls00, Thursday, 24 April 2003 11:29 (twenty years ago) link
TMFTML
― TMFTML (TMFTML), Thursday, 24 April 2003 11:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Wandering Boy Poet, Thursday, 24 April 2003 12:03 (twenty years ago) link
Anyone heard the "Donovan Of Trash" collection? I think it was available on Sympathy For The Record Industry. demos, I think. I've heard it's great.
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 24 April 2003 12:11 (twenty years ago) link
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― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
(I don't wanna be localI don't wanna be from round here)
As someone said, "wow you wrote a song that you can't play live anywhere!"
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― everything, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Drunken female fan about 40 (she hit the floor at least once and wobbled throughout) tucked a bill into his shirt during "Take the Cash."
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Amy Meacham, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Amy Rigby? Kevin Coyne tribute? What?
― Cage, Trintignant, Sheen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 December 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I used to visit his website regulrly, haven't for a long time...
Always amusing 'recent news' from the man himself..
― Mark G, Monday, 21 December 2009 07:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Wreckless Eric Wreckless Eric is an antique English pop musician. He lives in France with Amy Rigby, a collectable, delectable American pop musicienne. Eric started his recording career with Stiff Records in 1842. In 1931 he invented both the TV set and the rotary speaker cabinet which he named after his Uncle Leslie. Don't believe anything you read in Wikapaedia. Don't believe half of what you read anywhere. Please send all money orders etc via www.wrecklesseric.com.
― Mark G, Monday, 21 December 2009 07:51 (fourteen years ago) link
"The Donovan of Trash" is the perfect name for a perfect record.
I want to dig up some Len Bright Combo - great link on the One Note Guitar Solo thread.
― brio, Monday, 13 May 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
Have sadly missed him live a zillion times. Maybe I should go see him in Baltimore with Amy Rigby near the end of the month.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 01:04 (ten years ago) link
love this dude. i didn't even think to look up whether he was still touring, for some reason. that's cool.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
He and Amy tour a fair amount
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
The first Len Bright Combo album is possibly his most solid album imho. And this is one of his best songs.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpKEhl9ohw0I've never been able to get into the second one. These days they are packaged together so whatever.
― everything, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
yeah, the 2nd was longer and the songs weren't as good
And I believe Wreck had had enough by then.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
guy's still going! http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21141-america/
― niels, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 11:50 (eight years ago) link
Eric had a lot to say about Elvis Costello in his book.
Now Elvis has his out, so far I've seen one mention of Eric.
Seems there's a bit of the old mutual going down.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 11:55 (eight years ago) link
I'm not sure I'm able to accept the idea that anything could be wrong with this guy:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Wreckless_Eric_LP.jpg
― niels, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 13:33 (eight years ago) link
I've seen mixed reviews of the book.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/wreckless-eric-worst-rock-autobiography.121134/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
Good site, if you're not hung-up on Instant Updates etc
http://www.amyrigby.com/wrecklessericamyrigby.html
― dow, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
Album sounding pretty good
― niels, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 22:22 (eight years ago) link
Saw him last nightIt's solo guitar no band but far exceeded my expectations, he's still a great performer and definitely not phoning it in
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 8 July 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
I recently bought a dvd in a thrift store - a documentary about Eric from about a decade ago. Almost nothing about this on the internet other than the directors own blog. Still haven't watched it.
― everything, Monday, 9 July 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
His Elton John story (in response to Elton's brief story about him in his new book) is top notch:
https://thedysfunctionalworldof.blogspot.com/2019/10/me-and-elton-john.html?m=1
And here's a photo from the night in question:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/members-of-the-stiff-records-be-stiff-tour-perfom-on-stage-news-photo/487118989
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
That was great, thanks.
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
i was wondering what rachel sweet was up to these days, so i looked her up and it turns out she worked on two broke girls, so there you go
― mark s, Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
an update from Eric: https://thedysfunctionalworldof.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-inside-of-ping-pong-ball.html
Not a bad time to also mention that last year's Transience was really enjoyable.
― last updated a group of five done twelve times ago (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
Great piece here:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/23/punk-legend-wreckless-eric-storming-spotify-whole-wide-world-leisureland-covid
“They’ve got an oxygen cylinder and a wheelchair,” he recalls, “and they’re going, ‘We’ve got a positive Covid test coming in! Suspected heart attack! Take him to room seven!’ They’re carrying around electrodes and jamming in needles and IVs. They did a Covid test – the equipment was like something you’d use for artificially inseminating goats, very agricultural. I thought it was so exciting: we’d been in lockdown for two months, nothing to do, so bloody boring. Now there’s people coming in to take my temperature wearing space suits! My heart was 100% blocked on one side, 40% on the other. They definitely didn’t think I was going to leave there alive. Then they asked me if I wanted to see a chaplain. I go, ‘Fuck off! That’s the last fucking thing I want!’ And one of them goes, ‘I think he’s going to be OK.’”
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:29 (seven months ago) link
Lovely post about his Jools Holland appearance:
https://thedysfunctionalworldof.blogspot.com/2023/10/later-with-jools-holland.html
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 October 2023 18:33 (five months ago) link
tl;dr but will definitely read at some later point
― The Chronic Argo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 October 2023 20:20 (five months ago) link
saw him tonight. his voice sounds pretty much the same! really enjoyed it
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:55 (five months ago) link
Listened to half of his 2023 Leisureland album. Eh, it’s ok. His voice sounds similar to what it did in the 1970s, and it seems he’s trying to write songs like he did back then, but most aren’t as tuneful.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 March 2024 18:14 (two weeks ago) link