― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link
YES re Jerry Miller. Eric Clapton wishes he could play like that.
The youtube clip I saw the other day is worth checking out – it’s them on the Steve Paul Scene special (NYC TV), 1967. They do “Hey Grandma” and “Sitting By the Window.” Skippy is positively magnetic.
― JAS, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― eedd, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
So true...
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
broke out the 2cd anthology a few days ago for the first time in ages and it is making me very happy. excellent driving music. forgot how good some of the post-debut songs are (and how bad a couple are too). that batch that were recorded for the the follow to the s/t but were rejected are esp. good. also downloaded a few songs from 20 granite creek and they sound interesting, too bad that reunion didn't last.
― velko, Thursday, 22 January 2009 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
"Seeing", which closes the second disk of that excellent anthology, is a top shelf song for sure.
― Euler, Thursday, 22 January 2009 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
"Changes, Circles Spinning" off Truly Fine Citizen is my late-Grape fave.
― ian, Thursday, 22 January 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
did veronica moser ever end up getting into the classic dead LPs??
― ian, Thursday, 22 January 2009 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't see the word "Creedence" here anywhere, which is what the first album bears comparison to. Or A Hard Day's Night.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 22 January 2009 06:20 (fifteen years ago) link
As for what could have been, I don't know. Which song off the first album could have been a big hit?
Spinning the debut rn, and it seems to me that "Come In The Morning" & "Changes" would have been good picks for an up-tempo single, and "Someday" & "Sitting By The Window" might have broken through if programmers would have taken a shot on a slow/melancholy track. "Omaha" was a bit too out there for AM radio (so of course it charted highest).
Putting out five singles out at once was perhaps the dumbest of the dumb moves Columbia pulled re:the first album.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 June 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link