Cool! Have The Bangles weighed in yet?
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
Susanna tweeted, but she's the only one I follow. Dunno about the others.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 July 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLYUJbvBFU4
"Birthday Lady" promo film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypoMlWQ9xwU
"Really Wanted You" promo film.
I remember seeing a clip of him on the Whistle Test, but it's not up atm.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 July 2020 03:22 (three years ago) link
There's also a Palace Guard clip up ("Falling Sugar") but I don't think Rhodes is in it. The guy miming drums doesn't look like him.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 July 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
That Brooklyn Vegan notice has some good stuff but too many popups. They do have vimeo embeds though, so there's that. Anyway here is a link to the doc, The One Man Beatles. https://vimeo.com/266426996
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
This is probably his last interview: https://mediumfidelitymusic.wordpress.com/2020/07/19/example-post-3
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 04:07 (three years ago) link
Flatmate who confirmed his passing is in the vimeo.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
anyone ever see this?
― buzza, Sunday, January 27, 2013 3:46 PM
No!
― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, January 27, 2013
will finally watch this!
― buzza, Monday, 20 July 2020 04:24 (three years ago) link
It's kind of bittersweet and sad and depressing- surprise! - but well-done and affectionate. Now is a perfect time to watch.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 04:38 (three years ago) link
A few of the singles off the last album, none of which I have listened to yet, are credited to Emitt Rhodes, Richard Thompson and The Bangles. Not 100% sure what this means.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 04:45 (three years ago) link
Seems to mean backing vox by Vicki and Debbi Peterson and electric guitar by Richard Thompson. Pretty nice.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 04:52 (three years ago) link
They're stray singles from a project just prior to that last album, with Thompson & The Bangles featured guests.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 July 2020 04:52 (three years ago) link
Seems like two of the three songs on the singles are on the album as well.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 04:58 (three years ago) link
His voice seems to have followed the opposite trajectory of that of Alex Chilton’s.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 05:02 (three years ago) link
XP My bad. I misread something about them not being cut for or included on that album.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 July 2020 05:04 (three years ago) link
They were released and then pulled a few years earlier because of a legal issue.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 July 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
I’m feeling some kind of connection with Arthur Alexander, don’t know if it’s just a simple connecting of dots: huge talent with a gift for melody and melancholy but no head for business, gone into hiding for decades, some kind of last comeback that is artistically successful but goes nowhere or is cut short, the word “rainbow.”
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 05:15 (three years ago) link
jeez, that doc was so sad
― buzza, Monday, 20 July 2020 08:48 (three years ago) link
Which one was it? Original YT link seems to be gone from your 2013 post
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 20 July 2020 09:07 (three years ago) link
posted above by JRatB https://vimeo.com/266426996
― buzza, Monday, 20 July 2020 09:11 (three years ago) link
Ah I see, thx buzza
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 20 July 2020 09:22 (three years ago) link
RIP, one of the great one-man bands. Also non-LP single Tame The Lion is one of the great anti-war songshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q81q4AkmEaw
― J. Sam, Monday, 20 July 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
A little more from the guy who did that last interview, with a cameo by Paul Schrader. https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/07/emitt-rhodes-dead/
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link
Doc was so sad it gave me nightmares. Well I might have had them anyway but still.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 July 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link
guy did some nice stuff i've listened to last couple days (i def mustve heard a bit over the years), but why curse anyone with 'One Man Beatles'?
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 July 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
Yeah, stupid title. Also I'd like to read something about Emitt Rhodes that doesn't mention Paul McCartney for a change.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 20 July 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
i think the title probably says more about how his biggest fans perceive him. i've known a handful of beatles worshippers who are so tragically devout that it's almost like nothing else will do and acts like emmitt rhodes, badfinger, and ELO just kind of fill this void for them.
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 July 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
never any love for key's "fit me in" though
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 20 July 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
Some fun promo videos of his popping up on Twitter:
RIP Emitt Rhodes "Really Wanted You," 1971 promo video. Fare thee well, Mr. Rhodes. Thank you for all the great music. pic.twitter.com/K8JQa9wjiY— Nikki Kreuzer (@NikkiKreuzer) July 19, 2020
RIP Emitt Rhodes. Heres's a 1971 promo film for Birthday Lady, somewhat surprisingly filmed at Bristol Temple Meads. The full thing is here https://t.co/Wg2ntgBjG9 and here's a promo for Really Wanted You also filmed at BTM https://t.co/u5ETQoEe4Q pic.twitter.com/y0jXOAns89— Birmingham 81 (@Birmingham_81) July 19, 2020
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
Some fun video promos of his popping up on Twitter:
Cool. Never cared about Counting Crows, but I have a newfound fondness for their bass player for his work with Emitt.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
The doc is kind of depressing and Emitt was depressed and yet the older Emitt doesn’t seem like a betrayal of the younger one, rather a natural extension thereof and there is something eminently lovable about his withdrawn yet warm presence, if I may allow myself to go there.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link
I mean some Beatles fans might as well be Zappa or Dead fans, they way they go on.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 03:08 (three years ago) link
PersonnelEmitt Rhodes: All instruments and voices.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link
Keith Olsen is an interesting interview – “Where’s the charm?” he asks when told that Emitt was working with other musicians after 40 years in an actual studio.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
I think I expected that documentary to be more depressing than it was. Rhodes is a depressive but not smotheringly so. And hey, he did do an album, even if it’s hard for me to reconcile the “To Make You Feel My Love”-esque vibe of that material with anything he did earlier in his career.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 04:08 (three years ago) link
Right, exactly.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
https://tapeop.com/interviews/33/keith-olsen/
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8reWSwi_gFA
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 04:27 (three years ago) link
The first solo record never gets old for me. I should give Mirror more of a chance. If it hasn’t been done yet, somebody should interview Keith Olsen about Curt Boettcher before he kicks the bucket too. Boettcher worked on Rhodes’ S/T.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
Olsen just died in March unfortunately.
― city worker, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
goddammit
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
"Mirror" is as good as the first album, in my opinion, a bit less twinkly but that's a good thing.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
I was finally listening to Mirror as a separate entity within the box last night. Sounded good. Saw that about Keith Olsen last night, RIP. He was so good in the doc. He was kind of super-grouchy about the whole thing but you could clearly see the affection there, or so I imagined.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
I didn't realize (until reading about him after the documentary) that Olsen also played bass on The Music Machine's "Talk Talk" and that first album.
― city worker, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
Me neither.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
This ipre-Music Machine tidbit is interesting too, from his NYT obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/arts/music/keith-olsen-dies.html
He studied music at the University of Minnesota but left to play bass in different bands and toured with the singer Gale Garnett before joining the Music Machine
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
I guess what is appealing here is the kind of classic sitcom love/hate/Ernie/Bert/Felix/Oscar duality here between a world-class producer/ engineer and an idiosyncratic DIY depressive
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
Who were joined at the hip for a few minutes there in some fashion. "Where's the charm?" indeed.
― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
Wow!
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 00:36 (two years ago) link
Mrs. Redd is watching some new Star Trek thing and there is an Emitt-looking guy on the screen right now.
― Johnny Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 May 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
No doubt headed to the Space Lobster.
That vinyl copy of American Dream I got is gorgeous...the prior owner(s) took really good care of it. Might be my favorite Emitt release.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 7 May 2022 01:24 (one year ago) link
Also noticed some Emitt included on the playlists last shared here: Obscure Singles Heard at CVS
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 7 May 2022 01:26 (one year ago) link
“Isn’t It So” is my jam.
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 May 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
Not sure what this adds but, one of his exes posted it so: https://www.splicetoday.com/music/the-rise-and-fall-of-singer-songwriter-emitt-rhodes-the-one-man-beatles
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
And then someone else close to him eplied about the relatively happy ending.
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
Where is that? Do you have to register to see it?
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
What, the reply? They mentioned it on Friendbook.
― Ride into the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
Is “Isn’t It So” about his mother? Although it is obvious written to seem as if it is about an ex.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 December 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link