C or D: Emitt Rhodes?

Susanna tweeted, but she's the only one I follow. Dunno about the others.

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.

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.

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

This is probably his last interview: https://mediumfidelitymusic.wordpress.com/2020/07/19/example-post-3

Flatmate who confirmed his passing is in the vimeo.

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!

It's kind of bittersweet and sad and depressing- surprise! - but well-done and affectionate. Now is a perfect time to watch.

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.

Seems to mean backing vox by Vicki and Debbi Peterson and electric guitar by Richard Thompson. Pretty nice.

They're stray singles from a project just prior to that last album, with Thompson & The Bangles featured guests.

Seems like two of the three songs on the singles are on the album as well.

His voice seems to have followed the opposite trajectory of that of Alex Chilton’s.

XP My bad. I misread something about them not being cut for or included on that album.

They were released and then pulled a few years earlier because of a legal issue.

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.”

jeez, that doc was so sad

Which one was it? Original YT link seems to be gone from your 2013 post

posted above by JRatB
https://vimeo.com/266426996

Ah I see, thx buzza

RIP, one of the great one-man bands. Also non-LP single Tame The Lion is one of the great anti-war songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q81q4AkmEaw

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/

Doc was so sad it gave me nightmares. Well I might have had them anyway but still.

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'?

Yeah, stupid title. Also I'd like to read something about Emitt Rhodes that doesn't mention Paul McCartney for a change.

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.

never any love for key's "fit me in" though

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

Some fun video promos 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

Cool.

Never cared about Counting Crows, but I have a newfound fondness for their bass player for his work with Emitt.

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.

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.

I mean some Beatles fans might as well be Zappa or Dead fans, they way they go on.

Personnel
Emitt Rhodes: All instruments and voices.

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.

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.

Right, exactly.

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.

https://tapeop.com/interviews/33/keith-olsen/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8reWSwi_gFA

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.

Olsen just died in March unfortunately.

goddammit

"Mirror" is as good as the first album, in my opinion, a bit less twinkly but that's a good thing.

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.

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.

Me neither.

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

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

Who were joined at the hip for a few minutes there in some fashion. "Where's the charm?" indeed.

Adding to the Fleetwood Mac connections, Richard Dashut worked w/Olsen on Farewell To Paradise.

Mrs. Redd is watching some new Star Trek thing and there is an Emitt-looking guy on the screen right now.

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.

Also noticed some Emitt included on the playlists last shared here: Obscure Singles Heard at CVS

“Isn’t It So” is my jam.

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

And then someone else close to him eplied about the relatively happy ending.

Where is that? Do you have to register to see it?

What, the reply? They mentioned it on Friendbook.

Is “Isn’t It So” about his mother? Although it is obvious written to seem as if it is about an ex.