Just Bim, it seems.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 13:40 (three years ago) link
STE weights in, on Emitt and Peter Green. https://sterlewine.substack.com/p/farewell-to-emitt-rhodes-and-peter
Apparently Miss Mercy of the GTOs was a friend of Emitt's. Also just found this thread, budo jeru: One man albums
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
At least according to Emitt's (best?) friend, who also made this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8oWG2wU9Yk
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
Also meaning in addition to co-producing The One Man Beatles.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
thanks for that thread link, James
i also checked out the bim record and failed to see the appeal
― budo jeru, Thursday, 30 July 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
I couldn’t get into it either. Think opinions on it are mixed
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
Haha:
Anyone mention Emitt Rhodes yet?I admire any musician who can play drums - I don't admire drummers themselves, they're despicable.― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:15 PM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:15 PM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 July 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
Those Emerals picks coming fast and furious. Also somebody let it slip that Emitt's fiancée owns that page, apparently.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
xp does Dada(ismus) still post here, under a different name maybe ?
― budo jeru, Thursday, 30 July 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
Pics. Pictures, not guitar picks, although who knows, maybe not just yet
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
Dada(ismus) posted on this very thread the other day. Tom D.
oh wow. that explains so much. love dada / tom's posts
― budo jeru, Thursday, 30 July 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
Re. his lyrics, I agree – one of my favorite tunes of his has always been “Live Til You Die,” but it was only this week that I really listened to the lyrics, poss. with an eye toward his innate unhappiness. In retrospect they feel a bit like him shouting into the abyss:
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
This came through the wormhole: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/2002/01/27/emitt-rhodes-lost-38/bd09f24e-7afd-4575-8ad0-0c0938c433c1/
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
It's not typing! Google is my co-pilot:
Ever find yourself running, running, running awayEver find yourself hiding from the things that you feelEver hear yourself crying, crying, crying to someoneWon't you look down from Heaven, won't you prove you are real?Ever lose yourself searching, searching, searching in darknessWith your questions unanswered, never knowing the truthEver feel yourself dying, dying, dying a slow deathHeavy laden with burdens that are stealing your youthEver find yourself running, running, running awayEver find yourself hiding from the things that you feelEver find yourself running?
And I would agree ... one of the things I love about his lyrics is that they convey really heavy emotions and thoughts with an economy of vocabulary. So when you come across a couplet like "Heavy laden with burdens that are stealing your youth" you almost catch yourself to make sure you heard it right.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 30 July 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
Yes indeed.Wonder which Beatles song(s) he actually sang with The Palace Guard. You see or hear "Michelle," "Yesterday," "Norwegian Wood" and "We Can Work It Out." The last one seems to have be mentioned that enough I'm inclined to believe it.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
If you don't like Bim, budo jeru, then you probably won't like this version of "Ever Find Yourself Running," by - wait for it - Marriage.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxorx0OLnzU
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 July 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Ciao, Paradiso!https://variety.com/2020/music/news/emitt-rhodes-appreciation-singer-songwriter-john-wirth-1234721593/
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 July 2020 02:59 (three years ago) link
That was great. Thanks for sharing!
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 31 July 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that was really an A+ version of the classic Emitt encounter we've come to expect.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 July 2020 04:05 (three years ago) link
I finally learned that The Merry-Go-Round had a couple of bass players, that Rick Dey replaced Bill Rinehart. I guess I think I knew Joel Larson came and went and there was another drummer at one point, couldn't tell you his name though.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 July 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
xxpost Great piece! Thanks for sharing it.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 31 July 2020 08:40 (three years ago) link
Haven’t giving you anything in almost twenty-four hours so here is this little tidbit I have been saving
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 August 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
I was afraid of that, didn’t quite work on the phone. Hang on a sec, please.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 August 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
think this will work though
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 August 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
Guys, come on over to my new thread
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 August 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
Take us to lunch first.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 August 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
Ha!
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 August 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
There is a Mexican restaurant up the block that makes a good iced margarita with a nice view of the Empire State Building from the sidewalk seating that I think you will like.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 August 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
Feel like maybe NTI should give the last album another chance or two. Despite the deepening of the voice, the divorce discussion and the different production, underneath it all there is still his strong melodic sense.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
In my mind “Isn’t It So” is getting mixed up with “Nobody Knows” by the Raspberries. Come to think of it, why isn’t Tim Ellison on this thread?
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
I’ll def. give it another chance – I hadn’t realized this but the supporting cast alone is insane (Hoffs, most of Jellyfish, Aimee Mann – according to a review I saw). Isn’t It So finally clicked with me a week or so ago – the version I have on the Listen, Listen comp (recorded in 1980) has some questionable sax but a great chorus, and kind of suggests an alternate career as an MOR hitmaker. But the version on Rainbow Ends is nice as well, the strings give it a sadder, more elegiac feel.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 2 August 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
Yes, those folks are all on there, although sometimes hard to pick them out of thie mix. This version, I assume. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhn_uXhtOn0Yes, I can see how the sax would be pretty off-putting.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
But the vocal is excellent.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 03:46 (three years ago) link
Some more stuff from that same period, apparently. Seems to be for some Elektra project, maybe. These really don't sit well with me although the second never reappeared in any other form as far as I know so may be worth giving a try.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG97BYSQ0JQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWIriVsDRXg
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
Or this. Think this stuff has already been mentioned upthread.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPxbMaXOdoY
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
This seems an improvement.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzs7Crv_3bM
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
Done a decade or two later.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
Oh wow I’m loving the “all synths” Emitt Rhodes. Really cool.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 3 August 2020 06:13 (three years ago) link
Radio Moskow interview from Thanksgiving 2011. Interview starts about minute 70, music a few minutes before, maybe minute 67. https://echo.msk.ru/sounds/833165.html
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 12:28 (three years ago) link
Lasts about ten minutes. He's in good spirits.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 12:40 (three years ago) link
Some serious ping-pong stereo on The Merry-Go-Round album, thought my earphones were broken for a moment.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
As I converge upon the heat death of this thread, remarking that the versions of “You’re A Very Lovely Woman” on The Merry-Go-Round and on the, um zeroth solo album are exactly the same but one is maybe thirty seconds longer.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
Some more stuff from that same period, apparently. Seems to be for some Elektra project, maybe. These really don't sit well with me although the second never reappeared in any other form as far as I know so may be worth giving a try.📹📹
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 06:24 (three years ago) link
I read something similar. I even heard that two of the three songs were "Isn't It So" and "More Than A Smile Will Do."
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
Finally listened to these. The "all synths" Emitt Rhodes is really more like Steely Emitt -- jazzy chords and melodies and heavy, er, Rhodes. "Isn't It So" is probably the best of the lot.
Here's a recent-ish interview that isn't online but the preview is: https://tapeop.com/interviews/33/emitt-rhodes/. Might be pretty interesting.
I'm finally putting on Farewell to Paradise ... will report back but I like some of the Mellotron stuff in the first few tracks.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 6 August 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
You have to subscribe to Tape Op to get the rest of that interview (and to find out where they ate).
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 August 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
Speaking of "Steely Emitt", Gary Kato mentioned in the liners to the Merry Go Round comp that in the late '80s his band Bullet backed Rhodes on some "Steely Dan-quality" demos of new compositions.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 August 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
Can't believe this only emerged within the last several hours. Jackie De Shannon singing "Live Till You DIe" - recorded at American Studios! Yet another dot to connect in my Arthur Alexander, um, "Theory."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMPUQECIiIM
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link