C or D: Emitt Rhodes?

Oh wow I’m loving the “all synths” Emitt Rhodes. Really cool.

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

Lasts about ten minutes. He's in good spirits.

Some serious ping-pong stereo on The Merry-Go-Round album, thought my earphones were broken for a moment.

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.

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.
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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."

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.

You have to subscribe to Tape Op to get the rest of that interview (and to find out where they ate).

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.

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

Guess this stuff lay in the vaults until two years ago, Damn you, Emitt!
https://jazzchill.blogspot.com/2018/04/jackie-deshannon-stone-cold-soulthe.html

That cover came out as a bonus on the RPM reissue of Jackie’s “Songs” fifteen years ago or so, for what it’s worth.

Thanks. Saw that a couple of, um, songs, from that session made it onto Songs, maybe they were even re-recorded, didn't know about bonus track reissues in the interim.

So do you guys know where that house is on the self-titled cover?

Also, um, one of Emitt's ex-wives seems to be a member of the Fan Forum.

Definitely her.

that's interesting and also weird. will she tell her story ? will the fans be kind to her ?

the woman who took the photograph on the jackie deshannon album cover was married to composer teiji ito, maya deren's widower, and was the administrator of the deren estate until her death in 1999:

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/17/classified/paid-notice-deaths-ito-cherel-winett.html

No to the first question. To the second question, they mostly turn a blind eye if they are aware of it at all. Although one person posted this on a thread she started:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEuiyOcGfz8

His other ex-wife is on there too. I kind of feel unclean knowing this. Now that I have reported it, I will slink away in shame.

...for Mexican Coffees at Red Lobster?

Ha, I saw that coming a few light years away, using my homebrew telescope. Do you know how a telescope works? Do you know what parallax is?

I've read books.

Heh.

The other ex made it pretty clear she doesn't want her story told.

Wonder which one is heard at the end of “Bubble Gum The Blues.”

So as this posthumous boom of interest is winding down for me, not much more info is emerging, mostly some intriguing photos from a friend Emitt had given them to, who is turning them over one by one like playing cards. Well, there was that one Xmas card from Emitt, his wife and first son posted by a guy who played with Billy Joel in the early ( Attila?) days. There is still the ever-present curious cat part of me that wants to hear the gory details of all of his family troubles but highly doubt these will come to light. Do feel after extensive (re)listening that despite the way his career played out his musical legacy is strong, that he was much more than just a stuntman, a footnote, a might-have-been, currently residing in the where-is-he-now file.

There’s always a temptation to want to know more with these guys – to learn where and why things went off the rails and how it all maybe kind of could’ve ended differently. But I almost always find that when I do learn more—say, reading the Gene Clark, Dennis Wilson and Billy MacKenzie biographies—while I’m glad I dug deeper I’m invariably kind of bummed out and feel like I need to take a shower. Mental illness sucks that way.

I feel comfortable concluding that learning more about Emitt would almost certainly end the same way.

Otm

I feel a little bit like that already, just perusing the minimal posts of his exes.

There are a few nice pictures that keep emerging from various shoeboxes in the other place, including one of Emitt with what seems to be Jack Nitzsche along with this guy, https://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=288534&title+Harvey-Bruce-RIP, the man who signed Emitt and introduced him to Keith Olsen.

Nitzsche earlier arranged and/or produced one of the Palace Guard singles, which iirc he was dismissive of in the big interview/discography overview he did in the late '70s in BOMP!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNLhvQvaoAU

Was thinking this thread would mention Emitt, but no: Thoughts on hum?

https://purepopradio.com/2017/08/25/pure-pop-radio-in-conversation-podcasts-emitt-rhodes-airdate-march-20-1997/

I may watch this tribute thing at 3PM PDT on FB this evening.

Tribute was kind of touching if a little thrown together. In other news, pictures are showing up of Emitt's induction into the Hawthorne Hall of Fame, courtesy of his ex-wife and others. Most interesting is a picture of Emitt and his fiancée at a restaurant she liked- at LAX!

that was presumably the proud bird, which is actually next door to lax, with a view. a strange little la landmark.

That’s the same place he went with the TV producer in 2006.

Some people keep referring to the earlier version of "Isn't It So" as one of three songs, but I think they are confusing this with the three songs with Richard Thompson and the Peterson sisters.

Pretty good writeup and interview:
https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/the-one-man-beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbndpazF_DU

https://joeromersa.disco.ac/playlist-new/3888115?date=20200722&user_id=61581&signature=0Fv07nNrCKE58bD4f6pdviksEqo%3AaI7He6nO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn28MvHuREk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49w0SsrqKmg

Morbius's sister recently posted a high school photo of him on Friendbook and for a beat or two I really thought it was something from the Emitt Rhodes group. #OneThread

My top artist of the year, 0.005%ile.

And The Merry-Go-Round came in number five.

you love to see it

I owe it all to you guys and this thread. Mulțumesc!

it's been a journey for sure!