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
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
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
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.
― Tim, Friday, 7 August 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
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.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 August 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
So do you guys know where that house is on the self-titled cover?
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 August 2020 13:16 (three years ago) link
Also, um, one of Emitt's ex-wives seems to be a member of the Fan Forum.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 August 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
Definitely her.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 August 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link
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
― budo jeru, Saturday, 8 August 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
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
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 August 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
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.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
...for Mexican Coffees at Red Lobster?
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 August 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
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?
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
I've read books.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 August 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
Heh.The other ex made it pretty clear she doesn't want her story told.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 August 2020 02:56 (three years ago) link
Wonder which one is heard at the end of “Bubble Gum The Blues.”
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 August 2020 04:21 (three years ago) link
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.
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 August 2020 08:09 (three years ago) link
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.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 16 August 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
Otm
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 August 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
I feel a little bit like that already, just perusing the minimal posts of his exes.
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 August 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
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.
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
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!.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNLhvQvaoAU
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 August 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
Was thinking this thread would mention Emitt, but no: Thoughts on hum?
― Two Little Hit Parades (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 August 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
https://purepopradio.com/2017/08/25/pure-pop-radio-in-conversation-podcasts-emitt-rhodes-airdate-march-20-1997/
― Two Little Hit Parades (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
I may watch this tribute thing at 3PM PDT on FB this evening.
― Quit It And Hit It Sideways (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 September 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
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!
― Quit It And Hit It Sideways (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
that was presumably the proud bird, which is actually next door to lax, with a view. a strange little la landmark.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
That’s the same place he went with the TV producer in 2006.
― Quit It And Hit It Sideways (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 23:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 September 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
Pretty good writeup and interview:https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/the-one-man-beatles
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 September 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbndpazF_DU
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 September 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
https://joeromersa.disco.ac/playlist-new/3888115?date=20200722&user_id=61581&signature=0Fv07nNrCKE58bD4f6pdviksEqo%3AaI7He6nO
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn28MvHuREk
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49w0SsrqKmg
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 04:18 (three years ago) link
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
― Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 October 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
My top artist of the year, 0.005%ile.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
And The Merry-Go-Round came in number five.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 December 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
you love to see it
― budo jeru, Friday, 4 December 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
I owe it all to you guys and this thread. Mulțumesc!
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 December 2020 03:26 (three years ago) link
it's been a journey for sure!
― budo jeru, Friday, 4 December 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
Yeah, a real journey...to the nearest Red Lobster!
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 December 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
lol
― budo jeru, Friday, 4 December 2020 04:16 (three years ago) link
Never gets old.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 December 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link