https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7ltMHQMUFE
― Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
Ha
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
Exactly
― Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
Eno sounds lovely here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPN0EHyy09Y
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 July 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
Dylan said something in Chronicles to the effect that listening to Orbison's hits when they first came out showed him that you could break the rules and make great records that reached a lotta people. An Orbison bio (blanking on the title), quoted a British journalist: "brave and chinless"--perfect tag, esp. re: observing the reception that RO got when The Beatles had him as opening act (a mistake there, lads).
― dow, Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
This photo fills me with joy.
https://sonicmoremusic.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/135172713781351.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 3 July 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
Amazing! Who are the other guys? A couple look almost familiar---
― dow, Sunday, 3 July 2022 00:35 (one year ago) link
Rick Rubin, Roy, Danzig and ... time-traveler Wolfgang Van Halen?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 July 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
L-R: Rick Rubin, George Drakoulias, Roy Orbison, Glenn Danzig.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 3 July 2022 00:51 (one year ago) link
There's a neat anecdote from Danzig in the liners to the Roy box about being invited to Roy's estate for a writing session for "Life Fades Away". He's waiting in a sitting room for Roy to come down, so he picks up and starts playing this priceless antique Spanish guitar that's on display. Roy suddenly appears and Danzig gets embarrassed and stops playing. Roy tells him, "No, no--continue. That's what it's made for."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 3 July 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
L-R: Crusty Wilbury, Cheeky Wilbury, Lefty Wilbury, Farty Wilbury
― Bunheads Pilot Enthusiast (morrisp), Sunday, 3 July 2022 01:51 (one year ago) link
Lol
― calstars, Sunday, 3 July 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
Finally listening to Mystery Girl after all these years. It has an Albert Hammond co-write.#onethread. Maybe newly reissued King of Hearts is next.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 07:27 (one year ago) link
I was at a trivia thing Saturday night, and one of the questions identified the Traveling Wilburys as the five principals plus Eric Clapton...? I could only guess that they were going by album credits and Clapton contributed backing to a song or two.
― clemenza, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
!
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
That doesn't sound right at all. Harrison does appear on and contributes a song to Clapton's Journeyman.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 November 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
2 live crew got away with their rip off of pretty women
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 14 November 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
Sorry, meant to say “Mercy!”
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
Here's something interesting about Roy Orbison that doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet - he starred in a feature film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fastest_Guitar_Alive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK9JwuqZXWM
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 07:53 (one year ago) link
Roy Orbison: “In Dreams”“Just before he made his comeback with The Traveling Wilburys, before he died, I saw him at the Mean Fiddler. It was just him, his guitar and voice, so beautiful, so moving—what a fucking guy. And I was waiting out back to meet him and I did. Y’know what he said to me? “Get out of the way, son,’ as he pushed past me on the way to his limousine.”
https://cocteautwins.com/robin-guthrie-my-favourite-records-melody-maker.html
lol
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Mercy
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
At least he added "son." Respectful if patronizing.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son, you've never walked in that man's shoes.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
Pretty shoes too
http://www.rebeccapromitzer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/booties.jpeg
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
Well that didn't work. Here's a link.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
it worked (I see the pretty shoes)
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
The book includes an account of how the Big O accidentally developed his sunglasses image while on a U.K. tour with the Beatles in 1963. “He had left his regular glasses on a plane, right before the tour," Roy Jr. told Rolling Stone. "He had the dark glasses with him and decided to keep wearing them. Dad wasn't able to see without glasses. When he got off the plane in England, people were taking pictures and that's what they saw, Dad with the dark glasses."
Read More: Roy Orbison's Son Reveals Why He Started Wearing Dark Glasses | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/roy-orbison-dark-glasses/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
"Running Scared" never stops amazing me
the lyric constructed in such a way that you don't exactly know whether it's tragedy or celebration until the very last word
(ok the rhyme structure clues you in 1 line earlier but ffs)
― partez Maroc anthem (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 December 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
also the only singer whose voice i love more than Roy's is Al Green
the only singer
Is this really the only time he ever performed this song live?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvR1YgT7QYs
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 January 2023 01:41 (one year ago) link
HI DERE#onethread
― The Big Candy-O (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 January 2023 02:28 (one year ago) link