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Has anyone heard the Cahoots remix/remaster? I saw it the other day but didn't get it

chr1sb3singer, Monday, 20 December 2021 14:12 (two years ago) link

Yes. I only listened to three tracks (i.e. the ones I like) because I'm not a fan of the album but "Life is Carnival" drops out the entire band except the vocals at one point and "4% Pantomime" has a lot of new, weird-ass reverb on the vocals in some spots. The clarity on "Life is Carnival" was pretty amazing, but I still prefer the charm of the old, vintage mix. (The new mix sounds like it would be a new digital mix. Too clean.)

The studio version of "Don't Do It" also got a new mix, but it feels a lot weaker than the fresh mix that was made for A Musical History. (Andrew Sandoval found the multi-track when he worked on that box set around 2005 and gave it a brand-new mix, unlike the old Cahoots reissue he produced around 2000 which used a audibly worn acetate.)

birdistheword, Monday, 20 December 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link

Pitchfork review is thoughtful and seems fair: reviewer 'ppreciates at least some of the changes, esp. elimination of what's considered messy arrangements, but still thinks most of the album is inherently flawed, esp. because of Robertson's stiff, self-conscious historicism ("book report"), and some unenthusiastic (also hungover) instrumental responses---carefully detailed here, incl. context of band history, situation:
Pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-band-cahoots-50th-anniversary-edition/

dow, Monday, 20 December 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link

Well not elimination, but clean-up on Aisle 7 etc. Also some new overdubs are perceived, I think?

dow, Monday, 20 December 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link

I can see Robbie doing new overdubs - I don't think the previous remixes had any but he did it for the 1975 release of The Basement Tapes (and even kept them in the new stereo mixes for A Musical History...fortunately Dylan's camp didn't keep them when they issued the whole thing later).

birdistheword, Monday, 20 December 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link

Just listened to samples of this remix and everything is simultaneously unpleasantly booming and trebly.

Halfway there but for you, Monday, 20 December 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Found this guy:
So birdistheword and I were discusssing D.A. Pennebaker today, over on the Velvet Underground Trainspotting thread: when I met him in '93 (he was bringing his Clinton doc, The War Room, around to l'il indie theaters in the boondocks), he told me about some things he'd been filming lately, like he'd been up in Canada with Danko, Manuel, and---Bjorn Feldman, does that sound right? Somebody like that, think I'd heard the three of them on NPR, like maybe Mountain Stage, but not seeing it listed there, or anywhere---anyway, anybody ever hear them, or see any of that footage? (Maybe Hudson instead of Manuel; Garth and Rick were on Mountain Stage in '89, but not a third guy listed)

― dow, Saturday, October 23, 2021
Wiki sez:
Jonas Fjeld(born Terje Lillegård Jensen; 24 September 1952) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known in the English-speaking world for two albums recorded by Danko/Fjeld/Andersen, a collaboration with Canadian Rick Danko of The Band and American singer-songwriter Eric Andersen. Fjeld also recorded three albums with the American bluegrass group Chatham County Line.
(Then Judy Collins teamed up with Fjeld and CCL!)
First DFA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danko/Fjeld/Andersen
Second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridin%27_on_the_Blinds
Also that he was comedy rocker 'til heard Andersen's Blue River.

dow, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 03:05 (two years ago) link

(which looks like it might be good, but 0 The Band input apparently):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_River_(album)

dow, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 03:17 (two years ago) link

I have Blue River. Pretty solid folk rock album

Heez, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link

There's a funny scene with Eric Andersen in Les Blank's documentary on Leon Russell, A Poem Is a Naked Person. Eric is visiting Leon's compound/studio and musing about music history: "we owe so much to older guys like you...what are you, forty? Forty-five?"
Leon, offended: "I ain't but turned thirty!"

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link

yeah i saw that, Leon was pretty brutal

Heez, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link

Eric's behaviour (in the scene) was pretty pompous in general.

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 16:50 (two years ago) link

yeah, i remember that as well

Heez, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link

Wiki entry on Blue River led me to main article: didn't realize he'd done so much, looking pretty ambitious at times, tho might be pompous--albs w Danko aside, I'm most intrigued by this: You Can't Relive The Past, which included original blues numbers as well as a selection of songs co-written with Townes Van Zandt.. Cane out in 2001.

dow, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link

i love garth, obviously an incredible keys player but i think my fav contribution of his might be his sax solo on "it makes no difference," which always brings a tear to my eye. idk if it would hurt to drop him a line

roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link

I honestly didn't know he was still alive.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:25 (two years ago) link

Uh-oh, this says he doesn't want to be flooded by cards and letters, is "incredibly private person," certainly didn't want personal address shared online---also a lot of musical activities I didn't know about, incl. with his wife, whom I'd never heard of, and for inst that all-Canadian The Band tribute alb, with Neil Young etc.; have any of yall heard it??
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/garth-hudson-of-the-band-not-forgotten-during-difficult-time/

dow, Friday, 4 March 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link

I hope he's being taken care of and not taken advantage of.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 March 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link

I hope so too. It's tough to say how he's doing because details that have leaked periodically about his personal life paint him as fairly eccentric. Nothing monstrous, but it'll be stuff like a landlord he hasn't paid in over a decade selling off his stuff from a storage unit he's apparently never bothered to visit either. And this was before he actively helped on that "Basement Tapes" box set where they even filmed him visiting Big Pink. I guess the guy who originally posted that plea would say something if Garth wasn't being cared for.

birdistheword, Friday, 4 March 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link

hope garth is ok

in more cheerful news, i watched the rick james documentary. after he flees the draft to toronto, one of the first nights he decided to go out on the town in the hippie district, this kid calls him the n-word, and they start to scrap. rick is really skinny and small and is taking the worst of it until a group of white kids come in and start beating the racist kid up and saving rick. said group of white boys was...the hawks.

Just got served an ad about The Weight Band, "featuring members of the Band and Levon Helm's band" or some such formulation.

They may be fine people and musicians but their branding, um, seems a trifle exploitative.

squid pro quo (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 March 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link

Looking forward to ads for the W.S. Walcott Medicine Show Band, "featuring members of The Weight Band."

henry s, Friday, 4 March 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link

Average Weight Band

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 March 2022 20:02 (two years ago) link

LOL

Gary Gets His Tonsure Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 March 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link

Weightsnake

squid pro quo (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 March 2022 22:15 (two years ago) link

Guess we won't be seeing any of you guys at Camp Cripple Creek this summer.

henry s, Friday, 4 March 2022 23:18 (two years ago) link

They may be fine people and musicians but their branding, um, seems a trifle exploitative.

When Roger Daltrey does solo tours, he has musicians from the Who’s touring band in his group…and it’s billed as “ROGER DALTREY! With members of The Who band!”

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 4 March 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link

When I saw him solo it was him and Simon Townshend from "the Who band," but I don't think anyone else from the Who.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 March 2022 23:30 (two years ago) link

Tonight:
Norman Hewson, Alistair Evans, Barry Mullen, and Seth Clayton

(God I’m ashamed to know their full names)

calstars, Saturday, 5 March 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link

The Who Band

https://i.gifer.com/K1Eb.gif

jenny from the blockchain (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 5 March 2022 01:29 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Robbie Robertson tells the story of The Band's classic song The Weight
By Matt Frost published 1 day ago

"I said, ‘Well, it’ll just be a back-up song in case some other things don’t work out’”


https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-band-the-weight-robbie-robertson-guitar-interview

dow, Friday, 8 April 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link

Does he mention Buñuel in that interview?

Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 April 2022 03:16 (two years ago) link

No, he barely mentions the lyrics.

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 8 April 2022 11:39 (two years ago) link

Thanks. For a while there it seemed like there was nothing else he could talk about.

Mr. Uncut Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 April 2022 12:04 (two years ago) link

He even discussed Buñuel with Andy and Edie! At least according to Testimony.

Mr. Uncut Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 April 2022 12:07 (two years ago) link

Whilst they were en route from dinner at El Quijote to Salvador Dalí's suite at the St. Regis.

Mr. Uncut Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 April 2022 12:10 (two years ago) link

Forgot to add #onethread

Mr. Uncut Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 April 2022 12:28 (two years ago) link

Take a load off discreet charm of the bourgeoisie,
and you put it
you put it
you put it
right on me-ee-ee.

dow, Friday, 8 April 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Honorary Canadian, Ronnie Hawkins.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ronnie-hawkins-obituary-1.6470162

― clemenza, Sunday, May 29, 2022 1:32 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

His first single, his "Bo Diddley" cover, was 1958; he's not quite in that founding-fathers group, but pretty damn close.

― clemenza, Sunday, May 29, 2022 1:33 PM

dow, Sunday, 29 May 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link

Wow. Figured he would never die. RIP.

The Code of the Wilburys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 May 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK5mxNKI9rM

Didn't invent Psychobilly, but did alot to perfect it.

Always got a kick out of the cheerfully vulgar anecdote related by Jerry Wexler to Stanley Booth about Hawkins arriving in Muscle Shoals to record his 1970 Cotillion debut (paraphrased): "He arrived in his private plane with a suitcase full of drugs, a case of whiskey, and Miss Toronto...'I've got my pot, my pills, and my pussy... Let's get to work!'"

...and of course his promise recounted by Robbie in The Last Waltz.

RIP! His 1970 solo album is worth seeking out — no one from the Band on it, but a bunch of Muscle Shoals heavy hitters.

tylerw, Sunday, 29 May 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link

You can't beat a filmography where half of it is comprised of Heaven's Gate and Meatballs III.

clemenza, Sunday, 29 May 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link

xpost yeah man---here he is w Duane Allman, x King Biscuit Boy on harmonica:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhyTaVKd9Xk

dow, Sunday, 29 May 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link

xpost filmography also getting Robbie's geetar all het up, and then fanning the flames (with his hat), in The Last Waltz.

dow, Sunday, 29 May 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link

(influence on Dylan's taste in hats?)

dow, Sunday, 29 May 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link

RIP he seemed so spry in Once We Were Bros

but 87. Nice fuckin run

OG Bob Sacamano (will), Sunday, 29 May 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link


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