zaterdag 4 juli 2020
Buddy Miller (with The McCrary Sisters) - There's a Higher Power
Canned Heat feat, Alan"Blind Owl"Wilson
Alan "Blind Owl" Christie Wilson (July 4, 1943 – September 3, 1970) was the leader, singer, and primary composer in the American blues band Canned Heat. He played guitar and harmonica, and wrote several songs for the band.
Wilson was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in the Boston suburb of Arlington, Massachusetts. He majored in music at Boston University and often played the Cambridge coffeehouse folk-blues circuit. He acquired the nickname "Blind Owl" owing to his extreme nearsightedness; in one instance when he was playing at a wedding, he laid his guitar on the wedding cake because he did not see it. As Canned Heat's drummer, Fito de la Parra, wrote in his book: "Without the glasses, Alan literally could not recognize the people he played with at two feet, that's how blind the 'Blind Owl' was."
With Canned Heat, Wilson performed at two prominent concerts of the 1960s era, the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969. Canned Heat appeared in the film Woodstock, and the band's "Going Up the Country," which Wilson sang, has been referred to as the festival's unofficial theme song.[1] Wilson also wrote "On the Road Again," arguably Canned Heat's second-most familiar song.
Turpentine Moan/On The Road Again
Wilson was a passionate conservationist who loved reading books on botany and ecology. He often slept outdoors to be closer to nature. In 1969, he wrote and recorded a song, "Poor Moon", which expressed concern over potential pollution of the moon. He wrote an essay called 'Grim Harvest', about the coastal redwood forests of California, which was printed as the liner notes to the Future Blues album by Canned Heat.
After Eddie 'Son' House's 'rediscovery' in 1964, Wilson taught him how to play again the songs House had recorded in 1930 and 1942 (which he had forgotten over a long absence from music); House recorded for Columbia in 1965 and two of three selections featuring Wilson on harmonica and guitar appeared on the set. On the double album Hooker 'N Heat (1970), John Lee Hooker is heard wondering how Wilson is capable of following Hooker's guitar playing so well. Hooker was known to be a difficult performer to accompany, partly because of his disregard of song form. Yet Wilson seemed to have no trouble at all following him on this album. Hooker concludes that "you [Wilson] musta been listenin' to my records all your life". Hooker is also known to have stated "Wilson is the greatest harmonica player ever"
Stephen Stills' song "Blues Man" from the album Manassas is dedicated to Wilson, along with Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman.
Wilson died in Topanga Canyon, California of a drug overdose at age 27. Although Wilson had reportedly attempted suicide twice before and his death is sometimes reported as a suicide, this is not clearly established and he left no note.
Bron Wikipedia
donderdag 2 juli 2020
Eric Burdon & The New Animals(1966-1969)
The Animals, one of the most successful R&B-based groups of the British Invasion, broke up in 1966. It was then that singer Eric Burdon released a single as a solo artist - "Help Me Girl" got to #14 in the UK and #29 in the US. He then moved to America, accompanied by Animals drummer Barry Jenkins, and recorded an album which ended up being released as Eric Burdon & The Animals, accompanied by Jenkins and a number of session musicians. It saw him move away from the gritty R&B that The Animals had been known for, and into more of a general pop sound. It was notable for featuring three songs by Randy Newman, who had yet to record his own debut album - "Mama Told Me Not To Come", "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today" and "Wait Till Next Year". The former in particular would later become very well known after Three Dog Night had a #1 hit with it in 1970.
ERIC IS HERE
Despite being billed as Eric Burdon & The Animals, Eric Is Here was in reality a solo album. It was actually only released in the US, and was barely noticed. However shortly afterwards Burdon and Jenkins put together a new band to carry on The Animals' name, though their music was to take a radical change towards psychedelia as they emersed themselves in the American counter-culture
After the US-only Eric Is Here, which was essentially a Burdon solo album, they set about forming a new group to carry on The Animals
name. They were joined by Vic Briggs (guitar/keyboards), John Weider
(guitar/violin) and Danny McCulloch (bass), and became known as Eric
Burdon & The Animals (sometimes referred to as The New Animals).
Settling in California during the Summer Of Love, and no doubt fuelled
by his first LSD experience, Burdon led this group into strange new
psychedelic territories that had little at all in common with the
R&B styled sound of the original British group.
Good Times (album Wind of Change)
WIND OF CHANGE
Good Times (album Wind of Change)
Eric Burdon - vocals ,Vic Briggs - guitar ,piano,John Weider - guitar,violin. Danny McCulloch - bass,Barry Jenkins - drums.
Their first release was the single "When I Was Young", which did well in the US and made it to #15. The band then got the chance to play at the Monterey Pop Festival. Their first album together came out later that year. Winds Of Change was definitely a very strange record, the sort of thing that would (and did) divide fans of the original group. With unusually sparse instrumental arrangements, atmospheric sound effects and just as much spoken word as singing, it was a clear statement of Burdon's new direction and dedication to the hippie counter-culture.
Their first release was the single "When I Was Young", which did well in the US and made it to #15. The band then got the chance to play at the Monterey Pop Festival. Their first album together came out later that year. Winds Of Change was definitely a very strange record, the sort of thing that would (and did) divide fans of the original group. With unusually sparse instrumental arrangements, atmospheric sound effects and just as much spoken word as singing, it was a clear statement of Burdon's new direction and dedication to the hippie counter-culture.
Among all the 'experimental' numbers were a
few more conventional songs, including a great cover of The Rolling
Stones' "Paint It Black". Two surprisingly gentle songs were released as
singles - "Good Times" got to #20 back in the UK, and "San Franciscan
Nights" made it to #7, also reaching #9 in the US (actually the highest
charting single for The Animals in the US since "House Of The Rising
Sun" back in 1964).
Their next album came out in 1968. The Twain Shall Meet was a much more focused album than Winds Of Change, and saw the band developing into a seriously good psychedelic rock group, with an ambitious blend of mood pieces and rockers. It featured another hit single - the anti-war anthem "Sky Pilot" got to #14.
Eric Burdon & The Animals had played
at the Monterey Pop Festival back in the summer of 1967, and this became
the subject of their next single after their pschedelic debut Winds Of Change.
Compared to the strange experimental psychedelia of that album,
"Monterey" was very much a rock song, a catchy number which recounted
the band's experience at the festival, complete with driving beat and
sitar. The lyrics referenced many of the other acts in typical Eric
Burdon style - "The Byrds and the Airplane
did fly / Ravi Shankar's music made me cry". It got to #15 in the US
(its release in the the UK was delayed almost a year, and then it did
not chart).
THE TWAIN SHALL MEET
Closer To the Truth (album The Twain Shall Meet)
Eric Burdon - vocals ,Vic Briggs - guitar ,piano,John Weider - guitar,violin. Danny McCulloch - bass,Barry Jenkins - drums.
THE TWAIN SHALL MEET
Eric Burdon - vocals ,Vic Briggs - guitar ,piano,John Weider - guitar,violin. Danny McCulloch - bass,Barry Jenkins - drums.
Their next album came out in 1968. The Twain Shall Meet was a much more focused album than Winds Of Change, and saw the band developing into a seriously good psychedelic rock group, with an ambitious blend of mood pieces and rockers. It featured another hit single - the anti-war anthem "Sky Pilot" got to #14.
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The New Animals were expand to a six-piece
with the arrival of keyboard player Zoot Money (previously of Zoot
Money's Big Roll Band, and Dantalian's Chariot) in time for the their
third album, where he was credited as George Bruno. Not much time had
passed since their last album, but things changed quite dramatically
with Every One Of Us, though it could be argued that not many
people noticed. Eric Burdon seemingly abandoned 1967-style hippy
psychedelia almost as quickly as he had wholeheartedly adopted it,
instead aligning himself with the poor and the down-trodden for a
semi-concept album. It turned out to be a somewhat melancholy, moody
collection of songs, with jazzy and folky arrangements in place of
tripped-out acid rock (though there was one heavy rocker included).
Though as always with Burdon's late 60s work, there had to be something
strange to throw things off, and here it was the inclusion of two
lengthy dialogue recordings, as if he had run amok with a dictaphone and
been allowed to include his results on the album due to the lack of new
material. It sabotages an otherwise potentially perfect album, and one
that would have been seen as a much more serious affair than its two
predecessors - the songs the dialogues are attached to are perhaps the
best on the album
. EVERY ONE OF US
Eric Burdon - vocals ,Vic Briggs - guitar ,piano,John Weider - guitar,violin. Danny McCulloch - bass,Barry Jenkins - drums.Zoot Moony - hammond organ,piano,vocals
. EVERY ONE OF US
White Houses (album Every One Of Us)
Eric Burdon - vocals ,Vic Briggs - guitar ,piano,John Weider - guitar,violin. Danny McCulloch - bass,Barry Jenkins - drums.Zoot Moony - hammond organ,piano,vocals
Elsewhere there was a bluesy rendition of
the folk song "St James Infirmary", and the single "White Houses" which
got to a modest #67 in the US. The album itself barely charted, and
wasn't actually released in the UK, so remains one of their least known.
As an album it is obviously flawed, but there are some moments of
really brilliant music to be found within.
Everyday i have the Blues (Berlin 1968)
Everyday i have the Blues (Berlin 1968)
Following the arrival of keyboard player
Zoot Money, bassist Danny McCulloch left The Animals. Guitarist Vic
Briggs was also replaced by Andy Summers, who had been with Money in
British psychedelic group Dantalian's Chariot. This new lineup (Eric
Burdon, Money, Summers, John Weider and Barry Jenkins) thus had no
bassist - Money handled it in the studio, and on stage it was passed
around between guitarists Summers and Weider.
They released a new album in 1968, the group's third from that year. Love Is
was a double album, and consisted almost entirely of covers. Songs in a
variety of styles were given big, ambitious re-inventions, several
nearing ten minutes in length - Ike & Tina Turner's "River Deep,
Mountain High", Sly & The Family Stone's "I'm An Animal", Johnny
Cash's "Ring Of Fire", Traffic's "Coloured Rain", The Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody" and Albert King's
"As The Years Go Passing By". There was also an excellent original song
from Burdon, and a twenty-minute medley of two Dantalian's Chariot
numbers written by Summers and Money. The album's sound was big and
powerful, and the result was surely the masterpiece of the latter-day
Animals. It even generated one final minor hit, as "Ring Of Fire" got to
#35 in the UK.
LOVE IS
Colored Rain (album Love Is)great guitar solo Andy Summers.
LOVE IS
However it proved to be the end of the
road for the band, as they broke up shortly afterwards. Eric Burdon went
on to join forces with Californian funk band War, and John Weider
joined progressive rock group Family (replacing Ric Grech). Zoot Money
continued to work in both music and film, and Andy Summers of course
went on to fame as guitarist for The Police.
The story of Eric Burdon I found on the blog below, along with more beautiful music.I am very happy with it, Thanks Arthur
More Eric Burdon on my blog...
The Animals
Eric Burdon & War(Germany)
Eric Burdon - One more coffee for the road.
Eric Burdon & War (Denmark)
maandag 29 juni 2020
C.S.N.&Y. - Don,t Be Denied
Wembley Stadium - Saturday Sept,14th 1974
Don,t be Denied (Neil Young) album Times Fade Away
Neil Young-vocals/guitar.David Crosby-vocals/guitar.Stephen Stills-vocals/guitar.Graham Nash- vocals
Joe Lala -percussion.Russ Kunkel-drums.Joni Michel- vocals.
donderdag 25 juni 2020
Beth Hart - Skin
August 5, 2016
dinsdag 23 juni 2020
Bob Dylan - "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)"
"Key West (Philosopher Pirate)" - Track 9 of Bob Dylan's new album 'Rough and Rowdy Ways'
zondag 21 juni 2020
The Beach Boys Live At Knebworth (1980)
Mooi line-up op de 1980 editie van het Knebworth festival met o.a Lindisfarme,Elkie Brooks,The Blues Band,Mike Oldfield,Santana en een heel bijzonder optreden van The Beach Boys.Het zou het laatste optreden worden van de strandjongens in originele bezetting Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilsom, Dennis Wilson, Alan Jardine en Bruce Johnston .Zeker met in gedachten dat enkele jaren later(1983) Dennis Wilson,en in (1998) Carl Wilson zouden overlijden.
Darlin
"Darlin'" geschreven door Brian Wilson en Mike Love Het komt van het album
Wild Honey(1967)
Het zou een prachtig optreden worden .De band was in topvorm ,de stemmen klonken prima.
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"God Only Knows" van het album Pet Sounds
In 1966 noemde Paul McCartney God Only Knows de mooiste song ooit geschreven,en het album Pet Sounds zijn inspiratie voor het maken van Sgt.Pepper
Heroes and Villians van het album Smiley Smile.Geschreven door Brian Wilson met een tekst van Van Dyke Parks
Surfer Girl komt van de tweede gelijknamige Beach Boys LP uit 1963
Dat het niet altijd koek en ei was tussen de boys was bekend.Carl was eigenelijk de meest stabiele van de broertjes Wilson.Hij had er dan ook veel problemen mee dat er te weinig gerepeteerd werd.Ook de wrijvingen tussen Mike Love en Dennis Wilson zijn legendarisch.Dennis had de neiging de draak te steken met Mike,s wat theatrale gedrag tijdens de optredens maar hier lijken ze toch wat toenadering tot elkaar te zoeken
Help Me Rohnda
Help Me, Rhonda" is geschreven door Brian Wilson en Mike Love . Het is de eerste beach Boys song met Al Jardine .Het komt van het album Today!
Waren de Beach Boys in 1980 misschien over hun hoogtepunt heen,het mooie van dit concert was toch dat Dennis Wilson samen met grote broer Brian weer van de partij was.Zijn leven zou daarna in een neerwaartse spiraal raken(drugs,alcohol) optreden,terwijl Brian weer aan het terugkomen was uit een zware depressie.
De DVD van dit album is dan ook zeer aanbevolen
The Beach Boys - Good Timin' (Live at Knebworth, England 1980)
Brian Wilson (Hawthorne (Californië), 20 juni 1942)
Carl Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998)
Dennis Wilson Dennis (Inglewood (Californië), 4 december 1944 - Marina del Rey, 28 december 1983)
Michael Edward "Mike" Love (born March 15, 1941)
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Bruce Arthur Johnston (born Benjamin Baldwin on June 27, 1942)
The Beach Boys - The Lost Show (1964)
http://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2009/01/beach-boys-lost-show-1964.html
The Beach Boys Website
http://www.beachboys.com/
donderdag 18 juni 2020
The Beatles- Coliseum Washingtom (11Febr. 1964)
Het was een koude avond die elfde februari 1964 in Washington DC.
In het het plaatselijke Coliseum theater daarintegen was het bloedheet.
The Beatles gingen voor het eerst live optreden op Amerikaanse grond en de verwachtingen waren hoog gespannen.Het publiek werd eerst opgewarmd met groepen als The Carravels ,Tommy Roe en the Chiffons.
Roll Over Beethoven
The Beatles komen op en wat een fantastische chaos!Om iedereen van het optreden te laten genieten had men een draaibaar drumstel gecreeerd en moest tussen de nummers regelmatig de opstelling worden veranderd.De mannen worden er niet warm of koud van en hebben duidelijk plezier in het hele gebeuren.
From Me To You
Het concert duurde ongeveer een uur en was mischien wel een van hun meest memorabele optredens.Tickets varieerden van $2 tot $4,
I Saw Him Standing There
Beatles Set List
Washington, D.C.
February 1964
Roll Over Beethoven
From Me to You
I Saw Her Standing There
This Boy
All My Loving
I Wanna Be Your Man
Please Please Me
Till There Was You
She Loves You
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Twist and Shout
Long Tall Sally
This Boy
Dtt schreef de bekende muziekrececent Richie Unterberger:
“…[H]ere are the early Beatles at their on-stage best. They’re more visibly delighted, indeed almost overwhelmed, by the crowd’s enthusiasm here than at any time before or since. Despite the seeming overnight success of their invasion of America, it had in reality been a long hard climb to the top, taking about seven years of diligent work and numerous excruciating setbacks, and also a year or so where they’d made virtually no inroads into the U.S. market despite their mushrooming British superstardom. This was the payoff, and though the group would get fed up with touring before screaming teenagers within a couple of years, at the Washington Coliseum they were if anything having an even greater time than their admirers….”
Matig beelden ,slecht geluid maar toch een van de mooiste concert films uit mijn verzameling!!!!!
woensdag 17 juni 2020
Neil Young - Muziektheater Stopera, Amsterdam - December 9-10, 1989
Interview by Bram van Splunteren @ the Amstel Hotel, Amsterdam, December 9, 1989
"Heart Of Gold" live @ the Muziektheater Stopera, Amsterdam, December 10, 1989 (w/ Ben Keith)
Interview by Bram van Splunteren @ the Amstel Hotel, Amsterdam, December 9,
Interview by Bram van Splunteren @ the Amstel Hotel, Amsterdam, December 9,
"Ohio" live @ the Muziektheater Stopera, Amsterdam, December 10, 1989
VPRO TV "Concert of the year 1990" (December 1989-December 1990)
"Rockin' In The Free World" (2) live @ the Muziektheater Stopera, Amsterdam, December 10, 1989
maandag 15 juni 2020
Van Morrison at the Fillmore East - 23 Sept 1970
The Fillmore East was het rockpodium van rockpromotor Bill Graham op Second Avenue,nabij East Village,Manhattan New York City.Het was geopend 1968 tot 1971.Alle grote acts uit de rockmuziek hebben er opgetreden. In San Francisco was Graham,s andere grote rockzaal the Fillmore West ,dit was Bills thuisbasis .47 jaar geleden ,op 23 September 1970 stond Van Morrison en zijn band op het podium van de Fillmore East
This Dream Of You van het Album Moondance ,een wel heel korte versie.
1970 was een zeer productief jaar voor Van Morrison.In Januari kwam het album "Moondance uit en aan het eind van hetzelfde jaar" His Band and The Street Choir".Twee schitterende albums .
Cypres Avenue van het album Astral Weeks
Van Morrison over "Cyprus Avenue" A street in Belfast , a place where there's a lot of wealth. It wasn't far from where I was brought up and it was a very different scene. To me it was a very mystical place. It was a whole avenue lined with trees and I found it a place where I could think
Van Morrison's band in 1970 (from left to right): Alan Hand-Keyboards,John Platania-Gitaar, Keith Johnson-Trompet, Dahaud Shaar-Drums,Van Morrrison , John Klingberg- Bass,Jack Schroer - SaxMore Van Morrison!
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