Toots Hibbert sharing a thread with fucking Erick Morillo is criminal.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:04 am
by The Sybian
I saw Toots and the Maytals at a music festival in 1997. Towards the end of a very long day, so I don't remember much, except they were really fun.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 10:18 am
by bfj
The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:04 am
I saw Toots and the Maytals at a music festival in 1997. Towards the end of a very long day, so I don't remember much, except they were really fun.
He put on a great show when I saw him at a small college arena in Baltimore. Hazy memories, but I remember lots of sweaty sexy Jamaican women dancing in very little clothing.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 10:21 am
by Pruitt
I saw them twice - once when I was 12 or so, they opened for the Who (the prime Who) and the fans were not in the mood for this new music from Jamaica. They got booed as I recall.
15 years later, saw Toots on the waterfront in Toronto. Fantastic stuff.
How did you miss "oh lord it's hard to be humble" line on this reference. Yeah would have been dark.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:55 am
by DaveInSeattle
Don't forget about Davis playing the QB (a very thinly veiled Don Meredith type) in "North Dallas Forty"..
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 11:50 am
by sancarlos
Showing my age here, but in the 1970s, variety shows were very popular on television. We watched them because we only had three network channels to choose from and dad controlled the channel we watched. For some reason, both Mac Davis and Helen Reddy were regulars on these kinds of shows. All the fucking time. I remember once on some show, the host was listing the guests on his program and he finished with "...and for the young folks - Mac Davis!" And I thought to myself - "I'm a young people and who gives a fuck about Mac Davis?"
How did you miss "oh lord it's hard to be humble" line on this reference. Yeah would have been dark.
Sometimes you have to take a pitch. I let the "I guess Helen Reddy is no longer strong and invincible" letter high fastball go by also.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:51 pm
by Pruitt
sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 11:50 am
Showing my age here, but in the 1970s, variety shows were very popular on television. We watched them because we only had three network channels to choose from and dad controlled the channel we watched. For some reason, both Mac Davis and Helen Reddy were regulars on these kinds of shows. All the fucking time. I remember once on some show, the host was listing the guests on his program and he finished with "...and for the young folks - Mac Davis!" And I thought to myself - "I'm a young people and who gives a fuck about Mac Davis?"
Took the words out of my mouth. This sort of crud was what they used to trot out all the time in the 70s. The Carpenters! Helen Reddy! Olivia Newton John! Mac Davis!
Sad when anyone passes, but I have such antipathy about these two - especially Helen Reddy. She was everywhere from the Mike Douglas Show to the Midnight Special to the Grammys... everywhere! And her music? Good lord so bloody awful.
That era's pop music was so, so shitty.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 2:08 pm
by mister d
Cellino is going to fucking own the plane manufacturer:
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 10:02 pm
by bfj
Johnny Nash
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:19 pm
by sancarlos
Beautiful voice. His version of Stir it Up was the first time most Americans ever heard a Bob Marley song.
Viola Smith, a swing-era musician who was promoted in the 1930s as the “fastest girl drummer in the world” and who championed greater inclusion of women in the almost completely male preserve of big bands, died Oct. 21 at her home in Costa Mesa, Calif. She was 107.
The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease, said her nephew, Dennis Bartash.
With a kit featuring 12 drums, including two giant tom-toms placed near her shoulders, Ms. Smith was from 1938 to 1941 the centerpiece of the Coquettes, an “all-girl” big band that developed a modest national following. Her showcase was “The Snake Charmer,” a jazzy arabesque with explosions of drumming pyrotechnics.
Check out this video...her drum kit setup is wild.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 12:44 pm
by sancarlos
Of course, I have to say a couple words about Jerry Jeff Walker. I was supposed to see him in Grand Junction once. He was the first guy I ever knew of who had to cancel a show because when the big gig came, he was just too drunk to play.
In my hometown, we had a fairly large number of cowboys/wannabe cowboys/rednecks, and thus, on a weekend night, you could count on most bars getting around to playing Jerry Jeff's live version of Ray Wylie Hubbard's Up Against the Wall, You Redneck Mothers, to many hoots and whoops. (Ironically, it was an anti-redneck song, but they didn't listen to they lyrics too closely. They just liked the line, "...just kicking hippies asses and raising hell...")
Of course, he's best known for writing Mr. Bojangles, which was a hit for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, (and as I learned surprisingly, associated by some swampers primarily with Sammy Davis Jr. because he used to sing it on variety shows.). But, he also wrote some other damned good songs, such as The Driftin' Way of Life, and Pissing in the Wind, and did a nice version of Guy Clark's L.A. Freeway.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 1:31 pm
by Steve of phpBB
Shit, just hearing about Mr. Bojangles makes me sad.
Affectionately known as the “Wacko from Waco,” Shaver was born in nearby Corsicana, Texas, and made his mark in 1973 when he released his debut album, Old Five and Dimers Like Me, and Waylon Jennings recorded nine of his songs for the landmark album Honky Tonk Heroes.
Written from true-life experiences, his songs have been recorded by many artists, including his longtime friend Willie Nelson, Bobby Bare, Johnny Cash, and John Anderson. He released many of his own albums over four decades, including several with his guitarist son, Eddy Shaver, who died tragically on New Year’s Eve in 2000.
Shaver appeared in the 1996 film The Apostle with Robert Duvall (who also recorded his song “Live Forever” for the soundtrack to the film Crazy Heart) and was the subject of the 2004 documentary A Portrait of Billy Joe. His personal life was full of high drama: He married the same woman three times, survived a heart attack onstage, broke his neck on his wedding night, and was acquitted of a shooting incident in 2007, in which he reportedly asked the victim, “Where do you want it?” ...
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 9:23 pm
by A_B
Jesus a bad week for Texas musicians. Siomeone put Robert earl keen in bubble wrap.