A thread for youtube videos and what have you. I'm starting it off with a bizarro yeh-yeh number I've wanted to bring to group for probably 15 years, but it is not on any lp or cd. It isn't anywhere except youtube and a very expensive 7 inch from the 60s. Christine Pilzer only put out a few 45s that I know of. She's best known (if she's known at all) for her oft-anthologized "Dracula," but this easily my favorite of her small and strange discography. Here's "Ah-Hem-Ho-Uh-Err" from 1967:
(08-02-2020, 09:43 PM)Trey Wrote: A thread for youtube videos and what have you. I'm starting it off with a bizarro yeh-yeh number I've wanted to bring to group for probably 15 years, but it is not on any lp or cd. It isn't anywhere except youtube and a very expensive 7 inch from the 60s. Christine Pilzer only put out a few 45s that I know of. She's best known (if she's known at all) for her oft-anthologized "Dracula," but this easily my favorite of her small and strange discography. Here's "Ah-Hem-Ho-Uh-Err" from 1967:
That was fun! I found a short but informative bio: Christine Pilzer
Well, really, there's just so many to choice from that's it hard to limit it to a Top 20.
My goodness, Stephen Marriott's lead solo looks so bizarre with his guitar hanging so low! He goes pretty fierce with it, too. I can't tell if he's doing a Pete Townshend impression or that's just him. Either way, Ronnie Lane sure seems to be getting a kick out of it. Speaking of Ronnie, I never realized how much Bill Callahan looks like him.
(08-09-2020, 12:56 AM)Trey Wrote: Alan Price tackles "A Day in the Life" on German TV with wiggy visuals. Good on 'im.
Wow, that was crazy! I love that he even does the "huff huff huff" sound. And "tackles" is the perfect terminology. Since The Beatles didn't tour, it makes one speculate how they would have brought their studio creations to a live stage.
My main reference to Alan Price outside of The Animals is the hilarious scene in Don't Look Back when he's talking to Bob Dylan about Donovan:
I've never seen DLB and remember reading that Dylan was kind of awful to Donovan in it, but it doesn't quite seem that way in the related clips on youtube.
Price's "Day in the Life" is really impressive to me--I can't think of any other covers of that one (I'm sure there are some), and it's just Price and a piano. When I think of the original recording, it's all the experimental touches and production delights that come to mind. Turns out, it's a pretty good tune as well!
(08-09-2020, 10:56 AM)Trey Wrote: I've never seen DLB and remember reading that Dylan was kind of awful to Donovan in it, but it doesn't quite seem that way in the related clips on youtube.
Price's "Day in the Life" is really impressive to me--I can't think of any other covers of that one (I'm sure there are some), and it's just Price and a piano. When I think of the original recording, it's all the experimental touches and production delights that come to mind. Turns out, it's a pretty good tune as well!
I agree. It's a lovely performance.
On the other side of the spectrum, I'm fond of this arena rock cover of A Day in the Life:
Regarding Don't Look Back, Dylan does come off a bit pricky. But there's also a bit of playful competitiveness with it. Where as Donovan comes off as a fan boy (even playing a Dylanish tune) and just excited to be in the room with Dylan. I love D.A. Pennebaker so I find the doc essential viewing.
(08-09-2020, 12:56 AM)Trey Wrote: Alan Price tackles "A Day in the Life" on German TV with wiggy visuals. Good on 'im.
So, I go to check out the trailer for O Lucky Man!, and the first minute is Alan Price performing "Poor People" from the film:
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Of the album this appears on, Robert Christgau sez: "A waste. Vocalist Parker, an underrated blues pro, and organist McGriff, who has a name as a soloist but is better off accompanying, should produce a more than passable record almost automatically. But not when they're burdened with strings, insipid soprano choruses, and hopelessly inappropriate material."
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