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Post by ChesterStokie on Apr 27, 2023 16:05:56 GMT
I'd never listened properly to any Richie Havens before so I thought I'd give that a quick couple of minutes last night. I ended up listening to the full 40 plus minutes of it. Absolutely spellbinding stuff. Through headphones there's a beautiful warm sound to the vocals. What an experience to have actually been there in person. I was 16, there with my first girlfriend and he closed that year's festival, immediately following Juding Tzuke, who had been playing in the rain with these amazing green lazers, they were very new at the time (sadly the video doesn't remotely do them justice - or actually, maybe it was just the drugs!) and then the rain stopped and Richie came on and everybody (well in all honesty, it was only about 25 thousand) knew they were experiencing something very special. Still one of the best nights of my life ...
Good story. But I had to sit through nearly 2 minutes of those damn lazers before there was any actual footage of the lovely Judie!
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Apr 27, 2023 16:09:16 GMT
Booom..
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Apr 27, 2023 16:31:14 GMT
Disorientating pre millennial minimal tech.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Apr 27, 2023 18:27:22 GMT
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Apr 27, 2023 19:02:39 GMT
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Apr 27, 2023 20:29:47 GMT
Different version
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Apr 27, 2023 20:35:17 GMT
Shame the audio's a little glitchy but what a fabulous time capsule... The Fonz, The Thin White funky Duke and some Kung Fu.. '76 3 This is absolutely amazing footage (not seen it before), it's actually recorded only months before Punk is sprung upon us for the very first time but yet, here is Bowie presenting us with proto post punk, foreshadowing the likes of Magazine and the Gang of Four etc. and bypassing actual punk itself altogether. Genius.
Agree with those sentiments, no doubting the genius of the dude. Personally I think 'Hunky Dory' was his 'Punk' opus, he didn't/hasn't skipped any steps imo. ' true punk spirit before the media bag of Punk.. HD is iconoclastic, cultural {mis}appropriation, and shredding, cut up punk re hash spirit... life through a different lens. Boowie the self proclaimed Magpie, is {obv.} far more than that.. he nicked ideas before they were fully formed... plucked out of the cultural aether as t'were... foreshadowing. The Bowie albums I don't really like, engage with are the ones I havn;t properly spent quality time with yet... 'Laughing Gnome' was my first not sweet/toy soldier pocket money purchase...7" from a sweet/toy/record shop... 'Tony Day' remains an all time fave esp on Radiogram sound... Eulogising a bit but it intrigues me that '76: that long hot summer, was also the Berlin Tril phase for David... listening back he wanna watching Wimbledon, licking Mivvy's. 'Low', which to me IS pre pre proto future post punk... {see them mcl lads etc} is a perennial on the turntable, and CD cuz I nearly wore the record out... The stylistical fusion of 'Young Americans'/'Low' {and Eno} gave birth to Talking Heads. In the context of '76 {I like to ponder societal trends/mores, morays {history may not repeat but it certainly rhymes} it weren't a cultural vacuum per se.. Patti, New York Dolls, Rock n Roll Animals, The Fuggs and such.. oh to have been knocking about with Bowie {in his puerto rican suit} as he soaked in and transmuted all that shit... Anyways enough, I could drone on.. Bowie's collaborators have also been a musical journey, over and above the output of the man, without him I may not have known of etc.. except Bing.. The Dinah clip is mint but I wish it'd shown the denounnment where the old lady gets a chop and zen alchemical Winkler steps in to cool the joint.. It does break my heart a little that Bowie stole the 'Stay' moves fro here, can't unsee.. I'm particularly fascinated by the apparent 'end of decade' musical innovation phenomenon.. as the decades transition, the music, whether symbiotic, symbolic, microcosmic, or whatnot... exploides... Rather than an ending of an epoch, the music reflects a transition.. 50's blues rock n roll into pop, pop into psych etc as the seventies ended, then into Punk, 80's end saw Rave, Madchester, remixing, and a Bripop re rock thing.. fragmenting into Big Beat, Trip Hop, Mo' Wax etc..... Post Millenial data is still being gathered, seems marked by a real fragmentation, internet democratization etc.. to discern ;trends' to sustain the rough hypothesis as yet....... Sometimes history is better observed with a telescope rather than a microscope..
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Apr 27, 2023 20:40:08 GMT
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Apr 27, 2023 20:51:58 GMT
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Apr 27, 2023 21:09:45 GMT
White was jailed for four months at the age of 16 for stealing $30,000 worth of Cadillac tires (equivalent to about $270,000 now).[13] While in jail, he listened to Elvis Presley singing "It's Now or Never" on the radio,[14] an experience he later credited with changing the course of his life
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Apr 27, 2023 21:13:59 GMT
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Apr 27, 2023 21:30:09 GMT
I'm really glad you found the One Shot Richie, I was going to lead with that in my next missive.. it's amazing been an earworm since I picked out some Richie a couple of weeks back {his version of 'I Started a Joke... Smiths natch..}, that live version, lively lovely cello the lot, perfect....Ace that you saw him.. I was blissfully unaware until I bought a cheapo Director's Cut Woodstock DVD, blew me away, as did the Ravi Shankar set... and The Bob The Bear Hite footage... I did see Bonobo in Brum about a decade ago though.. A lot of people associate Havens with being the opening act at Woodstock but what they don't realise is, that he was never supposed to be the first on the bill ... All the roads to the farm were completely impassable with stationery traffic and as a result, none of the bands scheduled to play had been able to get anywhere near the site, the whole thing was running massively late and yet a single artist hadn't even performed, so the organisers asked Richie if he would fly in by helicopter with his acoustic guitar and placate the massive crowd that had amassed in front of the stage. Which he did do. But every time he finished his (45 min) set, the promoters pushed him back out there to do it again, whilst they attempted to arrange access to the site for the other bands. After TWO hours of playing, he'd had enough and decided to literally compose something brand new on the spot and it was at this moment (based around the classic, standard 'Motherless Child'), that 'Freedom' was born. The guy is literally making this up as he goes along, in front of half a million people and none of them even realised! When Richie took to the stage at Woodstock the song didn't even exist and by the time he left it, it had become one of the most iconic songs of the counter culture ...
Yeah, the helicopters a funky icon for the time, I forget whether local farmer/crop dusters were commandeered? As a state of 'emergence/emergency' unfolded/blossomed? Mark Groubert {America's Untold Stories'} has fantastical tales of these times: musical sub culture, cults, Moonies, marginals, Scientology, UFO's, FBI, CIA and whatnot... and his later part in National Lampoon, and the nascent MTV.. {he had an 'in recovery' Mark Lanegan living in his garage at one point in time, alleged/apparently...} One of the many highlights of the Woodstock DCut is the moment The Incredible String Band alight from their 'copter dressed in full medaeval minstrel regalia clutching lutes, dulcimer and lyers.. a fair bet that that's when the Brown Acid would have really started to pinch... Helicopter theme starter....
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