9/12/70: Carpenters – Single – We’ve Only Just Begun. I’ll go ahead and add “harrowing” to the list. I tried. If interested, have a look at my inaugural post and perhaps my second entry for a better idea of who I am and why I started these pages. …and so did the great singer/songwriter/producer/actress, Ohio-born Macy Gray. It was a VIP event, and as Robert Hilburn noted in his LA Times review of the show, it was attended by John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Neil Diamond, Robbie Robertson, Bernie Taupin, John Bonham, Linda Ronstadt, Harry Nilsson, Carole King, Art Garfunkel, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and others. The band would really make their name through relentless touring which, after this release, would lead to arguably their greatest album the following year, At Fillmore East. He's also been writing columns, features and novels that touch people's lives for more than 30 years. My June 21, 1978, column in the Janis Joplin passed away 50 years ago today, but rather than a dour post that rehashes the details of her final hours, I’m taking a more celebratory slant just as a reminder to anyone who might need one what an amazing talent she was. I’m going to an island. So where does this leave us? The Latin rhythms which form the backbone of Santana’s music just feel good to listen to, and the band must’ve felt an immense sense of freedom when playing it. ", Strings, CDs, instruction, and steel guitar accessories, Dicky Betts "In Memory of Elisabeth Reed", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbfOhOeD2HA. And Janis knew she’d nailed it when she skipped off the stage at the conclusion of her performance. Ringo released his second solo album on the 25th. her for murder. It could be a bitter cold winter day, but with Abraxas playing it’s always sunny and 75. The change of venue was later granted, and she was moved to I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down, Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door…. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" was inspired by a woman Betts was involved with in the group's hometown of Macon, Georgia. Despite the initial commercial success, contemporary print reviews were mixed, and neither Roger Waters nor David Gilmour look back upon the album favorably. No connection to anyone in the Allman Brothers but Dickey saw the gravestone and decided that would be the title. This is a bit of an unorthodox blog entry for me, as Pass the Distance is not a well known album, not by yours truly, anyway. Indeed, if you’re going to sample one song on this album, check out Jerusalem. Another important factor is the fantastic group of sessions players on this recording, the core of which became the band he has consistently worked with since – significant considering there was a time when he discarded session musicians like yesterday’s socks. Time Out of Mind won three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, in 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_of_Mind_(Bob_Dylan_album). Contemporary and retrospective reviews have always been quite positive, yet the album initially sold only slightly better than it’s debut predecessor. At Fillmore East is a double live album by The Allman Brothers Band. Yet I can’t watch her performance there without chills. This time it’s the Marley varietal. Joachim, love it... great stuff! Been on my mind for so many years now (don't wanna count 'em, ha!). I liked it then, and I still do. He is said to have used the name on her tombstone as the title because he didn’t want to identify whom the song was about: “a girl he had an affair with who was Boz Scaggs’ girlfriend.” Many references to Elizabeth Reed can be found on the internet, including a book about her hanging.) The other reason, and as always the most important one, is that the music itself is so good from start to finish. To illustrate: Bands that shut down in 1970:  The Beatles (What!? You can sense the intimacy of the performance, delivered in its entirety on this release. Their early glory years were way behind them at this point, and it’s silly to even use pronouns such as “them.” Other than McGuinn, this was an entirely different band. In fact, this album – simulcast live on L.A.’s KMET on May 26, 1976 and heavily bootlegged as a result – wasn’t officially released until 2003. Neither can the audience, who were blown away. My jaw dropped to the floor as the Great Man arose in front to scattered applause among the assemblage of blue hairs throughout the half empty theater. https://marleyarkives.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/bob-marley-and-the-wailers-go-hollywood-roxy-1976/. He taught karate before taking up organic farming, unaware that Pass the Distance had become a cult classic until it was remastered/re-released in 2004, after which he performed the album on stage on a handful of dates. 1970, here we go. And my world is blown to smithereens. The highlight for me is the second disc which contains the encore: a 24 minute medley of Get Up, Stand Up/No More Trouble/War. Elizabeth Reed was a name Betts spotted on a headstone in the cemetery where the band liked to hang out and write. If you like Marley then you probably know most if not all of this music. I’d read his name in Rolling Stone various times throughout that decade before finally buying Legend around 1986. “Madness” “…songs unravel lysergically” “sinewy guitar” “snarling vocals” “catharsis” “raw merriment” “hypnotic” “nocturnal” “nightmarish” “creepy” “beautiful” “poetic” – These are some of the words I’ve come across in reviews of Simon Finn’s Pass the Distance. Chestnut Mare is the standout from the studio sides. Palestine, Illinois, for example. With Atom Heart Mother they were almost there. "C'mon down to Macon... we'll ride you on our motors, and feed ya' some down-home collard greens. The easier solution, though, was to put the first three songs from side two on a playlist with some tracks from the first five albums (though I’ve grown to really like the entire Piper…, Saucerful…, and More albums). Pink Floyd were coming into their own in terms of expecting more artistic freedom, and this is represented on the album’s jacket. There will be ten rounds (though rumors abound of three bonus rounds), with draft order determined randomly by round. Their next release, Meddle, was the breakthrough. I recall being given this on cassette as a random gift maybe a year after its release in 1984, and a year or so before I read the Orwell novel or watched the film adaptation. I’ll want some reggae. Much of its contents would form part of the core of the band’s live repertoire for years to come. the ground. on October 20 – Desert Island Album Draft, Round 11 (Soundtracks): Eurythmics – 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother), on October 8 – Desert Island Album Draft, Round 10: Bob Marley & the Wailers – Live at the Roxy, on October 2 – Desert Island Album Draft, Round 9: Bob Dylan – Time Out of Mind, on October 2 – Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother – Almost There. The feature track is titled Jerusalem, in which he equates the Crucifixion with the ideals of the 1960s counterculture. She was the girlfriend of musician Boz Scaggs, with Betts later saying she "was Hispanic and somewhat dark and mysterious—and she really used … Fair or not, the 1980’s is an easy target for blanket criticism of an entire decade’s worth of music. FAQ No regrets, though. With apologies to solo McCartney and Lennon, Van the Man, Miles, Coltrane, Croz, Elton, U2, Sinatra, David Freaking Bowie, and many others – hell, I even considered the first Van Halen album as a tribute to the late, great Eddie – I’ve decided on a Bob for my second pick in a row. It was received relatively well, but their next album would become their most acclaimed. The trout fishing was a blast, the round of golf frustrating but still fun, and then the Orlando (sans Dawn) show, a matinee as I recall.