Glenn Frey and Don Henley knew each other before they joined Linda Ronstadt’s band in 1971. But it was that time together that led to the formation of the Eagles later that year. Upon the pub…
I don’t think these guys have every heard the phrase “Hubris kills.” Such a classic case.
A RIFF on what country is really about.
I love it. I can just imagine these hotshots are used to calling the shots and getting whatever they want being turned away at the door by an artist who has no interest in what they’re selling. A much-needed bruise to some egos, I’m sure.
“They would be like, ‘This is very unconventional how this goes.’ And [our manager] goes, ‘Well these guys just aren’t looking for it, and you called us.’”
Charlie added:
“It was actually hilarious. He was like, ‘So and so from this XYZ label called, and I told him y’all don’t give a shit, but they still want to meet you. So can they just come meet?’
Like yeah, sure, we’ll say hey to ’em or whatever.”
Having literally dissected the Revolver album, what’s your takeaway about The Beatles at that point in their musical evolution? You can hear them like kids in the back of a car saying: “We’re bored! We want to do something different.” That’s what’s going on with Revolver. It’s like a prog record – kind of like: “Look how many ideas we have!” And what I find fascinating is that they went from being this four-headed monster with Beatles suits on to being these four individuals going in different directions – but helping each other. Like, no one’s saying: “Come on, John, change chords on Tomorrow Never Knows.” Or, you know: “Why are we doing Indian songs? We’re from Liverpool!” It’s like that pure confidence of jumping out of the plane without a parachute and knowing you’re going to land safely. Revolver is kind of a fearless record.
The clip has since passed into broadcasting legend. In 2006 the archive service ITN Source selected it as one of the 10 most notorious rock interviews of all time, car crash television at its best. And, for the most part, Connolly has been blamed for the so-called fiasco, as if his line of questioning was responsible for Bonham’s reluctance to play along.
It turns out things were a little more complicated than that. In 2002, Connolly’s wife, the writer and performer Pamela Stephenson, published a biography of her husband entitled Billy, and wrote that the interview had gone exactly as planned. And 20 years later Connolly confirmed it in an interview with Mojo, revealing that Bonham showed up for the recording rather worse for wear, and that the two had conspired to keep the drummer’s input to a minimum to spare his blushes.
“I said to him, look, why don’t I just ask you really lengthy, confusing questions and you can just shrug as if you don’t know the answer, or just say yes?” Connolly explained. “That way we still do the interview but you don’t actually have to do it. He said, ‘Would you do that?’ and I said, ‘Of course, it’ll just seem like you’re mercilessly taking the piss.’ I didn’t give a fuck so we did it – and it was funny.
Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham’s TV interview with comedian Billy Connolly is one of rock’s most notorious
To be clear: The album isn’t dead. As Taylor Swift, Drake and other Billboard topping artists have proven, fans still look for albums of their favorite artists. In fact, overall album consumption across all platforms, including track equivalent digital albums and streaming equivalent albums, increased 14% during the first half of the year, the Nielsen report estimated. And there are creative reasons why an artist might choose to release an album in its entirety.But to really make money that way, artists need a strong fan base. And a good way to build that in today’s competitive landscape is by staying in their minds.
I always knew John Fogerty was a problem. He was so different from his brother Tom. This is a well done piece with many quotes and stories from the bass player.
In 1995 Clifford and Cook set up Creedence Clearwater Revisited, initially with The Cars’ Elliot Easton on guitar. But Fogerty issued an injunction over the name, and for a while they went out as Stu Cook and Doug ‘Cosmo’ Clifford Present Cosmo’s Factory – An Evening With Creedence.”You could scarcely fit it on a ticket,” says Cook.”John maintained that the trademark could only be controlled by unanimous decision. We said it was a majority, and the court saw it that way. In the end we settled for money, which didn’t seem to be about saving the name or preserving the honour of his creations.”They could in fact use the name Creedcence Clearwater Revival if they wished, but “we chose not to out of respect for the original band and to avoid unnecessary confusion with our fans,” Cook says. Fogerty has preserved the honour of his creations mainly by not playing them. He claimed he was prevented from doing so, although that didn’t seem to prevent anyone else from playing them. When he finally played a bunch of Creedence songs at a benefit show for Vietnam veterans in 1987 it was a newsworthy event.
As usual, I have been confused about this for years and until I made a mistake with exporting audio I didn’t really have to figure it out. Well, now I know. 24bit is used to edit with. 16bit is used to actually distribute the music on CD or otherwise. 16bit is still the standard for mass accessible audio.
We have inaudible noise with 16-bit audio and better editing with 24-bit audio, but what’s the deal with 32-bit audio? You get 4,294,967,296 different combinations of binary digits with 32-bit audio, but is that really necessary? To be honest, not really.The only real benefit of 32-bit audio is the added headroom when it comes to editing. While you get less distortion with 32-bit audio, you have enough headroom with 24-bit audio with room to spare. The differences between bit depths are inaudible and not really worth the hype.
I always loved both bands and II once did a cover of The Rocker, which is a great Thin Lizzy song. Deep Purple got me with Machine Head and Made in Japan was a well-done piece of rehash. I’m not sure this supergroup would have ever taken off. Too much attitude and ego for one band IMO. I’m more into Supper Groups.
“It was meant to be a free-flowing kind of thing,” recalls Paice, who says the reason nothing came of Baby Face was purely musical. “It never got off the ground mainly because Phil wasn’t really a good enough bassist yet.“Phil’s voice was staggering, wonderful. But he couldn’t play, at least not to the standard that we needed if it was just Ritchie, myself and a bass. When there’s only three of you, everybody’s got to be really good on everything they do. “Really, the bass playing had to be on a par with someone like Jack Bruce. And, God bless him, Phil wasn’t there yet. He was pretty simple, and quite often out of tune and out of time. And although he became really, really good at everything he did, at that point he wasn’t.“Ritchie and I looked at each other and went: ‘It’s not working. It’s a nice attempt to try and do this three-piece thing, but let’s go and rethink it.’ But we never did rethink it. We got back on the road with Purple and it just sort of disappeared into the mist.
