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Déjà Vu is the first album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and the second by the trio configuration of Crosby, Stills, and Nash. It was released on March March 11, 1970 by Atlantic Records, catalogue SD-7200.



If I had ever been here before I would pro'bly know just what to do
Hey, don't you?
If I had ever been here before on another time around the wheel I would pro'bly know just how to deal
With all of you

And I feel like I've been here before
Feel like I've been here before
And you know it does make me wonder
What's going on under the ground

Do you know?
Don't you wonder?
What's going on
Down under you

Na, na, na...

We have all been here before
...

Durch Zufall in den Weiten des Netzes wiedergefunden: Flame: Queen of the Neighbourhood - ein Album einer wohl längst vergessenen Band von 1972, das ich damals irgendwo als cutout für 9,80 DM fand und in den 70er Jahren immer wieder gehört habe, auch später immer mal wieder. Robert Cochrane hat eine Erklärung für die Faszination des Albums und stellt die so interessante wie hilflose Frage, warum der eine groß rauskommt und die andere nicht ...:

Flame, one of those briefly beguiling bands born out of a punk-garage sensibility but whose roots reached well beyond the limitations suggested by that particular tag, seemed destined for stadium rewards. Flame was fronted by the divinely lipped Marge Graham, who, on account of being a real woman, had the natural attributes that Steve Tyler, Mick Jagger, and a truckload of less gifted pouters and poseurs have been trying to appropriate for as long as rock has rolled. She looked like trouble, and sang like she was. Her band blazed intensely but briefly. Thirty years on, their embers still retain that glorious heat.

The neighborhood in question was Brooklyn, the title track being a strangely bass-driven rant, snarled together with momentous guitar dynamics, that has elements of Talking Heads and Patti Smith locked in some Pied Piper loop, with Graham leading the depressed and deprived 'round the block: "Rock and Roll Nigger" rendered by Blue Oyster Cult in a rock dive, but with their grandeur intact. An intense introduction to a smoldering collision of talent.

The sound they generated owed more to an older, more traditional blues ethos. Harnessing elements of garage and pure rock, they created a blistering debut that still hints at the high-decibel, energy-induced experience they must have delivered live. If Patti Smith had joined forces with the E Street Band as the next step beyond "Because the Night," this could have been her postcard from New Jersey. Queen of the Neighborhood, from 1977, is an album to stir anyone who ever had the urge to be a rock and roll star. Raw, sophisticated, and at time strikingly tender, it blends ambition and attitude.

Graham's voice rasps and growls over the efforts of an astonishingly accomplished and cohesive band, with guitarist Jimmy Crespo, who would later join Aerosmith, driving her to greater feats of vocal combat, especially on the extraordinary "Long Time Gone," which perfectly echoes the bluesy inferno created by Sylvester and the Hot Band before he became a disco deviant. A raging street survivor bares her anguish, without shame or apology. Tenderly raw and affecting.

Produced by Jimmy Iovine, the album overlaps his production work on Patti Smith's Easter. Featuring horn arrangements from Steve Van Zandt, it provides the listener with a superlative experience. Refined but dissolute, there are obvious elements of their sound in Smith's, and vice versa, while the more recent Bellrays evoke a similar level of explosive energy. It is Flame's sheer passion, and the vivacity of their performance, that render this a lost gem worthy of a second chance. Tracks such as "Everybody Loves a Winner" and "Beg Me," their first single, rise from the speakers like they've just played a blinding gig in a studio setting.

It isn't just a white-knuckle ride. There are moments of subtle refinement. "You Sit in the Darkness" is an enormous, piano-churned epic that invites a swaying mass of humanity,with lighters aloft, and reveals Graham as a vocalist of immense control. She exudes the same earthy finesse on "All My Love to You" as the late Lorraine Ellison at her divine best.

Flame made one other album entitled Too Many Cooks, with Iovine once again at the helm, but wider rewards failed to fall their way. They belong to the ranks of the Jim Carroll Band, Polyrock, and The Shirts, who despite critical appreciation never garnered the equivalent in the units they'd shift. Marge Graham, in a finer, more fair world ,would have become a solo artist who'd give others a standard to bear. That she didn't is another of the mysteries of having talent to burn. All too fleetingly it did, and deservedly she reigned, the Queen of the Neighborhood. - Rob Cochrane


Mr. Cochrane is a poet and writer living in Manchester, England. His work has appeared in Mojo, Attitude, and Dazed & Confused. He has published three collections of poems, and Gone Tomorrow.

Zum reinhören (wenn das RCA oder Mrs. Marge Graham nicht gefällt, bitte ich um Nachricht - dies wird dann sofort gelöscht!):






Thanks for the memory ...





Als Zugabe noch The RCA Building (1940) posted by Tom Sutpen

gefunden bei Aisthesis

Nachtrag Juni '10:
Der Schmäh als Fratze
Georg Kreisler erhält den Hölderlin-Preis und veröffentlicht einen Band mit „unbeabsichtigten Gedichten“
Magnus Klaue im FREITAG

Jeff Beck is to release his first new album in seven years in April.

Called 'Emotion & Commotion', the album sees Beck team up with a number of musicians including Joss Stone. He also recorded tracks with a 64-piece orchestra, something he says he first experienced on his 2005 version of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5.

"It turned out amazingly well," Beck explained of the album, which features covers of Jeff Buckley's interpretation of 'Corpus Christi' and a version of 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' from the 'Wizard Of Oz'. "But I didn't want to commit to an entire album of classical music. What appealed to me instead was the idea of bringing together these seemingly contradictory sounds on different kinds of non-classical music.”

The tracklisting for 'Emotion & Commotion' is:

'Corpus Christi'
'Hammerhead'
'Never Alone'
'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'
'I Put A Spell On You' (featuring Joss Stone)
'Serene' (featuring Olivia Safe)
'Lilac Wine' (featuring Imelda May)
'Nessun Dorma'
'There’s No Other Me' (featuring Joss Stone)
'Elegy For Dunkirk' (featuring Olivia Safe)

Quelle: The Rock Doctor



Bis dahin hier:

1. Februar 2010 — "How High The Moon" Les Paul Tribute Jeff Beck Imelda May on vocals grammys 2010
-> zur Gibson Les Paul hier!


Jeff Beck's performance at the O2 Arena, London on February 13th 2010

Zugabe I
DER MEISTER UND IMELDA







Zugabe II
DER MEISTER und andere Gitarrenspieler


22. April 2009 — Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame 2009 Vinnie Colaiuta - Drums Tal Wilkenfeld - Bass Jason Rebello - Keys


13. Februar 2010 — 'Moon River' Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, The O2 London, - Moon River, wider than a mile...

Zugabe III
Der andere, tote Meister bei der Arbeit, kürzlich erschienen:
Jimi Hendrix - Valleys Of Neptune

Wiedergefunden: Ein wunderbarer Song (und ein tolles Video!) aus dem Jahre 1969 - mehr dazu im Geezer Music Club!

PBS Video via Never Get Out Of The Boat
"In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement" features songs from the Civil Rights Movement performed by top entertainers, as well as readings from famous Civil Rights speeches and writings.
Duration: (56:51)
Premiere Date: 02/10/2010

Bob Dylan "The Times, They are a Changin"



Aus den Kommentaren:
... A beautiful version of the song, he sings it with the wisdom of his years , it is almost a lament for the last 40 odd years...
Simple & eloquent from his Bobness. Laugh at his voice all you want (& I'm still laughing at his Christmas album), but the man has written some truly masterful songs & sounds like he's travelled that weary road a time or two. Be thankful Obama was hip enough to invite Dylan to play. Palin couldn't spell 'Dylan' if it was written on both her fucking hands...
unfortunately, he's wrong... in DC, it's the same old song, with a different face since Bush has been gone. but things never change, do they? ...

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Knitting Factory is rolling out re-issues of the great Fela Kuti.
If you like Afrobeat - 40 minutes of great music below:

Ben Waters, Axel Zwingenberger and Charlie Watts


via Rock&Blues

so ähnlich ... wishful thinking

Mano Solo ist gestern im Alter von 46 Jahren gestorben.

Brian Jones via Wings of Dream