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Caught parts of this on the Biography Channel (again) tonight. Reminded me of what a great little band this was before Peter Green lost his mind and Jeremy Spencer went Toddowen.

I actually caught this last night. For a band I don't give two shits about, it was fairly interesting. I had no idea how much turnover that band saw. Guys going paranoid schizophrenic and randomly disappearing in the night and joining cults. Crazy shit.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:I actually caught this last night. For a band I don't give two shits about, it was fairly interesting. I had no idea how much turnover that band saw. Guys going paranoid schizophrenic and randomly disappearing in the night and joining cults. Crazy shit.

Yes, rhythm section was a constant (Fleetwood & McVie) and I believe 24 other musicians/singers passed through the band. And they sold over 100 million records.

i once saw a very hammered Jimmy Page do a version of Peter Green's "oh well" at a shit bar in Incline Village at Tahoe (1992?)....with a really average local cover band. the bar was called "legends" or "champions" or some stupid shit. i was about 15 feet away. i was living in Tahoe City on the CA side, and had friends who were locals....we had heard rumors that Page had played a few songs the night before and hadn't checked out so we showed up. he had a house in Incline VIllage, which was apparently old metal Vail. Coverdale, side members of Deep Purple, whoever.

he walks in about the time we were going to leave with two girls who were about 25 years old in little black dresses...has a few drinks at the bar. and plays. they do communication breakdown, red rooster, and oh well. he wasn't great, but the guys in the band (that were really average)...their eyes were wide as saucers while he played the opening kinda sideways but legit to communication breakdown. and tried to keep up. it was pretty cool.

i was kind of pleased to see Jimmy do that one again on the Live at the Greek with the Black Crowes LP....which is kinda underrated imo (unlike a lot of Jimmy's "cash in" projects of the 90's)...if you aren't a Plant zealot. google Plant and Dubai and 7 and 7 is and see him destroy a rock classic for a bunch of billionaires and fancy casino whores from around the globe, fucker. so, fuck Bob Plant for screwing over arthur lee in spirit. at the Greek....it's got some good stuff from III (out on the tiles and whatnot) and a lot of Graffiti (ten years gone, custard pie, wanton song..)....to here those songs live by a real band is cool. great music. the Crowes really learned the songs, drummer plays with the big bonzo sticks and Jimmy plays his ass because he's clean and apparently practicing again. at the time.

not a huge fan of any incarnation of F Mac. one of my childhood friends is a very good musician and if his dad wasn't such an asshole his band might have had Island record his band when we were in college. before digital media, and Island was shopping them hard....but pops sent him to law school. but, he really likes/respects Buckingham's playing. i can't comment.....different tunings and shit.

oh well: jimmy and the black crowes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKTGQKNxTDY

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i've never bought a Black Crowes record....but don't dislike then either. they claim to be a legit heir to the Allmans and Holy Skynard as musicians. they'll know how to play, just like Maroon 5. a lot of people don't know their credible cover of "Hard to Handle" is a Otis Redding. i like that....they also apparently seemed to steal (according to the music geeks) from a Buddy Guy and Junior Wells tune i can't speak to that though i know OK about the early Chicago scene post-muddy. except that Buddy Guy was driving a tow-truck in Chicago until 1988 or some shit when the Black Crowes tune Jealous Again came out and i heard it non-stop driving from Denver to Atlanta and back one summer. that's kinda fucked up to me. i don't remember Buddy getting credit for that. would not be the first time for Buddy.

anyway, i've heard the original many times since my mom was an Otis honk (and saw him as one of few white girls at the OKC Fairgrounds in the late 60's)....i don't see too much diff between the Otis version and the BC one that you can say it was theft more that tribute (and getting paid--which is unfortunate). that Crowes record was produced by Rick Rubin maybe...who i mistrust a bit. RR looking like Karl Marx....but much less impressive than Karl imo.

true or not:

rock box, not walk this way.

http://www.feelnumb.com/?p=3072

Green Manalishi was pretty cool.


KC -- I thought everybody knew Hard To Handle was Otis. The Dead used to cover the shit out of it (in many different styles) long before the Hack Crows.

Dinsdale wrote:Green Manalishi was pretty cool.

GM was a staple of a Judas Priest live show, which i always thought was kind of interesting. pretty sure they played it at Live Aid, for instance.