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  1. Lotsa good stuff on the horizon

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    The wait is over: With the June 14 release of One Hand Clapping, one of the most bootlegged live albums in musical history will finally receive a proper release. In August 1974, when Band on the Run was enjoying a seven-week consecutive #1 stint at the top of the UK album charts, Paul McCartney and Wings headed to Abbey Road Studios for the filming of a video documentary and possible live studio album – One Hand Clapping. Despite overwhelming demand for newly recorded material from the biggest band in the world at that time, One Hand Clapping was never officially released.

    Filmed and recorded over four days and directed by David Litchfield, the release of One Hand Clapping is a historic moment for Paul McCartney fans. Over the years, various parts of One Hand Clapping have been bootlegged with varying degrees of success. Some of the material has also appeared on official McCartney releases. However, the June 14 release, which features the original artwork designed for the project, including a TV sales brochure for the unreleased film at the time, is the first time the audio for the film—plus several additional songs recorded off-camera--have been officially issued.

    One Hand Clapping showcased Wings‘ new line-up, fresh off their return from Nashville, where they recorded the classic single Junior’s Farm. Following the sudden departure of Denny Seiwell and Henry McCullough the previous year on the eve of recording the Wings masterpiece Band on the Run, Paul, Linda, and Denny Laine were now joined by guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Geoff Britton. Additionally joining the band in the studio were orchestral arranger Del Newman and saxophonist Howie Casey, who had previously played with Paul in Hamburg and would go on to join the Wings touring band.

    Opening with an instrumental jam that would become the One Hand Clapping theme song, the album features live-in-studio renditions of Wings mega-hits “Live and Let Die,” “Band on the Run,” “Jet,” “My Love,” “Hi, Hi, Hi,” “Junior’s Farm,” Paul’s much loved solo song “Maybe I’m Amazed,” reworked extracts of Beatles’ classics “Let It Be,” “The Long and Winding Road” and “Lady Madonna,” the Moody Blues hit “Go Now” with Denny Laine singing, and a Paul solo piano version of the Harry Akst/Benny Davis Tin Pan Alley classic “Baby Face.”

    One Hand Clapping will be released in multiple formats, including an online exclusive 2LP + 7” package featuring an exclusive vinyl single of previously unreleased solo performances recorded on the final day of the sessions in the backyard of Abbey Road studios. These include the unreleased track “Blackpool,” The Beatles’ iconic “Blackbird,” Wings B-side “Country Dreamer,” and cover versions of Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock” (the first song Paul played to John Lennon when they met in 1957) and Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue” and “I’m Gonna Love You Too.”

    One Hand Clapping serves as a celebration of the enduring legacy of Paul McCartney and Wings. It captured a moment when Wings had found and defined their signature sound – just as Paul had shaped popular culture the decade before with The Beatles, he was doing it once again in the 70s with Wings. This recording gives an insight into the inner workings of the band as they work and play together in the studio. It also underscores Paul’s incredible talent as a live performer: Fifty years on, Paul is still performing many of these songs in packed stadiums across the world.

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    For decades, the attitude toward the documentary “Let It Be” in the Beatles‘ camp seemed to be: Let it rest in peace. But the film is finally going to be seen again. A restored version of the 1970 movie is coming soon to Disney+, the same service that brought fans “The Beatles: Get Back,” the 2021 Peter Jackson docuseries that used outtakes from director Michael Lindsay-Hogg‘s original film.

    The documentary will re-premiere on Disney+ May 8, certain to be a red-letter day for Beatles fans who have spent most of their lives wondering if it would ever be let out of the vault again. Not only has the 1970 film been dusted off, but it’s been restored by Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post Production using the same technology employed to make the vintage footage in “The Beatles: Get Back” look and sound as revitalized as it did.

    “I’m absolutely thrilled that Michael’s movie, ‘Let It Be,’ has been restored and is finally being re-released after being unavailable for decades,” Jackson said in a statement. “I was so lucky to have access to Michael’s outtakes for ‘Get Back,’ and I’ve always thought that ‘Let It Be’ is needed to complete the ‘Get Back’ story. Over three parts, we showed Michael and the Beatles filming a groundbreaking new documentary, and ‘Let It Be’ is that documentary – the movie they released in 1970. I now think of it all as one epic story, finally completed after five decades. The two projects support and enhance each other: ‘Let It Be’ is the climax of ‘Get Back,’ while ‘Get Back’ provides a vital missing context for ‘Let It Be.’ Michael Lindsay-Hogg was unfailingly helpful and gracious while I made ‘Get Back,’ and it’s only right that his original movie has the last word… looking and sounding far better than it did in 1970.”

    Lindsay-Hogg elaborated on the new restoration in an interview with the New York Times published Tuesday. “When Peter first showed me some restored images of the film, one was of a couple of the Beatles from the back, and their hair in the original looked very clumped,” the director noted. “Then he said, “Now let me show you what we’ve been working on.” It was the same shot, but you could see the individual strands of hair. The new version is a 21st century version of a 20th century movie. It is certainly brighter and livelier than what ended up on videotape. It looks now like it was intended to look in 1969 or 1970, although at my request, Peter did give it a more filmic look than ‘Get Back,’ which had a slightly more modern and digital look.”

     

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  2. On 3/27/2024 at 9:13 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

    In what world is Dark Side not a concept album? I’ve never heard that questioned. The Wall is more explicitly so but Dark Side is an icon of a concept album. One of the most important albums of all time  

    Some others: Frank Zappa - Joe’s Garage; Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord; Spirit - 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus (awesome album despite the concept being poorly defined).

    Give me Quadrophenia over Tommy all day every day. I’m not disputing Tommy as a concept album but it just doesn’t do it for me like Quadrophenia. That’s a masterpiece.

    I don’t know if it counts but my parents had a copy of Peter & The Wolf when I was a kid and that was part of my musical foundation. They didn’t have much in the way of good music but that was a good one. They also had the soundtrack to West Side Story. That’s just a play. But so is Peter & The Wolf, right? And so are Quadrophenia and Joe’s Garage and The Wall, right? Labels are useful when talking about music but they can get fuzzy on the edges. I think we can safely say the West Side Story soundtrack is not a concept album.

    But how about this? I used to have this on vinyl. A college roommate bought it on CD. It’s pretty good.

    I haven’t read the whole thread. I see the Styx mention but I’m not sure which album you’re talking about. I assume Kilroy Was Here? That counts but I don’t think it was executed very well. I think Paradise Theater was the better effort. I haven’t listened to it in a long time but I still own that one. And I saw them live on the Kilroy tour. That was one of my first three concerts. I think it was my third after Rush and REO Speedwagon. It was a good show. 

    Have this on CD, back in high school a friend loaned it to me on vinyl.  Still love it.  Justin Hayward, Phil Lynott, David Essex, Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann), it's really a great album, very proggy.

  3. Lotta fuckin yappin in this thread (sorry, I'm drunk, nothing personal), let's have some goddam music

    Had this one stuck in my head ever since I saw this thread bumped

     

    Love all the Dan stuff, but Katy Lied/Royal Scam is pretty much the high point for me, before they got a little too slick

     

    might be my all-time favorite, here with both the guitar and sax outros

     

    and a great deep cut, only available on certain greatest hit albums, have this one on vinyl, sounds fantastic

     

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  4. Got a ‘70’s pop summer lined up, first up is 10cc at ACL Live in early August (no Eric Stewart, but Graham Gouldman and half of the six-member Dreadlock Holiday era band), then a couple of weeks later Barry Manilow at Moody (wife’s favorite), then back at Moody in October for ELO.  

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  5. Damn, I watch that yt channel all the time, cool to watch the ships come in and out.  They usually train the camera on the port during the day, lucky to have it facing the bridge last night.  Rewind about 7 hours and you can watch the whole thing unfold, sickening how slowly it happens.  Prayers to all the workers on that bridge..

     

     

     

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  6. 9 hours ago, mooseoutfront said:

    Skeeter season!

    Assuming you were heading to Fairbanks?

    You drove right by the turn off to my place

    Yep, Fairbanks and North Pole.  I shoulda honked.  No shit about those skeeters too, jesus.

  7. 24 minutes ago, mooseoutfront said:

    Nenana had Tripod Days last weekend. 
     

    Tripod is set. Get your Ice Classic tickets before the ice breaks

    Passed through there last summer, tripod was ready and waiting..

     

     

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  8. 10 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Cheesy, but some of that Raspberries stuff was a precursor to great bands like Cheap Trick and the 'mats.  RIP Mr. Carmen.

    Fuckin A, let's get some up in here.

     

     

    Loved this one when I was a kid.  Listening just now, was struck at how it has the same electric piano sound and vocals as some of the songs on the Beach Boys 1977 album "Beach Boys Love You".  Sure enough, both were recorded the same year and that is Brian Wilson and Bruce Johnston on backing vocals.

     

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  9. Fucking gutted man, goddamn it.  Loved World Party, essentially a one-man band.  Rest in peace sir.

     

    and Karl loved him some Beatles, both in spirit and straight up covers

     

     

     

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  10. 10 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    I was at the benefit show they did for your brother and cried when Rhett played the song he wrote for him.  Sorry for your loss.

    I appreciate you being there.  Got to meet a lot of Joel's friends that night, an did a lot of shots/toasts, so there was some good mixed in with the sad.  Thanks again for your thoughts.

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  11. Truly sad.  Hell he's 5 years older than my mom and she's in a nursing home unable to move basically, but still sharp mentally 5 years from now, who knows...).  But Jesus, let's see, blowing your mind on drugs (luckily able to somewhat come through it unlike Syd Barrett), having both of your younger brothers die before you (as someone who has lost a younger sibling, yeah, that will fuck you up the rest of your life), a cousin who went nutso and took you to court, and a "manager" who controlled your entire life and tried to steal you blind.  My mind would be mush too.  I don't think he is near the end, but I do believe he is totally done creatively, or even as a "prop" on any kind of tour or anything.  He was the ultimate man-child.  Just never grew up, wrote some of the most brilliant music and melodies ever, but accompanied by just simple, juvenile even lyrics.  He was just stuck in that "Great American Songbook" style of writing, from the 30s through the 50's, into the early 60's, but he could just never progress any further.  A true savant, we will never see his likes again.    Just a few favorites, again, the lyrics don't matter, it's the sound, the blend, the chords, the arrangements, that are true genius.

     

     

    One of the most brilliant songs ever written, if you're musically inclined, just try to mentally figure the chord structure out as this is playing, where is the center?  You can't do it..

     

    again, such a deceptively simple song, but track where the chords go, every way you 'don't' expect them to go..

     

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  12. 57 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

    Don't remember how this one came about.  Same song, different title/words.

     

    The song was rewritten after Mike Love voiced objections to the lyrics.[16][17] Love stated in a 1993 interview that he found the original lyrics "so totally offensive [and] nauseating" that he refused to sing them.[18] He told Wilson that he was strongly opposed to drugs such as LSD and did not wish for the Beach Boys to be associated with its culture.[19] In his recollection, he was aware of the fact that Wilson had experimented with LSD and knew that the "prevailing drug jargon [suggested] that doses of LSD would shatter your ego, as if that were a positive thing... I wasn't interested in taking acid or getting rid of my ego."[20] He said, "The people that I'd seen indulge in those things exhibited behaviors and mannerisms that left much to be desired."[16]

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  13. 2 hours ago, Underdog said:

    Lulu’s in San Antonio was first place I’ve seen queso on cfs. 

    Couple of Mexican restaurants here around Taylor do that, actually chicken fried fajitas topped with queso, damn tasty.  I always ask for tortillas and make some cfs, rice and bean tacos.

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