tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post8488205386973510622..comments2023-06-27T01:34:35.359-07:00Comments on Ted Burke LIKE IT OR NOT: INNA GADDA DA VIDDATED BURKEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-15020940638421435212013-01-05T07:48:57.649-08:002013-01-05T07:48:57.649-08:00Richard Carpenter composed this song in anger afte...Richard Carpenter composed this song in anger after Vic Grelb fired Richard Carpenter and his accompaniast from Disneyland. They were fired for combing their hair "in the park". But it was also because they began performing currently popular songs as opposed to the fluffy "Sound of Music" tunes that Disneyland execs preferred. Years later when Mr. Grelb heard the song, he really liked it ! True story ! Ruggsan Ruggsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-20799835912922177982010-08-26T12:42:48.233-07:002010-08-26T12:42:48.233-07:00No, I mean WISHBONE ASH. Think harder.No, I mean WISHBONE ASH. Think harder.mantmarblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08350882479535662318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-86010181651128452782010-08-25T15:26:19.999-07:002010-08-25T15:26:19.999-07:00This is what you get when you give a Rolling Stone...This is what you get when you give a Rolling Stones classic some real vocal fire power. Thelma Huston's gospel-edged rendering lifts the song from the back alley , saloon slurring that made Jagger's original a masterpiece of bottle cap fatalism; Houston's sonic wail is transcendence over tough details. Jagger seems stylishly situated in his droogy ways. Houston is empowered by her survival and goes onto the next level, someplace other than the neighborhood that did her ill. <br /><br /><br />Her accelerated interpretration aligns her in spirit with the John D.Loudermilk song "Tobacco Road" (and the same named Erskine Caldwell novel) , where the narrator has become stronger for the travils visited upon her (or him) , that they will leave the place of their birth and brutalized upbringing in order to make a fortune, and then return with a wrecking ball and a blow torch. Houston might not be that vindictive, but she does seem just as motivated as the protagonist in the Loudermilk song.<br /><br /><br />The funny thing about 'Tobacco Road", though, is that best known versions, by the Nashville Teens and Edgar Winter's White Trash, undercut the emphatic rage of the lyrics. The Nashville Teens, from England, sound like a bunch of mumbling , pre--droogy proto slackers who radiate a slump shouldered uninterest in expressing their emotions, let alone articulating their desires of revenge . The Edgar Winter version highlights the band leader scat-screaming , weaving his histronic garble with the blues-bronchitis rasping of co-lead singer Jerry LaCroix; it's a drawn-out, in concert performance that is about as evocative as the typical drum solo by a third billed band at the Sports Arena during the Seventies.<br />Perhaps there's an unreleased Thelma Houston version of the song locked in a vault that might yet make the light of day. It should be said here that I prefer Houston's version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" to Aretha Franklin's version, recorded some years later. The dancer in this video, of course, are absurd and unfunky.<br />THELMA HOUSTON - JUMPIN' JACK FLASH<br />www.youtube.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-17938905947712782792010-08-25T13:39:04.226-07:002010-08-25T13:39:04.226-07:00Wishbone Ash. Think about it.Wishbone Ash. Think about it.mantmarblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08350882479535662318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-25887251705028684032009-03-06T07:01:00.000-08:002009-03-06T07:01:00.000-08:00You are probably aware that IB bass player Jerry P...You are probably aware that IB bass player Jerry Penrod ended up driving a bus in San Diego. You may have been one of his passengers. He may have punched your transfer. Now THAT is heavy!Barry Alfonsohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14624298347392911828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-8243215843998370092007-07-21T13:58:00.000-07:002007-07-21T13:58:00.000-07:00"In the garden of Eden." Tell me either of you ar..."In the garden of Eden." Tell me either of you are Simpsons fans. <BR/><BR/>I'd say the joke validated the song's entire existence, but then it never had to be a moment for me. <BR/><BR/>KKeifushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00287358319899471490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-26048349285402148722007-07-21T06:39:00.000-07:002007-07-21T06:39:00.000-07:00I hated Iron Butterfly alright, but on the other h...I hated Iron Butterfly alright, but on the other hand I was a big fan of The MC5 and Blue Cheer. The MC5 have aged a little better, being claimed as being pioneers of punk rock, but Blue Cheer's reputation hasn't improved a bit; the are still considered speed freak goons who made noise,not music. I could argue against that assertion,but I'll only say that they remain a guilty pleasure. I love getting assaulted by that pulverizing atonal guitar.TED BURKEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-440569322510760912007-07-20T13:18:00.000-07:002007-07-20T13:18:00.000-07:00el oh el. I LOVED that "song." I think I blew a se...el oh el. I LOVED that "song." I think I blew a set of speakers listening to that song. <BR/><BR/>I realize in retrospect that it was crap, but now nostalgia grips me whenever I hear it on the radio, and I'm compelled to stop what I'm doing to take it all in. <BR/><BR/>I read once that the song's original title was <I>In the Garden of Eden</I>, but that the singer was too drunk pronounce those simple words. <BR/><BR/>I guess the other <I>musicians</I> were too drunk to play.Catnappinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15112190511038404999noreply@blogger.com