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Location: NJ | Sue got me this dvd for my B'day and I finally got around to giving it a look. WoW brings me back.
I did not realize it was ever released on dvd until I saw a video of Joe singing "darling be home soon"
I saw this movie at a midnight showing in the seventies but was in no condition to remember any of it.
great lineup
Joe Cocker
Leon Russell
Rita Coolidge
Carl radle
chris stainton
jim keltner
jim godon
bobby keys
don preston
etc etc etc
a couple of observations.
I LOVE THIS STUFF.
you can't tour with huge choirs and horn sections anymore.
damn did we dress funny back then.
were we really into all that "cosmic jive"
Leon Russell was not as good a guitar player as I remembered.
Chris stainton is KILLER.
Carl radle is a rock solid bass player.
put me in that way back maching mr peabody...... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Joe could pump out a song better than most. "Darlin, Be Home Soon" was one of his best... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Always loved "Delta Lady"
Saw him with SRV. Probably my all-time favorite concert. Rocked from start to finish. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I saw Joe down at the air-conditioned Cobo Area back in the day.
Terrible.. just awful. |
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Location: closely held secret | I was just listening to MD&E a couple weeks ago. Yeah, it brought back memories. Delta Lady, The Letter, Cry Me a River... all great.
"Leon Russell was not as good a guitar player as I remembered. "
I always thought he was better on keys than guitar anyway.
Interesting note - was reading the wiki entry on Russell and it mentions he played in sessions with Glen. |
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Location: Michigan | Was it kinda like a flashback ;)
Saw a lot of those back in the day.
Saw Leon a couple years ago, he wasn't doing very well. Still played piano an kind of mumbled the songs. Could hardly walk & uses a cane.
Had his daughter playin in the band now she's pretty good. Think shes there to look out after dad.
Saw Johnny Winter at the same festival, he's not well, sits & plays, looks pretty bad, fingers are boney as all heck.
Wally |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Joe Cocker owns the Mad Dog Ranch over on the western slope in a small town called Crawford. He was very friendly to bikers and we used to stop at his ice cream shop in town and visit with him and his wife every time we rode through (and when he was home). He'd invite us into a back room and then give us a bunch of Mad Dog Ranch trinkets (t-shirts, bandanas, etc.). Great guy. He loved to make us boysenberry milk shakes that his wife perfected. Good memories. |
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Location: NJ | y'know, Al . . I've never SEEN the movie of that tour . . . I gotta' find that DVD.
That tour was the all-out ePITome of sex, drugs, & rock&roll. By all the accounts that I've read any HINT of a "profit" went up the band's nose (or other bodily orifice) and just the bullshit of trying t'tour with that many stoned-out people.
HELLuv an album, tho!!
Radle's always been one of my all-time favorite bassists . . |
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Location: NJ | well I have to send the dvd back because it is damaged. it started to skip but I did get my fix of MD&E.......
wow now i have to dig out Leon Live another great LP although it sounded like it was recorded under water. and the shelter people etc etc.
I always thought chris stainton was stellar. I think he did some of the last tours with clapton.
at one point early on in the movie radle is picking out stems and seeds out of what seems to be a lb of pot.
great movie see it if you can..
and if anyone can get me a copy of renaldo and clara I would be eternally grateful I have a bootleg but it is awful |
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Location: SoCal | When I first saw the title of this thread, I thought it was a post about Temp. Then I realized it was Mad Dogs and Englishmen, not Mad Englishmen and their dogs...... |
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Location: NJ | I know Stainton played on Clapton's "From the Cradle" album, . . dunno about the tour(s), tho . . .
Al, . . we gotta' work-up "Out In the Woods" . . . |
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Location: NJ | out in the woods really needs piano |
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Location: NJ | workin' on it . . |
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Location: NJ | ". . out in the woods really needs piano . ."
Not necessarily.
I do a solo acoustic version at gigs.
(y'just gotta' get the right off-beat strum go'in . .) |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I've said it before: we will likely never see the like of the groups and musicians we saw back in the day....glad I lived though it all....
On a similar note: I am putting together a Vintage (more on that later) stereo system to listen to my 3,000+ albums/cassettes + nearly 600 CD's and 300 DVD's...I have a Sony/Bose late 80's thru mid 90's component system which is nice but I'm jonesing for VINTAGE...first pieces are in place...more to come... |
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Location: NJ | Al;
Search out a copy of Cocker's "Organic" CD (late 90's). He/they do stripped-down, acoustic-oriented veresions of a lotta' familiar tunes, an' they f@ckin' ROCK!
Dean Parks' guitar work is all OVER this CD and it's killer!. They do a kick-ass version of "Delta Lady" and Dylan's "Dignity" . . . |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Wasn't that tour responsible for the Layla Album. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Was Henry McCullough playing with him at that stage? Was with him on Woodstock.
http://www.henrymccullough.com/
Henry is a great guitar player, worth checking out. |
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