In listening to more Screaming Lord Sutch and reading more about from his wikipedia, he recorded with a bunch of great musicians. Lord Sutch and His Heavy Friends with “from Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page (who also produced the album) and John Bonham, guitarist Jeff Beck, session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, session guitarist Deniel Edwards and Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding.”
Despite the horrible reviews, one of the songs was used in the movie Logan Lucky (highly recommended):
You might have noticed in the last post that Nicky Hopkins got his start with Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages. It definitely reminded me of another song that isn’t on Spotify. The original Jack the Ripper by Screaming Lord Sutch is there, but my introduction to it, alongside Astro, by the White Stripes is not on Spotify:
If you have the time, watch this terrifyingly wonderful clip of Screaming Lord Sutch doing his song live, scaring the shit of of kids:
Started following this Andy Zax (American music historian and a Grammy-nominated producer of music reissues) after this very funny tweet I saw:
Today seems like an opportune moment to revisit my 2011 evisceration of–I'm summoning my inner Mad Magazine here–Lady Antebelleccch. (art: @mohawkstreet) pic.twitter.com/qeZ5orqmy7
— Andy Zax (@andyzax) July 8, 2020
So I looked through his other recent tweets and saw a response to someone stating that Their Satanic Majesties Request is the best Rolling Stones album:
This is patent nonsense.
— Andy Zax (@andyzax) June 19, 2020
(There is an arguable case to be made that "We Love You," which should have appeared on Satanic Majesties, is the best Rolling Stones single, but still.) https://t.co/zXyLisUs4W
I had never heard We Love You. This song is dope. The wikipedia article lists a quote from Melody Maker saying it was “too much,” but I disagree. John and Paul on the backup vocals. Brian Jones on Mellotron. Nicky Hopkins (just learned who he was, more on that later) on a great piano hook:
Me and Mike were having a conversation which lead to a discussion of Billy Squire, so while doing a deep dive of Emotions in Motion and Don’t Say No, I googled him to see what he looked like these days (not bad by the way, he has avoided the bloated-and-still-wearing-leather-and-earings look some 70’s and 80’s rockstars go for) and couldn’t avoid this headline: Billy Squire’s Career Killing Video.
The succinct gist from the wikipedia page:
Despite its major success, the song is sometimes associated with the end of Squier’s career as a singles artist due to the music video, which was described as one of the worst ever in the 2011 book I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution. Directed by Kenny Ortega, it shows Squier dancing around a bed with pastel-colored satin sheets. Squier’s concert ticket sales immediately suffered, and he later fired his managers. He has accused Ortega of deceiving him and altering his original concept, which Ortega denies. While Squier has remained steadfast that the video alone was responsible for the initial decline in his popularity, other commentators have been less certain.
It’s bad, but I was expecting worse.
Thanks to Mike for the another fun recommendation, but Neil Young’s Homegrown is a good listen. I wrote a whole bit here gushing over his cover of Love Is A Rose, until I looked up the wikipedia article to link to and learned that Neil in-fact wrote the song and that Homegrown is an only recently released album originally recorded in 1975. Here is a link to Linda Ronstadt’s version only because I love it so much, but here is Neil Young’s version:
And it’s a great melody; check out his Dance Dance Dance from Live at Massey Hall 1971.
