Glenn Frey six feet under

[MopTopMike]

Just heard he is already gone due to complications from arthritis.
Doubt muchly that anyone here would champion music he made post Mushrooms / Hideout label 45 days!

 

[Frantic]

Just heard he is already gone due to complications from arthritis.
Doubt muchly that anyone here would champion music he made post Mushrooms / Hideout label 45 days!

pun intended. I'm not ashamed to say I like a few EAGLES songs off the 1st 2 lps. Sorry Mikey I'm sure there are more than a few of us who like a couple of their early tracks. Always kinda liked Glenn but can't stand Henley.

 

[MopTopMike]

They have a few songs pre-1976 that are tolerable even today, but Hotel California and everything post '76 plummets those guys to the bottom of the classic rock doldrums. As bad as Budweiser beer - the Hotel California of beers (meaning the most bland and generic = mass popularity).

 

[Frantic]

They have a few songs pre-1976 that are tolerable even today, but Hotel California and everything post '76 plummets those guys to the bottom of the classic rock doldrums. As bad as Budweiser beer - the Hotel California of beers (meaning the most bland and generic = mass popularity).

exactamundo. Glad to hear you're not ashamed to admit that. Always liked Take It Easy, Witchy Woman & James Dean. All '72-'73.

 

[bosshoss]

I hate it all. Always have. Especially Take It Queasy and Witchety Grub Woman.

 

[greenfuzz]

I find The Eagles tolerable. I don't own any of their music but there are songs by them I won't turn off if they come on the radio.

I do think Henley's 'Boys of Summer' is a great song.

 

[Frantic]

I hate it all. Always have. Especially Take It Queasy and Witchety Grub Woman.

But you surely won't hold it against me for kinda liking a few early Eagles tracks?

 

[buckeyebeat]

Regarding musical deaths of the past 48 hours and my personal interest, I rank Clarence Reid comfortably ahead of Dale "Buffin" Griffin with Frey a distant third.

 

[Frantic]

Regarding musical deaths of the past 48 hours and my personal interest, I rank Clarence Reid comfortably ahead of Dale "Buffin" Griffin with Frey a distant third.

Oh yeah, Buffin...that one really hurt. I was a huge MOTT fan in high school along with BOWIE. So Buffin is a big loss for me. He was a awesome drummer. Death May Be Your Santa Claus & Jerkin' Crocus!!! Are you shitting me??!!

 

[Frantic]

I hate it all. Always have. Especially Take It Queasy and Witchety Grub Woman.

Hey man, I gotta kinda like Witchy Woman. Back in '74, 15 year old knockout Karen (never knew her last name) from Winona Minnesota, jumped my bones for my very 1st you know what and Witchy Woman was playing in the background. Don't ask me why I remember these things.

 

[tymespan]

Clarence "Blowfly" Reid also passed away recently from liver cancer.

 

[MopTopMike]

Regarding musical deaths of the past 48 hours and my personal interest, I rank Clarence Reid comfortably ahead of Dale "Buffin" Griffin with Frey a distant third.

RIP Blowfly.

Spun Clarence Reid's Wand & Alston label 45s loudly in his honor.

 

[MopTopMike]

I hate it all. Always have. Especially Take It Queasy and Witchety Grub Woman.

My next door neighbor is a guy in his mid 30s and (tries to) play drums and sing in his band, comprised of some buddies. Mostly dire overplayed classic rock tunes pollinate / pollute their set. When they were trying to play "Take It Easy", the guitar player kept messing up the lead / solo. I couldn't take it after 15 minutes of abomination, so I invited myself over and asked if I could sit in and give it a try. I then pulled off the solo almost note for note..They wanted me in the band immediately. I told them I only do hired sessions nowadays.

 

[bosshoss]

But you surely you won't hold it against me for kinda liking a few early Eagles tracks?

Of course not. It's an honour to have guys like you on this forum. There is more cool music knowledge and taste on this tiny forum than in the rest of the internet combined. I'm not joking.

 

[soundog III]

Buffin. That hurts. A brief retrospective:

 

[soundog III]

A memorable gig. Having seen the Dolls twice by this time it was Mott that timbered me shivers. Especially as they'd been such a highlight at Radio City the previous Halloween with spooky NY DJ Zacherle officiating. I'd missed the 1971 Fillmore shows owing to being unable to find a parking spot for my tricycle outside the venue. Durned Angels taking up all the prime spots...



Apotheosis of Mott circa 1971. Post Wildlife / pre Brain Capers. High water, and that does not even take into acc

ount the flares...



Keep to mind, the lads had bonafides:

 

[soundog III]

And the problem was...?



Flat foots need not apply, the positions filled.



Whiskey Women, anyone?



Buffin in excelsis. Requiescat in pace.

 

[MopTopMike]

Oh yeah, Buffin...that one really hurt. I was a huge MOTT fan in high school along with BOWIE. So Buffin is a big loss for me. He was a awesome drummer. Death May Be Your Santa Claus & Jerkin' Crocus!!! Are you shitting me??!!

Wasn't Buffin the drummer for the Interns? They recorded the killer version of "Just Like Me", pressed in the USA on Capitol records.

 

[Frantic]

Wasn't Buffin the drummer for the Interns? They recorded the killer version of "Just Like Me", pressed in the USA on Capitol records.

He probably was, says here he was on the A side so I'm assuming he was on the B side also. Sure would like to find those songs on cd. I do have the DOC THOMAS group cd. So so at best. Too many covers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interns_(band)

 

[Don Julio]

I always hated the Eagles, David Bowie, and whatever I heard by Mott the Hoople.

I don't care if I missed a semi-decent album cut here and there. No interest. I'd rather listen to Flagrante and Teicher or whatever the hell their name was.

Sorry, but the '70s sucked. Not even punk rock could save that terribly dark, soulless, lifeless decade of endless nothingness.

 

[buckeyebeat]

Apart from a bunch of good-great 45s under his own name, he wrote/co-wrote dozens of excellent songs, most notably for the nostalgia bunch - "Clean Up Woman" by Betty Wright. Apart from other Wright lesser hits, non-hit killers like "I can't speak" by Jimmy Bo Horne, and "Our day is here" by JP Robinson, and others by Helene Smith (the wife of one of his collaborators Johnny Pearsall)...IMO he should be up there with people ilke Allen Toussaint, David Porter/Isaac Hayes, etc as one of the architects of southern soul and funk.

(not directing this at you specifically but as general commentary)

RIP Blowfly.

Spun Clarence Reid's Wand & Alston label 45s loudly in his honor.