SRV got booed at Montreux in 82, but apparently Browne was there and offered the space, then John Hammond heard it and they remastered those to make Texas Flood. Also around that time, Mick Jagger hired SRV and the band to play his birthday party. That is how David Bowie met SRV and asked him to join his band for the Serious Moonlight tour. Bowie was practicing with that band in Los Colinas and Dallas was going nuts about it. (The recordings are a ton of fun to listen to). Texas Flood still hadn't been released and here was the hometown boy about to tour in Bowie's band. Tickets sold out for Bowie's Dallas show VERY quickly, back in the days of having to stand in line at the Ridgmar Mall JC Penneys.
Then Muddy Waters dies in May; SRV skips rehearsals; stories differ here but Bowie brought in Earl Slick and left for the tour. A month later, they released Texas Flood. I thought him leaving that band was going to be the end of his career. They held off releasing it because of the tour, then when that didn't happen, I thought the label was going to shit-can that record.
First time most people had seen him after rehab. There was a lot of talk about where he would be able to play again...they whole muscle memory/playing while wasted. Can he do it sober? After the first 2 seconds, it was obvious that question was answered. I still lost my breathe just watching that again.
They seem to have removed that most of the performances from Youtube. That version of Pride and Joy.........wow.
Interested to see what that Guild 12 string goes for. To me, that is a very important guitar in music history. SRVs, refreshed and sober, simply destroying a 12 string, acoustic guitar. Solo. I've mentioned before, but that Sunday night, I was sitting on the couch, playing my 12 string and that Unplugged came on. I put that guitar back in the case and didn't touch it for over a year. I mean, what's the fucking point.
Did someone mention camping? Evan Dando weighed in a few years ago.
Always had a roof above me
Always paid the rent
But I've never set foot inside a tent
Can't build a fire to save my life
I lied about being the outdoor type
I've never slept out underneath the stars,
The closest that I came to that was one time my car
Broke down for an hour in the suburbs at night
I lied about being the outdoor type
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Too scared to let you know you knew what you were looking for
I lied until I fit the bill god bless the great indoors
I lied about being the outdoor type
I've never owned a sleeping bag let alone a mountain bike
I can't go away with you on a rock climbing weekend
What if somethings on tv and its never shown again
Its just as well I'm not invited I'm afraid of heights
I lied about being the outdoor type
Never learned to swim can't grow a beard or even fight
I lied about being the outdoor type
Good Lord @tbone_ That sound is incredible...and her voice on "Tumblin' Dice". Good grief. (about the 2:41)
What are you running the guitar thru? Sound is amazing..especially considering the outdoor environmen.
And after touring with the Cowboy Junkies, TVX wrote this one for them...not so much about them. I LOVE this version...so much better than the studio version, and even the Cowboy Junkies.
Oh, I could never own a custom. I feel stupid being seen with such a guitar. Looking at the electrics on my wall>
Mex Nashville Tele: Used for $200
Epi 339: Used for $170
Gretsch hollowbody: Used for $500
Epi Century (1962): Traded a rarely play 2014 LP Standard Honeyburst. About $2100 value. The tag from Carter's in the Epi case listed $2,600.
My 2 acoustics were bought new.
I feel bad being seen with the Gretsch because it is the Falcon color scheme. Very gaudie looking. Just too good of a deal to pass up.
in 1978-79, they put out this 25/50 Anniversary guitar. Local guitar shop in Wichita Falls has 1 in stock. Then the 4/10/79 tornado flattened the building. Always wondered what happened to that beauty.
This was the color scheme they had.
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That first Marshall Crenshaw album still gets a lot of play around casa de hulla. Same for Everywhere At Once. Oldest Story In The World is a top 10 song for me. I've seen Peter Case a bunch of times, and he's never played that song. My brother says every time he see Peter, he plays it. I once saw him play back to back sets.....only repeated one song and he never played Oldest Story.
Peter's album, Full Service No Waiting doesn't have a bad song on it. Same for his 1986 debut album.
I LOVE this one from Full Service. "Going out tonight, way downtown. Where my friends who died still hang around" Wow.
I constantly tell my wife, "I have no power over it......so I can't waste my energy worrying about it". It's one of the very, very few things I say that she doesn't have a retort for.