Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Tiny Comeback, Sept. 1974
Pick a role for which Tiny Tim should make a comeback: an overexposed freak-as-punchline who got married on The Tonight Show in front of 40 million viewers in 1969 or singer of songs playing ukulele the next year at the Isle of Wight festival before an audience of 600,000? Either way, four short years later his waning celebrity was worth a magic night for some in a little Dearborn Heights, MI bar called The London Bridge. Falling down, no doubt, much the same as Mr. Tim's popularity. To think it all happened only a few miles from my house.
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Click the image to enlarge or view the article in historical context here.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
The Pretty Things: Cries from the Midnight Circus
I'll post nearly anything related to the Pretty's Parachute album. Having only been recently exposed to it about two years ago, it's still fresh personally and so good.
It's nice to hear a live treatment though confusing at one vocal point when Phil May is way off mic and not moving his lips. It was common practice to pre-record a live take for television appearances to mitigate the risk of equipment/musician failure spilling out over live television (while playing fast-and-loose with some location's musician's union rules). As two voices are heard singing elsewhere, he may have been singing over his earlier take and missed a bit. Not sure if this is the case or someone else was singing with him. Still a treat and fun, no complaints.
It's nice to hear a live treatment though confusing at one vocal point when Phil May is way off mic and not moving his lips. It was common practice to pre-record a live take for television appearances to mitigate the risk of equipment/musician failure spilling out over live television (while playing fast-and-loose with some location's musician's union rules). As two voices are heard singing elsewhere, he may have been singing over his earlier take and missed a bit. Not sure if this is the case or someone else was singing with him. Still a treat and fun, no complaints.
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