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The piano player on "Live at the Fillmore East album in 1971 playing his Wurlitzer was a junkie dude named Bob Harris, who was a great jazz pianist and also played and did arrangements for The Turtles. He got the gig with Zappa on the recommendation of Jim Pons, bass player for the Turtles and then Zappa in 1971 . Harris was also the husband of Judee Sill, the first artist David Geffen signed for Asylum Records. Sill had written Lady-O, which was one of the last tunes the Turtles did before they broke up. The Turtles had her on salary as their songwriter for about $35 a week.Sill's first album was co-produced by Jim Pons, the Turtles bass player, , and John Beck, guitarist of The Leaves. I never heard of Judee Sill until about 1990, and flipped out over her music, so I wanted to find out who the hell she was. I emailed Mark Volman about her, and he seemed to be bugged about her, and kind of blew me off. He seemed annoyed about all the interest in Sill some 20 years after her two Asylum albums were released. I tried Volman again, and this time he answered all my questions, but was still negative about Sill, but very positive about her husband, Bob Harris (not to be confused with another Bob Harris, who played keyboards and sang for Zappa in 1980). I read Howard Kaylan's bio, and he has nothing but great things to say about Sill, so there must have been something going on with Sill and Volman. I guess we'll never know, like that middle finger deal on "Overnight Sensation" T.D. mentioned. Anyway RIP Mark Volman.

Let's just say I wouldn't put a poster of same on the wall. 🤣

Now on my turntable:

Lancashire vs Kent in the Blast (T20) quarter final at OT today. A marked difference between this game and the Hundred games I saw last month. Today's was a much more partisan crowd, of Lancashire fans, invested in the team and the result. As such, the atmosphere was miles better, the excitement was real Lancashire won, thanks to Liam Livingstone, probably the most frustrating batsman in world cricket. He comes off for about one innings in eight, but they are worth seeing.