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Nice clip, any idea where they are? I am, needless to say, bummed beyond words by Duck's departure, for me he & Tommy cogbill are pretty much 'it' on 'lectric bass.

I think it's touching they included David Marks who was only in the band breifly, a long time ago.

Summer of 64 would've been Eric 'Slowhand' Clapton with the Yardbirds, then Beck '65-66, then beck & Page v. breifly, then Page 67-8 Thanks. So I guess I heard Clapton even before I went to the first ever Derek and the Dominos concert and kept asking "who's Derek? Where's Eric Clapton?' The 2nd guitarist at that show was Dave Mason, not Duane. I think it was before they recorded. And I guess I didn't hear Beck until the '80s when he was in a movie I was working on. I realized he was important when grips kept coming up and thanking me for letting them spend a day listening to Jeff Beck. I find it hilarious that nobody's mentioned that when Beck left the Yardbirds, he left Page holding the bag on some substantial touring commitments for the band. Page hurriedly put together a rag-tag group of 2nd rate musicians, and played the dates as the New Yardbirds. When this band became more successful than little Jeffy could ever hope to be in his wildest dreams, he had the audacity to accuse little Jimmy of stealing material and thunder from him. The rest as they say is history. Despite his talents, Beck's a big-time prick in my book. I was never able to get into any of his stuff, save his holy trinity recorded in the mid-70s. His flash leaves me colder than Holdsworth's playing, which is really saying something. That's not quite the way it happened. Page was asked to join the Yardbirds when Clapton left, but turned them down 'cause he was making way more as a session player, but recomended Beck. Then a while later Page was hanging out at a Yardbirds gig when the bass player left, joined on bass then switched to guitar when rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja had learned enuff bass to cover that. Then Beck bails in the middle of a tour. Then Page and remaining three original members record an album and a few singles, tour some more. And finally then when remaining originals leave future members of Led Zep play a few gigs as New Yardbirds. If you can't hear anything in Becks playing, your loss, but 'oh well'. As far as who's 'a prick', Page is at least as good a candidate as Beck. As players, that's another wholly unrelated matter. But this isn't really about them, is it?

Summer of 64 would've been Eric 'Slowhand' Clapton with the Yardbirds, then Beck '65-66, then beck & Page v. breifly, then Page 67-8

I own most, but not all, of this in a hodge podge of packages, but since some of it was a present I'll probably keep it that way. I can hardly believe that Ray isn't in Downbeat's Hall of Fame, or anybody's, he sure is in mine. Could play lots of different stuff, if not quite everything, he prefered singing songs but that's another issue.

Talented guy, way interesting life, has there ever been a (good) bio? As a cancer survivor myself, best wishes to him!

http://idelsohnsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/blacksabbath_linernotes.pdf thought this might be of interest to some posters here...

Am I the only one hear who thinks "Rolling in the Deep" sounds like Gnarls Barkley's "Driving Me Crazy" (just the hook)?

rowdy crowd, lots of back 'n forth, handing the mic to band members for commentary, etc. that's "tripping"?!? http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/trip

rowdy crowd, lots of back 'n forth, handing the mic to band members for commentary, etc.

I hate to say it, but I thought the excerpts I read were horridly florid, but maybe it's impossible to write about Bud without that happening...

But the track listing is for the CDs!

Saw Roy in Ptld recently, he was tripping but looked and sounded great!

I'm looking at a 2012 World Book here at Reference Line in Multnomah county Library's Central branch, wee have this big multitierd lazy susan kinda thing. When I worked in a neighborhood branch where we had both, I used World Book for homework Q's way more than Brittanica

http://singlesnet.pissedconsumer.com/ caveat freaking emptor people!

In said interview they mention some 10 step process of improv Lee came with, anyone know anything about this?

Good interview with Lee in the current Saxophone Journal, whether that's worth $12 is up to you.

I watched most of VH1's 100 greatest of the o-o's, or whatever they called it last night with my 10 yr old daughter, in part to see what her reaction was. Still a little girl, in a not very little girl-friendly world so we talked about how 'life is not a music video', etc. The music was pretty blah for the most part, a hook and a decent catch phrase at best - doesn't anyone write whole songs anymore? Even the riffs, played or sampled, weren't much to my ears. The really depressing part was the commentary from musicians, comics, C-list celebs and a couple of Mob Wives. "everybody loves that song", um no. "In the club..." large groups of drunks like anything at high volume. and the celebration of a recordings genericness, "Oh, that's really _____(one cliche or another)" Compared to this shit, Leroi Jones really is a freakin' genius. And yes I do listen a little beyond the hits, but most of what I've heard for the last several decades strikes me as vague approximations of music - most frustrating, the use of what I call 'barbless hooks' where a starts to get catchy but is then left unfinished, seemingly on purpose...

I'm thinking RICO charges...

I, too, read Black Music & Blues People and various other bits 'n pieces of Mr. Jones' work many years ago. Even then he was half full of shit, or totally full half the time,,,BUT when he was good he was very good indeed, especially when he was making the connection between the New Music he so loved and not letting your self be limited to any received notion of who you were or could be. "you're no THING" he cried. And I heard and was moved. And then he went and became a thing himself, an ugly stupid thing. and no amount of historical context makes that any less so or less tragic, and only slightly more understandable, IMHO YMMV ...into infinity.

"I ain't got no Basie with lester/i ain't got nothing but the blues" that's why

WFT?!

Only if they want to get something done! Lots of people don't about lots of things but they rarely have much impact on those things.

^ Davies, Norman (1999). The Isles: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. xxii. "Many years later, having written Europe: a history, I was invited to give a lecture at University College, Dublin. After the presentation, someone in the audience asked about my current project. I started to reply that I was thinking of writing a history of 'the British—'. I then realized that in Dublin, of all places, one cannot talk fairly of 'the British Isles'. The Isles ceased to be British precisely fifty years ago when the Republic of Ireland left the Commonwealth, though few people in the British residue have yet cared to notice. Various clumsy alternatives were discussed, such as 'the British and Irish Isles', 'Europe's Offshore Islands', and the 'Anglo-Celtic Archipelago'. In the end, it was decided that the only decent name for the forthcoming book was 'A History of These Islands'. And such was one of several working titles until, after much trial and error, I eventually arrived at The Isles: A History." I liked this, complete with much discussion of historiography and changing historical perspectives, not everyones' cup of tea I suspect...

The Robt. Jr. website gives his dob as 3/27/15, SBWII who knows?