Sparks

[Teasing the Korean]

Watched the Sparks doc last night.  Unbelievable.

[JSngry]

Their music never got to me, but still, a very interesting story!

[Teasing the Korean]

I always assumed they were British, and I had no idea they had continued working all these decades.

[Rooster_Ties]

Don’t know a thing about them, other than they (whoever they are, which I never figured out) had done some sort of collaboration recently-ish with Frank Ferdinand…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFS_(band)

[JSngry]

43 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

I always assumed they were British, and I had no idea they had continued working all these decades.

When they first started putting out the records, they identified as Californian. As time went on, not do much.

[sidewinder]

If I remember correctly their early period through the early to mid 70s was in the UK, where they had a few big hits around the time of glam rock and became famous. I remember seeing them on the TV show Top of the Pops during this period when they hit No. 1 in the charts and being quite amazed - absolutely nothing like it at the time. Real originals !

Edited January 15, 2022 by sidewinder

[Joe]

LIL' BEETHOVEN is genius. Loved the film as well. 

I was introduced to them thanks to their appearance in the disaster film ROLLERCOASTER.

[randyhersom]

Coming to Big Ears on Thursday Mar 24, but I won't pass up Patti Smith for them, so we'll see how the scheduling shakes out.

Or Trefoil with Kris Davis.

Edited January 16, 2022 by randyhersom

[felser]

3 hours ago, randyhersom said:

I won't pass up Patti Smith for them 

Definitely the right decision.  She's an icon.

[Teasing the Korean]

3 minutes ago, felser said:

Definitely the right decision.  She's an icon.

At TTK's pad, she ain't.  If it were me, I would not hesitate for a second to choose Sparks over Patti Smith. That's what makes horse racing.  

Edited January 16, 2022 by Teasing the Korean

[JSngry]

I might take a meal and/or nap break.

[Teasing the Korean]

1 minute ago, JSngry said:

I might take a meal and/or nap break.

I'm not going period.  I hate live shows.  I'm all about experiencing music at home in mid-century moderne splendor, paired with an appropriate cocktail.   

[JSngry]

and I'm all about not going out for too much of anything until the COVID thing is better tamed than it is right now.

[Teasing the Korean]

BTW, Sparks did a series of shows in which the opening set was an album in its entirety.  They had to learn their entire back catalog so they could play a different album every night!

[JSngry]

Not unlike the Stax tour of Europe in 1967(?). The had all the OG players on board, but they all had to relearn all the songs because for them, it was all like a day at the office, get one down, go on to the next one, don't look back. What millions op people knew by memory, these guys were like "huh? which one was that?"

I applaud the work ethic there.