Had a flattering request for an upre of Late Rick, and I'm a sucker for flattering comments. Also, requests for upres save me having to think of something new to keep youse bums amused. So here's a blisterpak to make your weekend sweet. The brilliant cover to Return To Vienna [above - Ed.] is mine *simper*, but the rest are as is. Don't be put off by dated stylings - this is quality music. Nelson was a musician first and foremost, with impeccable taste (if not in hairstyles and jackets), and it's always a pleasure to give these a spin. Major dude.
EDIT: Early Rickrollers will dig this swell Bear Family collection! Linkage in comments.
This post made credible thru' th' intercession of tooner.
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BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAY is kick ass pure rock and roll at its' finest.
Deletei remember as a kid seeing a very early o&h where ricky impersonated elvis. i think he had a guitar and just hit one string and curled his lip. this was before he started to record. ozzie supposedly guided him in his early recording, but i doubt he was a murray wilson.
does anyone know where to get that o&h episode??
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I met him very early in his career. It was backstage at a Vancouver venue. One of those road shows of about a dozen acts.
ReplyDeleteWhat impresswd me was his backup guitarist, James Burton..
That's a great story!
Delete(Always a delight to see you here, Clar.)
Clarence is back in town!
DeleteI visit here so decent people don't have to.
DeleteOlder readers may remember the hit CBC TV show Pune's Poultry Parade, where he featured prize-winning hens in amusing tableaux, to the musical accompaniment of Billy Bouchard's Winnipeg Accordions.
DeleteI like a lot of the work Rick/Ricky did.His band with James Burton was killer. Thanks again for another reminder of happier times.
ReplyDeleteHe always had a great band behind him. Burton is of course the poster boy, but he never hired a guy who couldn't play better than he needed to. All his records are about playing back, not breaking into a sweat, quiet virtuosity. Same way he sang - making it sound easy.
DeleteAnd let's not forget, Joe "The King of the Strings" Maphis.
DeleteIt was "Rick Nelson Sings For You" and " Meet The Beatles" that set a 10 year old me on the road to ruin
ReplyDelete... and you washed up here. In good company.
DeleteI made a copy of the Vienna album for a friend who was surprised to hear a Little Feat cover. I told him it was actually a Terry Allen song.
ReplyDeleteHere's the composer's stab at it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ5KIUo0B8c
The other day a friend was over, and I was playing the "Chicago/The Blues/Today! Vol. 2" album from 1966. When the Willie Dixon penned 'I Can't Quit You Baby' as performed by Otis Rush came on, she said "This guy likes Led Zeppelin".
DeleteWeird thing about LZ is that they made something authentically their own from stolen goods. Cultural appropriation has its own culture.
DeleteCultural appropriation aside, Willie Dixon did the same.
DeleteRick didn't wax, did he?
ReplyDeleteWe need to bring in our wax consultant ... Babs?
DeleteHaving passed in 1985, before waxing became "a thing" for men, it's unlikely Rick waxed. However, he may of manscaped, especially if he was what us gals call a “Sascrotch.”
DeleteTwelve-year-old Babs, had a huge crush on Ricky, seeing him on 'The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet' (the start of his music career) and as "Colorado Ryan" in the film 'Rio Bravo'.
Vegetable prices and now male waxing...there's really no need to go anywhere else is there?
DeleteBonus point for "Sascrotch." Given his furry chest -- which I don't think is a pectoral merkin or a cashmere sweater -- you may be onto something...
DeleteThe "chest fro" is a dead giveaway.
DeleteIt looks to the casual observer like I've had an unsuccessful scalp wax.
DeleteHe mayn't've waxed, but he did wane, which, I b'lieve, Garden Party was a reaction to.
DeleteC in California
I knew someone whose body hair grew above his collar line and poked out alarmingly when he wore a collar and tie. He had to regularly shave that area.
DeleteYou "knew somebody" ... ri-i-ight.
DeleteSpeaking of revisiting the past on the IoF, I thought I had squirreled away your blink-and-you'll-miss-it™ piece on meditation someplace safe for a later time but just when I thought the time is now it has eluded me. Searching for "hard stool" yields no fruit (nor "hard chair"). I do have your insightful work "Dotting The i In Time" bookmarked (https://rebuddharedux.blogspot.com/) but this was more of a practical "how-to" that I thought was a nice tonic to the saccharine "mindfulness" craze that every vlogger is cashing in on these days. Could you please point me in the right direction sesai?
ReplyDeleteWhile pondering the emptiness here where the waves appear to have washed away the path, I found it by not searching ... (literally -- I had assumed it was a .txt file but it turns out I saved it as an .rtf). I'm already on the same page philosophically but it was the mechanics, or Praxis, of avoiding distraction that I was seeking assistance with and it is indeed chalk-full of useful advice for the art of sitting on a hard stool without thinking about your butt itching the entire time. Let me know if you want it back and thank you.
Deleteurgh, I've gotten so careless with my spelling these days; *sensai* *chock-full*
DeleteI can't see your name without I'm pitcherin' th' Okeefenokee swamps ...
DeleteLate Rick was undoubtedly a smoove operator in the California cowboy scene and he had discriminating tastes in material and musicians. But for me, it'll always be Ricky singing to the sock-hop girls at the end of Ozzy and Harriet episodes. As the chicks sway and bob to this week's number, you can smell the Aqua Net in the air and appreciate that unruffled mien Ricky put out, in stark contrast to most of the rock 'n' rollers. Puts me in mind of another West Coast cat who worked a different genre: T-Bone Walker. He never broke a sweat neither.
ReplyDeleteDean Martin, possibly the coolest performer of all time, hated that "vein throbbing in the temples" singing style. I wish I still had the Nick Tosches book.
Deletenick is the best!
DeleteBear Family BlisterPak™, @320:
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'Bright Lights & Country Music' from 1966, and 'Country Fever' from 1967.
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F-FA©, and perfect albums! Tx.
DeleteDesperados: The Roots of Country Rock by John Einarsen is great read for those interested in learning more about this particular music genre during the late 1960s & early 1970s. Thanks Foam team...
ReplyDeleteHere it is (epub):
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Wowzer - Foams aim to please!
DeleteFoam - Your the best :-D
ReplyDeleteThanks again