Bill Evans-Trio 64 2021 Verve RE
With a little luck and help from FedEx I’ll be listening to Trio ‘65 tomorrow night.
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Joni Mitchell - Blue Rhino reissue of this Reprise album. Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Japanese issue, with OBI Strip. Beth Hart - A Tribute To Led Zeppelin Recent, new release. Female vocals day. Two female artists at completely opposite ends of style. Both are fabulous artists. Blue sounds very, very good. Beth Hart album sounds good, but not excellent. The Japanese issue of Don Juan's is superb and can easily qualify as a go-to for system demo. My jaw was open for the entire album play. |
I very much enjoy most of the songs on Eddie's new album Earthling and definitely more than the last few Pearl Jam albums. I do wish he would have included a few of his acoustic based songs instead of some of the faster paced songs as his acoustic songs were always my favorites on the Pearl Jam albums. One of my biggest regrets as far as concerts go was not seeing Eddie on his solo tour after the release of Ukulele Songs. Big mistake that I still regret to this day.
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Hey @tgilb , How do you like Eddie Vedder's new lp? |
@slaw Looks like your patience paid off and you got both SD albums on 45. Nice!
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lucy show, mania--something of an overlooked gem which has held up a lot better than most 80's new wave elliott easton, change no change--solo record from the cars' lefthanded guitarist is much better than you'd expect, with big production values and vg songs, all co-written with jules shear gone fishin, matt puicci and tim lee--obscure but really tuneful project from rain parade and windbreakers principals |
Hey @bdp24 Wow, no kidding about the sad ending! I’d recently played The Textone’s Midnight Mission, a fabulous record, and recognized Seymour’s name. Thanks for your posts, great reads! |
@bdp24 @loomisjohnson what a story. |
@loomisjohnson: I rate those first three Twilley albums in the same order as do you. I didn't see Twilley live until after Phil Seymour had left the group, so Dwight was doing all the lead singing (his bassist Jim Lewis---who later had one solo album released on Bomp Records---sang harmony). With Pitcock playing his Gibson ES335 plugged into a pair of Fender Deluxe Reverb amps with an MXR digital delay between them (which is how he created that Sun Records slapback guitar sound), and Jerry Naifah on drums, the quartet was a dynamite live band, really cool. @mammothguy54 (and anyone else who is interested): All right, I'll give you more ;-). After leaving The Dwight Twilley Band, Seymour got himself a record deal with Boardwalk Records and made two real good Pop albums. The first had a hit single with "Precious To Me" (written by Phil), plus a great version of the Bobby Fuller song "Let Her Dance". After the second album stiffed he joined The Textones, but soon thereafter was diagnosed with Lymphoma, and returned to Tulsa for treatment. His hair fell out and he lost a lot of weight, but his burning need to make music compelled him to return to Los Angeles. He had a major fan in Tulsa (I was in communication with her) who volunteered to drive him there in her van, so she made a bed for him in the back and took off for L.A. Somewhere in Arizona she stopped for gas, and discovered Phil had passed away. She was of course devastated. What a sad ending. |
i was referring the the third album (released under dt's name alone, although i think i hear phil seymour in spots). as for the weird sound, it seems like he was channeling roy orbison (as opposed to the more primal elvis/everly bros. vibe of the first two), and the lavish strings on the key tracks might be off-putting to some, but i dig it. for my money it's better song-for-song than "twilley don't mind", although it can't touch the godlike debut. |
@bdp24 is absolutely amazing! What a wealth of knowledge and first-hand experience. It really adds to this thread. Thank you bdp24. |
@spiritofradio and @loomisjohnson: I'm assuming the Twilley album spoken of is his first "solo" album (the third Dwight Twilley album, but the first after drummer/vocalist Phil Seymour left the group and "Band" was dropped from the name), released in 1979 on Shelter/Arista? As far as I know the album never came out on CD (at least, I don't have it). The LP sounds kinda weird, some phase shift problems plainly audible. Guitarist Bill Pitcock IV told me (he took up with my wife after our divorce. He eventually wised up ;-) the two engineers at the Shelter Studio in L.A.---Noah Shark and Max (no last name), credited along with Twilley as album producers---spent most of their time shooting pistols at the empty beer bottles that littered the property's back yard. Remember, coke was fueling the music world at the time ;-) (when I moved to L.A. that year, it was everywhere). Twilley has continued to pump out the occasional album (mostly on CD) after his return to Tulsa, recorded in his home studio. Though both Seymour and Pitcock are no longer with us (Lymphoma got the former, Lung Cancer the latter---Bill was a 2-pack-a-day man), the albums retain the trademark Twilley sound. And he can still write a great song. |
@loomisjohnson our erstwhile timekeeper, @bdp24 , will be thrilled to see your post about Dwight Twilley - I’m certain. |
@sbank +1 Christine McVie. Might be the best "Fleetwood Mac" album of the 80's. |
i gotta say that this definitely where the cool kids hang...hadn't heard of covet or kilbey kennedy before (tho i know steve kilbey from the church); both excellent. my picks de jour: dwight twilley, "twilley" (curiously unavailable on cd or spotify) michael guthrie band, "direct hits" red kross, "show world"
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