Hello, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and welcome to The Broadly Eclectic's salute to dead people, specifically musicians who've passed on in the past year. There are relatively few that I could find and was willing to play (none of them women!) and, somewhat surprisingly, given the ages of those musicians of my generation, and the "care" they took of themselves, there were no really huge names. Probably the biggest stars to fade out this year were Pete Seeger (and he was past 90), Joe Cocker and Jack Bruce. But a number of just slightly lesser lights also moved on, and they're all gonna get recognition this week.
There's Ian McLagan, keyboard player extraordinaire, best known for his work with Small Faces (and later Faces) which he co-founded, the Stones, Billy Bragg--ah, 'most everyone worth playing with. Another famous sideman, Bobby Keys, also died last year. He too played with just about everyone, from the Stones to Joe Cocker to Delaney and Bonnie and on and on. Even if he didn't have some memorable sax passages he deserves to be immortalized for having gotten kicked out of The Rolling Stones for partying too much and ingesting too many substances: The Rolling Stones, for chrissakes. The final straw purportedly involved a groupie and a bathtub full of Dom Perignon, but it was just one groupie, in fairness. Well, you can decide if that was fair or not, I guess, based on some archaic and prudish moral code.
Paul Revere (nee Paul Revere Dick, no kidding; I think dropping the "Dick" was a good call) also died in 2014. I had mostly forgotten him and The Raiders, but they had a few garage-band-ish hits in the 60s, all done up in their Revolutionary War/Sgt. Pepper garb, tri-corner hats and all. They were also essentially the house band for a Dick Clark show called "Where The Action Is" and which ran daily for nearly two years, telecast in the afternoon, of all times, usually filmed on a beach with no apparent electric connection for instruments or mikes. Things were different then.
And finally, I have to single out Phil Everly, who virtually invented harmony singing, at least as far as the Rock Era is concerned. He and his brother Don were maybe also the first of the battling brothers in rock music, followed by the Davies bros. of the Kinks and the Gallaghers of Oasis, siblings who just couldn't get along well enough to keep their respective bands together, often fighting physically and ultimately ending up not speaking to each other. Oh, I guess you need a pretty healthy ego just to make it in showbiz, and those egos can be tough to keep in check, and boys will be boys, after all (cf. Bobby Keys, above).
Well, after that wicked uninspired (and uninspiring) lead in, here are the tunes I'll spin this week:
Into The Mystic Joe Cocker
Debris Faces/Ian McLagan
Maybe I'm Amazed Ditto
Mystifies Me Ian McLagan & The Bump Band
Glad And Sorry Ditto
Can't You Hear Me Knocking Rolling Stones (Bobby Keys)
Brown Sugar Ditto
I Got The Blues Ditto
Live With Me And Again
Theme For An Imaginary Western Jack Bruce
What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted Jimmy Ruffin
I Wanna Be Your Dog The Stooges (Scott Asheton, drums)
Kicks Paul Revere & The Raiders
Hungry Ditto
Just Like Me Ditto
I Wanna Be Sedated The Ramones (Tommy, the drummer)
Blue Mood Johnny Winter
It's All Over Now Bobby Womack
Rhumba Man Jesse Winchester
Zyryab Paco De Lucia
Waist Deep In The Big Muddy Pete Seeger
This Land Is Your Land Pete Seeger
Cathy's Clown Everly Bros.
Snowflake Bombardier Phil Everly
Bye Bye Love Everlys
('Til) I Kissed You Everlys
All I Have To Do Is Dream Everlys
No More Mr. Nice Guy Alice Cooper(Dick Wagner, guitar)
Only Women Bleed Alice Cooper (Dick Wagner, guitar)
All this tribute will take place Tuesday, noon till two at the usual spot, 91.5 FM, wool.fm.
Next week: The worst song in the history of music, of humanity, of the planet, pre- and post-humanity. And it just came out last year! I can't wait.
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