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Post by Cheryl on Apr 4, 2018 9:06:47 GMT
A cool little clip. Buck meeting up with Jimi Hendrix at "The Scene" in NYC while SWU were there for a gig.... Thanks Buck and Daryl Maxwell for putting this together.. Ready for more:)
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Post by wingswetteddown on Apr 4, 2018 12:24:55 GMT
This is so cool!!! Thanks Daryl and Cheryl...and of course Buck
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Post by agent on Apr 4, 2018 12:51:17 GMT
This is the best one minute video on You Tube!
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Post by luxexterior on Apr 4, 2018 13:17:57 GMT
Great stuff!
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Post by daryl on Apr 4, 2018 21:19:27 GMT
Thanks, Cheryl for all the help.
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Post by daryl on Apr 4, 2018 21:24:10 GMT
This is the best one minute video on You Tube! 1:16! |
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Post by agent on Apr 4, 2018 21:31:46 GMT
Euro Minute, D!
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Post by CAPTAIN on Apr 5, 2018 10:48:21 GMT
cool.
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Post by eastmark on Apr 5, 2018 10:49:56 GMT
Did someone once use your amp and leave it with a blown fuse ?
Might have just been a bad dream I had ? LOL
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Post by duckbarman on Apr 5, 2018 11:52:56 GMT
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Post by Buck on Apr 5, 2018 17:52:21 GMT
Allen Lanier had used some family money he'd gotten to buy the band two new silverface Fender Twin amps for the Generation (the space later becoming Eletric Lady recording studios) gig with Chuck Berry and BB King. After the show, there was a jam with various people playing and Al Cooper blew out one of the new amps, I assume by playing too loud.
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Post by luxexterior on Apr 5, 2018 17:55:24 GMT
The Generation Club story is a great one. Chuck Berry eh!?!  |
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Post by duckbarman on Apr 5, 2018 20:08:14 GMT
Allen Lanier had used some family money he'd gotten to buy the band two new silverface Fender Twin amps for the Generation (the space later becoming Eletric Lady recording studios) gig with Chuck Berry and BB King. After the show, there was a jam with various people playing and Al Cooper blew out one of the new amps, I assume by playing too loud. I bet there was some discussion as to whose amp it was that was blown... but those after-hours jams have pretty passed down into legend - I bet you guys wished you'd have stayed for the full thing, instead of getting back to LI afterwards... Buck - you mentioned Al Kooper - here's the thing that I've NEVER been able to find anything out about - by the time those Generation gigs came around, SWU had actually already recorded some demos with AL Kooper, but I'd LOVE to know what on earth was recorded in that first demo session? Any clue? I know in the past Albert has mentioned that "Rain is Falling" was done as a demo, and I sort of assumed that might be one of the tracks you did at that time, but Les has said that he never took part in the Al Kooper demos, so unless he's going loopy, that would set the timeframe for these demos back to pre-February 1968 - which would mean you didn't have a designated singer at the time... I asked Jeff Richards could it have been him on vocals, and he said he has no memory of that, so I'm struggling to work out just what that session actually consisted of... Help!! |
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Post by Buck on Apr 6, 2018 14:09:23 GMT
We never worked with Al Cooper, but we did a demo at Columbia Records Studio on 52nd St. (in the Underbelly era, not when we were close to signing as BOC,) with David Rubinson producing. Rubinson had produced the first Moby Grape record, which we all thought was amazing.
Al Cooper showed up in the control room, and basically distracted Rubinson from the session with his banter and presence. So it wasn't a net positive, although we were huge fans of Cooper from the Blues Project, which by that time had disbanded. Cooper had done "Supersession" with Mike Bloomfield and was doing Blood Sweat and Tears. The Columbia demo exists as reel to reel tape somewhere.
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Post by duckbarman on Apr 6, 2018 16:03:35 GMT
We never worked with Al Cooper, but we did a demo at Columbia Records Studio on 52nd St...... Al Cooper showed up in the control room, and basically distracted Rubinson from the session with his banter and presence. So it wasn't a net positive... Oh, I didn't realise that - here's why I thought Al had been involved with your demo session - this is what Meltzer wrote in a piece in 1973: "So they signed with Elektra (Mercury had turned 'em down already and they had done a demo with Al Kooper at which Al was embarrassed to be a fellow yid of Braunstein cause that's how bad Braunstein was: bad) and at the signing there was supposed to be champagne but all he had for 'em was asti spumante that tasted like vomit."That's why I was surprised when Les said he had no memory of doing any studio stuff with you prior to the Elektra sessions... just wondering: do YOU think Les was a part of that session, like Meltzer says...? Meltzer also mentions there that SWU had first been turned by Mercury, presumably prior to that first demo session, but I've never seen anything about that anywhere else, so I don't know the truth of that... > The Columbia demo exists as reel to reel tape somewhere.
Oh wow - now THAT would be an interesting historical document to hear... do you have ANY clue as to ANY of the songs that might have been on that...? |
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