MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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You did say funky…
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David,
That’s the one I would have started with. Sam and Dave. Doesn’t get any better than that.
But, to put it another way…
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For most of music history, live was the only option. I’m sure over 99% of people living near Bach or Beethoven never heard their tunes, since they weren’t invited to the rich people’s concerts.
I saw Stevie Wonder live in 2001 on the 300th anniversary of the founding of Detroit. At the river downtown, where I’ve seen as many as 4 stages going simultaneously before. That day there was only 1.
They said there were a million people there. Stevie almost fell over when he heard that. It was packed. You couldn’t move. I was 200+ feet from the stage, so it was easier to just watch the big closed circuit tv. The feed was sent across the river to Windsor. Later we heard the “million people” was for multiple days, and that day was 250k. Rolling Stone said it was 500k.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/stevie-wonder-goes-home-249645/
I couldn’t find a vid of that day, but here’s Wonderlove in Germany. Michael Sembello is on guitar in the back, Deniece Williams is singing backup with the red hair.
https://youtu.be/gm3-hRgUEXc?list=PLQSFwAoVrj-0AxjUl-6crruQMisG34QlW
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Elton doing Imagine is epic. John covering John. That’s such a Lennon anthem, that song. It really talks about his hope for the world. Such a great song, and Elton was playing it just showing love and respect for John. Thanks for posting that, I’d never seen it before.
But here’s one of Elton showing what he can do in a live setting, from his album 11-17-70 (aka 17-11-70). This was also recorded in NYC. Elton is playing with just bass and drums, so he fills the extra space.
Take Me To the Pilot
https://youtu.be/vtik3PLoO_I?list=PLTtyGV7O9803wzcbec4-x8yWtNlNFHW_C
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Elton John is my #1 influence as a keyboard player. There was a time, back in the ’70s when I played lots of his songs from his early albums.
Elton John, Tumbleweed, Madman, Honky Chateau, Don’t Shoot Me, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Caribou and Captain Fantastic. I did hear songs off the later albums, but the early ones are what I focused on.
My fave Elton album is Tumbleweed Connection. One time we actually played the song below, which is from Tumbleweed, in public. People came up to us after we were done and asked if we were okay. It’s that sad. We were 19 years old when we were playing it. Imagine doing it now, when I actually am old.
Talking Old Soldiers
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There are many sad songs, and songs that make you cry, but with Mona and Lisa, some of those can just be beautiful songs, like Tim said. There are so many of each kind.
Great to listen to all of these songs, some of which I don’t recall hearing before. I like all these songs.
The song below is beautiful and has gotten me to tear up. I loved that song before they were born. When I first checked last winter, jonimitchell.com said they knew of 1607 covers of it. A few months later, 1634 covers. And this week, it’s up to 1650. But of course, nobody does it like Mona and Lisa do. If this was the only song Mona and Lisa ever did, they’d still be my favourite band.
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Now I’ll give you a song that’s only just sad.
Another one that I’ve loved since the ’70s.
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I’ve never heard that song by Martina, but I know who she is, and she’s a great singer.
She was probably staring at you wondering what you were planning to do next. 🙂
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I actually discovered that one of Joni and friends when I was looking up Jaco for the Bassline thread not long ago.
What a band. A bunch of musical genuises.
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Thanks David,
I never heard that song before, but I like it and you’re right, they were really belting it out.
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Daryl,
Thanks for posting this song. I put a list of Elton’s first 8 US studio albums above ^^, and after those, I really stopped paying much attention. I should go back and listen to the other 23 studio albums he did. And the other live albums, etc. I never heard of this album. I like this song. I looked this song up to see who wrote the lyrics and was glad to find it was Bernie Taupin again. And I found a short interview with him about it. Maybe you’ll find it interesting.
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Tim, you found it. Country Comfort is my all time favourite Elton John song.
It’s just a peaceful, wonderful song, about living with family in the country. With some nice steel guitar licks. I’m guessing Elton and Bernie thought it could get played in country bars. There are a number of MLT originals that I think could definitely cross over to country fans too.
I like Rod Stewart. I knew about his cover of Country Comfort, but I guess I didn’t notice he forgot the last verse. I discovered him with The Faces – Stay With Me is one of my favourite rock tunes ever. If you aren’t familiar with his Great American Songbook albums, they’re different, it’s that old Songbook music, but he is great on those too. I love those old songs.
The only time I ever saw Elton live was October of 1972, on the Honky Chateau tour. I was too young to drive, so it’s a good thing my older sisters liked him too. That’s a great album.
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Since I mentioned it. Another amazing moment from her.
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+1.
Over the Rainbow is a standard. Period. Also a jazz standard. One of the great songs of music and movie history.
If you’ve ever heard Judy Garland sing anything else, she could really flat out sing. One of the songs on the Christmas album is “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”. Garland sang that and made it a part of the culture too.
That whole scene in the Wizard where she sings it is so classic, so special. Just a quiet Kansas farm, her and Toto, and then wow.
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I found a piece about applicable UK law, at the link below. It says that for the time period this shot was taken, copyright only lasted 50 years after the pic was taken. That law changed in 1995 to match the US term of life of the photographer plus 70 years.
And I don’t know what an artist would normally get paid by a big name band in 1971. Sounds like no payday though.
https://www.dacs.org.uk/knowledge-base/factsheets/copyright-in-photographs
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