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Post by bunkerfan on May 11, 2011 9:08:03 GMT
Eric Burdon has reached the ripe old age of 70 today. Here's one of my favourite tracks.
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Post by nonrabbit on May 11, 2011 9:12:37 GMT
Great track great singer. Didn't he further his career in America?
Happy Birthday Eric
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Post by steelmonkey on May 11, 2011 17:57:05 GMT
I've said it nefore, at length, so just a quick reprise: I love Eric B. A true rock and roll man, criminally under-rated and neglected and a far better singer and all around important person than a busload of jaggers, Eltons, Rods etc. He lives in palm Sprimgs, probably does 100 or more shows a year and still gives it all...whether it is a relatively big gig for him, like BB King club in NYC, or the backroom of a pizza parlor. brings amazing guys with him as well...over the years: Ansley Dunbar, Brian Auger and some young guys who ended up in spock's beard...oh yeah...Craney and perry.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 11, 2011 18:11:54 GMT
A great singer.
Oh happy memories of The Orchid Ballroom in Purley
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Post by tullist on May 12, 2011 15:33:55 GMT
OK Bernie, I'll give you Elton and Rod and even toss in an underutilized Bryan Ferry, but I'm keepin all the Jaggers. "O New York you talk alot now lets get a look atcha!"
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Post by steelmonkey on May 12, 2011 15:56:38 GMT
Okay then, jagger's no slouch in the Black-blooded britleague....but you gaoota subtract points for the post, say about 1975, jetset society man, aging queen/diva behaviors....Eric B has 'stayed the course', whether on purpose or by bad luck, in a way that very few 1.5th generation rockers have done.....I mean, he's not Elvis or chuck berry, but her was out there pretty early in the game.
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Post by tullist on May 13, 2011 2:45:47 GMT
Still can't conceed. I think Mick and all the Stones have continued to hone their craft, and believe them as a performing band to be as good or better than ever. I don't expect and of course don't care if anybody else in the world agrees with me, not even certain that I do. Doubtless the last 30 years have seen advances in live recording and video that were not available in their highest period. And while I understand what you mean about jet setters in general maybe, I don't detract and indeed probably add points if you're good at it, and I believe Jagger is. Plus I love some of the lines I still hear to have come from the band, these 2 I am thinking of both belonging to Keith, one, apparently revealed in his recent biography he has called Mick Brenda for the past 30 years for the precise reasons you cite Bernie, and also when Mick was vying to get a knighthood Keith was asked about it and he said that if Mick got it he would "cut his throat." Mick's throat that is. I love it.
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Post by steelmonkey on May 13, 2011 15:32:49 GMT
I suppose the topic of 'how rock and roll can it be' when applied to upper east side manhattanites like jagger, has room for discussion...keith's book was brilliant, i thought: honest, direct and real...heroin addiction is a great equalizer and certainly keeps you rooted to the gutter and real world...stories of keith and gram Parsons prowling scary parts of LA to score were true ans ccurate to the very intersections and sights and sounds he decribed...but how has jagger kept in touch with the common man's experience? getting his heart stomped by contessas and models just isn't universal.
Eric B and others like him ( Ginger Baker for one) live in a british rockers colony in the middle class section of palm Sprimgs...why? It NEVER rains and there are no factories...face it, these guys are still afraid they'll wake up in newcastle, leeds, birmingham and be forced to live the lives they escaped by rock and roll!
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Post by nonrabbit on May 13, 2011 16:14:42 GMT
I suppose the topic of 'how rock and roll can it be' when applied to upper east side manhattanites like jagger, has room for discussion...keith's book was brilliant, i thought: honest, direct and real...heroin addiction is a great equalizer and certainly keeps you rooted to the gutter and real world...stories of keith and gram Parsons prowling scary parts of LA to score were true ans ccurate to the very intersections and sights and sounds he decribed...but how has jagger kept in touch with the common man's experience? getting his heart stomped by contessas and models just isn't universal. Eric B and others like him ( Ginger Baker for one) live in a british rockers colony in the middle class section of palm Sprimgs...why? It NEVER rains and there are no factories...face it, these guys are still afraid they'll wake up in newcastle, leeds, birmingham and be forced to live the lives they escaped by rock and roll! i55.images obliterated by tinypic/jsd53k.gif[/IMG] i55.images obliterated by tinypic/jsd53k.gif[/IMG]
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