i was born in brookly, ny...but also lived in manhattan so a lot of musicians made it big from there i guess...also lived in l.a. (beach cites and westside) for very many years and a lot of people from those neighborhoods are waaay famouss...and in nashville and e. tennessee for a few years, and a lot of people are famous from there too...i'm a big country music fan...even the top ten stuff everybody makes fun of...u run into a lot of 'well knowns' everywhere all of those places...hard to avoid actually...lots of way famous friends and encounters all that...
...but i guess i'm most proud of my years in my very small town in the very rural to wilderness white mountains in northern new hampshire...cause THERE my friends son is the bass player for the star spangles and those vicious little muthas rock like crazy...

I lived in Brooklyn ffom 1990 - 2000. It is much different than what you remember.

harlito1969 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Rialb Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Elvis Presley
> > The Bar-Kays
> > Bobby "Blue" Bland
> > Johnny Cash
> > Alex Chilton
> > Steve Cropper
> > Donald "Duck" Dunn
> > Aretha Franklin
> > Al Green
> > The Gentrys
> > W.C. Handy
> > Isaac Hayes
> > John Lee Hooker
> > Howlin' Wolf
> > Al Jackson, Jr.
> > Booker T. Jones
> > B.B. King
> > Jerry Lee Lewis
> > The Memphis Horns – Wayne Jackson and Andrew
> Love
> > Memphis Minnie
> > Memphis Slim
> > Willie Mitchell
> > David Porter
> > Otis Redding
> > Charlie Rich
> > Sam and Dave
> > Sam the Sham
> > Ike Turner
> > Junior Wells
>
>
> stop bragging...LOL!
> Definitely some of the best music out of Memphis.

yikes!!!


well otis more a macon man; you should know better to git a little richard fan riled up about otis...thems georgia cats.

and in all fairness you got to put ike in legendary clarksdale, mississippi...born and raised there...and was an early a&r guy AND session man for many of the classic blues heros very early one, b.b. the wolf, etc...
...fairly designated as a down home delta cat from his early influences on...
grew up as a boy sewing rags together to make blankets...ike lived the blues, broke the color line, had the first 'official' rock and roll record in many people's view (including sam phillips from Sun Records) ...aside from a short time in jail or in some drug or other troubles for bits of time, has been rockiin' the blues and rhythm reviews all his life and is STILL on tour...all this aside from his very noticeable latter success with i & t turner rhythm review...

but holy moly...whoa, then u factor in your neighbors to the east in nashville and tennessee keeps getting thicker and thicker with music every where you go...

it's not where i was bprm and bred and i'm not pretending it's my home town, rialb..i was there in mid-tenn as but a transplant and just there for a few years...

what's your fave version of 'memphis' btw???
i think mine might be the rod stewart/ron wood versin from an around smiler i think...bet it's been covered as much as anything else, huh?

tho "memphis" was written by man form missouri i think; (and let's not even talk about that one cat from effin hibbing minnesota, because man, that could just never happen...)

tennesee is like a wheel, man; it's the mid-south and it's borders hit more of OTHER state's borders than any other state...something like ten or so, and the best of them come down, or up, to there it semmed, at leasts for awhile...

the nature & wildlife is mostly overwhelmingly lovely, even gracious, and so is the way you are treated and naturally try to treat others, not to say there ain't a beer bottle brawl on broadway ever now and again... and when i joined here on iorr in '06 i as still back there. there are good-ass guitar players in the clubs down there sometimes, hungry and eat your face off without breaking a sweat...

but back to rialb, who kicks everyone's butt up, down and sideways about 14 times over if this was a contest...big continent here a lotta soul, don't forget the motor city...

i loved it when the stones tracked rt. 66 early on...that one is a dang show stopper...tellS the travelouge on an area this side of the pond, sdoes it not me droogies??

whoooo got a version from '64 camden; just INCREDIBLE how solid that is...they had been playing like for what..??? less than two years as a band...
a couple of years before that new to their instruments maximumally i believe...
...
the band was INCREDIBLE...CHARLIE AND BILL INCREDIBLE...KEITH SNAKY CHUCK CRUNCH CHUCK STOPS FLUID LINES RAWWWKS INCERDIBLE...BRIAN RHYTHM GUITAR INCCCREEEDDIIBBLLLWWWWW....SINGER_GUY....LOOSE AND HOT AT THE SAME TIME< CALL HIM INCREDDDIBLLLEE>>> did i mention that charlie and bill were really 'on' on this one? crescendos up so high bright and rolling spirited you had to smile dance or die happy with either eventuality...
yes i'm high...sorrrrryyyyyy
butttt
same fine State: just a few hours to the nawtheast...
courtesy john sebastian (new york writer? ha,) and his homage with The Lovin' Spooful...

Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew
Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies
Nashville Cats, get work before they're two

Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two
Guitar pickers in Nashville
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants
On a Tennessee anthill
Yeah, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two
Guitar cases in Nashville
And any one that unpacks 'is guitar could play
Twice as better than I will

Yeah, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a
Musical proverbial knee-high
When I heard a couple new-sounding tunes on the tubes
And they blasted me sky-high
And the record man said every one is a Yellow Sun
Record from Nashville
And up North there ain't nobody buys them
And I said, "But I will"

And it was
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew...

Well, there's sixteen thousand eight hundred 'n' twenty one
Mothers from Nashville
All their friends play music, and they ain't uptight
If one of the kids will
Because it's custom made for any mother's son
To be a guitar picker in Nashville
And I sure am glad I got a chance to say a word about
The music and the mothers from Nashville

Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew
Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies
Nashville Cats, get work before they're two

SPOKEN: Kick it



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Beelyboy Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> harlito1969 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Rialb Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Elvis Presley
> > > The Bar-Kays
> > > Bobby "Blue" Bland
> > > Johnny Cash
> > > Alex Chilton
> > > Steve Cropper
> > > Donald "Duck" Dunn
> > > Aretha Franklin
> > > Al Green
> > > The Gentrys
> > > W.C. Handy
> > > Isaac Hayes
> > > John Lee Hooker
> > > Howlin' Wolf
> > > Al Jackson, Jr.
> > > Booker T. Jones
> > > B.B. King
> > > Jerry Lee Lewis
> > > The Memphis Horns – Wayne Jackson and Andrew
> > Love
> > > Memphis Minnie
> > > Memphis Slim
> > > Willie Mitchell
> > > David Porter
> > > Otis Redding
> > > Charlie Rich
> > > Sam and Dave
> > > Sam the Sham
> > > Ike Turner
> > > Junior Wells
> >
> >
> > stop bragging...LOL!
> > Definitely some of the best music out of
> Memphis.
>
> yikes!!!
>
>
> well otis more a macon man; you should know better
> to git a little richard fan riled up about
> otis...
> but holy moly...whoa, then u factor in your
> neighbors to the east in nashville and tennessee
> keeps getting thicker and thicker with music every
> where you go...
>
> it's not where i was bprm and bred and i'm not
> pretending it's my home town, rialb..i was there
> in mid-tenn as but a transplant and just there for
> a few years...
>
> what's your fave version of 'memphis' btw???
> i think mine might be the rod stewart/ron wood
> versin from an around smiler i think...bet it's
> been covered as much as anything else, huh?
>
> tho "memphis" was written by man form missouri i
> think; (and let's not even talk about that one cat
> from effin hibbing minnesota, because man, that
> could just never happen...)
>
> tennesee is like a wheel, man; it's the mid-south
> and it's borders hit more of OTHER state's borders
> than any other state...something like ten or so,
> and the best of them come down, or up, to there it
> semmed, at leasts for awhile...
>
> the nature & wildlife is mostly overwhelmingly
> lovely, even gracious, and so is the way you are
> treated and naturally try to treat others, not to
> say there ain't a beer bottle brawl on broadway
> ever now and again... and when i joined here on
> iorr in '06 i as still back there. there are
> good-ass guitar players in the clubs down there
> sometimes, hungry and eat your face off without
> breaking a sweat...
>
> but back to rialb, who kicks everyone's butt up,
> down and sideways about 14 times over if this was
> a contest...big continent here a lotta soul, don't
> forget the motor city...
>
> i loved it when the stones tracked rt. 66 early
> on...that one is a dang show stopper...tellS the
> travelouge on an area this side of the pond, sdoes
> it not me droogies??
>
> whoooo got a version from '64 camden; just
> INCREDIBLE how solid that is...they had been
> playing like for what..??? less than two years as
> a band...
> a couple of years before that new to their
> instruments maximumally i believe...
> ...
> the band was INCREDIBLE...CHARLIE AND BILL
> INCREDIBLE...KEITH SNAKY CHUCK CRUNCH CHUCK STOPS
> FLUID LINES RAWWWKS INCERDIBLE...BRIAN RHYTHM
> GUITAR
> INCCCREEEDDIIBBLLLWWWWW....SINGER_GUY....LOOSE AND
> HOT AT THE SAME TIME< CALL HIM INCREDDDIBLLLEE>>>
> did i mention that charlie and bill were really
> 'on' on this one? crescendos up so high bright and
> rolling spirited you had to smile dance or die
> happy with either eventuality...
> yes i'm high...sorrrrryyyyyy
> butttt
> same fine State: just a few hours to the
> nawtheast...
> courtesy john sebastian (new york writer? ha,) and
> his homage with The Lovin' Spooful...
>
> Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
> Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew
> Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies
> Nashville Cats, get work before they're two
>
> Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two
> Guitar pickers in Nashville
> And they can pick more notes than the number of
> ants
> On a Tennessee anthill
> Yeah, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two
> Guitar cases in Nashville
> And any one that unpacks 'is guitar could play
> Twice as better than I will
>
> Yeah, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a
> Musical proverbial knee-high
> When I heard a couple new-sounding tunes on the
> tubes
> And they blasted me sky-high
> And the record man said every one is a Yellow Sun
> Record from Nashville
> And up North there ain't nobody buys them
> And I said, "But I will"
>
> And it was
> Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
> Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew...
>
> Well, there's sixteen thousand eight hundred 'n'
> twenty one
> Mothers from Nashville
> All their friends play music, and they ain't
> uptight
> If one of the kids will
> Because it's custom made for any mother's son
> To be a guitar picker in Nashville
> And I sure am glad I got a chance to say a word
> about
> The music and the mothers from Nashville
>
> Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
> Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew
> Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies
> Nashville Cats, get work before they're two
>
> SPOKEN: Kick it


WOW, Nashville Cats is one of my absolute favorite songs
I always loved that line ..and anyone who unpacks his guitar can play twice as better than ah will...ha ha ! well, i grew up in the north almost near canada, but we heard tons of that stuff too thank god.

Re: "Nashville Cats"--John Sebastian has pointed out that yes, he knows that those yellow Sun Records actually came from MEMPHIS! But that sure is a excellent song.

Carl Perkinswrote the following song, that is a wonderful tribute to one states musical legacy:


Now there are folks who like to brag about where they came from
But when they start that stuff I let ‘em be
But it makes me feel like I want to brag some
To know that I come from the state of Tennessee

Let’s give old Tennessee credit for music
As they play it up in Nashville every day
Let’s give old Tennessee credit for music
As they play it in that old hillbilly way

Mr. Red Foley came from Kentucky
Now Ernest Tubb’s down in Texas don’t you see
But if all you folks out there can remember
Mr. Eddy Arnold came from Tennessee

Let’s give old Tennessee credit for music
As they play it up in Nashville every day
Let’s give old Tennessee credit for music
As they play it in that old hillbilly way

They make bombs they say can blow up our world here
Well, a country boy like me, I will agree
But if all you folks out there will remember
They made their first atomic bomb in Tennessee

Let’s give old Tennessee credit for music
As they play it up in Nashville every day
Let’s give old Tennessee credit for music
As they play it in that old hillbilly way

Let’s give old Tennessee credit for music
As they play it up in Nashville every day
Let’s give old Tennessee credit for music
As they play it in that old hillbilly way

"Tennessee"
Carl Perkins [1956]
Sun 235



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I live in Dartford from time to time. So, Mick Jagger snd Keith Richards. 10 minutes up the road you are in the home town of one time Rolling Stone and Pretty Things member, Dick Taylor

DGA35:

Another Vancouver band: Spirit of the West

Never got a lot of international fame, but their album, Faithlift, went gold platinum in the US. I'll be going to see them this Friday night. Still a great live show.

don't really have a "hometown" as such - moved around alot growing up. But, Eugene OR is what I sort of think of as my stomping grounds. Kind of grew up watching Robert Cray there (although he moved down from Seattle area). Other Eugeneans who are noteworthy: Mason Williams ("Classical Gas") and Tim Hardin ("If I Were a Carpenter" - a Woodstock performer, too)....