Re: Blondie Chaplin - What's The ***** Point?
Date: December 10, 2007 07:30
cousin, i'm sure every one on the stage has good experience and excellent professional resume.
but for the sake of historical accuracy, or let's say historical perspective; blondie was 9 years old when the beach boys were formed and they did kinda well those first ten or twelve years if you check the discography.
star sailor is well known, but for history's sake blondie came into sessions for holland in '72 for some tracks, a well respected album certainly, and brian was seriously starting to tank and missing in action for most of it; and Blondie also gave their live shows some real solid guitar...this does not diss your man...who has reason to be justifiably proud of his contribution but i bet blondie himself would acknowledge that the beach boys first ten or twelve years before all this had yielded the cream de la creme of the band's legacy...
...and i totally respect your personal faves of the stuff with Blondie, tho i would pick several other bb albums as personal favorites, you'd probably want to include Carl & The Passions, in which he was a key player also. but he wasn't actually a 'beach boy' and makes no such claim i do not think.
blondie came in as a utility player with the beach boys, (ala w/our boyz,) around '72, but was given 3 lead vocals, including star sailor written by brian and van dyke parks and a few other peeps...which is INDEED! a majestic accomplishment and moving performance, and also a lot of room to contribute as a musician outfront and did certainly spark up their live shows, no little thing.
anyway, if he, or anybody else, is gonna play guitar with the stones, then have them up and in there and let it get real and rock on like that for those numbers...i can barely hear what he's doing and also do sometimes find it tiresome all this 'the boys are old men now and can't really play very well or with focus so they need help'
ronnie hasn't played this well in years, if he keeps sober or semi-sober, things will be okay...if keith needs some support on classic riffs, there's no shame in that.
maybe i'm in denial and keith is worse off than i think; u hear all kinds of things from night to night on various legs of abb, especially after the accident...but i think he's A OK; peeps at the beacon and other places where there was more on the line and it was more intimate seemed to be very very satisfied.
keith is brilliantly creative and a natural; almost jazzy in the sense that he "plays" within the arrangements...there MUST be at least SOME measure of bored show-horse when the show is programmed and timed and there's 9 other people playing and singing stuff LEADING him...NOT because he's an old cripple, but because that's the nature of extravaganza...
i am sometimes of the mind that all the extra personnel keeps them from their very own depth of expression and focus in ways.
i miss the live stones. can't wait for shine a light. hope it's not too very overdubbed.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2007-12-10 09:43 by Beelyboy.