The Stones don't go in for this kind of showbiz sentimentality. Thank God.
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Hmmm - the Independent link doesn't seem to work. Let's try again.
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Here's Art Wood singing "Hoochie Coochie Man" from a live performance in 1998: The only national newspaper to publish an obituary was the Independent; reproduced on the website here: Reading this, I suddenly noticed Art's date of birth: 7th July 1937. "On the seventh day, of the seventh month…"
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First the sun and then the moon One of them will be round soon...
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Doctor, please! Some more of these...
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Deepest sympathy to Mick and all the Jagger family.
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Still busy downloading like mad before the limits run out - many thanks!
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Richmond & Twickenham Times: From the Richmond Informer: Musical Legend Art Wood Dies Art Wood, the blues singer and brother of Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood died on Friday after a six-month battle with cancer. The singer formed the Artwoods in the 60's, a rhythm 'n blues band once tipped for greatness. He also formed a band called Quiet Melon with his brothers Ronnie a
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Adrian-L Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Green Lady Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > I've just been listening to Mark Lamarr guesting > > on harmonica with the Downliners Sect and Art > > Wood, singing Hoochie Coochie Man from the CD > > recorded at York House a few years ago. >
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Broadcast last night on BBC Radio 2 and available to listen again here: (click on the programme title) Really gives you a good idea of the kind of cosy pre-Beatles showbiz scene that the Stones erupted into - and just how devastatingly different they would be in both music and attitude. It also makes you realise just how lucky they were to escape the stifling hands of old-style show
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If you've got time while you're in Richmond (if you do go there) then walk across Richmond Bridge, turn left along the Thames towpath on the Twickenham side of the river, and follow it along for about a mile until you come to the footbridge to Eel Pie Island. Nothing much to see these days on the Island (the Island Hotel burned down years ago and was replaced by boring modern houses)
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I think there's also an earlier AB Outfit CD called FUR - which I've yet to check out.
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Great stuff. Many thanks Argentino.
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Adrian-L Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > that's a great shopping list GreenLady...HMV > Richmond per chance? > > Got the Shocking Blue cd, on the back of hearing > "send me a postcard" on Mark Lamarr's Radio show. > ..he plays some terrific stuff- really knows his > music. Yes, Richmond HMV. Good for the rec
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This week: In the latest parcel from Amazon were: Gram Parsons: The Complete Reprise Sessions Buried Alive: New Barbarians (sorry, I've never heard the bootleg so I can't make comparisons. But this CD is great) Archie Bronson Outfit: Derdang Derdang. Bought this on the strength of a newspaper review and I love it: I've seen it described as "psychedelic punk folk-rock&q
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Inside Out is a sort of umbrella title for a range of local documentary programmes that go out in the 7.30 - 8 slot, and as far as I can see the Brian Jones stuff is only going to be shown in one region (it's BBC Bristol so probably Wales & the West). I'll watch the London Inside Out just in case...
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Is This It? (The Strokes) Who's Next Something Else by the Kinks Talking with the Taxman about Poetry (Billy Bragg) Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Smashing Pumpkins)
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Thinking of you and your family at this sad time. Art was something special.
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Rugby is a game for hooligans - played by gentlemen. Football (soccer) is a game for gentlemen - played by hooligans.
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I've always noticed that right after "You Don't Move Me" - the next track on Talk Is Cheap is "How I Wish" - "that you were here again..." Coincidence?
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I know ALL about the match today - down my road we've always been used to living with the traffic jams and parking problems for 60,000 Rugby fans - now we've got to see how much worse 82,000 are! Still, having the Stones performing right on my doorstep was a big compensation for living with Twickers all these years. I'm in no hurry to see them going back to Wembley. There wa
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So sorry to hear the news about Art Wood. Right up until this summer he was still singing around the Richmond/Twickenham area, and he was a much-loved and much-appreciated performer. I was lucky enough to see him twice this year. The first time was at an open-air Music Day in the grounds of Strawberry Hill House, and it was such a memorable day that I tried to write down what it was like aft
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Thanks!
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Age 13 in 1963, via Radio Luxembourg. I used to cycle to school on an unreliable old second-hand pushbike that was always breaking down, and I can still hear myself, out of breath and late as usual after the chain had come off for the umpteenth time, muttering "I WISH someone would COME along and RUN into it and WRECK it" in time with the pedals... I've found out since that the
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If I'm just going to observe, I'll join Adrian-L at the Station Hotel (probably on the night the Beatles turned up to watch). If I'm allowed to change history, I'll be helping Tigerman fish Brian out of the pool.
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As it's Halloween, I'm listening to The Devil's Music.
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Dear Brian, Here's hoping that you really enjoy Van The Man - but also hoping that you find out that what all these Stones maniacs rave about is true - they are every bit as good live as they are reputed to be - and then some! I'm still counting myself incredibly lucky that they are still around for me to find this out at my own first concert in 2006 (and I'm not as young as y
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Under My Thumb (not the music - I just loathe the lyrics. But I listen very happily to other "put-down" songs like Yesterdays Papers, so I'm pretty inconsistent about it) Hot Stuff - BOR-ING.
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The Chieftains and the Stones joining forces on "The Rocky Road to Dublin" (from "The Long Black Veil") Two bands both founded in 1962 and still going strong, showing just how much fun you can have after forty-odd years of practice!
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Rocks Off Tumbling Dice Sweet Virginia All Down The Line Happy
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