Posted on 01/12/2022 2:07:03 PM PST by basalt
She wasn’t with Motown but, yeah, what a great voice she had.
Cool!
Another one of the ‘60s music greats has passed. She’s lucky to have survived Phil. RIP.
Yeah, they definitely went in two different directions. She’s going up, he went down-down-down.
Can't disagree with that sentiment. RIP Ronnie and Estelle.
If they make it to old age. A lot of them seem to die of gunshot wounds or drug overdoses.
He looks like he's been dead for at least 30 years, he just hasn't realized it yet.
Who’s Phil? What happened?
A little story about this era.
When I was filming “Rockin’ the Wall,” I got the last filmed interview with the great producer (and #1 songwriter) George “Shadow” Morton. He couldn’t sing, couldn’t play an instrument, and couldn’t read music . . . but managed to write 2 #1 songs (”Remember . . . Walkin’ in the Sand” and “Leader of the Pack”).
He went on to be the producer of Janis Ian, Vanilla Fudge, and Iron Butterfly.
When he was recording the Butterfly, they absolutely could not get “Inna-gadda-da-vida” down. He tried everything-—booze, dope. Nothing could calm their nerves. So he pulled an old producer trick.
He said, “We have some bad wiring here in the board. You guys rehearse the song while we fix it.” But in fact he rolled tape. Butterfly was in a groove, and when they came to the drum solo, Morton was so moved by how well they were doing that he kept giving them the “keep going” sign, explaining the long drum solo that was never intended.
Vanilla Fudge played in 68 at this place in Schenectady NY called The Aerodrome. A friend gave Janis Joplin a ride while she was in town. I believe a member of Led Zepplin celebrated his birthday there. Funny how some of these small venues attracted such great bands in the day. I thought the rumor about “Inna-gadda-da-vida” was that that wasn’t what they were supposed to sing but were too drunk during the recording.
Aerodrome blog: http://fromheretome.blogspot.com/2010/01/aerodrome-schenectady.html
Phil Spector, her psychotic abusive ex-husband.
Here’s one from Mark Stein’s book (I was the co-author) called
“You Keep Me Hangin’ On”: A week after Woodstock, which Fudge couldn’t do because they had a better paying gig, Vanilla Fudge played “Woodstock of the South” in Florida. Johnny Winter was on the venue and he came up to jam. Then they heard a voice off stage saying “Let’s jam, you SOBs.” It was Janis Joplin.
So Fudge, Winter, & Joplin did several songs. There is no audio nor, to my knowledge any pics.
It’s all about being in the right place at the right time, I was lucky to see the Police in 1979 in a Rensselaer Club called the Hullabaloo.
https://www.setlist.fm/venue/hullabaloo-rensselaer-ny-usa-5bd75bd4.html?page=2
One of the best concerts I ever saw was REO Speedwagon when they had Rossington on guitar at Ann Arbor in a club. They were beyond hot and tighter than a drum.
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