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Taupin married Maxine Feibleman a Jewish girl from Vicksburg Mississippi his first of many
Well her grandma and cousins were there....the Sklars....whom I knew
They had a lake house....and all the women were Scandinavian blonde or ginger
One of Maxine’s younger cousins my age was a hippie girl who married a guy from the Air Force and they moved to Guatemala I think....Antigua ...I saw them there in the late 80s or Belize city back before it was popular
An antebellum Jewish family....weird the Taupin connection isn’t it....dry goods and ship chandlers
They say he wrote Don’t Let the Sun Come Down on Me at their Eagle Lake....lake cabin
Those delta ox bow lakes with cypress and the dusty heat from the cotton fields give magnificent sunsets....huge reflection of the sun as it disappears
You wax poetic...
Title is a bit clickbaitish — doesn’t sound like Keith truly “hates” them. He’s just taken a few shots over the decades at his contemporaries, probably after downing more than a few shots of Jack.
Taupin wrote just the lyrics. Some early Elton is good, but I agree with Keef that “Your Song” is sappy, as are a few others. I lived in the Hollywood Hills back house of the widow of Elton’s legendary bassist Dee Murray for a while in the ‘90s. She told me some crazy tour stories.
Keith on Bonzo: “John Bonham thundering down the highway in an uncontrolled 18-wheeler.”
He says that like that’s a bad thing. lol. But yeah, JB is about as unlike Charlie Watts in style as it’s possible to be. And Zep in general was kind of the anti-Stones. But I love both.
Bowie’s second album (The Man Who Sold the World, 1970) is an overlooked gem, imo. No hit songs, but a dark dystopian tour de force, and Mick Ronson (as usual) plays a mean guitar. Yeah, Bowie was an act like Keith said, but a very talented one.
As far as Keith’s criticisms of the others mentioned, I have no quarrel with them.
Taupin married Maxine Feibleman a Jewish girl from Vicksburg Mississippi his first of many
That might explain the song “Dixie Lilly”.