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FEBRUARY 11th, 2007
i have started recording. as i go i will post what i am working on. works in progress. i would love your feedback. click on the contact button and tell me what you think. i treasure your honesty. hit me hard as you want, it is important and nesses for the good of all that is. to listen just click on the links in the column.
LISTEN hear the mp3
this is about faith. faith in yourself. have the strength and conviction to know what is best for you. it is a conversation between your subconscious and your conscious self.
SARAH hear the mp3
i am going to leave this one to your imagination. she is a real person and i love her voice. i have never met her. one day...........
SHOTGUN hear the mp3
i wrote this one when i was fifteen. it dawned on me at that fragile age that women hold all the power. that the combination of our animal yearning and the honey they can dispense, they can shape our individual destiny. it started out as just the plain fear of entrapment. before you bed down a girl, be sure. be very sure!
UNPLUGGED STUFF - pretty raw bed tracks
ALL THINGS WAITING hear the mp3
this is my take on the bar scene. having pretty much spent my life working in and around bars, pubs, booze cans and the lot, this a view from hardened eyes.
LOCOMOTIVE hear the mp3
living the life fast and dangerous on the rails to self destruction!
COVERS
SNOWBLIND FRIEND hear the mp3
Little known Hoyt Axton bit written about one of his friends. i heard it first on Steppenwolf 7. Story of my life at one point. my mom cries every time i play it.
ONLY WOMEN BLEED hear the mp3
alice cooper. from the back to school album i think. powerful lyrics. very real. i love the song. gives me goosebumps.
NORWEGIAN WOOD hear the mp3
lennon and mc cartney. this is my warm up song. fluffy and light.
ME AND BOBBY McGEE hear the mp3
Kris kristofferson. man is a legend. made hugely popular by janice joplin on her album pearl. when i was fifteen i hitch hiked the 3000 miles or so across canada looking for a place to hang my hat. this reminds me of that.
look at how long it has been since i've posted here!
NOVEMBER 30, 2004
Last
night at Massey hall after being whipped up by constant James Brown
openers Jacksoul, the Soul Generals, bedecked in fluorescent red
tuxedo jackets, black bow ties, crisp white shirts and deep blue
trousers marching like ants in a conga line at a soul brother barbecue,
took their positions on stage.
To the left stood Guitar player Keith Jennings, the trio of 33 year Soul General
veteran Fred Thomas on bass, James’s own son Jeff and David Woods also
on guitars were flanked by two drummers whose names I did not catch. To the
right the three piece horn section featuring band leader Hollie Farris and
Jeff Watkins on sax. On risers in the rear, Ray Sturgis also on bass and a
multi timbral percussionist “Spike”
With long-time James Brown announcer Danny Ray prodding the audience with “Toronto
are you ready to taste the funk of the Godfather of Soul?” and the like
hype, the 11 member funk machine launched into the James Brown Overture.
The Bitter Sweets, James Brown’s trio of back-up singers in neon blue
took up their position dancing Motown style in perfect synchronization to the
left of them all.
Then with Danny Ray and the Bitter Sweets trading the names of the hits we
were about to hear and the Soul Generals playing one bar from each, we finally
got to call out the man himself.
“ Are you ready for the hardest working man in show business? The man who
took the wet outta sweat? Let me hear you say Jaaaaames Brooooowwwn!, Jaaaaames
Brooooowwwn!, Jaaaaames Brooooowwwn!”
With that, in a gun metal grey, rhinestone lapel encrusted, studded jacket
and matching pants with the shiniest platinum boots the godfather shimmied
his way on stage to the roar and delight of the eager who packed the house.
What followed was a ninety minute packed show that saw the 76 year old James
Brown sing and dance his way through numbers like “Make It Funky, Get
Up Offa That Thing, Try Me, Get On The Good Foot ( James actually did his one
footed moon slide in this one!), Please, Please, Please, I Got You.
Joining him on stage from time to time and in three costume changes were the “Dancing
Stars”, two young and very nubile girls who added a bit of frenzy with
every appearance and less clothing each time. The first time out, they had
on full length star bedecked pants and neon blue tops. Those were replaced
by skimpy stars and stripes jumpsuits and followed up with the shortest of
short shorts with each cheek emblazoned with a J and a B and tiny red halters.
Also coming out twice in the night was Vegas crooner and wife of the man, Tomi
Rae Brown, the auburn haired vixen in slate black who shared the vocal duties.
Standing off to the right side most of the night and dancing in time with the
horns was hype man J R who at the end danced with James in the row and jump
hop and push moves that took place at the three points of the stage.
During “Please Don’t Go!”, Danny Ray would come and cover
James with a green sequined cape and lead him off stage, only to have the man
shrug it off and run back for more. Danny would cover him again, this time
with a red sequined cape complete with the “Godfather of Soul” on
it and lead him off again. Again the Funk master himself would shrug it off
and run back for more.
We then got “Get On Up” (like a sex machine) extended 15 minute
version that ended the show.
Some would say that James Brown is sharing too much of the load by having Jeff
Watkins playing long and frenetic solos on his sax, or having the Bitter Sweets
handle some of the vocals, or the use of Tomi Rae as a front woman, all during
which he would retreat and play the keyboards.
I say at 76 years old if I could dance on one foot for 5 minutes, that alone
would be special , forget the ninety minutes of energy he gave us!
The man has his band incredibly tight and they love playing for him.
I feel lucky that I got to see it at the “Beautiful Massey Hall” as
he called it, “This place has many, many special memories for me” he
added. “Let’s give a hand to Massey Hall!” he asked us.
“ Let’s give a hand to James Brown!” say I.
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