The tribute to Johnny Marr continues with his participation in the second album of Neil Finn's project, 7 Worlds Collide. Other participats are Radiohead's Phil Selway and Ed O'Brien, Lisa Germano, KT Tunstall and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy among many others.
The offered upload is the two-cd edition.
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There are some more posts for beloved artists that left this world during 2012, for whom I didn't find the opportunity to dedicate them a post (it was that bloody re-uploading project that kept me away for quite a long time). We'll continue with Doug Dillard, "one of the preeminent ambassadors of bluegrass banjo during the '60s and '70s, incorporating pop, folk, and country-rock material into his repertoire and supporting a wide variety of artists with those sensibilities" (quote from allmusic).
Let's start a small tribute to Johnny Marr. It's not only that NME awarded him with the Godlike Genius award, hailing him as "not content with rewriting the history of music with one of the world's greatest ever bands, The Smiths, he's continued to push boundaries and evolve throughout his career, working with some of the best and most exciting artists on the planet." It's also that, after some decades as a band member in various projects or as a highly admired session musician, he's about to release his first solo album, "the Messenger". In the meanwhile Mojo's previous issue contained a brilliant cd with many of Marr's collaborations, which actually gave me the idea for this tribute; no Smiths albums should be expected though.
The first part of the tribute is about the group he formed with Bernard Sumner of the New Order. The offered upload is the group's first album release.
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Let's say goodbye to some of the artists that passed away withing 2012. Fist of all, we remember Ronnie Montrose an extremely talented guitarist, who, along with his band, gave us one of the best samples of 70's hard rock with the uploaded album; the band's line-up for this album consisted of a then-unknown Sammy Hagar on vocals.
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I just realised that from Jan. 15, it wasn't possible to download anything from rapidshare, unless the files were done public. So, there you go. Everything is available again. Enjoy!
This is the last anniversary post (for now). We had 10 years since Joe Strummer left us, 20 years from the release of Slanted and Enchanted, 30 years from the first screening of Blade Runner, 40 years from the release of Ziggy Stardust, 50 years of Rolling Stones as a group, 60 years from the first issue of NME, the 80th birthday of Little Richard and 90 years from the birth of Jack Kerouac. It's obvious that a 70th anniversary is missing to fill in the row; Paul McCartney celebrated his 70th birthday some months ago, so there you go.
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PS For those interested, there is another Macca post, only some few months ago.
This is the second to last anniversary post. This time we remembered that there was the 30th anniversary from the first screening of one of the best science fiction movies ever, with one of the best scores of the 80's, containing one monumental End Titles theme.
The edition offered here was released to celebrate the film's... 25th anniversary. The first cd contains the same tracks with the soundtrack's first official release, the second cd contains previously unreleased music from the movie, and the third cd contains (then) new music inspired by (and in the spirit of) the movie composed also by Vangelis. Enjoy!
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Happy new year to all of you!
Well, for the first posts of the year I'll continue dealing with issues occurred in 2012 but didn't have enough time for. So, here's the next anniversary post, dedicated to the 80th birthday of the legendary Little Richard. A nicely written overview of his career was written by him (!!) as part of the Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time special issue of Rolling Stone, in which he was ranked 8th:
"A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true. You've got to remember, I was already known back in 1951. I was recording for RCA-Victor — if you were black, it was called Camden Records — before Elvis. Then I recorded for Peacock in Houston. Then Specialty Records bought me from Peacock — I think they paid $500 for me — and my first Specialty record was a hit in 1956: "Tutti Frutti." It was a hit worldwide. I felt I had arrived, you know? We started touring everywhere immediately. We traveled in cars. Back in that time, the racism was so heavy, you couldn't go in the hotels, so most times you slept in your car. You ate in your car. You got to the date, and you dressed in your car. I had a Cadillac. That's what the star rode in.
You remember the way that Liberace dressed onstage? I was dressing like that all the time, very flamboyantly, and I was wearing the pancake makeup. A lot of the other performers at that time — the Cadillacs, the Coasters, the Drifters — they were wearing makeup, too, but they didn't have any makeup kit. They had a sponge and a little compact in their pocket. I had a kit. Everybody started calling me gay.
People called rock & roll "African music." They called it "voodoo music." They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan — the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop. Only it was worse back then, because, you have to remember, I was the first black artist whose records the white kids were starting to buy. And the parents were really bitter about me. We played places where they told us not to come back, because the kids got so wild. They were tearing up the streets and throwing bottles and jumping off the theater balconies at shows. At that time, the white kids had to be up in the balcony — they were "white spectators." But then they'd leap over the balcony to get downstairs where the black kids were.
I didn't get paid — most dates I didn't get paid. And I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. "Good Golly Miss Molly"! And I didn't get a dime for it. Michael Jackson owned the Specialty stuff. He offered me a job with his publishing company once, for the rest of my life, as a writer. At the time, I didn't take it. I wish I had now.
I wish a lot of things had been different. I don't think I ever got what I really deserved.
I appreciate being picked one of the top 100 performers, but who is number one and who is number two doesn't matter to me anymore. Because it won't be who I think it should be. The Rolling Stones started with me, but they're going to always be in front of me. The Beatles started with me — at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany, before they ever made an album — but they're going to always be in front of me. James Brown, Jimi Hendrix — these people started with me. I fed them, I talked to them, and they're going to always be in front of me.
But it's a joy just to still be here. I think that when people want joy and fun and happiness, they want to hear the old-time rock & roll. And I'm just glad I was a part of that."
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