Ideas unexpectedly arriving from diverse places lead us to a musical epiphany including The Clash, the Psychedelic Furs, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Blue Oyster Cult, Pearl Jam, Iggy Pop, Public Image Ltd., Yellow Magic Orchestra and No More Landmine!
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Be a star on our musical black-sand beach with Jane's Addiction, The Flys, The Donkeys, Faces, Fela Kuti & Africa '70, Talking Heads, Africa, Bryan Ferry, Rickie Lee Jones, Jon Butcher Axis, Jimi Hendrix and Gary Clark Jr.!
Nothing up my sleeve - presto! Believe in The Lovin' Spoonful, Lou Reed, James Chance, Wire, Blur, Motorpsycho, Traffic, Electric Light Orchestra, Todd Rundgren & Utopia, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carlos Santana/The London Metropolitan Orchestra & Friends and Uriah Heep!
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Mr. Davis, Bill Laswell and Yo Miles! Need I say more?
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"I'm Jack Johnson, heavy-weight champion of the world. I'm black. They never let me forget it. I'm black all right. I'll never let them forget it."
RFW
*The liner notes to the "A Tribute To Jack Johnson" album includes a play-by-play of the session that gave birth to "Right Off": Michael Henderson launches into an enormous boogie groove with Billy Cobham and John McLaughlin. Miles immediately leaves the control room to join in with them. He achieved exactly what he wanted for the soundtrack by creating the effect of a train going at full speed (which he compared to the force of a boxer). By chance, Herbie Hancock had arrived unexpectedly and started playing on a cheap keyboard that a sound engineer quickly connected.
We wing our way thru the Archives with my long-time wing-man and musical foil, Johnny Morrison in the wings. Other than than that, there are no other wing references at all - just finger lickin' good sounds from Thunderclap Newman, Big Star, Todd Rundgren, Grand Funk, Frank Zappa & The Mothers, Steely Dan, The Beatles, Raspberries, Crack The Sky, Teddybears, Eric Johnson, Muddy Waters and (Small) Faces.
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"It take the paint off your car And wreck your windshield too,"
Hard, soft, fast or slow - it all works (every time) and we have sixty minutes to get it done! Allow me to guide you to total satisfaction with the help of Billy Ward & the Dominoes, NRBQ, Dave Edmunds, Wilco, Dr. John, Johnny Jenkins, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, The Ghost Of A Sabre Tooth Tiger and The Plastic Ono Mothers!
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"you're a dildo, I'm a whore""
RFW
* Intended to be a Yoko solo release, she and John concluded the recording sessions for "Walking On Thin Ice" on December 8, 1980 during which he added his impressive lead guitar (his final creative act). It was upon their return from the recording studio that Chapman fired a shot still heard around the world. Lennon was clutching a tape of a final mix when he murdered. It was released at the end of January 1981 as a single and became Ono's first chart success, peaking at # 58 in the US and gaining major club/underground airplay. I remember playing it on WBCN, Boston and at SPIT, where the crowd danced to it enthusiastically. The song and Yoko remain a RFW favorite!
