LouieB

Good gig for Mike... LouieB

First off Gram Parsons wasn't alt.country...but after that, there is a reasonably interesting book called "Are you ready for the Country" about the development of country rock as a whole from back in the 60s including Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, the Byrds, Poco, Burritto Brothers, etc. etc.. Admittedly I haven't read it but it looks pretty good. No Depression has a reader of early articles that would work for some information too. Try the local library and check out the Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll. It really can't be that hard to write a 10 page paper on alt.country.r

I had two dreams about Wilco last night that didn't feature a single member of the band, just that they were playing a number of places in town including the Green Mill (which didn't look at all like the real Green Mill....) LouieB

and got kudos for a luke warm version.... A great song overcomes mediocrity every time.... LouieB

Me too...I saw him at Amazingrace a couple times back in the 70s with Merle. Amazing stuff. LouieB

Don't worry...it is possible to forget your own parents' birthdays in the years after they died. If my mother didn't share a birthday with my son I would forget that and my father has been gone so long I regularly forget it. LouieB

I asked about this at the Hideout the other night. Apparently all tickets were sold through the Obama campaign. It also must have sold out in a flash. How crowded was it? LouieB

Yea, basically they already have...its called American Dad. While it isn't the same characters, it is pretty much the bush leagues of FG, with many of the same voices and situations. Having a show about just Cleveland could get fairly offensive. LouieB

Yea, I know most people do...... Bloomfield was a very fine guitarist, but there are now tons of folks who can do exactly what he taught himself to do in the 60s. Music education is just that much better and people's awareness of how to play and what to play is far greater than it was 40 or 50 years ago. Bloomfield had to go to clubs and study what the musicians were doing. He also played a kind of music that was not yet in vogue, so he sort of got there first as well. This is not to say he wasn't good, but your average musician now can find out stuff about music that they couldn't all t

Rosie and I saw it at the Music Box on opening night before she had ever seen the band. Sam was actually there to introduce the film and I bought a poster for Rosie and wanted him to sign it. Unfortunately he left before we had a chance, but we did mail it to him and he signed it for her. Unfortunately Rosie doesn't like the way the poster looks anymore, I guess she thinks the photo is creepy, so it is sitting in the attic at the moment. LouieB

With all due respect to A-man (and I mean that without a hint of sarcrasim and will respond to him below...) it is truely refreshing for me to be able to come on here and remienice about a group like Electric Flag which is all but forgotten today. It was certainly Mike Bloomfield's finest moment as a solo artist in a sense, in that he was trying to make original white music, based on a black musical template, something he was deeply interested in and had a bit of talent for. Whether or not you would call Long Time Comin a really great album, everyone has to judge for themselves. I certainly

Which part...that they are forgotten...(true enough) or that they weren't necessarily that great musicians?? In the later case I would dare say that no one has ever mentioned Electric Flag here, not in relation to Mike Bloomfield or anyone else, since their albums have barely stayed in print and weren't really all that renowned even when they were new. Even Bloomfield, who was unquestionably a fine musician and a musical pioneer, put out some gawd aweful albums on his own. Once he got past his days in the Butterfield Blues Band and his couple albums with Al Kooper, never lived up to the p

Long ago I threated to start a thread of musicans that I own the works of that have come and gone; to prove that little in the pop music world is very lasting. Just pulling LPs off my shelf, such as these that we are talking about proves the adage that little will be remembered of them in the future. Electric Flag was regulation hippie fare back in my youth, but I am certain that the arrangements, musicianship, and general quality and intent of the music is barely worth even listening to these days, when many musicans are far better players and arrangers than these folks were back then. Your

I figured you had heard of them, but few remember a band that had two albums, one pretty good and one just so so, which were soul/blues type albums. The first two are the only ones I have and really the only ones sort of worth having, because once Bloomfield left there was less going on. But other notable musicians who spent time in the band were Harvey Brooks, Barry Goldberg, Nick Gravenites, Richie Havens on the first album and John Simon on the second. (My memory is not so great that I knew this without looking at the liner notes on some of it.) In a similar vein was his album "Them Cha

Yea, your dad is probably in the same age category as both Buddy and me..... Clearly no one here but me has either of the Electric Flag LPs.....they were all the rage back in the day. LouieB

Words only... LouieB

He looks worse than ever now... and I am NOT going on March 5 unless someone has an extra ticket... LouieB

Yea, everyone but little OLD me forgets them......a group that included Mike Bloomfield who put out two decent if somewhat dated albums. Buddy did tons of session work with various folks for years. His star certainly faded in recent years. Maybe a few too many versions of Them Changes..... LouieB

My thougths are with you also. No matter how protracted an illness a parent has, or what a blessing it is that it is ended, it is still very very difficult. Good luck. LouieB

Electric Flag anyone?? Kind of a short bio....kind of short life too...sad (only a couple years older than me...) LouieB

Well Todd...you may miss them for good now. After a brief reunion and a whole bunch of PR (see the Reader and John Boston's wonderful documentary on Glorious Noise and Whiskey Bender recording their come back concert and a concert at Schubas when they were there for a month long residency and a solo peice on GloNo) they played a show just last Saturday at the Hideout of which no more than 50 people were in attendance. They have gotten no interest in a new album for which they have a demo and things are looking dire. Kind of sad really. LouieB

Okay whip it out..... LouieB

This is a loaded thread. Of course it hurts the artists, but at least in the case of non-promo copies they were bought at least once. Reselling of art objects is a rather ancient part of commerce. LouieB

Yup I would say so.... Gawd..... LouieB

Tall people suck....!!! LouieB