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Brad Rice worked at a sign shop in Raleigh during his Backsliders and all days. He would often come to work just plain worn out on Mondays and Fridays after playing gigs somewhere. During breaks he would go to a back room and sleep for however long. The manager was quite kind. Then he hooked up with Keith Uban, played in his band and it was sayonara Raleigh, I'm moving to Austin.
I knew that name sounded familiar. This might be the same Brad Rice that played in a local Raleigh band called Finger(and The Accelerators according to Wikipedia). I saw them open for Dinosaur jr in spring of 1991 at the Cat's Cradle and loved them. Picked up their cassette tape from somewhere after the show and played it all the time the next few years. Saw them play a small club in downtown Greenville about a year later.

 
I knew that name sounded familiar. This might be the same Brad Rice that played in a local Raleigh band called Finger(and The Accelerators according to Wikipedia). I saw them open for Dinosaur jr in spring of 1991 at the Cat's Cradle and loved them. Picked up their cassette tape from somewhere after the show and played it all the time the next few years. Saw them play a small club in downtown Greenville about a year later.

Yep. Same guy.
 
2021 American record producer Phil Spector, who scored a number of hits with his unique take on pop music but who was later convicted of second-degree murder, died at age 80.

The Wall of Sound (also called the Spector Sound) is a music production formula developed by American record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios, in the 1960s, with assistance from engineer Larry Levine and the conglomerate of session musicians later known as "the Wrecking Crew". The intention was to exploit the possibilities of studio recording to create an unusually dense orchestral aesthetic that came across well through radios and jukeboxes of the era. Spector explained in 1964: "I was looking for a sound, a sound so strong that if the material was not the greatest, the sound would carry the record. It was a case of augmenting, augmenting. It all fit together like a jigsaw."[3]



So many were influenced by him.

 
Jesucristo I miss it so much. I used to play Bartender Blues around and even after closing time. Had it cued up on a tape and then switched over to CD later. It is a sad as hell song and I saw a lot of sad as hell things but it is probably the job that I have loved the most (and I've been lucky not to have jobs that I have hated).

Thanks @grimes70
Is nobody even going to mention that it was written by James Taylor???
 
I'm going to make a White Russian and listen to Captain Beefheart while doing some Tai chi. If it's good enough for the Dude...

 
Me and my brother went to the Sara Romweber benefit at the Cradle last year, great lineup. Teasing the Korean (remember them?), Bad Checks (my fav when I was an undergrad) and, of course, Snatches of Pink. Dexter did an acoustic finale that carried out into the parking lot. Glad I got to give him a hug and tell him I loved him before we left. Sadly I attended his wake in Saxapahaw a few months later, although there really wasn't anything sad about it except that the man himself wasn't there. Talented family for sure. His brother Joe's band, UV Prom, although underheard and underappreciated, might've been the best of the bunch...





Jennifer Curtis & Dexter Romweber @ Person Hall (entire set)​

From 2011.
 
Garth Hudson passed. The last surviving and best pure musician in The Band. Everybody knows his keyboard work with The Band but his accordion on this song with Karla Bonoff is a favorite of mine.

 
Garth Hudson passed. The last surviving and best pure musician in The Band. Everybody knows his keyboard work with The Band but his accordion on this song with Karla Bonoff is a favorite of mine.


Thx for sharing. Gonna post a news rticle here. And my favorite horn bit by him,

NEW YORK (AP) — Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as “Up on Cripple Creek,” “The Weight” and “Rag Mama Rag,” has died at age 87.

Hudson was the eldest and last surviving member of the influential group that once backed Bob Dylan. His death was confirmed Tuesday by The Canadian Press, which cited Hudson’s friend, Jan Haust. Additional details were not immediately available. Hudson had been living in a nursing home in upstate New York.

A rustic figure with an expansive forehead and sprawling beard, Hudson was a classically trained performer and self-educated Greek chorus who spoke through piano, synthesizers, horns and his favored Lowrey organ. No matter the song, Hudson summoned just the right feeling or shading, whether the tipsy clavinet and wah-wah pedal on “Up on Cripple Creek,” the galloping piano on “Rag Mama Rag” or the melancholy saxophone on “It Makes No Difference.”

The only non-singer among five musicians celebrated for their camaraderie, texture and versatility, Hudson mostly loomed in the background, but he did have one showcase: “Chest Fever,” a Robbie Robertson composition for which he devised an introductory organ solo (“The Genetic Method”), an eclectic sampling of moods and melodies that segued into the song’s hard rock riff.

 
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