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I remember this song from the Plymouth Arrow commercials in the 1970s.
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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.
Finger | Trouser Press
Had Raleigh, North Carolina's Finger managed to break free of the anonymity it endured throughout a three-year career, the quartet would undoubtedly have stood tall in the sea of dreck. Finger (the American album reprises five cuts from the British seven-songer) is worth searching for, worth owning
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Yep. Same guy.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.
Finger | Trouser Press
Had Raleigh, North Carolina's Finger managed to break free of the anonymity it endured throughout a three-year career, the quartet would undoubtedly have stood tall in the sea of dreck. Finger (the American album reprises five cuts from the British seven-songer) is worth searching for, worth owningtrouserpress.com
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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.
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.
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Every time I hear this song I think of the fantastic X-FILES episode "Home" and the crazy, inbred Peacock boys.
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Is nobody even going to mention that it was written by James Taylor???
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I always thought of it as George`s song even though I had the JT album. Thx for the post.
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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...
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'cause we're gonna lay around the shanty, mama, and put a good buzz on
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John Howie played drums in Finger -- quite a different thing from his current gig, The Rosewood Bluff.
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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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Guitarist Terry Kath died January 23, 1978