As a young teenager Edmunds played with a band called the 99ers and in the 'Heartbeats' with his older brother Geoff [2]. The first group that he fronted was the Cardiff based 1950s style rockabilly trio 'The Raiders', along with Bob 'Congo' Jones on drums and John Williams on bass, that worked almost exclusively in the South Wales area. In the late 1960s, the band shifted to a more blues-rock sound and renamed as the short lived 'The Human Beans'[3], playing mostly in London and on the British University circuit. In 1967 the band recorded a cover of "Morning Dew" on the Columbia [4] label that failed to have any chart impact. Soon after the remnants of Human Beans formed a new band called Love Sculpture that again reunited Edmunds, Jones and Williams as a trio, who scored a quasi-novelty hit by reworking Khachaturian's classical piece "Sabre Dance" as a speed-crazed rock number, inspired by Keith Emerson's classical rearrangements. "Sabre Dance" became a hit after garnering the enthusiastic attention of British DJ John Peel.After Love Sculpture split, Edmunds had a UK #1 single in 1970 with "I Hear You Knocking"[6], a Smiley Lewis cover, which he came across while producing Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets' first album entitled 'A legend'. The recording was the first release on Edmunds' manager's MAM Records label. This single also reached #4 in the U.S., making it Edmunds' biggest hit by far on either side of the Pond. Edmunds had intended to record Wilbert Harrison's "Let's Work Together," but when he was beaten to that song by Canned Heat, he adapted the arrangement he intended to use for it to "I Hear You Knocking", producing a highly original remake. Unfortunately, the success of the single caused EMI's Regal Zonophone Records to use an option that it had to claim Edmunds' album, 1972's Rockpile, and the momentum from the single's success on a different label went away.Edmunds' only acting role followed, as a band member in the David Essex movie Stardust.[7] After learning the trade of producer, culminating in a couple of singles in the style of Phil Spector, "Baby I Love You" and "Born To Be With You", he became linked with the pub rock movement of the early 1970s, producing Brinsley Schwarz, Ducks Deluxe, and also The Flamin' Groovies, using a stripped down, grittier sound. Edmunds had bought a house in Rockfield Monmouth a few miles away from Charles and Kingsley Ward's Rockfield Studios where he became an almost permanent fixture for the next twenty years. His working regime involved arriving at the studio in the early evening and working through till well after dawn, usually locked in the building alone. Applying the layered Spector sound to his own productions it was not unusual for Edmunds to multilayer up to forty separately recorded guitar tracks into the mix.His own solo LP from 1975, Subtle as a Flying Mallet, was similar in style. The Brinsley Schwarz connection brought about a collaboration with Nick Lowe starting with this album, and in 1976 they formed the group Rockpile, with Billy Bremner and Terry Williams. Because Edmunds and Lowe signed to different record labels that year, they could not record as Rockpile until 1980, but many of their solo LPs (such as Nick Lowe's Labour of Lust and Edmunds' own Repeat When Necessary) were in fact group recordings. Dave Edmunds had more UK hits during this time, including Elvis Costello's "Girls Talk", Nick Lowe's "I Knew The Bride", Hank DeVito's "Queen of Hearts" (written for Edmunds but later a smash U.S. hit for Juice Newton), Graham Parker's "Crawling from the Wreckage", and Melvin Endsley's "Singing the Blues" (originally a hit for Guy Mitchell).Unexpectedly, after Rockpile released their first LP under their own name, Seconds of Pleasure (1980), the band split, generally attributed to tensions not between Edmunds and Lowe but their respective managers. Edmunds spent the 1980s collaborating with and producing an assortment of artists, from Paul McCartney to King Kurt, and from Stray Cats to Status Quo. He recorded the soundtrack for Porky's Revenge, supplying the main theme, "High School Nights," and was the musical director for a television special starring Carl Perkins, with assorted guests including George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Rosanne Cash.On his 1983 release, Information, Edmunds collaborated on two songs with Jeff Lynne, the leader of Electric Light Orchestra. One of these songs, a Jeff Lynne composition entitled "Slipping Away," became Edmunds's only other U.S. Top 40 hit, albeit just barely, spending a single week at #39. It was not a hit in the UK. In 1984, Jeff Lynne produced six tracks on Edmunds's following album, Riff Raff. [ More Detail ]
This video is a song that was recorded at Club Carm. The artist is Dave Nachmanoff, a singer-songwriter out of Davis, California who was a philosophy major and decided to pursue a career in music. He plays acoustic guitar with singer-songweriter Al Stewart, who had the hits "Year of the Cat' and "Time Passages".Let's share some of Dave's influences:Dave grew up listening to a lot of folk and bluegrass in the DC area, including Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie and Weavers, the Seldom Scene, John Denver, Kingston Trio and more, then through one of his babysitters, heard Simon and Garfunkel and the Beatles, got into Bob Dylan and some of the British folk rock, like Steelye Span and Fairport Convention, but after discovering the Beatles music, went more into rock, including many of the West Coast folk-rock acts like the Eagles, America and Jackson Browne. In the late 70's he got into Al Stewart and never really recovered from that.Other influences in the 80's included some of the 'pub rockers' like Nick Lowe and Graham Parker, and the New Wave bands like the Cars, Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson. Also Bruce Springsteen, who was in inspiration as much for his style of performance as the for the songs. Later in the 80's Dave got into mainstream country for awhile, particularly Mary Chapin Carpenter, and then alt country like Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams and Rodney Crowell. The singer-songwriter boom of the 90's was the time that Dave really started to develop as a songwriter, and of course he was influenced by both the well known artists like David Wilcox, Shawn Colvin and Richard Shindell, and some of his friends and peers who were less well-known, but great writers. More recently Dave has become obsessed with the clever power pop of Fountains of Wayne and some of the other melodic alternative rock bands.As a guitarist, Dave was very influenced the the acoustic lead of Maury Muehleisen, who played with Jim Croce and was killed in the same plane crash with him, also by Tim Renwick, Isaac Guillory and Peter White, all of whom played with Al Stewart. Mark Knopfler was a big influence and inspiration, and so was Django Reinhardt, the wonderful gypsy jazz guitarist and namesake of Dave's son.Various classical and jazz composers probably factor in somewhere, and the classic standards of Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael and the Gershwins etc... all provide inspiration. Dave's tastes are pretty eclectic, but as long as there is some passion, expression and interesting content, it is all grist for the mill! [ More Detail ]
An incredible drum pounding recording by Bobbie Graham played sparsely in 1965. Allycool and his co-partner in music, AKA the Great SC discuss the mysteries of this record. Was it jazz? Was it Surf? Was it Big Band? We heard the record played on radio KLIV out of San Jose California that played a lot of surf music from 1962 to 1965. Well, some further research says that Bobbie Graham was a drummer for the Dave Clark 5. This drum solo rates up there with Topsy pt. 2 and Wipe Out. End is cut off were Ally says, let our audience decide? [ More Detail ]
Matthew Herbert Big Band:'Foreign Bodies'Live @ North Sea Jazz 2008Matthew Herbert (sampler, keyboards); Peter Wraight (conductor); Eska Mtungwazi (vocals); Ben Castle, Howard McGill, Bob McKay, Dave O'Higgins, Richard Pardy (sax); Stuart Brooks, Andrew Cook, Adam Linsley, Graham Russell (trumpet); Gordon Campbell, Chris Cole, John Higginbotham, Ashley Horton (trombone); Phil Parnel (piano); Torben Bjørnskov (bass); Espen Laub von Lillienskjold (drums) [ More Detail ]
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This is a tribute to all of the wrestlers who have passed away over the years. The deceased wrestlers include:Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Nancy Benoit, Owen Hart, "Classy" Freddie Blassie, Fabulous Moolah, "Sensational" Sherri Martel, Miss Elizabeth, Crash Holly, Davey Boy Smith, "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig, Big Boss Man, Andre the Giant, Big Dick Dudley, Killer Kowalski, The Grand Wizard, Big John Studd, Brian Pillman, Junkyard Dog, Bad News Brown, Bam Bam Bigelow, Bertha Faye, Yokozuna, The Sheik, Rick Rude, Road Warrior Hawk, "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers, Peter Maivia, John Kronus, Johnny Grunge, Rocco Rock, Mike Awesome, Mike Von Erich, Kerry Von Erich, David Von Erich, Ernie Ladd, Gorilla Monsoon, Lou Thesz, Giant Haystacks, Haystacks Calhoun, John Tenta, Art Barr, Renegade, Alfred Hayes, Adrian Adonis, Brian Adams, Bobo Brazil, Chris Candido, Chris Adams, Rick Rude, Dino Bravo, Moondog Spot, Seth Evans, Uncle Elmer, Dick Murdoch, Terry Gordy, Dick the Bruiser, Eddie Graham, Anthony Durante, Eddie Gilbert, Giant Baba, Hercules Hernandez, Gino Hernandez, Marianna Komlos, Rick McGraw, Buzz Sawyer, Bruiser Brody, Bobby Duncum Jr., Jerry Blackwell, Joey Maggs, Jerry Tuite, Louie Spicolli [ More Detail ]
Recorded live (no overdubs!) on April 29, 2007 at The Barn with his 'Tonelift' rig, Dave King performs his song 'Younger' with a little help from The Crew: John Oliveira, Rick Hind, and Graham King. A big "peace out" to Paiste and Udrum. Thanks to Terry Kramer for the film. [ More Detail ]
Recorded live (no overdubs!) on April 29, 2007 at The Barn with his 'Tonelift' rig, Dave King performs his song 'See Thru Walls' with a little help from The Crew: John Oliveira, Dave Hind, Rick Hind, and Graham King. A big "peace out" to Paiste and Udrum. Thanks to Xavier Descarpentries for computer programming. [ More Detail ]