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[Pretty Little Flower]

The enthusiastic crowd reaction to Gladys Knight & the Pips got me thinking about other notably enthusiastic crowds, and one of the best is on Cannonball Adderly’s album “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Live at ‘The Club’.” The entire album is great, and solos on the track “Sticks” are so intense and breathtaking, and the crowd is so electrified that you can almost see them standing, clapping, shouting. But for the SOTD, I’m going to go with the more popular, more laid back title track, “Mercy. Mercy. Mercy.” Written by Josef Zawinul, the cunning Austrian keyboardist who later featured prominently on Miles’s “Bitches Brew” and later founded Weather Report, it has a groove that cannot be denied. Cannonball Adderly’s introductions to songs on live albums are great, but this is one of the best:

“You know, sometimes we're not prepared for adversity.
When it happens sometimes, we're caught short.
We don't know exactly how to handle it when it comes up.
Sometimes, we don't know just what to do when adversity takes over.
And I have advice for all of us, I got it from my pianist Joe Zawinul who wrote this tune.
And it sounds like what you're supposed to say when you have that kind of problem.
It's called mercy, mercy, mercy.”

Preach!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9mYN0Tkoik

True story:

Live at “The Club” was not really a “live” album and was not recorded at “The Club.” The Club was a new club in Chicago owned by a friend of Cannonball Adderly, and Adderly wanted to give him some free publicity. But, I learned many years after first purchasing the album, after countless listens imagining how wild the atmosphere in The Club must have been that night, that the entire album was actually recorded in a sound studio in LA, with a bunch of Adderly’s friends and music industry folks who had been bribed to attend with an open bar in order to give it a live recording feel. When I first learned this, I was disappointed for about two seconds, feeling like this masterpiece of a live album was somehow inauthentic. But then I thought about how I would feel if I had been invited to watch Cannonball Adderly record one of the best albums of his storied career, and I was given free booze on top of it all. Well, god damn, I’d be going nuts too, and there would be nothing contrived about it.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

The enthusiastic crowd reaction to Gladys Knight & the Pips got me thinking about other notably enthusiastic crowds, and one of the best is on Cannonball Adderly’s album “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Live at ‘The Club’.” The entire album is great, and solos on the track “Sticks” are so intense and breathtaking, and the crowd is so electrified that you can almost see them standing, clapping, shouting. But for the SOTD, I’m going to go with the more popular, more laid back title track, “Mercy. Mercy. Mercy.” Written by Josef Zawinul, the cunning Austrian keyboardist who later featured prominently on Miles’s “Bitches Brew” and later founded Weather Report, it has a groove that cannot be denied. Cannonball Adderly’s introductions to songs on live albums are great, but this is one of the best:

“You know, sometimes we're not prepared for adversity.
When it happens sometimes, we're caught short.
We don't know exactly how to handle it when it comes up.
Sometimes, we don't know just what to do when adversity takes over.
And I have advice for all of us, I got it from my pianist Joe Zawinul who wrote this tune.
And it sounds like what you're supposed to say when you have that kind of problem.
It's called mercy, mercy, mercy.”

Preach!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9mYN0Tkoik

True story:

Live at “The Club” was not really a “live” album and was not recorded at “The Club.” The Club was a new club in Chicago owned by a friend of Cannonball Adderly, and Adderly wanted to give him some free publicity. But, I learned many years after first purchasing the album, after countless listens imagining how wild the atmosphere in The Club must have been that night, that the entire album was actually recorded in a sound studio in LA, with a bunch of Adderly’s friends and music industry folks who had been bribed to attend with an open bar in order to give it a live recording feel. When I first learned this, I was disappointed for about two seconds, feeling like this masterpiece of a live album was somehow inauthentic. But then I thought about how I would feel if I had been invited to watch Cannonball Adderly record one of the best albums of his storied career, and I was given free booze on top of it all. Well, god damn, I’d be going nuts too, and there would be nothing contrived about it.

I will say I enjoyed the Gladys Knight and the Pippiest Pips. Got to see that movie.

Cannonball is an old favorite, I will look at that one when I don't have a call in 2 minutes.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Written by Josef Zawinul, the cunning Austrian keyboardist ........

I'm Jewish.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I'm Jewish.

I’ll try to include some Klezmer as the SOTD pick one of these days.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I’ll try to include some Klezmer as the SOTD pick one of these days.

Hank digs Matisyahu, I think.

King Without A Crown, live at Stubb's

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Hank digs Matisyahu, I think.

King Without A Crown, live at Stubb's

I’m punk. Here is Hasidic Hardcore!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVlCahhogv8

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I’m punk. Here is Hasidic Hardcore!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVlCahhogv8

I kinda like the Hasidic Hardcore. And I have actually seen Matisyahu. But for today’s SOTD, I’m going to focus on another famous Jewish-American singer and songwriter, Lou Reed. Once I settled on Lou Reed, I knew I was going to choose something from Transformer, and was originally going with Andy’s Chest — a reference to the scar on Andy Warhol’s chest after he was shot by Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist behind the SCUM Manifesto. It is a great song, but I have to go with Satellite of Love. There are many things I love about this song—the finger snaps and crescendoing horns in the vamp, the weird little recorder solo, the fact that there’s a tuba. But it’s the backing vocals that really do it for me. First, there’s the Thunder Thighs, the back up singers who did the “Do Do Do” part of “Walk on the Wild Side.” And then there’s David Bowie! And he kills it. The falsetto on the descending arpeggios — “Bom bom bom.” The soaring high notes at the end. Good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2uvTvaHEA

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I kinda like the Hasidic Hardcore. And I have actually seen Matisyahu. But for today’s SOTD, I’m going to focus on another famous Jewish-American singer and songwriter, Lou Reed. Once I settled on Lou Reed, I knew I was going to choose something from Transformer, and was originally going with Andy’s Chest — a reference to the scar on Andy Warhol’s chest after he was shot by Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist behind the SCUM Manifesto. It is a great song, but I have to go with Satellite of Love. There are many things I love about this song—the finger snaps and crescendoing horns in the vamp, the weird little recorder solo, the fact that there’s a tuba. But it’s the backing vocals that really do it for me. First, there’s the Thunder Thighs, the back up singers who did the “Do Do Do” part of “Walk on the Wild Side.” And then there’s David Bowie! And he kills it. The falsetto on the descending arpeggios — “Bom bom bom.” The soaring high notes at the end. Good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2uvTvaHEA

Are the Beatles or the Stones the best? Is Zeppelin in that pantheon? I don't know. That's all subjective. But I think I know who was most important... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq7a8Tin8g

That movie is fantastic. It does the band as I think the band would've done the band.

And apropos, sadly... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrSVSHTwHg