MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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Elton doing Imagine is epic. John covering John. That’s such a Lennon anthem, that song. It really talks about his hope for the world. Such a great song, and Elton was playing it just showing love and respect for John. Thanks for posting that, I’d never seen it before.
But here’s one of Elton showing what he can do in a live setting, from his album 11-17-70 (aka 17-11-70). This was also recorded in NYC. Elton is playing with just bass and drums, so he fills the extra space.
Take Me To the Pilot
https://youtu.be/vtik3PLoO_I?list=PLTtyGV7O9803wzcbec4-x8yWtNlNFHW_C
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Elton John is my #1 influence as a keyboard player. There was a time, back in the ’70s when I played lots of his songs from his early albums.
Elton John, Tumbleweed, Madman, Honky Chateau, Don’t Shoot Me, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Caribou and Captain Fantastic. I did hear songs off the later albums, but the early ones are what I focused on.
My fave Elton album is Tumbleweed Connection. One time we actually played the song below, which is from Tumbleweed, in public. People came up to us after we were done and asked if we were okay. It’s that sad. We were 19 years old when we were playing it. Imagine doing it now, when I actually am old.
Talking Old Soldiers
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There are many sad songs, and songs that make you cry, but with Mona and Lisa, some of those can just be beautiful songs, like Tim said. There are so many of each kind.
Great to listen to all of these songs, some of which I don’t recall hearing before. I like all these songs.
The song below is beautiful and has gotten me to tear up. I loved that song before they were born. When I first checked last winter, jonimitchell.com said they knew of 1607 covers of it. A few months later, 1634 covers. And this week, it’s up to 1650. But of course, nobody does it like Mona and Lisa do. If this was the only song Mona and Lisa ever did, they’d still be my favourite band.
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Now I’ll give you a song that’s only just sad.
Another one that I’ve loved since the ’70s.
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Ever hear of stick man? Recognize the pic below? I guess with a url like that, it’s going to be easy to “guess”.
They found out who the guy on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV was.
A historian in England ran across the original photo. The guy’s name is Lot Long, and he was 69 in 1823, and worked as a roof thatcher. Good thing it’s that old, so any copyright would have expired by now, they sold a lot of those albums.
theguardian.com
Figure on Led Zeppelin IV cover identified as Victorian Wiltshire thatcher
Fifty-year mystery solved as research suggests picture shows Lot Long, a widower from Mere
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Everybody’s been saying Now and Then is the last Beatles song. But maybe there’s an encore (or 2, or 20)?
It looks like there’s an album called the Dakota Beatle demos? Maybe it’s time for Yoko to just empty out that sock drawer where she’s been finding these.
Lots of them. I’m sure all of you know about these right? I’m definitely not the Beatles expert around here. What am I missing? Sounds like these have been known for years too.
Btw, I checked, and this demo album is not on Amazon. In the comments for it, people have tried to share where a body can buy a copy of this, and YT keeps swallowing it up. I can imagine demos 2 through n are looking a bit more valuable right now than maybe they used to. This looks kind of bootleg.
https://www.discogs.com/release/3307244-John-Lennon-Free-As-A-Bird-The-Dakota-Beatle-Demos
discogs.com
John Lennon - Free As A Bird (The Dakota Beatle Demos)
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1996 CD release of "Free As A Bird (The Dakota Beatle Demos)" on Discogs.
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This is so, so brilliant. The arrangement, the harmonies, the video, it’s all there. As great as they are at making us smile, they can just as easily tug at the heart. Having this ready to drop so soon after the original is fantastic.
I love it.
I can imagine John and George up in heaven, smiling. And I’m just sitting here in awe. They are doing it again. So amazing.
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Thanks David,
I never heard that song before, but I like it and you’re right, they were really belting it out.
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Daryl,
Thanks for posting this song. I put a list of Elton’s first 8 US studio albums above ^^, and after those, I really stopped paying much attention. I should go back and listen to the other 23 studio albums he did. And the other live albums, etc. I never heard of this album. I like this song. I looked this song up to see who wrote the lyrics and was glad to find it was Bernie Taupin again. And I found a short interview with him about it. Maybe you’ll find it interesting.
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Tim, you found it. Country Comfort is my all time favourite Elton John song.
It’s just a peaceful, wonderful song, about living with family in the country. With some nice steel guitar licks. I’m guessing Elton and Bernie thought it could get played in country bars. There are a number of MLT originals that I think could definitely cross over to country fans too.
I like Rod Stewart. I knew about his cover of Country Comfort, but I guess I didn’t notice he forgot the last verse. I discovered him with The Faces – Stay With Me is one of my favourite rock tunes ever. If you aren’t familiar with his Great American Songbook albums, they’re different, it’s that old Songbook music, but he is great on those too. I love those old songs.
The only time I ever saw Elton live was October of 1972, on the Honky Chateau tour. I was too young to drive, so it’s a good thing my older sisters liked him too. That’s a great album.
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Since I mentioned it. Another amazing moment from her.
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+1.
Over the Rainbow is a standard. Period. Also a jazz standard. One of the great songs of music and movie history.
If you’ve ever heard Judy Garland sing anything else, she could really flat out sing. One of the songs on the Christmas album is “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”. Garland sang that and made it a part of the culture too.
That whole scene in the Wizard where she sings it is so classic, so special. Just a quiet Kansas farm, her and Toto, and then wow.
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I found a piece about applicable UK law, at the link below. It says that for the time period this shot was taken, copyright only lasted 50 years after the pic was taken. That law changed in 1995 to match the US term of life of the photographer plus 70 years.
And I don’t know what an artist would normally get paid by a big name band in 1971. Sounds like no payday though.
https://www.dacs.org.uk/knowledge-base/factsheets/copyright-in-photographs
dacs.org.uk
DACS - Knowledge Base - Factsheets
Read our factsheets on different areas of copyright in the visual arts, from rights after death to social media.
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Good catch David. I did think that was pretty early for a photo, even a daguerreotype.
I spent more time looking into when the copyright ended for it. Didn’t find anything definitive for England; most countries seem to use 50 years after the photographer dies, 70 in the US. And there is no agreed international standard for that.
But — if they have the part about the photographer dying in 1944 right, then 1944 + 50 years is 1994. I think it’s unlikely to have ended before that.
Just when did they sell all those 37 million copies of Zep IV anyway? It was released in 1971. Might be time for the heirs of that photographer to ring up a barrister and talk about how much 37 million copies of that pic totals up to.
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Bud,
Yes, to all of what you said.
I’ve got Now and Then on loop and have had it there since I discovered it 2 1/2 hours ago.
My friends at university and I followed Jeff Beck from blues to rock to jazz. Since the mid ’70s, I’ve spent more time with jazz than any other genre. As a listener though, more than a musician. I play it too, but I’ve played a lot more rock and pop.
But I have wide ranging taste in music. In this thread alone I mentioned I’m going to 5 classical concerts this fall and winter, and I also mentioned Billy Joel a couple times. I grew up with the Beatles, and classic rock, and pop, and vintage R&B, and Motown of course, and all of that happened by 1970.
I’m going to soak in Now and Then for a while more…it’s so ever loving cool.
