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Topic: Jeff Newman with Alex Chilton (Box Tops) 1970 |
Joachim Kettner
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Posted 12 Sep 2019 6:01 am |
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I have been down with a bad case of the shingles since a few days, spending most of my time on my bed. I took a biography of Alex Chilton from my shelf and I read that Jeff Newman played on his sessions for a planned album release after his Box Tops days. No record company wanted to release it at the time so it came out about 15 years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z41iQxC8_qM
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Joe Krumel
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Hermitage, Tn.
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Posted 12 Sep 2019 6:12 am jeff newman
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| sorry to hear of your health problems,hope you feel better soon.Listening to smooth steel work like that can only help! Man,Jeff had the touch! joe. |
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Mike Bacciarini
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Arizona
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Posted 12 Sep 2019 9:28 am
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Joachim, I trust you're over it soon, and thanks for sharing this song. Alex and Big Star were great and I can see them sliding this kind of song in there.
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 12 Sep 2019 10:11 am
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Thanks for your empathy Joe and Mike. Yes it is not as bad as it started a week ago. The reading of the book helps a little to turn my mind onto something else. Mike this song was recorded shortyly before they formed Big Star.
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Jonathan Shacklock
From:
London, UK
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Posted 12 Sep 2019 3:04 pm
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Jeff is also on “The EMI song†from the same recording sessions. https://youtu.be/liVMMBFMXj4
Around the same time Chris Bell was experimenting with pedal steel on this proto Big Star recording. I don’t know who the player was - it’s pretty out of tune.
https://youtu.be/u7i-mdNTQYQ
It’s kind of a shame they didn’t take steel guitar forward into those Big Star records but I guess you can’t have everything. 
Get well soon Joachim and enjoy the book! |
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Mike Schwartzman
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 12 Sep 2019 8:38 pm
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Thanks for the tracks guys. I enjoy Alex and Big Star too. I had no idea that they were trying out PSG on their tunes. I did get to see Alex on a solo gig around here. Early 1980's I think. Just acoustic guitar and vocals. He was crooning a version of Volare', but Alex was not having his best evening on that occasion. I thought he might fall off the bandstand. I was working as a restaurant cook at that time, and I had heard that he was a restaurant dishwasher in New Orleans... so I felt a bit sad for him because he was so talented. But I suppose that's an old story in the lives of many talented musicians.
May that case of shingles pass quickly, Joachim.
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 13 Sep 2019 5:31 am
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Nice find, Joachim - great to hear Jeff on a third party commercial project.
Sincerely hope you're feeling better. I had shingles a few years ago and it was like being wrapped in barbed wire 24/7. |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 13 Sep 2019 6:45 am
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To be wrapped in barbed wire, thats how it feels sometimes, Frank. But I believe a pharmacist gave me the right painkillers today. Ths stuff is called Pregabalin, and since i took I feel relieved. Thanks for the other well wishes also.
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Steve Spitz
From:
New Orleans, LA, USA
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Posted 14 Sep 2019 9:32 am
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I met Alex during his dishwasher days, and he may not have been at his best at that time.
I later learned that he was intentionally taking a break from music. He found himself as a young adult having never held a job outside of playing music, and thought he needed to experience something different.
I think a filmmaker is working on a documentary of Alex. Check out “the troubled men†podcast, it features that topic on one podcast.
An interesting guy to say the least. He is missed by those that knew him. I wish I had gotten to know him better.
I’m told the first time he walked in to a recording studio he was 16 , and cut “the letterâ€
Not a bad first session. |
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Joel Martin
From:
California, USA
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Posted 14 Sep 2019 9:44 am
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This is an amazing thread!!! Thanks for the post and FEEL BETTER!
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gary pierce
From:
Rossville TN
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Posted 14 Sep 2019 12:27 pm
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| Joachim, did that album list the drummers name by chance. |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 15 Sep 2019 12:27 am
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Gary I don't have that album, I only read about it in the biography. There's a mention of adrummer named Richard Rosebruogh, and he most probably played on the cut.
Here's another gem with Jeff Newman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yovfvcJpivE
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Mike Bacciarini
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Arizona
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Posted 16 Sep 2019 7:11 am
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Joachim, that is a sweet happy little song you posted. More and more admiration for Alex...
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 17 Sep 2019 8:39 am
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Doesn't the song has a nice bridge, Mike? I've only came to appreciate it after a few listens. Alex was a good songwriter.
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Craig Stock
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Westfield, NJ USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2019 3:01 pm
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Thanks Joachim, has a real Sneaky Pete sound to the steel, I like it.
Sorry about the shingles, I'm right at about the age to get the new vaccine to prevent them, I Wil, check with my doctor to see if it's time now, feel better brother!
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 18 Sep 2019 4:36 am
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Graig, if there's any kind of prevention for this crap I would defnitely try it. It's no fun at all.
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