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gemjack
May 17, 2013, 1:42:29 PM5/17/13
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Yes, Huey Lewis:
Tell me your favorite memory from recording "We Are the World."
Wow. There's so many. So many. Five of my best memories are from
there. I remember at one point I was talking about golf with Willie
Nelson during a break. Bob Dylan came over and says, "You guys are
talking about golf? You play golf? That's outrageous." I go, "No, Bob.
Nashville Skyline was outrageous. This is golf."
Was that the first time you met Dylan?
Yeah. And there's another regret I have. He sent me a tune of his and
I didn't record it. Huey, when Bob Dylan sends you a song, record it!
Period, OK?
What song was that? Do you remember the title or anything?
Kind of. It was kind of an A-B. It was pretty good! He also sent me a
Junior Parker song with the sweetest little note about how much he
loved Sports and "I know your next one will be good too" and blah blah
blah. He's just wonderful. With Bob Dylan, I just tremble. And I
didn't record his song.
Have you seen him since?
No. Ray Benson [from Asleep At the Wheel] is a buddy of mine from way
back in the Clover days. In 2000, he calls me and says. "We're playing
Missoula, Montana on March 22nd and we're opening for Bob Dylan." I
said, "Bob Dylan's playing Missoula on March 22nd? It's, like, eight
degrees out." Also, the best hotel in Missoula is, like, the Red Lion.
Seriously. So he says, "Come to the show." I said, "Sure."
I show up, and I even play a song with Ray. Then I watch Bob. He gets
onstage and he loves it. He's not mailing it in. Also, the Bob Dylan
band is one of the best-wardrobed bands in the world. Seriously. They
are tweaked, man . . . and Bob, tweaked, with the piping and stuff.
The show only holds about 5,000 people and the tickets are about $20.
It's a $100,000 gross, not a lot of money. And he's got a crack band
he's paying. It's an excellent band, so it's not about the money for
him. He's having a ball. It's the most fun thing in the world to do.
That's why Bob is doing it. And what does he do after the show? He
gets on the bus and blasts out of town. They go to Billings, where
they pull in at four a.m. at the Best Western. He sets up in his room
and watches videos, MTV and stuff.
He started that tour in 1988, and it's still going.
Exactly! It's a sanctuary, that bus. You don't have to deal with the
real world. Somebody does your laundry. There's food everywhere. It's
a lovely little sanctuary. You get to live like a 16-year-old kid.
Read more:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/huey-lewis-on-30-years-of-sports-our-15-minutes-were-a-real-15-minutes-20130517#ixzz2TZa9Pk5N
-gj
Tell me your favorite memory from recording "We Are the World."
Wow. There's so many. So many. Five of my best memories are from
there. I remember at one point I was talking about golf with Willie
Nelson during a break. Bob Dylan came over and says, "You guys are
talking about golf? You play golf? That's outrageous." I go, "No, Bob.
Nashville Skyline was outrageous. This is golf."
Was that the first time you met Dylan?
Yeah. And there's another regret I have. He sent me a tune of his and
I didn't record it. Huey, when Bob Dylan sends you a song, record it!
Period, OK?
What song was that? Do you remember the title or anything?
Kind of. It was kind of an A-B. It was pretty good! He also sent me a
Junior Parker song with the sweetest little note about how much he
loved Sports and "I know your next one will be good too" and blah blah
blah. He's just wonderful. With Bob Dylan, I just tremble. And I
didn't record his song.
Have you seen him since?
No. Ray Benson [from Asleep At the Wheel] is a buddy of mine from way
back in the Clover days. In 2000, he calls me and says. "We're playing
Missoula, Montana on March 22nd and we're opening for Bob Dylan." I
said, "Bob Dylan's playing Missoula on March 22nd? It's, like, eight
degrees out." Also, the best hotel in Missoula is, like, the Red Lion.
Seriously. So he says, "Come to the show." I said, "Sure."
I show up, and I even play a song with Ray. Then I watch Bob. He gets
onstage and he loves it. He's not mailing it in. Also, the Bob Dylan
band is one of the best-wardrobed bands in the world. Seriously. They
are tweaked, man . . . and Bob, tweaked, with the piping and stuff.
The show only holds about 5,000 people and the tickets are about $20.
It's a $100,000 gross, not a lot of money. And he's got a crack band
he's paying. It's an excellent band, so it's not about the money for
him. He's having a ball. It's the most fun thing in the world to do.
That's why Bob is doing it. And what does he do after the show? He
gets on the bus and blasts out of town. They go to Billings, where
they pull in at four a.m. at the Best Western. He sets up in his room
and watches videos, MTV and stuff.
He started that tour in 1988, and it's still going.
Exactly! It's a sanctuary, that bus. You don't have to deal with the
real world. Somebody does your laundry. There's food everywhere. It's
a lovely little sanctuary. You get to live like a 16-year-old kid.
Read more:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/huey-lewis-on-30-years-of-sports-our-15-minutes-were-a-real-15-minutes-20130517#ixzz2TZa9Pk5N
-gj
Dr_dudley
May 18, 2013, 5:29:22 PM5/18/13
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> -gj
Thnaks, geej, that's very droll in an amusant sense of the word.
the "oldies" station i sometimes tune in plays a lot of Huey Lewis.
Fun stuff. Discussing it with friends they remind me that his first
band Clover backed up Elvis's first record.
Of course i'll allow looking at your subject i first thought you meant
Huey Newton. that's a whole different story. IIRC, huey chastised bob
for his purported support of Israel.or vice versa. it's difficult to
tell, gurgling the event, or not.
~rdd
BobbyM
May 18, 2013, 5:40:46 PM5/18/13
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On 5/19/2013 6:29 AM, Dr_dudley wrote:
> the "oldies" station i sometimes tune in plays a lot of Huey Lewis.
> Fun stuff. Discussing it with friends they remind me that his first
> band Clover backed up Elvis's first record.
Which Elvis? If it's Presley, Huey must be a lot older than I thought. :>)
> the "oldies" station i sometimes tune in plays a lot of Huey Lewis.
> Fun stuff. Discussing it with friends they remind me that his first
> band Clover backed up Elvis's first record.
really real
May 19, 2013, 1:44:35 PM5/19/13
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>
> Of course i'll allow looking at your subject i first thought you meant
> Huey Newton. that's a whole different story. IIRC, huey chastised bob
> for his purported support of Israel.or vice versa. it's difficult to
> tell, gurgling the event, or not.
that Bob was no longer writing protest songs. Bob's support of Zionism
came later.
BobbyM
May 19, 2013, 7:04:09 PM5/19/13
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backed up Elvis Costello on his 1st lp - but Huey Lewis did not
participate in the recording sessions.
In my book, there's only one guy that should be referred to by the
"Elvis" given name only.
Just Kidding
May 19, 2013, 7:58:44 PM5/19/13
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On Mon, 20 May 2013 08:04:09 +0900, BobbyM <massey...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Yeah, and there's only one "Costello" too (Bud's bud!).
wrote:
really real
May 20, 2013, 9:44:33 AM5/20/13
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appreciate Elton Montello
gemjack
May 20, 2013, 12:38:02 PM5/20/13
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On Mon, 20 May 2013 06:44:33 -0700, really real <reall...@shaw.ca>
wrote:
Or Marilyn Manson. He's really quite folkie at heart.
-gj
wrote:
-gj
The Bloomfield Buddy
May 20, 2013, 1:22:56 PM5/20/13
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On May 20, 9:44 am, really real <reallyr...@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> You guys are way too hung up on names. You'll never be able to
> appreciate Elton Montello
It's Motello, no n.
>
> You guys are way too hung up on names. You'll never be able to
> appreciate Elton Montello
really real
May 20, 2013, 1:42:23 PM5/20/13
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own career. I might be the only guy who knows about him.
The Bloomfield Buddy
May 20, 2013, 1:47:51 PM5/20/13
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Dr_dudley
May 22, 2013, 4:57:45 PM5/22/13
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yeah, i didn't realise Huey wasn't on My Aim Is True. Good catch.
second, i didn't know you had a book, i'd like to read it. and i
didn't mean to affront you by using Mr Costello's first name only. In
future i'll refer to him as Declan, or by the initials EC. surely
there's no other top-tier musicians with those initials. (insert silly
emoticon)
to avoid furthur confusion, i'll always refer to shortstop Elvis
Andrus by his complete name.
finally, had a chance to see Elvis yesterday, but an atypical override
of stubborness led to an emergency procedure which precluded that
meeting. resting at home, comfortably numb (post-op, they give you
some Elvis drugs).
peace,
dudley
Dr_dudley
May 22, 2013, 5:25:33 PM5/22/13
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actually i hadn't thought to use INT as touchstone for rocksolid
evidence in supporting any discussion of dylna, but then again i saw
it only once. didn't much strike me as a straightahead factbased
documentary.
that said, from Grey's Encyclopedia we have only:
}
Heylin suggests too that Alk’s interest in the
Black Panthers would have been what prompted
Dylan to the fruitless meeting that ‘supposedly
took place between Dylan and Huey Newton and
David Hilliard’ in 1970.
{
and
}
Bangs, likewise, duly excoriates Bob Dylan. An
alleged meeting in 1970 between Bob Dylan and
Black Panthers Huey Newton and David Hilliard
had been mooted by Dylan’s first biographer, ANTHONY
SCADUTO, in the New York Times in 1971,
and discussed in ‘A Profile of HOWARD ALK’ by
Dylan’s third biographer, CLINTON HEYLIN (with
research assistance by George Webber), in All
Across the Telegraph: A Bob Dylan Handbook, 1987.
{
perhaps someone has Heylin close to hand and can see if there's any
more info there.
at http://www.radiohazak.com/Tangled.html , under the heading Acidic
Rebbe we have
}
But now, far from the whirlwind of stardom, he began to explore his
Jewish roots. The search may have been prompted by his father's death.
Returning to Hibbing for the funeral, Bob surprised his brother by
reciting the Kaddish prayer. On his 30th birthday he was in Israel and
visited the Western Wall. He told one confidante of plans to buy an
apartment in Israel; he investigated moving to a kibbutz.
This did not please the activist Left, who still hadn't forgiven the
Voice of Their Generation for abandoning politics, and which since the
1967 war had increasingly supported Arafat's Fatah. The story was told
that when Dylan met Black Panther leader Huey Newton, the singer
chided the revolutionary for opposing Israel. ("Go ask Huey," Dylan
told writer Anthony Scaduto when asked about the rumor; Newton was in
exile at the time.)
{
and the alleged rumour is recalled elsewhere, including Peter
Doggett's "There's a Riot Going On", and Rolling Stone, 06jan72.
All of this not to be confused with Huey's interpretation of "Ballad
of a Thin Man".
http://missrosen.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/508_23.jpg
or see if this works:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef016302205689970d-pi
peace,
rdd
M. Rick
May 22, 2013, 7:20:05 PM5/22/13
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I wonder if having the name Elvis gets you more girls even if you look
like Poindexter.
like Poindexter.
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marcus
May 22, 2013, 10:36:00 PM5/22/13
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On May 19, 7:58 pm, Just Kidding <JustKidd...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2013 08:04:09 +0900, BobbyM <masseybNOS...@hotmail.com>
"1st base!"
> On Mon, 20 May 2013 08:04:09 +0900, BobbyM <masseybNOS...@hotmail.com>
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