Word Podcast - why you should never throw Keith's joint in the pool
Posted by David Hepworth on 23 October 2007 - 7:03am.
In which David Hepworth, Mark Ellen, Rob Fitzpatrick and Matt Hall read Ron Wood's autobiography and wonder what it says about the home life of our own dear rock stars, speculate on what would have happened if Led Zeppelin hadn't and muse upon the likelihood of there ever being another album cover like U2's "Boy".
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Roy Orbison in cling film
http://easydreamer.blogspot.com/2007/10/roy-orbison-in-clingfilm.html
I know that this isn't the right place to post this comment but I'm new to your blog.
Has anyone else come across this truly odd site?
Two a week?
Magnificent as ever, guys, thank you.
"A little bit about Charlie..."
Oh, the drummer...
re; A Little Bit About Charlie
I actually thought that as David was saying it.
And likewise, every time he said 'here's another line...from the book' I had to prevent myself delivering a Beavis & Butthead style snort...
Bob Dylan What If????
On the subject of "What If's", what if Bob Dylan had not survived his motorcycle crash in July 1966? As it is he is the ultimate singer/songwriter icon of the Twentieth Century, could you imagine how we would have eulogised him if he'd have died at 25 with his recording career ending with the just released Blonde On Blonde? Just a thought.
Dylan
There would have been no "Hearts Of Fire", for starters.
A bit more level would be nice
Content of podcast excellent as ever - after a recent unprecedented burst of decent sound quality we seem to be back to not being able to hear the bugger though. Those of us listening in the car probably find the road noise nicely masks the discussion other than when one of you actually speaks into the microphone. PLEASE try to make it audible!
Thanks
If only they did extra's with books
In the digital age where products are piled high with an overspill of extras - double disc CD's and DVD's full of alt.takes and out takes, deleted scenes etc. Plus one channels, behind the scenes programmes and even 'listen again' radio
When are publishers going to start getting in on this?
I haven't read the Ronnie bio but from what I've heard in the podcast - I'm certain I'll be left wanting to know;
What was left out, what couldn't go in, and what got the 'red pen'?
Surely they could do optional expanded editions(even numbered notes at the back - classics fashion) for any future Rock biographies.
Apparrently...
this is the blind faith girl now
http://www.danceworks.net/images/mariorag.JPG
Isn't that pic ....
the spectacularly trousered guitarist from Mud who went on to co write 'Can't Get You Out Of Head'?
blind faith
I think Mark and David have a rosy view of sexuality in 1960's. The idea that nudity etc went unnoticed and unremarked is nonsense. The fact that there wasn't a big furore had more to do with a male run media setting the agenda than any things else, this was the time that the Sun started having page 3 girls after all. The idea that people in the music industry would see this as asexual is put paid to by your last issue where Eric Clapton is shown with parade of young /teenage girlfriends. I'm sure the designers wrapped it up in some cod philosophy ( which on some level they probably believed ) but you'd suprised how much you believe in something if it's helping you get laid.
A parade of young/teenage girlfriends eh?...
..how outrageous! Eric was just out of his teens himself, who was he supposed to date..old boilers from Mile-End?
H&E may be looking at the period with a rosy nostalgia, but that has to be preferable to frowny cynicism.
The Blind Faith L.P. came out when I was 12 years old (same age as the model in question) and even then I didn't view the image as sexual. (this at a time when a breast-shaped cloud could trigger a "reaction" ahem)
To me, she was Syd Barrett's Emily, or the girl who did the narration on "Hole In My Shoe," in other words a pre-Raphealite psychedelic child.
Hippies and other groovers wouldn't have been seen dead salivating over a naked image, or making a fuss about sex at all, that's just the way it was.
We are in an era now where real sex and sexuality is swept under the carpet. We have to make do with soulless ass-shaking images in hip-hop clips and the pole-dancing antics of pop divas. The sex we generally see in films is acrobatic and nonsensical.
God forbid that making love should ever have been fun!
That there were cynical people who took advantage of these freedoms goes without saying, but to denounce an era because of that is like denouncing Elvis because he was managed by Tom Parker.
Oh brave new world..how dull, judgemental and cynical we've become.
The Wood breakfast beverage
Just listened to this one. The Ronnie Wood stuff is priceless, particularly the Mark Lamarr story.
I heard the Mark Lamarr show in question. It was a GLR Sunday morning show beteeen 10-12. Ronnie brought along Art Wood.
Mark mentioned that whilst most guests would be offered a coffee or water, Ronnie had brought along his own pint of Guiness, in a proper glass. He asked him where he'd managed to get a pint at that time on a Sunday morning in Marylebone.
Ronnie casually replied that he'd brought it with him on the car journey from home. Ronnie lives in Kingston, Art lived in Teddington. A 10 mile journey to GLR.
Unless he had an assistant holding it for him or specially adapted cup holders, that's some feat.