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I think this was the concert for Bangladesh featuring George H, Ringo S, Eric C, Billy P and many others but I can't remember there names. I missed part of it so I hope it is on again tonight.

That was a great concert, one of the best of the 70s and the prototype of huge deals like Live Aid, The US Festival, the Freddie Mercury Tribute, Rolling Thunder, etc...here in Houston they showed Van Morrison on Austin City Limits...he was great. He's older and showing some wear and tear, but the guy had a rock-solid band and he can still sing as good as ever...he didn't do the songs I wanted him to do, though...I wanted "Domino", "Tupelo Honey", "Moondance", "Into The Mystic", etc...he did do "Brown Eyed Girl", "Gloria", and a powerful and awesome "St. James Infirmary"...but if PBS nationwide'll run the Bangladesh show, I'd love it...Badfinger did "Here Comes The Sun" with George...Ravi Shankar's opening sitar raga was the best I've ever seen him do. EC showed up dope-sick but he got through the show, playing excellently on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "My Sweet Lord"...Ringo sang "It Don't Come Easy"...Billy Preston did "That's The Way God Planned It"...and Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind" was an unexpected moment of brilliance...great show...Cheers, WC1

just caught a tribute ? to James Taylor tonight on PBS... wow what a great show !!

JT has always been one of my many favorite singers.
The song Fire & Rain has always been one of my favorites.

Yeah, JT is the man. His version of Dream Lover is exquisite. I'll be on the lookout for that show...they've been showing Legends of Country Music here on PBS. A few of them were available to play the show. Roy Clark hosted it, they had videos of Buck Owens, Eddy Arnold, Loretta Lynn, Tammi Wynette, and Johnny Cash (who didn't play his guitar...he was muting the strings and strumming...chicka chicka chicka, etc.) The Browns played "The Three Bells" and "The Old Lamplighter" and it was awesome. They're old folks now, but they can still sing great for the most part. Not so with Ferlin Husky. He was really bad. They had 2 more old guys and they did their hits but their toupees didn't fit right and they also can't carry a tune anymore. Glenn Campbell saved the night. He can still twang a guitar as good as anybody. He's showing some years, but he still puts on a great show. I hope to see the JT show soon. Dude was married to Carly Simon. He proved the old adage..."No matter how fine she may be, somewhere, some guy is getting fed up with her..." Cheers, WC1

saw a recent Peter Frampton show the other night on PBS...enjoyed it,i always wanted to try that mouth hose deal... WC will be able to explain how it works ? my sister's first husband had the deal and would use it a couple times in their shows but i never messed with it... last night i watched a docmentery of MGM Musicals with all the stars from the 40's and 50's.. some never before seen outakes etc and some colorized stuff... then i watched an old movie called Marty ? maybee.. Ernest Borgnine played a butcher still living with his mother trying to meet chicks.. also had the guy who was Gomer Pyles sargeant... can't think of his real name.. Frank something..watched the whole movie... i feel like that dude sometimes lately...

Wish I could have seen the show, Doc...I saw a great one and a stinker last night...the Heil talk box is an interesting effect, it's even been the subject of controversy. What it is, is a line out from either the instrument or the amp that runs through a processor whose output goes into a clear plastic tube. The tube is run up the mic stand to the tip of the microphone, where the guy puts the tube in his mouth and forms words that are shaped and projected into the microphone with the notes he is playing on his instrument, which are coming out of the end of the tube. The first time I heard it was on that song "Forever" back in the early 60s...I don't remember who recorded it, but it had "Hold me, love me, thrill me, forever..." a steel guitar line with the guy using a talk-box...Joe Walsh criticized Peter Frampton for his excessive use of the device, as Walsh used it to great effect on "Rocky Mountain Way", in a tasteful and restrained fashion. I thought I heard traces of his talk-box on "Life's Been Good" as well...Frampton based "Show Me The Way" on the gadget, and he took it even farther on "Do You Feel Like We Do" and it miffed Joe Walsh. He said Frampton cheapened the effect and made it common. I dug Frampton's deal and I enjoyed the songs he did with it, but I also value Joe Walsh's opinion as he has produced some truly great music. There is a lot more to him than folks might think...he's not just a consumately gifted guitarist and songwriter, he's an OK guy. He was responsible for Jimmy Page obtaining a Les Paul in 1968 to replace his battered Telecaster that he was using to play in Led Zeppelin with. Page was trying to buy a Les Paul in the USA and everybody was gouging him once they found out who he was, trying to sell him a Les Paul for 10 times what it was really worth, which actually was 5 or 6 grand in 1968 American dollars. Walsh found out about it, and he called Page and said let me get you one...a '58...and I'll buy it and then you can give me what I pay for it. He got Jimmy Page's Les Paul for around 5 grand, flew it over to London and handed it to him in person. Page paid him what he bought it for and the rest is history. From my own experience, I have never heard a better use of the talk-box than was done on a song by a band called Klaatu in the mid-to-late 70s. The song was on their first album and it is called "Little Neutrino". It is an eerie, haunting and beautiful song about the life of a distant planet that lived and had a soul of its own. There were grapevine rumors that Klaatu were actually the Beatles, making music under an assumed identity, but they were not founded. It was just a rumor. No personnel were listed on their records. But that song still occupies a special space in my musical memory. Klaatu is no more, but they made a song that will forever stand as a masterpiece, and it featured a talk-box. Cheers, WC1

Great imformative post WC.. jeeez i should have remembered the name Heil as we discussed him last year when he was inducted into the hall of fame .. regarding the movie i saw it was indeed MARTY 1955, Ernest won the acadamy award for his role.. i knew it was very good.

Borgy was da man...many, many characters came out of the guy...I always enjoyed his movies...he got an OSCAR for that one! I gotta check it out! Oh yeah, another talk-box song that came to mind is "Tell Me Something Good", by Rufus with Chaka Khan up front, written by Stevie Wonder. They were a band he took under his wing during his heyday in the early 70s...Chaka is still at it and she sounds great...Cheers, WC1