Musical Sound's/Happening's-3-Short Columes

by Pete Holly

Thou it's been out for a while now-it's worth checking into "Duffy's"-Rockferry CD-The young
blonde english soultress-her ultra-catchy hit "Mercy" is contained there upon-and is sure to
give hours of listening pleasure;along with other with standout tracks "Distant Dreamer",
Delayed Devotion",title track "Rockferry"{a town}and others.She's a very unique and powerful
singer and she and her crack band also put on one hell of a show recently on "Austin City Limits".
If you miss Dusty Springfeild and Sandy Shaw give Duffy a try,she's sure to please.

*****

Since Brian Wilson was niether a surfer nor a hot-rodder where did he get the information
to inform song's like "Little Deuce Coupe" which contains a bevy of Auto Details such as "Flat-
Head Mill","Walk a Thuderbird"."She"the car"Blowsem' outta the water like there standen' still"
and "Gets rubber in all four Gear" and there's one more thing-"She's got the pink slip daddy".
How could a non Hot rod-der know such details? and a non-surfer the surfer speak?
We'll it's more than likely that at least some of it came from younger brother Dennis-"The Beach Boy's" drummer-and busybody of the wilson clan-the only one who really did surf and
more than likely engaged in some upspirited driving as well.However it worked,Brian got alot of
real lowdown about surfing and hot-rodding and imparted it musically in some strong and beautiful way's.Even as late as "Don't Worry Baby" Brian is still fixated on drag racing but it's never sounded this musically incredible and much of it has to do with the close relationship
between Brian and Dennis and thier admiration of each others skills and knowledge.They both
spoke of it often and Dennis gave much of the credit to Brian for all that he learned from Brian
about production-when he himself produced his own first solo album-the incredible "Pacific
Ocean Blue"-1977.It's the greatist solo album of all the individual brothers that has ever been
released.A truelly remarkable record that's more worth tracking down.Not bad for little
Brother Dennis-not bad at all.
*****

"Guitar Man"-Bread-writer-David Gate's-#11-1972

Strangly enough,it's not either one of Bread's guitarists reeling-off the cool Wah-Wah
Solo on Guitar Man but Bread's Bassist and longtime L.A. Session Man Larry Knechtel.Gate's
desribes how both he and the other Bread Guitarist Jame's Griffen both gave it thier best shot and didn't feel like they got what they were looking for.So they offered Knechtel a pass at it-
he hooked up a little wah-wah pedal he owned and laid this down in a short amount of Time.Showing the bands other two guitarists how it's done !


From the Booklet-Bread-Retrospective-2-cd's-April-1996

written by Pete Holly-2009-copyright-all rights reserved

10th Aniversery of the Release of "The Wizard Of Garage"

I can't thank all the people who helped me make "The Wizard of Garage"
cuz it would take forever-so i'm just going to thank you to everyone who-
Helped-you all know who you are-i'll allways be eternally Greatful.
It was a miracle of sorts that it all got put together-
so i have thank steve f. for doing all that transfering to digital-
cuz i know it took a long time-and you really helped me so much.
i'll just say thanks too the look's-lenny-mitch-greg shaw-rest in peace-
scott goddard-rest in peace-Mom-Dad-I love you-Rest in peace-
Great god in heavin' you know i love you-jesus in san bernadino-
Every fan of the Look's-Mad Distribution-QCA-The L.A. times-
Fer puttin' me in the openings section-the recording Academy-P& E Wing-
Seattle wing-bmi-ncb denmark-bomp-suzie for the records-grant from
brooklyn-shelly-whereever u r-and the girl in portland who shouted that i
"you sounded great tonight pete".You made my night.
There's lot's more-my brother grant and sister chris-the best-
I love you all-thanks to aunt barb fer sayinj' that i could do it all those years ago.

My Deepest Thanks to All of You-God Bless You All-

Sincerely,

Pete Holly,

Looks Music Int.







Look's Music International

The Forgotten Pioneers of Rock 'n Roll

"BIG JOE TURNER"

Big Joe Turner was a veteran of the Kansas City Music Scene for many years.
He started clear back in 1938 when Kansas City was the wildest and most corrupt
city in the United States.Because of the "anything goes" attitude of those years
Kansas City had more Nightclubs with Live Music than probably any city in the
world.The music that came out of Kansas City was as wild as the city itself-
many great artists spent time honing thier skills in Kansas City from Charlie
Parker to John Coltrane for it was also mecca for jazz players as well.The
music that Big Joe Turner specialized in was upbeat R&B that was a bit
on the wild side-in that respect Big Joe fit right into the Kansas City music
scene-for the music that he was performing was essentially Rock 'n Roll-
but Joe was just about 16 years ahead of his time-but not in Kansas City !
In 1954 Big Joe released "Shake,Rattle and Roll".The song crossed over
into Billboard's Pop Charts climbing clear up to #22 and making it one the
very first Rock 'n Roll songs by a black man to reach white audiences.
In this sense Joe Turner was a pioneer of the highest order as it was nearly
impossible in those day's for a Black artist to crossover into the pop charts.
Joe's version of the song was so great,so powerful that even Elvis
couldn't top Joe's version.Now that's what i call a true pioneer and a
visionary.

note:Joe Turner had quite a few hits on the R&B charts and "Shake,Rattle and Roll"
went to #1.



Written by Pete Holly-Copyright-2009-All rights reserved

The Quest Goes On

Being a voting member of the Grammy's is a great Honour,but it is also a
a great responsability.Just like political elections,one vote could make a tremendous
differance in more than just a few peoples lives.The procedure is alot more complex
than most people realize.There are many steps along the way and the rules must be
strickly adhered too.Occasionally some of rules change so one has to keep up with
any of these changes and one also one needs to keep up with what is happening in
in the music business.
Thankfully,the Grammy's can afford to help you keep up with the happenings in
the music business thru deals that members are a allowed with music publications
and other entities.Some publications even give members free subscriptions.Thanks
to this i know more about stage and recording equipment than i ever have.I also
am informed as to which tours are the most successful each month and who's recording
where and with what equipment and producer.
Some things change as you grow older but i'm still as curious as ever to learn new
things about the world of music and how it gets made.The quest goes on.

Written by Pete Holly-2009-copyright-all rights reserved

THE NIGHT SKY-WED. SEPT. 16-1 HOUR BEFORE DAWN

IN THE NIGHT SKY THIS MORNING THERE IS A VERY BRIGHT
CRESENT MOON DUE EAST ABOUT 10 TO 20 DEGREE'S ABOVE THE HORIZEN.
IT APPEARS TO BE VERY CLOSE TO THE EARTH AND JUST TO THE LEFT
ABOUT ABOUT 2 AND A HALF FULL MOON LENGTHS IS A VERY BRIGHT
VENUS THAT ALSO APPEARS TO TO BE SO CLOSE TO THE EARTH THAT
YOU COULD REACH OUT AND TOUCH IT.THEY ARE BOTH JUST ABOVE THE
HORIZEN AND YOU CAN SEE THEM BOTH SHINING VERY BRIGHTLY WITH
YOUR UNAIDED EYES.
JUST TO THE RIGHT AND MORE DIRECTLY STRAIGHT UP IS A CLUSTER
VERY BRIGHT STARS-ONE WHICH APPEARS TO BE THE LITTLE DIPPER.
BUT THERE ARE MANY OTHER STARS AS WELL ALL SHINING VERY BRIGHTLY.
IT'S QUITE AN IMPRESSIVE SIGHT AND DEFINATLY WORTH CHECKING OUT.

BY PETE HOLLY-2009-COPYRIGHT-all rights reserved

Forgotten Pioneers of Rock 'n Roll

Louis Jordan

by Pete Holly

There are many artists who pre-date the first rock 'n roll era of the 1950's that can be sited
as being the forerunners of rock 'n roll.For my money one of the most significant is Louis
Jordan.He had a long sussessful career with numerous hit's-Caldonia-Saturday Night Fish Fry-
Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'-Beware !-just to name a few.His band The Typhony Five
were topnotch and they toured for nearly two decades-so why isn't Louis
Jordan more well known?Probably because for later generations he was so far ahead of
his time. His music is nearly %100 rock 'n roll but the peak years of his popularity were
between big band swing and R&B bands and the first rock 'n roll era-and he tends to get left out
of both catagory's.
One thing for sure,there was no shortage of greatness in Louis and his bands music.It's as
rocking as can be.The songs are all top notch-Inventive-Cool-Hip-Funny and occasionally
Sad-sounds like rock 'n roll doesn't it? Your damn right.

notes:Louis Jordan was the lead singer of his band and played saxaphone{and several other
instruments}.Chuck Berry has said Louis and his Band were one of his main inspirations
and he is also noted to be an early rap stylist,with many of his song's being spoken in classic and
extremly entertaining jive talk,telling story's that give insight to the culture of the time and that are still relevant today.
Written by Pete Holly-Copyright-2009-all rights reserved

MOVIE FLASHBACKS-FORIEGN FILMS

Inmar Bergman's

"Wild Stawberries"

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

For american audience's,'Wild Strawberries" is probably the most assessable foriegn
film ever made.It's stricktly a coincedence that it also happens to be one of the great-
ist-if not the greatist foriegn film ever made.
The theme's in the film are universal.Missunderstandings that are present in a
family that have been years in the making aren't brought out into the light until it's old-
est member,a Doctor,is called in his old age to recieve an honer from his University for
all his years of service.His daughter in-law,who's having some difficulty's which involve
her husband,the Doctors son,ends up accompanying the doctor to the ceramony.
During the the long car trip many of the doctors and his daughter-in-laws perceptions
of the family are brought to light.By the films end they know and like each other in a way
that would not have been possible before.So it explains family issue's and the tendancy of
family's not to talk about them in a way that any family member can relate to.Bergman
is a genuis at explaining complex issue's which every human being must confront in thier
live's.Here he just happen's to do it in away that is easy for anyone to understand.The film
is not dark in an overall sense,nor is it strange.It's an easy film for anyone to understand
because we all have a family and family issue's are universal with no borders.
The foriegn stylings of the film,dreams brought to life,which are one of Bergmans
favorite tools,in this film are easy to understand-It doesn't take an intellectual mind to
get thier meaning.

In Swedish-with English Subtitles

Written by Pete Holly-2009-Copyright-All rights reserved