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.

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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.
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"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