 |
E.L.O. Vs. Cheap Trick... |
Shipwreckjoey
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 29, 2002
Posts: 1794
From: San Diego, CA
|  Posted: 2005-09-09 4:40 pm Permalink
Quote:
|
On 2005-09-09 11:10, foamy wrote:
Who remembers "Captain Copter and the Twirlybirds"? (Lind & Co. just before ELO). They did "I'm a California Man." Then, so did Cheap Trick, some years later. Both good.
|
|
Wasn't the guitarist Randy California of Spirit in Capt Copter & the Twirlybirds? Maybe it's that California Man thing bouncin' off my skull.
(oops...sorry, different band)
Krapt. Kopter And The (fabulous) Twirly Birds - Austrian - CD ALBUM more of this title
RANDY CALIFORNIA Kapt. Kopter & The... (Deleted Sony 8-trk CD, p/s) -
[ This Message was edited by: Shipwreckjoey 2005-09-09 16:52 ]
|
Kenike
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 24, 2003
Posts: 1201
From: McKinney, TX
| Posted: 2005-09-10 1:36 pm Permalink
Quote:
| I always felt it was a shame that Cheap Trick didn't get to have George Martin produce their early work.
The opening track for All Shook Up is great, but the rest of the album was downhill. Fast. |
|
I agree...and what I'll never understand is why "Everything Works If You Let It" was kept off that album and handed off to the soundtrack for "Roadie" starring Meat Loaf. It's much stronger than anything else on "All Shook Up" and I always thought it would have been a great single. It was eventually included in 45 form with the EP "Found All The Parts" which came out in '81 I think.
Which members of Cheap Trick played on an early version of Lennon's "I'm Losing You?" Was it just Bun E. and Rick?
Quote:
| CT has covered a few Beatles and Lennon songs, as well as some from The Move (California Man, Down on the Bay, Brontosaurus). I don't think ELO did the same, except that horrid "Roll Over Beethoven" thing. |
|
I know ELO did do "Day Tripper" & "Across The Universe" live but never on record.
[ This Message was edited by: Juno 2005-09-10 13:38 ]
|
donhonyc
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 13, 2003
Posts: 1173
From: The Quiet EAST Village
| Posted: 2005-09-11 9:39 pm Permalink
Quote:
|
Which members of Cheap Trick played on an early version of Lennon's "I'm Losing You?" Was it just Bun E. and Rick?
|
|
As far as I know, yeah it was just Rick & Bun along with session player/later version of King Crimson bassist Tony Levin. The version they did didn't make it on to the 'Double Fantasy' record. There was actually a video filmed of it a few years ago with the three of them in it and if I recall correctly, an animated (cartoon) figure in the part of John Lennon. The Rick/Bun E./Tony Levin version of "I'm Losing You" can be found on the John Lennon Anthology Box Set released in 1998.
I heard Rick Neilsen tell a funny story about the beginning of the sessions for that song. John Lennon walked in the room and saw Rick Neilsen standing there and said "Oh....it's you." Apparently he thought they were bringing in Rick Nelson, as in 'Travelin Man'/'Garden Party'/ Ozzie and Harriet's kid, Rick Nelson!!
[ This Message was edited by: donhonyc 2005-09-11 22:24 ]
|
Kenike
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 24, 2003
Posts: 1201
From: McKinney, TX
| Posted: 2005-09-12 05:56 am Permalink
Quote:
| I heard Rick Neilsen tell a funny story about the beginning of the sessions for that song. John Lennon walked in the room and saw Rick Neilsen standing there and said "Oh....it's you." Apparently he thought they were bringing in Rick Nelson, as in 'Travelin Man'/'Garden Party'/ Ozzie and Harriet's kid, Rick Nelson!! |
|
Oh that's funny as hell! I can just imagine him standing there with his knit sweater, bow tie, baseball cap and 50 Cheap Trick buttons and then John Lennon walks in.
|
Mai Tai
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 21, 2004
Posts: 1430
From: Exotic Isle of Alameda
| Posted: 2005-09-13 12:18 am Permalink
Cheap Trick: The Dream Police, Surrender.
ELO: Horace Wimp??? 
'nuff said.
_________________
 "It's Mai Tai. It's out of this world." - Victor Jules Bergeron Jr.
|
tikitortured
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 08, 2004
Posts: 329
From: Huntington Beach Ca.
| Posted: 2005-09-14 10:05 am Permalink
Tomorrow night I'm going to see New Model Army at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood and Bun E. Carlos, drummer for Cheap trick will be the DJ. Weird, huh?
|
tikitortured
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 08, 2004
Posts: 329
From: Huntington Beach Ca.
| Posted: 2005-09-14 10:07 am Permalink
Oh yeah, and Cheap Trick is playing withAlice Cooper at the Greek on Sat. 9/16.
|
Kenike
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 24, 2003
Posts: 1201
From: McKinney, TX
| Posted: 2005-09-15 5:04 pm Permalink
Quote:
| ELO: Horace Wimp??? |
|
Not one of their high moments...but then neither was Cheap Tricks "Who'd King."
|
