Sure, the new Tindersticks release, “Falling Down A Mountain” is gorgeous and sumptuous and sultry but what I have not read anywhere – until I saw it on the credits after purchase – is that Canadian treasure, Mary Margaret O’Hara provides substantial co-vocals on “Peanuts”. Joining the line of great vocalist otherwise often not seen as such, for example Ann Magnuson and Isabella Rossellini.
A few hundred years ago, I fell in love with the piano plinking on David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane. But I never bother to find out anything about the musician’s Bowie worked with, beside Mick Ronson. So reading an article about St Vincent took me by surprise. Short story – he has played piano on more records than I can count, many of them fabulous – Annette Peacock, St Vincent (first lp), Polyphonic Spree, Nine Inch Nails, and so on.
“I had told Bowie about the avant-garde thing. When I was recording the “Aladdin Sane” track for Bowie, it was just two chords, an A and a G chord, and the band was playing very simple English rock and roll. And Bowie said: ‘play a solo on this.’ I had just met him, so I played a blues solo, but then he said: ‘No, that’s not what I want.’ And then I played a latin solo. Again, Bowie said: ‘No no, that’s not what I want.’ He then continued: ‘You told me you play that avant-garde music. Play that stuff!’ And I said: ‘Are you sure? ‘Cause you might not be working anymore!’. So I did the solo that everybody knows today, in one take. And to this day, I still receive emails about it. Every day. I always tell people that Bowie is the best producer I ever met, because he lets me do my thing.”
Source of Quote – Wikipedia
I propose a new term: “Post-Natal Drip”
As in “He was a real post-natal drip”. Can be applied to either sex parent who is a pain in the neck after giving birth, or to describe a person who has sucked since birth.
Rowland S Howard died after contracting liver cancer. His work with The Birthday Party, Lydia Lunch, These Immortal Souls and solo will not be forgotten. Find out more about him here.
He released his last CD ‘Pop Crimes” two months before. Buy it from Amazon.