Chuck Prophet's Spanish Bombs High Sierra Music Festival Vaudeville Tent - Late Night Quincy, CA 2011-07-02

 

Chuck Prophet - Strings In The Temple

Hello kids.
Je vous ai souvent (ou pas, me souviens plus...) vanté l'extrême joie que me procure à chaque fois la réception de la newsletter de l'ami Chuck.
Celle reçue aujourd'hui 20 mars nous renvoie vers ce docu-concert un peu spécial.
Vous n'allez pas refuser 1h10 de bonheur non ? Pensez à activer les sous-tires et sourire aux alentours de la 10ème minute.

Mais je laisse la parole au patron, car oui c'est lui-même qui prend le temps d'écrire ses publications.
Et je vous embrasse tous très fort, même si de loin ...
EWG

Hey folks,

Attention all you streamers, loss-leaders, grim reapers, and powdered egg beaters. We’ve got something to share with all of you shut-ins.

Stream The STRINGS IN THE TEMPLE FILM NOW. FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. FOR THE LOW COST OF FREE.

WATCH IT HERE NOW: https://found.ee/jRYk

I don’t know about you, but I am totally barricaded, holed up, shut in but not shut down. And make no mistake, this crisis is serious. Life and death serious. As for now, I’ve got all I need. I’ve actually got three Honeycrisp apples in the kitchen. Plus, one Fuji apple. Fujis are not my first choice but I am 100 percent prepared to eat that Fuji if the whip comes down. Although I could be hurting for paper towels here before too long. (Stephanie’s out of town. Pray for me.)

As for this film. A little background: 

Back in 2012, we released the Temple Beautiful LP - an open love letter to San Francisco and its history and characters. Written in my shoebox no-internet-having work space South of Market along with klipschutz. Lunches were had. Arguments were settled. (Never did we stoop to tossing a coin.)

After two years of playing the songs around the world, in late 2013 my band and I delivered the 12-song cycle at the Great American Music Hall - itself a former bordello and an art deco S.F institution - with a string octet scored and conducted by Brad Jones. Which turned out to be the first step that culminated in Strings in the Temple.

Director Darrell Flowers brought along at least four camera operators and a few more assorted pros from Dover to film it. We had one chance to get it right. And this film is a document of the twists and turns in the road that brought us to that one-night-only sold-out performance at the GAMH. 

Some will have you believe that here in Start Up City, USA technology is the new culture. Then again, how can technology equal culture? (On what planet?) Where’s the google bus - or better yet, the Virtual Stock Option (VSO) - for the out-of-work dishwasher who commutes in every day from Stockton? Or the people who commute three hours each way just for the privilege of cleaning our toilets? Where’s the facebook live Zuckerberg Tip Jar (ZTJ) for them?

Let me ask you a question: Can songs connect people to the world? I’ll take my answer off the air.

The songs performed that night touch on all kinds of San Franciscos and include characters like Willie Mays, martyred supervisor Harvey Milk, Cain & Abel porn kings Jim & Artie Mitchell, mythic oddball "Red Man," preacher/Svengali Jim Jones, politician-turned assassin Dan White, and Emperor Norton himself, with cameos by Laffing Sal, Carol Doda, Bill Graham, and Fatty Arbuckle.  Locations too. Including the Castro and Mission Districts. One song channels the White Night Riots, sparked by the light sentence handed out to poster-boy-for-closet-cases Dan White for the assassination of Milk and Mayor Moscone. 

Dig in. And do yourself a favor and stick around. At the 10:00 mark don’t miss the image of Stephie smiling and James shrugging when Roy Loney makes a kind of sideways entrance.  That's why I play music. I could watch that moment once a week forever. We miss you Roy.

P.S.: If you want to download the LP of the concert. You can do it over at Bandcamp. For the next 24 hours Bandcamp is waiving their 10% fee, so you know what that means, right? More paper towels for ol’ CP.

Here is the Bandcamp Link https://found.ee/uO1W

And if you are feeling like you want to give back. This newsletter costs money. I pay a service to deliver it. And sometimes, even though I’m on the list I don’t even receive it. I don’t know what the dealio is but if you want to show your appreciation feel free to roam around my online store and throw down. 

Sincerely,

   -Chuck Prophet

Chuck Prophet - Get Off The Stage

The Rubinoos - Do You Remember

Chuck Prophet - “Your Skin”

Chuck Prophet - “Bad Year for Rock and Roll”

El Depravo "Tulare Kiss "7 Belle Sound

There are conflicting stories as to who this band is (or if they even exist), but I'm here to tell you that it's no hoax. It happened. James DePrato, Rusty James Miller and Chuck Prophet.

LINK WRAY inspired tracks for a movie in our heads that never came out. 

Are You Sure Hank Done it this Way

Continue a boire des bières et manger du beurre de cacahuète pendant les prises.

CHUCK PROPHET - NIGHT SURFER

le 08/10 Paris
LA JAVA

CHUCK PROPHET & THE SPANISH BOMBS - "Wrong'em Boyo" @ Kafe Antzokia Bilbao (2011)

En 2011 Chuck Prophet qui devait s’ennuyer ferme entre l’écriture de ses disques, ses multiples collaborations, ses productions et ses concerts solos ou avec le Mission Express, a monté un groupe éphémère : les Spanish Bombs. Leur unique but était une tournée où ils reprendraient en concert l’intégralité de ‘’London Calling’’. 

Bien évidemment ils ont commencé par l’Espagne et bien évidemment je l’ai su trop tard, j’ai manqué leur passage à Bilbao. Et vu la qualité de la vidéo, j’aurais pu la faire… Je me suis rattrapé l’année suivante en voyant Chuck, Stephanie & The ME à SanSe mais c’est une autre histoire.

Tout ça bien sûr avec la marque de fabrique du bonhomme depuis quelques années : la banane, indéfectible !

EWG

Chuck Prophet - No Other Love (2002)

"I Lost Control On The Miracle Mile"

Rien à jeter ici, ce qui est d'ailleurs une constante dans les disques de Chuck Prophet, jamais de remplissage.

C'est par ce disque que j'ai découvert le bonhomme n'ayant pas suivi en leur temps les pérégrinations de Green On Red, et j'ai basculé du côté obscur dès la première écoute…

Sur une base R'n'R US a-priori très classique Chuck nous bluffe avec des arrangements qui le sont beaucoup moins et des paroles malines et nous achève avec sa voix et sa gratte uniques.

Si vous connaissez vous savez de quoi je parle et si vous souhaitez découvrir, méfiance, la musique de Chuck est très très addictive,

EWG

01 - What Can You Tell Me

02 - After The Rain

03 - I Bow Down And Pray To Every Woman I See

06 - No Other Love

07 - Elouise

08 - That's How Much I Need Your Love

09 - Summertime Thing

10 - What Makes The Monkey Dance

11 - Old Friends

Bow Down And Pray!

CHUCK PROPHET - Dreaming Waylon's Dreams (2007)

"I'm Sick And Tired Of Waking Up Sick And Tired!"
Fan de Waylon Jennings, Chuck a décidé de reprendre dans son intégralité son "Dreaming My Dreams" de 1975.
Je ne sais pas si le résultat est fidèle à l'original que je n'ai jamais écouté, mais même si la liste des invités est longue la voix et la guitare de Chuck planent ici tellement haut que ce disque, plié en 48h chrono, lui ressemble et lui appartient définitivement.
Vous trouverez l'histoire de son enregistrement ici :
http://chuckprophet.com/blog/waylon_are_you_pissed/
Mais il faut toujours se méfier quand Chuck, ou un de ses potes, raconte une histoire...
EWG

01 - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?
02 - Waymore's Blues
03 - I Recall A Gypsy Woman
04 - High Time (You Quit Your Low Down Ways)
05 - I've Been A Long Time Leaving (I'll Be A Long Time Gone)
06 - Let's All Help The Cowboys (Sing The Blues)
07 - The Door Is Always Open
08 - Let's Turn Back The Years
09 - She's Looking Good
10 - Dreaming My Dreams With You
11 - Bob Wills Is Still The King

It's High Time

Chuck Prophet - Age Of Miracles

Automatic Blues

Age Of Miracles

You Did ( Bomp Shooby Dooby Bomp )

Smallest Man In The World

Just To See You Smile

West Memphis Moon

You've Got Me Where You Want Me

Pin A Rose On Me

Heavy Duty

Monkey In The Middle

Solid Gold

Age Of Miracles

Age Or Miracles. 11 wondrous slabs of rock 'n' roll that allow soul, rock, pop, funk, blues and hip-hop to intermingle. A little grown up and a little juvenile, full of ugly truths and beautiful lies. 

CHUCK PROPHET & THE MISSION EXPRESS - Live @ The Starry Plough (2010)

                                                        "Put The Beach Boys On, I Wanna Hear Help Me Rhonda!"

Notre ami Chuck live en 2010 avec le groupe de sa chère et tendre Stephanie Finch, The Mission Express et son guitar-hero James DePrato (ça nous en fait donc deux de guitar-heroes...)

Chuck certes en mode apaisé par rapport à sa jeunesse, mais la finesse et le bon goût sont intacts et l'enthousiasme est communicatif.

Quelques reprises bien senties dont un juste retour des choses puisque Chuck avait lui-même écrit "Always A Friend" pour son pote Alejandro Escovedo, le tout dans un set pas loin du "Best-Of" où il ne manque guère que l'hymne San-Franciscain "Shake Some Action" qu'il délivre régulièrement en mode bombe atomique...

(Avec une petite dédicace au grand Dickinson dans "We Had It Hall".)

EWG

01 - James Intro > Sonny Liston's Blues

02 - I Bow Down And Pray To Every Woman I See

03 - Wasn't I Always A Friend To You

04 - Just To See You Smile

05 - New Kingdom

06 - Hot Talk

07 - Love Won't Keep Us Apart

08 - Doubter Out Of Jesus

09 - For You

10 - You And Me Baby

11 - Let Freedom Ring

12 - Summertime Thing

13 - We Had It All

14 - Don't Back Out Now > Automatic Blues

15 - You Did

16 - Let's Do Something Wrong > Bangkok

17 - Rebel Rebel > Boogie Shoes

Steph'n'Proph