Words@brothersgibb.com message digest 09/13/2018 15:01 (#2018-719)
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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:36:02 -0400
From: Joseph Brennan <brennan@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Maurice SHD-A
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 3:37 PM julian@theglassfamily.co.uk <
julian@theglassfamily.co.uk> wrote:
> No disrespect but was Maurice sipping his drinks in 1969.
Well, he fell down a stairway in mid 1969, and attended Tin Tin's "Have You
Heard the Word" session with one arm in a sling (or was it a cast?). I
wonder how that happens to a 19 year old. He's playing bass guitar on it
anyway. Steve Kipner told me he and Steve Groves walked out eventually
after seeing things deteriorate thanks to a well stocked bar in the
recording studio.
The same might also be said of B&R too perhaps. Lol.
>
No, they were taking less liquid refreshments!
> I changed the lyric, "said he would thinka over his drinka" to "said he
> would think while indulging his drink" or "sipping his drink"
>
I was never coming back-a... you would give my love the sack-a. But that
was Maurice. Is this affectation an Australian or Manchester thing? Or was
it comedy shtick by someone on radio or television? A fine bit of trivia,
if anyone knows. I can't think of ever hearing an American comic do it.
While I'm writing... "Lay It on Me" was one of the songs Maurice called
swamp rock. The "bad boy" lyrics were typical. He was just having fun for
two minutes. I love it. If he could overdub all those instruments while
drunk I will be impressed. He's playing everything but the string section.
I checked "swamp rock" on wikipedia, and I see the writer makes a
distinction between it and "swamp pop", even mentioning "Lay It on Me" in a
list of examples of swamp pop. What really caught my eye was this other
example: Johnnie Allan's "Lonely Days, Lonely Nights" (1958), which on the
Johnnie Allan page is called "a swamp pop classic". Did Maurice know this
song? Did it give them the title to work off for the BR&M song? News to me.
Another title by Johnnie Allan was "Let's Go Get Drunk" which might have
been inspirational!
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