transmothra - signs of the collapse

Billy Preston has left the studio at the tender age of 59.

A kinder, sweeter man i have never met. He had tons of heart. He saved the Beatles in their last year. Rock music wouldn't have been so good without this wonderful man. Here's just a partial list of credits. He also played with Earth Wind and Fire during the group's heyday.

(1970) Let It Be — including "Get Back"
(1970) All Things Must Pass (George Harrison)
(1971) Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones)
(1971) The Concert for Bangladesh (George Harrison And Friends)
(1971) There's a Riot Goin' On (Sly & the Family Stone)
(1972) Exile on Main Street (Rolling Stones)
(1973) Goats Head Soup (Rolling Stones)
(1974) It's Only Rock'n Roll (Rolling Stones)
(1975) Blood on the Tracks (Bob Dylan)
(1975) "You Are So Beautiful" (Joe Cocker's biggest hit)
(1976) Black and Blue (Rolling Stones)

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (news) (official site)

wow. the music of Sean Padilla, aka the Cocker Spaniels, is a shit-hot ball of ferocious beauty. the dude rocked. he didn't even have his backing tapes. just him and his guitar, and he burnt down half of America, with love, all by hisself.

damn!

the audience i thought kind of sucked a little. my pal Tony flaked on me last minute. Ohioans are just [a]pathetic. but it was so exciting to finally meet this guy whose album i adore because it speaks in so many tongues to so many topics and does it so well and so originally. i was kind of nervous and shy, feeling stupid because of my regular LJ tirades and rants against everything must make me look like a total jackass above all else; and because he's like this great big damn shining star and i'm oddly starstruck by this guy who probably only a couple of thousand other people in the world have ever even heard of (THAT will change over time, trust me).

his between-song banter is deft and skillful, people. and he's only 24. for crying out loud, THAT should be enough to convince the world that a star is born. but his songs, and his playing and singing... crimony! like i said, ferocious beauty. nobody that young is that good.

and about the most likable fella you could ever meet.

i weep! i weeeeeeeeep!

[special thanks go to Holly, who not only let me go although she was deathly ill, but even came with me, although she was about ten seconds from the grave by the time we left]