Album Notes
Liner Note Author: Bruce Harris.Photographer: Joel Brodsky.A very interesting double LP retrospective two years after Jim Morrison's version of the Doors had officially closed. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine contained the first album release of two B-sides, Willie Dixon's "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further," sung by Ray Manzarek, originally on the flip side of the 1971 45 "Love Her Madly," and the beautiful "Who Scared You," "Wishful Sinful"'s flip with Jim Morrison on vocals from a session in 1969. Both are worthwhile additions not found on their first "greatest hits" collection, 13. This compilation is a strange amalgam of their music, the LP title taken from a line in the song "The End," which concludes side two. Five of the 22 songs are from the L.A. Woman sessions, including the title track of that album and the full length "Riders on the Storm," both clocking in at seven-plus minutes. With "The End" and "When the Music's Over" at 11:35 and 11:00 respectively, that's 38 minutes and 38 seconds between four titles, more than a third of the 99-plus minutes of music on this collection. Nothing from Absolutely Live is included, and surprisingly, the classic "Waiting for the Sun" is not here, though that Morrison Hotel number would fit the mood perfectly. "Love Street," the flip of "Hello I Love You," is here, but pertinent singles like "Wishful Sinful" or "Do It" and its flip, "Runnin' Blue," from The Soft Parade, are all missing in action. The cover art pastiche by Bill Hoffman is worth the price of admission if you already have all this material, while the inside gatefold picture looks like an outtake from the first album. Bruce Harris' liner notes are truly the '60s merging with the '70s; he calls Jim Morrison "merely the index of our possibilities" and states that Morrison didn't want to be an idol "because he believed all idols were hollow." The essay is all the more silly when you realize it isn't tongue-in-cheek in the way Lou Reed's incoherent ramblings inside Metal Machine Music are more enjoyable than the disc. Harris seems to actually believe what he pontificates. But the music is awesome, so put it on and read the Metal Machine Music scribblings instead. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine is a work of art in the first order, the way the Beatles #1 album is wonderfully redundant, and it should see the light of day again. This time they could add "Tree Trunk," the flip of the "Get Up and Dance" 45 RPM from 1972's Full Circle album. ~ Joe Viglione
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It's a stroll down Memory Lane for me looking at the materials...and the photos of the CD and album covers are amazing. The late April Lawton (transsexual guitarist for supergroup Ramatam) has a disc that has about 3 minutes left on eBay (see cover art below.) I saw Ramatam at the old Music Hall (now Citi Center) with Jimi Hendrix drummer the late Mitch Mitchell wailing away. Great memories.
What an honor for me, personally, to see all these different sellers and buyers reading my work.
Some of the pioneers of Women's Music were also reviewed by yours truly.
Here's Ferron
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Dominique the Singing Nun
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Carole King's beautiful Pearls
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and Janis Ian, of course
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Here are some of my favorites in no particular order
VERBOW
Interviewed these guys when I was program director of AM 1670 back in 2000
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Music For Lonely Housewives! Great one!
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The Great Fatsby! Have always loved Leslie's work
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Just found a Lisa Hartman album in the house that I didn't review. Here's the first one I did get to review. Her songwriter phoned me to tell me he appreciated the honesty in the writing.
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The great YMA SUMAC is supposed to be a Princess from some faroff land.
We were talking about her in a record store yesterday. Rumor is, she was Brooklyn housewife named Amy Camus (read her name backwards, NOT CAMUSO! HA HA! CAMU!)... it begs the question, is the highly respected original "Yoko Ono" Yma Sumac actually Paul Camuso's Aunt Carol in disguise?
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The Captain & Tenille's Manager wrote me (before they broke up) to tell me that they loved my writings
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I've done 2 different reviews for HURRICANE. I think Alice Cooper still plays this disc on his WZLX show. Alice personally thanked me at the Orpheum Theater for my reviews on his music.
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Esquivel is pure genius
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Hillside Singers Like to teach the world To Sing
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The lovely Nina Simone, of course
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And who could forget The Crystal Mansion
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