Lovin' Spoonful....again.

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: bbelle
Date: 31 Jul 00 - 10:57 PM

'cause it makes ya feel old, catspaw51

backwoods birkenstock bitch

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Jul 00 - 11:03 PM

So now I rate the bbb tag? Another sign of getting old or what?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: bbelle
Date: 31 Jul 00 - 11:10 PM

No ... just when I'm feelin' frisky

moonchild

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: DonMeixner
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 12:14 AM

John Sebastian and the J Band are doing JugBand stuff very similar to the Even Dozen jug band. The CD I have has Geof Muldaur and Fritz Richmond on it as well as the late Yank Rachell among others. A fine bit of stuff. Sebastian sound like his old self with a slight cold. He looks about the same too. Definately a CD for the Jug Band literati among us.

Don

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: mactheturk
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 12:20 AM

Trish and I first met in the summer of 67'. It was a special time for all of us. After 33 years together we still love those songs.


like this one.....


She's a lady
and I chanced to meet her
in my skufflin' days
she's a lady
hypnotized me there that day
I came to play in my usual way.....


happy to say she still is mine......

Mac

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: GUEST,Hutzul
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:31 AM

I never knew "Darlin' Companion" was a Spoonful tune. Where did they record it? I've only heard it by Johnny Cash and June Carter.

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:45 AM

I'm sorry, I was so stoned I don't remember a (blank blank) thing..............

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 05:24 AM

...and let's not forget the band, like the Rolling Stones,the Hoochie Coochie Men and other bands of the '60s, took their names from good old blues numbers. Love Howlin' Wolf doing "Spoonful".
RtS

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: mactheturk
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 07:35 AM

Well, there's 19,821 mothers in Nashville
all the folks play music and they're ain't uptight
if one of the kids will

and it's custom made for every mother's son
to be a guitar picker in Nashville
an I sure am glad I had a chance to say a word
about the music and the mothers of Nashville


John Sebastian

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: GUEST,RAH
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 02:06 AM

bald headed lena has anybody seen her cute as she can be she has a cue ball head that's hard as lead but she's alright with me.

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: GUEST,Mark Cohen
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 02:40 AM

Remember:

Sebastian and Zal formed the Spoonful
Michelle, John and Denny gettin' kinda tuneful

Didn't I post something about John Sebastian in another thread recently? And didn't Mbo think I was talking about J.S. Bach? Or is my ginkgo deficiency acting up again? Yes, that was, and still is, magical music.

Spaw, I was pretty unhappy in those days, always wishing what happened to mactheturk (good for you, mac) would happen to me, but I just reach back to the fun they were having then and enjoy it now.

Aloha,
Mark (still waiting for this premie to be born)

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: mactheturk
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 07:52 AM

Nashville Cats
play clean as country water...
Nashville Cats
play wild as mountain dew..ew..
Nashville Cats
been playin' since they're babies
Nashville Cats
get work before they're two

aw, pick it.. ... .. .... ...... ... ....... ..

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 09:13 PM

Sebastian said about Nashville Cats that he was disappointed that some people thought it was a put down of country music, because he and the rest of the band felt like they were amateurs compared to the session musicians in Nashville, who were the subject of the song. He also said nobody in the band could actually play steel guitar, but Zal was able to fake the sound at the end of the song by using a slide.

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: DonMeixner
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 10:10 PM

Darlin Companion is on the "Hums of the Lovin Spoonful" album I believe.

Don

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 10:21 AM

6 years after the last posting and so I thought I would bring it back from the dead. The reason? I have just discovered them and think that they are truly wonderful. Wonderful songs with deceptively simple lyrics and catchy tunes that only a true pop genius like John Sebastian could come up with. Also a good singer and fine harmonica player. I rate him as high as Ray Davis, Brian Wilson, Lennon & McCartney, and Pete Townsend. I bought a greatest hits CD for Linving in the City and ended up loving the whole CD. I am now hunting down their entire backlog.

My only question: What is Jug Music?

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: GUEST,Penguin Egg
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 10:23 AM

What is Jug Music and can anyone recommend a CD? I forgot to put my name on the last posting. Many apologies.

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: RichM
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 10:31 AM

google "jug band"

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: Wesley S
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 01:18 PM

Also google Gus Cannon, "Cannon's Jug Stompers" and the "Memphis Jug Band". A type of blues and ragtime music that uses guitars, banjos, mandolins, jugs,washtub bass, kazoos, harmonicas ect.

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 01:24 PM

....and The J-Band, Jim Kweskin, The Even Dozen Jug Band.

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 01:29 PM

www.jugband.org

Try this. I get lots of help from this bunch. Great folk. Easy to get along woth. Answer any Kweskin.

Sorry about the pun

Don

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: Steve-o
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 01:33 PM

Just go to John Sebastian's website and you will hear and learn all about Jug Band Music. John is helping keep this fun music alive in the world. He really "got his start" way back in the sixties in the Even Dozen Jug Band, which included many greats like David Grisman and Maria (D'Amato) Muldaur. A number of the songs the LSpoonful did were just "electrified" jug band songs, due to John's love for this music. BTW, you are right about his great talent with melody and lyrics- a terrific songwriter.

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: Amos
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 01:41 PM

Named after the use of a moonshine jug (or similar) as a sort of rhythm instrument.


A

Subject: RE: Lovin' Spoonful....again.
From: PoppaGator
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:21 AM

The jug, in truly capable hands, serves as a bass (actually a sort of bass-horn or tuba, i.e., a low-register wind instrument), not a percussion instrument.

The washtub bass or "gutbucket," a (one-)stringed instrument, is also a venerable jug-band instrument. Generally, one or the other of these homemade-type bass instruments is used on a given number, not both.

Of course, in the hands of less capable players, both of these bass instruments are often played in an atonal fashion, in which case they provide only rhythm, not a discernably melodic bass line.

The undisputed master of both the jug and the tub was the recently-deceased Fritz Richmond. He came to prominence in the 60s as a member of Jim Kweskin's Jug Band, and much more recently was a key member, along with John Sebastian, of The J-Band. In addition to his considerable musical accomplishments, Fritz was the first to wear tinted "granny-glasses" on stage, predating the "look" popularized by John Lennon by about a half-decade.