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20 Jan 07 - 01:05 PM (#1942574) Subject: Richie Haven's birthday From: The Shambles Richie Havens was born this day (21 January) in 1941. |
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24 Jan 07 - 05:49 AM (#1946399) Subject: RE: Richie Haven's birthday From: Wolfgang Ouch. Wrong spelling of artist's name in the thread title. Could it be corrected please by a clone. Wolfgang |
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24 Jan 07 - 06:00 AM (#1946410) Subject: RE: Richie Haven's birthday From: Peace The spelling's correct. The apostrophe is in the wrong place. |
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24 Jan 07 - 06:07 AM (#1946416) Subject: RE: Richie Haven's birthday From: Alec Richie was/is a great interpreter of song & very much deserving of a Happy Birthday |
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24 Jan 07 - 09:28 AM (#1946572) Subject: RE: Richie Haven's birthday From: Scrump Who is this Richie Haven anyway? I've never heard of him. Any road, whoever he is, he reminds me of Richie Havens, who was very good, and may still be, for all I know - haven't seen him for years. |
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24 Jan 07 - 10:46 AM (#1946625) Subject: RE: Richie Havens' birthday From: Peace I have. He rocks. |
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24 Jan 07 - 10:51 AM (#1946632) Subject: RE: Richie Havens' birthday From: GUEST Here's a review from Mondays"s "Guardian" of recent concert he did at Gateshead. It gets 4 out of 5 stars. **** Sage, Gateshead Dave Simpson Monday January 22, 2007 The Guardian Richie Havens will always be synonymous with his phenomenal festival-opening set at the original Woodstock. Almost four decades later, there are no Hare Krishna banners over his stage, and the once-black beard is wispy grey. However, Havens wears a robe-like outfit similar to 1969's and carries on the Woodstock spirit as effectively as any of his generation. He opens by talking about his days in Greenwich Village, recalling one song that a "friend" gave him a demo of and he in turn taught the tune to another "friend". The song was All Along the Watchtower, as written by Bob Dylan and "nailed" by Jimi Hendrix. But Havens doesn't need to name-drop; his aura is magnetic enough, and the fearsome Woodstock spirit permeates his playing. His unique, self-taught rushed strumming style allows him to massively reinterpret Dylan's Just Like a Woman and George Harrison's Here Comes the Sun. Accompanied by lead guitar and cello, his newly anguished version of Joni Mitchell's Woodstock is indescribably mesmeric, and he closes with Freedom ("Sometimes I feel just like a motherless child") as performed at the festival. When Havens turns audience clapping into a whirling hurricane of percussion and cries for "Freedom!", it somehow seems a metaphor for what people coming together can achieve. |
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24 Jan 07 - 11:51 AM (#1946683) Subject: RE: Richie Havens' birthday From: Amos Richie exudes the aura of his time, in technicolor and peace-o-vision. He brings it into the present, snap!, leaving all those who thought it was time to go back to sleep for a few decades wondering whose boat it was they missed thereby. He is just one big man, playing and singing, but he is doing it all-out, all-in-earnest, all-heart. As such he resonates into the souls of those who listen to him, not so much as a musician but as another soul, a lighthouse character, walking among the sleeping reef-brains by a dangerous shore. Happy birthday, Dude. A |
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24 Jan 07 - 12:12 PM (#1946706) Subject: RE: Richie Havens' birthday From: Cluin Ah, Richie Havens, one of my favourite singers of all time! Happy birthday, from one Richard to another. |
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24 Jan 07 - 02:38 PM (#1946865) Subject: RE: Richie Havens' birthday From: bubblyrat Get out the Woodstock video ,pour the wine,light up,and be transported !! |
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24 Jan 07 - 02:50 PM (#1946875) Subject: RE: Richie Havens' birthday From: fat B****rd Thank you Cluin, Great site. Happy Birthday, Mr. Havens. |
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24 Jan 07 - 03:53 PM (#1946953) Subject: RE: Richie Havens' birthday From: bobad If you haven't already read it, I highly recommend his book "They Can't Hide Us Anymore" wherein you will discover what a great spirit this man has. |
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24 Jan 07 - 06:06 PM (#1947085) Subject: RE: Richie Havens' birthday From: Amos ...and a thing or two about peace, too... ;>) A |
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24 Jan 07 - 06:41 PM (#1947120) Subject: RE: Richie Havens' birthday From: ragdall ...and a thing or two about peace, too... Such as this? From Whelan's Dublin review, of Richie's July 2005 concert: ...Richie gave a plaintive, soon to be prophetic, rendition of Bruce Murdoch's protest song "Lets Lay Down Your Drums" with its moving and relevant lyric, "songs like these shouldn't need to be sung." |
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24 Jan 07 - 06:54 PM (#1947133) Subject: RE: Richie Havens' birthday From: bobad Just for the record the correct title of Bruce's song is "Lets Lay Down Our Drums." |
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24 Jan 07 - 10:15 PM (#1947258) Subject: RE: Richie Havens' birthday From: Rapparee Dang shame I couldn't get Internet in my hotel room in Seattle, or I would have said "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RICHIE!" three days ago. |
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25 Jan 07 - 10:27 AM (#1947600) Subject: RE: Richie Havens' birthday From: Fliss Saw him at a Crystal Palace park pop concert in the early 70's. Great singer. |