tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77965562024-03-05T06:39:12.580-08:00The Official Buzzy Linhart BlogBuzzy Linhart's original "buzzy" album is back in re-release as "Buzzy's buzzy", all six songs re-mastered by Buzzy and Bill Black in a gorgeous fold out cardboard cover. Visit our main site at BuzzyLinhart.comJoe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-81600154948413792682013-01-20T12:18:00.001-08:002013-01-20T12:18:55.239-08:00Buzzy Linhart's 70th Birthday Bash - March 3, 2013<h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}">
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Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-42931811883397741042013-01-20T11:59:00.002-08:002013-01-20T12:15:25.405-08:00March 5, 2013 the new Hendrix release <span style="font-size: x-large;">Hey<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Buzzy <span style="font-size: x-large;">Fans,</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March 5 is two days aft<span style="font-size: x-large;">er Buzzy's birthday (March 3<span style="font-size: x-large;">.<span style="font-size: x-large;">..and remember Lou Reed's birthday is March 2), and <span style="font-size: x-large;">along with March 5 comes the release of the new Hendrix CD, People Hell and Angels</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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An album of 12 previously unreleased recordings by Jimi Hendrix is slated for
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"So<span style="font-size: x-large;">on, at last, I will be 70<span style="font-size: x-large;"> years old, and as my son, D<span style="font-size: x-large;">r. / Profe<span style="font-size: x-large;">ssor Xeno <span style="font-size: x-large;">once said (and we'll paraphrase him) "You can never say that Buzzy was in it only for t<span style="font-size: x-large;">he money." It's kind of tongue-in-cheek as I never really got any money, but who can trade the type of li<span style="font-size: x-large;">f</span>estyle I got to experience because I got<span style="font-size: x-large;"> to play for presidents, kings and queens</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>, as <span style="font-size: x-large;">I just said before, who needs to be <span style="font-size: x-large;">a super-wealthy man if you get to eat like one and play with the millionaires? No money, no respon<span style="font-size: x-large;">s</span>ibilit<span style="font-size: x-large;">ies!."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #330033;"><br />40 days until the IBS Radio Conference March 1</span><br />
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<br />Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-45316658386649877292012-10-10T19:46:00.004-07:002012-10-10T19:46:37.807-07:00New Buzzy Linhart single "The Birds" in Just A Minute Film Festival<div style="text-align: center;">
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Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-53302290753008500072010-06-10T15:15:00.000-07:002010-06-10T15:17:31.447-07:00Tonight On The Buzzy Linhart Show!<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Tonight on the Buzzy Linhart Show!<br /><br />We talk about the Gulf & B.P. and the Oil...June 10, 2010<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wincam.org">http://www.wincam.org</a><br /></span></span><br />Live from Master Control!<br /><br />Buzzy Linhart with Moogy Klingman in New York City <br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://buzzynewyork.blogspot.com/"><br />http://buzzynewyork.blogspot.com/</a></span><br /><br /><img style="cursor: -moz-zoom-in;" alt="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2607/409/1600/012_11A.jpg" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2607/409/1600/012_11A.jpg" width="850" height="567" />Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-44929802272510614602010-03-30T20:42:00.001-07:002010-03-30T20:42:35.637-07:00Buzzy Linhart to Produce Vampy! National Press this week!<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vampy's Top 10 Horror Movies on Horror Happenings syndicated column</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-9764-Horror-Happenings-Examiner%7Ey2010m3d30-Vampy?cid=examiner-email#comments"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br />http://www.examiner.com/x-9764-Horror-Happenings-Examiner~y2010m3d30-Vampy?cid=examiner-email#comments</a><br /><br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vampy's Top 10 Horror Movies on Horror Happenings syndicated column</span></span><br /><br /><div style="float: left; width: 90px;"><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-9764-Horror-Happenings-Examiner"><img src="http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/author/Charles%20Rosenay%20small_57049_2009-04-29%2015-46-52.312.jpg" alt="Horror Happenings Examiner" title="Horror Happenings Examiner" class="imgborder" style="padding: 1px;" width="90" border="0" height="75" /></a></div> <div style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; width: 26px;"><a id="favbutton" href="http://www.examiner.com/blog/includes/AddtoMyExaminers.cfm?blogID=9764&height=150&width=380&modal=true&TB_iframe=true" class="thickbox" title="Add to My Examiners"><span> </span></a><a id="biobutton" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-9764-Horror-Happenings-Examiner?showbio" title="Examiner Biography"><span></span></a> </div> <div style="float: left; width: 460px;"> <script language="javascript"> var Ex = new Object(); Ex.RT = new Object(); Ex.RT.twitterRedirect = function(data) { window._twitterWin.location = "http://twitter.com/home?status=Vampy%21 - " + data.tinyurl; } Ex.RT.reTweet = function(fullURL) { window._twitterWin = window.open("", "Twitter", "width=800,height=700,menubar=yes,toolbar=yes, scrollbars=yes"); var req = $.ajax({ async: true, cache: false, dataType: 'jsonp', timeout: 2000, url: 'http://json-tinyurl.appspot.com/?url=' + fullURL + "&callback=Ex.RT.twitterRedirect" }); return false; } </script> <h1> <div style="float: right;"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span> </div> Who or What is Vampy! ?<br /></h1> <div class="new_timestamp"><br />March 30, 12:13 PM<img src="http://image.examiner.com/img/greydot.gif" style="padding: 0pt;" align="absmiddle" border="0" /><a onclick="s_objectID='article-head_examiner-index';" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-9764-Horror-Happenings-Examiner" style="text-decoration: none;">Horror Happenings Examiner</a><img src="http://image.examiner.com/img/greydot.gif" style="padding: 0pt;" align="absmiddle" border="0" /><br /><br />Charles F. Rosenay aka Cryptmaster Chiller Chucky</div> </div> <div> <div style="float: right;"><a class="ovalbutton prevnext" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-9764-Horror-Happenings-Examiner%7Ey2010m3d29-News-from-the-NYC-Horror-Film-fest" onclick="s_objectID='article-head_previous';" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="padding-left: 5px;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;" ><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" >"Vampy?" Vampy is a Goth/metal/trance musician/artist from the West Coast currently working with rocker Buzzy Linhart. The esteemed Mr. Linhart is producing new music from Vampy (sometimes know as "Vampy & The Dead Star band"). Through PR wiz Joe Viglione, we were able to get a list of Vampy's top ten horror movies. We haven't seen a Horror Happenings list yet that we weren't proud of, and Vampy's is no exception.</span></span></div></div> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" ><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" ><strong><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" ><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" ><strong><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" ><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" ><strong><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" ><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" ><strong><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" ><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" ><strong><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" ><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" ><strong><span style="font-size:100%;">Here is a list of Vampy's Terrorble Top 10 Horror Movies</span></strong></span></span></p> <div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="" src="http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID9764/images/Vampy-1.jpg" width="270" align="left" height="382" />1) Nosferatu - I considered Chris Lee's Dracula; Nosferatu didn't talk, best watched at dawn.<br /><br />2) Dracula/Dracula (1931) Double feature - Brown and Mexican versions<br /><br />3) Frankenstein - Andy Warhol version<br /><br />4) The Unknown - This list could have more Lon Cheney<br /><br />5) The Hunger - has the most meaning to my life. Seems every four years another ex-girlfriend is carried up to the attic.<br /><br />6) The Picture of Dorian Gray - In a shade of Dorian Gray I painted myself.<br /><br />7) The Audlusion Dog - An image that stays forever - Un chien andalou (1929) <a title="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/"><span style="color:#0066cc;">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/</span></a><br /><br />8) Blood & Donuts - for those who know Vampire movies I recommend this<br /><br />9) The Hand - This one wasn't my choice. It was the Hand's<br /><br />10) The Blood Countess - Historically, right on.<br /> </div> <div style="text-align: left;">Check out: <a title="http://buzzylinhart.blogspot.com/" href="http://buzzylinhart.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#0066cc;">http://buzzylinhart.blogspot.com</span></a></div> <p><img alt="" src="http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID9764/images/vampy-2.jpg" width="170" height="187" /></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Music aficionados should look into some of our articles on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-9764-Horror-Happenings-Examiner%7Etopic300218-MusicMusicals?selstate=topcat#breadcrumb">music & monsters</a>. </span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;">You can check out all the Horror Happenings Terrorble <a target="_blank" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-9764-Horror-Happenings-Examiner%7Etopic300189-Terrorble-Top-Ten-Lists?selstate=topcat#breadcrumb">Top 10 Lists here</a>. </span></p>Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-31895031400395498572009-12-25T09:45:00.000-08:002009-12-25T12:00:32.180-08:00New Music from Vampy coming soon!Vampy and Buzzy Linhart to work on a new danceable Goth recording - keep watching this blog for more information.<br /><br />Buzzy Linhart Loves You and Wishes all his friends and fans a Merry Christmas 2009!<br /><hr><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXXmfT03vTVdohe1mmZtCO2Q1bqvyoqIZgYXB0kTIe5awq0EDQDjnd1_MzKBYwAavnwXDEXF2osGh0vuAZgCHEqtnoPR5QBskEB4AKUA_5MfOPxyW9Nbel-eHVcgg3FG_Cj46tRg/s1600-h/Vampy-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419231471660009698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 226px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXXmfT03vTVdohe1mmZtCO2Q1bqvyoqIZgYXB0kTIe5awq0EDQDjnd1_MzKBYwAavnwXDEXF2osGh0vuAZgCHEqtnoPR5QBskEB4AKUA_5MfOPxyW9Nbel-eHVcgg3FG_Cj46tRg/s320/Vampy-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><hr><br /><br /><a href="http://vampirefreaks.com/">http://vampirefreaks.com/</a>Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-77499242004585730532009-12-04T13:40:00.000-08:002009-12-25T12:01:49.698-08:00Linhart works on new music with Vampy & The Dead Star Band<span style="font-weight: bold;">Buzzy Linhart working on new music with Vampy & The Dead Star Band!<br /></span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/vampyband"> <br /> </a><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" height="100"><tbody><tr> <td class="text" colspan="3" style="word-wrap: break-word;" align="left" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="300" valign="bottom"><span class="nametext">Vampy & The Dead Star Band</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:78%;color:#033330;"><strong> Gothic / Metal / Trance </strong></span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300"> <tbody><tr> <td class="text" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="75" height="75"> <a id="ctl00_cpMain_ctl01_UserBasicInformation1_hlDefaultImage" rel="myspace:photo" href="http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewAlbums&friendID=485108578"><img src="http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/94/m_b1758cd1550a44a7bd1b1f25983d7e09.jpg" style="border-width: 0px;" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="http://www.myspace.com/vampyband"><br /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/vampyband">http://www.myspace.com/vampyband</a><br /><br /><hr />It's Buzzy Goes Goth as Bay area Death Rock/Gothic legend Vampy teams up with the illustrious Mr. Linhart to record new music.<br /><br />Due to an unfortunate accident Vampy has been sidelined, but we're hoping the project which could include the song "Noc Noc It's The Night" can resume shortly.<br /><br />Janis Reed spoke with Vampy for 41 minutes on December 3, 2009 and with Buzzy on December 4th and as soon as more information is available it will be posted here. Reed is trying to get the two to collaborate on a new version of the Blue Cheer classic "I'm The Light" from the album Oh! Pleasant Hope.<br /><br /><br /></span>Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-15575614984737953942008-11-16T06:42:00.000-08:002008-11-16T06:44:47.164-08:00N.E. Informer, Goldmine Reviews of Buzzy's BuzzyJust published last night or this morning in New England Informer:<br /><a href="http://neinformeronline.com/music.html"><br />http://neinformeronline.com/music.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">CD Review Corner "Buzzy's Buzzy" </span><br /><br />by Rock Journalist Joe Viglione<br /><br />November 2008<br /><br />Buzzy Linhart is a legendary film/music figure having appeared in the 1974 movie "The Groove Tube" with Richard Belzer and Chevy Chase, drumming and playing vibraphone with Jimi Hendrix, co-writing Bette Midler's signature tune (You Got To Have) "Friends", appearing as Buzzy weekly on Bill Cosby's original "Coz" television program, his enormous talent spans multiple spectrums. The re-release of Buzzy's debut lp, "Buzzy", on he and his partners' own BuzzArt Inc. imprint, is interesting in that the company has a number of unreleased masters to distribute, the first being the 2006 title "Studio". Why interrupt the flow by re-issuing a previously available album from 1969? The answer is the pirates! Bootleg, pirate copies of this album have reached the marketplace, a devastating strike against artistic purity and the opportunity for the composer/singer to be paid for his musical efforts. With digital editing available for most computers, savvy thieves<br />take the music from the vinyl discs and re-issue massive quantities of private property. There are safeguards, eBay will remove product when alerted that it is not a legal, official release, but the pirates navigate these waters with clever dexterity.<br /><br />The pirate/bootleg illicit copy of "buzzy" (with a small "b") has the original vinyl lp cover.<br /><br />The new version has a beautiful Richard De Sinto design with a super photograph by Dunstan Pereira, but there's more. Produced by Linhart and Arthur Berggren, the audio editorial revisions to the material are by Buzzy and engineer Bill Black. They've taken the original tracking order and totally reinvented the song placement. "End Song", which concluded the original vinyl disc, starts off the new album. "I Wish I Could Find" comes second where it was fourth when the LP was first released, and the music shimmers with groove, exotic rhythms and passionate vocals that are so very absent in this world of machine shop production in the new millennium.<br /><br /><br /><br />Nov 8, 2008 5:00 PM<br />Number # 3 Americana Charts for October 27, 2008 Kalx<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">…the AMERICANA chart! from THE BERKSTER / KALX FM</span><br /><br />Americana Charts for October 27, 2008<br /><br />1. Jolie Holland - The Living And The Dead (Anti-)<br />1. Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Sub Pop)<br />2. Jon Langford and Kat Ex - Kat Jon Band (Carrot Top)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br />3. Buzzy Linhart - Buzzy's Buzzy (Buzzart)</span><br /><br />4. Taj Mahal - Maestro (Heads Up)<br />5. Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher (Netwerk)<br />6. Golden Smog - Stay Golden, Smog: The Best Of Golden Smog (Ryko)<br />7. Buddy Guy - Skin Deep (Silvertone)<br />8. Cephas & Wiggins - Richmond Blues (Smithsonian Folkways)<br />9. Jolie Holland - The Living And The Dead (Anti-)<br />10. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue (Warner Bros.)<br />11. Loudon Wainwright III - Album II (Atlantic)<br />12. Charlie Haden - Family & Friends - Rambling Boy (Decca)<br />13. Axton Kincaid - Silver Dollars (Free Dirt)<br />14. Woodbox Gang - Drunk As Dragons (Alternative Tentacles)<br />15. Longview - Deep In The Mountains (Rounder)<br /><br />THE BERKSTER<br /><a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=26470579">http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=26470579</a><br /> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/kalxradio"><br />http://www.myspace.com/kalxradio </a><br /><br /><hr /><br />GOLDMINE MAGAZINE<a href="http://www.goldminemag.com/article/Picture_Sleeve_Archive_Discover_the_buzz_about_Buzzy_Linhart/"><br />http://www.goldminemag.com/article/Picture_Sleeve_Archive_Discover_the_buzz_about_Buzzy_Linhart/</a><br /><br />Picture Sleeve Archive: Discover the buzz about Buzzy Linhart<br />October 30, 2008<br />by Stephen M.H. Braitman<br />Buzzy Linhart<br />“You Got What It Takes” b/w same<br />Kama Sutra KA 548 (1972)<br /><br />Did Mick Jagger really ruin Buzzy Linhart’s music career?<br /><br />The way Buzzy remembers it, Mick sent out the word he wasn’t too pleased that the latest album by his band wasn’t getting as much radio attention as Pussycats Can Go Far by Buzzy Linhart.<br /><br />In an instant, toadies moved throughout the industry to freeze out Pussycats from radio, retail, the media, and… pfffft… that was the last album Buzzy Linhart was allowed to make.<br /><br />Of course, this being the recollection of the present-day Buzzy, who has suffered through professional, personal, and physical hardships like Job on a bad day, details may be, well, fuzzy.<br /><br />No matter. Whether the 1974 album failed because of industry politics or a fickle public, it’s still a pop-rock classic.<br /><br />“James Taylor calls it the greatest rock album of all time,” Buzzy beamed recently from his Berkeley pad. “He gave away more copies of this album as gifts than any other.”<br /><br />Again, whether this is entirely accurate, “pop-rock classic” holds true for all four of his albums, which started with Buzzy on Philips in 1969. (True aficionados, however, know the man’s recording career more dramatically debuted as a member of The Seventh Sons, a Greenwich Village mainstay in the mid-’60s, with one rare, essential album released in 1968, 4 A.M. at Frank’s, on ESP Records).<br /><br />Actually, Buzzy’s career began long before that and continued in another entirely different direction after his recording days. The subject of this latest Picture Sleeve Archive affords an overdue look at the interesting career of another of rock’s underappreciated journeymen. Buzzy Linhart never had hits on the popular level, but his success in several different areas is history. For example:<br /><br />• Bill Cosby and his mid-’70s hit variety show, “Cos.” That was Buzzy as his sidekick and musical director.<br /><br />• Jerry Paul & The Plebes, “Step Out,” Holiday Records, 1960. Yep, that was Buzzy playing piano and singing background in his first recording experience.<br /><br />• Bette Midler singing “Friends,” over and over and over again. Yep, that’s Buzzy’s song.<br /><br />• Greenwich Village in the 1960s. Yep, that’s Buzzy playing vibes with Buffy Sainte-Marie, Fred Neil, David Crosby, Mama Cass, Tim Hardin, Richie Havens. Who didn’t he know during those heady times?<br /><br />When it came time for his third solo album, Buzzy, recorded for Kama Sutra in 1972, he enlisted the efforts of other friends, like Moogy Klingman on organ (co-writer of “Friends”), future Steely Dan/Doobie Brothers session man supreme Jeff “Skunk” Baxter on acoustic and electric guitars, and Ten Wheel Drive’s Luther Rix. In the engineer’s seat: Todd Rundgren.<br /><br />Buzzy relates that Todd’s involvement was constrained by his schedule. He was probably the most-wanted producer and engineer of the era, an industry superstar. The recording sessions at the Record Plant were plagued with equipment breakdowns.<br /><br />“A tweeter was broken in the right-hand speaker of studio B when we were mixing. All engineers thought they were losing their hearing. When we finally found out and fixed it, there was no more time to finish the record.”<br /><br />With the final tapes having to be delivered in a matter of days, Rundgren was called in on the weekend to finish the record. Only problem: He had to fly out to England on another job at 4 a.m. on Sunday.<br /><br />“He mixed so f**king fast. Fortunately he had a golden ear and a golden touch,” remembers Buzzy. “What a cheat!”<br /><br />The resulting album, which included some stone classics like “Tornado” (co-written with Artie Traum), “Sing Joy — Tutti Frutti,” and “Tell Me True,” also included worthy covers of “Take Me To The Pilot” and — in a disputed choice as a single — “You Got What it Takes.”<br /><br />Kama Sutra label head Neil Bogart chose “You Got What It Takes” as the album’s first single. Buzzy disagreed with that choice. Having first been heard as a massive hit for Marvin Johnson in 1958, the song was a perennial with well-known versions by the Dave Clark Five, Joe Tex, even Johnny Kidd & The Pirates. Although a charming, rather laid-back remake, the song didn’t have the dynamism of other tracks on the album.<br />“Bogart didn’t believe we could get airplay with a song that ended, only one that faded,” Buzzy said. This was pretty arcane reasoning, but you couldn’t argue with a label head.<br /><br />“You Got What It Takes” was released to radio stations with a very nice promo-only picture sleeve, showing Buzzy lifting up his new wife, Jeannie, in front of the New York building they lived in at the time. All was happiness then, but it was soon to take a darker turn. Despite having glowing industry reviews on the sleeve’s back cover (raves from Record World, Cashbox, Billboard, etc.), the single disappeared. And with it, the whole album. The marriage didn’t go well, either.<br /><br />After 1974’s final try for the pop limelight with Pussycats Can Go Far (and the possible Stones’ shutdown), Buzzy moved to movies (“Groove Tube,” “Rush It”) and television (“Cos,” “Fox And His Friends”), and continued songwriting. There was no lack of interest in his material. Folks as varied as Barry Manilow, Jake & The Family Jewels, LaBelle, John Sebastian and Mother’s Finest all performed his songs.<br /><br />Jumping to today, Buzzy Linhart works out of his Berkeley house on various projects, including the imminent release of two CDs from the archives, Buzzy Linhart Live at Café Au-Go-Go, and the official reissue of his debut album from 1969, Buzzy. His Web site (http://www.buzzylinhart.com) is filled with all sorts of interesting history and trivia. Drop by and say hello. It’s good to stay in touch with friends.<br /><br />Stephen M. H. Braitman is a writer and music appraiser in San Francisco. His Web site is <a href="http://www.musicappraisals.com">http://www.musicappraisals.com </a>Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-1123445521684006382005-08-07T13:09:00.000-07:002008-07-06T19:33:47.459-07:00New Buzzy Disc on the way at last!<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">For Immediate Release 8/7/05:<br /><br />BUZZY LINHART AND THE BIG FEW<br />is going to be released on Buzzart Records<br /></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br /></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><a href="http://www.buzzylinhart.com/">http://www.buzzylinhart.com/</a> </span><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Current new albums!</span><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br />STUDIO<br /><br />LIVE<br /><br />buzzy (the original "buzzy" album with a little 'b')<br /><hr /><br />Review on AllMusic.com<br /><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:mpzyxd0b4ol7">http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:mpzyxd0b4ol7</a><br /><br /></span><div id="bio"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="title" align="left">Review</td><td class="author" align="right"><p>by Joe Viglione</p></td></tr><tr><td style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 4px" valign="top" colspan="2"><p><i>Buzzy Linhart Presents The Big Few</i> is a take-off from a band name created when Buzzy Linhart and his partner in the BuzzArt record label, attorney Arthur Berggren, were walking down the street and one fellow walking by said "big" while another in the other direction said "few." It's a 2001 compilation re-mastered by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=1:PERRY%7CLANCASTER">Perry Lancaster</a> in 2003 and it features music from the soundtrack to the 1981 film <i>Rush It!</i> that was scored by Linhart, including three selections culled from over three hours of music recorded originally (but not used) for the proposed soundtrack to <i>Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Two</i>, as well as selections from three additional releases: 1997's <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7b851vk4zzha"><i>The BuzzArt Publishing Catalog, Vol. 1</i></a>, 2000s<a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:39vyxd0b3old"><i>The Buzzy/Moogy Sessions, 1983-1994</i></a> on <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:7ydnvwmva9yk">Mark "Moogy" Klingman</a>'s label, and 2001's <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tq5a8qtpbtq4"><i>Buzzy Linhart Loves You</i></a> album. The result is an amazing sound trip through styles and ideas brought to life by talents ranging from <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:4q5tk65x9kr0">Big Brother & The Holding Company</a>'s <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:5hq5g4gttvnz">James Gurley</a> to members of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:pyec97q7krst">Utopia</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:n23ibkr9hakm">Paul Winter Consort</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:dq63tr69klox">Parliament</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gq6wtr89kl6x">Weather Report</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:1aq8g4ebtvjz">Wings</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:56zsa9ugb23s">Vanilla Fudge</a>, and other highly influential recording acts. The inclusion of "Friends," which <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wifxlfde5cqi">Cher</a> performed on her TV special in 2003, "I Believe It Tonight," and "Last Train Out" play like a "best of" compilation, while the film material is just very special, making <i>Buzzy Linhart Presents The Big Few</i> one of the prolific musician's most accessible discs. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:zgd1vwzya9xk">Murugá Booker</a> of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:ymfnzfhheh8k">Weather Report</a> adds a different dimension to Buzzy's world. Just listen to the 11-minute-plus "Silent Village," which closes out the disc, and play it against the dreamy 12-minute <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:yf7uak3k5m3k">Mark "Moogy" Klingman</a>/Buzzy Linhart epic that is "Fountain Of Youth." What would really bring this package home would be the addition of the promotional-copy-only 45 RPM cover of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:u96xlfae5cqo">Albert Hammond</a>'s "If You Gotta Break Another Heart," which was climbing the charts until it got pulled back by the record label. That pop moment would bring it all full circle as this collection contains that very solid "Hurts So Bad It Must Be Love," from the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:2srx288c054a">Beatles</a> convention record (featuring ex-members of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:88jwea114x87">WIngs</a> along with <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:33r9284c051a">Nicky Hopkins</a>) and a modern revamp of that song, two-and-a-half minutes called " (Hurts So) Bad" — a wild dub mix full of scratches by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:7nx1z88ajyv2">Muruga</a> and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:sx63trorkl2x">K-Os</a>; a side of this artist the dance floors are crying for. The experimental music from <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:00q8g44ptvjz"><i>Buzzy Linhart Loves You</i></a> and the <i>Rush It!</i> film soundtrack is exotic and immense, sort of like <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:dud7yl3jxppb">Kraftwerk</a> meets <a href="http://www.blogger.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0q60tr49klkx">Jerry Goldsmith</a>'s vision for the original <i>Planet Of The Apes</i> while taking a detour in <i>The Time Tunnel</i>. Good stuff to play when you want to invite the neighbors over and blow their minds. </p><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-1113168191245843542005-04-10T14:20:00.000-07:002005-04-10T14:23:11.246-07:00Buzzy Linhart article on Jimi Hendrix in new Metronome, May 2005<strong>THIRD STONE TO THE SEVENTH SUN</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />Buzzy Linhart and Joe Viglione have been working on a new book -<br /><em>THIRD STONE TO THE SEVENTH SUN - a Jimi Hendrix Bibliography, Part 1</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>The </em>first installment appears in Metronome Magazine May 2005<br /><a href="http://hendrixreviews.blogspot.com">http://hendrixreviews.blogspot.com</a><br /><br /><br />Buzzy Linhart's webpage <a href="http://www.buzzylinhart.com">http://www.buzzylinhart.com</a> is under construction right now.<br /><br />More information today, April 10, 2005<br /><br />write to Buzzy <a href="mailto:buzzylinhart@sbcglobal.net">buzzylinhart@sbcglobal.net</a><br /><br /><br />BUZZY LINHART recording a new album with RAY CEPEDA<br /><br />You can get the updates on the sessions here on Buzzy's blog!Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-1104524557769461022004-12-31T13:20:00.000-08:002005-04-10T14:20:37.183-07:00FRIENDS as performed by THE NEW SEEKERSDear "FRIENDS" of Buzzy Linhart (and Moogy):<br /><br />It was my pleasure to play The New Seekers version of"Friends" for Buzzy at 3 PM E.S.T. today 12/31/04. This rendition appears on a 1972 album by the groupand was found on Buzzy's page on Emi Music Publishing:<br /><br />Log down to the ninth title which is credited toWilliam Linhart and Mark Klingman<br /><br />This should be the direct link:<br /><a href="http://www.emimusicpub.com/worldwide/servlet/displaySong?id=55677&version_id=669270&aka_seq">http://www.emimusicpub.com/worldwide/servlet/displaySong?id=55677&version_id=669270&aka_seq</a>=<br /><br />You'll have to get a passcode to get into the MP3 (though the 30 second soundclips are easier to hear) EMI mails you the passcode, then you can hear all the MP3s.<br /><br />The great thing about this site is how it is set up.<br />1)30 second soundclip<br /><br />2)MP3<br /><br />3)who recorded the song (Midler, Manilow, New Seekers in the case of "Friends". They have a version by Buzzy but they don't have Moogy's rendition. They also don't have Carly Simon listed on Buzzy's "The Love's Still Growing"<br /><br />4)Hit year<br /><br />5)Lyrics<br /><br />6)Label Copy<br /><br />7)Request a Quote (on what fee the Publisher will let you use the title for)<br /><br />8)Add to the project<br /><br />Pretty amazing site, if not complete, at least it is functional and makes sense.<br />This was as much a thrill for me as when I played Bobby Hebb the version of Mieko's "Sunny" which was released in Japan allegedly prior to his version in America. Jazz artist Dave Pike on Atlantic and Mieko Hirota in Japan (on Columbia? I think) had versions of "Sunny" out there before Bobby's became the international smash.<br /><br />You can go to Musicstack.com<br /><a href="http://www.musicstack.com">http://www.musicstack.com</a><br /><br />to find the New Seekers version:<br /><a href="http://www.musicstack.com/listings.cgi?find=the_new_seekers&t=best_of&media=All">http://www.musicstack.com/listings.cgi?find=the_new_seekers&t=best_of&media=All</a><br /><br />Check out Buzzy's own publishing page:<a href="http://www.buzzartinc.com/">http://www.buzzartinc.com/</a><br />and Buzzy's homepage<br /><a href="http://www.buzzylinhart.com/">http://www.buzzylinhart.com/</a>which brings you to the blog:<br /><a href="http://buzzylinhart.blogspot.com">http://buzzylinhart.blogspot.com</a><br /><br />For more news on publishing activism subscribe to our little club: <a href="mailto:BMISongwriters@yahoogroups.com">BMISongwriters@yahoogroups.com</a><br />Go to Yahoogroups.com put in BMISongwriters and join!<br />Happy New Year<br />Joe Viglione for Buzzy's Blogspot! 3:22 PM December 31, 2004Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-1092525539380014352004-08-14T16:08:00.000-07:002004-08-14T16:33:36.050-07:00The Buzzy Linhart Tribute Album: Masquerade Ball<strong>Leata Galloway </strong>recorded Buzzy Linhart's <strong>MASQUERADE BALL </strong>"In 1974 we went into the studio and cut more than one song; this one closed the second act of the <em>Broadway musical</em> <strong>THE TRIALS OF OZ." </strong>
<br />The material was recorded at Bell Labs - produced by Buzzy.
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<br />So 7:01 PM E.S.T. on August 14, 2004 we decided to put together a tribute disc - other performers covering
<br />Buzzy Linhart. We would love to use the 45 RPM version of "Friends" by Bette Midler, different from the
<br />two versions on The Divine Miss M.
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<br />See review written May 8, 2003:
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<br />In 1992 Cerebral Corps recorded "Music" on their release on Alias Records produced by Jeff Saltzman - we are considering that track for the tribute. Buzzy sang the tune that Etta James recorded in the 1950s, "At Last",
<br />with Phoebe Snow at The Bottom Line in 2003. Buzzy has fond memories of seeing Etta onstage onetime as a guest of Bonnie Raitt circa 1982 - at The Palomino Club in L.A. Etta sat in for one song and Bonnie was so enamoured by Etta's vocals that she didn't want to sing. She said "No you sing" and Etta said "No, you sing!"
<br />She was spellbound. Everybody was.
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<br />Re: The Trials of Oz
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<br />We were taking civil rights to the Broadway stage. Unfortunately the original producer passed away and it wasn't handled properly after that.
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<br />Leata Galloway sang these lyrics MASQUERADE BALL
<br />Written by Buzzy Linhart and Jordan Kaplan
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<br />And the only difference between you and me,
<br />is that you get to do what you wanted to be
<br />And, the only difference between me and you, is that
<br />I must keep searching, till the sun shines through
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<br />Chorus: The harder they come/the softer they fall,
<br />but when you hold back/you get nothing at all
<br />You used to be big/but now you're just tall
<br />You think life is a masquerade ball
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<br />Second Verse
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<br />You move up a rung/by consuming your young
<br />the judgment's been made/and the jury's been hung
<br />And one last announcement/I must make to you
<br />Is that we will take over/when you think that you're through
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<br />Last line changes and goes into chorus:
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<br />Yes we can take over/if you feel that you're through
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<br />the harder the come/the softer they call
<br />but when you hold back you get nothingt at all
<br />You used to be big/but now you're just tall
<br />you think life is a masquerade
<br />life is a masquerade
<br />life is a masquerade ball
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<br />Bette Midler Song Reviews
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<br />Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
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<br />The Rose
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<br />Bette Midler Album Reviews
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<br />Bette Midler 2nd Album
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<br />Live At Last / Bette Midler
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<br />The Rose
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<br />Bette Midler Thighs & Whispers
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<br />Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-1092109166647607722004-08-09T20:04:00.000-07:002004-08-09T23:09:32.926-07:00August 9, 2004Joe Vig Thinks out loud before Buzzy Speaks:
<br />August 9 Richard Nixon resigned today(1974), and Sharon Tate resigned as well(1969). August 4, 1962 was the parting of Marilyn Monroe. Did Marilyn Manson take his name from Marilyn Monroe and Sharon Tate both dying within 7 years of each other, five days apart in those seven years.
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<br />Buzzy asks how many letters in Marilyn Manson, 7 letters in Marilyn and six in Manson makes for 13. And Friday the 13th is this Friday, 2004. Last month, July, we had a blue moon. Buzzy sang "Blue Moon" before it was a Doo Wop hit. Before Buzzy gives today's lecture, kids, I want to speak with him about stuff of his on EBAY
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<br />A British single from Pussycats - Jerry Wexler's dear wife, who was a very nice person - she told him it had to be the single - You Don't Have To Tell Me Goodbye. The flip side - "a tear outweights a smile" - is a slow blues. "One of my favorite moments in life was Michael Bloomfield telling a room full of people that "A Tear Outweighs A Smile" was the greatest blues ever written."
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<br />Buzzy will call back. It is 11:59 PM EST, 8:59 PST
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<br />When I was little I had a sister who was two years older...my parents encouraged me to have a hobby, ---I tried to have a coin collection, tried to have a stamp collection. We didn't have enough money for me to have a decent size or quality hobby, so to speak. So I decided I would cut myf avorite tv stars and movie stars out of the back of magazines and that generally included ...there being a tobacco advertisement. It was crazy, here's a 7, 8, 9 year old trying to have a hobby, ...they were all smoking these cigarettes and they were all swearing that camels were very gentle on the T-Zone - a picture of a throat with a T - ...
<br />Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-1091855678983667132004-08-06T22:08:00.000-07:002004-08-06T22:51:56.896-07:00THE GROOVE TUBE: August6/ 7 Thoughts from BuzzyThe interesting thing about THE GROOVE TUBE is that we started making it in 1970 and Kenny (Shapiro, the Direct0r of THE GROOVE TUBE) had seen me in a movie in 1969 named DEALING. The lady producing the documentary (Shelly), God Bless Her, bought a digital copy of Dealing - the entire name of the film is actually -
<br />Dealing: or, The-Berklee-To-Boston-Forty-Brick-Lost-Bag-Blues. It's a great movie and should be more important because of the three Academy Award winners in it: <a href="http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:42686">John Lithgow</a>, <a href="http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:32030">Barbara Hershey</a> and the great <a href="http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:20780">Charles Durning</a>!
<br />Our documentary will feature the important moments, the highlights of my appearance in this movie, so stand by for that. We started THE GROOVE TUBE in 1970 with a budget of $195,000.00 - very low, even in those times, and did not finally finish everything and get it out until some time late in 1973. The scene that I did frontal male nudity in had to be viewed (as did the entire film) by a board of national censors. Perhaps because I was active and running during most of my appearance in THE GROOVE TUBE, and that it was not a romantic scene in any way whatsoever, is why we were able to not be given an XXX rating. Due to this permissive (I think fairer) MPAA R. rating that the board eventually gave us, hundreds of thousands of younger folks were allowed to experience the basis for the style of humor that would become common Saturday Night fare just three years in the future on Saturday Night Live (also, featuring <a href="http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:12488">Chevy Chase</a> and <a href="http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:5240">Richard Belzer</a>, sometimes Shapiro).
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<br />On Donovan:
<br />In 1968 Donovon (Leitch) and Shawn Phillips came over to the living/rehearsal loft of THE SEVENTH SONS and played a bunch of Shawn's new tunes with Donovan playing lead behind Shawn and the rest of us learning the chords and doing a rough version straight to tape, and that's some of the tapes we are going to see soon!
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<br />Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-1091592485654773162004-08-03T21:00:00.000-07:002004-08-03T21:08:05.656-07:00Tuesday August 3, 2004 9:06 PM PST (12:06 EDT August 4, 2004)Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-1091321426088159552004-07-31T17:34:00.000-07:002004-08-03T21:00:06.483-07:00Buzzy Speaks ! July 31, 2004Buzzy Linhart is on the phone from Oakland Saturday Evening, July 31, 2004 at 8:35 PM EDT (5:35 PM Pacific Standard Time).
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<br />His main page is <a href="http://www.buzzylinhart.com/">http://www.buzzylinhart.com/</a>
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<br />We start by talking about Buzzy's upcoming book on coincidences, "Shaka Pifi":
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<br />"Yesterday I noticed that there was a connection ...to remind everybody that "Shaka Pifi" has to do with different parts of different words standing for different things. "Pussycats Can Go Far"
<br />(Buzzy's 1973 Atlantic album released in 1974) to me seems to have a hidden message even though you can kind of tell what it is about, it's about being good, but there's ... if you take the first two letters of every word in there (the title of the album) this is something that I was doing about ten years ago, and now it's pretty common.
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<br />J-Lo for instance - - so many people are having nicknames based on the first two letters. PuCaGoFa (would be the first two letters of the four words that make up the album title)- it represents a way of doing a fast speak, quick speak.
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<br />"Short hand speak?" I interjected.
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<br />Buzzy's reply: "That's a good...it's already happening Ebonically in the black neighborhoods.
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<br />August 3, 2004 3:25 AM
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<br />I was writing a book, calling them Nina's - short for Nickname - YOU COULD NEED A NINA - (something along those lines). The fact that it should happen so fast...that it was happening on one level in the black neighborhoods and I didn't know about it...I was kind of pushing it as an intellectual inter-cultural thing. For example, if you're feeling bored, perhaps all you need is a name change, you know?
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<br />So you start off with the first two letters of each, assuming you don't despise your name, you start off with the first two letters of all of your names and see what you can come up with.
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<br />It's just a place to start from.
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<br />We picked up the conversation on Sunday, August 1, 2004 7:13 PM EDT (4:13 PM PST):
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<br />The next thing I'm interested in came up because I have two nice reviews from the New York Times. The first one is by Mike Jahn from NY Times June 18, 1971 - Gerde's Folk City -
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<br />BUZZ LINHART SINGS AND PLAYS JAZZ ROCK IN FOLK CITY RECITAL...by Mike Jahn
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<br />Buzz Linhart can be called one of those unusual cases. As a singer and guitarist he is so different from the general run as to make you wonder if he isn't really a brilliant fantasy that happened to work out. Mr. Linhart, playing guitar and vibes and backed by Luther Rix on drums and Bill Takis on bass, is playing through Sunday at Folk City, 130 West 3rd St. I supposed you would call it Jazz/Rock. He sings in a jazz style, flowing and round-cornered, grimacing, vibrating up and down, head bobbing. In the soft jazz edges of his voice and the absurd melodrama of his movements, he affects a brilliant image balance between babe-in-woods and drunk-over-piano,
<br />rather odd but great fun to watch.
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<br />He plays guitar mostly with his right hand, and is developing into one of the great rhythm practitioners. Like Richie Havens, he slings chords around in ever changing rhythms, a light rumble that is backed superbly by Mr. Rix's drums and especially by Mr. Takis' s bass.
<br />The two accompanists have cigarettes permanently attached to their lower lips and play along most intently, brows furrowed, while Mr. Linhart weaves happily in front. Buzz Linhart sings
<br />mostly his own songs. "Friends" and "That's The Bag I'm In" are regular features. He often works into a medley of familiar songs, such as "Season Of The Witch", "Feelin' Alright" and others. Mike Jahn
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<br />SINGING AND PLAYING BY BUZZY LINHART SHOW VERSATILITY
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<br />The singer/instrumentalist Buzzy Linhart, appearing at Folk City this week, does almost everything well. He sings the blues, he sings folk music, he scats jazz and plays the guitar,
<br />he pounds out drum solos and plays improvisations on the vibes. Multi talented is a good description, but the old enigma of the jack-of-all-trades keeps rearing its ugly head. At Folk
<br />City Thursday Night, Mr. Linhart was in rare form, performing as well as I've ever heard him,
<br />his musicality not at all dimmed by the fact that he was leaping around the stage from instrument to instrument like a madman. A good portion of the credit for his fine show has to go to his current back-up group, surely the best he's had, and one that could develop into a major rock/jazz unit. Mr. Linhart dependence upon them was obvious in the contrast between his fairly lackluster singing of one or two bland, folk-style tunes and the high potency power of his versions of "Take Me To The Pilot" and an original "Cheat Cheat Lied".
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<br />Luther Rix, drummer, Jeff Baxter, guitarist, and Peter Ponzol, saxophonist, set up driving streams of rhythm that Mr. Linhart dipped in and out of with all the natural enthusiasm and elan of a daredevil riding the Colorado River Rapids.
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<br />With his current musical accompanist, Mr. Linhart just might be able to find the focus that has eluded him in the past. The talent obviously is here. The question now is whether versatility can be channeled into stardom.
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<br />(To be posted and to be continued. Bear with us, folks. It was 9:55 PM EDT July 31 when we went offline, back online 7:13 PM EDT August 1)- we spent over an hour putting this together on the Saturday night (July 31), back on the job Sunday and Monday and Tuesday. We are here, where are you?
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<br />Joe Vig's First Impressionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13367299685670320487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7796556.post-1091164390927546332004-07-29T22:11:00.000-07:002004-07-29T22:13:10.926-07:00Welcome To Buzzy Linhart's Blog<strong>Buzzy On The Web!</strong>
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<br /><strong><a href="http://www.buzzylinhart.com">Http://www.buzzylinhart.com</a> is Buzzy's web page, but this is his blog!</strong>
<br /><strong>Edited by Joe Viglione of <a href="http://www.varulven.com">http://www.varulven.com</a> - Buzzy will be phoning in his</strong>
<br /><strong>messages to Joe Vig and you can read them here. You can write to <a href="mailto:Visual_Library@yahoo.com">Visual_Library@yahoo.com</a> to ask questions which Buzzy might answer here!</strong>
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