Absolutely love Fred Neil! It would seem we have John Sebastian to thank for getting Fred Neil onto record in his later career - it seems Fred himself was not terribly interested in recording. Also John plays some really excellent harmonica on the Bleeker and Macdougall recording.
From the album rappin with Jimmie rowles , l have that album , l met Jimmie Rowles when l was a kid , he came to my mothers Subday jam sessions .. l had the smazing opportunity to sit on apartment steps , and rapped with Jimmie Rowles too .. bless them both , Genius
Reading the book now. It’s excellent. I have played a couple of Fred Neil’s guitars and they are magical. The Miguel 12 string needs repair but is still around. His son Christopher has the guitars. He is also a musician and super spiritual person who “hears/sees music in nature.” I am blessed to have met him and now to learn about his dad. Thanks for sharing your thoughts about this amazing music man. ❤
I love Freddy! His songs were so good I guess he could just live off others playing them. But his voice might be the best in rock music. I would want to strangle him too! Because he had such power to move folks with that incredible voice! That kick ass rhythm too.
You could tell by the sound everything was going swell down at the dinner key hotel walking down bay shoure drive on a Saturday night hand made music filling the air o what a delight you can tell by the smell everything was going swell down at the dinner key hotell
I moved to coconut grove 1977 78. Met and became good frends with Fred Neal great human being brought out a side of my self I never knew existed. And for that I will be forever great full one day we will all meat again untle then 😊❤
It's a damn travesty that the gov't and all her boyfriends and so called friends did her SO DAMN DIRTY. Billie should have gotten her flowers when she was still here,😭 jealousy is a MFer! She wasn't a threat to the gov't so why????? did they come after her? There's way more to the story and as many of you well know the gov't is the one that creates the drugs all around the world...the elites are the ones who instruct the gov't what to do and who to eliminate.
Just talking about the flick the other day with a friend very exciting that Vince Martin is coming I loved him back then as a high school girl not to mention the Slick deep voice of Fred Neil
Just finished the book and I cried. Cried for Fred...cried for all of us. Can anyone tell me who plays piano on December's Dream...just beautiful!! Nowhere to be found in the liner notes. John
Hello John, Thank you for sharing your feelings about the book. None of my sources so far can remember who played piano on the track. I have my suspicions and some evidence to back it up, but I'm still holding out for corroboration. Cheers. Peter L. Neff
Its ironic people talked down about her voice towards the end, when its her, in my opinion, seasoned voice was what she was most famous for later. And I say seasoned because it had a spice to it and you felt every single word to your core. When people immitate her voice its the character towards the end that people add to sound more like her. I think her end voice was her best voice because the imperfection made it amazing❤
Thank you for sharing this! I so loved these guys. It's sad to know they're gone, that that era is gone. At least we have these reels to look back on. Peace...
I'm so sorry it's not available over there. One of the drawbacks of not having a big time publisher. However, I'm very excited and looking forward to visiting your country in a few months.
I'm furious with the author, thank you. He mentions 'Blues On the Ceiling' twice, without a word about the how/why, and his publishing company is Blue Ceiling! .. So why the upset? The song was written about his then-girlfriend Laura's ceiling. In the mid-'70's, I worked with Berkeley feminist Laura X (yes, the same) on the Save KMPX (a radio station with a unique format) Campaign, and she told me the story, let me tape his LPs. She's in dire straits today ..
She lived a very fast paced life since she was child and only lived to the age of 44. She accomplished so much in a very short time . I hate the fact she preferred to stay high on drugs and or intoxicated. Her voice really wasn't old it was from all of the substance abuse and her life style. Regardless, of her decisions , I will always love her music.
Not only very talented, she was such a stunning woman. I wish she knew that. Still I am grateful for her existence and the Body of work she left. There is no one quite like her. She is still in her.own lane. One of my favorite songs by her is and always will be the duet with Louis Armstrong 'Sweet Hunk ofTrash The song 's arrangement and lyrics are perfectly interpreted with such light hearted humor and Genius by this pair of true Musicians. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this video and for your fantastic book. I’ve got to admit that it’s strange learning more about ones father from a book than the man man himself, but dad was a strange one. Slainté!
Do dheagh shlainte! You're welcome Christopher and your approval of the book is especially meaningful to me. I hope one day we can meet or at the very least talk over the phone. Cheers. Peter
I was stunned when I saw above that there was no evidence that Fred Neil played the Flick--that was where I saw him, more than once--but I see that tapes have since been provided by Mike Merrill and Lenny Michaelson, who I played with a lot (more than I studied) at the University of South Florida, and onstage at the Beaux Arts in Pinellas Park (St. Petersburg), which we much later discovered was (allegedly) the oldest coffee house in the South, played at by gods of folk music like Woody Guthrie, remembered now (if at all) because Jim Morrison read his poems there in 1962, while he was attending St. Petersburg Junior College. We were there a couple years later, missing our brush with greatness.😄
Since the creation of this channel, substantially more research has been done, and, of course, Fred indeed played The Flick-as a soloist and in a duo with Vince Martin. However, Flick proprietor Max Launer and Fred were like oil and water, and that relationship-if there was any in the first place-came to an end.
@@calico1947 I see a comment if mine from 12 years. I would have guessed one or two. My last visit to the Flick was in 1969 with my mother and one of her teacher friends. I was home on leave after three years in the Air Force, and it was weird being there with two older ladies and not Mike and Lenny. Ron was there, along with Dion, Jerry Jeff Walker and Uncle Dirty.
I still don't understand those who criticize her voice in her later recordings. I find her voice possesses much more emotional depth in her later years which enhances her ability to convey beauty and tragedy in her interpretations of songs than the early recordings. If all you want is range and strength in a vocalist watch "America's got talent".
I feel this generation is going to be greatly deprived if they are not made aware of the great Fred Neil, I blast his songs with the windows down while driving in residential neighborhoods.
😁 That would completely blow my mind if I heard a car blasting this song. It’s always been my personal favorite and he once told me it was about the family curse. 😂🤣😂 Thanks for keeping his memory alive. 😁🍻
If you park your car just even for three songs , those few of the many outside of having heard Fred Neil,s voice music and great words will then & there.
Only so very recently I started digging up about Fred Neil. Too bad he didn't pursue his music career. All the others of that time did. Look where it got them! Well, he's in a better place now, anyway. This was a great document!
