From 1999 performance at Memphis' Cooper-Young Festival. With Ron Easley - bass & background vocals, and Richard Dworkin - drums. video by David Julian Leonard.
I discovered Alex too late, We were both born and raised in the Big M, he in ‘50, me in ‘60. I remember about age 16 going through a friends extensive album collection and pulling out Big Star’s #1 Record and asking about it, and friend said it was a great album, local band, but first you gotta hear this, and he put on a Rush album. I never heard Big Star until the RU-vid age. At least there are performances preserved here for the ages. I’m blown away by his guitar playing. Is he technically brilliant? No, but as John Auer said, he’s eclectically brilliant. When you hear a few bars of Chilton on that old Gibson, you know exactly who you’re listening to. Damn. It’s 2020 and he’s 10 years gone. I envy anyone who ever got to see him live.
I saw him when he toured Australia I think with this line up. The crowd only wanted to hear Big Star tunes...I think he went over my head a bit, he mainly played covers...but now I get it! He was an incredible artist, and what a voice...
@ArthurKuntsler, good stuff. If you were into the SF club circuit, did you ever catch the North Mississippi Allstars? Another Memphis area band. They’ve got a 2014 show from The Independent that looked like a lot of fun.
Elvis Presley, Jimmy Page, David Bowie, Bo Diddley, Syd Barrett, Paul Westerberg, Chris Bell....Alex Chilton, all Capricorns. They make great rockn'rollers!
Alex was a GREAT guitarist. Tav Falco still tours, and he's very much similar to Alex. The biggest diff is Tav doesn't play a mean guitar like Alex did.
Haha man I know right he’s was an all around guy you could put him anywhere bass drums didn’t matter, hey if you like this check out my band soul dwellers were on all platforms, id really appreciate it
Wow, this is a cover of an R&B one-hit-wonder named Danny Pearson from 1978. I lived a couple blocks away from an R&B radio station that used to play this.
Well...live performances most definitely were. It;'s so stupid on every level. First of all, you'll never watch the shitty recording, and FOR SURE no one else wants to see it. And- most egregiously, you've fucking missed a once in a lifetime experience by worrying about your phone instead of being in the moment.
I mean they allow us to see essentially what you're clearly enjoying watching here on RU-vid. How is whatever this was filmed on any different than a phone?
@@austin78993 i think in this instance the difference is there's one camera man, off to the side of the stage. with phones, it's not uncommon to see dozens of people in the audience holding their phone up during a show. i can acknowledge all the positive benefits that smartphones have brought to my life, and others'. but when i see footage from the time before phones, i feel a bit of nostalgia. life just seemed a bit less cluttered if you know what i mean.
Saw Big Star perform on a flatbed trailer parked in left field of Southwestern University ( now Rhodes College) . The music was great the day was beautiful but I had no idea I was in the presence of greatness>
Have loved every one of these you shot from this show…any chance you got the whole thing? I was lucky enough to catch Alex solo 3 times and saw Big Star in 99ish at First Avenue. Either way, thanks for sharing these
@@dannymoulton4829 Please. If Alex Chilton were alive he'd tell you how cheesy this song is. It's Corny as fuck but that's what makes it so Chilton and so great. He recorded a lot of songs with tongue firmly planted in cheek. I think that's what the poster meant.
