#Pat O'Rourke

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Unicorn's album Blue Pine Trees produced by David Gilmour, released in 1974. Below is a cool story from an interview with Pat Martin of Unicorn:

In early 1973 you played at the wedding of former Transatlantic records publicist Ricky Hopper. At the end of that evening one of the guests, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, jumped up on stage and began jamming with you on Neil Young’s ‘Heart of Gold’. I, and I’m sure most of our readers, would love to hear the story.

Ricky Hopper had left Transatlantic Records and the guy who replaced him was useless as far as we were concerned. Ricky phoned me to say he was getting married and asked if we would play at his wedding reception, he said he couldn’t afford to pay us but there would be lots of famous people there which would be good exposure for us. We had often had offers to do free gigs for exposure but they always turned out to be a rip off and a waste of time. Ricky had done an excellent job plugging the ‘Uphill All The Way’ album and our first single ‘P.F. Sloan’ so we decided we would do it for him for free. True to his word there were many celebrities there, we did our first set and in the break David Gilmour came up to me and said that he really liked our original songs, particularly ‘Sleep Song’ and our harmony vocals. He asked if we knew ‘Heart Of Gold’ by Neil Young and I was surprised that he was into that sort of music considering he was in Pink Floyd. He said he really liked Neil Young, Steve Miller, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young et cetera. I said we had never played ‘Heart Of Gold’ but could probably have a go and he asked if he could come up and join in, so in the second set he got up and we did it. After the gig he asked for my phone number and he called me a few days later, he said he had just had a studio installed in his house in Essex and wondered if we would like some free time in it to demo our original songs, he added he would be experimenting with his new equipment so I quickly arranged a date with him. We turned up to his lovely house in the Essex countryside in our Transit van with our equipment, he said it was up to us but we could use any of his equipment if we liked. We went in and stared open-mouthed at all the rare vintage guitars hanging on the wall, lots of Fender combos, a Wurlitzer electric piano and a sparkling new maple Ludwig drum kit. We spent all afternoon and evening putting down songs and he was very encouraging and helpful. He phoned me a couple of days later and asked if we would like to do more, which we did and his beautiful American girlfriend Ginger cooked us a meal. After the meal we had a spliff and watched a video of Monty Python and I remember we were all rolling around on the floor laughing so much my stomach muscles were hurting. David phoned me a few days later and said he had got hold of a pedal steel guitar on his last Pink Floyd tour of the USA and wondered if we would mind him dubbing it onto our song ‘Sleep Song’. I of course said yes please. We went to David’s house several more times recording more demos and he said he had played them to his (Pink Floyd) manager Steve O’Rourke and that he would like to sign us to a management deal. He proposed David and him putting up the money for us to re-record the demo songs at Olympic Studios, London so he could present a recorded album to a record company and get a much better deal because they didn’t have recording costs. There was a problem in that we were still signed to Transatlantic Records and my dad was our manager and had spent a lot of time and money on us over the years. My dad was really cool about it and said he wouldn’t stand in the way of a great opportunity like this. Transatlantic would only let us go if they got the song publishing from half of our next album which Steve O’Rourke reluctantly agreed on. I found out years later from my dad that Steve O’Rourke had given him 1% of the action which I thought was amazing for a top manager to do…they’re not all rip off bastards.

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Various Artists — Creiriau Y Delyn Rawn / Relics of the Horsehair Harp (Amgen)

Imagining new music is nothing new. Individually or collectively, spontaneously or through painstaking craft, research, and development, legions of music-makers have tried to come up with something sufficiently novel out of sounds and (sometimes) words that it hooks listeners’ attention. You can be sure that someone’s at it right now. But you probably won’t lose the farm if you bet it on the notion that the sequential imagining that went into the conception and execution of Creiriau Y Delyn Rawn is an unprecedented process that has yielded a remarkable outcome.

The Welsh language title translates into English as Relics Of The Horsehair Harp. It was produced by harpist Rhodri Davies as a companion to Telyn Rawn, a solo album that he released on his Amgen label. Telyn Rawn is named after the instrument that it introduced, a horsehair harp that Davies commissioned to be made by a couple harp makers and a leatherworker. Harps have a particular cultural resonance in Wales, since despite the instrument’s popularity, the art of making them nearly died out before making a comeback as part of a larger resurgence of Welsh culture. The original telyn rawn was made from wood and equine byproducts. After the sturdier Italian triple harp made it to the British Isles in the 1600s, it replaced the telyn rawn so thoroughly that for a couple centuries the triple harp was actually known as the Welsh harp (it was replaced by the pedal harp in the 20th century) while its predecessor was practically forgotten. When Davies, whose wide-ranging music encompasses free improvisation, modern composition, Konono-inspired junkyard noise, and rock and roll, got curious about those early harps, no one knew how to make one. The instrument on Telyn Rawn was designed using descriptions in early Welsh poetry and a couple pages addressing harp-tuning practices in a 17th century manuscript by Robert ap Huw.

When Davies finally set about playing the thing, he did not revive antique repertoire; he improvised short pieces equally informed both by his research and his own practice of playing freely, alone and with musicians like John Butcher, Andrew Leslie Hooker and the trio IST. Intricately plucked or vigorously bowed, some of the album’s eighteen tracks hinted at folkloric models, while others undid dense knots of sound that burst with harmonics and radiated overtones. Telyn Rawn came out during that first COVID summer, which was bad for many things, but was not so bad for spending some of that time that one wasn’t gigging cooking up new ideas. After its release, Davies reached out to friends and associates with this request: “I asked each contributor to imagine that the musical material improvised in 2020 was an ancient musical form that had fully existed in the medieval period, and that each of their responses were to have happened centuries after the imagined formation of the Telyn Rawn pieces.”

Such a brief can be taken in many directions, depending on the respondent’s experiences, equipment, and willingness to dig a new network out of someone else’s wormhole. Sixteen participants gave a response to one or two specific tracks from Telyn Rawn. Laura Cannell’s  opening piece, “The Tattered Skies Above,”  wastes little effort on interpreting Davies’ “Penriwh.” Instead, she constructs a fanfare from overdubbed recorders whose jolting sonorities and processional air establishes a through line linking a span of fantasized centuries. Next up, Orphy Robinson makes like a free-bopping jazz man. On “Nude, Lewd, Rude, Mood Food” he transfers bits of Davies’ intricate “Gorchan Sali” to a salaciously bulbous-sounding marimba, accelerates the tempo and lets it rip. Jem Finer plays “Y Geseg Fedi” pretty faithfully, simply transposing bowed harp to hurdy-gurdy; guitarist C. Joynes is similarly respectful to “”Dygan tro’r Ebill.” Credited as playing computer and mouse, “C. Spencer Yeh” visits a cut-and-splice surgical strike upon Davies’ recording of “Afon “Dewi Fawr;” Pat Thomas might do something similar on the turbulent electronic eruption, “Maddad.”

Not only does Davies have a strong musical personality that transcends the particular harp he plays and the century his head’s in; he has picked his emissaries wisely. Despite the disparity of instrumentation and approach exhibited by the sixteen contributing musicians, Creiriau Y Delyn Rawn feels pretty cohesive as it carves out an imaginary timeline of musical evolution.

Bill Meyer

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Happy birthday darling I have no presents and fantasy cake but I hope I make you happy with everything I made like this edit right here with all of your pictures in it Shirley Jane Temple Black 1928-2014 April 23rd 1928-February 10th 2014 and special rest in peace to those who passed away Bishop Rance Allen, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Lisa Loring, Bob Saget, Betty White, Heather O'Rourke, Judith Barsi, baby Leroy, baby Peggy Montgomery, Peggy cartwright, Darla Jean Hood, Jean Darling, Peaches Jackson, Mary Ann Jackson, Dorothy DeBorba, Mary Kornman and Mildred Kornman, Kenny Rogers, Patsy Cline, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Eazy-E, rest in peace Ana Ofelia Murguía December 31st 2023, Jim James Edward Jordan, Lucille Ricksen, Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton and Terry and Pal, Eva Gabor, Geraldine Sue Page, Pat Buttram, Joe Flynn, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Richard Belzer, Richard Harris, Bernard Fox, Raymond Burr, Perrette Pradier, Jeanette Nolan, Larry Clemmons, Bing Crosby, John Candy, John Heard, John Fiedler, Beate Hasenau, Billie Burke, Roberts Blossom, Billie Bird, Bill Erwin, Ralph Foody, Jack Haley, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Jim Nabors and Frank Sutton, John Wayne, Clara Blandick,Charley Grapewin, Buddy Ebsen, Angelo Rossitto, Clarence Chesterfield Howerton, Bridgette Andersen, Dominique Dunne, Dana Plato, Robbie Coltrane, Lance Reddick, Betty Ann Bruno, Betty Tanner, Elizabeth Taylor, Helen McCrory, Ray Liotta and Tom Sizemore and Burt Reynolds, Zari Elmassian, Frank Cucksey, Vyacheslav Baranov, Vladimir Ferapontov, Carol Tevis, George Shephard Houghton, Irving S. Brecher, Richard Griffiths, Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, Joe Conley, Alan Arkin, Jerry Heller, Fred Willard, Mary Ellen Trainor, Morgan Woodward, Anna Lee and John Ingle, David Lewis, Ken Curtis, Ed Asner, James Caan, James Arness, Amanda Blake, Avicii, Jane Withers and Virginia Weidler, Milburn Stone, Natasha Richardson, Joanna Barnes, Cameron Boyce and Tyree Boyce, Cammack"Cammie"King, Denny Miller, Jane Adams, June Marlowe rest in heavenly peace to all of them actors and actresses this is Shirley Temple birthday edit of the year

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A rough chronology of the extended Wilco family

1990

Uncle Tupelo, consisting of Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, and Mike Heidorn, release their first album, No Depression.

1991

Uncle Tupelo release Still Feel Gone.

Titanic Love Affair, led by future Wilco guitarist Jay Bennett, debut with Titanic Love Affair.

1992

Uncle Tupelo release March 16-20, 1992. Mike Heidorn leaves to spend time with family and is replaced by Ken Coomer. John Stirratt and Max Johnston are also added.

The Bottle Rockets, led by UT's friend and roadie Brian Henneman, debut with Bottle Rockets.

Alt-country supergroup Golden Smog, of which Tweedy will later be a member, debut with an EP, On Golden Smog.

1993

Uncle Tupelo release Anodyne. Farrar leaves due to the breakdown of his friendship with Tweedy.

Titanic Love Affair release an EP, No Charisma.

1994

The Bottle Rockets release The Brooklyn Side.

1995

Wilco, consisting of the remaining members of Uncle Tupelo plus Brian Henneman as temporary lead guitarist, debut with A.M.

Son Volt, consisting of Jay Farrar, original Uncle Tupelo drummer Mike Heidorn, and brothers Jim and Dave Boquist, debut with Trace.

Golden Smog, now joined by Jeff Tweedy, release Down by the Old Mainstream.

1996

Titanic Love Affair release Their Titanic Majesties Request and split up.

Wilco, with Jay Bennett as new lead guitarist, release Being There. Max Johnston leaves soon after.

1997

Son Volt release Straightaways.

The Bottle Rockets release 24 Hours a Day.

1998

Billy Bragg and Wilco release Mermaid Avenue, an album of previously unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics set to music.

Son Volt release Wide Swing Tremolo and go on hiatus.

Golden Smog release Weird Tales.

The Bottle Rockets release Leftovers.

1999

Wilco release Summerteeth.

The Bottle Rockets release Brand New Year.

2000

Billy Bragg and Wilco release Mermaid Avenue, Volume II

Tweedy, Glenn Kotche, and Jim O'Rourke start a side project called Loose Fur, although nothing is released yet. Kotche soon replaces Ken Coomer in Wilco.

2001

Jay Farrar releases Sebastopol.

The Autumn Defense, a side project of John Stirratt and Pat Sansone, debut with The Green Hour.

Wilco attempt to release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but their label won't let them, so they buy the masters back and release them for free on their website. Jay Bennett is dismissed from the band.

2002

The Bottle Rockets release Songs of Sahm.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot finally receives an official release.

Jay Bennett and Edward Burch release The Palace at 4am (part i).

2003

The Minus 5 release Down with Wilco, a collaboration with several members of Wilco.

Jay Farrar releases Terroir Blues.

Loose Fur release Loose Fur.

The Autumn Defense release Circles.

John Stirratt and his twin sister Laurie (a member of Blue Mountain) release Arabella.

The Bottle Rockets release Blue Sky.

2004

Jay Bennett releases Bigger than Blue.

Wilco release A Ghost Is Born. Pat Sansone joins the band for the tour and all subsequent albums.

Jay Bennett releases The Beloved Enemy.

2005

A new lineup of Son Volt, with Jay Farrar as the only consistent member, release Okemah and the Melody of Riot.

2006

Glenn Kotche releases a solo album, Mobile.

Gob Iron, consisting of Jay Farrar and Anders Parker, release Death Songs for the Living.

Golden Smog release Another Fine Day.

Loose Fur release Born Again in the USA.

Jay Bennett releases The Magnificent Defeat.

The Bottle Rockets release Zoysia.

2007

Golden Smog, no longer including Tweedy, release Blood on the Slacks.

The Autumn Defense release The Autumn Defense.

Son Volt release The Search.

Wilco release Sky Blue Sky.

2008

Jay Bennett releases Whatever Happened, I Apologize.

2009

Son Volt release American Central Dust.

Benjamin Gibbard and Jay Farrar release One Fast Move or I'm Gone.

Wilco release Wilco (the album)

Jay Bennett dies suddenly of an accidental painkiller overdose.

The Bottle Rockets release Lean Forward.

2010

Kicking at the Perfumed Air by Jay Bennett is posthumously released.

The Autumn Defense release Once Around

2011

Wilco release The Whole Love.

2012

Jay Farrar appears on New Multitudes, along with Anders Parker and two other artists, for another collection of unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics.

2013

Son Volt release Honky Tonk.

2014

The Autumn Defense release Fifth.

Max Johnston releases Dismantling Paradise, his only solo album to date. Since leaving Wilco, he has been a member of The Gourds.

Tweedy, consisting of Jeff Tweedy and his son Spencer, release Sukirae.

2015

Wilco release Star Wars.

The Bottle Rockets release South Broadway Athletic Club.

2016

Wilco release Schmilco.

2017

Jeff Tweedy releases Together at Last

Son Volt release Notes of Blue.

2018

The Bottle Rockets release Bit Logic.

Jeff Tweedy releases WARM.

2019

Jeff Tweedy releases WARMER.

Son Volt release Union.

Wilco release Ode to Joy.

2020

Jeff Tweedy releases Love Is The King.

2021

The Bottle Rockets announce their retirement.

Son Volt release Electro Melodier.

2022

Wilco release Cruel Country.

2023

Wilco release Cousin.

Son Volt release Day of the Doug.

2024

Pat Sansone releases Infinity Mirrors.

Wilco release an EP, Hot Sun Cool Shroud.

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Crossing, Paris 2017

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A Kid From Somewhere—Pat O’Rourke 

Images from the skateboarder and photographer featured in our new miniseries, A Kid From Somewhere.

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Pat O’Rourke - FS 5050.

As seen in “BUMP”

Toronto - 2013

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In 1973, David Gilmour took a liking to the band Unicorn and offered for the band to demo some of their songs at his studio in Essex. He ultimately helped produce their album Blue Pine Trees and got them connected with Steve O'Rourke who got them signed.

He liked their song There's No Way Out of Here so much that he recorded it for his first solo album.

Unicorn: Ken Baker (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Pete Perryer (drums, vocals), Pat Martin (bass, vocals), and Kevin Smith (lead guitar, mandolin).

Photos by Dave Williamson at George Martins Air Studio in London.

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P.G. Six — Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites (Amish)

Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites by P.G. Six

Lately, you’re likely to hear PG Six’s Pat Gubler shading Garcia Peoples’ guitar sprawl with folky modal melodies or wigging out alongside New England psych mainstay Matt Valentine in Wet Tuna or beefing up an already guitar-centric sound in acid folk’s Weeping Bong Band. But before all that, he, along with Valentine, did a lot to invent the whole freak folk genre in Tower Recordings. This debut solo album, originally recorded in 2001 and expanded with eight live and unreleased tracks, comes just after that and continues on from there. Its lysergic takes on ancient tunes make you realize just how freaky the folk genre is, even before you start to fool with it.

Gubler accompanied himself in a range of stringed and keyboarded instruments, some familiar, some not, as well as a mystic flute. His main partner for this disc was Tim Barnes, a drummer who has collaborated with rock and experimental artists including Tony Conrad, Ikue Mori, Sonic Youth, Jim O'Rourke and Jeph Jerman.

The original disc opens and closes with versions of “Letter to Lilli St. Cyr,” one in flute, the other in a reedy, staticky keyboard and the overtone haunted strumming of something like a dulcimer. The sounds are traditional but stretched and distorted into stranger shapes. The traditional song, “When I Was a Young Man,” gets this treatment, too, starting in a ren faire lilt of folky flute and sunlit guitar, a patter of hand drums moving its stately rhythm. Not only elapses, however, before a fuzzed electric shoulders into view, putting buzz and friction under this melancholy frolic. The song ends in a tug of war between its folk and psychedelic forces, with splintered distortions of electric guitar winning out in the end.

That latter song is one of the more well-behaved and gentle cuts from this original collection. The longer cuts push further into alchemical amalgamations of folk and free-rock jam. “Go Your Way,” an Annie Briggs cover and the album’s clear centerpiece, changes shapes like a wizard sloughing off forms. Its radiant picked purity giving way to fluttery sung melody slapped into motion by north African desert rhythms. It dissolves, late in the cut, into pure tone and timber, the sawing dissonance of stringed instruments smoldering, throwing off sudden bright sparks.

“Go Your Way” comes up again in the extra tracks, via a sparer, less free-ranging acoustic version performed at the Dwars Festival in Amsterdam. “When I Was a Young Man” also gets a second look, this time from a radio performance on New York’s WNYU, and an alternate take of “Divine Invasion” was recorded live at the Flywheel in Easthampton; I’m pretty sure I was there. These extra tracks are, to a one, warm and unfussy and assured, Gubler’s clear, unhurried voice drifting over complex webs of crystalline picking.

This expanded version of Parlor Tricks documents a free-wheeling turn-of-the-century scene in which New Weird America was just getting started. Hippie enclaves in California and rural New England had got to wondering, what if you took old British tunes and chords and got them really, really high? The answer was surprisingly wonderful, an art with roots in the past and heads in the clouds, and P.G. Six was as good as anyone at it. Parlor tricks, indeed! This stuff is magic.

Jennifer Kelly

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This is a tribute birthday edit to Judith Eva Barsi 1978-1988 10 years old of age and those from gta vice city, poltergeist poltergeist III, Jaws 2 Jaws The Revenge, All Dogs go to heaven, Land before time rest in peace Dominick DeLuise, Burton Leon Reynolds Jr., Charles Nelson Reilly, Victor Tayback, Anna Maria Manahan, Godfrey Quigley, Jack Angel, Harald Juhnke, Michel Modo, Jacques Frantz, Ernest Borgnine, Tony Jay, Hamilton Camp, Pat Cleo Corley, Wlodzimierz Bednarski, Vadim Kurkov, Edeltraud Schubert, William Ryan, Martin Patterson Hingle, Bill Erwin, Joseph Henry Ranft, Roger Carel, Linda Grey, Andrei Yaroslavtsev, Henri Virlogeux, Sven Erik Herman Vikström, Melvin Van Peebles, Elizabeth Lee Fierro, Fritzi Jane Courtney, Jan Rabson, Naomi Ruth Stevens, Marilyn Sue Schreffler, Murray Hamilton, Barbara Alston, Roy Richard Scheider, Marc Gilpin, April Gilpin, Gary Michael Dubin, Susan French Moultrie, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Forrest Meredith Tucker, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Lester Tryon, Joseph Peter Mascolo, Barry S. Coe, Herb Muller, Heather Michele O'Rourke, Zelda May Rubinstein, Nathan Davis, Richard Fire, Jane Alderman, John Garfield, Dominique Ellen Dunne, Julian Beck, Beatrice Whitney Straight, Will Sampson, Louis Byron Perryman, Sonny Landham, James Karen, Robert Houston Broyles, Noble Henry Craig Jr., Geraldine Mary Fitzgerald, Fred Rogers, Susan Peretz, Avicii, Michael Jackson, Alan Rickman, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Richard Belzer, Michael Gambon, Matthew Perry, Raymond Burr, Brittany Murphy, Denise Marie Nickerson, Roy Mitchell Kinnear, Nora Denney, Leonard Stone, Diana Mae Sowle, Lisa Loring, Raul Julia, David John Battley, Günter Meisner, Aubrey Woods, Ursula Reit, Robbie Coltrane, Peter Capell, Roberts Blossom, Billie Bird, Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Clara Blandick, Shirley Temple, Baby LeRoy, Baby Peggy Montgomery, Werner Heyking, Walker Edmiston, Anthony Newley, Michael Goodliffe, Yevgeny Vesnik, Georgiy Vitsin, Roberto Del Giudice, Manlio Guardabassi, Sergey Aleksandrovich Martinson, Judith Barsi, Maria Agnes Virovacz Barsi, Agnes “Agi” Barsi Lidle, Barna Barsi, John Ingle, we will miss you all stars

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Pat O’Rourke.