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John "Rabbit" Bundrick (born November 21, 1948) is a prominent rock keyboardist, pianist, and organist, having played on albums by The Who, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Roger Waters, Free, and Crawler, among several others. Bundrick is also noted as the principal musician for the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...
Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. ...
Pianist Glenn Gould, Toronto, 1974 A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ...
An organist is a musician who plays the organ, whether pipe or electronic. ...
The Who is a British rock band that first came to prominence in the 1960s. ...
Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley (February 6, 1945 - May 11, 1981), better known as Bob Marley, was a singer, guitarist, songwriter and Rastafarian from the ghettos of Jamaica. ...
George Roger Waters (born September 6, 1943) is a British rock musician and songwriter. ...
Free was a British R&B-style rock band which formed in London in 1968 best known for their popular song All Right Now. Lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become lead singer of the rock band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums, while lead guitarist Paul...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) (first released in the United Kingdom on 14 August 1975) is a comedy-horror musical film directed by Jim Sharman from a screenplay by Sharman and Richard OBrien, who also composed the songs. ...
The Who Bundrick first worked with Pete Townshend in 1977 when he performed on Rough Mix, Townshend's solo collaboration with Ronnie Lane, former bass player for The Small Faces / The Faces. Bundrick later joined The Who in 1979, along with another former member of the Faces, drummer Kenny Jones, and played on their album Face Dances. Though briefly alienated from the band during the recording of It's Hard (and the subsequent tour) in favor of keyboardist Tim Gorman, apparently due to disagreements with Townshend about Bundrick's drinking, Bundrick later rejoined the band and has played live with them for about twenty years (though he was notably absent from The Who's well-reviewed performance at The Concert for New York City, the keyboardist spot having been filled by occasional Who keyboardist Jon Carin). Bundrick played on the Who's 2004 recordings "Real Good Looking Boy" and "Old Red Wine," and will likely play on their 2006 album WHO2 and their 2006 summer tour. Pete Townshend on the cover of Guitar World. ...
Collaboration between The Who guitarist Pete Townshend and Faces bassist Ronnie Lane, released in 1977. ...
Singer, songwriter and bass player Ronnie Lane (April 1, 1946 - June 4, 1997) (nicknamed Plonk) is best known for his membership in two prominent British rock bands, The Small Faces (1965-69) and The Faces (1970-75). ...
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For the Scottish movie Small Faces, see Small Faces (movie). ...
The Faces were an early 1970s rock band formed from the ashes of The Small Faces after Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie; new members Ron Wood (guitar) and Rod Stewart (vocals) joined Ronnie Lane (bass), Ian McLagan (keyboards) and Kenney Jones, (drums). ...
The Who is a British rock band that first came to prominence in the 1960s. ...
Kenneth Thomas Kenny (or Kenney) Jones (born September 16, 1948 in Stepney, London, UK) is a veteran British rock drummer best known for his work in the Small Faces, the Faces, and the Who. ...
Face Dances is an album by British rock band The Who originally released in 1981 in the US on Warner Bros. ...
Its Hard is the final studio album (although a new album - with the working name Who2 - is set to come out 2006) by British rock band The Who and the second album after drummer Keith Moon died. ...
The Concert for New York City was a benefit concert, featuring many famous musicians, that took place on October 20, 2001 at Madison Square Garden in New York City in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. ...
Jon Carin (born October 21, 1964 in New York) is a musician who plays keyboards, guitar and drums. ...
WHO2 is the working name for a new CD by The Who. ...
Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu and Rabbit In 1971, Bundrick made this album with guitarist Paul Kossoff, drummer Simon Kirke, and bassist Tetsu Yamauchi. He wrote five tracks for the album. His comments on those tracks are below. Paul Kossoff (September 14, 1950 - March 19, 1976) was a British rock guitarist well-known and respected for his restrained yet intensely emotive playing style. ...
Drummer Simon Kirke kept the beat for two of the 70s most popular bluesy hard rockers -- Free and Bad Company. ...
1. Blue Grass - June 6, 1971 - Stockholm, Sweden
This one is really just a play on words and invokes Memories of back home in Texas, where as a kid I used to have southern hillbilly jam sessions in the living room of our house. My Dad played the bass, and would invite his muso buddies over at least twice a week for a good old jam session, and of course they always let me join in on piano, crap as I was in those days. In the lyrics you will hear references to blue grass music, the bayou, playing and singing music, and hidden in there somewhere is a lesson on where Texas men and women's places were in those days. Man is boss, women cook and clean up, and shut up. Honest, that is the way life was back then in Texas. Funny thing is this is all based on the premise that the man is working, and the wife brings up the kids, but it still didn't make the Dad occasionally say to the Wife, "Shit woman, you don't do nothing. I work all day and come home and you ain't doin' shit. Tomorrow go and get a fucking job, woman!" It's true, really, honest. It's all in the lyrics.
2. Sammy's Allright - April 6, 1971 - Stockholm, Sweden
This song has a hidden meaning about my Brother, Sam. He was a fine country and western drummer, had a scholarship In music at college, and was a fully qualified Draughtsman. Then Vietnam and Korea came along, and he got Drafted. It was cool, we thought. He got married real quick before he left for Korea, so he'd have a wife to come home to when it was. Unfortunately though he didn't. She soon absconded off with another man while Sam was fighting for his country. When he did come Home, the War fucked him up, and he lost his scholarship, his Draughtman's job, and was generally totally fucked from the War. He was a different man on his return. So this song is really dedicated to him and his misfortune. In the lyrics you will read "Hey, people Watch, Someone is Falling!" Well that's Sam. "Rolling around in his Own company." His wife was gone, his job, and his music chances. He was a total wreck, and as the lyric says, "Sam, you must slow down", That was my mind trying to communicate with him from Sweden back to Texas. He must have got the message, cause now he works in a high security prison in Palestine, Texas. He doesn't play drums anymore, and has re-married. Sam is a cool Brother. At the end of the song we all sing, "Sammy's allright, Sammy's allright". And he is now.
3. Fool's Life - September 21, 1971 - Stockholm, Sweden
This is a goodie, and one of my favorites. In the 60's I was a Huge Hippie fan, of the highest order. Hippiness was my business man. I could do the Hippy thing good. Lot's of Acid, wine, speed-balls, downers, joints, the lot. I was straight in there man. This song's lyrics are describing the effects of being on drugs, and the responsibility that you have to accept for the consequences of a bad trip, or whatever fuck up you get from them. It's full of imagery about looking at yourself through the eyes of other People, "You've seen yourself as many." Then it describes the onslaught of a major Acid trip coming on. "If you think you're climbing, just look down." major crash ahead. But you take responsibility. "It's a Fool's life, and a Fool's chance to take." It's full of confusion in the lyrics, stoned dribblings, and also a bit of Fear is in there too, "There's a man with a stick, about to drive the Life out of you." The whole trip is laid out on a colored musical bed of Jazzy type chords and grooves, so it's one of my favs. I still get a contact high when I read the lyrics, taking me all the way back to 1971, Sweden. Brilliant days.
4. Yellow House - October 28, 1970 - Houston, Texas
This is one of my all time favorite Ballads of mine, the other being Muddy Water. Johnny Nash did a great version of this track as well. The song is about a girl, named Johnny, who I stumbled across in Houston in 1967. She was beautiful, gorgeous, and the biggest and best pair of knockers on the Planet. Long beautiful brown hair, curves like an Hour-glass, and againÉthose knockers. Well, I fell in love the second I clapped eyes on her, and she in turn took to me too. So it was nightly visits to her house, which was Yellow, and time spent in her raised off the floor ceiling bed. What a pad.! She lived there all by herself, and even went to Houston University, like I did, occasionally, when I felt like showing up. To cut a long story short, this song is all about her. Why it is so sad is due to the fact that one night when I was making my rounds, I popped into her place without notice to her that I was on my way. I was already out and about, so this time I just thought I'd drop in, unannounced. Shame, shame, shame on me! When I got to her porch I could hear talking, and when I got to her door I could hear another guy's voice inside the house, and they weren't telling jokes either. It was all very passionate and mushy sounding, and my heart just fell to the floor. There I was, standing on this girl's porch, the one that I had fallen in love with, so I just sat down on her porch for an hour or so, feeling totally crushed. Then I went home and wrote Yellow House. I was a Sad Dude.
5. I'm On The Run - January 18, 1971 - Stockholm, Sweden
Here we go Cowboy time again. My roots are in Country and Western Music, and that explains why there's hints of it in a lot of my stuff. This song is definitely Cowboy meets English Hard-man Blues dude. I think that when Rebop Quakubah took me to see Free that year in Stockholm, at their gig in the town, that ever since I heard them, from then on my songwriting in Sweden took on a different outlook. I started writing more dirty and hard. Da-da-da-daaaaaa, Da-da-da-daaaaaa, as the musical intro goes. It's so Free to me. Then I just wrote a Cowboy story line on top of that hard English groove that Encapsulates I'm on the Run, and the whole song just took on a life of its own. Simon and Koss really interpreted it well, although Rodgers never really latched on to it. He had a stab at it, but he didn't really get the message. It would have been a monster track if only Paul had of sung it instead of me. Wow!É.. It's the common story of Bad guy comes into town, throwing his weight Around, and the Sheriff comes to Run him out-a-town.!! Lot's of fun, this track was. Dirty and mean.
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