artist of the week 10.29.12: chuck prophet
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:08 pm
please forgive all the errors, intentional and otherwise.
note to the pedantic. will not be chronological.
chuck prophet.......one of my favorite finds in recent years. cortez/4sooner turned me on a few years ago. homemade blood was my first lp. prophet has many, many many, records in various forms and mutations and bands. don't have them all....but, dude is still fast climbing my list of all timers. with a bullet.
born in whittier, ca. moved to san francisco when he was 17. still lives there.
throughout this thread i will unapologetically go on and on about him being a multi-tool player like buddy holly....writing, playing, singing, producing, arranging, gigging, etc. a working man's savant eared musician. i will also wax horribly poetically badly about his space alien, jedi god like, fung shwee, greased up, city slicker guitar genius. i will also talk of him in complete hyperbolic terms about being the greatest and most unheralded rock and roll artist of all time.
i will mean every word.
and....bro is best buds and co-collaborator with mother fricking alejandro escovedo. also had a long and storied history with jim dickinson.
hit the road at 17 by joining the seminal band green on red. no band deets on them here, as they deserve their own thread. he did tour the world with them for 8 years, put out a bunch of bad ass records and at some point become a many years abusing, straight up crack addict.
so that's where this thread will begin.....with homemade blood....the album that turned me on to him.
thanks cortez and 4sooner.
1997.
from sucking the glass dick.....chuck prophet
after 10 years of rock and roll liferdom, bro moved in with his parents to kick crack cocaine. for 1 year.....while living there, he wrote this album. not dour by any stretch, it is really a guitar rave up rock and roll masterpiece. lots of influences, as sir prophet is a rock and roll classicist and a musical genius of the highest order. so the record sounds good is what i'm saying. weaving in pyschedealiea, blues, punk riffs, power pop, glam and pop culture guitar licks. edge. rude. snarl. sideways. unconventional picking define this lp. can't even see most of them blazing in from the dark.....just beyond the headphones. slick guitar tones and colors. and some pedal steel.
1. credit-singing about kate moss and gold credit cards. star wars slide guitar and space invader one offs get the party started.
2. you've been gone-stream of lost memories from a detoxing addict.
3. inside track-i'm on an inside track, but i kep falling back....wake up sleepy jesus can't you hear that whistle blow....with harp and pedal steel. dude really does it all. shredded vocals.
4. ooh wee-9 years old in 73, strung out on ritalin and color tv. from a duly damaged, telecaster wielding zombie remembering his youth while rattling around his childhood home. brilliant song.
5. new years day-pedal steel. emmy lou style vox from his soon to be wife. cruising around the old neighborhood. lodi god child....except about cocaine. i woke up in my nissan to the static on the radio...i dialed up the station, closed my eyes and started to glow.
6. 22 fillmore-crazy repeating riff and way up high synth eating into your brain....and cellos. dude may be losing his shit while singing about mtv and rented tuxedos.
7. homemade blood -tweaked out confessional. nice effects.
8. whole lot more-mandolins, pedal steel and harmonies mother fucker.
9. textbook case-intro sounds like the innards of hal 9000. bruising rock and roll song.
10. k-mart family portrait-drum loop and echos. droopy slow burn solos. straight from the guts.
11. til you came along-love song to the woman who saved him. stephanie finch. wife, band member and muse.
12. the parting song-trippy bass lines and tweeker guitar licks. spooky pedal steel. dude is weary and wary......
fantastic record.
repost of a funny story about ryan adams and a scaled back version of new years day.
to be continued.....
note to the pedantic. will not be chronological.
chuck prophet.......one of my favorite finds in recent years. cortez/4sooner turned me on a few years ago. homemade blood was my first lp. prophet has many, many many, records in various forms and mutations and bands. don't have them all....but, dude is still fast climbing my list of all timers. with a bullet.
born in whittier, ca. moved to san francisco when he was 17. still lives there.
throughout this thread i will unapologetically go on and on about him being a multi-tool player like buddy holly....writing, playing, singing, producing, arranging, gigging, etc. a working man's savant eared musician. i will also wax horribly poetically badly about his space alien, jedi god like, fung shwee, greased up, city slicker guitar genius. i will also talk of him in complete hyperbolic terms about being the greatest and most unheralded rock and roll artist of all time.
i will mean every word.
and....bro is best buds and co-collaborator with mother fricking alejandro escovedo. also had a long and storied history with jim dickinson.
hit the road at 17 by joining the seminal band green on red. no band deets on them here, as they deserve their own thread. he did tour the world with them for 8 years, put out a bunch of bad ass records and at some point become a many years abusing, straight up crack addict.
so that's where this thread will begin.....with homemade blood....the album that turned me on to him.
thanks cortez and 4sooner.
1997.
from sucking the glass dick.....chuck prophet
after 10 years of rock and roll liferdom, bro moved in with his parents to kick crack cocaine. for 1 year.....while living there, he wrote this album. not dour by any stretch, it is really a guitar rave up rock and roll masterpiece. lots of influences, as sir prophet is a rock and roll classicist and a musical genius of the highest order. so the record sounds good is what i'm saying. weaving in pyschedealiea, blues, punk riffs, power pop, glam and pop culture guitar licks. edge. rude. snarl. sideways. unconventional picking define this lp. can't even see most of them blazing in from the dark.....just beyond the headphones. slick guitar tones and colors. and some pedal steel.
1. credit-singing about kate moss and gold credit cards. star wars slide guitar and space invader one offs get the party started.
2. you've been gone-stream of lost memories from a detoxing addict.
3. inside track-i'm on an inside track, but i kep falling back....wake up sleepy jesus can't you hear that whistle blow....with harp and pedal steel. dude really does it all. shredded vocals.
4. ooh wee-9 years old in 73, strung out on ritalin and color tv. from a duly damaged, telecaster wielding zombie remembering his youth while rattling around his childhood home. brilliant song.
5. new years day-pedal steel. emmy lou style vox from his soon to be wife. cruising around the old neighborhood. lodi god child....except about cocaine. i woke up in my nissan to the static on the radio...i dialed up the station, closed my eyes and started to glow.
6. 22 fillmore-crazy repeating riff and way up high synth eating into your brain....and cellos. dude may be losing his shit while singing about mtv and rented tuxedos.
7. homemade blood -tweaked out confessional. nice effects.
8. whole lot more-mandolins, pedal steel and harmonies mother fucker.
9. textbook case-intro sounds like the innards of hal 9000. bruising rock and roll song.
10. k-mart family portrait-drum loop and echos. droopy slow burn solos. straight from the guts.
11. til you came along-love song to the woman who saved him. stephanie finch. wife, band member and muse.
12. the parting song-trippy bass lines and tweeker guitar licks. spooky pedal steel. dude is weary and wary......
fantastic record.
repost of a funny story about ryan adams and a scaled back version of new years day.
to be continued.....