Whatever happened to El Vez
Whatever happened to El Vez
He was great before he sold out to pop and gained all that weight. I heard a rumor that he's living somewhere in Nova Scotia with his half-sister, working as a fisherman and doing the occassional bit part for old buddies Cronenberg and Mike Figgis.
What have you heard?
What have you heard?
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Every time I speak to El Vez on the phone, I tape the calls and rerun them backwards. The words "Turn me on, Dick Cheney" can be heard clearly in the background.
Of course, the only possible conclusion is that I'm talking to Faux Vez, the real Vez having perished in a bizarre rollerblading incident.
Of course, the only possible conclusion is that I'm talking to Faux Vez, the real Vez having perished in a bizarre rollerblading incident.
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That's a bold, bold statement. EV II nearly caused me to drive my car into a ditch the first time I heard it and I wish to goodness that he hadn't had that falling out with Steve Winwood because their duet on "The Sweet Science of Rugby" is one of the high points of late 80's Americana.noiseradio wrote:I heard he has a new album coming out that's as good as El Vez II.
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See, I think you're missing out on some great stuff when you shorthand his career like some kind of folk rock Woody Allen. Talkin' Village Idiot Blues may well be one of the best debut albums of all time but when you compare even the best songs off that album, "That Wasn't Nearly As Painless As I Was Led To Believe It Would Be" and "My Baby's A Nuclear Souffle" to anything off his late-life masterpiece, The Lives, Loves & Alimony Checks of Paul Bettergart, it reduces his "earlier, funnier, angrier" material to cinders. Absolute cinders.migdd wrote:I always liked his early, funnier, angrier albums anyway so who cares.
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What I hate about El Vez is his unpredictability. I mean, I accepted the heavy metal album „The Beast” featuring ex-Megadeth Dave Mustaine on harmony vocals and I even enjoyed the bluegrass effort „The Green Bushes of Texas”. I also thought last year’s „Singing With The Dead” was a groundbreaking release (containing duets with Tupac Shakur, Notorious BIG and Ol’ Dirty Bastard).
But when I read the latest press release saying that El Vez is recording an album with Warsaw Village Band, tentatively titled „I Ate Dinner But I Didn’t Pay Bill” I said, „Enough’s enough”.
For God’s sake, El Vez, stop it !!
But when I read the latest press release saying that El Vez is recording an album with Warsaw Village Band, tentatively titled „I Ate Dinner But I Didn’t Pay Bill” I said, „Enough’s enough”.
For God’s sake, El Vez, stop it !!
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Who?
Oh yeh, the El Vez on this Board or this one?
http://www.elvez.net/
The one on this Board was last seen over there. Not there. THERE!
Oh yeh, the El Vez on this Board or this one?
http://www.elvez.net/
The one on this Board was last seen over there. Not there. THERE!
Who’s this kid with his mumbo jumbo?
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Actually, I Hate It When You Guys Try To Riff Together was the title of EV's 1992 "lost" album of cover songs. Reportedly, El Vez had gathered a group of legendary sessions players together to record a couple dozen of his favorite ragtime tunes. The musicians and song titles remain a mystery but supposedly, a bootleg copy was sold on eBay about a year ago for a whopping $1,152.00!!! Anybody have any more info on this lost gem?I hate when you guys try to riff together.
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I liked El Vez better when he was still with the E Street Band.
I also liked him better when he was "El Vez Airplane".
I also liked him better when he was "El Vez Airplane".
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You know an El Vez album that I really like? Poverty Row. It just got reissued (albeit kind of a barebones reissue....guess Rhino has bigger fish to fry) and while it might not be as consistently great as EV II, the concept of a song cycle about Republic Pictures (for those who aren't rabid film geeks; RP was one of the cutrate studios known as "poverty row" where they cranked out serials and where guys like John Barrymore wound up after their careers hit the skids) is absolutely irresistible. I think my favorite off that one is "Dana Wynter," a moebius strip of a lyric that starts off with a menage a trois involving Wynter, Kevin McCarthy and Sam Peckinpah that just gets weirder and more nonsensical by the verse, as well as "3 Godfathers" which should be studied by every would-be dustbowl poet for its startling imagery and how it really makes you feel as if you are on some late 19th century prairie.
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As is "Edward Ulmer's Eyebrow"
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