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Post by will on Apr 8, 2013 21:01:23 GMT -5
From Jimmy Ashhurst on Twitter:- We all lost an amazing person yesterday...and I lost a dear friend and great teacher. Godspeed Andy. Later he posted the following:- Here's one nobody's ever heard before. From the last time I had the honor of working with Andy Johns. RIP my friend - Link to mp3 Song description:Unreleased song from Magic Christian Music Band unreleased album 1996. (Ashhurst/Rafferty) Rick Richards - guitars, bvox Paul Rafferty - vocals Jimmy Ashhurst - acoustic bass, mandolin, bvox Producer Andy Johns This might not be the right section, so feel free to move it if needed  Beautiful song regardless |
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Post by will on Apr 9, 2013 4:27:50 GMT -5
From Jimmys Facebook: Since hearing of Andy's passing yesterday I've spent the night and today revisiting a lot of music. A ton of his work is well known, but I realized that I'm in possession of some that hasn't been enjoyed by anyone but for a tiny few odd persons.
Among those is a sadly-fated recording project that took place sometime in the mid-nineties, a year or so after the unceremonious fizzling out of the Ju Ju Hounds, whenever that was. It was named The Magic Christian Music Band randomly by Chris Robinson after we'd been listening to the Badfinger album called that and were super high. He added the 'Music Band' part…Hippie.
The band was: Mike Stinson on drums
Marc Ford guitars
Paul Rafferty singin
Craig Ross guitars
Ethan Johns - Glyn's son and Andy's nephew. The fuckin kid plays everything. really well. Infuriating.
Rick Richards guitars
…Billy Payne from Little Feat played on some… bunch of people were in and out…playing...not playing…Lots of the latter, for sure.
So a bunch of tunes got recorded and all was great and fantastic and everybody loved everyone and backs were slapped and cocks were polished all 'round. Problem was…there was no band. I certainly wasn't in any position to pay anybody since I was suckin on a shit sandwich myself, and all these guys had way better things to do. There wasn't anyone in town who could have played what they did on those recordings, not for free at least unless they were my buddies, and my buddies had already played it so…no band. No band = no deal.
"But we made a cool record and it's all done and we paid for it already and all you gotta do is put it out!"- say We (using 'logic')
"Screw you you miserable cunts!!" say They back at us (probably not really, but something that meant that)
So that was the end of that.
Soon after realizing what had happened, and likely also a bit during, I'd made the profound decision to just get really loaded and stay really loaded. Fuck it. That lasted for 7 years. Andy came over once and brought me groceries. He sat on my couch and told me I was gonna be ok since I had a roof over my head…which made a lot of sense then and still does today. Then he raided my liquor cabinet and drank everything that had alcohol in it including the weird asparagus digestive that'd been in there forever and I had to call him a cab, bless his massive heart.
Anyways Andy was there the whole time, produced it, babysat us, allowed himself to be babysat BY us, browbeat and beleaguered us…unbridled hysterics… basically all the while making - as Rick told me over the phone just today- "one of the best memories I ever had"
Soooo…here we are and he's gone and I'm listening to the only copy I have of the stuff now - It's a digitized version of a cassette version of Andy's mixes, complete with a blank spot where I pressed the Record button at a fucked up spot at some point in the last couple decades. I'm wondering where the master tapes are. I'm wondering how many people know what a "master tape" is. I'm wondering if anyone else besides me would wanna hear this stuff if it were made available somehow. If so, I'm wondering what I'd have to do to make that happen …and then I remember. I remember I had put the Ampex reels in the trunk of the '65 Mercedes I drove to the studio all those years ago. I remember seeing them in that trunk time and time again over the years but never daring to take them out. And I remember that that same car is in my garage right now. - and I'm wondering what those tracks sound like.
ps. Andy is also the only man I've ever met who refuses to play poker unless everyone at the table wears a cowboy hat and a loaded sixgun, and the only man to date to have more than 3 televisions riddled with bullet holes in his backyard at one time. And a second song was added to Soundcloud, Backdoor Man |
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Post by Rumba on Apr 9, 2013 5:05:51 GMT -5
That's one of those uplifting stories that we all reminisce over when someone passes, all these memories we possess are priceless, you laugh about them when you meet up with your friends and the n they take on a whole new meaning when someone in your group sadly dies.
I'll need to check out these songs when I'm home, they don't appear to work on ma ipad, then again I don't really know how to use it.
Rumba
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Post by will on Apr 9, 2013 8:37:43 GMT -5
I've temporarily put the song on Youtube for anyone having issues with Soundcloud though I might get told to take it down due to copyrights etc |
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Post by IzzyDutch on Apr 9, 2013 12:16:11 GMT -5
That sounds good! It's got a bit of Faces / Rod Stewart vibe.. really cool  Would be nice to hear the rest of the album |
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Post by will on Apr 9, 2013 15:29:54 GMT -5
Would be nice to hear the rest of the album I think Jimmy has posted more on his SoundCloud page:- soundcloud.com/jimmy-ashhurstI've not had a chance to check them out yet but hoping these are from those same sessions  |
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Post by will on Apr 9, 2013 20:51:01 GMT -5
8 songs have now been posted here on SoundCloud and it has really brightened up my day Really wonderful music guys, hope some more of you will check it out, it's just unfortunate that circumstances for its release are so sad. Many thanks to Jimmy for sharing all of these songs and his memories of Andy. Some noteworthy info about the songs:- Mexico Way: This one may sound familiar to Buckcherry fans. I brought it with me when I joined the band and Josh and Keith took it in a bit of a different direction. It turned into Carousel [on 15].
Here's what it used to sound like. No comparisons please. I love them both equally.Darlin I've Been Drinking: This is the original version of a song which later appeared on Marc Fords album "Its About Time", known as "Darlin I've Been Dreamin" A comment liked by Jimmy on the original Facebook post suggests Jimmy played some of this material to Timo Kaltia (amongst others) as early as 1994. That actually puts it more inline with Jimmys "one year after the Ju Ju Hounds" comment, who disbanded in '93, instead of the 1996 date originally posted. Speculation of course, but some of these tracks could easily have been brought in for the Ju Ju Hounds 2nd album had things not gone down the way they did |
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Post by izzyontour on Apr 10, 2013 4:42:31 GMT -5
I would agree - it's definitely The Faces influence record really interesting project, shame it wasn't officially released |
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Post by IzzyDutch on Apr 10, 2013 14:02:15 GMT -5
The other tracks sound great too... funny cause you can clearly recognize Jimmy's sound & bass lines, they're JJH style. I'd say Rick's guitars are a bit less recognizable. Anyways, it's a shame indeed this was never officially released.. the tracks have a great vibe |
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Post by alicejitterbug on Apr 10, 2013 19:24:48 GMT -5
Wow.
Wow again.
Beautiful homage written by Jimmy Ashhurst.
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Post by alicejitterbug on Apr 11, 2013 18:17:54 GMT -5
I'm listening to the Magic Christian Music Band songs that Jimmy Ashhurst uploaded in SoundCloud via a link in chopaway tweet in a sidebar widget at Appetite for Discussion (a-4-d.com) called GN'R Twitters. There is also a tweet in there from Ronnie Wood about his exhibition opening because it was RT by Slash. I didn't know Ronnie tweets. Also, Tony Harnell and the Wildflowers EP was released for download to pledgers who financed the recording of it today. This is twitter and internet at its best for me.
In case Jimmy wonders, I believe these songs are being heard and appreciated and shared.
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Post by will on Apr 12, 2013 6:58:38 GMT -5
In case Jimmy wonders, I believe these songs are being heard and appreciated and shared. and downloaded, just incase they suddenly get pulled from the cloud  This is twitter and internet at its best for me. Definitely, though I think Jimmy still needs to change his Soundcloud photo to a funny looking cat for the rest of the internet to take notice ;D |
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Beautiful song regardless
