tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13308969.post115202223888807385..comments2022-12-18T09:37:52.741-08:00Comments on The Colorblind James Experience: Absolutely More!: Thank You, John PeelPhil Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04474268489877693456noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13308969.post-1164019959385167962006-11-20T02:52:00.000-08:002006-11-20T02:52:00.000-08:00You still get plenty of radio airplay in the UK, f...You still get plenty of radio airplay in the UK, fwiw. I've heard Considering a Move to Memphis on BBC Radio 6 more than once in the last couple of weeks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13308969.post-1153073498655709632006-07-16T11:11:00.000-07:002006-07-16T11:11:00.000-07:00As often as Chuck would sit in the dressing room b...As often as Chuck would sit in the dressing room before a show, relaxed with a beer in hand sighing "Let's cancel!", he would often ruminate about putting out a twelve CD box set and just "getting it over with".<BR/><BR/>There's no one out there with his sense of irony, wit and the absurd.Phil Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04474268489877693456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13308969.post-1152808978651119622006-07-13T09:42:00.000-07:002006-07-13T09:42:00.000-07:00A couple responses to Phil's commments:I completel...A couple responses to Phil's commments:<BR/><BR/>I completely agree that the first album does have an ineffable, classic quality that I don't think is matched by the later releases. I do think that 'Strange Sounds' comes close, as does 'The Rochester Sessions' disc that we recorded in 1991. 'Solid! Behind the Times' reaches some impressive heights as well, but it doesn't have that deft touch that makes the first one so pleasurable. <BR/><BR/>Our stance as independent thinkers was our great strength, but also a detriment to our career as recording artists. The first album made such a sharp impression, one that most listeners wanted to hear duplicated in subsequent releases. To really capture the breadth of Chuck's songwriting and the cinematic quality of the band, we probably should have made all our releases double albums or boxed sets.david d. mcintirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05025827936203930012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13308969.post-1152557781683727112006-07-10T11:56:00.000-07:002006-07-10T11:56:00.000-07:00I went to see The Colorblind James Experience twic...I went to see The Colorblind James Experience twice, on both occasions at the Adelphi in Hull in 1988 or 1989.<BR/>Those two gigs remain among the finest nights out I have ever had anywhere...I remember the band doing encore after encore (one of which was Hey Bernadette, which I had been bellowing for).<BR/>Fantastic times, and a terrific band which I remember very very fondly.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12314096465938014335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13308969.post-1152556856659501332006-07-10T11:40:00.000-07:002006-07-10T11:40:00.000-07:00As I remember it, Chuck had been pretty hip to Joh...As I remember it, Chuck had been pretty hip to John Peel for awhile. As with most things outside of my jurisdiction as guitar player, I had no idea who he was. Chuck used to love to relay how we had sent <I>one</I> copy to Peel on purely a whim. <BR/><BR/>Other Rochester bands who normally wouldn't have given us the time of day (that's another story) were calling him up asking him "How did you guys do that?" "Who do I send stuff to?" Chuck would graciously give them the information he had but inwardly he knew they had little chance of repeating our success.<BR/><BR/>The short and skinny of it is, the first Colorblind James Experience album is a classic; a masterpiece by misfits who didn't know any better; a collection of amateurly produced demos that somehow captured the very spirit Chuck tirelessly sought after live and in the studio.<BR/><BR/>As Robert Christgau put it, we were a band that wouldn't "change the world" who possessed a subtlety that "will piss some off and pass most by." <BR/><BR/>We were oddballs led by a viciously independent thinker/artist who captured the attention of England's sole viciously independent thinker/DJ. It had to be. We never got huge but we did the work that was put before us to do.Phil Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04474268489877693456noreply@blogger.com