Spencer, happily back in the Comment Section after a season wandering in the Yukon, brings to our attention this nugget from ’73. Ringo Starr’s third solo album, cleverly titled Ringo, features just about every killer in the contemporary music industry: Steve Cropper, most of The Band, Harry Nilsson, Nicky Hopkins, and three fellows from Liverpool. None of them play on this tune, though; it’s a second-rate ensemble: Klaus Voorman and Jim Keltner are the rhythm section, our man James Booker on piano, and T Rex’s Marc Bolan on crunchy rock star guitar in your left ear.
OBLIGATORY DEAD CONNECTION: Tom Scott, who played the sax solo on the studio version of Estimated Prophet, doing the horn arrangements.
Also: guess how many tracks on the album James Booker plays on? Go ahead. Guess.
Also also: The video says the song’s name is Have You Seen My Baby, but that’s wrong. The song’s name is Hold On, which is a very common thing to name a song. I bet there’s a bunch of songs named Hold On.
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Thoughts on Hold On por favor.
Good to see things back to normal … only Booker I knew was dude from Good Times … thanks Spencer
Tom Scott has played with Jan and Dean, Blondie, to ToTo, Pat Boone, Randy Newman, The Carpenters, the Grateful Dead I think if you recorded in LA he would just appear in the mix even if you were not aware of it.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/69621-Tom-Scott?subtype=Instruments-Performance&filter_anv=0&type=Credits&page=8
Once you use him as a connection, well everyone is connected..
Apparently when he played with the Blues Brothers the first ti,me, Belushi ragged him for playing “wimpy music” with Joni Mitchell.
In all fairness to Joni Mitchell, Miles of Aisles is probably her least impressive work.
ReadingDoonesbury,
That is hilarious…
For some reason it reminds me that Belushi pulled some pranks on Meatloaf. I do not recall the specifics. I need to re-read my copy of “to hell and back”
isn’t that george’s slide guitar in the choruses?