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New Zealand rugby union footballer

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The GrantCast
247 - Someone is tapping on my eardrum.

The GrantCast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2025 18:17


Episode: 247 Traditions. Ben Franks. I wound up in Urgent Care on Christmas Eve To see a video of the recording of this episode, become a patron at patreon.com/saturdaymorningmedia Mentioned on the show: https://www.yelp.com/biz/ben-franks-restaurant-redwood-city Show edits by Stephen Staver. FOLLOW GRANT http://www.MrGrant.com https://instagram.com/throwingtoasters/ ©2025 Saturday Morning Media/Grant Baciocco

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Unfiltered a wine podcast
Ep 198: The Premium Canned Wine Revolution with Ben Franks, co-founder of Canned Wine Co

Unfiltered a wine podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2024 62:26


Hello, wine friends! In this episode, I'm thrilled to introduce you to Canned Wine Co., a brand making waves by doing things differently. Instead of the usual bulk production, Canned Wine Co. sources premium single-varietal wines from Europe's top vineyards, putting quality first. Recently, I had the chance to visit the stunning Loire Valley, where I met winemaker Lionel Gosseaume and tasted his premium Gamay—first from the bottle, then from the can. The incredible part? You could barely tell the difference! I even joined the harvest, witnessing the dedication that goes into each grape, and now I want to share that experience with you. To dig deeper into the art and science of quality wine canning, I'm joined by Ben Franks, co-founder of Canned Wine Co. And a special thanks to Coravin, our sponsor for this episode, for giving wine enthusiasts the chance to explore wines one glass at a time without uncorking the entire bottle. Tune in for an inspiring chat, and don't forget to pour yourself something special! If you want to skip ahead:   03.09: Becoming a wine entrepreneur and Camel Valley's influence on Ben's journey 05.25: Early wine influences 07.21: The creation of Novel Wines 10.00: The leap into creating Canned Wine Co 12.25: Challenges of canning premium wines 15.32: The tiny PH limits for canning wine and problems with Savignon Blanc 19.38: A 2 year shelf life on the cans 22.26: Choosing the varietals to go into can 26.08: Discovering the Gamay of Lionel Gosseaume - a Loire Winemaker 28.50: Old Vine Gamay 30.09: Comparing Gamay from Loire and Beaujolais 31.59: Food pairing with Canned Wine Co Gamay 35.14: Experience of comparison tasting the same Gamay from bottle and can out of glass 37.31: Sauvignon Blanc paired with the Loire Valley Goat's Cheeses 38.24: The wine region for Sauvignon Blanc: Oisly 42:48: Ability for wine expiration with several Canned Wine Co wines 44:19: Sustainability of canned wines 45:38: Technical understanding of how to can wine 48.13: The design of the labels 51:09: The benefits of pouring canned wine into a glass to enhance its flavor and aroma. 53.18: Addressing myths on the quality of canned wine Any thoughts or questions, do email me: janina@eatsleepwinerepeat.co.uk Or contact me on Instagram @eatsleep_winerepeat If you fancy watching some videos on my youtube channel: Eat Sleep Wine Repeat Or come say hi at www.eatsleepwinerepeat.co.uk Until next time, Cheers to you!   ---------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- THE EAT SLEEP WINE REPEAT PODCAST HAS BEEN FEATURED IN DECANTER MAGAZINE, RADIO TIMES AND FEED SPOT AS THE 6TH BEST UK WINE MAKING PODCAST.

PEP Talk
With Ben Franks

PEP Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2024 25:34


With a rich Christian heritage, but a bleak spiritual present, Wales is in desperate need of the Gospel right now. God is not unaware of the situation however, and is calling people to pray, share the Word and plant new churches right now. Andy and Gavin chat with a leader of 100 Cyrmu and hear about the vision for 100 new churches in the next 10 years!Visit 100Cyrmu and sign up to pray for Wales.Ben Franks planted Hope Church Rhondda with his wife Lois in 2013. The church meets in a converted shop on Tonypandy's high street and is hoping to launch two new congregations in the next 12 months. Alongside leading the team at Hope, Ben chairs the board of his family's business while Lois runs a marketing company in Pontypridd.

Battle on SermonAudio
Jesus Fought the Battle of Jericho

Battle on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2024 45:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Jesus Fought the Battle of Jericho Subtitle: The Book of Joshua Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 8/18/2024 Bible: Joshua 6:1-27 Length: 45 min.

Remembrance on SermonAudio
Stones of Remembrance

Remembrance on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2024 37:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Stones of Remembrance Subtitle: The Book of Joshua Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 7/21/2024 Bible: Joshua 4:1-24 Length: 37 min.

The Athlete Blueprint Podcast
The Ecological Dynamics of Soccer w/ Ben Franks

The Athlete Blueprint Podcast

Play Episode Play 27 sec Highlight Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 36:09


Hey, what's up everybody welcome to adaptable podcast powered by emergence. I'm your host Coach Jav and thank you so much for joining me today. My guess today is Ben Franks Ben Franks is a lecturer in applied coaching science at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. Primarily his work is focused on the visual control of movement in sport during interceptive actions. Ben has also coached in numerous settings in soccer from amateur to professional levels Speaking of his work, Ben has appeared on this podcast two times previously and on Episode 32 where we discussed his research paper on visual gaze in goal keepers. Overall, Ben is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to soccer related or in regards to  skill acquisition.In this episode, we discuss Ben's recent collaboration with us over emergence with the launch of his new course called the ecological dynamics of soccer. This course helps coaches link the  theory to  direct application of practice design and a modern approach to skill acquisition. Having gone through much of the course myself, I can tell you that it is excellent, and I believe there is value for coaches, even if you do not work directly with soccer players.In addition to that, Ben and I have a discussion on practice design, including how coaches can purposely manipulate constraints to influence athlete behaviorBen's course is now available for purchase. I will link to all of that in the show notes and I highly encourage you to check it out. Now on my conversation with Ben Franks .Episode ResourcesThe Ecological Dynamics of Soccer Course Ben on XEpisode 32 with BenEpisode 57 with Ben and Will Roberts Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

Submission on SermonAudio
Heidelberg Catechism Lord’s Day 13: Sonship & Submission

Submission on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2024 37:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Heidelberg Catechism Lord’s Day 13: Sonship & Submission Subtitle: Heidelberg Catechism Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 5/26/2024 Bible: Galatians 4:4-9 Length: 37 min.

The Athlete Blueprint Podcast
"The 1st Day of Practice we Play" with Jason Watson

The Athlete Blueprint Podcast

Play Episode Play 33 sec Highlight Listen Later May 15, 2024 61:39


My guest today is Jason Watson . Who is Jason? Jason is the head  women's volleyball coach at  the university  Arkansas women's volleyball. Prior to that he had successful head coaching stance at my alma mater Arizona State and BYU.What's unique about Jason is that he is a program builder. He took over a program in Arkansas. That is a major conference in the SEC and had not had a lot of historical success and since he took over the program in 2016 he has since taken them to new Heights, including making the NCAA tournament 8 times.In his previous stops at ASU and BYU, he also took programs not known for their success and helped elevate them. Like I said Jason has a knack for building programs.He does this not subscribing to traditional practice method where athletes do isolated drills, and then hope that they can put it together a scrimmage or live action, he instead helps put his athletes in game like situations where they could adapt their skills and become better volleyball players.  You can attribute a lot of his success to his practice structure.I really enjoyed this conversation with Jason, we talk about his coaching journey and practice design from when he started, to what it is today!Before I let you get to the episode, I wanted to let you know that we have a brand new course called the Ecological Dynamics of Soccer, which is currently on sale and available for purchase. It's our good friend and friend of the podcast Ben Franks. B en is a wicked smart dude and always delivers so be sure to check that out. I'll put the in the show notes.If you like today's episode, leave a review here....If you want to reach me directly, contact me on social media or shoot me @javier@emergentmvmt.comEpisode ResourcesJason's staff page at Arkansas Jason on X The Ecological Dynamics of Soccer Course Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.ioLet's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjavCredits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

Shame on SermonAudio
The Shame of the Cross

Shame on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2024 37:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Shame of the Cross Subtitle: Matthew Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 4/28/2024 Bible: Matthew 27:27-44 Length: 37 min.

Ammanford Church Sermon Podcast
Gospel Ambition in a Godless Nation (1 Samuel 17 - Guest Ben Franks)

Ammanford Church Sermon Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2024


This week we have a guest preacher Ben Franks. Ben takes us to 1 Samuel 17 to consider how we can have gospel ambition in the face of a nation that has rejected it.

Finding the Edge
Specifying & Non Specifying Information in Batted Ball Sports with Ben Franks

Finding the Edge

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2024 107:52


In this episode we have on Ben Franks, a senior lecturer in applied coaching sciences at Oxford Brookes University. We discuss Ben's current work with cricket batters and how it can relate to baseball. Intro music by: Muellzy https://soundcloud.com/muellzymusic Support Us & Learn More About Ecological Dynamics (links below) ⁠ Donate to Finding the Edge: ⁠⁠buymeacoffee.com/ftepod⁠⁠ Ecological Dynamics Resources Resources from Emergence a movement skill education company dedicated to helping coaches learn how to apply an ecological approach to understanding and developing movement skill. Get 7% off most courses by using code: Edge7 Educational Products: ⁠⁠https://emergentmvmt.com/shop-2/⁠⁠ Social Media Twitter: ⁠⁠@Emergentmvmt⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠@Emergentmvmt⁠⁠ Patreon:⁠⁠ https://www.patreon.com/Emergentmvmt⁠⁠ Follow Us! Join our Discord: ⁠⁠bit.ly/3a07z1B⁠⁠ Find us on Twitter: @gboyum01 @RobertFrey40 @Coachgbaker Subscribe on Youtube: ⁠⁠bit.ly/34dZ7

Cheeky Mid Weeky
BodyBuilding Is NOT For Athletes | Advice For Coaches With Difficult Athletes

Cheeky Mid Weeky

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2023 11:00


Do you hear your athletes always wanting 6 pack abs rather than being strong? Then this episode is for you. Learn from Ed Cosner who has worked with Tim Duncan, Steve Kerr, David Robinson, Ben Franks, and more. Ed has to battle the same issues with these professional athletes. Find out what he recommends you do. ___TRY US OUT:24 hour access for ONLY $1: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/monthly-order___CONNECT:

SermonAudio.com: Staff Picks
PICK: Entering the Kingdom: Part One

SermonAudio.com: Staff Picks

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2023 38:00


The following sermon was chosen as a 'staff-pick' on SermonAudio: Title: Entering the Kingdom: Part One Subtitle: Matthew Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 6/11/2023 Bible: Matthew 19:13-22 Length: 38 min.

The Athlete Blueprint Podcast
The Power of Play w/ Will Roberts and Ben Franks

The Athlete Blueprint Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2023 60:32


Today, I'm joined by Will Roberts and Ben Franks!Will is a senior lecturer at the University of Waikato in New Zealnd. Will is an experienced coach, and coach educator and has worked extensively in the UK. His work includes includes organisations such as the Premier League, Sport England, UK Coaching, Southampton Football Club, Manchester United Football Club, the English Cricket Board amongst others.Ben Franks is a lecturer in applied coaching science at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. Primarily his work is focused on the visual control of movement in sport during interceptive actions. Alongside his academic work, Ben coaches in football where he currently works for Ebbsfleet United Women, having previously held positions in the Womens National League and within non-league mens football.”Previous guest on episode 32 - Where we discussed his paper on visual gaze strategies in Elite soccer players Their project boing is all about physical literacy not just youth athletes but across all population.They provide the latest research about physical literacy, as courses, and resources for coaches. Which includes a book of over 100 games. Interested in hearing more from Emergence?..For as little as $5 per month, you can join the Exchange on Patreon for exclusive content including movement "deep dives" and much more!Looking to learn more about skill acquisition and sport movement?..Visit the Emergence website and take the next step in your coaching career. Episode Resources:Boing Website Will's page Ben's pageBen's twitter Episode 32 w/ Ben Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

Sowing on SermonAudio
The Parable of the Sower: Sowing Principles & Soil Samples

Sowing on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2022 39:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Parable of the Sower: Sowing Principles & Soil Samples Subtitle: Matthew Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 10/30/2022 Bible: Matthew 13:1-9; Matthew 13:18-23 Length: 39 min.

Sabbath Day on SermonAudio
On the Sabbath… – (Part Two)

Sabbath Day on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2022 40:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: On the Sabbath… – (Part Two) Subtitle: Matthew Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 10/2/2022 Bible: Matthew 12:1-13 Length: 40 min.

Sunday School on SermonAudio
Introduction: Owners vs. Ambassadors

Sunday School on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2022 35:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Introduction: Owners vs. Ambassadors Subtitle: Parenting (2022) Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday School Date: 9/25/2022 Length: 35 min.

Time on SermonAudio
Once Upon a Time…

Time on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2022 31:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Once Upon a Time… Subtitle: Psalms (2022) Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 9/25/2022 Bible: Psalm 45 Length: 31 min.

Sabbath Day on SermonAudio
"On the Sabbath…" – (Part One)

Sabbath Day on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2022 44:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: "On the Sabbath…" – (Part One) Subtitle: Matthew Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 9/25/2022 Bible: Matthew 12:1-13 Length: 44 min.

Believe on SermonAudio
Reasons to Believe

Believe on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2022 43:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Reasons to Believe Subtitle: Matthew Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 9/4/2022 Bible: Matthew 11:1-24 Length: 43 min.

Repentance on SermonAudio
The Joy of Repentance

Repentance on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2022 35:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Joy of Repentance Subtitle: Psalms (2022) Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 8/28/2022 Bible: Psalm 32 Length: 35 min.

Joy on SermonAudio
The Joy of Repentance

Joy on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2022 35:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Joy of Repentance Subtitle: Psalms (2022) Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 8/28/2022 Bible: Psalm 32 Length: 35 min.

The Perception & Action Podcast
414 – An Ecological Approach to the Quiet Eye, Ben Franks

The Perception & Action Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2022 43:58


Is there one ideal gaze strategy for performing a sports skill as has been suggested by the quiet eye research? My interview with Ben Franks from Oxford Brookes University looking at some of his research taking an ecological, individualized view of the quiet eye.   Articles: A Descriptive Case Study of Skilled Football Goalkeepers During 1 v 1 Dyads: A Case for Adaptive Variability in the Quiet Eye More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – ShakeSome Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

Compassion on SermonAudio
Motivated by Compassion

Compassion on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2022 44:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Motivated by Compassion Subtitle: Matthew Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 8/14/2022 Bible: Matthew 9:35 Length: 44 min.

The Athlete Blueprint Podcast
Visual Gaze Strategies in Elite Soccer Players w/ Ben Franks

The Athlete Blueprint Podcast

Play Episode Play 30 sec Highlight Listen Later Aug 9, 2022 59:29


My guest today is Ben Franks! (@ben__franks1)Ben is a lecturer in applied coaching science at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. Primarily his work is focused on the visual control of movement in sport during interceptive actions. Alongside his academic work, Ben coaches in football where he currently works for Ebbsfleet United Women, having previously held positions in the Women's National League and within non-league mens football.”When I originally started this podcast and made a list of potential guests, Ben was right near the top. I originally came across his work from the 2020 sport moment it's go conference where he was a press enter.Ben recently released a paper titled  “A descriptive case study of skilled football goal keepers during 1:1 Dyads: A case for adaptive variability on quiet eye “….which is what a lot of of Conversation centers on.We get into everything from:What exactly is quiet eyeTo prospective control How gaze strategies vary amongst athletes And a Doobie of a question that's I ask Ben at the end that's been on my mind for years, so make sure you stay till the endI hope you enjoy the show!If you like today's episode, leave a review here....If you want to reach me directly, contact me on social media or shoot me @javier@igniteperformance.netEpisode Resources:Ben's twitter Ben's Instagram Ben's Research Paper Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io 

Soccer Coach Weekly
Ben Franks - Applying science of 'ecological dynamics'

Soccer Coach Weekly

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2022 22:34


After two serious injuries in consecutive seasons, non-League player Ben Franks turned to another area of the game he had always been interested in – coaching.He chose university as the route of entry, doing an undergraduate degree in sport, coaching and physical education, a Masters by research in sport and health sciences, and is now studying for a PhD in perceptualmotor learning.He is also a coach developer at Boing Kids, a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, and was recently announced as a first-team coach at Ebbsfleet United Women.A key element of Ben's research is ecological dynamics. SCW caught up with him to find out what that is in the context of soccer and how it helps in session design…

Sunday School on SermonAudio
The Reformed View of Creeds, Confessions, and Church History

Sunday School on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2022 52:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Reformed View of Creeds, Confessions, and Church History Subtitle: New Members Class 2022 Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday School Date: 6/19/2022 Length: 52 min.

Call to Service on SermonAudio
A Call to Action

Call to Service on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2022 41:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: A Call to Action Subtitle: Matthew Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 6/19/2022 Bible: Matthew 7:12-29 Length: 41 min.

A History Of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs
Episode 147: “Hey Joe” by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

A History Of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2022


Episode one hundred and forty-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Hey Joe" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and is the longest episode to date, at over two hours. Patreon backers also have a twenty-two-minute bonus episode available, on "Making Time" by The Creation. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources As usual, I've put together a Mixcloud mix containing all the music excerpted in this episode. For information on the Byrds, I relied mostly on Timeless Flight Revisited by Johnny Rogan, with some information from Chris Hillman's autobiography. Information on Arthur Lee and Love came from Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book of Love by John Einarson, and Arthur Lee: Alone Again Or by Barney Hoskyns. Information on Gary Usher's work with the Surfaris and the Sons of Adam came from The California Sound by Stephen McParland, which can be found at https://payhip.com/CMusicBooks Information on Jimi Hendrix came from Room Full of Mirrors by Charles R. Cross, Crosstown Traffic by Charles Shaar Murray, and Wild Thing by Philip Norman. Information on the history of "Hey Joe" itself came from all these sources plus Hey Joe: The Unauthorised Biography of a Rock Classic by Marc Shapiro, though note that most of that book is about post-1967 cover versions. Most of the pre-Experience session work by Jimi Hendrix I excerpt in this episode is on this box set of alternate takes and live recordings. And "Hey Joe" can be found on Are You Experienced? Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Just a quick note before we start – this episode deals with a song whose basic subject is a man murdering a woman, and that song also contains references to guns, and in some versions to cocaine use. Some versions excerpted also contain misogynistic slurs. If those things are likely to upset you, please skip this episode, as the whole episode focusses on that song. I would hope it goes without saying that I don't approve of misogyny, intimate partner violence, or murder, and my discussing a song does not mean I condone acts depicted in its lyrics, and the episode itself deals with the writing and recording of the song rather than its subject matter, but it would be impossible to talk about the record without excerpting the song. The normalisation of violence against women in rock music lyrics is a subject I will come back to, but did not have room for in what is already a very long episode. Anyway, on with the show. Let's talk about the folk process, shall we? We've talked before, like in the episodes on "Stagger Lee" and "Ida Red", about how there are some songs that aren't really individual songs in themselves, but are instead collections of related songs that might happen to share a name, or a title, or a story, or a melody, but which might be different in other ways. There are probably more songs that are like this than songs that aren't, and it doesn't just apply to folk songs, although that's where we see it most notably. You only have to look at the way a song like "Hound Dog" changed from the Willie Mae Thornton version to the version by Elvis, which only shared a handful of words with the original. Songs change, and recombine, and everyone who sings them brings something different to them, until they change in ways that nobody could have predicted, like a game of telephone. But there usually remains a core, an archetypal story or idea which remains constant no matter how much the song changes. Like Stagger Lee shooting Billy in a bar over a hat, or Frankie killing her man -- sometimes the man is Al, sometimes he's Johnny, but he always done her wrong. And one of those stories is about a man who shoots his cheating woman with a forty-four, and tries to escape -- sometimes to a town called Jericho, and sometimes to Juarez, Mexico. The first version of this song we have a recording of is by Clarence Ashley, in 1929, a recording of an older folk song that was called, in his version, "Little Sadie": [Excerpt: Clarence Ashley, "Little Sadie"] At some point, somebody seems to have noticed that that song has a slight melodic similarity to another family of songs, the family known as "Cocaine Blues" or "Take a Whiff on Me", which was popular around the same time: [Excerpt: The Memphis Jug Band, "Cocaine Habit Blues"] And so the two songs became combined, and the protagonist of "Little Sadie" now had a reason to kill his woman -- a reason other than her cheating, that is. He had taken a shot of cocaine before shooting her. The first recording of this version, under the name "Cocaine Blues" seems to have been a Western Swing version by W. A. Nichol's Western Aces: [Excerpt: W.A. Nichol's Western Aces, "Cocaine Blues"] Woody Guthrie recorded a version around the same time -- I've seen different dates and so don't know for sure if it was before or after Nichol's version -- and his version had himself credited as songwriter, and included this last verse which doesn't seem to appear on any earlier recordings of the song: [Excerpt: Woody Guthrie, "Cocaine Blues"] That doesn't appear on many later recordings either, but it did clearly influence yet another song -- Mose Allison's classic jazz number "Parchman Farm": [Excerpt: Mose Allison, "Parchman Farm"] The most famous recordings of the song, though, were by Johnny Cash, who recorded it as both "Cocaine Blues" and as "Transfusion Blues". In Cash's version of the song, the murderer gets sentenced to "ninety-nine years in the Folsom pen", so it made sense that Cash would perform that on his most famous album, the live album of his January 1968 concerts at Folsom Prison, which revitalised his career after several years of limited success: [Excerpt: Johnny Cash, "Cocaine Blues (live at Folsom Prison)"] While that was Cash's first live recording at a prison, though, it wasn't the first show he played at a prison -- ever since the success of his single "Folsom Prison Blues" he'd been something of a hero to prisoners, and he had been doing shows in prisons for eleven years by the time of that recording. And on one of those shows he had as his support act a man named Billy Roberts, who performed his own song which followed the same broad outlines as "Cocaine Blues" -- a man with a forty-four who goes out to shoot his woman and then escapes to Mexico. Roberts was an obscure folk singer, who never had much success, but who was good with people. He'd been part of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1950s, and at a gig at Gerde's Folk City he'd met a woman named Niela Miller, an aspiring songwriter, and had struck up a relationship with her. Miller only ever wrote one song that got recorded by anyone else, a song called "Mean World Blues" that was recorded by Dave Van Ronk: [Excerpt: Dave Van Ronk, "Mean World Blues"] Now, that's an original song, but it does bear a certain melodic resemblance to another old folk song, one known as "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" or "In the Pines", or sometimes "Black Girl": [Excerpt: Lead Belly, "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?"] Miller was clearly familiar with the tradition from which "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" comes -- it's a type of folk song where someone asks a question and then someone else answers it, and this repeats, building up a story. This is a very old folk song format, and you hear it for example in "Lord Randall", the song on which Bob Dylan based "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall": [Excerpt: Ewan MacColl, "Lord Randall"] I say she was clearly familiar with it, because the other song she wrote that anyone's heard was based very much around that idea. "Baby Please Don't Go To Town" is a question-and-answer song in precisely that form, but with an unusual chord progression for a folk song. You may remember back in the episode on "Eight Miles High" I talked about the circle of fifths -- a chord progression which either increases or decreases by a fifth for every chord, so it might go C-G-D-A-E [demonstrates] That's a common progression in pop and jazz, but not really so much in folk, but it's the one that Miller had used for "Baby, Please Don't Go to Town", and she'd taught Roberts that song, which she only recorded much later: [Excerpt: Niela Miller, "Baby, Please Don't Go To Town"] After Roberts and Miller broke up, Miller kept playing that melody, but he changed the lyrics. The lyrics he added had several influences. There was that question-and-answer folk-song format, there's the story of "Cocaine Blues" with its protagonist getting a forty-four to shoot his woman down before heading to Mexico, and there's also a country hit from 1953. "Hey, Joe!" was originally recorded by Carl Smith, one of the most popular country singers of the early fifties: [Excerpt: Carl Smith, "Hey Joe!"] That was written by Boudleaux Bryant, a few years before the songs he co-wrote for the Everly Brothers, and became a country number one, staying at the top for eight weeks. It didn't make the pop chart, but a pop cover version of it by Frankie Laine made the top ten in the US: [Excerpt: Frankie Laine, "Hey Joe"] Laine's record did even better in the UK, where it made number one, at a point where Laine was the biggest star in music in Britain -- at the time the UK charts only had a top twelve, and at one point four of the singles in the top twelve were by Laine, including that one. There was also an answer record by Kitty Wells which made the country top ten later that year: [Excerpt: Kitty Wells, "Hey Joe"] Oddly, despite it being a very big hit, that "Hey Joe" had almost no further cover versions for twenty years, though it did become part of the Searchers' setlist, and was included on their Live at the Star Club album in 1963, in an arrangement that owed a lot to "What'd I Say": [Excerpt: The Searchers, "Hey Joe"] But that song was clearly on Roberts' mind when, as so many American folk musicians did, he travelled to the UK in the late fifties and became briefly involved in the burgeoning UK folk movement. In particular, he spent some time with a twelve-string guitar player from Edinburgh called Len Partridge, who was also a mentor to Bert Jansch, and who was apparently an extraordinary musician, though I know of no recordings of his work. Partridge helped Roberts finish up the song, though Partridge is about the only person in this story who *didn't* claim a writing credit for it at one time or another, saying that he just helped Roberts out and that Roberts deserved all the credit. The first known recording of the completed song is from 1962, a few years after Roberts had returned to the US, though it didn't surface until decades later: [Excerpt: Billy Roberts, "Hey Joe"] Roberts was performing this song regularly on the folk circuit, and around the time of that recording he also finally got round to registering the copyright, several years after it was written. When Miller heard the song, she was furious, and she later said "Imagine my surprise when I heard Hey Joe by Billy Roberts. There was my tune, my chord progression, my question/answer format. He dropped the bridge that was in my song and changed it enough so that the copyright did not protect me from his plagiarism... I decided not to go through with all the complications of dealing with him. He never contacted me about it or gave me any credit. He knows he committed a morally reprehensible act. He never was man enough to make amends and apologize to me, or to give credit for the inspiration. Dealing with all that was also why I made the decision not to become a professional songwriter. It left a bad taste in my mouth.” Pete Seeger, a friend of Miller's, was outraged by the injustice and offered to testify on her behalf should she decide to take Roberts to court, but she never did. Some time around this point, Roberts also played on that prison bill with Johnny Cash, and what happened next is hard to pin down. I've read several different versions of the story, which change the date and which prison this was in, and none of the details in any story hang together properly -- everything introduces weird inconsistencies and things which just make no sense at all. Something like this basic outline of the story seems to have happened, but the outline itself is weird, and we'll probably never know the truth. Roberts played his set, and one of the songs he played was "Hey Joe", and at some point he got talking to one of the prisoners in the audience, Dino Valenti. We've met Valenti before, in the episode on "Mr. Tambourine Man" -- he was a singer/songwriter himself, and would later be the lead singer of Quicksilver Messenger Service, but he's probably best known for having written "Get Together": [Excerpt: Dino Valenti, "Get Together"] As we heard in the "Mr. Tambourine Man" episode, Valenti actually sold off his rights to that song to pay for his bail at one point, but he was in and out of prison several times because of drug busts. At this point, or so the story goes, he was eligible for parole, but he needed to prove he had a possible income when he got out, and one way he wanted to do that was to show that he had written a song that could be a hit he could make money off, but he didn't have such a song. He talked about his predicament with Roberts, who agreed to let him claim to have written "Hey Joe" so he could get out of prison. He did make that claim, and when he got out of prison he continued making the claim, and registered the copyright to "Hey Joe" in his own name -- even though Roberts had already registered it -- and signed a publishing deal for it with Third Story Music, a company owned by Herb Cohen, the future manager of the Mothers of Invention, and Cohen's brother Mutt. Valenti was a popular face on the folk scene, and he played "his" song to many people, but two in particular would influence the way the song would develop, both of them people we've seen relatively recently in episodes of the podcast. One of them, Vince Martin, we'll come back to later, but the other was David Crosby, and so let's talk about him and the Byrds a bit more. Crosby and Valenti had been friends long before the Byrds formed, and indeed we heard in the "Mr. Tambourine Man" episode how the group had named themselves after Valenti's song "Birdses": [Excerpt: Dino Valenti, "Birdses"] And Crosby *loved* "Hey Joe", which he believed was another of Valenti's songs. He'd perform it every chance he got, playing it solo on guitar in an arrangement that other people have compared to Mose Allison. He'd tried to get it on the first two Byrds albums, but had been turned down, mostly because of their manager and uncredited co-producer Jim Dickson, who had strong opinions about it, saying later "Some of the songs that David would bring in from the outside were perfectly valid songs for other people, but did not seem to be compatible with the Byrds' myth. And he may not have liked the Byrds' myth. He fought for 'Hey Joe' and he did it. As long as I could say 'No!' I did, and when I couldn't any more they did it. You had to give him something somewhere. I just wish it was something else... 'Hey Joe' I was bitterly opposed to. A song about a guy who murders his girlfriend in a jealous rage and is on the way to Mexico with a gun in his hand. It was not what I saw as a Byrds song." Indeed, Dickson was so opposed to the song that he would later say “One of the reasons David engineered my getting thrown out was because I would not let Hey Joe be on the Turn! Turn! Turn! album.” Dickson was, though, still working with the band when they got round to recording it. That came during the recording of their Fifth Dimension album, the album which included "Eight Miles High". That album was mostly recorded after the departure of Gene Clark, which was where we left the group at the end of the "Eight Miles High" episode, and the loss of their main songwriter meant that they were struggling for material -- doubly so since they also decided they were going to move away from Dylan covers. This meant that they had to rely on original material from the group's less commercial songwriters, and on a few folk songs, mostly learned from Pete Seeger The album ended up with only eleven songs on it, compared to the twelve that was normal for American albums at that time, and the singles on it after "Eight Miles High" weren't particularly promising as to the group's ability to come up with commercial material. The next single, "5D", a song by Roger McGuinn about the fifth dimension, was a waltz-time song that both Crosby and Chris Hillman were enthused by. It featured organ by Van Dyke Parks, and McGuinn said of the organ part "When he came into the studio I told him to think Bach. He was already thinking Bach before that anyway.": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "5D"] While the group liked it, though, that didn't make the top forty. The next single did, just about -- a song that McGuinn had written as an attempt at communicating with alien life. He hoped that it would be played on the radio, and that the radio waves would eventually reach aliens, who would hear it and respond: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Mr. Spaceman"] The "Fifth Dimension" album did significantly worse, both critically and commercially, than their previous albums, and the group would soon drop Allen Stanton, the producer, in favour of Gary Usher, Brian Wilson's old songwriting partner. But the desperation for material meant that the group agreed to record the song which they still thought at that time had been written by Crosby's friend, though nobody other than Crosby was happy with it, and even Crosby later said "It was a mistake. I shouldn't have done it. Everybody makes mistakes." McGuinn said later "The reason Crosby did lead on 'Hey Joe' was because it was *his* song. He didn't write it but he was responsible for finding it. He'd wanted to do it for years but we would never let him.": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Hey Joe"] Of course, that arrangement is very far from the Mose Allison style version Crosby had been doing previously. And the reason for that can be found in the full version of that McGuinn quote, because the full version continues "He'd wanted to do it for years but we would never let him. Then both Love and The Leaves had a minor hit with it and David got so angry that we had to let him do it. His version wasn't that hot because he wasn't a strong lead vocalist." The arrangement we just heard was the arrangement that by this point almost every group on the Sunset Strip scene was playing. And the reason for that was because of another friend of Crosby's, someone who had been a roadie for the Byrds -- Bryan MacLean. MacLean and Crosby had been very close because they were both from very similar backgrounds -- they were both Hollywood brats with huge egos. MacLean later said "Crosby and I got on perfectly. I didn't understand what everybody was complaining about, because he was just like me!" MacLean was, if anything, from an even more privileged background than Crosby. His father was an architect who'd designed houses for Elizabeth Taylor and Dean Martin, his neighbour when growing up was Frederick Loewe, the composer of My Fair Lady. He learned to swim in Elizabeth Taylor's private pool, and his first girlfriend was Liza Minelli. Another early girlfriend was Jackie DeShannon, the singer-songwriter who did the original version of "Needles and Pins", who he was introduced to by Sharon Sheeley, whose name you will remember from many previous episodes. MacLean had wanted to be an artist until his late teens, when he walked into a shop in Westwood which sometimes sold his paintings, the Sandal Shop, and heard some people singing folk songs there. He decided he wanted to be a folk singer, and soon started performing at the Balladeer, a club which would later be renamed the Troubadour, playing songs like Robert Johnson's "Cross Roads Blues", which had recently become a staple of the folk repertoire after John Hammond put out the King of the Delta Blues Singers album: [Excerpt: Robert Johnson, "Cross Roads Blues"] Reading interviews with people who knew MacLean at the time, the same phrase keeps coming up. John Kay, later the lead singer of Steppenwolf, said "There was a young kid, Bryan MacLean, kind of cocky but nonetheless a nice kid, who hung around Crosby and McGuinn" while Chris Hillman said "He was a pretty good kid but a wee bit cocky." He was a fan of the various musicians who later formed the Byrds, and was also an admirer of a young guitarist on the scene named Ryland Cooder, and of a blues singer on the scene named Taj Mahal. He apparently was briefly in a band with Taj Mahal, called Summer's Children, who as far as I can tell had no connection to the duo that Curt Boettcher later formed of the same name, before Taj Mahal and Cooder formed The Rising Sons, a multi-racial blues band who were for a while the main rivals to the Byrds on the scene. MacLean, though, firmly hitched himself to the Byrds, and particularly to Crosby. He became a roadie on their first tour, and Hillman said "He was a hard-working guy on our behalf. As I recall, he pretty much answered to Crosby and was David's assistant, to put it diplomatically – more like his gofer, in fact." But MacLean wasn't cut out for the hard work that being a roadie required, and after being the Byrds' roadie for about thirty shows, he started making mistakes, and when they went off on their UK tour they decided not to keep employing him. He was heartbroken, but got back into trying his own musical career. He auditioned for the Monkees, unsuccessfully, but shortly after that -- some sources say even the same day as the audition, though that seems a little too neat -- he went to Ben Frank's -- the LA hangout that had actually been namechecked in the open call for Monkees auditions, which said they wanted "Ben Franks types", and there he met Arthur Lee and Johnny Echols. Echols would later remember "He was this gadfly kind of character who knew everybody and was flitting from table to table. He wore striped pants and a scarf, and he had this long, strawberry hair. All the girls loved him. For whatever reason, he came and sat at our table. Of course, Arthur and I were the only two black people there at the time." Lee and Echols were both Black musicians who had been born in Memphis. Lee's birth father, Chester Taylor, had been a cornet player with Jimmie Lunceford, whose Delta Rhythm Boys had had a hit with "The Honeydripper", as we heard way back in the episode on "Rocket '88": [Excerpt: Jimmie Lunceford and the Delta Rhythm Boys, "The Honeydripper"] However, Taylor soon split from Lee's mother, a schoolteacher, and she married Clinton Lee, a stonemason, who doted on his adopted son, and they moved to California. They lived in a relatively prosperous area of LA, a neighbourhood that was almost all white, with a few Asian families, though the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson lived nearby. A year or so after Arthur and his mother moved to LA, so did the Echols family, who had known them in Memphis, and they happened to move only a couple of streets away. Eight year old Arthur Lee reconnected with seven-year-old Johnny Echols, and the two became close friends from that point on. Arthur Lee first started out playing music when his parents were talked into buying him an accordion by a salesman who would go around with a donkey, give kids free donkey rides, and give the parents a sales pitch while they were riding the donkey, He soon gave up on the accordion and persuaded his parents to buy him an organ instead -- he was a spoiled child, by all accounts, with a TV in his bedroom, which was almost unheard of in the late fifties. Johnny Echols had a similar experience which led to his parents buying him a guitar, and the two were growing up in a musical environment generally. They attended Dorsey High School at the same time as both Billy Preston and Mike Love of the Beach Boys, and Ella Fitzgerald and her then-husband, the great jazz bass player Ray Brown, lived in the same apartment building as the Echols family for a while. Ornette Coleman, the free-jazz saxophone player, lived next door to Echols, and Adolphus Jacobs, the guitarist with the Coasters, gave him guitar lessons. Arthur Lee also knew Johnny Otis, who ran a pigeon-breeding club for local children which Arthur would attend. Echols was the one who first suggested that he and Arthur should form a band, and they put together a group to play at a school talent show, performing "Last Night", the instrumental that had been a hit for the Mar-Keys on Stax records: [Excerpt: The Mar-Keys, "Last Night"] They soon became a regular group, naming themselves Arthur Lee and the LAGs -- the LA Group, in imitation of Booker T and the MGs – the Memphis Group. At some point around this time, Lee decided to switch from playing organ to playing guitar. He would say later that this was inspired by seeing Johnny "Guitar" Watson get out of a gold Cadillac, wearing a gold suit, and with gold teeth in his mouth. The LAGs started playing as support acts and backing bands for any blues and soul acts that came through LA, performing with Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Otis, the O'Jays, and more. Arthur and Johnny were both still under-age, and they would pencil in fake moustaches to play the clubs so they'd appear older. In the fifties and early sixties, there were a number of great electric guitar players playing blues on the West Coast -- Johnny "Guitar" Watson, T-Bone Walker, Guitar Slim, and others -- and they would compete with each other not only to play well, but to put on a show, and so there was a whole bag of stage tricks that West Coast R&B guitarists picked up, and Echols learned all of them -- playing his guitar behind his back, playing his guitar with his teeth, playing with his guitar between his legs. As well as playing their own shows, the LAGs also played gigs under other names -- they had a corrupt agent who would book them under the name of whatever Black group had a hit at the time, in the belief that almost nobody knew what popular groups looked like anyway, so they would go out and perform as the Drifters or the Coasters or half a dozen other bands. But Arthur Lee in particular wanted to have success in his own right. He would later say "When I was a little boy I would listen to Nat 'King' Cole and I would look at that purple Capitol Records logo. I wanted to be on Capitol, that was my goal. Later on I used to walk from Dorsey High School all the way up to the Capitol building in Hollywood -- did that many times. I was determined to get a record deal with Capitol, and I did, without the help of a fancy manager or anyone else. I talked to Adam Ross and Jack Levy at Ardmore-Beechwood. I talked to Kim Fowley, and then I talked to Capitol". The record that the LAGs released, though, was not very good, a track called "Rumble-Still-Skins": [Excerpt: The LAGs, "Rumble-Still-Skins"] Lee later said "I was young and very inexperienced and I was testing the record company. I figured if I gave them my worst stuff and they ripped me off I wouldn't get hurt. But it didn't work, and after that I started giving my best, and I've been doing that ever since." The LAGs were dropped by Capitol after one single, and for the next little while Arthur and Johnny did work for smaller labels, usually labels owned by Bob Keane, with Arthur writing and producing and Johnny playing guitar -- though Echols has said more recently that a lot of the songs that were credited to Arthur as sole writer were actually joint compositions. Most of these records were attempts at copying the style of other people. There was "I Been Trying", a Phil Spector soundalike released by Little Ray: [Excerpt: Little Ray, "I Been Trying"] And there were a few attempts at sounding like Curtis Mayfield, like "Slow Jerk" by Ronnie and the Pomona Casuals: [Excerpt: Ronnie and the Pomona Casuals, "Slow Jerk"] and "My Diary" by Rosa Lee Brooks: [Excerpt: Rosa Lee Brooks, "My Diary"] Echols was also playing with a lot of other people, and one of the musicians he was playing with, his old school friend Billy Preston, told him about a recent European tour he'd been on with Little Richard, and the band from Liverpool he'd befriended while he was there who idolised Richard, so when the Beatles hit America, Arthur and Johnny had some small amount of context for them. They soon broke up the LAGs and formed another group, the American Four, with two white musicians, bass player John Fleckenstein and drummer Don Costa. Lee had them wear wigs so they seemed like they had longer hair, and started dressing more eccentrically -- he would soon become known for wearing glasses with one blue lens and one red one, and, as he put it "wearing forty pounds of beads, two coats, three shirts, and wearing two pairs of shoes on one foot". As well as the Beatles, the American Four were inspired by the other British Invasion bands -- Arthur was in the audience for the TAMI show, and quite impressed by Mick Jagger -- and also by the Valentinos, Bobby Womack's group. They tried to get signed to SAR Records, the label owned by Sam Cooke for which the Valentinos recorded, but SAR weren't interested, and they ended up recording for Bob Keane's Del-Fi records, where they cut "Luci Baines", a "Twist and Shout" knock-off with lyrics referencing the daughter of new US President Lyndon Johnson: [Excerpt: The American Four, "Luci Baines"] But that didn't take off any more than the earlier records had. Another American Four track, "Stay Away", was recorded but went unreleased until 2006: [Excerpt: Arthur Lee and the American Four, "Stay Away"] Soon the American Four were changing their sound and name again. This time it was because of two bands who were becoming successful on the Sunset Strip. One was the Byrds, who to Lee's mind were making music like the stuff he heard in his head, and the other was their rivals the Rising Sons, the blues band we mentioned earlier with Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder. Lee was very impressed by them as an multiracial band making aggressive, loud, guitar music, though he would always make the point when talking about them that they were a blues band, not a rock band, and *he* had the first multiracial rock band. Whatever they were like live though, in their recordings, produced by the Byrds' first producer Terry Melcher, the Rising Sons often had the same garage band folk-punk sound that Lee and Echols would soon make their own: [Excerpt: The Rising Sons, "Take a Giant Step"] But while the Rising Sons recorded a full album's worth of material, only one single was released before they split up, and so the way was clear for Lee and Echols' band, now renamed once again to The Grass Roots, to become the Byrds' new challengers. Lee later said "I named the group The Grass Roots behind a trip, or an album I heard that Malcolm X did, where he said 'the grass roots of the people are out in the street doing something about their problems instead of sitting around talking about it'". After seeing the Rolling Stones and the Byrds live, Lee wanted to get up front and move like Mick Jagger, and not be hindered by playing a guitar he wasn't especially good at -- both the Stones and the Byrds had two guitarists and a frontman who just sang and played hand percussion, and these were the models that Lee was following for the group. He also thought it would be a good idea commercially to get a good-looking white boy up front. So the group got in another guitarist, a white pretty boy who Lee soon fell out with and gave the nickname "Bummer Bob" because he was unpleasant to be around. Those of you who know exactly why Bobby Beausoleil later became famous will probably agree that this was a more than reasonable nickname to give him (and those of you who don't, I'll be dealing with him when we get to 1969). So when Bryan MacLean introduced himself to Lee and Echols, and they found out that not only was he also a good-looking white guitarist, but he was also friends with the entire circle of hipsters who'd been going to Byrds gigs, people like Vito and Franzoni, and he could get a massive crowd of them to come along to gigs for any band he was in and make them the talk of the Sunset Strip scene, he was soon in the Grass Roots, and Bummer Bob was out. The Grass Roots soon had to change their name again, though. In 1965, Jan and Dean recorded their "Folk and Roll" album, which featured "The Universal Coward"... Which I am not going to excerpt again. I only put that pause in to terrify Tilt, who edits these podcasts, and has very strong opinions about that song. But P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri, the songwriters who also performed as the Fantastic Baggies, had come up with a song for that album called "Where Where You When I Needed You?": [Excerpt: Jan and Dean, "Where Were You When I Needed You?"] Sloan and Barri decided to cut their own version of that song under a fake band name, and then put together a group of other musicians to tour as that band. They just needed a name, and Lou Adler, the head of Dunhill Records, suggested they call themselves The Grass Roots, and so that's what they did: [Excerpt: The Grass Roots, "Where Were You When I Needed You?"] Echols would later claim that this was deliberate malice on Adler's part -- that Adler had come in to a Grass Roots show drunk, and pretended to be interested in signing them to a contract, mostly to show off to a woman he'd brought with him. Echols and MacLean had spoken to him, not known who he was, and he'd felt disrespected, and Echols claims that he suggested the name to get back at them, and also to capitalise on their local success. The new Grass Roots soon started having hits, and so the old band had to find another name, which they got as a joking reference to a day job Lee had had at one point -- he'd apparently worked in a specialist bra shop, Luv Brassieres, which the rest of the band found hilarious. The Grass Roots became Love. While Arthur Lee was the group's lead singer, Bryan MacLean would often sing harmonies, and would get a song or two to sing live himself. And very early in the group's career, when they were playing a club called Bido Lito's, he started making his big lead spot a version of "Hey Joe", which he'd learned from his old friend David Crosby, and which soon became the highlight of the group's set. Their version was sped up, and included the riff which the Searchers had popularised in their cover version of  "Needles and Pins", the song originally recorded by MacLean's old girlfriend Jackie DeShannon: [Excerpt: The Searchers, "Needles and Pins"] That riff is a very simple one to play, and variants of it became very, very, common among the LA bands, most notably on the Byrds' "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better"] The riff was so ubiquitous in the LA scene that in the late eighties Frank Zappa would still cite it as one of his main memories of the scene. I'm going to quote from his autobiography, where he's talking about the differences between the LA scene he was part of and the San Francisco scene he had no time for: "The Byrds were the be-all and end-all of Los Angeles rock then. They were 'It' -- and then a group called Love was 'It.' There were a few 'psychedelic' groups that never really got to be 'It,' but they could still find work and get record deals, including the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Sky Saxon and the Seeds, and the Leaves (noted for their cover version of "Hey, Joe"). When we first went to San Francisco, in the early days of the Family Dog, it seemed that everybody was wearing the same costume, a mixture of Barbary Coast and Old West -- guys with handlebar mustaches, girls in big bustle dresses with feathers in their hair, etc. By contrast, the L.A. costumery was more random and outlandish. Musically, the northern bands had a little more country style. In L.A., it was folk-rock to death. Everything had that" [and here Zappa uses the adjectival form of a four-letter word beginning with 'f' that the main podcast providers don't like you saying on non-adult-rated shows] "D chord down at the bottom of the neck where you wiggle your finger around -- like 'Needles and Pins.'" The reason Zappa describes it that way, and the reason it became so popular, is that if you play that riff in D, the chords are D, Dsus2, and Dsus4 which means you literally only wiggle one finger on your left hand: [demonstrates] And so you get that on just a ton of records from that period, though Love, the Byrds, and the Searchers all actually play the riff on A rather than D: [demonstrates] So that riff became the Big Thing in LA after the Byrds popularised the Searchers sound there, and Love added it to their arrangement of "Hey Joe". In January 1966, the group would record their arrangement of it for their first album, which would come out in March: [Excerpt: Love, "Hey Joe"] But that wouldn't be the first recording of the song, or of Love's arrangement of it – although other than the Byrds' version, it would be the only one to come out of LA with the original Billy Roberts lyrics. Love's performances of the song at Bido Lito's had become the talk of the Sunset Strip scene, and soon every band worth its salt was copying it, and it became one of those songs like "Louie Louie" before it that everyone would play. The first record ever made with the "Hey Joe" melody actually had totally different lyrics. Kim Fowley had the idea of writing a sequel to "Hey Joe", titled "Wanted Dead or Alive", about what happened after Joe shot his woman and went off. He produced the track for The Rogues, a group consisting of Michael Lloyd and Shaun Harris, who later went on to form the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, and Lloyd and Harris were the credited writers: [Excerpt: The Rogues, "Wanted Dead or Alive"] The next version of the song to come out was the first by anyone to be released as "Hey Joe", or at least as "Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go?", which was how it was titled on its initial release. This was by a band called The Leaves, who were friends of Love, and had picked up on "Hey Joe", and was produced by Nik Venet. It was also the first to have the now-familiar opening line "Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?": [Excerpt: The Leaves, "Hey Joe Where You Gonna Go?"] Roberts' original lyric, as sung by both Love and the Byrds, had been "where you going with that money in your hand?", and had Joe headed off to *buy* the gun. But as Echols later said “What happened was Bob Lee from The Leaves, who were friends of ours, asked me for the words to 'Hey Joe'. I told him I would have the words the next day. I decided to write totally different lyrics. The words you hear on their record are ones I wrote as a joke. The original words to Hey Joe are ‘Hey Joe, where you going with that money in your hand? Well I'm going downtown to buy me a blue steel .44. When I catch up with that woman, she won't be running round no more.' It never says ‘Hey Joe where you goin' with that gun in your hand.' Those were the words I wrote just because I knew they were going to try and cover the song before we released it. That was kind of a dirty trick that I played on The Leaves, which turned out to be the words that everybody uses.” That first release by the Leaves also contained an extra verse -- a nod to Love's previous name: [Excerpt: The Leaves, "Hey Joe Where You Gonna Go?"] That original recording credited the song as public domain -- apparently Bryan MacLean had refused to tell the Leaves who had written the song, and so they assumed it was traditional. It came out in November 1965, but only as a promo single. Even before the Leaves, though, another band had recorded "Hey Joe", but it didn't get released. The Sons of Adam had started out as a surf group called the Fender IV, who made records like "Malibu Run": [Excerpt: The Fender IV, "Malibu Run"] Kim Fowley had suggested they change their name to the Sons of Adam, and they were another group who were friends with Love -- their drummer, Michael Stuart-Ware, would later go on to join Love, and Arthur Lee wrote the song "Feathered Fish" for them: [Excerpt: Sons of Adam, "Feathered Fish"] But while they were the first to record "Hey Joe", their version has still to this day not been released. Their version was recorded for Decca, with producer Gary Usher, but before it was released, another Decca artist also recorded the song, and the label weren't sure which one to release. And then the label decided to press Usher to record a version with yet another act -- this time with the Surfaris, the surf group who had had a hit with "Wipe Out". Coincidentally, the Surfaris had just changed bass players -- their most recent bass player, Ken Forssi, had quit and joined Love, whose own bass player, John Fleckenstein, had gone off to join the Standells, who would also record a version of “Hey Joe” in 1966. Usher thought that the Sons of Adam were much better musicians than the Surfaris, who he was recording with more or less under protest, but their version, using Love's arrangement and the "gun in your hand" lyrics, became the first version to come out on a major label: [Excerpt: The Surfaris, "Hey Joe"] They believed the song was in the public domain, and so the songwriting credits on the record are split between Gary Usher, a W. Hale who nobody has been able to identify, and Tony Cost, a pseudonym for Nik Venet. Usher said later "I got writer's credit on it because I was told, or I assumed at the time, the song was Public Domain; meaning a non-copyrighted song. It had already been cut two or three times, and on each occasion the writing credit had been different. On a traditional song, whoever arranges it, takes the songwriting credit. I may have changed a few words and arranged and produced it, but I certainly did not co-write it." The public domain credit also appeared on the Leaves' second attempt to cut the song, which was actually given a general release, but flopped. But when the Leaves cut the song for a *third* time, still for the same tiny label, Mira, the track became a hit in May 1966, reaching number thirty-one: [Excerpt: The Leaves, "Hey Joe"] And *that* version had what they thought was the correct songwriting credit, to Dino Valenti. Which came as news to Billy Roberts, who had registered the copyright to the song back in 1962 and had no idea that it had become a staple of LA garage rock until he heard his song in the top forty with someone else's name on the credits. He angrily confronted Third Story Music, who agreed to a compromise -- they would stop giving Valenti songwriting royalties and start giving them to Roberts instead, so long as he didn't sue them and let them keep the publishing rights. Roberts was indignant about this -- he deserved all the money, not just half of it -- but he went along with it to avoid a lawsuit he might not win. So Roberts was now the credited songwriter on the versions coming out of the LA scene. But of course, Dino Valenti had been playing "his" song to other people, too. One of those other people was Vince Martin. Martin had been a member of a folk-pop group called the Tarriers, whose members also included the future film star Alan Arkin, and who had had a hit in the 1950s with "Cindy, Oh Cindy": [Excerpt: The Tarriers, "Cindy, Oh Cindy"] But as we heard in the episode on the Lovin' Spoonful, he had become a Greenwich Village folkie, in a duo with Fred Neil, and recorded an album with him, "Tear Down the Walls": [Excerpt: Fred Neil and Vince Martin, "Morning Dew"] That song we just heard, "Morning Dew", was another question-and-answer folk song. It was written by the Canadian folk-singer Bonnie Dobson, but after Martin and Neil recorded it, it was picked up on by Martin's friend Tim Rose who stuck his own name on the credits as well, without Dobson's permission, for a version which made the song into a rock standard for which he continued to collect royalties: [Excerpt: Tim Rose, "Morning Dew"] This was something that Rose seems to have made a habit of doing, though to be fair to him it went both ways. We heard about him in the Lovin' Spoonful episode too, when he was in a band named the Big Three with Cass Elliot and her coincidentally-named future husband Jim Hendricks, who recorded this song, with Rose putting new music to the lyrics of the old public domain song "Oh! Susanna": [Excerpt: The Big Three, "The Banjo Song"] The band Shocking Blue used that melody for their 1969 number-one hit "Venus", and didn't give Rose any credit: [Excerpt: Shocking Blue, "Venus"] But another song that Rose picked up from Vince Martin was "Hey Joe". Martin had picked the song up from Valenti, but didn't know who had written it, or who was claiming to have written it, and told Rose he thought it might be an old Appalchian murder ballad or something. Rose took the song and claimed writing credit in his own name -- he would always, for the rest of his life, claim it was an old folk tune he'd heard in Florida, and that he'd rewritten it substantially himself, but no evidence of the song has ever shown up from prior to Roberts' copyright registration, and Rose's version is basically identical to Roberts' in melody and lyrics. But Rose takes his version at a much slower pace, and his version would be the model for the most successful versions going forward, though those other versions would use the lyrics Johnny Echols had rewritten, rather than the ones Rose used: [Excerpt: Tim Rose, "Hey Joe"] Rose's version got heard across the Atlantic as well. And in particular it was heard by Chas Chandler, the bass player of the Animals. Some sources seem to suggest that Chandler first heard the song performed by a group called the Creation, but in a biography I've read of that group they clearly state that they didn't start playing the song until 1967. But however he came across it, when Chandler heard Rose's recording, he knew that the song could be a big hit for someone, but he didn't know who. And then he bumped into Linda Keith, Keith Richards' girlfriend,  who took him to see someone whose guitar we've already heard in this episode: [Excerpt: Rosa Lee Brooks, "My Diary"] The Curtis Mayfield impression on guitar there was, at least according to many sources the first recording session ever played on by a guitarist then calling himself Maurice (or possibly Mo-rees) James. We'll see later in the story that it possibly wasn't his first -- there are conflicting accounts, as there are about a lot of things, and it was recorded either in very early 1964, in which case it was his first, or (as seems more likely, and as I tell the story later) a year later, in which case he'd played on maybe half a dozen tracks in the studio by that point. But it was still a very early one. And by late 1966 that guitarist had reverted to the name by which he was brought up, and was calling himself Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix and Arthur Lee had become close, and Lee would later claim that Hendrix had copied much of Lee's dress style and attitude -- though many of Hendrix's other colleagues and employers, including Little Richard, would make similar claims -- and most of them had an element of truth, as Lee's did. Hendrix was a sponge. But Lee did influence him. Indeed, one of Hendrix's *last* sessions, in March 1970, was guesting on an album by Love: [Excerpt: Love with Jimi Hendrix, "Everlasting First"] Hendrix's name at birth was Johnny Allen Hendrix, which made his father, James Allen Hendrix, known as Al, who was away at war when his son was born, worry that he'd been named after another man who might possibly be the real father, so the family just referred to the child as "Buster" to avoid the issue. When Al Hendrix came back from the war the child was renamed James Marshall Hendrix -- James after Al's first name, Marshall after Al's dead brother -- though the family continued calling him "Buster". Little James Hendrix Junior didn't have anything like a stable home life. Both his parents were alcoholics, and Al Hendrix was frequently convinced that Jimi's mother Lucille was having affairs and became abusive about it. They had six children, four of whom were born disabled, and Jimi was the only one to remain with his parents -- the rest were either fostered or adopted at birth, fostered later on because the parents weren't providing a decent home life, or in one case made a ward of state because the Hendrixes couldn't afford to pay for a life-saving operation for him. The only one that Jimi had any kind of regular contact with was the second brother, Leon, his parents' favourite, who stayed with them for several years before being fostered by a family only a few blocks away. Al and Lucille Hendrix frequently split and reconciled, and while they were ostensibly raising Jimi (and for a  few years Leon), he was shuttled between them and various family members and friends, living sometimes in Seattle where his parents lived and sometimes in Vancouver with his paternal grandmother. He was frequently malnourished, and often survived because friends' families fed him. Al Hendrix was also often physically and emotionally abusive of the son he wasn't sure was his. Jimi grew up introverted, and stuttering, and only a couple of things seemed to bring him out of his shell. One was science fiction -- he always thought that his nickname, Buster, came from Buster Crabbe, the star of the Flash Gordon serials he loved to watch, though in fact he got the nickname even before that interest developed, and he was fascinated with ideas about aliens and UFOs -- and the other was music. Growing up in Seattle in the forties and fifties, most of the music he was exposed to as a child and in his early teens was music made by and for white people -- there wasn't a very large Black community in the area at the time compared to most major American cities, and so there were no prominent R&B stations. As a kid he loved the music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, and when he was thirteen Jimi's favourite record was Dean Martin's "Memories are Made of This": [Excerpt: Dean Martin, "Memories are Made of This"] He also, like every teenager, became a fan of rock and roll music. When Elvis played at a local stadium when Jimi was fifteen, he couldn't afford a ticket, but he went and sat on top of a nearby hill and watched the show from the distance. Jimi's first exposure to the blues also came around this time, when his father briefly took in lodgers, Cornell and Ernestine Benson, and Ernestine had a record collection that included records by Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, and Muddy Waters, all of whom Jimi became a big fan of, especially Muddy Waters. The Bensons' most vivid memory of Jimi in later years was him picking up a broom and pretending to play guitar along with these records: [Excerpt: Muddy Waters, "Baby Please Don't Go"] Shortly after this, it would be Ernestine Benson who would get Jimi his very first guitar. By this time Jimi and Al had lost their home and moved into a boarding house, and the owner's son had an acoustic guitar with only one string that he was planning to throw out. When Jimi asked if he could have it instead of it being thrown out, the owner told him he could have it for five dollars. Al Hendrix refused to pay that much for it, but Ernestine Benson bought Jimi the guitar. She said later “He only had one string, but he could really make that string talk.” He started carrying the guitar on his back everywhere he went, in imitation of Sterling Hayden in the western Johnny Guitar, and eventually got some more strings for it and learned to play. He would play it left-handed -- until his father came in. His father had forced him to write with his right hand, and was convinced that left-handedness was the work of the devil, so Jimi would play left-handed while his father was somewhere else, but as soon as Al came in he would flip the guitar the other way up and continue playing the song he had been playing, now right-handed. Jimi's mother died when he was fifteen, after having been ill for a long time with drink-related problems, and Jimi and his brother didn't get to go to the funeral -- depending on who you believe, either Al gave Jimi the bus fare and told him to go by himself and Jimi was too embarrassed to go to the funeral alone on the bus, or Al actually forbade Jimi and Leon from going.  After this, he became even more introverted than he was before, and he also developed a fascination with the idea of angels, convinced his mother now was one. Jimi started to hang around with a friend called Pernell Alexander, who also had a guitar, and they would play along together with Elmore James records. The two also went to see Little Richard and Bill Doggett perform live, and while Jimi was hugely introverted, he did start to build more friendships in the small Seattle music scene, including with Ron Holden, the man we talked about in the episode on "Louie Louie" who introduced that song to Seattle, and who would go on to record with Bruce Johnston for Bob Keane: [Excerpt: Ron Holden, "Gee But I'm Lonesome"] Eventually Ernestine Benson persuaded Al Hendrix to buy Jimi a decent electric guitar on credit -- Al also bought himself a saxophone at the same time, thinking he might play music with his son, but sent it back once the next payment became due. As well as blues and R&B, Jimi was soaking up the guitar instrumentals and garage rock that would soon turn into surf music. The first song he learned to play was "Tall Cool One" by the Fabulous Wailers, the local group who popularised a version of "Louie Louie" based on Holden's one: [Excerpt: The Fabulous Wailers, "Tall Cool One"] As we talked about in the "Louie Louie" episode, the Fabulous Wailers used to play at a venue called the Spanish Castle, and Jimi was a regular in the audience, later writing his song "Spanish Castle Magic" about those shows: [Excerpt: The Jimi Hendrix Experience, "Spanish Castle Magic"] He was also a big fan of Duane Eddy, and soon learned Eddy's big hits "Forty Miles of Bad Road", "Because They're Young", and "Peter Gunn" -- a song he would return to much later in his life: [Excerpt: Jimi Hendrix, "Peter Gunn/Catastrophe"] His career as a guitarist didn't get off to a great start -- the first night he played with his first band, he was meant to play two sets, but he was fired after the first set, because he was playing in too flashy a manner and showing off too much on stage. His girlfriend suggested that he might want to tone it down a little, but he said "That's not my style".  This would be a common story for the next several years. After that false start, the first real band he was in was the Velvetones, with his friend Pernell Alexander. There were four guitarists, two piano players, horns and drums, and they dressed up with glitter stuck to their pants. They played Duane Eddy songs, old jazz numbers, and "Honky Tonk" by Bill Doggett, which became Hendrix's signature song with the band. [Excerpt: Bill Doggett, "Honky Tonk"] His father was unsupportive of his music career, and he left his guitar at Alexander's house because he was scared that his dad would smash it if he took it home. At the same time he was with the Velvetones, he was also playing with another band called the Rocking Kings, who got gigs around the Seattle area, including at the Spanish Castle. But as they left school, most of Hendrix's friends were joining the Army, in order to make a steady living, and so did he -- although not entirely by choice. He was arrested, twice, for riding in stolen cars, and he was given a choice -- either go to prison, or sign up for the Army for three years. He chose the latter. At first, the Army seemed to suit him. He was accepted into the 101st Airborne Division, the famous "Screaming Eagles", whose actions at D-Day made them legendary in the US, and he was proud to be a member of the Division. They were based out of Fort Campbell, the base near Clarksville we talked about a couple of episodes ago, and while he was there he met a bass player, Billy Cox, who he started playing with. As Cox and Hendrix were Black, and as Fort Campbell straddled the border between Kentucky and Tennessee, they had to deal with segregation and play to only Black audiences. And Hendrix quickly discovered that Black audiences in the Southern states weren't interested in "Louie Louie", Duane Eddy, and surf music, the stuff he'd been playing in Seattle. He had to instead switch to playing Albert King and Slim Harpo songs, but luckily he loved that music too. He also started singing at this point -- when Hendrix and Cox started playing together, in a trio called the Kasuals, they had no singer, and while Hendrix never liked his own voice, Cox was worse, and so Hendrix was stuck as the singer. The Kasuals started gigging around Clarksville, and occasionally further afield, places like Nashville, where Arthur Alexander would occasionally sit in with them. But Cox was about to leave the Army, and Hendrix had another two and a bit years to go, having enlisted for three years. They couldn't play any further away unless Hendrix got out of the Army, which he was increasingly unhappy in anyway, and so he did the only thing he could -- he pretended to be gay, and got discharged on medical grounds for homosexuality. In later years he would always pretend he'd broken his ankle parachuting from a plane. For the next few years, he would be a full-time guitarist, and spend the periods when he wasn't earning enough money from that leeching off women he lived with, moving from one to another as they got sick of him or ran out of money. The Kasuals expanded their lineup, adding a second guitarist, Alphonso Young, who would show off on stage by playing guitar with his teeth. Hendrix didn't like being upstaged by another guitarist, and quickly learned to do the same. One biography I've used as a source for this says that at this point, Billy Cox played on a session for King Records, for Frank Howard and the Commanders, and brought Hendrix along, but the producer thought that Hendrix's guitar was too frantic and turned his mic off. But other sources say the session Hendrix and Cox played on for the Commanders wasn't until three years later, and the record *sounds* like a 1965 record, not a 1962 one, and his guitar is very audible – and the record isn't on King. But we've not had any music to break up the narration for a little while, and it's a good track (which later became a Northern Soul favourite) so I'll play a section here, as either way it was certainly an early Hendrix session: [Excerpt: Frank Howard and the Commanders, "I'm So Glad"] This illustrates a general problem with Hendrix's life at this point -- he would flit between bands, playing with the same people at multiple points, nobody was taking detailed notes, and later, once he became famous, everyone wanted to exaggerate their own importance in his life, meaning that while the broad outlines of his life are fairly clear, any detail before late 1966 might be hopelessly wrong. But all the time, Hendrix was learning his craft. One story from around this time  sums up both Hendrix's attitude to his playing -- he saw himself almost as much as a scientist as a musician -- and his slightly formal manner of speech.  He challenged the best blues guitarist in Nashville to a guitar duel, and the audience actually laughed at Hendrix's playing, as he was totally outclassed. When asked what he was doing, he replied “I was simply trying to get that B.B. King tone down and my experiment failed.” Bookings for the King Kasuals dried up, and he went to Vancouver, where he spent a couple of months playing in a covers band, Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers, whose lead guitarist was Tommy Chong, later to find fame as one half of Cheech and Chong. But he got depressed at how white Vancouver was, and travelled back down south to join a reconfigured King Kasuals, who now had a horn section. The new lineup of King Kasuals were playing the chitlin circuit and had to put on a proper show, and so Hendrix started using all the techniques he'd seen other guitarists on the circuit use -- playing with his teeth like Alphonso Young, the other guitarist in the band, playing with his guitar behind his back like T-Bone Walker, and playing with a fifty-foot cord that allowed him to walk into the crowd and out of the venue, still playing, like Guitar Slim used to. As well as playing with the King Kasuals, he started playing the circuit as a sideman. He got short stints with many of the second-tier acts on the circuit -- people who had had one or two hits, or were crowd-pleasers, but weren't massive stars, like Carla Thomas or Jerry Butler or Slim Harpo. The first really big name he played with was Solomon Burke, who when Hendrix joined his band had just released "Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)": [Excerpt: Solomon Burke, "Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)"] But he lacked discipline. “Five dates would go beautifully,” Burke later said, “and then at the next show, he'd go into this wild stuff that wasn't part of the song. I just couldn't handle it anymore.” Burke traded him to Otis Redding, who was on the same tour, for two horn players, but then Redding fired him a week later and they left him on the side of the road. He played in the backing band for the Marvelettes, on a tour with Curtis Mayfield, who would be another of Hendrix's biggest influences, but he accidentally blew up Mayfield's amp and got sacked. On another tour, Cecil Womack threw Hendrix's guitar off the bus while he slept. In February 1964 he joined the band of the Isley Brothers, and he would watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan with them during his first days with the group. Assuming he hadn't already played the Rosa Lee Brooks session (and I think there's good reason to believe he hadn't), then the first record Hendrix played on was their single "Testify": [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, "Testify"] While he was with them, he also moonlighted on Don Covay's big hit "Mercy, Mercy": [Excerpt: Don Covay and the Goodtimers, "Mercy Mercy"] After leaving the Isleys, Hendrix joined the minor soul singer Gorgeous George, and on a break from Gorgeous George's tour, in Memphis, he went to Stax studios in the hope of meeting Steve Cropper, one of his idols. When he was told that Cropper was busy in the studio, he waited around all day until Cropper finished, and introduced himself. Hendrix was amazed to discover that Cropper was white -- he'd assumed that he must be Black -- and Cropper was delighted to meet the guitarist who had played on "Mercy Mercy", one of his favourite records. The two spent hours showing each other guitar licks -- Hendrix playing Cropper's right-handed guitar, as he hadn't brought along his own. Shortly after this, he joined Little Richard's band, and once again came into conflict with the star of the show by trying to upstage him. For one show he wore a satin shirt, and after the show Richard screamed at him “I am the only Little Richard! I am the King of Rock and Roll, and I am the only one allowed to be pretty. Take that shirt off!” While he was with Richard, Hendrix played on his "I Don't Know What You've Got, But It's Got Me", which like "Mercy Mercy" was written by Don Covay, who had started out as Richard's chauffeur: [Excerpt: Little Richard, "I Don't Know What You've Got, But It's Got Me"] According to the most likely version of events I've read, it was while he was working for Richard that Hendrix met Rosa Lee Brooks, on New Year's Eve 1964. At this point he was using the name Maurice James, apparently in tribute to the blues guitarist Elmore James, and he used various names, including Jimmy James, for most of his pre-fame performances. Rosa Lee Brooks was an R&B singer who had been mentored by Johnny "Guitar" Watson, and when she met Hendrix she was singing in a girl group who were one of the support acts for Ike & Tina Turner, who Hendrix went to see on his night off. Hendrix met Brooks afterwards, and told her she looked like his mother -- a line he used on a lot of women, but which was true in her case if photos are anything to go by. The two got into a relationship, and were soon talking about becoming a duo like Ike and Tina or Mickey and Sylvia -- "Love is Strange" was one of Hendrix's favourite records. But the only recording they made together was the "My Diary" single. Brooks always claimed that she actually wrote that song, but the label credit is for Arthur Lee, and it sounds like his work to me, albeit him trying hard to write like Curtis Mayfield, just as Hendrix is trying to play like him: [Excerpt: Rosa Lee Brooks, "My Diary"] Brooks and Hendrix had a very intense relationship for a short period. Brooks would later recall Little

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Rugby Coach Weekly
Roundup Rodeo Ep73: Reviewing the best content

Rugby Coach Weekly

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2021 109:16


Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests: Carl Woods, senior research fellow in skill acquisition at Victoria University and Ben Franks, lecturer in applied coaching science at Oxford Brookes University, coach analyst with Gillingham Women's Football club.THIS WEEK'S CONTENTMaking - Tim Ingold The Design of Everyday Things – Donald NormanSUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED Inverting the Pyramid – Jonathan WilsonHow Shall Affordances Be Refined?: Four Perspectives: A Special Issue of Ecological Psychology– Keith JonesWayfinding: How Ecological Perspectives of Navigating Dynamic Environments Can Enrich Our Understanding of the Learner and the Learning Process in Sport – Woods, Rudd, Robertson & Davids (2020)Considerations for Coaching Female Football Players: A Brief Review and Implications for Practice – Franks, Pitchers & Prosser (2021)An investigation of high-performance team sport coaches' planning practices – Kinnerk, Kearney, Harvey & Lyons (2021)FREE ONLINE COURSESEmpowering the athlete: The coach-athlete partnership – Professor Sophia JowettPodium Psychology: How Negative Emotion Helps You To Perform At Your Best – Hugh Gilmore

Refined Savage Podcast
#257 – Ben Franks

Refined Savage Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2021 60:32


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Evangelism on SermonAudio
What is Faithful Evangelism?

Evangelism on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2021 36:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: What is Faithful Evangelism? Subtitle: 2021 Evangelism Series Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday School Date: 6/27/2021 Length: 36 min.

Politics on SermonAudio
Pilgrim Politics

Politics on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2021 50:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Pilgrim Politics Subtitle: 1 Peter Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 5/9/2021 Bible: 1 Peter 2:12-17 Length: 50 min.

Politics on SermonAudio
Pilgrim Politics

Politics on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2021 50:00


A new MP3 sermon from Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Pilgrim Politics Subtitle: 1 Peter Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 5/9/2021 Bible: 1 Peter 2:12-17 Length: 50 min.

The Developer Tribe
S02 E09 - Ben Franks - The Developer Tribe

The Developer Tribe

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2021 46:08


This episode welcomes football coach and lecturer, Ben Franks to the show. Ben and I talk about developing coaching practice and understanding through an ecological dynamics. We discuss what this is, how it works, and its utility in football coaching. This was a welcome discussion in what can often be a contentious conversation! #welcometothetribe #footballcoaching #ecologicaldynamics Contact Ben: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-franks-961922113/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ben__franks1 Contact us: Email: thedevelopertribe@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/developertribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/developer_tribe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/developertribe LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/developertribe Listen and subscribe: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3azHRzQuU37N2fWk3UfFHA Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-developer-tribe/id1534788239 Google podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8zMWZlNGNkOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtJke54a4kG8z-o1qnGKDqQ Music by Bee Bee Feenix: https://soundcloud.com/fee-benbow-lee?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1

Tight 5 Talks
Tight 5 Talks - The One with Ben Franks

Tight 5 Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2020 40:22


Sitting down with All Black, Crusader, Hurricane, Northampton Saint LEGEND and the newest scrum coach for the Llanelli Scarlets in Wales, Ben Franks. Ben has won just about everything there is to win, he squats all the weights and blows up all the scrums, all over the world. I met Ben during a Captains run at the Franklin Gardens and reached out to him to ask if he'd be interested in talking about rugby, Mexican food, scrums and traveling to which he answered emphatically, "yea, nah bro. Sounds cool" So there you have it, give us a listen. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-nelson8/support

Talks On The Rocks
Ep. 1 - Who is the Basketball GOAT?

Talks On The Rocks

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2020 58:08 Transcription Available


The characters of the house are joined in a serious yet comical discussion sharing their view on what defines the Greatest Of All Time in the game of basketball - analysts including Cam Kuepers, Ben Franks, Luke Alexopoulos, Logan Jacobson, and Carter Brooks. Special guest feature from Bradley Sabbar.

Election on SermonAudio
Elect Exiles

Election on SermonAudio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2020 35:00


A new MP3 sermon from Harvest Orthodox Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Elect Exiles Speaker: Ben Franks Broadcaster: Harvest Orthodox Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 10/4/2020 Bible: 1 Peter 1:1-2 Length: 35 min.

98 Podcast
15. Ben and Owen Franks

98 Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2020 102:16


Owen Franks is undoubtedly one of the most feared props in world rugby. Hailing from Motueka, New Zealand, Franks has made his name as part of the the dominant Crusaders front row which has ruled so impressively in past seasons in Super Rugby.  Since his debut victory over Ireland in 2009, Franks has gone on to be a double World Cup winner in what has been an impressive career to date. In February 2019, having started 96 of his 106 Tests, the second-highest number of starts by an All Blacks prop, Franks announced that he will bid farewell to New Zealand at end of 2019 to join Northampton Saints where he currently plays. Starting his rugby career in Canterbury, Ben Franks made his provincial debut for the side against Otago in 2005 before joining the Crusaders in 2006 and winning the Super Rugby title two years later. Having featured for the Crusaders nearly 100 times, Franks then moved to the Wellington-based Hurricanes in 2013. Making his Test debut for New Zealand in 2010 against Ireland, scoring his first points for the All Blacks, before helping his country defeat Wales a week later. Playing alongside brother Owen, the duo become only the second pair of brothers to represent New Zealand. Ben & Owen are two of only 20 players ever to have been a part of two World Cup victories. 

The Perception & Action Podcast
182 - Journal Club #4: Ecological Cognition & Sports Decision Making

The Perception & Action Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2020 86:00


I am joined by James Vaughn, Ben Franks, Shawn Myska, Tyler Yearby, and Stuart Armstrong for a great discussion about the ecological approach to decision making in sports   Articles: Ecological cognition: expert decision-making behaviour in sport   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

The Perception & Action Podcast
176 – Journal Club #1: Equipment Scaling & Functional Variability

The Perception & Action Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2020 44:58


I am joined by Marianne Davies and Ben Franks to discuss the really interesting new article by Tim Buszard and colleagues from AIS: Scaling sports equipment for children promotes functional movement variability.     Journal Club Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkFDwtrBfpZALV_oEPmc-cQ   Articles: Scaling sports equipment for children promotes functional movement variability   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

On The Vine
On The Vine - Georgia with Danilo Di Salvo

On The Vine

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2019 49:00


This episode, Danilo Di Salvo talks to us about some of Georgia's best wines and best holiday spots! On The Vine is presented by Novel Wines wine buyer and founder Ben Franks and broadcaster Yaz Cooke. If you want to get involved with the On The Vine cast's Ask The Expert feature then you can tweet us @NovelWines, send us a message on Facebook or email the team on hello@novelwines.co.uk We can't wait to hear from you!

On The Vine
On The Vine - Taste of Bath with Helen Rich

On The Vine

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2019 41:03


On The Vine is presented by Novel Wines wine buyer and founder Ben Franks and broadcaster Yaz Cooke. If you want to get involved with the On The Vine cast's Ask The Expert feature then you can tweet us @NovelWines, send us a message on Facebook or email the team on hello@novelwines.co.uk We can't wait to hear from you!

On The Vine
On The Vine - Digital with Jon Reay

On The Vine

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 50:13


What opportunities does digital offer for wine? This episode we talk to Jon Reay about digital trends and good wine. On The Vine is presented by Novel Wines wine buyer and founder Ben Franks and broadcaster Yaz Cooke. If you want to get involved with the On The Vine cast's Ask The Expert feature then you can tweet us @NovelWines, send us a message on Facebook or email the team on hello@novelwines.co.uk We can't wait to hear from you!

The Gentleman‘s Journal Podcast
Rugby World Cup Special — Dylan Hartley, Ben Franks and Harry Mallinder

The Gentleman‘s Journal Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2019 48:33


In a special live episode of the podcast, we've teamed up with esteemed Northampton shoemaker Church's for a Rugby World Cup extravaganza. Editor Joseph Bullmore is joined by Dylan Hartley, the most capped hooker in England history; Ben Franks, the Kiwi two-time World Cup winner; and Harry Mallinder, the U20s World Cup winning captain. With plenty of audience participation from the gathered crowd, the Northampton Saints players spoke candidly about life at the top of the game, their first rugby memories, their greatest style disasters and their predictions for the 2019 World Cup.  Our thanks to Church's for playing host

On The Vine
On The Vine - Events with Emma Samways

On The Vine

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2019 43:13


This episode we talk planning the perfect event and picking the best wines for it with Emma Samways! On The Vine is presented by Novel Wines wine buyer and founder Ben Franks and broadcaster Yaz Cooke. If you want to get involved with the On The Vine cast's Ask The Expert feature then you can tweet us @NovelWines, send us a message on Facebook or email the team on hello@novelwines.co.uk We can't wait to hear from you!

On The Vine
On The Vine - Chocolate with Tracy Chapman

On The Vine

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2019 40:53


This episode, the team meet Tracy Chapman, founder of Chocolate Voyage. On The Vine is presented by Novel Wines wine buyer and founder Ben Franks and broadcaster Yaz Cooke. If you want to get involved with the On The Vine cast's Ask The Expert feature then you can tweet us @NovelWines, send us a message on Facebook or email the team on hello@novelwines.co.uk We can't wait to hear from you!

The Saints Show
Episode 1, Series 4: World Cup Special

The Saints Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2019 48:07


Lennie, Ian & Graham look ahead to the World Cup with Ben Franks, Allan Bateman & others.

On The Vine
On The Vine - Travel with Elena Whitehead

On The Vine

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2019 24:20


In our very first episode, we meet Elena, the new Novel Wines recruit, to chat all things wine and travel! This podcast episode was presented by Novel Wines wine buyer and founder Ben Franks and broadcaster Yaz Cooke. If you want to get involved with the On The Vine cast's Ask The Expert feature then you can tweet us @NovelWines, send us a message on Facebook or email the team on hello@novelwines.co.uk We can't wait to hear from you!

Fret Buzz
Oh, !!!!!!!!

Fret Buzz

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2019 52:11


This episode of Fret Buzz features the Moore brothers from GoGo Buffalo, Ben Franks and Buick Audra from Friendship Commanders.Featured Instruments:1923 Martin 0-18 Stamped "Wolrine"1962 Gibson Les Paul Custom1958 Gretsch 6120Featured Musicians:Jeremy and Tyler Moorefacebook.com/gogobuffalobandBen Franksohiovalleysalvage.comfacebook.com/ohiovalleysalvageBuick Audrafriendshipcommandersband.comfacebook.com/friendshipcommandersCredits: Hosted By: Mike Reeder and William Weber Barista: Jonel StevensSponsered By:Mike's Music (mikesmusicohio.com)Branch Hill Coffee Co. (branchhillcoffeeco.com)Executive Producer: Mike Reeder Video Production and Editing: Mike Reeder and Elton Clifton Intro and Outro Music: Hot for Barista by William G. Weber Audio Production and Mixing: Elton Clifton and Mike WojtkiewiczSet Design and Creation: Mike Reeder Video Assistant: Jim Strong, Ross Caster and Silias ShepherdSpecial Thanks to Ross Van Pelt (Cincinnati State AV Students)

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The Talent Equation Podcast
Keep your eye on the ball (or don't...it's up to you) - a conversation with Ben Franks

The Talent Equation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2019 89:57


Ben Franks is a researcher in skill acquisition at the University Campus in Football Business (UCFB) based at Wembley in London and he is also a goalkeeper coach. His research studied visual search behaviour in elite goalkeepers and sought to explore how they use their eyes to help them with anticipatory decision making. This episode is made of 2 halves. The first half delves into the research and explores a range of challenging topics in ecological dynamics. The second half is more practical where we explore the implications of this research for coaches and how we can better create learning environments that help players with decision making and anticipation. Hope you enjoy

The Talent Equation Podcast
Keep your eye on the ball (or don't...it's up to you) - a conversation with Ben Franks

The Talent Equation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2019 89:57


Ben Franks is a researcher in skill acquisition at the University Campus in Football Business (UCFB) based at Wembley in London and he is also a goalkeeper coach. His research studied visual search behaviour in elite goalkeepers and sought to explore how they use their eyes to help them with anticipatory decision making. This episode is made of 2 halves. The first half delves into the research and explores a range of challenging topics in ecological dynamics. The second half is more practical where we explore the implications of this research for coaches and how we can better create learning environments that help players with decision making and anticipation. Hope you enjoy

The Saints Show
Episode 35 - Ben Franks

The Saints Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2019 56:54


Former All Black prop Ben Franks is in the studio with Lennie and Graham this week.

Just Kickin' It Pod
S04 E02 - Ben Franks "What is Non-Linear Pedagogy & the Constraints Led Approach?"

Just Kickin' It Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2019 73:02


Ben Franks is a Lecturer and Sport Scientist at UCFB in London, United Kingdom. He is also the 1st team Head Coach at Sheppey United in the SCEFL Premier Division, a lower league semi-professional level in England. For links to the shownotes, visit justkickinitpod.com and click on Shownotes.

Sermons from Ainon Baptist Church
Ben Franks - The mission goes on!

Sermons from Ainon Baptist Church

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2018 41:04


Guest speaker Ben Franks brings a message from God. The mission goes on!

Godfirst Cheltenham
Where do you run in the midst of your troubles?

Godfirst Cheltenham

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2018 41:00


Guest speaker Ben Franks begins the talk with encouraging stories and news from Rhondda Valley, Hope Church in Wales before beginning (8minutes 42 seconds)his talk on trusting God in the midst of troubles. He goes onto to unpack how God is our shelter, strength and helper.

Nice Games Club
Preserving the Dreamcast (with Ben Franks)

Nice Games Club

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2017


This week, we talk to Ben Franks, Dreamcast aficionado, and discuss the various ways its preservation has taken form. Your nice hosts also take a short trip down memory lane as we reminisce about our favorite video game hardware.Here's a video Martha captured while we were recording the episode, as Ben open… - Nice Games Club with Ben Franks, YouTube Preserving the Dreamcast HardwarePreserving the Art of Play - Jacob Brogan, SlateHere are the Xbox 360 and PS3 emulators Stephen mentioned. Less than 20% of their game libraries are fully playable.This Facebook group wants Dreamcast GD ROM Drive Emulation to happen.Clean room engineering uses formal methods and iteration in software developmen… - WikipediaThe Dreamcast's SH4 processor has an open source version called J-core.Remember Game Gear? - Levi Buchanan, IGN Elysian Shadows is being developed for Dreamcast, PC and...Ouya? Here are the tidy insides of a Dreamcast:Morepictures of Ben's Dreamcaststuff!Windows CE did indeed run on Dreamcast. Here's a list of games that used it.KallistiOS, a prograde development system for Dreamcast. - Cryptic Allusion Game DevThe Dreamcast's Visual Memory Unit. - WikipediaSonic Adventure had a pretty robust Chao raising minigame. - Sonic RetroSonic Shuffle, Sega's attempt at a Mario Party-like game.The creators of Elysian Shadows have created a VMU emulator called ElysianVMU. - The DreamCast JunkyardHow to burn a Dreamcast CDI. - The .ISO zoneA guide to replace a Dreamcast GD-ROM drive. - I Fix ItBen FranksGuestBen Franks hosts Gaymer Space at GlitchHQ. You can also email him at ben@franks.net with all your Dreamcast questions!

Nice Games Club
Preserving the Dreamcast (with Ben Franks)

Nice Games Club

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2017


This week, we talk to Ben Franks, Dreamcast aficionado, and discuss the various ways its preservation has taken form. Your nice hosts also take a short trip down memory lane as we reminisce about our favorite video game hardware. Here's a video Martha captured while we were recording the episode, as Ben open… - Nice Games Club with Ben Franks , YouTube Preserving the Dreamcast Category Hardware “Preserving the Art of Play” - Jacob Brogan , Slate Here are the Xbox 360 and PS3 emulators Stephen mentioned. Less than 20% of their game libraries are fully playable. This Facebook group wants Dreamcast GD ROM Drive Emulation to happen. Clean room engineering uses formal methods and iteration in software developmen… - Wikipedia The Dreamcast’s SH4 processor has an open source version called J-core. “Remember Game Gear?” - Levi Buchanan , IGN Elysian Shadows is being developed for Dreamcast, PC and...Ouya?  Here are the tidy insides of a Dreamcast: More pictures of Ben’s Dreamcast stuff! Windows CE did indeed run on Dreamcast. Here’s a list of games that used it. KallistiOS, a prograde development system for Dreamcast. - Cryptic Allusion Game Dev The Dreamcast’s Visual Memory Unit. - Wikipedia Sonic Adventure had a pretty robust Chao raising minigame. - Sonic Retro Sonic Shuffle, Sega’s attempt at a Mario Party-like game. The creators of Elysian Shadows have created a VMU emulator called ElysianVMU. - The DreamCast Junkyard How to burn a Dreamcast CDI. - The .ISO zone A guide to replace a Dreamcast GD-ROM drive. - I Fix It Guest Ben Franks hosts Gaymer Space at GlitchHQ. You can also email him at ben@franks.net with all your Dreamcast questions!

Godfirst Cheltenham
Speaking the Truth - Ben Franks

Godfirst Cheltenham

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2017 42:17


Ben explains how the tongue might be a small thing, but it has massive impacts on a person's character and life.

Rugby Renegade Podcast
RRP 22 - Ben Franks talks to us about the All Blacks, Consistency and Competition

Rugby Renegade Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2017 39:29


Dual World Cup winning All Black Ben Franks give us an insight into what it takes to compete at the highest level in rugby. He talks to us about his training, nutrition and the All Blacks success. #BuildingMachines

Godfirst Cheltenham
Three Revelations | Ben Franks | Revelation 1, 4, 5

Godfirst Cheltenham

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2016 42:35


Ben Franks takes us through three revelations of God experienced by John the Evangelist and explains their relevance to us today.