Messages

1

Stream of Consciousness / Re: Welcome to the 10@10 club

« on: November 06, 2009, 06:14:03 AM »

Hi, Rip, and welcome.  I have a few early Syreeta tunes - "I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You," a cover of the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home" - but don't know the rest of her catalog.  Sorry to hear she's passed on.

Did you ever sit in with the Flaming Ember?  I was briefly in touch with the singer/drummer and got the impression they'd stayed in the Detroit area.  (I used to write about music here and there.)

Cheers,
Gaz.

OK on the Syreeta tunes. Yes the last I had heard she had moved to London for awhile and then heard she had
passed from Cancer. She was heavy ito singing Gospel/Jazz when I met her and being a North Woodward boy who grew up on R&R it was quite a change for me but a great challenge to learn some R&B to broaden my music horizons.

I do remember the group called The Flaming Embers but have never heard them live. Both Glenn and Gary Quackenbush (from SRC) live nearby and I have had a chance to play with them and more recently with a cover band called "No One Else" - they are on YouTube if you're curious. That's about it-I still play but am not
actively seeking regular band/gigs. -Rip

2

Stream of Consciousness / Re: Welcome to the 10@10 club

« on: November 04, 2009, 11:34:09 AM »

Mostly unknown groups in the Detroit area and mostly in the 70s and 80s. I do sit in with a few now and then, but don't go gigging these days as I'm getting too old to be carting around amps PAs etc. I played bass for Syreeta Wright in the late 60s BEFORE she got her Motown contract and married Stevie Morris, but that was about it. Unfortunatel I hear she had passed a few years back in the L.A. area.

I look at radio production as an art and I'm certainly at the beginning of the learning curve and fortunate to have Dave to teach me that it's more than just a voice and more than just playin' tunes. I'm an electronics geek and "ham" radio op (recently retired from 40+ years in printed circuit design and electronic component purchasing).

3

Stream of Consciousness / Re: Welcome to the 10@10 club

« on: November 03, 2009, 04:12:13 PM »

Got it from Dave Morey who lives north of me here in Mi.
I'm sure I would have never found this place without his help. I'm just a geezer who played bass in a few groups back in the 70s and 80s and Dave is helping me learn a few things about radio production. He grew up about a mile from me as a kid before he moved West. He is a great guy - glad he came back to Michigan. Sorry about the cryptic stuff. Once Dave is back on, I will be less cryptic....
-Rip

4

Stream of Consciousness / Re: Brrrrrr

« on: November 03, 2009, 08:54:13 AM »

Cryptic? Just shovelling some snow your way!

5

Stream of Consciousness / Brrrrrr

« on: November 03, 2009, 08:16:24 AM »

Thanks for adding me.
It's cold here in Michigan, but worry not-I hear progress is being made and I'll
post more details after things are more defined. Stay tuned. -Rip