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Badfinger- The Tragic Story of The Band - Deaths of Pete Ham, Tom Evans Hotney 6 Streams • 3 years ago

Badfinger: The Tragic Story of the Band

0:00 - Introduction/The Iveys
5:45 - The Iveys Become Badfinger
8:39 - Management Problems
10:38 - Warner Brothers Years
13:07 - Lawsuits/Band Deaths

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As the first non-solo act on Apple Records, Badfinger had remarkable chemistry, huge hits on the charts, and they’d be critically acclaimed as natural successors to The Beatles. In fact some referred to the band as and i quote ‘the new Fab Four. and they were handpicked by the members of the Beatles themselves.’ Their songs and albums made millions, But a series of financial and legal complications would lead to the deaths of its two main songwriters, and a bittersweet legacy going forward. This is their story.
Badfinger’s roots go back to the early 60s, in the close-knit music scene of Swansea (swanzee) Wales, a port city almost like a little liverpool.. While initially performing on the local circuit using temporary names, their first serious incarnation was as the Iveys, which came together in 1961. Their early lineup consisted of frontman Pete Ham on lead guitar, Dai Jenkins on rhythm guitar, Ron Griffiths on bass and Roy Anderson on drums.The Iveys sets heavily covered black american music.
By 1965 drummer Roy Anderson’s work life took hold. He was replaced by Mike Gibbins, who was introduced to the band through Griffiths. In an interview with Gary Katz for the documentary Badfinger: The Director’s Cut, Gibbins recalled feeling uncertain about this transition, but eventually accepted his role.
“It was really strange, because these guys were like mods. They had criss-cross-patterned trousers and short hair like the Faces, [but] they were playing good stuff,” he’d say.
“Pete [Ham] didn’t like my playing. He thought it was pretty abysmal, and that my bass drum sounded flipped out. I went for a pint at the bar around the corner and thought that was that, but to my amazement, he came over and said, ‘We want you in the band.’
The Iveys soon became one of Swansea’s top local band and shared billing with another emerging act, The Mojos. Bill Collins, a session musician, was impressed with the Iveys’ performance, and took them under his wing. While not a manager per-se, he did have industry connections, and got them a job as the backing band for David Garrick. Their shows were so popular that the band members commanded more attention than Garrick himself, particularly Dai Jenkins, with Gibbins recalling in a separate interview,
“We’d be doing a gig in Ireland, and he’d be singing Mrs. Applebee, and the girls would be screaming, screaming, screaming, but then he’d go, ‘Hang on a minute,’ look to the other side and…there would be crowds around Dai.” “I think that’s the reason we got fired."
Collins moved with The Iveys to London, England, where they’d set up base at his communal house in Golders Green. The band was being paid 5 pounds a week as a retainer, not a whole ot. He encouraged the band to focus on songwriting and frontman Pete Ham would take that to heart, demoing tons of original songs using the house’s makeshift studio. Meanwhile the band’s continued live repertoire of R&B, Motown, and Beatles hits began drawing a lot of attention from record labels. Collins was insistent on signing with the fledgling Apple Records, which was owned by the Beatles themselves. The label was known for being the most artist friendly label at the time.
In 1967, guitarist Dai Jenkins was dismissed from the band after his commitment waned, and was replaced by 24 year old Tom Evans, a native of Liverpool, England who would become another piece of the signature lineup. As explained in Dan Matovina’s book, Without You: The Tragic History of Badfinger, The Iveys were in instant awe of Evans’ musicianship, but his personality took a bit of getting used to, with Gibbins remembering:
“As soon as Tom moved in, he was complaining. He was from Liverpool and we were from Wales. He said that he couldn’t relate to anybody. My feeling was, ‘Just tag along, man. This is a band.”
Local musician Will Youatt telling Loudersound “They played all the local haunts,” “They were a good-looking sort of band, but no great shouts musically. Then they got rid of Dai and Ronnie and replaced ’em with the Liverpool boys – then they became songwriters.”
By the next year, The Iveys prepared demos for Apple Records, a

1K Phew, Zaytoven, Young Dro - Favorite Trapper (Official Music Video) ft. 1K Pson Hotney 6 Streams • 3 years ago

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Comin' in cruisin' with Big Zay
I mean Zaytiggy (Zay)
Shawty I love my city
Tehya no cap, no kizzy
Had to go pray a little harder
Even though the devil ain't been too busy
Really, I'm like, where is he?
Tried to go spin, got dizzy
It's a whole new world outside
I put that on Walt Disney
It's a whole lotta hate outside
Everybody quick to envy
If you gon' try to slide
Remember that tomb is empty
Yeah, I'ma lean on God
Rest in peace to Pimp C

Trap back, jumpin', hallelujah
I can make your favorite trapper praise, hallelujah
And I be like, Lord, they ain’t even tryna sell these drugs
When I pull up preachin'
I’m a have church with all my thugs
Uh-huh, trap back jumpin', hallelujah
They don’t even shout amen, they be like uh huh
Every time I start prayin', they be like uh huh
Yeah, see what I'm sayin', we be like uh huh

God first, see what I'm sayin'
Dro in church, see what I'm sayin'
Hard work, see what I'm sayin'
I'ma get up there and praise, I'ma clap my hands
Tell the Lord I'm a real big fan
Huh, He really got me out that jam
Gave me grace and held my hand
Then gave me a break
When I bought that land
Feel so good, I'ma call my boys
Huh, I'ma make a joyful noise (amen)
Huh, put my faith on 10
Repent my sins, I ain't got no choice
Speak His name, I speak the truth
Huh, I'ma say hallelujah
Huh, God really good, I'm proof
You can ask my patna dem, 1K Phew
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Trap back, jumpin', hallelujah
I can make your favorite trapper praise, hallelujah
And I be like, Lord, they ain’t even tryna sell these drugs
When I pull up preachin'
I’m a have church with all my thugs
Uh-huh, trap back jumpin', hallelujah
They don’t even shout amen, they be like uh huh
Every time I start prayin', they be like uh huh
Yeah, see what I'm sayin', we be like uh huh

Trap back jumpin' like, uh-huh
Whole hood shoutin' like Jon Jon
devil say he want some smoke, huh
I don't really think he want none
Shawty went lo, she dun dun
I'm countin' up blessings and the munyun
Gotta feed the whole hood, he chose it
Two fish, five loaves, we loaded
2 step like uno, dos
Got it on like, Polo Dro
Baptized my wrist, that water cold
All this ice, that water froze
Chilled my body but not my soul
Only playin' with the keys like Zay do,
If it ain't Jesus, it's Jesus
Either way it go, we praise You
Okay, let's go

Trap back, jumpin', hallelujah
I can make your favorite trapper praise, hallelujah
And I be like, Lord, they ain’t even tryna sell these drugs
When I pull up preachin'
I’m a have church with all my thugs
Uh-huh, trap back jumpin', hallelujah
They don’t even shout amen, they be like uh huh
Every time I start prayin', they be like uh huh
Yeah, see what I'm sayin', we be like uh huh

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Johnny Thunders The Tragic & Mysterious Death of the New York Dolls, Heartbreakers Musician Hotney 6 Streams • 3 years ago

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Today we take a look at the tragic life and death of punk rock legend Johnny Thunders who was a member of the glam group New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers

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And By the age of 16 Thunders would take up the bass guitar and would start attending shows of the bands like the Who, and Small Faces and even rubbed elbows with the big rockstars at the time including Rod Stewart who he drank beer with backstage at the Newport Folk Festival.
By age 17 Thunders would latch onto the Detroit Music scene and His childhood friend Gail Higgins remembered “We would drive eight hours to see the MC5 or The Stooges,”It was around this time that Thunders quit bass and picked up guitar. “Whenever he was practising, I used to yell into the bedroom: ‘Give up, Johnny’,”
Given the look of the New York Dolls, Thunders never blended into the crowd - he would frequently borrow his girlfriend’s clothes. His former bandmate from the band the Heartbreakers Walker Lure rememberd “He had high-heeled boots, velvet jackets and pants, bowling gear,” “I’d see him at all the shows – mostly the British bands, as opposed to the Grateful Deads and Jefferson Airplanes – so I’d seen him around for years. Then when the Dolls started happening I said: ‘Holy! There’s that guy.’”
The story of the New York Dolls began in the early 70’s in the East Village of New York with the original lineup consisting of vocalist David Johansen , guitarist Johnny Thunders, bassist Arthur Kane, drummer Billy Murcia and pianist Sylvain Sylvain. Some of the band members were already familiar with one another prior to the formation of the Dolls as they played with each other in various bands and The band quickly got noticed with their look. They had big hair, wore silk scarfs and dressed like women.In fact sometimes they got mistaken for women.
Fashion aside, The band quickly got noticed and would find themselves playing at Wembley Stadium in London, England supporting the faces a year later, but during that trip Tragedy would strike as drummer Billy Murcia die due to an accidental drowning during a party.
Johnny Thunders friend Gail Higgins would remember: “Johnny was devastated. He was the closest with Billy and it really upset him. Johnny was very sensitive and loving, very needy and very insecure.”

hroughout most of 1977 the Heartbreakers would call London their home and record their lone album L.A.M.F. The record was hampered by mixing issues that lasted months and months and ultimately forced the demise of the band with the band’s manager remembering
“That mix can be completely laid at the door of Jerry Nolan.” “He went into this kind of control freak thing where he had to mix it. But everyone was stoned. Walking into the studio was like walking into a crack house. I should have gotten a gun and shot a couple of them dead.” he’d remember
Walter Lure of the Heartbreakers remembered the record label pressures with the album saying: “We were told we needed to release it in time for Christmas because they needed to make some money. So they just put us in a room and said if it doesn’t get released you’re not gonna have a contract. Johnny, Billy and I said yeah; Jerry said no, he was leaving, and just walked out.”
Nolan would form his own band the Idols which would make a name for themselves back home in New York. The Heartbreakers meanwhile limped along but Thunders was devastated by Nolan’s departure.\\
The Heartbreakers would be done by 1980 but would sporadically reform and perform shows together until 1990. And following the breakup of the band Thunders would remain in London and release a series of solo records featuring a whose who of the UK punk rock scene with his first being So Alone in 1978. He would eventually find his way back to the US and hook up with one of his idol’s MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer to form the shortlived project Gang War with kramer remembering

By 1986 Thunders seemed to turn his life around and repaired some of the fractured relationships in his life and soon enough Thunders was offering words of advice to other musicians stuck in the grip of addiction. By 1987 Thunders would get a second chance at being a father with the birth of Jamie Gazale, but something was wrong. The mother to his new child remembered

Drake - Laugh Now Cry Later (Karaoke Instrumental) ft. Lil Durk Hotney 6 Streams • 3 years ago

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Drake - Laugh Now Cry Later Lyrics:

[Intro: Drake]
Woah, woah
Yeah

[Chorus: Drake]
Sometimes we laugh and sometimes we cry, but I guess you know now, baby
I took a half and she took the whole thing, slow down, baby
We took a trip, now we on your block and it's like a ghost town, baby
Where do these niggas be at when they say they doin' all this and all that?

[Verse 1: Drake]
Tired of beefin' you bums, you can't even pay me enough to react
Been wakin' up in the crib and sometimes I don't even know where I'm at
Please don't play that nigga songs in this party, I can't even listen to that
Anytime that I ran into somebody, it must be a victory lap, ayy
Shawty come sit on my lap, ayy, they sayin' Drizzy just snapped
Distance between us is not like a store, this isn't a closeable gap, ayy
I seen some niggas attack and don't end up makin' it back

[Pre-Chorus: Drake]
I know that they at the crib goin' crazy, down bad
What they had didn't last, damn, baby

[Chorus: Drake]
Sometimes we laugh and sometimes we cry, but I guess you know now, baby
I took a half and she took the whole thing, slow down, baby
We took a trip, now we on your block and it's like a ghost town, baby
Where do these niggas be at when they say they doin' all this and all that?

[Verse 2: Lil Durk & Drake]
I'm in the trenches, relax
Can you not play that lil' boy in the club? 'Cause we do not listen to rats
We in Atlanta, I buy her a wig, she tellin' me Tae is the best
Point at the nigga who act like a killer, but you only one for the 'net
I'm like DaBaby, I'm not just a rapper, you play with me, you gon' get stretched
Ooh-oh
Bring Drake to the hood, surround Drake around Dracs
Even though I got a case, I'ma do what it take
And I never been embraced
And the money's hard to make
So I bet they on they face right now

[Pre-Chorus: Drake]
I know that they at the crib goin' crazy, down bad
What they had didn't last, damn, baby

[Chorus: Drake]
Sometimes we laugh and sometimes we cry, but I guess you know now, baby
I took a half and she took the whole thing, slow down, baby
We took a trip, now we on your block and it's like a ghost town, baby
Where do these niggas be at when they say they doin' all this and all that?

[Verse 3: Drake]
When he tell the story, that's not how it went
Know they be lyin', a hundred percent
Moved out the Ritz and forgot 'bout the Bent'
Valet just called me to tell me come get it
Knocked that boy off and I don't want no credit
If it was me, they wouldn't regret it
Left me for dead and now they wan' dead it, yeah
Heart is still beatin', my niggas still eatin'
Backyard, it look like the Garden of Eden
Pillow talk with 'em, she spillin' the tea
And then shawty came back and said she didn't mean it
It's hard to believe it

[Pre-Chorus: Drake]
I know that they at the crib goin' crazy, down bad
What they had didn't last, damn, baby

[Chorus: Drake]
Sometimes we laugh and sometimes we cry, but I guess you know now, baby
I took a half and she took the whole thing, slow down, baby
We took a trip, now we on your block and it's like a ghost town, baby
Where do these niggas be at when they say they doin' all this and all that?