Jack Nitzsche

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― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Dead

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

the pop stuff on "Three Piece Suite" is almost all amazingly great. Produced brililantly--as good as John Cale's '70s LA stuff if not as good as the Beach Boys...I like it a lot.

Beside STs and production jobs, what other solo JN is there?

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

i'm not just looking for solo stuff (unless you're just asking another question?)

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

wow, big discography ahoy http://www.spectropop.com/JackNitzsche/discography.htm

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Performance soundtrack rules.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

his work with neil young is hit and miss, but the "hits" are great--stuff like "expecting to fly" and "the old laughing lady." His work on Harvest (Man Needs A Maid and There's A World) have always struck me as way overblown. I actually haven't heard all of the Three Piece Suite--it's worth getting, I gather? I dig "Lower California".

― tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

didn't Nitzsche do a lot of work with Lee Hazlewood?

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

please, don't get me started...

― Beta (abeta), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.electroniccourthouse.com/images/home/get_started.jpg

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Search: "The Lonely Surfer"

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

what non-pop I've heard--"St. Giles Cripplegate" on "Three Piece" and the ST to "Cuckoo's Nest"--is fine, fine, and yeah, as Andy Beta will tell you, I think, the pop stuff on "Three PIece" is all really good, especially the song about Jack's yen for Carly Simon. I like the way some of the songs break off into orchestration; he's truly a master of string arrangements. I was totally addicted to that pop stuff earlier in the summer. It's everything a band like Jellyfish was trying to do, I'd say...and twenty years earlier...I'm saving my pennies for the collection of JN's productions, too.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Three Piece Suite has two cuts with John Fahey as the session guitarist. sounds lovely, and i wish that he had done more work like that.

― ndb, Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Three Piece Suite is amazing - St Giles Cripplegate for modern classical music without many proper rules, and the pop stuff - just astounding. Lower California!

― SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Friday, 15 July 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

"I'm the Lonelist Fool" rules.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 15 July 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

i have two pieces in the queue about Jack, out in the LA Weekly about the Hearing is Believing comp (pop productions he did) and a bigger piece on his soundtrack work for an issue of Stop Smiling, and i've been obsessively hunting down any and all soundtrack work of his, listening to him in many forms for many months now. many i still haven't heard. Obv., Performance and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest are astounding examples of the form, but just about everything i've found has had some killer moments.

Blue Collar's soundtrack features Cap'n Beefheart and Ry Cooder reunited, with weird scrap metal stomp beats, but the movie itself also features these Niblock-esque synth drones that are eerie. wish those were on the record. Cannery Row has him doing baroque themes as well as some Dixieland swing, with piano from Dr. John. The Razor's Edge score has these eloquent tangos as well as some odd Tibetan ritual moments (very reminiscent of that recent Sub Rosa thing). add in his synth work for John Carpenter or his mariachi music for Robert Downey, and the scope of what he was up to (and very capable of executing) is almost unfathomable. now i wish there was a nice compilation of his soundtrack work. Rhino/Runt/Kent or whomever, i'm available.

― Beta (abeta), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

So today I've been rocking out to Neil Young & Crazy Horse live at the Fillmore East in 1970 and Jack has some incredible Rhodes jams on "Cowgirl In The Sand". Check it out if you get a chance.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 8 February 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Nitzsche isn't high in the mix on the NY & CH Fillmore disc, but if you pay attention, he's playing some cool stuff. Nothing fancy, but thank God for that. He really seems to be grooving with the singlemindedness of the Horse. In other news, Vol. 2 of "The Jack Nitzsche Story" is awesome--maybe better than the first one. The last couple songs (from the late 90s) are kinda bad, but the rest is golden. The Everly Bros.' "Mr. Soul" is my fave at the moment.

― Tyler W (tylerw), Thursday, 8 February 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

xpost: yeah, those late 90's songs are pretty bland, but what gems precede them...my favorite Nitzsche moment is "Don't Touch Me There", by the Tubes...and yeah, "Lower California" figures prominently on the Barney Hoskyns-curated "Back To California" comp...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

i agree, the Tubes tune is wild. Way better than any of Blondie's girl group pastiches. Don't think I've heard anything else by them, though. anything worth seeking out? "Surf Finger" is awesome too. And the Miles Davis/John Lee Hooker thing is exactly what it sounds like--Miles riffing over Hooker's standard boogie beat. But it's pretty sweet all the same. Dennis Hopper's "The Hot Spot"--a lost classic? Probably not.

― Tyler W (tylerw), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

Picked up a Ron Nagle record called Bad Rice because it looked interesting. It's produced by Nitzsche and I'm not sure what to make of it. Uneven stoner bar rock? I dunno, have to listen a few more times. There are a few songs that give it a late 50's rock n roll feel, maybe that's Nitzsche hand. Anyone heard this record?

― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 00:08 (fourteen years ago)

I've only heard a couple of tracks from Bad Rice, would like to hear the whole thing. "61 Clay" is a nice ragged-but-right Stones imitation.

― Brad C., Tuesday, 3 January 2012 01:09 (fourteen years ago)

i picked up a copy of bad rice for a quarter one time. kinda hated it. got rid of it, and then noticed it selling for like 20-40$

― jaxon, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 02:18 (fourteen years ago)

That Nagle record has the ugliest artwork of any major label release from the era.

I scored mine from a record/head shop in Beaumont a few years ago for about $4 (I think I'd seen you post about it Jaxon) and wasn't taken with it.

― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 03:59 (fourteen years ago)

Are you talking about Sunrise?? I've found great records there.

― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 04:02 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, Sunrise. Always wondered how that copy of Bad Rice landed there.

― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 04:06 (fourteen years ago)

My best finds at Sunrise were a sealed copy of Jimmy Lewis 'Totally Involved' and a mint copy of Dennis Wilson 'Pacific Ocean Blue'. But, I think Bad Rice will grow on me.

― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 04:15 (fourteen years ago)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Nitzsche's friend who I believe lived with him for awhile or something like that. I really love almost all of his records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvPnDExkmjw

― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 04:26 (fourteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Somehow I never heard “The Lonely Surfer” until I heard it in the credits of the Wrecking Crew movie. Even it sounds more like an Ennio Morricone western score than surf music, what a track.

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 11 May 2023 11:51 (two years ago)

Just gave it a listen. Nice , Morricone with subtle surf elements

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 May 2023 16:36 (two years ago)

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