Did anyone find Alex Chilton yet?

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Just asking.

― Voodoo Child, Monday, 5 September 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Try searching.

― President Busch (dr g), Monday, 5 September 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

I bet Alex Chilton doesn't know where Alex Chilton is.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Monday, 5 September 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

He's in Houston:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/alexchilton/message/2015

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 5 September 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Yay!

― Voodoo Child, Monday, 5 September 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, according to Memphis Commercial Appeal's website (www.commercialappeal.com)

― don, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

President Busch: Do you make a concerted effort to be an asshole, or does it just come effortlessly naturally?

Glad Alex is still around, at any rate.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/home/article/0,1426,MCA_435_4057066,00.html

Memphis rocker evacuated from New Orleans home

By Jon Sparks
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September 5, 2005

Memphian Alex Chilton, 54, the famed rock singer and guitarist who lives in New Orleans is alive and well.

Ron Easley, a friend and fellow musician who has recorded a number of albums with him, said Chilton called early Monday morning from a hotel in a city Easley would not name. He said Chilton was evacuated by helicopter from his home Sunday and later flown out of the area.

Chilton, who hadn’t been heard from since shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck, told Easley he stayed in his home the entire time and water had gotten up to his porch. Chilton said he had food and water but was most concerned during the week about roving gangs.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

Chilton said he had food and water but was most concerned during the week about roving gangs.

I wonder if those were his actual words

― Richard Wood Johnson, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

"Chilton said he had food and water, but was most worried when his baby was not beside him."

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

roving Big Star-wannabee bands (smoking Mojo,Magnet and CMJ)

― don, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gumbopages.com/looka/archive/2005-09.html#3 has updates on lots of New Orleans musicians.

― patita (patita), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Do you make a concerted effort to be an asshole, or does it just come effortlessly naturally?

Sorry bro! I know we need twenty more threads on the whereabouts of Alex Chilton!

― President Busch (dr g), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

xpost that gumbopages.com, linked above, is incredible, the best single site I've seen, for news and views from Nola now (and no, not just about Alex)Thanks for posting!

― don, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

I can't keep track of them either. Don said something on one of them about Gary Stewart but I can't remember which one. I wanted to tell him that I remember going to a show where Alex said "this is my favorite song" and then played "Single Again"!

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Alex said "this is my favorite song" and then played "Single Again"!

By Cory Daye?!

― pappawheelie II, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

haha - wow, I've used tons of recipes from that gumbopages site, never expected it to turn up here.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

No, different song. By Gary Stewart.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

yeah, Gary Stewart's "Single Again." one of my personal top-20 favorite songs EVER. Alex has been doing it for years, I saw him perform it in Memphis like 13-14 years ago, he said he learned it off the jukebox at the Lamplighter on Madison.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

What I said was that, back when I was writing about Gary Stewart last year (in Voice),he shot himself. And last week, I peeled myself away from the news, to start writing about new Big Star CD and band history,and that was a relief, until I learned that he was missing. So *now* I'm relieved, selfishly enough, that I (apparently)won't have to end up with another Remember The Dead Crazy Genius piece. Didn't know Alex dug Gary, but can see how he would. A certain shared sentiment:"I'll go my own way for better 'n' worse 'n'broke(and then keep coming back)."(And neither's ever far from my headphones.)

― don, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

if anything, Stewart was far more fucked-up than Alex ever was, from what I've read. Who's the guy, Jimmy McCullough? the same guy who write Neil Young bio "Shakey." He did a fine piece on Gary that's archived somewhere, for Perfect Sound Forever, and I believe he did a piece for the Voice on Gary several years ago. I love Gary's stuff; he still doesn't get credit in Nashville. All these Nashville powerpoppers give Alex plenty, though.

So, Don--I've lived with that Big Star record for a couple months now, and find it...strange...I'd love to know what you think about it, when you get your piece cookin' and done. And would like to know what you think of my Scene thing, if you ever read it and have a second to tell me.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

I dunno about *more*, esp. after reading Ron's book (which I think you said is also in yr. piece? I'll read it after I get my own reactions a little more in focus)H'mm, wonder if Gary returned the regards? His mid-70s rockin' honkytonk wasn't that far from Big Star's power pop, in a way.(It was far enough from most who *call* themselves power pop, luckily.) Yeah, Jimmy's piece was in Voice's old Rock 'n' Roll Quarterly, which tended to specialize in Dead Crazy Genius pieces. (Gary was still alive, but I'm sure they had Jimmy ready to switch into obit-mode).(They even published some Oscar Pettiford x-rays.) That's the one at PSF, eh? Thanks, I'll check it out again. The new album, so far, doesn't seem so strange.(Although could be because, just before listening to it, I'd dug up Radio City--now that's wylde!)(See xgau trippin on R.C. at robertchristgau.com)

― don, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

the one I go back to more these days is of course the third album. but "radio city" seems eternal, and it now sounds far more experimental and crazy than it did when I first started listening to it.

where at christgau's site does he talk about radio city? besides the consumer guide? is there something else there I'm missing?

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

he's only 54?

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, he was 16 when the Box Tops started recording in 1967.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

xpost yeah, the Consumer Guide entry's what I meant, Edd: brief, but you can tell he caught the vibe, man, and yeah, it does sound crazier than it used to.No doubt our ears are better edd(y)ucated. I just listened to it, preceded by # 1 Record (on the Stax CD, which orig. shaved off a few tracks, but the one I got has all of both albums). Two in one session, and even with a couple of potty breaks,it were almost two much. However, now for Third/Sister Lovers!(The Ryko edition, which apparently is all the surviving master tracks)

― don, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

what I like about those records is how disciplined they are. so I really appreciate things like "She's a Mover" and "Don't Lie to Me" more now--the obvious great stuff is still great, but there's such a fantastic simplicity to the way they approach "blues" on "Don't Lie" and "Mover." What puts "Radio City" over "#1" in my book is the way the guitar sorta edges out of the picture, but not completely, on "Mover," for example. very odd but so, so the product of people who never wanna cross some invisible line into excess of any sort. which I think is what makes those records so timeless. Don, if you've never listened to "Radio City" from a really good original LP, you oughta, and if you ever want a burn from same of that one, I can prolly get it together for you. It's a whole new (old) record...

but now that I'm done with thinking about them, I return to my usual Big Star mode--they kinda wear me out, it's too much...

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

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