tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-161694830669099204.post6042368250887412001..comments2024-03-17T18:53:56.416-07:00Comments on Cosmic American Blog: When You Multiply Robert Palmer, Two Guys From Duran Duran, And The Drummer From Chic ... To The Nth Poweryoggothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00233852251148460524noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-161694830669099204.post-26606792774948916882016-08-01T19:52:49.637-07:002016-08-01T19:52:49.637-07:00Okay here is the long lost video although it doesn...Okay here is the long lost video although it doesn't have the duck scene.<br />http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1vxjf_robert-palmer-looking-for-clues_music<br />I was certain that this was the vid with the duck as he is in miniature pretty much the whole video and he is floating on a bar of soap in a bathtub next to a rubber ducky. The "hook" in the video was he would put a magnifying glass over his mouth while singing - a grammar school trick of course and back then video music "producers" threw in any trick they could. Oh yea And then he dances over the keys of a xylophone (again he is miniaturized) during the solo. Also relative to the song itself I never liked that doubling of the vocal line with an octave falsetto - it's also like he sang it in the wrong key or something. So the mystery of the duck continues. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-161694830669099204.post-63034726721949584292016-07-30T21:40:54.952-07:002016-07-30T21:40:54.952-07:00Four words: Dionne Warwick and Friends. And Friend...Four words: Dionne Warwick and Friends. And Friends!<br /><br />But you're right, the "Hungry Like The Wolf" riff sounds just like "Bang A Gong." My ... GOD. It's one of those things I've always dimly realized without ever truly realizing it, like the fact that Kansas City is actually ... in MISSOURI.<br /><br />The video of "Looking For Clues" that I posted a while back doesn't show him dancing with a "duck," but it does show him dancing with a penguin, a wolf, a sheep, a goat, Godzilla, and ... Goofy? I assume that's not the duck video? I wanna see the duck video!Little Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415022026000282965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-161694830669099204.post-91701384086619183812016-07-23T10:57:41.330-07:002016-07-23T10:57:41.330-07:00I was watching a video on how to communicate with ...I was watching a video on how to communicate with one's spirit animal guide (you have one don't you ?) and somehow wound up here what with the weirdness that is the internet. The spirit video was not so good - some mid 30s caucasian lady claiming to have been an Indian Shaman in a previous life or something. I kept watching only because she was hot in a "I married a rich guy but my life is so unfulfilling so I'll have an affair with the homeless looking acoustic guitar player at the coffee shop" kind of way. Oh but wait - <br /><br />The Power Station. Yea so I ran into someone who had run into Andy Taylor back in the day. Evidently AT was always wanting to "rock things up" and felt constrained by the synth dominated sounds of Duran Duran. Check out Hungry like the Wolf and it's a very Bolan-esque guitar riff so I wasn't too surprised when the Power Station rolled out Bang a Gong. I like what you said about Bolan's lyrics though it was his bleating sibilance that fans wanted to hear so I think he selected words that maximized that effect. Of course also consider that Bolan used Flo and Eddie as an effect to add that magic fairy dust to his productions (by the masterful Tony Visconti). Anyway, Robert Palmer always seemed to me like a guy on the verge of leaving the music business and moving in with the richest babe he could find and using the money to open up a restaurant. This isn't to say he wasn't talented just that he bounced around stylistically and somehow stumbled into that boxy, over compressed drum sound with distorted guitar chords production style that yielded "Addicted to Love" and "Simply Irresistable". Compare those songs to the "Clues" from a few years earlier. That video of him dancing with the duck was an early nadir. I notice that it can't be found on Youtube and seems to have been replaced with another video that, while still embarrassing, was not at the humiliating levels of the "duck" video. And then there was his older cover of Andy Fraser's "It takes every kind of people". That was a good song but again Palmer was all over the place - New Orleans/Meters stuff, World beats, Ska, some funk, and then dabbled with rock. Can't blame him - The Stones made their entire career doing stuff like that. Okay I liked the Power Station I must admit but like a summer fling it was over and I didn't give two flips when they "broke up" only to reform with that elfin second tier Michael Desbarres as a lead singer. Ugh. I think that was the end of those spontaneous super groups for a time. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com