Sonny Sharrock and the Starlites

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Anyone know anything about this? I downloaded 10 tracks apparently by this group from Sonny Sharrock's 1953 Rythm & Blues Revue Saalfelden 1990. I can't find any info on it on the WWW, though it seems the Starlites are a 60s R&B group. It's quite good, like straightforward blues/old R&B-type stuff with a lot of trademark Sharrock feedback guitar in his solos.

He introduces the band:

Tenor sax: Eric Lawrence
Kbrds: Dave Snider
Bass: Charles Bolan (?)
Abe Speller
Lance "Romance" Carter

He instructs the crowd to act and feel like they're at the Apollo Theatre in 1955.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

is this because of the boredoms thread?

― Fuck You, Yamantaka Eye (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Whaaaaat?? Never heard of this. How did you find it, Sundar? Just doing slsk searches on Sonny or something?

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

From a Poisoned search on "Sharrock". I haven't read the Boredoms thread. Is there info there?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, that was just a trick to get me to read the Boredoms thread, wasn't it?

It's weird, Roy. They do "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" and "In the Still of the Night" with soulful vocal arrangements and everything.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I interviewed Sonny once. He had 'The Girl Can't Help It' on in the background.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got a ton of Sonny, never heard of this. What/Where is Poisoned?

― Don A, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

someone compared nu-boredoms piano to sonny sharrock

― Fuck You, Yamantaka Eye (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I put up 3 tracks on my Geocities page for your perusal:

"03" - some good guitar noise

"Guitar Blues" - cool solo

"What Ya Gonna Do?" - vocal track

Poisoned is kind of like a (lesser?) Mac equivalent of SLSK.

np: Prince - Musicology

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you need to wait an hour before trying to access those because the server's exceeded allowable data transfer or somesuch.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

They work! What you need to do is copy the link location into your address bar, delete the ".mp3" at the end of the URL, and hit enter.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm excited to download these when I get home.

Jon, have you heard BLACK WOMAN?

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, thanks! Still trolling the googleverse for whole CD. Will let yall know if I find it.

― Don, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Abe Speller

my girlfriend works with this guy's wife. i can ask him about it. what do you want to know. i've chatted with him about sonny, but he was a kid playing with him. he went on to play with danish folk/pop superstar kim larsen.

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

what do you want to know.

When and where is the recording from? Is it commercially available or a bootleg or what? How did this matchup come about? Did they just play together for one gig or make more recordings? Has this group done a lot without SS?

Thanks a lot.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Also how many tracks are in the whole recording? I downloaded 10 tracks labelled 02 - 11. I assume there's a track 1 I'm missing? Are there others? What is the track list?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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