[peel] fao Rich Shaw Brown - the Misunderstood

[Riving Ton]

Yeah! I played that file for the first time over the last weekend and it reminded me that Rick Brown hadn't made an appearance for a while.
Aren't we due another installment from his autobiography?
I reckon he should serialise his book here on the Peel Group!

I also caught Melt Banana for the first time. Wow! They're a great shouty band! That was just the sort of curve ball I loved from Peel. I don't understand why they were slagged off so much here recently. After listening to some of David Gedge's tired old warblings about how his girlfriend had left him yet again I think I know which I prefer!

DeeDee



----- Original Message ----
From: thebarguest <thebarguest@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 1:14:14 AM
Subject: [peel] fao Rich Shaw Brown - the Misunderstood

Hi Rich and all !

Just listening to Peely playing some Misunderstood
on the show that was "up for grabs" here recently dated 820427
(thanks again donors). He liked 'Children of the Sun' so much, he
played the next song by them as well, and paid several compliments !
Sounds great to me, well done that Yank !

Bye
John Bullsh*t

ps lovely UB40 sesh on that show - they weren't all poppy and
Peely loved it !

--- In peel@yahoogroups. com, Richard Shaw Brown <rsbj66@...> wrote:
>
> Terrascope-on- line-review: Like, Misunderstood : Jan 2008
> 
> Category: Music
> 
> RICH BROWN AND MIKE STAX - LIKE, MISUNDERSTOOD
> (Book - ISBN 978-0-9778166- 1-3 http://www.themisun derstood. com )
> 
> The Misunderstood were one of the most innovative and enigmatic 
bands
> of the Sixties and one of the psychedelic era's best loved groups.
> Originally hailing from America, where they formed in 1964, but 
first
> establishing a name for themselves in England two years later under 
the
> tutelage of John Peel, their story is extensively documented 
elsewhere
> on Terrascope Online courtesy of an extensive interview with 
guitarist
> Glenn Campbell undertaken on our behalf by Richie Unterberger. An
> edited-down version later appeared as part of a chapter on the
> Misunderstood for Richie's book about "cult rock" artists, 
published by
> Miller Freeman Books. Rick Brown was the band's singer until early 
1967
> when he was drafted into the US Army, and together with 'Ugly 
Things'
> magazine editor Mike Stax, they've produced this book which 
details, at
> length, Rick's journey to enlightenment and beyond (how 
much "beyond"
> can be gauged from the fact that he initially leaves the 
Misunderstood
> and returns to the USA in Chapter 63, which takes place early in 
1966,
> and there are 147 chapters in all...)
> 
> The prose style throughout the book is best described as
> 'conversational' , or as Rick Brown himself maintains, "it's in 1st
> person wise-guy narrative - a really funny version of The 
Misunderstood
> story". Much of these conversations are obviously assumed, given 
that
> Rick himself wasn't actually there at the time. If it reads like a
> screenplay that's because it ostensibily is a screenplay: Rick 
again,
> "Now we have a screenplay and want to make a feature film using real
> Misunderstood music. Luckily we recorded, in Dec 1966, the classic 
line
> up with Tony Hill. The book is based on the screenplay. It really 
gets
> to the heart of the Misunderstood, from the inside view.... "
> 
> Nowhere does it mention why, on moving to Bangkok, Richard Shaw 
Brown
> (to give him his full name) doesn't call himself Rick Shaw. I call 
that
> a wasted golden opportunity. There's no disputing that it's an
> extremely entertaining read though, and also filled with fascinating
> facts and facets of everyday life in the early-mid 60s. Published in
> enviably thick card covers, if this is vanity publishing, then call 
me
> vain but I'd be happy to see more of the same hit the shelves - and 
I
> can't wait to see the promised film... (Phil McMullen)
> 
> http://www.terrasco pe.co.uk/ Reviews/Reviews_ January08. htm
> 
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