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fredsimon Jan 02 2015 at 2:00 AM	Wow, what an incredible way to start off the new year: I might be the last person to have seen it, but I just watched 20 Feet From Stardom ... OMG, WTF, LHM! I can’t even begin to compile sufficient superlatives for this film, one of the greatest, deepest, most moving films I’ve ever seen. Man, just the scene alone of Merry Clayton hearing her isolated vocal from Gimme Shelter ... the hairs on my neck will never lie back down! And her version of Neil Young’s Southern Man? I never even knew that existed ... JHC! And Darlene Love, Lisa Fischer, Claudia Lennear ... wow, I just might have to watch this every day!
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MarcNebo May 08 2020 at 4:40 PM	Last time I saw fred simon’s name he was scheduled to perform at a small Jazz club in Evanston IL. I emailed him in 2019 to see if he was going to see the Side-Eye show in Champaign-Urbana Illinois.
franksexton May 08 2020 at 10:19 AM	fred simon, where are you?
hman01 Jan 27 2015 at 11:31 AM	Great idea franksexton ! How about it Fred? Freddy Simon and the Simonettes!!!
fredsimon Jan 27 2015 at 12:12 AM	Thanks for asking, Frank. Actually, I have used singers before on both Usually/Always and Open Book, and would do so again in a heartbeat given the opportunity.
franksexton Jan 26 2015 at 10:46 AM	so Fred, will you be adding background singers to your next album ?
thirdwind Jan 25 2015 at 4:57 PM	Stay tuned, folks-- one of the stars, Lisa Fischer, does modest tours now and then. I fought her in Denver last summer with a terrific three-piece band that did very jazzy arrangements of soul and Stones material. Simply a perfect performance, before a tiny crowd of 30 or so. Later that summer, I caught up with her at the Snowy Range Music Fest, a blues event in Laramie, Wyo. Ironically, she had no CDs or merchandise to sell, and didn’t stick around to meet fans. She just sings and vanishes, like a gypsy angel...
franksexton Jan 12 2015 at 11:17 AM	I watched this over the weekend. Thanks, Fred ! Even the deleted scenes are great.
fredsimon Jan 09 2015 at 8:50 PM	Forgot: not just in the middle of the night, with hair-curlers, silk pajamas, and mink coat ... but pregnant!
franksexton Jan 08 2015 at 7:53 AM	turns out my local library has this - both the dvd and the cd soundtrack and I was able to check them both out, haven’t listened or watched yet but plan to this weekend.
fredsimon Jan 08 2015 at 12:55 AM	Frank, it’s riveting. And the part that no one knows is that the Stones called Clayton in the middle of the night ... 2 AM and she goes down to the studio in hair-curlers, silk pajamas, and a mink coat! She does one take, they love it, she wants to do another and takes it up an octave to really blow their minds and that’s the take that stuck. I’ve always loved that crack in her voice at that moment, too ... pure gold.
Willbur Jan 07 2015 at 4:12 PM	Dang! I’ll have to look this up. Thanks, Fred!
franksexton Jan 06 2015 at 10:06 AM	thanks for posting this , I always loved her vocal on Gimme’ Shelter esp. when her voice cracks and Mick j"whoos" in the background in response. I will have to check this movie out.
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