Seasick Steve

Kurzer Blick auf den Kalender, nein heute ist nicht mein Geburtstag.... also will ich die Story mal glauben .

Das ist auf alle Fälle ein sehr interessanter Ansatzpunkt! Da lohnt es sich zu recherchieren. Er supportet ja die Boss Hoss - Tour in diesem Jahr. Vielleicht sollte man ihn da mal mit seiner Vergangenheit konfrontieren . Als ich wegen der Autogramme (s.Posting # 9) auf Seasick wartete habe ich mich mit dem Sänger von "Prinz Grizzley"
( Support bei Seasick2018 ) unterhalten. Der zweifelte im übrigen dessen Alter an .

Zitat von MainOffender

Nun bin ich mit den Jahren paar Schritte weiter gekommen .....

Seasick Steve = Steve Wold = Steve Leach ( 1970`er )

....soweit die Fakten - bin mir absolut sicher, dass da noch mehr dahintersteckt !

Abgefahren ..... ich wußte bisher nix von der Story und deinem kriminalistischen Spürsinn Alder
Hab dann auch mal recherchiert und bin auf diesen Artikel der BBC gestoßen, der der gleichen Ansicht ist wie Du. (etwas scrollen)

klick

Danke nochmal an VoodooL.E. fürs Autogramm besorgen
Natürlich hab ich mir bei meinem bisher einzigen Konzert auch selbst eines holen können von Crazy Dan und Seasick..... ähmmm Steve Leach

Du bist ja mittlerweile unglaublich gut sortiert, Alder !

WOW .....

Woher ahnte ich nur, dass da bei der CD oben Voodoo L.E.
mit beteiligt war ?

Danke für den interessanten BBC - Link !

Wir sind also im Moment besser informiert als Wikipedia in dieser Sache

Neue Infos gerne und immer willkommen hier

Zitat von MainOffender

Woher ahnte ich nur, dass da bei der CD oben Voodoo L.E.
mit beteiligt war ?

Um Missverständnissen vorzubeugen ..... ich meinte natürlich ` beteiligt ` im Sinne von ` besorgen `

So, dann kommen wir mal in die ` Tuning - Abteilung ` :

Benötigtes Instrument, um eine ` Open - G ` - Git in ein ` Trance - Wonder ` zu verwandeln >>> SAITENSCHNEIDER !
Jetzt weiss ich auch, warum das Ding so heisst ..... und nicht Kabelschneider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PoSlb_ISds

Quelle > YouTube :

Zitat

Am 31.05.2017 veröffentlicht
How 'Seasick Steve' turned out to be 'Session Man Steve'....

Northern Euro Funk 1974
Crystal Grass - Crystal World [Composer:Nicolas Skorsky] [Arranger:Lee Hallyday] [Producer:Raymond Donnez] c/w California Summer [Composer:Nicolas Skorsky] [Arranger:Lee Hallyday] [Producer:Raymond Donnez] [USA Polydor PD15101/2066555] Dec 1974

Crystal Grass : French Disco Group Led by producer Lee Hallyday. Members : Christian Padovan, François Auger, Marc Chantereau, Patrice Tison, Raymond Donnez, Slim Pezin, Steve 'Seasick Steve' Leach. Variations: Crystal Grass | The Crystal Grass Orchestra.

Reviewed in "Blues & Soul" 160, 13th May 1975 | Eight weeks on the Breakers list from 21 Jun 1975, peaking in 3rd place.

In 2007, Mojo gave its best breakthrough act award to a 66-year-old untutored blues player from Mississippi who built his own instrument from a cigar box and a spatula. At least it thought it did. In fact, it was giving it to a 56-year-old Californian session musician who had produced Modest Mouse’s debut album.

“Seasick” Steven Gene Wold’s late flowering of fame had always seemed quite remarkable. When writer Matthew Wright began work on a biography of the singer, who had built up a large and devoted cult following and won a Brit award nomination in 2009, he had expected to find periods of time that were hard to account for – Steve had been a hobo after all. Instead he found holes the size of craters, and they had nothing to do with his much-vaunted years wandering in the deep south. When Seasick Steve was meant to be rambling, playing the blues on his own three-string guitar, he had instead been cutting music of a very different stripe.

Steve claims to have been born in 1941, like Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Joan Baez. His passport says he was born in 1951, making him a contemporary of Sting, Chris Rea and Bonnie Tyler. Wright dug out that Steve’s real name is Steve Leach, rather than the woodier-sounding Wold. The penny-dropping moment came for Wright when he discovered that in the early 70s, Steve Leach had played bass in a band called Shanti, devotees of transcendental meditation, whose sole album was reissued last year. At the time he was playing with Shanti, though, Steve had said he “was living and playing in Paris on the street in 1972. I was living in a park and it was real rough, and all that.”

It turns out that it wasn’t just his spell with Shanti that had been brushed under Seasick Steve’s carpet. He also played with a disco band called 'Crystal Grass', whose 1974 'Crystal World' single was a David Mancuso Loft classic, and was later sampled on Theme from S’Express. Leach/Wold may not have played on that particular single but he recorded an album – Dance Up a Storm – with them in 1976. The other players in Crystal Grass had a strong pedigree – Slim Pezin and Don Ray were part of the house band for Tele Music, France’s foremost music library, where French disco king Cerrone also cut his teeth. For disco and breaks fans, Steve Leach’s story has serious kudos.

So Seasick Steve is a fictional character. Does it matter, if the music is good?

In 2008, he told O’Hagan that he didn’t expect his fame to last but he’d like to “make some real money” while it does. Steve can market himself however he likes, but you have to admit that’s a less charming sentiment coming from a middle-aged man who has been a professional musician his whole life, rather than a self-educated, elderly hard-luck-hobo who says that when he has been settled he has largely worked blue-collar jobs.

Seasick Steve’s story is different. When asked what was most important to his songwriting, he said: “That it’s about something that happened to me, you’re digging up from your own mud. All my memories is like a train waiting to come into the station. It just has to be something real.”

There’s the nub of it. Steve Leach was a session musician; no digging around in his own mud was necessary. He was capable of playing blues, because he could play anything – that was his job. His unveiling reveals the sense of shame attached to session players, musicians who basically clock in, play, get paid and go home. There shouldn’t be, of course – great records from Good Vibrations to Unfinished Sympathy couldn’t have existed without session musicians – but it’s the least romantic job in music, the office job of pop. It suggests the exact opposite of the romantic ideal Steve sought to invoke; a breadhead who can turn their hand to any type of music on a whim.

If nothing else, the Seasick Steve saga has taught us one thing – if you’re going to lie about your age, add 10 years. People will never stop telling you how great you look.

Seasick Steve: Ramblin’ Man by Matthew Wright is published by Music Press Books.

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