Thursday, March 18, 2021

It's Live at CBGB's Week: Special "To Sleep Perchance Etc." Edition

And from 1976, please enjoy pride of the Bowery demimonde Mink DeVille and their fabulous Stones/Lou Reed/Springsteen mashup "Let Me Dream If I Want To."

I was a gigantic fan of those guys, and their first two studio albums for Capitol, produced by the great Jack Nitzsche, are as good as it gets.

That said, I have a shall we say hilarious yet terrifying story about a persoal encounter I had with Willy DeVille that I've never written about.

Get me drunk some time and I'll tell it to you.

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10 comments:

  1. Blue Ash Fan3/18/2021 9:07 AM

    The late, great Tommy Keene did a very good, albeit pretty straightforward, cover of this on his covers album, Excitement at Your Feet. Just proves the man had great taste.

    The first Mink DeVille album is a lost classic.

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  2. Anonymous3/18/2021 10:11 AM

    My favorite track on the album. I think Mink DeVille wins this CBGBs Battle of the Bands. Of course most of the heavy hitters didn't report for duty.

    Captain Al

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  3. Blue Ash Fan3/18/2021 10:17 AM

    Definitely agree that Mink DeVille stole the set, Captain, but I'd take Cadillac Moon over Let Me Dream. Just insanely cool. YMMV

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  4. Jai Guru Dave3/18/2021 11:23 AM

    Steve - you tease!!

    Tell the story!!

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  5. Anonymous3/18/2021 1:49 PM

    Great song, Rock Tease.

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  6. steve simels3/18/2021 7:12 PM

    Sorry, friends, I really wouldn't feel right airing it in public. Even though everybody involved in it, apart from me, is dead.

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  7. pete3/18/2021 8:36 PM

    I have a John Fahey story like that.

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  8. Jai Guru Dave3/19/2021 11:37 AM

    So when you’re dead too, and the circle is unbroken, will you tell it then?

    Cold comfort Steverino!!

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  9. danny19593/21/2021 2:07 AM

    I love Mink DeVille. I remember asking you about Willie DeVille on here when he died, and I got the distinct impression that you didn't get along with him. Boz Scaggs did a great version of "Mixed Up Shook Up Girl."

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  10. danny19593/21/2021 2:11 AM

    Willy.

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