So I'm at my local newstand today and I'm browsing the music mags and I do a double-take because there's this gorgeous color photo of Shuggie Otis on the cover of this high-end magazine (almost more like a book) called "Waxpoetic". I open it up and there's a lengthy new interview with Shuggie Otis inside.
So now I'm at home reading the interview and I get to this passage:
"We used to record in the same studio (with Sly Stone) . . . we'd be in one studio and he'd be in another, or maybe Johnny Mathis would be in another studio or maybe Andy Williams or Arthur Lee & Love. Love was a great band. Man, Arthur Lee is like my big brother - or he was. Maybe he still is, I don't know. Me and Arthur is a whole 'nother story. I cussed him out a couple of times. That's how close we were. It was just like a brotherly thing."
By the way, I have some very cool original 3-D prints of Shuggie (and also of Delmar "Mighty Mouth" Evans) that I took on the Johnny Otis Show tour bus in the 80's. They're fresnel lens pics like the cover of "Satanic Majesties Request". I posted them to the internet a few years ago but on the web you can't really see the 3D effect.
Kool. Thanx for the heads up. Can't wait to see the new issue. Wax Poetics is really a work of art. I'm so glad that they've had as long a run as they have. It's really almost too good to be true.....Shuggie and Arthur have/had some things in common: They are both serious enigmas wrapped in mysteries, they both put out some seriously under-appreciated (at the time of release) stone-cold classic records, they are/were both serious recluses....If anyone on the board does not have Shuggie's Inspiration Information, it is an absolute must. It was recorded in the early-seventies, and David Byrne's label (Luaka Bop) reissued it a few years back. Gorgeous dream-funk from another planet!
Shuggie Otis on Arthur Lee
Posted - 21/10/2008 : 06:31:15
