Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Today's Blind Item - The Idea- Part Three

When I was told who I was looking at, I knew SH would be the best choice. She was the key. She was the hero of the impossible. The impossible would do whatever SH suggested. Well, at least listen anyway. RO made the introductions. I didn't even know SH was going to be at this little gig. I was a big fan. Foreign born and her number one days were long behind her, but she still had a great voice and a couple of decades earlier she was all over the charts in the UK. Her songs were usually performed in the US by other acts. It was a time where a writer would churn out a great song and a pop act would sing it and someone would try and countrify it and then some act in the UK would also sing it. There we all were. In the basement of a record store. While I was talking to SH, I happened to look over and saw a photo of the impossible. She said she would try.

To this day, that little intimate show is one of the best I have seen. There could not have been more than 200 people in the room. All standing and listening to number one song after number one song. No one was more than ten feet from the stage.

SH promised to be quick. She knew there was only a certain amount of time and budget to stay in town. She came through. She got me a lunch. The impossible was going to sit down for lunch, or in his case a cup of hot tea with lemon. I ordered food, but didn't eat. SH just sat and would talk to fans who came up every few minutes either for her or the impossible. He would stop to say hello to every person who asked so it made what could have been a 20 minute conversation into a several hour long marathon. I didn't talk to him about money. I didn't talk to him about anything except why I wanted it to happen. I told him my story. I told him where I had seen him and what it would mean to a new group of people. It would mean more now. They were only a decade removed at that point. He asked about the unlikely. I kind of fibbed at that point. From some phone conversations I had the previous day, the unlikely was in. He thought it would be fun but the unlikely wanted the impossible to come to him. I told the impossible that he was the key. That if he said yes then everyone else would all fall into place. I just wanted the yes and I would deal with smoothing over everything else at a later time. The impossible wanted some time to think about it. He said he would let me know later that night.

About midnight I get a call in my hotel room. The impossible is downstairs. JC was set to leave the next morning, but since she did not get a chance to see the impossible at lunch wanted to say hi. I called her room and she had been asleep. She still managed to beat me down to the lobby where I found her being hugged by the impossible. The hug slowly became a little dance to the sounds of the music being pumped through the lobby speakers.

JC stayed for the first 20 minutes of what would end up being an all nighter. When I think about that night I'm always reminded of a scene in Four Weddings And A Funeral where Hugh Grant wants to spend time with Andie MacDowell and the guy he is drinking with and trying to escape says they might as well push through to the dawn and gets a bottle of whiskey. We pushed through to the dawn. I talked. He talked. At the end of it as much as I wish I could say there was a happy ending, there was not. It wasn't that he didn't want to do it. He just said that time had come and gone. He could get over his dislike of the unlikely but that he just didn't see the point. I have seen the impossible two dozen times since that night and most of the time I don't mention it. A couple of years ago though I happened to be around him for a few days in a row consecutively and brought it up. He is starting to waver. My point of bringing it to another generation is finally beginning to connect. The unlikely has become the likely. All that it needs is a yes.


28 comments:

  1. sandybrook3:19 AM

    Pink Floyd for this is totally off base. Oasis might be closer.

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  2. MontanaMarriott3:24 AM

    Is SH still alive? Makes me think she is someone like Dusty Springfield or LuLu

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  3. TheDude783:25 AM

    Yes, def. not Pink Floyd at this point, but def. not Oasis either for several reason, the main one being I can't see either Gallagher brother pleasantly greeting every fan who came up to them.

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  4. sandybrook3:30 AM

    Good point Dude but I just threw them out there to lower expectations. Another guy that seems to be impossible would be Ritchie Blackmore and the other guys from Deep Purple. Or someone like a Jack Bruce.
    I think SH might be Marianne Faithfull.

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  5. Tricia134:17 AM

    Im trying to make "Earls Court" work. Which would make sense for Floyd, but not a chatrity/multi talent line up that it sounds to be

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  6. Kno Won Uno4:20 AM

    Ahhh...Deep Purple.

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  7. Stephe964:24 AM

    Wild guess, but could SH be Kate Bush?

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  8. Stephe964:27 AM

    And maybe Peter Gabriel could be The Impossible? (Genesis reunion?)

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  9. Tricia134:38 AM

    I like the wway you think@Stephe96.

    I tend to think SH is Joni Mitchell-foreign born(Canadian), it said not necessarily English I think(who can remember!)Lots of famous artists cover her tunes. Trying to find a fit

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  10. Derek Harvey4:39 AM

    SH Kate Bush
    The impossible Peter Gabriel
    JC Laurie Anderson (dated Peter Gabriel)
    RO--Loud Reed

    I forget the initials and they dont line up but thats all I got

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  11. JayJay4:39 AM

    Guns N Roses? Slash & Axel as the main guys. I don't think Chinese Democracy did very well, so maybe now Axel is ready to get back together?

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  12. Derek Harvey4:40 AM

    nnmnd Laurie was married to Lou Reed who is not british

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  13. Wild guess but what about Paul McCartney and Julian Lennon?

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  14. baw24115:46 AM

    The Smiths?

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  15. baw24116:01 AM

    Or a shot in the dark - Roger McGuin and David Crosby of the Byrds?

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  16. seldon6:04 AM

    Great guess - Morrisey/Marr, Smith's reunion.

    JC - Rosanne Cash, exis Nick Lowe, married Morrisey's nephew.
    SH - Dusty Springfield

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  17. Derek Harvey6:16 AM

    Roseanne Cash was my original guess on the 1st part but I dont know much about her---I hope these blinds are revealed on Revealed day and not stupid Bachelor or Dancing with the Stars ones

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  18. Tricia136:18 AM

    Morrissey/Marr reunited? When..?Tons of chatter about it-but never happened.Their lasy live show together(as The Smiths), was in '86 I believe. They both still gig solo, however.

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  19. Tricia136:24 AM

    JC is someone that was married to an Englsihmen I believe(for 10 years...), affected an accent etc. Roseanne Cash husbands are(Rodney Crowell/John Leventhal) are both American.

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  20. seldon6:35 AM

    Ooops, was thinking of Carlene Carter, Rosanne Cash's half-sister

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  21. Firstguess8:19 AM

    Smiths guess is right. Couldn't get the connection to Carlene Carter yesterday. This site is impossible









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  22. pusssykatt4:21 AM

    After looking over this website, I think someplace one of these might fit someplace.
    http://www.passionsjustlikemine.com/influence-music.htm
    Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, Linder Sterling, Lulu, Olivia Newton-John, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Sandie Shaw

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  23. Mantras7:56 AM

    I haven't been through all the pieces to see if the fit together as neatly as Morrissey/Marr but Mr.Mandrax floated another pair of publicly estranged stars that I thought merited a mention: Axl Rose and Slash.

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  24. Marr will never work with Morrissey again. The post seems to suggest that Morrissey is the impossible, but Marr was the one who left him - not vice versa. The post even implies that no effort was made to contact Marr anyway.

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  25. Meowie9:00 AM

    Morrissey was a huge fan of Dusty Springfield.

    I like the idea of a Smiths reunion for this blind - there's the alleged clip of Enty getting into a fight at one of their Texas shows (as I recall from earlier post).

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  26. Meowie9:18 AM

    Maybe SH is Sandie Shaw? She had a few hits in the 60's, including "Always Something There to Remind Me." Both Moz & Marr were huge fans. They later recorded together and some of her songs inspired Smith songs.

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  27. Minkey12:38 PM

    SH is Cathy Dennis who writes Kelly Clarkson, Kylie Minogue, Christiana Aguilera, Lady GaGa and others. The wording of 'the impossible' and 'the unlikely' is a play on Cathy's album The Irresistible. The Unlikely is Prince (new generation is the clue).

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  28. Minkey12:42 PM

    Or JC or The Impossible could be Prince because it is not clear who the next generation refers to.

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