Etta James

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

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Discuss!

[short bus president]

1. At last!

An Etta thread! ;-)

[progmom]

2. she's lost a ton of weight since i last saw her

:hi:


my two favorite Etta James songs:

At Last
Something's Got A Hold On Me

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. I'm partial to Tell Mama

Sunday Kind of Love, A Lover is Forever, Feel Like Breaking up Somebody's Home

BUT MY ALL TIME FAV IS:

DAMN YOUR EYES!

[jonnyblitz]

4. I could hear her perform through my apt wall when i lived in a crappy

studio apartment next door to the "GReat American Music Hall" near the corner of Polk and O'Farrell St in San Franscico back in the early 90's. she sounded good even though i could just barely hear her. hehe..

[xmas74]

5. I adore her.

I can't even express it.

[ronnykmarshall]

6. Fantastic!!

Read her bio if you can. It's a riot.

[chaumont58]

7. My Etta James experience

In 1963, I worked for Hertz renting cars at LAX. On evening, Etta James came in and requested a car. I rented her a car, without thought, other than that she had to have a valid driver's license and credit cards. I didn't know Etta James from Patsy Cline, or Buster Keaton for that matter.
She was well known to management as a deadbeat, but wasn't in the deadbeat manual. I was almost fired for my actions, but wasn't because she wasn't in the manual. It was the only time I ever saw her, and to best of my recollection, I have never heard one of her songs.

[musette_sf]

11. my Etta James experience

Bought tickets for a Blues Festival at Rice Stadium some years ago, with BB King as the headliner and Etta also on the bill. Etta was the main reason I was going. I used to be a BIG fan, and thought she'd done some of the best work of her life on Island Records.

Good thing Magic Dick and Elvin Bishop were so damned good, otherwise the whole thing would have been a waste of time and money.

Etta did one of her famous no-shows... I heard from someone who was a scene-ster that she did get to the show but she was too blasted to go on.

I was so disappointed, that I never felt the same way about her again, and haven't made the effort to go see her again.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. aww that's sad

I think she's dried out since then

[kwassa]

8. I saw her open for the Stones on the "Some Girls" tour in '79

[johnnie]

10. I saw her too

But I think it was the tour after "Some Girls"...maybe "Emotional Rescue"? They were booing her and I was so pissed. I was thinking, "don't these people know who the fuck they are booing?" I was floored.

[Roland99]

9. heh...there was this one time...

my oldest daughter was having a spring choir concert. They were performing "Stormy Weather" and a booming thunderstorm was passing overhead at the same time!