Jobriath - Scumbag

[Estragon17]

Decent music... worst name ever.

[jmbalich]

@Domino...........gay schmay .perhaps his music wasnt commercial enough for him to succeed in amore meaningful way.

[FiswaT]

hahaha

[davidgrahamscott]

To anyone asking..Born to Win is the clip in this vid and its a brilliant 70s film. Free to watch in its entirety on Youtube.

[ebutemetube]

@yurimedeiros2006 Sounds like phun. 'They' do still make anti-hero films, 'they' just don't know it.

[yurimedeiros2006]

@ebutemetube you mean fun, am i right? if you does, thank u a lot 4 the nice comment. ;-)

[ebutemetube]

@yurimedeiros2006

You're welcome.

"Phun" means enjoyment in extreme moderation. I coined the term many moons ago in response to the pompous challenge, "Are we having fun yet?". The fact is, fun is illegal now, or at least baaed at, but phun is perfectly okay. For example, you can have phun drinking beer, but you can't have fun smoking cannabis : )

[yurimedeiros2006]

@ebutemetube u surprise me with your 'neologism'. How about your word baaed, what it means? It's a lot of Fun make up new words, for sure, i approve;-) I wish you said i sound more like Fun than Phun. I wonder if i can relate with the act of extreme moderation, in some ways yes, but in other i'm not so sure. Anyway, thank u for write me back.

[davidgrahamscott]

@ebutemetube Please watch it...a lost gem. All available on Youtube for free in one solid chunk!! This stuff RULES!!!

[yurimedeiros2006]

@davidgrahamscott

HI David! I'm going to watch it for sure! Thanks a lot for write me back! Yeah! Youtube RULES!!! ;-)

[davidgrahamscott]

@yurimedeiros2006 Truly great film...have a look at my docs while you're at it...just a few clips of my crazy broadcast films!

[yurimedeiros2006]

correcting:" ....u surpriseD me with..."

[ctractor03]

I never heard a note of his music until this week, but was aware of his story. I must say, his work is fascinating. Very "glam" production-wise , but owes more to Bway than Bowie. Wherever he is, I hope he's enjoying his long-overdue recognition.

[yurimedeiros2006]

Can somebody here please tell me from where these movie scenes came from?

Regards

S

[ebutemetube]

@yurimedeiros2006 It looks like George Segal in Born to Win (1971).

[yurimedeiros2006]

TO @ebutemetube I found this customer review by Annie Van Auken on the amazon site where she writes:

"A funky soundtrack, plus humorous touches like Miss Black's encounter with JJ as he's stealing her car, or SEGAL prancing around the streets IN A PINK PEIGNOR after being stripped of his double-knit polyester threads, are stark contrast to a very depressing movie. It's the sort of anti-hero tale they don't make anymore (for obvious reasons)".

[davidgrahamscott]

@yurimedeiros2006 Please watch it...a lost gem. All available on Youtube for free in one solid chunk!! This stuff RULES!!!

[davidgrahamscott]

@ebutemetube It's a great film and great piece of music

[ebutemetube]

@davidgrahamscott Yeah, I must watch the film sometime. The wallpapered door in this clip just breaks me up. "Stone walls do not a prison make..." LOL

[Delta1]

But do any of you know about Larry who used to sit on the box on Broadway and 50th St? He is Scumbag! The song's about him.

[uItravioIet]

@Delta1 Umm. No, it's about a bum that used to sit outside of "Zum Zum", an all-night cafeteria/restaurant on 8th Street and University Place.

[Delta1]

@uItravioIet I am very sorry but you are incorrect. I happen to be playing the guitar and singing the high harmony on that cut (and many others on both albums) and not only am I positive that the song is about Larry, I can assure you that his position was just 50 feet down from the Brill Building at 1619 Broadway. We all did Hair at the Biltmore on 47th St. and that's how come Jo saw Larry frequently enough to have been inspired to write the song. Cheers.

[Delta1]

@uItravioIet My son did that when he established my profile for me. He didn't want my real identity out here, nor do I. Larry was, I believe, a private valet for someone in the industry who fired him when he got married and this set him off. Jerry Leiber's secretary Faith told me this in 1969 when I asked her if she knew anything about him. And don't believe all you see in print, though I wouldn't mind being 27 again. Oh, and there was also a Zum Zum on Bway.

[Delta1]

@uItravioIet No, you misunderstand. We were all in the Broadway show, Hair at the Biltmore Theatre on 47th Street.

[Delta1]

@uItravioIet You're right it doesn't matter, not even to poor old Larry. Job was not really in the NY cast, he substituted some evenings but primarily was working on his own music. We used to zip down to Electric Lady Studios after the show and do night sessions demoing his songs. But it's all so long ago...Curious, however to see how much animosity and homophobia this video generates in America. I am very glad I don't live there.

[davidgrahamscott]

@Delta1 That's brilliant!! You were actually involved with this great track!!

[pianomano1]

Completely untalented? That's why he did his own orchestral scores, etc. Dislike him by all means if you want to, but to say "c.u." just makes you look like a total a**hole, Trust me, it does.

[blankgeneration100]

He was more into Jagger than Gabriel.That should be obvious,if you listen to the first 2 records.

[Tikayyan]

This era of rock is kind of interesting to watch, due to it being so over the top.

This guy, however, was nothing more than a completely untalented hack blatantly trying to copy early Genesis, backed up by massive label advertisement. Understandable why it went nowhere.

[DominoRyder]

Jobriath is amazing, it's a shame American audiences back then couldn't handle an openly gay singer.

[beowulven]

@DominoRyder

America had embraced plenty of obviously gay singers before this goofball: Johnnie Ray, Little Richard, Freddy Mercury. Read a book, get it right.

[DominoRyder]

@beowulven I said OPENLY gay, dingbat. None of the above men you mentioned were openly gay before him.

[beowulven]

@DominoRyder

None of the folks I mentioned denied being gay. Even if, unlike our boy Jobriath, they didn't proclaim themselves "The Fairy of Skiffle" or whatever, they were openly gay.

[mg196]

@DominoRyder - Like Lou Reed? His Transformer LP (that came out two years before) was a huge hit, and he openly dated a dude for most of the mid-70s.

[psirou]

Wow! Great videoclip!

Where did that come from?!