'Gettin' Out' ~ Vinegar Joe (Robert Palmer / Elkie Brooks)

The 9th track from Vinegar Joe's self-titled debut album

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Music

Tags:

• Vinegar
• Joe
• Robert
• Palmer
• Elkie
• Brooks
• Getting
• Out
• Rock

[RAMJAMOZ]

Well well - I was amazed to read I died - that might explain a few things such as why my students don't listen to anything I tell them. I'm obviously suffering from the same problem as Bruce Willis in 6th Sense? Nah people didn't die - went on to do much else in the industry including sticking with Elk as a solo artist for a while. Then Production - then management and now reside in Oz - but glad you still rate our efforts back in the day - Pete Gage

[SilverWolfMoon]

@RAMJAMOZ Whoops! Well, I can't recall where I read that you had died {no, it wasn't Wiki}, but thank you very much for setting that straight! And thank you for such great music :)

[StillGotMyElf]

Outside of Zeppelin III, this may have been the best album cover of the 70s, and easily one of the most under-rated bands. Gage's death catapulted the two major players into hugely successful solo careers, but this was a band where the whole was more than the sum of the parts. Brilliant.

[SilverWolfMoon]

@StillGotMyElf Pete Gage didn't die until after Elkie and Robert had already embarked on solo careers (he was also married to Elkie, until they divorced)

[StillGotMyElf]

@SilverWolfMoon I realised that when I woke up this morning. I think I got them confused with Stone The Crows, because Leslie Harvey did die while that band was together. Thanks for correcting me :)

[SilverWolfMoon]

@StillGotMyElf Ah yes, poor Les...

He was temporarily replaced by Peter Green, which is why Stone the Crows wrote 'Good Time Girl' {it has the line "I'm not a black magic woman"}, but after rehersing he left without recording anything...

[MCPOAirdale]

@RAMJAMOZ Thank you so much for your gift of music to us all.

[Suhaylsaadi]

Ha! What a surreal conversation! Almost like the one about the mature film star who was approached on the street with: "Oh! Didn't you used to be so-and-so?" I once 'found' a musician on the web who according to numerous websites, was meant to be 'dead', but who was - and is - alive and well and living in France! The internet is a giant echo-chamber. 'Randall and Hopkirk, Deceased': "But you're dead, Marty..." "Oh yes, so I am, oh well, never mind."

[StillGotMyElf]

@RAMJAMOZ I apologise. As I said in my mail, it seems that rumours of your death are greatly over-exaggerated. And I'm glad :) By the way, I've also moved to the lucky country. Such a small world. Thanks for all the great music :)

[RAMJAMOZ]

Hey no worries thanks for appreciating what we did back then and keeping it alive and in circulation. From a creative point of view you could be right - I did die a little at the end of VJoe. The big guns at Island Records and A&M stepped in and told us what we should be doing and killed my inspiration somewhat. 'Black smoke rising from the Calumet' tells the story of my disillusionment. But it was a good life while it lasted and the life that followed is still doing fine. No regrets. Thanks.

[bubbasmith66]

man when I was a punk kid I had this album still wrapped in the plastic and got rid of it. I could kick myself in the ASS now.. F--K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!