> At 08:51 PM 3/9/98 +0000, Alex wrote:
>
> >Errr, sorry Elson mate. It is the same bloke. I've seen the original album
> in a
> >shop and it's got his picture on the front. It's a lot funkier than the
> earlier,
> >more famous stuff though.
>
> I'm sorry, I stand corrected. I was going by a soul oldies station I listen
> to, which mentioned after playing "Supernatural Thing" that this "Ben E.
> King" was a different one. I checked an on-line discography of King to
> verify. I also forgot that the Internet is really a big contest to see who
> can prove the other guy wrong.
>
> Elson
> - 30 -
Ooooh, handbags at 20 paces :) No, really I never meant to upset anyone. I
didn't actually know about this big contest thing. I've been wrong like that
before myself and I'm glad to be corrected. It's quite interesting when someone
makes a mistake on the radio or in a magazine or something. If you hear/read it
from a source like that, you tend to believe it. I was told that the Chester
Thompson who released "Power House" on Black Jazz was a different person to the
Tower Of Power keyboard player and that he was a drummer. I've heard the same
thing from a few different sources AND I've told other people the same. But
I've since been told by someone who knows better that it is the TOP guy. I
think he was right on that occasion. The same person said they thought Lonnie
Smith and Lonnie Liston Smith were one and the same. I'm pretty sure they were
wrong on that one though. Nobody know everything.
Sorry Elson, I don't know much about the contemporary stuff that's discussed on
the list anymore. When something comes up that I can talk about, I jump on it.
Cheesy Peas,
Alex