{"id":5572,"date":"2022-05-12T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:40:36","slug":"currently-reading-backbeat-palmer-scherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5572","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Currently Reading &#8211; Backbeat, Palmer\/Scherman."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_6909-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5571\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_6909-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_6909-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_6909-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_6909-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_6909-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t a book review. I will doubtless post one for this book, when I\u2019ve finished it. This is just a quick post noting that I\u2019m reading it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do however want to jot down a few thoughts on it, partly so I don\u2019t forget to think about them when I do review the book.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One important theme revolves around how race, and black identity, etc, figure in Earl\u2019s fascinating and &#8211; ummm &#8211; colourful story. He marries a white lady, with whom he raises a family in LA (having left his first &#8211; and black &#8211; wife and kids in N\u2019Awlins).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another concerns the musical history aspect. And is tied up with with art vs. commerce, soul vs. industry, Bohemia vs, Mammon, and so on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m nearing the end of the book, and there\u2019s been no mention of David Axelrod yet. Axe used Palmer a lot. I\u2019m keen to learn what Earl thought and felt about David\u2019s musical projects.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Scherman &#8211; who mostly occludes himself, and very rightly so, to foreground Earl\u2019s voice and story &#8211; only interjects his own voice on one or two occasions. Notably to say that perhaps Earl is being a mistaken muso when he favours his jazz and film music over the rock\u2019n\u2019roll and pop stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst I know what Scherman\u2019s getting at, I might nevertheless disagree with him here, and side with Earl. But maybe that\u2019s on account of being a fellow drummer (and Palmer!)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn\u2019t a book review. I will doubtless post one for this book, when I\u2019ve finished it. This is just a quick post noting that I\u2019m reading it! I do however want to jot down a few thoughts on it, partly so I don\u2019t forget to think about them when I do review the book. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5572\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Currently Reading &#8211; Backbeat, Palmer\/Scherman.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1rS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11526,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions\/11526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}