xenussister
Happy Rhodes - The Chase AUDIO (longer cassette version)
updated
"If Love Is A Game, I Win"
youtu.be/gcOzJ10iQAs
My original snow vortex video was filmed with an old iPod Touch. Here's that footage if you want to see it without the music (it's unlisted so it won't show up in a search).
youtu.be/kmRo17l5VEQ
Shank Hall, Milwaukee, WI November 20, 2017
Security Project: Jerry Marotta, Trey Gunn, Michael Cozzi, Happy Rhodes, & David Jameson.
Please note, this is incomplete. Forgive me, I missed the beginning, and it's just an audience phone recording, but I still find Happy's performance mesmerizing so I'm sharing it even though it's far from perfect. It's the only video I recorded out of the 4 shows we attended in fall 2017 (Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago).
The Milwaukee set list.
Security Project with Happy Rhodes.
Shank Hall, Milwaukee, WI November 20, 2017
(all songs are from Peter Gabriel solo albums unless otherwise indicated)
Fly On A Windshield/Broadway Melody Of 1974 (Genesis cover)
I Have The Touch
Family Snapshot
No Self Control
The Family And The Fishing Net
Mother Stands For Comfort (Kate Bush cover)
Collective Heart (Happy Rhodes cover)
Games Without Frontiers
I Don't Remember
Lead A Normal Life
Here Comes The Flood
San Jacinto
Intruder
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Genesis cover)
Rhythm Of The Heat
Encore
Lay Your Hands On Me
This is the AUDIO ONLY first show.
youtu.be/QWUP1Pw-YO4
This is the video of the 2nd show of the night.
youtu.be/uWgGAiPJ0fc
There's a video of Happy performing this song a few days earlier in Toledo, OH, but I wanted to put this one up too, even though it was audio only. It's so beautiful.
Lyrics:
To Live In Your World
I don't remember her face
Or why I was there
I just remember feeling angry
Something made me hate her
I had to suffocate her
My common sense
Spoke of no consequence
But I want to live
I want to live
In your world
I am evil
I am brutal
So you say you must
Be rid of me
It frightens you
To look at me
'Cause when you do
What you see
Is a reflection of yourself
And your society
But I want to live
I want to live
In your world
For the man who steals
A piece of bread for his children
Shall we cut off his hands?
Yeah...that'll show him
For the man who speaks
His mind to the sentry
Shall we cut out his tongue?
Yeah...that'll teach him
I want to live
I want to live
In your world
This isn't justice
This is revenge
It doesn't work
It doesn't end
What of the man
Convicted innocent?
Song © 1991 - Happy Rhodes
Album version:
Music, lyrics, voices, and arrangements - Happy Rhodes
Vocals, keyboards, percussion - Happy Rhodes
Keyboards, percussion, guitars and additional heavy breathing - Kevin Bartlett
This event was at Schubas Tavern in Chicago, Illinois
Wednesday August 29, 2012
The Facebook Event page:
http://www.facebook.com/events/124153184389623
Musicians:
Drums: Tom Hipskind
Bass: Chris Clemente
Guitar: Tom McCarthy
Guitar: Scott Tipping
Keys: Scott Stevenson
Vocalists:
Rikky McRae
Kari Nelson
Temple Schultz
Shana Gray
Kelli Owens
Doopy Lupree
Set list with the names of the singers:
1. "Cloudbusting" - Rikky McRae (starts at 1:50)
2. "The Man With The Child In His Eyes" - Kari Nelson (starts at 8:35)
3. "Wow" - Temple Schultz (starts at 13:50)
4. "Rubberband Girl" - Shana Gray (starts at 18:49)
5. "Kite" - Kari Nelson (starts at 25:12)
6. "Babooshka" - Temple Schultz (starts at 29:07)
7. "Breathing" - Rikky McRae (starts at 33:19)
8. "Army Dreamers" - Kari Nelson (starts at 39:52)
9. "Sat In Your Lap" - Shana Gray (starts at 44:30)
10. "This Woman's Work" - Temple Schultz (starts at 48:42)
11. "The Big Sky" - Kelli Owens (starts at 53:20)
12. "Deeper Understanding" - Kari Nelson & Shana Gray (starts at 58:20)
13. "Running Up That Hill" - Shana Gray (starts at 1:06:03)
14. "Don't Give Up" - Shana Gray & Doopy Lupree (starts at 1:12:30)
15. "Wuthering Heights" - Kari Nelson (starts at 1:20:30)
16. "Hounds Of Love" - Rikky McRae (starts at 1:26:23)
17. "Love And Anger" - Shana Gray (starts at 1:31:27)
Happy has never recorded this song.
Part 1 of 6: http://youtu.be/bmBSMeF_ke4
Part 2 of 6: http://youtu.be/XaYK3LYVuSY
Part 3 of 6: http://youtu.be/ggGGCEHHVtE
Part 4 of 6: http://youtu.be/hTwkIBZzBmk
Part 5 of 6: http://youtu.be/FzTzqMpDl-w
Part 6 of 6: http://youtu.be/RlUxHAjjNsA
Part 1 of 6: http://youtu.be/bmBSMeF_ke4
Part 2 of 6: http://youtu.be/XaYK3LYVuSY
Part 3 of 6: http://youtu.be/ggGGCEHHVtE
Part 4 of 6: http://youtu.be/hTwkIBZzBmk
Part 5 of 6: http://youtu.be/FzTzqMpDl-w
Part 6 of 6: http://youtu.be/RlUxHAjjNsA
Part 1 of 6: http://youtu.be/bmBSMeF_ke4
Part 2 of 6: http://youtu.be/XaYK3LYVuSY
Part 3 of 6: http://youtu.be/ggGGCEHHVtE
Part 4 of 6: http://youtu.be/hTwkIBZzBmk
Part 5 of 6: http://youtu.be/FzTzqMpDl-w
Part 6 of 6: http://youtu.be/RlUxHAjjNsA
Part 1 of 6: http://youtu.be/bmBSMeF_ke4
Part 2 of 6: http://youtu.be/XaYK3LYVuSY
Part 3 of 6: http://youtu.be/ggGGCEHHVtE
Part 4 of 6: http://youtu.be/hTwkIBZzBmk
Part 5 of 6: http://youtu.be/FzTzqMpDl-w
Part 6 of 6: http://youtu.be/RlUxHAjjNsA
Part 1 of 6: http://youtu.be/bmBSMeF_ke4
Part 2 of 6: http://youtu.be/XaYK3LYVuSY
Part 3 of 6: http://youtu.be/ggGGCEHHVtE
Part 4 of 6: http://youtu.be/hTwkIBZzBmk
Part 5 of 6: http://youtu.be/FzTzqMpDl-w
Part 6 of 6: http://youtu.be/RlUxHAjjNsA
Part 1 of 6: http://youtu.be/bmBSMeF_ke4
Part 2 of 6: http://youtu.be/XaYK3LYVuSY
Part 3 of 6: http://youtu.be/ggGGCEHHVtE
Part 4 of 6: http://youtu.be/hTwkIBZzBmk
Part 5 of 6: http://youtu.be/FzTzqMpDl-w
Part 6 of 6: http://youtu.be/RlUxHAjjNsA
The interviewer is a real dumbass*, but I thought I would put it up anyway.
* that would be me.
I was filming with the camcorder that all those other really great concerts were filmed with, but in comparison to the much higher-quality camera k8fan had borrowed for the night, it doesn't look quite so hot. k8fan edited using both and the difference is obvious. Also obvious is that we did not have a board feed for the sound.
Painted Bride Arts Center
Philadelphia, PA
Sunday October 11, 1998
Opener: None
Lineup:
Happy Rhodes - lead vocals
Kevin Bartlett - electric guitar
Jamie Edwards - keyboards and backing vocals
Paul Huesman - keyboards, some percussion and backing vocals
Carl Adami - bass
Bob Muller - drums
Set list:
Many Worlds Are Born Tonight
Cohabitants
Proof
Down Down
Winter
Ra Is A Busy God
Roy
The Chariot
Feed The Fire
Tragic
Looking Over Cliffs
If Wishes Were Horses, How Beggars Would Ride
100 Years
Encore:
In Hiding
Serenading Genius
Happy's account of that strange day, from a mirror site since her site isn't up anymore.
http://wretchawry.com/auntiesocialmusic/manyworlds/archive/MayJune2001.htm
HTR - Vocals, Keyboards, Sequences
Eric Nicholas - Guitars
Carl Adami - Bass
Bob Muller - Drums, Percussion, Electronic Percussion
Ectofest West
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Santa Cruz, CA
Saturday, June 9, 2001
Played prior to Happy's show:
Cyoakha Grace
Jill Tracy
Veda Hille
Set list:
Feed The Fire
Out Like A Lamb
One and Many
All Things (Mia Ia Io)
Down, Down
Given In
I'm Going Back
Here & Hereafter
Just Like Tivoli
Roy
Encores:
The Chosen One
Serenading Genius
Set list:
Look For The Child
Fall
Ra Is A Busy God
To Live In Your World
Can't Let Go
Ali (Hansford Rowe song and vocals)
Save Our Souls
hoedown
Ashes To Ashes
The First To Cry
Tell Me When The Water's Gone (Hansford Rowe song and vocals)
The Chosen One
Collective Heart
In Hiding (request)
Soon
When The Rain Came Down
Encore:
And Dream Of Sheep (Kate Bush cover) (I'm the Vickie she mentions in a mock serious voice. I had bugged her for years to please oh please cover Kate)
Happy Rhodes at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia, PA on May 9, 1996, the 2nd of two shows that evening, and her 2nd of 4 shows over 2 nights. This is the full show. The first song was "Words Weren't Made For Cowards" but k8fan was having technical difficulties. He got it the next night at the 2nd show.
Several clips from this show have been on YouTube for ages and for anyone familiar with the clips, this is the show where she sings "Here Comes The Flood" and "When The Rain Came Down." Those are color corrected but I no longer have access to the program that corrected them. If I get access in the future I'll put up another copy.
Kevin Bartlett on electric guitar, loops and sound effects, Carl Adami on bass, Happy Rhodes on vocals and acoustic guitar. No Kelly this time, unfortunately, but it is interesting to hear versions by the threesome.
The set list is the same as the other video I put up, it's just a different seating, different patter and lots of great closeups!
Set list:
Words Weren't Made For Cowards
Collective Heart+
Take Me With You
Save Our Souls
Lay Me Down
Lily Of The Valley*/Possessed
"Jork"
The Issue Is
Phobos
Summer
When The Rain Came Down
If So
Here Comes The Flood (Peter Gabriel cover)+
Hold Me+
(No encore)
(+ Songs not performed at the 1st show)
(* Queen/Freddie Mercury cover)
Happy Rhodes at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia, PA on May 10, 1996, the 2nd of two shows that evening, and her 4th of 4 shows over 2 nights. This is the full show.
There are already clips on YouTube and for anyone familiar with the clips, this is the show where she starts the Queen song "Lily of the Valley" in the wrong key and blows everybody away. It's also the one where she forgets the lyrics to "Hold Me" and looks to an audience member (that would be me, Vickie) for help. I'm the one who calls out "You'll make it!" at the end there. (I also call out "Thank you" near the beginning and her "No problem" is so funny)
Kevin Bartlett on electric guitar, loops and sound effects, Carl Adami on bass, Happy Rhodes on vocals and acoustic guitar. No Kelly this time, unfortunately, but it is interesting to hear versions by the threesome.
Set list:
Words Weren't Made For Cowards
Collective Heart+
Take Me With You
Save Our Souls
Lay Me Down
Lily Of The Valley*/Possessed
"Jork" (early version of her song "Many Worlds Are Born Tonight")
The Issue Is
Phobos
Summer
When The Rain Came Down
If So
Here Comes The Flood (Peter Gabriel cover)+
Hold Me+
(No encore)
(+ Songs not performed at the 1st show of the evening)
(* Queen/Freddie Mercury cover)
Happy and Kelly are so fun together in this. Many of the songs from this and the first show are already on YouTube but now that YouTube allows me to put up entire shows I'm taking advantage of it.
Kevin Bartlett on electric guitar, loops and sound effects, Carl Adami on bass, Kelly Bird on backup vocals and standup, Happy Rhodes on vocals, acoustic guitar and standup (and sound effects).
Set list:
I'm Going Back
Possessed
Lay Me Down
Down Down
Save Our Souls
Space Oddity (David Bowie cover)
Soon (Yes cover)+
In Hiding
Phobos ("Spit take" story after song)
"Jork"
The Issue Is
All Things ("Transsexual story" before song)
Encore:
Just Like Tivoli
Look For The Child
(+ Songs not performed at the 1st show)
Many of these songs are already up on YouTube, at either k8fan's or my accounts (my husband and myself) but now YouTube allows me to upload longer videos. I thought it would be nice for people to see the whole thing in one go. It's been on MySpace for a few years and I'm thrilled that I can now put it on YouTube.
I love this show. I loved both of these shows (there are lots of cuts from the first show up on YouTube, such as the "rare" version of "Jork" and her hilarious original Calvin Klein ad, which she references in this one) but I chose to put the 2nd show up because she does those kickass killer versions of "Space Oddity" and "Come Undone" in this one. Plus her until-now unseen obsession with the kid with the baseball (you'll see what I mean). I have no plans to put up the entire first show because Happy wouldn't be pleased with the technical mistakes.
Kevin Bartlett on guitar, Carl Adami on bass, and Kelly Bird on backing vocals. I left it dark at the beginning so you could hear the reaction of the band coming on stage prior to Happy.
Set list (+ Songs not performed at the 1st show):
Look For The Child
Collective Heart,
Save Our Souls
Down Down
The Issue Is
How It Should Be
Phobos
Space Oddity (David Bowie cover),
Summer
"Jork" (early version of the song "Many Worlds Are Born Tonight")
Lay Me Down
Come Undone (Duran Duran cover)+,
All Things.
Encore: Soon (Yes cover)
Tragic+
Possessed
I love all the closeups Chris was able to get. No, I'm not obsessive and creepy, honest, I'm just smitten and enthralled. Still, after 23 years. That will never change. - Vickie (xenussister & happyrhodes albums & happyrhodesongs & several others))
(I have Happy's permission to upload these)
Happy severely cut her hand earlier that day, but like a trouper went on anyway after returning from the hospital. Fans raised money to help Happy with her medical bills, and she later released to fans only a compilation called the Left Hand Demos. Happy's account of that strange day can be found here:
http://www.auntiesocialmusic.com/manyworlds/archive/MayJune2001.htm
Happy Rhodes - Vocals, Keyboards, Sequences
Eric Nicholas - Guitars
Carl Adami - Bass
Bob Muller - Drums, Percussion, Electronic Percussion
Happy severely cut her hand earlier that day, but like a trouper went on anyway after returning from the hospital. Fans raised money to help Happy with her medical bills, and she later released to fans only a compilation called the Left Hand Demos. Happy's account of that strange day can be found here:
http://wretchawry.com/auntiesocialmusic/manyworlds/archive/MayJune2001.htm (that's a mirror site)
Happy Rhodes - Vocals, Keyboards, Sequences
Eric Nicholas - Guitars
Carl Adami - Bass
Bob Muller - Drums, Percussion, Electronic Percussion
Happy severely cut her hand earlier that day, but like a trouper went on anyway after returning from the hospital. Fans raised money to help Happy with her medical bills, and she later released to fans only a compilation called the Left Hand Demos. Happy's account of that strange day can be found here:
http://wretchawry.com/auntiesocialmusic/manyworlds/archive/MayJune2001.htm (that's a mirror site)
Happy Rhodes - Vocals, Keyboards, Sequences
Eric Nicholas - Guitars
Carl Adami - Bass
Bob Muller - Drums, Percussion, Electronic Percussion
Happy severely cut her hand earlier that day, but like a trouper went on anyway after returning from the hospital. Fans raised money to help Happy with her medical bills, and she later released to fans only a compilation called the Left Hand Demos. Happy's account of that strange day can be found here:
http://wretchawry.com/auntiesocialmusic/manyworlds/archive/MayJune2001.htm (that's a mirror site)
Happy Rhodes - Vocals, Keyboards, Sequences
Eric Nicholas - Guitars
Carl Adami - Bass
Bob Muller - Drums, Percussion, Electronic Percussion
That picture is a hand-made birthday card she drew and sent me. It's framed now.
Dead On The Vine
Where is the Trust that long ago Died?
The Dream of an Ethic that hadn't been tried?
When did we Bury the Faith that we shared?
Did we kill it off because we were Scared?
Are we so Insecure that we refuse to believe,
In a total commitment that we'd Vowed to achieve?
When all the Battles were Fought was the War Decided?
Did we Struggle for a World now Divided?
Are we so Disillusioned that we don't even Complain?
Death to the Screaming...! and Ignoring all the Pain...?
Have we gone past all the Points of No Returning?
Do we watch as Lifetimes are Burning?
Where did it go: all the Passion and Longing?
When did we Lose all the Need for Belonging?
Gone are all our Dreams -- the Hills and the Wine...
What Remains? Love is Dead On the Vine...
©1985(?) Happy Rhodes
Lyrics by Susan Stamper
Kevin Bartlett on Parker Fly Guitar, Jamie Edwards keyboards and backing vocals, Paul Huesman on keyboards, percussion and backing vocals, Carl Adami on bass and Bob Muller on drums
Shot with two cameras - one Canon XL-1 and a Sony D8 camera. The video is very dark, but that is what the stage looked like.
Kevin Bartlett on Parker Fly Guitar, Jamie Edwards keyboards and backing vocals, Paul Huesman on keyboards, percussion and backing vocals, Carl Adami on bass and Bob Muller on drums
Shot with two cameras - one Canon XL-1 and a Sony D8 camera. The video is very dark, but that is what the stage looked like.
This song is on her album Equipoise.
Out Like A Lamb
He'll call me when he's back in town
This I know
He'll call me when he's coming 'round this circle again
I can feel no shame in his discretion
Cause I think he's always seen
How deeply he'd affect me
He came in like a lion on the hunt
A vibrant man
When he'd had enough, he snuck out like a little lamb
And they have said he could have been so much more
But fame was not what this old boy had come here for
He did arrive very well equipped
With gifts of mind and hand
And the knowledge that life thrives
In every grain of sand
He'd paint his dream, he'd paint a sea
He'd always make 'em laugh
He would have died a million deaths on my behalf
It's a case of perfect hindsight
Maybe we can try again oh
I did love you more than you knew
Now we see our history
He'll call me when he's back in town
Surely
He'll call me when he's coming 'round the circle again
I can feel no shame in his discretion
'Cause I think he's always seen how deeply he'd affect me
It's a case of perfect hindsight
Maybe we can try again
I did love you more than you knew
Now we see our history
He quietly slipped out of town
When the doctor was turned around
When they finally found him out
It didn't make the news
For seventeen hours he moved vern out
Piece by piece
By six a.m. he'd broken his lease
He'll call me when he's back in town
Surely
He'll call me when he's guided 'round the circle again
I can feel no shame in his discretion
'Cause I think he's always seen
How deeply he'd affect me
He'll call me when he's back in town
Surely
He'll call me when he's guided 'round that circle again
I can feel no shame in his discretion
'Cause I think he's always seen
How deeply he'd affect me
He'll call me when he's back in town
Of this I know
He'll call me when he's guided 'round that circle again
I can feel no shame in his discretion
'Cause I think he's always seen
How deeply he'd affect me
Song © 1993 - Happy Rhodes
Music, lyrics, voices, instruments and arrangements - Happy Rhodes (except as noted in credits)
Happy Rhodes performing "Temporary and Eternal" for the Living Room Concert series. With her is Kevin Bartlett and Carl Adami. This is the same version that ultimately appeared on her album The Keep.
*Our original of this was a dub of a dub from a VHS, so of course even the highest quality isn't going to be as good as having an original pristine copy, but we make do with what we have.
This was either recorded or broadcast (audio-only) on Tuesday, May 16, 1995. Happy also performed "Save Our Souls," "Summer," and "Hold Me" but no videos of them have ever surfaced.


