Steve Gibbons Band - Tupelo Mississippi Flash - BBC ‘Sight and Sound’, Nov 1977
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Eleventh song (lyrics by Jerry Reed below) from concert recorded at the Golders Green Hippodrome, with personnel list of:
Steve Gibbons - Lead Vocal
Bob Wilson - Guitar
Dave Carroll - Guitar
Trevor Burton - Bass Guitar
Bob Lamb - Drums
A Story about a boy from Tupelo - probably Elvis
I'm gonna tell you a story that's all about
This job I had one time as a talent scout, hmm.
I’d had a hard day in the office, the boss wasn't in town
That was the day this hard lookin’ guitar picker happened to come around.
Well, he walks in my office with a great big grin,
And folks that's where the story really begins.
Tupelo Mississippi … Flash
That’s what he said. I said what? He said:
Tupelo … Mississippi … Flash
I said: What’s your real name son? Whe’re you comin’ from?
Can you do it? Could you get through it?
Can you rock? Can you roll? Can you really really do it?
What’s he say? He said. He said:
'My name is Beauregard Ridley.
I come to you from Tupelo Mississippi.
I write songs, sing like a bird,
Play licks on my guitar like you never ever heard.
But I'm down on my luck, things are getting slack.
Got a quarter in my pocket, this shirt on my back.
Buy me some supper and give me a place I can sleep
'I'll sing you some songs that'll head right up the creek.
I got talent boy. Back home they call me the Tupelo Mississippi Flash.
Well I knew I was in a room with some kind of a nut
When he pulled out a pack of used cigarette butts.
So that's when I told him 'We can't use you today'
So I handed the boy a dollar, and sent him on his way
Well the boss got back and we both had a laugh
When I told him 'bout the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
And pretty soon I had the story circulating around
About this Mississippi nut that we had in our town.
I said, 'watch him everybody, the boy's squirrelly!
He walks round calling himself the Tupelo Mississippi Flash.'
You know what happened one day while I was driving to my home
I just happened to have my car radio on.
When I heard the jockey raving about a brand new smash
By this kid called the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
I almost wrecked my automobile
Went clean through a red light
I hit the traffic cop.... It was so absurd.
It just a blew my mind, this is what I heard.
Well my story's got an ending and it's short and sweet
The boss man he fired me and left me out in the street
I got a new job now and I'm learnin' fast
I'm drivin' the bus for the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
And his Cadillac I'm driving that one too
And the yacht he's got.
And his aeroplane?
Well chauffeur to shoulder I always say
Tupelo Mississippi. You ever heard of it? ..........
Oh yes, I’m gonna get behind the wheel and ride ride ride
Things a man does to swallow his pride. It’s alright
You know I’m gonna rock all day, roll all night
Rock and roll music clean outta sight. It’s alright.
Way way way down south. I say watch it boy, watch your mouth
Heard about the Tupelo, heard about the Tupelo Mississippi Flash.
The main man right there
Love it
So fucking amazing version of Jerry reed song !
I lived in B'ham in the early and mid 70's. Used to attend all the SGB gigs at the Incognito (Saturday afternoons) and at The Railway (Wednesday nights). Some 25 years later I became a writer published in France (but living in the South Pacific). Steve Gibbons (I kept his real name) is one of the main characters of my very first novel published at Gallimard, the most renown French publishing house. Six years later, I gave the title of Tupelo Mississippi Flash to my 5th novel.
Fantastic. Is it published in English? (I'm about to google it). When I lived in B'ham, I was in a band playing a gig in SG's local. Pretty sure he stayed to hear us. He certainly wished us luck. Classy bloke.
The railway curson street saw him there when l was 16 great band
Looks like Trevor Burton in the cap on Base
I love this version. First saw SG at Brooklyn Technical College on the Aldrige Rd in 1974. We spoke. A gentleman. Would have loved to have jammed with him and the band
Didn't realise how lucky I was to see these guys play the Three Magpies in Brum when I was younger. Do now! 😊👍🙌
Some people are born to be on stage. Steve is one of them.
brilliant song,sung brilliantly.i can remember steve doing this at the incognito club under the hippodrome.great times,i was there once when a friend of his turned up and jammed with the band.it was none other than the great albert lee.
Those were incredible gigs in the Incognito
Amazing
Superb!
Johnny Vortex ain't too bad !!!
omg yes
According to Wikipedia, Steve was an Elvis Presley fan.
Keith741 Maybe not as much as Bob Dylan though?🤔
According to Wikipedia, Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo Mississippi on 8th January, 1935. Steve Gibbons was born on 13th July 1941, one day before me.
I remember Paul Burnett,on radio One,played this a lot!
only one tupi lo miss flash elvis
Essa musica tributo a elvis presley
Breedon Bar
Love this. Used to do a cover of this with Filibuster in the 80's