Emitt Rhodes and The Emitt Rhodes Band: General Info
Member Since
5/13/2009
Band Members
The Emitt Rhodes Band consists of: Emitt Rhodes, Joel Larson, (original drummer for "The Merry-Go-Round", "The Grass Roots" and "Lee Michaels"), Matt Malley, (founding member & long-time bassist of 14 years for "Counting Crows"), and Jim Rolfe & Dan Mayer, (from "Cody Road").
Songs on the player are from Emitt Rhodes albums from the early 70's. We are presently recording all new material to be released in the near future.
Emitt Lynn Rhodes is an American singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, Producer and recording engineer. Considered by many as "the one man Beatles," his recordings show a clear Paul McCartney influence in both vocals and musicianship. Rhodes began his career in musical ensembles The Palace Guard and The Merry-Go-Round.
The Merry-Go-Round had a number of hits including "Live" & "You're A very Lovely Woman" before they they disbanded in 1969. Rhodes recorded songs at A&M for a solo album to be entitled The American Dream, but A&M decided to not release it at the time. Rhodes then decided to go out on his own and bought equipment to make a recording studio in his parents' garage. Rhodes recorded his first album (Emitt Rhodes) in that home studio. He recieved a recording contract with ABC/Dunhill Records, who released his album, as well as the next two albums he recorded (Mirror and Farewell to Paradise). His first album was a critical success – Billboard called Rhodes "one of the finest artists on the music scene today" and later called his first album one of the "best albums of the decade". The album reached number 29 on the Billboard charts. The single "Fresh as a Daisy" reached number 54 on the pop chart. Meanwhile, shortly after Mirror was released in 1971 by Dunhill, A&M decided to release their old recordings of The American Dream, which confused record buyers. Mirror did reach the top 200 on Billboard's album chart. In 1973 Dunhill released Rhodes' final album, Farewell to Paradise.
Rhodes wrote all of the songs on his albums. On Emitt Rhodes, Mirror, and Farewell to Paradise, he played all of the instruments and sang all of the vocals while recording himself in his home recording studio. He used a four-track recorder for the instruments for Emitt Rhodes and transferred those to an eight-track recorder to add the vocals. He used an eight-track recorder for Mirror, and Farewell to Paradise. The mixdown engineer on Farewell to Paradise was none other than Curt Boettcher.
Rhodes' contract with Dunhill called for an album every six months (six albums over three years) – a schedule that was impossible for Rhodes to meet, due to writing all of the songs and recording each instrument and vocal individually by himself.
After Farewell to Paradise, Rhodes left the music business as a performer and released no more material, except on compilations. He continued to record his songs in his studio, but they were unreleased except for one song on Listen, Listen. He worked as a recording engineer and record producer for Elektra Records. He runs his own studio for recording other acts.
Rhodes' song "Lullabye" (from Emitt Rhodes) was featured in the 2001 Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums.
In 2009, after many years of rumors as to the possibility of a new CD, Emitt has once again entered the recording studios with a new band and all new material. He is joined by former "Merry-Go-Round" drummer Joel Larson, Co-founder & former bassist for "Counting Crows" Matt Malley and guitarists Jim Rolfe & Dan Mayer, from "Cody Road".
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So, just wondering how it's all going with the new band and studio stuff? Just thrilled with my box set. I take in my car and listen to it all the time. Still refreshing to hear after all these years..
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Happy New Year to you Emmit! Proud to be your friend on MySp. LOVE your sound - highly original but reminiscent of the Beatles, just a bit. I see you're in Hawthorne - I'm in Alhambra and hope to see you live soon!
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