{"id":483009,"date":"2019-03-05T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=803385"},"modified":"2019-03-05T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:48:00","slug":"flashback-morrissey-plays-suedehead-at-his-first-solo-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-morrissey-plays-suedehead-at-his-first-solo-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Morrissey Plays \u2018Suedehead\u2019 at His First Solo Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this week, Morrissey announced plans<\/a> to play a seven-night Broadway stand at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater. According to a press release, the show will be \u201can intimate yet exciting exploration of Morrissey<\/a>\u2019s expansive career from his early days to his upcoming new record California Son<\/em>: a collection of 1960\/70s classic covers.\u201d While this is unlikely to shatter Broadway records like Springsteen on Broadway,<\/em> Morrissey fanatics are likely to descend on New York in droves and it\u2019s easy to imagine more shows being added to meet demand.<\/p>\n

Related:<\/strong><\/a> The Smiths<\/a>: All 73 Songs, Ranked<\/p>\n

If he sticks to his basic setlist of the past few years, expect no more than two or three Smiths songs in the show. And while that may annoy some of his old-school fans, it\u2019s easy to understand, since the Smiths represent a mere four years of his 36-year career. He began his solo journey in March 1988 with the release of Viva Hate<\/em>, but he didn\u2019t perform live until December 22nd of that year when he played the most unique gig of his post-Smiths career at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall in Wolverhampton, England. None of the Smiths played on Viva Hate<\/em>, but he still invited the former members, minus Johnny Marr<\/a>, to serve as his backing band for the evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In many ways, this was a farewell concert to the Smiths even if he only played three of their songs. Here\u2019s video of \u201cSuedehead\u201d from that night. He\u2019s played the song well over 300 times, but this is the very first time. Anybody with a Morrissey shirt was allowed into the show for free, which caused an absolute mob scene outside the theater. The Smiths hadn\u2019t played in nearly two years at that point, so the hunger to see Morrissey in any capacity was tremendous.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This Wolverhampton show seemed to mark the beginning of a Morrissey solo career where he\u2019d basically continue the Smiths with their former touring guitarist Craig Gannon taking the place of Johnny Marr. That still felt like the case months later when bassist Andy Rourke, drummer Mike Joyce and Gannon backed him on the singles \u201cThe Last of the International Playboys\u201d and \u201cInteresting Drug,\u201d but Morrissey soon had a change of heart about the arrangement. \u201cThe unhappy past descends upon me each time I hear their voices,\u201d he wrote in his 2013 memoir,<\/a> \u201cand I decide to not invite them to any further recording sessions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not long after that decision, lawyers for Mike Joyce wrote Morrissey and threatened legal action unless he signed over a larger chunk of Smiths royalties. According to Morrissey\u2019s book, they indicated that he wouldn\u2019t take action if he made him a permanent member of the \u201cMorrissey Band,\u201d something that Morrissey claims doesn\u2019t even exist. Morrissey wasn\u2019t going to be blackmailed into keeping the ex-Smiths in his band, and he hasn\u2019t played with any of them since that lone 1988 show.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Morrissey stands to make a fortune if he ever changes his mind about playing with his old bandmates, but it\u2019s a pretty safe bet at this point he\u2019s never going to do that. And here\u2019s a good tip going forward: If you want to play drums for somebody, don\u2019t have your lawyers send them a threatening letter to make it happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, Morrissey announced plans to play a seven-night Broadway stand at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater. According to a press release, the show will be \u201can intimate yet exciting exploration of Morrissey\u2019s expansive career from his early days to his upcoming new record California Son: a collection of 1960\/70s classic covers.\u201d While this is unlikely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 23:11:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}