Some homeless dude covering Radiohead's 'Creep'

Salvy · Dec 14, 2009

The Korean dude for the W at around 2:43.....

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Landlord Landry · Dec 14, 2009

Deji said:

I'm all for homeless musicians. I was taught by one and briefly WAS one, but I can't say I was overwhelmed by the Radiohead cover. I certainly have much more respect for him though than most of the songs posted in the other thread about Rolling Stone's top 100 of the decade. I sure as hell don't think I'm any better than he is and see no reason to begrudge Landlord Landry for liking it.

The reason I say that is, the best singer I ever heard was homeless, too, and I'm sure most people wouldn't agree. :grin: He'd been living on the street for 18 years in my old neighborhood in LA. If any of you ever lived in Koreatown/Downtown LA in the 80's or 90's you probably saw him shining shoes on Wilshire Blvd. He and maybe one or two others of the many homeless in that area were one of the only ones I met that were coherent enough to have a conversation. And he never asked for money. Ever. He asked for day labor or shined shoes. I based a character loosely on him in my first book. He taught me how to sing.

He mostly shined shoes and sang to people to draw them in. His main thing was gospel and musical stuff like Showboat, but he did everything. Blues, jazz, old rock, even did some really killer country songs. To this day I still play Fulsome Prison Blues the way he taught me to sing it. His thing was always about "finding your own voice" and that was the song I think I found mine with.

Years later, and after a long stint in a special halfway house/rehab thing for veterans, he told me he supported a $200 to $300 cocaine habit a DAY on the street. He claimed he ended up there after a huge binge after his wife died and couldn't deal with it.

He was saving his money to buy a ticket back to Columbus, Ohio to reunite with his family that he had been out of contact with for the 2 decades he spent on the street. The story went, his son was raised by his mother and had graduated years before with a music degree from Purdue. He started a gospel company in Ohio that did tours in the midwest, and asked his father to join him.

Rather than wait for him to raise the money shining more shoes, I bought him the plane ticket. I felt I owed him, anyway. He said the last time he was in a plane it was to fly back to LA from a tour he went on with Marvin Gaye. He was very confused by the airport and all the post 9/11 security screening stuff and didn't understand why I couldn't walk to the gate with him.
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thanks for sharing this. good read.

backwardhead · Dec 14, 2009

If you play all of the individual songs posted on page 3 of this thread together at the same time you can hear "We are the world."

Tis the season. Keep the Christ in Christmas and stay classy.

rocketsjudoka · Dec 14, 2009

This is the best cover of Creep.

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rocketsjudoka · Dec 14, 2009

Summer Song Giver said:

mo better

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Even Mo Better

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M.ANGEL4 · Dec 14, 2009

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damien rice!

Salvy · Dec 14, 2009

rocketsjudoka said:

This is the best cover of Creep.

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x2 agree....

Al Calavicci · Dec 15, 2009

Hmm said:

did you just admit to knowing what an episode of "Dawson's Creek" looks like..?
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You have committed nothing useful to this thread, unless you consider being a pretentious self indulged ass something useful

SirCharlesFan · Dec 15, 2009

Al Calavicci said:

You have committed nothing useful to this thread, unless you consider being a pretentious self indulged ass something useful
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says the guy that stays with his girlfriend because she "has a tight vajayjay" and pays his bill.

Al Calavicci · Dec 15, 2009

SirCharlesFan said:

says the guy that stays with his girlfriend because she "has a tight vajayjay" and pays his bill.
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word.

thanks for bringing relevant info to this thread to prove my point, I see the connection

Rae · Dec 15, 2009

Great covers in general. Too bad Landlord Landry had to stink his own thread up!

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