By Max Conroy:

 

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This kind of blew me away.  For all you music geeks/bitches that haven’t utilized YouTube, you’re missing out.  This is a brilliant case where the seemingly obscure character turns out to have a community of people who have taken the time to upload what they have.  I thought for sure there’d be very little information about Jimmy McCulloch out there; the only hope is that he played with some big names.  There’s no information on Allmusic.com about him other than several brief mentions in the Stone the Crows and Thunderclap Newman bios.  I looked him up on YouTube and a number of interesting hits popped up.  There’s a retrospective that includes about every picture of him that could possibly have existed and some live footage playing Heartbreaker(ironic since he died of a heart attack as a result of a heroin OD), the last song he ever recorded with the band The Dukes.  There’s also an interview he did in Chicago during a Wings tour in 1976.  The interviewer mentions an injury to Jimmy’s hand.  He apparently broke it during rehearsals for the tour, wrestling with David Cassidy, which delayed the tour for several weeks. 

On YouTube, it’s interesting to look at the comments for the videos.  For one of the promotional videos for Something in the Air, a YouTube member reminisces drinking with Speedy Keen at a local wine bar, presumably in the UK.  The user who published the interview and some other McCulloch stuff’s handle is WinoJunko76, ironically a Wings song on Wings at the Speed of Sound about substance abuse.  This guy’s obviously a fan and the person you need to send a message to for any info or video on the subject of Jimmy McCulloch.  One time I saw an Awesome Color video, a band whose members are from Ann Arbor that now reside in Brooklyn, and emailed the person who posted it, he emailed back, I sent him $10 and he sent me a DVD of the entire performance.  That’s an awesome tool, man. 

Back to Jimmy.  There’s also footage of him performing another anti-drug song with Wings called Medicine Jar.  There’s also a video of him getting nailed in the face with a cake immediately after walking backstage after a Wings show on his birthday; Ringo eventually stumbles in and acts the fool.  One of my favorites so far is his doom, damned blues-rocker Too Many Miles with White Line.  There’s even apparently the only live recording of Thunderclap Newman on here (according to the poster); it’s only the song, which is great, no video.  There are also tons of videos of him playing with Wings (if you’re into that) and Stone the Crows. 

So I guess there is a lot of info out there about this guy.  I’m pretty sure that videos are commonly taken off YouTube, so sorry if some of these links don’t work anymore, but you guys really need to check out YouTube if you’re trying to research something that you think wouldn’t be out there.