nail me together a barn with ye strong hands and back
sup people? i dont got much time to dedicate tonight, for i am way busy putting together some killer interviews that will be appearing on here in a few weeks. i got some pretty cool people, if i dont say so my damn self, to participate in the captains dead one year anniversary celebrations. so until tomorrow here is the remainder of the burrito bros show.
1. buckaroo
5. hungry eyes
9. train song
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I think I had PART of this show before (I’ll know once I listen), so thanks for the whole thing.
Just about everything — no, EVERYTHING — Gram Parsons recorded was great.
Unfortunately the more you learn about him personally, the more he recedes as a “hero”. You can get a sense of this in interviews with Chris Hillman, where he can barely hold back his desire to correct the image of “St. Gram.”
HOWEVER, he didn’t live his life for me, and there are plenty of real heroes to go around. I can like the music, while feeling sorry for the person, and possibly applying what I can of the negatives of his life to improve my own.
Thanks again, and sorry for the soapbox,
Bruce K.
yeah, the more i learn about gram the more i realize what type of person who was but it will never affect my love for his music. same with ryan adams.
greg, re: your interviews. i’m sorry, but i think you forgot to contact me
not really into hero worship but mick jagger, lou reed, bob dylan and so many more were just as fucktardy in their day. but i prefer my rock stars bent in some way. and thats why i never like to meet them (eg ryan adams).
matt, i absolutely didnt forget you. the two times i have met mr adams, both being in and around 1999/2000, he was as cool as the other side of the pillow but then again so am i.
Hey, I really appreciate the non-negative follow-up comments. I was nervous that people would slap me down for not showing proper respect to a great.
Kopsin is definitely right that most of the artistic greats are also “shits” (my word not his/her).
But then you have a brief meeting with someone like, say, Marshall Crenshaw or the late Mark Sandman of Morphine or Richard Thompson or (current-version) Elvis Costello and are pleased/relieved that he is a very decent person and willing to tolerate the nonsense of us nutbag fans.
Still, generally speaking, people become great artists because they are different from normal people, and so they are not exactly the folks you would want to spend much time with.
Real heroes are usually not famous (or even semi-famous) artists. And if you really need a hero who is/was famous, here’s one: Jackie Robinson (even if he did support Nixon over Kennedy in 1960).
Bruce K.
wow. amazing. my dad is gonna @#%^ himself when he hears this. i just hope i just sat in a bowl of pudding. wow! this is mind blowing stuff. any Gram is good. there isnt alot out there to begin with. they should realease a Offical live cd.(yes i have the one with the Fallen Angels.