Comments on: out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels

By: bonnie

bonnie — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:10:31 +0000

My dad gave me a call a few years back and asked me who this Gram Parsons fellow was.Mind you dad is now 71 and he was all interested because he wore out Emmylou Harris records back in the early to mid seventies.I think he caught the Grievous Angel video on some channel
and was really impressed.It takes a lot to impress my dad when it comes to music,it has to be heartfelt and real.I grabbed up all of Gram and the Burritos I could find and sent it to my folks which caused them to finally listen to music again,they had simply stopped because this newer radio music is pretty darn crappy to them.Dad had a band of his own the Country Roques way back when and they did pretty well but life got in the way and they came off the road. The live recording here sounds so much like the old band that I’m just stunned,only daddy sounded a bit more like Brooke Benton/Charlie Pride.I love this recording. As karma would have it the old drummer
for the band showed up out of the clear blue today,and I played Sing
Me Back Home, he thought it was the old band. Talk about cosmic country.I just love Gram. He keeps pulling people together after all this time. Love to all, Bonnie

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:41:54 +0000

thanks a million for this one.

By: gregor

gregor — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:49:03 +0000

gilly, thats the way we role now. lots of lazy ass ungrateful bastards were bitchin that it was too difficult to click a few buttons. so now we offer a glimpse of the show, via a few provided tracks, and a zip of the entire thing. if you see something that says something like “zippity do da” or “now with more zip” than thats where to find said zip or rar file.

By: gilly

gilly — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:20:05 +0000

im only getting the first few tracks here.. sup?

thanks cap!

By: Erica

Erica — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:13:16 +0000

this. totally. rules. Thanks!!1

By: Jason Odd

Jason Odd — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:17:43 +0000

A friend and an ex-employee of the Palomino hipped me to this blog, very interesting.

The fellow who made the bandstand tape back in ‘69 has taken it to Ameoba, who recently issued a rather good double CD set mostly taken from a ‘69 Burritos show supporting the Greatful Dead.
I’m hopeful that it will get a legit release, but nice to have the files here, I have an older copy, taken I suspect, from Gram’s stolen copy and bootlegged widely over the years.

The Burritos had a semi-regular slot at the Pal in ‘69, taking the Monday slot (that same year Johnny Meeks, Garland Frady and The LeGarde Twins had a Mon. slot) from the main band for a couple of months. Leon Russell, Delaney & Bonnie, The GTOs and a whole bunch of similarly minded long-hairs began to pepper the crowd.
Gram’s buddy Delaney Bramlett and Leon had played in the Pal’ band in the early 60s, so it seems fitting.

Jimmy Morris (aka Jimmy Lee Morris) was the Monday guy for some time prior to this, but back in ‘69 he’d graduated to fronting a band at a rival club, still he liked to pop in and catch up with the regulars. Jimmy still performs and he, like Gram, recorded for Lee Hazelwood’s LHI label in the late 60s.

Gram tried to get Clarence in the Burritos, a shame he didn’t take the chance, but he got a chance to record and tour with the Byrds, so fair enough.
This is a very good gig, very laid back, totally different in attitude and approach to their usual rock shows, a lot of fun.

By: gregor

gregor — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:44:46 +0000

if you havent heard sweetheart, then you havent lived and are truly dead to me…