I like enough of the Eagles, though my favorites by them are “Victim of Love,” “Life in the Fast Lane” and “Hotel California.” Punks disliked them because they seemed the epitome of California, rich L.A. cocaine culture, and there’s something to this, but they did some good songs nevertheless.
There was a two part documentary on the Epix cable channel last week called ‘Laurel Canyon’ that covered the California scene from about 1965-1975. It covered everybody from Buffalo Springfield to CSNY to Joni Mitchell to Linda Ronstadt to Jackson Browne and the Eagles and many more. They talked about ‘Take It Easy’ which was written by Browne and Glenn Frey.
I highly recommend it if you have interest in the music and culture of that time.
It would make a good bar bet: “What is the best-selling album of all time in the US?”
Most people guess, if they have an idea, Michael Jackson. But no:
I can see the appeal of the Eagles. “Hotel California” is a great song and the boys have their chops. But I was never there.
I enjoyed the scene in “The Big Lebowski” where Jeff Bridges has just been beat up and is taking a cab home. Unfortunately the black cab driver is playing the Eagles….
________________________________________
Bridges: Man, come on, I had a rough night and I hate the f***ing Eagles.
Another good music doc is ‘Above Us Only Sky’ which is about the making of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ album. I hate the song ‘Imagine’ with a passion but there are some great songs on it like ‘Jealous Guy’, ‘Crippled Inside’, ‘How’, and of course ‘How Do You Sleep’ the McCartney dis song. The doc has amazing behind the scenes footage and interviews with lots of people involved (it was made a couple years ago).
It’s available on Netflix.
I only first heard the Eagles at some point probably in the 1990s, as far as I recall, but I do like their sound. I suppose they would make for good road-trip music.
Phillip Sells,
‘Life In The Fast Lane’ is a great driving song.
The soundtrack of my youth and young adulthood!
Which I discovered by watching The History of the Eagles documentary–oh, maybe four times now…
As I mentioned earlier I’m relearning the guitar I dropped for decades. One benefit is that I’m learning all those classic Eagles songs. They are really fun, and challenging to play and learn. Lyin’ Eyes is a bit challenging, but PEF is easy with classic country chord changes.
However, Hotel California has such beautiful chord changes that I was surprised are not too hard to play. For any of you who play, HC starts with the barre Bm where you can basically almost pick out the melody on the bottom 4 strings, then the switch to the barre F#7 is just moving two fingers up without having to move the barre. You will immediately recognize the opening sound. Followed by an A, then E, then G, then D, Em, and back to the F#7. Rumor has it that the initial Bm to F#7 was actually suggested by Ian Anderson when he happened to meet up with the band; they took it from there and the rest is history.
I clicked on my own link to see the Dan Seals song and up came Joe Biden ! An add. If nobody stayed with it I can understand. Anyway, I like the Eagles but am more a fan of country. That and opera.
Love The Eagles.
Of course, everything I like is categorically racist.
“Lyin Eyes” is a great song. The Eagles were near their end when I first became interested in music in 1978-79 (they broke up the first time in 1980). The albums Hotel California and The Long Run were two of the albums I got free from the Columbia Record Club. When I much older, I bought the CD collection.
I am gong to post this on several threads here. I apologize in advance, and I hope this does not upset our gracious, vivacious and perspicacious hostess, Neo. I’m posting it on multiple threads in hopes it gets seen by many, but if you want to comment on the topic, please do so on the “Musical Interlude” post, so we can keep our thoughts in one place.
Yesterday (two days ago?) in one of the threads about our current political situation one of you (MBunge?) made a statement that cutting off funding to companies working to eliminate our rights is critical to fighting this scourge. I wholeheartedly agree, and there was some continued discussion in the comments on how to coordinate the effort.
Since it’s such an obvious and good idea (no offense to MBunge{?}, but I’ve had the thought myself, many times, as I’m certain we all have), I was fairly certain several organizations must already be doing this on the web. With a bit of research today I found this site, https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=C2200
This seems to be a very good start. The link goes to their page on Cable & Satellite TV Production, but you’ll notice the search boxes in the right margin. Choose a drop down there and hit the magnifying glass and research any industry you prefer.
Does anyone know anything about this organization, and whether they are fair? Their mission statement on their “About” page sounds good, and the data I looked at seems to be in-line with what I’ve seen in other publications. If this is a reliable resource, let’s spread the word and start taking action.
OK, boomers….
Here’s a new whine in an old Beatle, from the groove yard vault of moldy oldies-
I Want to Wash Your Hands (Lanolin-McCartney)
[As performed by the Germ-Men Measles]
Now you’ve got that something
I hope you’ll understand
When I say say that something
I want to wash your hands!
Oh please, say to me
You’ll let me be your man
And please say to me
You’ll let me wash your hands!
You’ll let me wash your hands!
And when I touch you I feel guilty inside
It’s such a feeling that my soap
I can’t hide, I can’t hide, I can’t hide!
Now I must say something
Hope it’s not out of place
When I say that something
I want to touch your face!
I want to touch your face!
I want to touch your face!
I want to touch your face!
As I said, I’m lukewarm about the Eagles. However, I thought Don Henley’s solo song, “The Boys of Summer,” was a masterpiece.
It had the real bite of real feeling, of time passing irretrievably and one’s twenties disappearing in the rear view.
The MTV video was great too, but has been entirely blocked on YouTube.
______________________________________
Out on the road today
I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said:
“Don’t look back, you can never look back”
Huxley,
The Eagles and Don Henley are big time blockers on YouTube. It’s wild how these classic rock bands block access to their music from younger generations in an effort to make a relatively small amount of money. All they are doing is insuring their music dies with all of us.
Well, the Eagles still had one acoustic guitar.
I hate electric guitars.
Really? The fn’ Eagles? I hate the Eagle.
Saw them in concert in 1975. Fun time. My girlfriend bought the tickets as a present for me. Even better.
Jim C. Orn:
I know a lot of people seem to hate the Eagles, so you’re not alone.
I like the Eagles, although I don’t like their YouTube blocking.
This song has appropriate words, though, for these stressful times:
Take it easy, take it easy
Don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don’t even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand
Take it easy…
We may lose and we may win
Though we will never be here again…
Mike K, which operas have you seen in person? I was actually on the point of going to see Regula Mühlemann in Paris when everybody’s favorite virus turned up. There went that plan.
Griffin, thanks for that idea.
Oliver: 🙂
The Eagles came out of the country-rock movement which hit LA hard in the early 70s after the psychedelics wore off.
I’ve never tracked that down to my satisfaction. It seems Dylan kicked things off with “John Wesley Harding” (Dylan’s homage to Hank Williams’ “Luke the Drifter”) and “Nashville Skyline” then Gram Parsons joined the Byrds and the Byrds released their “Sweetheart of the Rodeo” album, which was a surprising move in 1968. Parsons turns out to be key to the country-rock story.
I didn’t start paying attention until later with the bands which came out of the Troubador club scene. Here’s the New Riders of the Purple Sage:
________________________________________
Well, I know Kris [Kristofferson] and Rita [Coolidge], and Marty Mull
Are meeting at the Troubadour
We’ll get it on with the Joy of Cooking
While the crowd cries out for more
‘Round six o’clock this morning
I’ll be gettin’ kind of slow
When all the shows are over, honey,
Tell me, where do you think I go?
Joy of Cooking was an interesting band, basically two women, which was unusual in 1970 or so. I liked their first album a lot but haven’t heard it for, like, 49 years.
@huxley
Rick Nelson was a “pioneer” of country rock: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Nelson#Music_career
“In the mid-1960s, Nelson began to move towards country music, becoming a pioneer in the country-rock genre. He was one of the early influences of the so-called “California Sound” (which would include singers like Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt and bands such as Eagles). Yet Nelson himself did not reach the Top 40 again until 1970, when he recorded Bob Dylan’s “She Belongs to Me” with the Stone Canyon Band, featuring Randy Meisner, who in 1971 became a founding member of the Eagles, and former Buckaroo steel guitarist Tom Brumley.”
Oliver T.: True. One must not overlook Ricky Nelson when it comes to country-rock!
It wasn’t until his song, “Garden Party,” that I could hear him separate from that cute kid on “Ozzie and Harriet.”
____________________________________ If you gotta play at garden parties, I wish you a lotta luck
But if memories were all I sang, I rather drive a truck
It’s all right now, learned my lesson well
You see, ya can’t please everyone, so you got to please yourself
I remember 1975, around midnight a week before Christmas.
“I’m a-sittin’ on the corner in Winslow, Arizona”
in a car with two other midshipmen driving 36 hrs straight to the West Coast, going thru Winslow.
Getting stopped by cops for speeding; I was driving.
We talked to the cop for half an hour, about the Naval Academy, Vietnam, lots of stuff.
Then he gave me a ticket anyway.
My favorite Eagles album was Desperado, without great singles but comfy rock-a-billy-ish.
Ya, choose love over money. Not bad advice … but yet with a current of anti-capitalism.
No, wait, no politics … This is supposed to be a happy occasion…
I saw one at Vienna Staatsoper that was the only time I’ve seen it. Boris Gudunov.
I had season tickets to the Orange County opera for years. Too many to list. LA Opera a few times after OC opera closed post 2008. San Diego opera for Magic Flute. Tucson opera (actually Arizona opera, which plays in both Tucson and PHX) for three years,
The OC opera used the SF opera sets. I like the classics and usually skipped the moderns like “Nixon in China.”
I should add that I have been to Willy Nelson concerts multiple times plus Jimmy Buffet and the BeeGees. Saw Willy and Waylon Jennings in a small country music club in San Juan Capistrano, the Coach House. 100 people in the place.
I should add that I have been to Willy Nelson concerts multiple times plus Jimmy Buffet and the BeeGees.
Mike K: Jimmy B. is on my bucket list to see, for “Cheeseburger in Paradise” to “Margaritaville” to his knockout cameo in Alan Jackson’s “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” which I’ve looped off YouTube more hours than I’m comfortable disclosing.
Damn, I’m doing it now.
__________________________________________
I could pay off my tab, pour myself in a cab
An’ be back to work before two
At a moment like this, I can’t help but wonder
What would Jimmy Buffett do?
Jimmy Buffet’s was the only concert I ever walked out of. Not mad, just bored and slightly annoyed. It was when Margaritaville was a big hit, and I loved that song, because I love the Gulf Coast beaches, and it really conjured them. Didn’t know his other stuff. It was in a huge university coliseum, packed with college students, and my leaving was partly because of them. Buffet just sort of pandered to them: he would say “beer” or “drunk” or “screw” or something, and they would start yelling and clapping. Boring. I was 30 and way past that kind of crap. But then Buffet is slightly older than me, and he apparently wasn’t past it.
Mac: Well, Buffett’s fans call themselves Parrotheads, for tropical shirts with parrots on them and in line with the moniker, Deadheads — fans of the Grateful Dead.
I’m also a Grateful Dead fan and I can sure get tired of the Deadhead mentality. It’s a place to visit, but not to live.
Jimmy Buffett is reputed to have a net worth of $560 mil. He didn’t get there with his music, but by being a shrewd businessman.
“Buffett’s fans call themselves Parrotheads” Oh, don’t I know it! They are legion here–I live on the Gulf Coast, and in the specific area that he’s from. I’m sure he’s much better than that night indicated. And yes, he has been really good at capitalizing on his thing.
I wouldn’t call myself a Deadhead but I do like them, even more now than back then, actually. You’ve probably seen it, but if not the Martin Scorsese-produced documentary Long Strange Trip is really good.
Are you aware of the Grateful Dead of the Day site? A full concert recording every day! Way more than any rational human being could listen to but I’ve saved a couple of the links for future listening:
Mike K: Jimmy B. is on my bucket list to see, for “Cheeseburger in Paradise”
My younger son and his wife met at a concert and go to another every year of their 20 year marriage, The concert I went to was disappointing because the “warm up” group took most of the time and he was only on a few minutes. He is still great. I can’t remember who they were,
I watched the 2-part documentary “Laurel Canyon” and it was such a lovely diversion. The musicians of Laurel Canyon (and environs) in their own words.
Highly recommended.
It draws a distinction between the first wave (Joni Mitchell, The Turtles, The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Love, plus The Monkees (!) and Frank Zappa who were hardly “country rock” but were some of the other weirdos living in the communal artist colony of the Canyon) and the second wave (Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, the dreaded Eagles) who were more knowledgeable about what they were getting into and wanted to be rock stars, not just artists. I love them all. That first wave wasn’t all about “love and peace”; Crosby, Stills & Nash all fought each other like demons. Things got petty.
I have loved the Eagles since I first heard them. As a guitar player they are fun to play and sing along with, even today after nearly 50 years.
I wouldn’t call myself a Deadhead but I do like them, even more now than back then, actually. You’ve probably seen it, but if not the Martin Scorsese-produced documentary Long Strange Trip is really good.
Are you aware of the Grateful Dead of the Day site?
Mac: “Long Strange Trip” is quite good. I love the Dead, but they are such a mixed bag.
Didn’t know the GD of the Day site. I’ll check it out.
Glenn Frey and Don Henley were nasty, greedy (they did not split the money evenly among all the band members), liberals but what a great group The Eagles were. “Take It to the Limit” is my favorite Eagles song.
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I can’t hear these songs without thinking back to band camp in the 70s, where the 8-track of their greatest hits played endlessly in the dorm rooms.
When I hear “interlude,” I think of Sarah Vaughan’s interpretation of Dizzy Gillespe’s “Night in Tunisia.” Sarah Vaughan & Her All-Stars – Interlude (A Night In Tunisia)
When I think of Sarah, I think of Ella. Ella Fitzgerald: Night in Tunisia
I like enough of the Eagles, though my favorites by them are “Victim of Love,” “Life in the Fast Lane” and “Hotel California.” Punks disliked them because they seemed the epitome of California, rich L.A. cocaine culture, and there’s something to this, but they did some good songs nevertheless.
There was a two part documentary on the Epix cable channel last week called ‘Laurel Canyon’ that covered the California scene from about 1965-1975. It covered everybody from Buffalo Springfield to CSNY to Joni Mitchell to Linda Ronstadt to Jackson Browne and the Eagles and many more. They talked about ‘Take It Easy’ which was written by Browne and Glenn Frey.
I highly recommend it if you have interest in the music and culture of that time.
It would make a good bar bet: “What is the best-selling album of all time in the US?”
Most people guess, if they have an idea, Michael Jackson. But no:
The Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975
https://www.nme.com/news/music/michael-jackson-thriller-best-selling-album-2368877
I can see the appeal of the Eagles. “Hotel California” is a great song and the boys have their chops. But I was never there.
I enjoyed the scene in “The Big Lebowski” where Jeff Bridges has just been beat up and is taking a cab home. Unfortunately the black cab driver is playing the Eagles….
________________________________________
Bridges: Man, come on, I had a rough night and I hate the f***ing Eagles.
[Cab drivers throws Bridges out.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlmvtAHhnc
Another good music doc is ‘Above Us Only Sky’ which is about the making of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ album. I hate the song ‘Imagine’ with a passion but there are some great songs on it like ‘Jealous Guy’, ‘Crippled Inside’, ‘How’, and of course ‘How Do You Sleep’ the McCartney dis song. The doc has amazing behind the scenes footage and interviews with lots of people involved (it was made a couple years ago).
It’s available on Netflix.
I only first heard the Eagles at some point probably in the 1990s, as far as I recall, but I do like their sound. I suppose they would make for good road-trip music.
Phillip Sells,
‘Life In The Fast Lane’ is a great driving song.
The soundtrack of my youth and young adulthood!
Which I discovered by watching The History of the Eagles documentary–oh, maybe four times now…
As I mentioned earlier I’m relearning the guitar I dropped for decades. One benefit is that I’m learning all those classic Eagles songs. They are really fun, and challenging to play and learn. Lyin’ Eyes is a bit challenging, but PEF is easy with classic country chord changes.
However, Hotel California has such beautiful chord changes that I was surprised are not too hard to play. For any of you who play, HC starts with the barre Bm where you can basically almost pick out the melody on the bottom 4 strings, then the switch to the barre F#7 is just moving two fingers up without having to move the barre. You will immediately recognize the opening sound. Followed by an A, then E, then G, then D, Em, and back to the F#7. Rumor has it that the initial Bm to F#7 was actually suggested by Ian Anderson when he happened to meet up with the band; they took it from there and the rest is history.
I clicked on my own link to see the Dan Seals song and up came Joe Biden ! An add. If nobody stayed with it I can understand. Anyway, I like the Eagles but am more a fan of country. That and opera.
Love The Eagles.
Of course, everything I like is categorically racist.
“Lyin Eyes” is a great song. The Eagles were near their end when I first became interested in music in 1978-79 (they broke up the first time in 1980). The albums Hotel California and The Long Run were two of the albums I got free from the Columbia Record Club. When I much older, I bought the CD collection.
One reason I like opera.
Gorgeous and talent.
I am gong to post this on several threads here. I apologize in advance, and I hope this does not upset our gracious, vivacious and perspicacious hostess, Neo. I’m posting it on multiple threads in hopes it gets seen by many, but if you want to comment on the topic, please do so on the “Musical Interlude” post, so we can keep our thoughts in one place.
Yesterday (two days ago?) in one of the threads about our current political situation one of you (MBunge?) made a statement that cutting off funding to companies working to eliminate our rights is critical to fighting this scourge. I wholeheartedly agree, and there was some continued discussion in the comments on how to coordinate the effort.
Since it’s such an obvious and good idea (no offense to MBunge{?}, but I’ve had the thought myself, many times, as I’m certain we all have), I was fairly certain several organizations must already be doing this on the web. With a bit of research today I found this site, https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=C2200
This seems to be a very good start. The link goes to their page on Cable & Satellite TV Production, but you’ll notice the search boxes in the right margin. Choose a drop down there and hit the magnifying glass and research any industry you prefer.
Does anyone know anything about this organization, and whether they are fair? Their mission statement on their “About” page sounds good, and the data I looked at seems to be in-line with what I’ve seen in other publications. If this is a reliable resource, let’s spread the word and start taking action.
Re Rufus-
Here is another more general site: https://www.2ndvote.com/
OK, boomers….
Here’s a new whine in an old Beatle, from the groove yard vault of moldy oldies-
I Want to Wash Your Hands (Lanolin-McCartney)
[As performed by the Germ-Men Measles]
Now you’ve got that something
I hope you’ll understand
When I say say that something
I want to wash your hands!
Oh please, say to me
You’ll let me be your man
And please say to me
You’ll let me wash your hands!
You’ll let me wash your hands!
And when I touch you I feel guilty inside
It’s such a feeling that my soap
I can’t hide, I can’t hide, I can’t hide!
Now I must say something
Hope it’s not out of place
When I say that something
I want to touch your face!
I want to touch your face!
I want to touch your face!
I want to touch your face!
As I said, I’m lukewarm about the Eagles. However, I thought Don Henley’s solo song, “The Boys of Summer,” was a masterpiece.
It had the real bite of real feeling, of time passing irretrievably and one’s twenties disappearing in the rear view.
The MTV video was great too, but has been entirely blocked on YouTube.
______________________________________
Out on the road today
I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said:
“Don’t look back, you can never look back”
Huxley,
The Eagles and Don Henley are big time blockers on YouTube. It’s wild how these classic rock bands block access to their music from younger generations in an effort to make a relatively small amount of money. All they are doing is insuring their music dies with all of us.
Well, the Eagles still had one acoustic guitar.
I hate electric guitars.
Really? The fn’ Eagles? I hate the Eagle.
Saw them in concert in 1975. Fun time. My girlfriend bought the tickets as a present for me. Even better.
Jim C. Orn:
I know a lot of people seem to hate the Eagles, so you’re not alone.
I like the Eagles, although I don’t like their YouTube blocking.
This song has appropriate words, though, for these stressful times:
Mike K, which operas have you seen in person? I was actually on the point of going to see Regula Mühlemann in Paris when everybody’s favorite virus turned up. There went that plan.
Griffin, thanks for that idea.
Oliver: 🙂
The Eagles came out of the country-rock movement which hit LA hard in the early 70s after the psychedelics wore off.
I’ve never tracked that down to my satisfaction. It seems Dylan kicked things off with “John Wesley Harding” (Dylan’s homage to Hank Williams’ “Luke the Drifter”) and “Nashville Skyline” then Gram Parsons joined the Byrds and the Byrds released their “Sweetheart of the Rodeo” album, which was a surprising move in 1968. Parsons turns out to be key to the country-rock story.
I didn’t start paying attention until later with the bands which came out of the Troubador club scene. Here’s the New Riders of the Purple Sage:
________________________________________
Well, I know Kris [Kristofferson] and Rita [Coolidge], and Marty Mull
Are meeting at the Troubadour
We’ll get it on with the Joy of Cooking
While the crowd cries out for more
‘Round six o’clock this morning
I’ll be gettin’ kind of slow
When all the shows are over, honey,
Tell me, where do you think I go?
–New Riders of the Purple Sage, “Lonesome LA. Cowboy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLA_Nw5P2mc
I always thought “Take It Easy” was written by Jackson Browne. Sorta, but not exactly–apparently he had a lot of help from Glenn Frey of the Eagles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_It_Easy#Composition
Joy of Cooking was an interesting band, basically two women, which was unusual in 1970 or so. I liked their first album a lot but haven’t heard it for, like, 49 years.
@huxley
Rick Nelson was a “pioneer” of country rock:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Nelson#Music_career
“In the mid-1960s, Nelson began to move towards country music, becoming a pioneer in the country-rock genre. He was one of the early influences of the so-called “California Sound” (which would include singers like Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt and bands such as Eagles). Yet Nelson himself did not reach the Top 40 again until 1970, when he recorded Bob Dylan’s “She Belongs to Me” with the Stone Canyon Band, featuring Randy Meisner, who in 1971 became a founding member of the Eagles, and former Buckaroo steel guitarist Tom Brumley.”
Oliver T.: True. One must not overlook Ricky Nelson when it comes to country-rock!
It wasn’t until his song, “Garden Party,” that I could hear him separate from that cute kid on “Ozzie and Harriet.”
____________________________________
If you gotta play at garden parties, I wish you a lotta luck
But if memories were all I sang, I rather drive a truck
It’s all right now, learned my lesson well
You see, ya can’t please everyone, so you got to please yourself
More of this,
https://spectator.org/stand-with-tucker/
please!
I remember 1975, around midnight a week before Christmas.
“I’m a-sittin’ on the corner in Winslow, Arizona”
in a car with two other midshipmen driving 36 hrs straight to the West Coast, going thru Winslow.
Getting stopped by cops for speeding; I was driving.
We talked to the cop for half an hour, about the Naval Academy, Vietnam, lots of stuff.
Then he gave me a ticket anyway.
My favorite Eagles album was Desperado, without great singles but comfy rock-a-billy-ish.
“Don’t you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She’ll beat you if she’s able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhe0ULrAHIw
Ya, choose love over money. Not bad advice … but yet with a current of anti-capitalism.
No, wait, no politics …
This is supposed to be a happy occasion…
Will return to Mark Knopfler marathon after this (better guitar, less pleasin’ voice).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECDzoRJHfdA
Mike K, which operas have you seen in person?
I saw one at Vienna Staatsoper that was the only time I’ve seen it. Boris Gudunov.
I had season tickets to the Orange County opera for years. Too many to list. LA Opera a few times after OC opera closed post 2008. San Diego opera for Magic Flute. Tucson opera (actually Arizona opera, which plays in both Tucson and PHX) for three years,
The OC opera used the SF opera sets. I like the classics and usually skipped the moderns like “Nixon in China.”
I should add that I have been to Willy Nelson concerts multiple times plus Jimmy Buffet and the BeeGees. Saw Willy and Waylon Jennings in a small country music club in San Juan Capistrano, the Coach House. 100 people in the place.
I should add that I have been to Willy Nelson concerts multiple times plus Jimmy Buffet and the BeeGees.
Mike K: Jimmy B. is on my bucket list to see, for “Cheeseburger in Paradise” to “Margaritaville” to his knockout cameo in Alan Jackson’s “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” which I’ve looped off YouTube more hours than I’m comfortable disclosing.
Damn, I’m doing it now.
__________________________________________
I could pay off my tab, pour myself in a cab
An’ be back to work before two
At a moment like this, I can’t help but wonder
What would Jimmy Buffett do?
“Alan Jackson, Jimmy Buffett – It’s Five O’ Clock Somewhere”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCjC543llU
Jimmy Buffet’s was the only concert I ever walked out of. Not mad, just bored and slightly annoyed. It was when Margaritaville was a big hit, and I loved that song, because I love the Gulf Coast beaches, and it really conjured them. Didn’t know his other stuff. It was in a huge university coliseum, packed with college students, and my leaving was partly because of them. Buffet just sort of pandered to them: he would say “beer” or “drunk” or “screw” or something, and they would start yelling and clapping. Boring. I was 30 and way past that kind of crap. But then Buffet is slightly older than me, and he apparently wasn’t past it.
Mac: Well, Buffett’s fans call themselves Parrotheads, for tropical shirts with parrots on them and in line with the moniker, Deadheads — fans of the Grateful Dead.
I’m also a Grateful Dead fan and I can sure get tired of the Deadhead mentality. It’s a place to visit, but not to live.
Jimmy Buffett is reputed to have a net worth of $560 mil. He didn’t get there with his music, but by being a shrewd businessman.
https://moneyinc.com/jimmy-buffett-net-worth/
“Buffett’s fans call themselves Parrotheads” Oh, don’t I know it! They are legion here–I live on the Gulf Coast, and in the specific area that he’s from. I’m sure he’s much better than that night indicated. And yes, he has been really good at capitalizing on his thing.
I wouldn’t call myself a Deadhead but I do like them, even more now than back then, actually. You’ve probably seen it, but if not the Martin Scorsese-produced documentary Long Strange Trip is really good.
Are you aware of the Grateful Dead of the Day site? A full concert recording every day! Way more than any rational human being could listen to but I’ve saved a couple of the links for future listening:
https://gratefuldeadoftheday.com/
Mike K: Jimmy B. is on my bucket list to see, for “Cheeseburger in Paradise”
My younger son and his wife met at a concert and go to another every year of their 20 year marriage, The concert I went to was disappointing because the “warm up” group took most of the time and he was only on a few minutes. He is still great. I can’t remember who they were,
I watched the 2-part documentary “Laurel Canyon” and it was such a lovely diversion. The musicians of Laurel Canyon (and environs) in their own words.
Highly recommended.
It draws a distinction between the first wave (Joni Mitchell, The Turtles, The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Love, plus The Monkees (!) and Frank Zappa who were hardly “country rock” but were some of the other weirdos living in the communal artist colony of the Canyon) and the second wave (Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, the dreaded Eagles) who were more knowledgeable about what they were getting into and wanted to be rock stars, not just artists. I love them all. That first wave wasn’t all about “love and peace”; Crosby, Stills & Nash all fought each other like demons. Things got petty.
I have loved the Eagles since I first heard them. As a guitar player they are fun to play and sing along with, even today after nearly 50 years.
I wouldn’t call myself a Deadhead but I do like them, even more now than back then, actually. You’ve probably seen it, but if not the Martin Scorsese-produced documentary Long Strange Trip is really good.
Are you aware of the Grateful Dead of the Day site?
Mac: “Long Strange Trip” is quite good. I love the Dead, but they are such a mixed bag.
Didn’t know the GD of the Day site. I’ll check it out.
Glenn Frey and Don Henley were nasty, greedy (they did not split the money evenly among all the band members), liberals but what a great group The Eagles were. “Take It to the Limit” is my favorite Eagles song.