― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 8 November 2003 04:05 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Saturday, 8 November 2003 04:07 (twenty years ago) link
― hellbaby (hellbaby), Saturday, 8 November 2003 04:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 8 November 2003 04:17 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 8 November 2003 04:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 8 November 2003 04:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 8 November 2003 04:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 8 November 2003 05:00 (twenty years ago) link
― jazz odysseus, Saturday, 8 November 2003 05:08 (twenty years ago) link
― TK, Saturday, 8 November 2003 05:22 (twenty years ago) link
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― jazz odysseus, Saturday, 8 November 2003 05:41 (twenty years ago) link
― jazz odysseus, Saturday, 8 November 2003 05:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 8 November 2003 05:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 8 November 2003 06:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 8 November 2003 06:08 (twenty years ago) link
I was never officially a suspect in his death by the way.
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 8 November 2003 06:13 (twenty years ago) link
― musicmope (musicmope), Saturday, 8 November 2003 11:40 (twenty years ago) link
2. He lost his wife and kids in a house fire.
― Officer Pupp, Saturday, 8 November 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Saturday, 8 November 2003 15:29 (twenty years ago) link
― JSizzler, Saturday, 8 November 2003 21:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Saturday, 8 November 2003 21:18 (twenty years ago) link
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― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 8 November 2003 22:31 (twenty years ago) link
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― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Sunday, 9 November 2003 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
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His close friends knew that he wasn't blind, and would refer to him jokingly as "The All-Seeing Orb". -- jazz odysseus (nomorespa...), November 8th, 2003.
Those two posts made my entire evening. I did end up hooping tonight with murky results and was nursing quite the frantic comedown until jazz odysseus set me straight. Cheers mon, I'll sleep to your honor.
― DarrensCoq, Sunday, 9 November 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link
― DarrensCoq, Sunday, 9 November 2003 15:06 (twenty years ago) link
Now I'm imagining you in Blue Velvet, N.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:13 (twenty years ago) link
if only Roy Orbison hadn't died, b/c a duet w/ Morrissey would have been so cool!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 9 November 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 9 November 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Burr (Burr), Sunday, 9 November 2003 22:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 9 November 2003 23:29 (twenty years ago) link
This may not really be classified as "interesting" though.
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 9 November 2003 23:35 (twenty years ago) link
I'm sure that Nick Cave can find a mid-'50s equivalent, easy, But I'm unsure who? Elvis?
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 9 November 2003 23:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 02:54 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 03:47 (twenty years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 November 2004 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
The revival of this thread led me to listen to Orbisongs and In Dreams (the album) again this this afternoon. I'd never properly appreciated 'House Without Windows' and '(Say) You're My Girl)' before. Just thinking about Roy Orbison makes me sad.
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
'Mind you, people do not realize how much is on each roll. I bet that with a single roll alone I could wrap you up entirely.'
Roy Orbison sits impassively like a monochrome Buddha. My palms are sweaty.
'I will take that bet,' says Roy. 'If you succeed I will give you tickets to my new concert. If you fail I will take Jetta, as a lesson to you not to speak boastfully.'
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link
-- cºzen (skiplevel...), November 7th, 2004.
his best songs deserve to be a lot longer. as it is they often feel like they're over before they've begun. "it's over" is the classic example, but i guess that works on a thematic level.
i find chris isaak really sympathetic, although i haven't listened to his records in ages.
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Wait there's also Live from Birmingham, Live from Queen's Theatre, and Live from The Fiesta Club. Set Lists vary slightly. This one is the only one without "Leah," which is one of my favorites, although it is the only one with a cover of "When I Stop Dreaming," which is how I found it.
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 June 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
my god this concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YG__LBJVZ0&feature=relmfu
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
'in dreams' is about the best song anyone ever wrote.― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, November 7, 2004 7:45 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Worth repeating.
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Sunday, 21 October 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
I would not have expected the best song anyone ever wrote to start with the words "a candy-colored clown..."
― Poliopolice, Friday, 30 January 2015 06:01 (nine years ago) link
...yet here we are.
Up until recently, I had discs from the box set in rotation in the car changer. I must say, all the superlatives thrown at the Monument stuff are true: amazing production elevating even the lesser material to stratospheric heights, and THAT VOICE. Interesting songwriting too. Have ya'll actually listened to "Leah"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Ib3_jMp9s
Pretty strange...everything...for a hit from '63 or so.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 January 2015 07:29 (nine years ago) link
got sucked in again into watching the 'Give Us Money' presentation of Orbison's Black and White Night on PBS
TCB band backing him up, Bruce and Elvis Costello and Tom Waits and kd lang and bonnie raitt just chilling on stage and you can't for a second take your eyes off the Big O.
Blows my mind that that beautiful voice comes out of him so seemingly effortlessly, it just goes there
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 April 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link
Otm
― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 April 2017 18:55 (seven years ago) link
i haven't watched that show in a while, that's a good reminder to put it back in the queue.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 23 April 2017 18:59 (seven years ago) link
it's so good
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 April 2017 19:10 (seven years ago) link
Something good in a similar vain is the one Dave Edmunds did with Carl Perkins.
― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 April 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
wow never seen that. i'll def have to check that out
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 April 2017 19:52 (seven years ago) link
Got my favorite guitar duel of all time, on Pretty Woman, with Springsteen knowing better and just sitting back and doing his basic box of blues, vs James Burton tearing it up.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 April 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
yes! i loved that
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 April 2017 21:52 (seven years ago) link
god those TCB guys are so tight
I adore his music.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 01:37 (seven years ago) link
Nice! I'm glad you put "Communication Breakdown" in there.
― The Pickety Third Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 01:50 (seven years ago) link
Roy is magical imo
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 02:03 (seven years ago) link
VegemiteGrrl, you know what's magical?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5N9IHqqGcA
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 02:11 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tt5DE4hbYY
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 08:38 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7ltMHQMUFE
― Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
Ha
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
Exactly
― Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
Eno sounds lovely here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPN0EHyy09Y
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 July 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
Dylan said something in Chronicles to the effect that listening to Orbison's hits when they first came out showed him that you could break the rules and make great records that reached a lotta people. An Orbison bio (blanking on the title), quoted a British journalist: "brave and chinless"--perfect tag, esp. re: observing the reception that RO got when The Beatles had him as opening act (a mistake there, lads).
― dow, Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
This photo fills me with joy.
https://sonicmoremusic.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/135172713781351.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 3 July 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
Amazing! Who are the other guys? A couple look almost familiar---
― dow, Sunday, 3 July 2022 00:35 (one year ago) link
Rick Rubin, Roy, Danzig and ... time-traveler Wolfgang Van Halen?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 July 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
L-R: Rick Rubin, George Drakoulias, Roy Orbison, Glenn Danzig.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 3 July 2022 00:51 (one year ago) link
There's a neat anecdote from Danzig in the liners to the Roy box about being invited to Roy's estate for a writing session for "Life Fades Away". He's waiting in a sitting room for Roy to come down, so he picks up and starts playing this priceless antique Spanish guitar that's on display. Roy suddenly appears and Danzig gets embarrassed and stops playing. Roy tells him, "No, no--continue. That's what it's made for."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 3 July 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
L-R: Crusty Wilbury, Cheeky Wilbury, Lefty Wilbury, Farty Wilbury
― Bunheads Pilot Enthusiast (morrisp), Sunday, 3 July 2022 01:51 (one year ago) link
Lol
― calstars, Sunday, 3 July 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
Finally listening to Mystery Girl after all these years. It has an Albert Hammond co-write.#onethread. Maybe newly reissued King of Hearts is next.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 07:27 (one year ago) link
I was at a trivia thing Saturday night, and one of the questions identified the Traveling Wilburys as the five principals plus Eric Clapton...? I could only guess that they were going by album credits and Clapton contributed backing to a song or two.
― clemenza, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
!
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
That doesn't sound right at all. Harrison does appear on and contributes a song to Clapton's Journeyman.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 November 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
2 live crew got away with their rip off of pretty women
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 14 November 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
Sorry, meant to say “Mercy!”
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
Here's something interesting about Roy Orbison that doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet - he starred in a feature film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fastest_Guitar_Alive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK9JwuqZXWM
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 07:53 (one year ago) link
Roy Orbison: “In Dreams”“Just before he made his comeback with The Traveling Wilburys, before he died, I saw him at the Mean Fiddler. It was just him, his guitar and voice, so beautiful, so moving—what a fucking guy. And I was waiting out back to meet him and I did. Y’know what he said to me? “Get out of the way, son,’ as he pushed past me on the way to his limousine.”
https://cocteautwins.com/robin-guthrie-my-favourite-records-melody-maker.html
lol
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Mercy
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
At least he added "son." Respectful if patronizing.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son, you've never walked in that man's shoes.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
Pretty shoes too
http://www.rebeccapromitzer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/booties.jpeg
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
Well that didn't work. Here's a link.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
it worked (I see the pretty shoes)
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
The book includes an account of how the Big O accidentally developed his sunglasses image while on a U.K. tour with the Beatles in 1963. “He had left his regular glasses on a plane, right before the tour," Roy Jr. told Rolling Stone. "He had the dark glasses with him and decided to keep wearing them. Dad wasn't able to see without glasses. When he got off the plane in England, people were taking pictures and that's what they saw, Dad with the dark glasses."
Read More: Roy Orbison's Son Reveals Why He Started Wearing Dark Glasses | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/roy-orbison-dark-glasses/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
"Running Scared" never stops amazing me
the lyric constructed in such a way that you don't exactly know whether it's tragedy or celebration until the very last word
(ok the rhyme structure clues you in 1 line earlier but ffs)
― partez Maroc anthem (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 December 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
also the only singer whose voice i love more than Roy's is Al Green
the only singer
Is this really the only time he ever performed this song live?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvR1YgT7QYs
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 January 2023 01:41 (one year ago) link
HI DERE#onethread
― The Big Candy-O (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 January 2023 02:28 (one year ago) link