Was a Linn-9000 used in Don Engle's "Boys of Summer"

this song fills me with a sense of hope, excitement and love for a life that seems like it used to be more simple.

^^^^

still love it. i imagine it me generation folk reflecting to it.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2820

The music was written by Mike Campbell, who worked with Tom Petty as a guitarist and producer for many years. He has also written tracks for many songs, including "Refugee," "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," and "Don't Do Me Like That." Campbell offered this to Petty, but he turned it down and the song went to Henley, who wrote the lyrics. Campbell also played guitar on this and produced it.

Campbell: "I used to have a 4-track machine in my house and I had just gotten a drum machine - it's when the Roger Linn drum machine first came out. I was playing around with that and came up with a rhythm. I made the demo on my little 4-track and I showed it to Tom, but at the time, the record we were working on, Southern Accents, it didn't really sound like anything that would fit into the album. The producer we were working with at the time, Jimmy Iovine, called me up one day and said he had spoken with Don, who I'd never met, and said that he was looking for songs. He gave me his number and I called him up and played it for him and he called me the next day and said he put it on in his car and had written these words and wanted to record it. That's kind of how it started. Basically, he wanted to recreate the demo as close as we could. We ended up changing the key for the voice. We actually cut it in one key, did the whole record with overdubs and everything, and then he decided to change the key like a half step up or something, we had to do the whole record again, but it turned out pretty good."

I've always heard it was an LM-1.

We actually cut it in one key, did the whole record with overdubs and everything, and then he decided to change the key like a half step up or something, we had to do the whole record again, but it turned out pretty good."

dang

har, Don Engle. Could definitely hear Tom Petty singing this song, even before I knew Mike Campbell wrote it.

i honestly cannot believe this song happened sometimes

Campbell's wrong about its suitability for Petty. I can totally have imagined "Boys of Summer" sitting beside the swirly, synth-coated psychedelia on Southern Accents.

cannot imagine it any other way besides how it is tbh

I think this is the only song involving Don Henley that I actually enjoy listening to

well, that's not true I always laugh when Disco Strangler comes on, but that's more of a laughing AT not with thing

did petty ever cover it?

but then we would have to hear him singing it.

Totally forgotten Henley song more people should know. Another example of thirtysomething-goes-New-Wave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6HOqur1IHA

I maintain that these boys of Summer are the same boys that feature in Thin Lizzy's 'The Boys Are Back In Town'.

Have you guys heard my 'poisoned summer' story? I'll repost it:

I once had an argument with the guitarist in my band on a long road trip about whether the Henley song was called 'Boys of Summer' (my claim) or 'Poisoned Summer' (his claim). We even wagered $10 on it. I pretended to be hesitant when making the wager because I really wanted to win, because he was such a c*nt. So I went, 'Er, er, alright, $10'. He then said words to the following effect:

'See, moley, that's the difference between you and me. You'll always lose bets because you're jewish, you're nervous. That's why jews will never be good poker players. You jews don't have the pokerfaces to win on a bet like this, cos you're too neurotic. You give yourselves away'.

I made him pay the $10. The only real issue was what nickname to give him from that point on. The singer and I couldn't decide between 'Pokerface' and 'Poisoned Summer'. In the end we just sacked him.

― moley, Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:55 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

holy shit

the best story. was gonna say something about how much i love this song, but the story is so much better.

i can totally see poisoned summer being a thing

If there is one thing Vision Quest taught us, it's that you cannot breakdance to "Lunatic Fringe."

wow moley

would've called him Punchface after I punched him in the face

I'm want to know what the guy's reaction was when he realized he lost the bet!

it's very odd that ppl exist who say things like that

I'm want to know what the guy's reaction was when he realized he lost the bet!

"don't look back, you can never look back..."

I flew aboard the linn 90000000 once

the last repetition of this chorus hits the warmest note

haha i heard this song today

just heard the dj sammy version o_O

lol @ dj sammy version. god i love this song so much though.

goonrock anthem?

i still can't believe this happened

Holy LOL at Don Engle.

i know should we get that changed

it's kind of upsetting

seeing 'Don Engle' just made me think that I'd been doing some weird morphemic surgery for years wrt who I thought 'Boys of Summer' was by.

We actually cut it in one key, did the whole record with overdubs and everything, and then he decided to change the key like a half step up or something, we had to do the whole record again, but it turned out pretty good."

i can now actually see how this was rly important. his register is perfect.

yes!! it's depressing to hear songs get the life sucked out of them when they're performed a half-step lower

whenever those pitched up songs appear on youtube that aren't the correct version i get really upset

hearing this while parked at a CVS the other day is the first time I got sad listening to this song :(

I do love that the Ataris' cover of this has faded into the background. whereas you still hear like, Alien Ant Farm's "Smooth Criminal" on occasion from that era.

also Henley says he did actually see a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac but he may have been making it up.

It was actually a Lincoln.

lol totally missed that OP called him Don Engle

DJ Sammy version >>>>>

Boys of Sumner

I used to like this song but I kinda hate it now

boxedjoy otm

is boxedjoy a pizza reference?

sadly not

one of the things I love about the DJ Sammy version is that it sounds exactly like every trance-pop song from that era and whenever I hear it I'm back at school, taking my Standard Grade exams and drinking in the park, the nostalgia is even more pronounced. Making it sound like the most generic period piece really works with the song itself.