― everything, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
I think that F6-9 is right for "Wichita," by the way--I've always played it in F major.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9x_1Ri3XxE&feature=related
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 30 March 2008 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Worthy of note: It still pains Jimmy Webb to this day that he "falsely" rhymed time with line.
― libcrypt, Sunday, 30 March 2008 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Heard him confess this on Fresh Air.
― libcrypt, Sunday, 30 March 2008 02:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Jimmy Webb is a grumpy old man.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 30 March 2008 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I just want to say the comment section in that Glen Campbell youtube link above is the greatest thing I have ever read in my entire life.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 30 March 2008 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link
One of my favourite songs ever
'And I need you more than want you and I want you for all time'
The Urge Overkill version is worth a listen. MASSIVE open, alt- tuned chords.I just love the last eight bars. It finishes on one of those lovely suspended chords. If anybody knows the chord, please let me know!
The original is the best though. What a voice!
― Fer Ark, Sunday, 30 March 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
the reunion album is v. good
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Saturday, 12 December 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Somebody on my Facebook just shared a video of this song, seeing fit to add the caption "Bitches love a lineman!" to the post.
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 June 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
Really dumb but very touching misinterpretation of the song by its best interpreter at the end of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6J99mWFqMU&feature=related
― Three Word Username, Friday, 29 June 2012 07:00 (twelve years ago) link
Would love to see that version of "Daddy Sang Bass" in its entirety
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 June 2012 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
no one mention freedy johnston's version yet? pretty solid.
― jimmy_chop, Friday, 29 June 2012 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
No, it was mentioned a few times.
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 June 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
One of the greatest songs ever.
Hell, even Kool & the Gang covered it on Live at the Sex Machine
This was so mindblowing to me when I found out about it. I mean what now?
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 29 June 2012 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
Went on Spotify and didn't see Kool and the Gang version but did find one by Dennis Brown.
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 June 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
OK, got it thx.
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 June 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
We discussed the GC farewell tour a little on this thread Glen Campbell: Outlaw!
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 June 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
Obviously the best song ever written. Maria McKee does a particularly haunting version of it.
― Everything You Like Sucks, Friday, 29 June 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9x_1Ri3XxE
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 27 July 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
well shit
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 27 July 2013 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
damn, Glen's people are fast!
― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Saturday, 27 July 2013 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
Love this one. Looks like Glen is on some other planet with a 6-string bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qoymGCDYzU
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 July 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
(and one of my favorite covers of it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGPDFHbVjk
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 July 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nFYK5IGDUY
― pplains, Saturday, 27 July 2013 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
i'm currently working out a cover of this for my cabaret project.
― hannah arendt you glad you didn't say banana (get bent), Saturday, 27 July 2013 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
That's the Jaguar Baritone guitar.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 27 July 2013 05:19 (eleven years ago) link
Baritone guitar suggestions?
Nope. It's a Bass VI - three pickups instead of the two on the Jag baritone. More to the point, Jag baritones weren't made until 2004.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 July 2013 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Bass_VI ) - "Glen Campbell used a Fender Bass VI (borrowed from fellow Wrecking Crew musician Carol Kaye to play the solo heard on his songs "Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston"."
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 July 2013 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2012/01/behind-the-song-wichita-lineman/
“He and (producer) Al DeLory were obviously looking for a follow-up to ‘Phoenix.’ And I remember writing ‘Wichita Lineman’ that afternoon. That was a song I absolutely wrote for Glen.”It was the first time he had written a song expressly for another artist. But had he conceived any part of “Wichita” before that call?“Not really,” Jimmy says. “I mean I had a lot of ‘prairie gothic’ images in my head. And I was writing about the common man, the blue-collar hero who gets caught up in the tides of war, as in ‘Galveston,’ or the guy who’s driving back to Oklahoma because he can’t afford a plane ticket (‘Phoenix’). So it was a character that I worked with in my head. And I had seen a lot of panoramas of highways and guys up on telephone wires … I didn’t want to write another song about a town, but something that would be in the ballpark for him.”So even though it was written specifically for Glen, he still wanted it to be a ‘character’ song?“Well, I didn’t want it to be about a rich guy!” he laughs. “I wanted it to be about an ordinary fellow. Billy Joel came pretty close one time when he said ‘Wichita Lineman’ is ‘a simple song about an ordinary man thinking extraordinary thoughts.’ That got to me; it actually brought tears to my eyes. I had never really told anybody how close to the truth that was.“What I was really trying to say was, you can see someone working in construction or working in a field, a migrant worker or a truck driver, and you may think you know what’s going on inside him, but you don’t. You can’t assume that just because someone’s in a menial job that they don’t have dreams … or extraordinary concepts going around in their head, like ‘I need you more than want you; and I want you for all time.’ You can’t assume that a man isn’t a poet. And that’s really what the song is about.”He wasn’t certain they would go for it. “In fact, I thought they hadn’t gone for it,” he says. “They kept calling me back every couple of hours and asking if it was finished. I really didn’t have the last verse written. And finally I said, ‘Well, I’m gonna send it over, and if you want me to finish it, I’ll finish it.’“A few weeks later I was talking to Glen, and I said, ‘Well I guess Wichita Lineman didn’t make the cut.’ And Glen said, ‘Oh yeah! We recorded that!’ And I said, ‘Listen, I didn’t really think that song was finished …’ And he said, ‘Well it is now!’”
It was the first time he had written a song expressly for another artist. But had he conceived any part of “Wichita” before that call?
“Not really,” Jimmy says. “I mean I had a lot of ‘prairie gothic’ images in my head. And I was writing about the common man, the blue-collar hero who gets caught up in the tides of war, as in ‘Galveston,’ or the guy who’s driving back to Oklahoma because he can’t afford a plane ticket (‘Phoenix’). So it was a character that I worked with in my head. And I had seen a lot of panoramas of highways and guys up on telephone wires … I didn’t want to write another song about a town, but something that would be in the ballpark for him.”
So even though it was written specifically for Glen, he still wanted it to be a ‘character’ song?
“Well, I didn’t want it to be about a rich guy!” he laughs. “I wanted it to be about an ordinary fellow. Billy Joel came pretty close one time when he said ‘Wichita Lineman’ is ‘a simple song about an ordinary man thinking extraordinary thoughts.’ That got to me; it actually brought tears to my eyes. I had never really told anybody how close to the truth that was.
“What I was really trying to say was, you can see someone working in construction or working in a field, a migrant worker or a truck driver, and you may think you know what’s going on inside him, but you don’t. You can’t assume that just because someone’s in a menial job that they don’t have dreams … or extraordinary concepts going around in their head, like ‘I need you more than want you; and I want you for all time.’ You can’t assume that a man isn’t a poet. And that’s really what the song is about.”
He wasn’t certain they would go for it. “In fact, I thought they hadn’t gone for it,” he says. “They kept calling me back every couple of hours and asking if it was finished. I really didn’t have the last verse written. And finally I said, ‘Well, I’m gonna send it over, and if you want me to finish it, I’ll finish it.’
“A few weeks later I was talking to Glen, and I said, ‘Well I guess Wichita Lineman didn’t make the cut.’ And Glen said, ‘Oh yeah! We recorded that!’ And I said, ‘Listen, I didn’t really think that song was finished …’ And he said, ‘Well it is now!’”
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 July 2013 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
Stop killing my dreams man.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 27 July 2013 06:06 (eleven years ago) link
That is most likely the Bass VI heard all over Pet Sounds and Smile if that's Carole's.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 27 July 2013 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
Nope. She played a regular P-bass throughout the Wrecking Crew years - only real non-standardness being flat-wound strings and playing with a pick.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 July 2013 06:52 (eleven years ago) link
Does anyone have a Spotify J Webb performed by others playlist for the novice?
― Thelema & Louise (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 27 July 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://sadyoutube.com/post/49853194223/when-this-song-came-out-i-was-under-16http://sadyoutube.com/post/54486028048/everytime-i-hear-this-song-i-remember-going-outhttp://sadyoutube.com/post/52276658436/this-song-makes-me-cry-my-dad-was-a-truck
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 27 July 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
― Orpheus in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 July 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
The lyrical interpretation earlier in this thread was pretty eye-opening; I always figured "And if it snows that that stretch down south won't ever stand the strain" meant "If she freezes me out, these blue balls are gonna kill me."
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 27 July 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
some weapons-grade challopery up in this thread
― Mancunian stagger (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 July 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
The version he did on Jools in 2008 was pretty amazing. Stay for the "fine" at the very end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMFOnpT9RkQ
― that's not my post, Sunday, 28 July 2013 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
Glen Campbell still a pretty damn good guitar player at age 72 in that clip. Lot of guys in a group setting like that would have just sang the tune and left someone in the ensemble to do all of those fills from the original arrangement.
― earlnash, Sunday, 28 July 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
OTM. Was just telling James Redd, Sr. something to that effect.
― Orpheus in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 July 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
that's great, as is the weird Forbidden Planet alien world studio one.
That Simpsons bit where Homer's going through his records with the implication that they're terrible and Glen Campbell is one of them bothers me beyond reason.
― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Monday, 29 July 2013 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://sadyoutube.com/post/52276658436/this-song-makes-me-cry-my-dad-was-a-truck
I am never clicking through to read this, because "My dad was a truck" is perfect enough without seeing the rest of the sentence.
― Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Monday, 29 July 2013 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM6tER2llgU
― derpoleon and d'ohsephine (get bent), Monday, 29 July 2013 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZascMOE42Tw
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 May 2017 17:45 (seven years ago) link
― D'mnuchin returns (darraghmac), Monday, 29 May 2017 18:35 (seven years ago) link
people on this thread dissing Reunion.... my god. you sick people. was super happy to tell Webb how much i loved it when i caught him live.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link