that doc is okay but it's kinda sad how they couldn't afford/bother to get anybody to talk about Donovan besides... Donovan.
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
guess the 1968 version is on a recent reish of hurdy gurdy man, but can't find a download (legit or not) of it.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Do you just mean the 4:10 trippy version from Like It Is, as opposed to the earlier folky original? Or is there a third, later version still?
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
ummm, maybe? from wiki: When Epic Records was compiling Donovan's Greatest Hits, they were either unable or unwilling to secure the rights to the original recordings of "Catch the Wind" and "Colours". Donovan rerecorded both songs with a full backing band, and the rerecordings were included on the greatest hits album.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
The trippy version's one of my favourite songs ever. I'll get it to you now and you can figure out if that's the one you mean.
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
cool, thanks! basically looking for the non-dylanesque, psych version, yeah.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Take it from me, you're not looking very hard!
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
The '68 version is on the old/original (80s?) cd of Greatest hits.
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
you've got to pick up every stitch..
― steady yachting (Pillbox), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
not trying very hard? i googled the hell out of it! anyhoo, clemenza hooked me up! yayyyy!
― tylerw, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://photoserver.ws/files/iyudvfog3h9jzg4gkybc.jpg
THIS RECORD IS AWESOME. The Music Makers is screaming for dance floore treatment.
― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
Man, it had better rule with a bitchin cover like that!
― 50000000 elves (blank), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
One of the sun city girl dudes recorded Donavan's incoherent ramblings at a club a few years ago and was talking about putting it out on a 7" but i dunno if it ever happened.
― 50000000 elves (blank), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah Cosmic Wheels is cool!
― The actor that played Jesus made some odd choices. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
beatniks are out to make it rich
― picture jean rollin (Pillbox), Sunday, 15 April 2012 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
Creepy Donovan is the best Donovan. Covered by King Crimson too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyxfCQG1t4w
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Sunday, 15 April 2012 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
ROFL. We sang "Get Thy Bearings" in church if you can believe it! It is seriously funky with a spiritual theme. I play it all the time now.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Sunday, 15 April 2012 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
He was inducted into the HoF last night by John Mellencamp. Struck me as pretty random, but apparently John's a massive Donovan fan.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 15 April 2012 13:30 (twelve years ago) link
oh man I'd like to hear this
I try to avoid telling my donovan story online because I'm a nice fucking guy but he's a piece of fucking work imo
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 15 April 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
oh go on
― Number None, Sunday, 15 April 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, come on man.
BTW Donovan is so awesome on "Billion Dollar Babies." Kinda wish he and Alice had recorded a whole album.
― nobody gives a shit about the githzerai (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 16 April 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
it is very easy to imagine donovan being a complete dipshit irlhe did make some amazing music for a brief period of time
― buzza, Monday, 16 April 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
Bass on "Get Thy Bearings" is one of Danny Thompson's finest moments. As is "Sunny Goodge St"
― bham, Monday, 16 April 2012 08:40 (twelve years ago) link
it is very easy to imagine donovan being a complete dipshit irl
In fact he's a monumental egomaniac who claims to have invented and inspired every musical genre from 1965 onwards
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 16 April 2012 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
HMS Donovan is a great album. I'd put it up there with the best of ISB.
I don't understand any comparison of the two Ds. It always comes up due to that movie but come on... Apples and oranges. Both have their merits and both have put some dreary shit on tape too.
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Monday, 16 April 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
agree that they're very different animals.
Dylan is the highly superior animal tho lol
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 April 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
SO good.
"Open Road" fans out there? Has a fun ramshackle live feel to it, which is super cool after all the fussy (but brilliant) Mickie Most stuff.Find that I go back to this one even more than the rest.
― mr.raffles, Saturday, 20 October 2012 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
I don't remember that one - Cosmic Wheels is the cutoff point with him for me
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 October 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
This is so perfect:
http://www.donovan.ie/en/2014/02/donovan-master-classes-composition-guitar-styles/
MASTER CLASS FEES SUPPORT STUDENT MEDITATIONDonovan invites students for private one-on-one tuition in Compostion and Gutiar style.On a secluded Bahamain Island.There are limited places for 7 persons over one week.Only 6 string acoustic guitarist players and songwriters who compose on acoustic guitar can be considered.No electric guitars can be considered, as the Master Class is an instruction by Donovan for composers and guitarists who compose on 6 string acoustic guitar.No 12 string guitars are considered.The dates and secret location for the Master Class will be given plus the fees when a student is accepted by Donovan. Total privacy will be ensured for the students and the location secret.Only songwriters who have learned basic sets of guitar chords and have attempted songwriting can apply.Students would need to send a simple video of their performance on acoustic guitar and solo vocal of a self-penned song of their own making.An audio recording is not enough as Donovan needs to see you play your guitar also. Donovan will decide on the limited selection of students.Send link to your clip to supp✧✧✧@dono✧✧✧.i✧Send your videoclip link now!The location of the Master classes will be at a small exclusive resort on a secluded Bahamian Island.Accommodations and food included in the Fees.The location will be given to students when Donovan accepts the student and the deposit is received. This is to protect privacy.The Fee information for the 7 days is available only by email to supp✧✧✧@dono✧✧✧.i✧, and only after Donovan accepts the student.Students may bring their wife, husband, partner or friend as the Private Beach Cottage is for two persons.That means sharing a queen size bed not two separate beds in a cottage.The week can be your holiday also.The TuitionThe styles of guitar picking and chord structures that Donovan shared with The Beatles in India for their White Album will be taught as well as many more secret styles and compostion skills that have made Donovan one of the most unique guitarists and composers of this age.“Donovan is all over The White Album”George Harrison quote from The Beatles Anthology.“I will also show you how to access the creative field.”DonovanAFTER EXPENCES, A PORTION OF THE MASTER CLASS FEES WILL GO TO TEACHING STUDENTS TO MEDITATE IN DONOVAN’S HOMELAND OF SCOTLAND.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Thursday, 22 May 2014 05:39 (nine years ago) link
I saw a film only a month ago that used "Colours"--pretty sure it was Donovan's version from Greatest Hits, the electric version. It wasn't Rules of Attraction, it was something much more recent, within the past couple of years.
What's the movie?! I went through my recent posts on the "Last (x) movies" thread and can't figure out what it was.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
Listening to A Gift From A Flower to A Garden a fair bit at the moment - particularly the second half, which is goddamn lovely, especially Epistle to Derroll and The Mandolin Man.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
xp Tower, animated documentary from last year?
Or maybe the Amazon series Good Girls Revolt?
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
Tower, yes--thanks a lot.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
A Gift is really great but Mellow Yellow is still my favorite. esp "Writer in the Sun" and "Young Girl Blues" (and the title track ofc).
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 04:41 (six years ago) link
My safe word is "Barabajagal"
― Moodles, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 04:58 (six years ago) link
heh
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
I had no idea Donovan jumped on the disco bandwagon three years too late. Sadly most of it sounds like bad Bryan Ferry or his usual folky stuff, but this track is kind of a winner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bieyrpNaB-4
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Friday, 5 April 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
i've been obsessed w this dude lately. so much of his stuff i had just never heard, but that's been rectified thanks to spotify. well, the 60s stuff anyway. it doesn't appear that any of his 70s records are on there at all, jumping from '70s Open Road (p dope) to '80's Neutronica (which is...something). anything of interest in those intervening years?
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 23 September 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
Cosmic Wheels is p good
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 September 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
I see I said that upthread 7 years ago lol
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 September 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
cool. i'll see what i can find on youtube.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 23 September 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
My antediluvian baby
― Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
Beatniks are out to make it rich
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 04:54 (one year ago) link
The continent of Atlantis was an island
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 December 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
Now go home and get your shinebox.
― birdistheword, Monday, 12 December 2022 03:21 (one year ago) link
Now you’ve been away a long time. I got news for you: I don’t shine shoes no more.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 December 2022 03:45 (one year ago) link
Donovan by Bobbie Gentry. Odd song to choose and it doesn't really work but interesting nonetheless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKgof91goo
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 June 2023 12:55 (ten months ago) link
Part 1 (posted part 2 on the Zodiac thread):
youtube.com/watch?v=eJW6KtvyvDE
I mangle Bret Easton Ellis's name once or twice, and there was something else I egregiously messed up.
― clemenza, Friday, 22 March 2024 03:21 (one month ago) link
(Donovan's music in To Die For, L.I.E., The Rules of Attraction, and a few other films.)
― clemenza, Friday, 22 March 2024 03:23 (one month ago) link