Let's talk about Donovan

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?

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.

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.

cool, thanks! basically looking for the non-dylanesque, psych version, yeah.

guess the 1968 version is on a recent reish of hurdy gurdy man, but can't find a download (legit or not) of it.

Take it from me, you're not looking very hard!

The '68 version is on the old/original (80s?) cd of Greatest hits.

you've got to pick up every stitch..

not trying very hard? i googled the hell out of it! anyhoo, clemenza hooked me up! yayyyy!

http://photoserver.ws/files/iyudvfog3h9jzg4gkybc.jpg

THIS RECORD IS AWESOME. The Music Makers is screaming for dance floore treatment.

Man, it had better rule with a bitchin cover like that!

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.

Oh yeah Cosmic Wheels is cool!

beatniks are out to make it rich

Creepy Donovan is the best Donovan. Covered by King Crimson too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyxfCQG1t4w

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.

He was inducted into the HoF last night by John Mellencamp. Struck me as pretty random, but apparently John's a massive Donovan fan.

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.

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

oh go on

Yeah, come on man.

BTW Donovan is so awesome on "Billion Dollar Babies." Kinda wish he and Alice had recorded a whole album.

it is very easy to imagine donovan being a complete dipshit irl
he did make some amazing music for a brief period of time

Bass on "Get Thy Bearings" is one of Danny Thompson's finest moments. As is "Sunny Goodge St"

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

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.

agree that they're very different animals.

Dylan is the highly superior animal tho lol

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.

I don't remember that one - Cosmic Wheels is the cutoff point with him for me

This is so perfect:

http://www.donovan.ie/en/2014/02/donovan-master-classes-composition-guitar-styles/

MASTER CLASS FEES SUPPORT STUDENT MEDITATION
Donovan 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 Tuition
The 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.”
Donovan
AFTER EXPENCES, A PORTION OF THE MASTER CLASS FEES WILL GO TO TEACHING STUDENTS TO MEDITATE IN DONOVAN’S HOMELAND OF SCOTLAND.

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.

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.

xp Tower, animated documentary from last year?

Or maybe the Amazon series Good Girls Revolt?

Tower, yes--thanks a lot.

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).

My safe word is "Barabajagal"

heh

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

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?

Cosmic Wheels is p good

I see I said that upthread 7 years ago lol

cool. i'll see what i can find on youtube.

My antediluvian baby

Beatniks are out to make it rich

The continent of Atlantis was an island

Now go home and get your shinebox.

Now you’ve been away a long time. I got news for you: I don’t shine shoes no more.

Donovan by Bobbie Gentry. Odd song to choose and it doesn't really work but interesting nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKgof91goo

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.

(Donovan's music in To Die For, L.I.E., The Rules of Attraction, and a few other films.)