I don't care what they may say I don't know what they may do I don't care what they may say Jesus is just alright oh yea Jesus is just alright
― gershy, Monday, 7 January 2008 07:32 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah the live recordings are pretty ragged, and some of the instrumentation is almost inaudible. and the packaging--i can barely get the discs out of the sleeves. but given the paucity of burrito bros material (and yeah it's unfortunate this was billed as a "gram parsons" release) it's quite a find.
― amateurist, Monday, 7 January 2008 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link
wow, total classic. i'm just listening to a mix of gram parsons stuff a friend sent me, this is all pretty amazing. never really gave him a listen before.
― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 10 January 2008 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Jesus is just alright
haha, yes, I didn't die of shock at the 700 Club thing either and in fact, I was one of the few regulars in the newsgroup to support him on it. (this was more like 10 years ago actually, more I think about it).
The last time I had seen him was in the gym in a high school in Edison, NJ so i kind of felt that if he has a chance to be on TV, he should really jump on it no matter what. I shouldn't have implied that I was that bothered about the 700 Club thing because I wasn't-- although looking back, it ain't exactly a feather in his cap.
I am a bit of a Roger "revisionist" though and as much as I love Rog (and first got the thrill of meeting him when I was a teenager in 1978 at a quite ipromptu radio session, where we all crammed into the booth to sing along on "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"), I do have several reservations about it, not the least of which was his luring Gram away from LHI to front the Byrds and then wiping his vocals off the tape, only for them to appear long after he was dead. I think that this was cowardly, somewhat typical of Roger's calculated behavior both past and future, and that it is quite pathetic to invite someone in to front your band just a few short years after you started it (setting aside the issue that you had already forced out the lead singer and main songwriter whose genius you hadn't properly appreciated).
But yeah, Jesus is just alright w me too...
― Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 10 January 2008 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone please, please, please explain to me why most people prefer Grievous Angel over GP. I like Grievous Angel, but GP is one of the 20 greatest albums ever written.
― Reatards Unite, Saturday, 6 December 2008 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I like me some International Submarine Band.
― Hinklepicker, Saturday, 6 December 2008 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i like sweetheart of the rodeo
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 6 December 2008 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I have it on excellent authority that when I was four years old my favorite records were Sweetheart of the Rodeo and John Wesley Harding.
― Passenger 57 (rogermexico.), Saturday, 6 December 2008 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i think the grievous angel love is probably colored by the title track (because who doesn't love it?). and also maybe just its retroactive aura of impending doom. but i totally agree that gp is superior.
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 6 December 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
the burritos live disc that came out a while back on amoeba is worth getting, but who the fuck decided on the billing, jeez
― velko, Saturday, 6 December 2008 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Hot Burrito nr 2 is my favourite song of the moment FUCK. such an awesome song. cant listen to the whole album all the way through as i am not a country girl at heart.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 14 February 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
i can't get w/ people who would say 'dud'
― mark cl, Friday, 8 May 2009 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
so classic it hurts
gram's the king of heartbreak
― mark cl, Friday, 8 May 2009 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
whatever that means
a grand piano made entirely of smack
― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Friday, 8 May 2009 04:27 (fourteen years ago) link
this old earthquake's gonna leave me in the poor house
― mark cl, Friday, 8 May 2009 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
sin city is the best song i've listened to all year
<3 his cover of "to love somebody" so much...
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Friday, 8 May 2009 07:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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word, esp the first part
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 8 May 2009 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Dud. I have FBB's'Gilded Palace...' and the one after it on a single CD, and well, I don't know, it's just too *country* for me. The press would have us believe all this stuff about creating a 'New American Music'. These two albums contain some fairly pleasant country-rock, but there is such a high percentage of the worst kind of trad, mawkish old country in there too, that this claim seems absurd.He ruined the Byrds too - although I guess it's ultimately McGuinn's fault for letting in turds like Skip Battin afterwards.― Dr. C, Wednesday, March 14, 2001 7:00 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark
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fuck you imo
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 8 May 2009 07:10 (fourteen years ago) link
still feeling blue didn't do shit and we'll sweep out the ashes was too ragged and then BOOM a song for you and i'm rapt and will listen to anything with this man's name on it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 June 2009 07:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean i own mad hank williams and conway twitty and patsy cline and david allen coe and shit but the fiddles on still feeling blue are so fuckin trebly i can't even really listen. a song for you on is the best country soul record ever made tho.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 June 2009 07:41 (fourteen years ago) link
still feeling blue is all about the pedal steel
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080)(gr8080)♪☺♫☻ (velko), Friday, 5 June 2009 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
hoos u heard $1000 Wedding?
― clotpoll, Friday, 5 June 2009 08:07 (fourteen years ago) link
hell yes i have and it can't be fucked with imo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 June 2009 08:24 (fourteen years ago) link
velko ty for the correction i totally thought those were fiddles all this time and i feel a douche
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 June 2009 08:25 (fourteen years ago) link
and now hoos still feel a douche.
― james k polk, Friday, 5 June 2009 09:01 (fourteen years ago) link
xxpost Mekons did an awesome cover of that song btw
― clotpoll, Friday, 5 June 2009 09:26 (fourteen years ago) link
the back-to-back jams of still feeling blue & we'll sweep out the ashes do it for me every time
― mark cl, Friday, 5 June 2009 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
hoos listen to 'sin city'
or 'return of the grevious angel' god this guy is so good
so guys gp or grevious angel? i think i like gp. what i really like tho is the 2-disc sacred hearts anthology that basically has both these albums + all kinds of stuff from ISB/byrds/FBB
― mark cl, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^OTMBest present I got last year (thank u gf). Want a Nudie suit (gf protests).
― willem, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
haha me too
― mark cl, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I checked out this guy's records from the library and was surprised by how shitty they were. I was led to believe that this guy was some kind of genius.
― Jesus Christ, Attorney at Law (res), Friday, 5 June 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
wife says i play too much gram parsons
do u like country music? xp
― mark cl, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link
anyways so i've also been reading 'twenty thousand roads' by david meyer, prob the most detailed bio of gram that i've come across (tho i know there are others out there). really fascinating book. guy has an irrational hatred for the eagles (then again i suppose most people do) and has a few quirks but all in all it's a really interesting and entertaining read. especially enjoyed the nellcote/stones stuff during the recording of 'exile'
― mark cl, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
through tons of interviews what meyer conveys so well is the effect gp had on everyone around him - so many people were like 'yea i didn't really think much about country music, thought it was mostly for hicks until gram sat me down and played me a bunch of songs'
― mark cl, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
*checks amazon*ooh, might want to get that. i'm not that familiar with gp apart from the musics
― willem, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
like a lot of musician bios i never read them start to finish - i just bounce around and pick up chapters here and there, but it's really good. there's also a big section in that back w/ a suggested discography of country records gram loved, albums by his contemporaries, and later bands that were influenced by him
― mark cl, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I do actually-- well, the old stuff. Not whatever passes for country these days.
― Jesus Christ, Attorney at Law (res), Friday, 5 June 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
what didn't u like about parsons?
― mark cl, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i enjoyed that book a lot, tho my major takeaway was that gram had a totally weird and fucked up life.
― hugging used to mean something (call all destroyer), Friday, 5 June 2009 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
this is true
― mark cl, Friday, 5 June 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't really get into Parsons because what I've heard sounds like some rich kid who stumbled upon country music and wanted to adopt it.
― Kerm, Friday, 5 June 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
ha u get that from his music or from reading that he came from a rich family?
― mark cl, Friday, 5 June 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
b/c i don't really know how someone could tell from listening any particular song that he came from wealth
more "steeped in" than "stumbled upon" imo
― hugging used to mean something (call all destroyer), Friday, 5 June 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i promise that i'm going to go back and read the other 102 posts in this thread, but wtf is up with the first three posts. holy shit, a criticism of G.P. /Grievous Angel that "parsons's voice works much better in tandem with another singer", without even mentioning that those albums were basically duets with emmylou fucking harris?
it's been a very gram parsons weekend. i have been fond of his byrds output for a while now, and knew the 'hot burritos' on the first flying burrito bros, but i had never really set aside a bunch of consecutive time to focus on his albums with the bros and his solo albums. they are so, so good. i love that feeling of hearing a personal instant classic, knowing i'm going to hear these songs a ton of more times.
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Saturday, 8 June 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
Early ILX is pretty much ChallopsCity.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 8 June 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
That’s the place for you and me
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 June 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
Someone gave me two boxes of albums a few days ago. Only kept about 20, the best thing being a late-'70s reissue of the Early Years compilation (slightly different cover than the original).
― clemenza, Sunday, 3 November 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
Saw the bio Twenty Thousand Roads in The Strand this week, thinking about reading it. Either that or Will Birch’s Nick Lowe bio.
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 November 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
there was a tribute album that came out like 20 years ago that was pretty good, def one of the very few of these trendy bands covering canonical artists comps that I would reach for over and over
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Sunday, 3 November 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
“On his head an amphetamine crown”
― calstars, Saturday, 4 January 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
What would I keep? These.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 February 2020 03:43 (four years ago) link
"How Much I've Lied" is on there twice.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 February 2020 03:56 (four years ago) link
Good -- I can slip "Hippie Boy" in there.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 February 2020 03:57 (four years ago) link
No "Sin City," Alfred?? I couldn't do without all of Gilded Palace, Grievous Angel, parts of several others--thought some of the GP material worked better on that live album Hoos cheers for upthread (the Fallen Angels being pretty much the GP/GA studio band). He had this little, crinkly, quirky voice---a bit teary here, sneery there, but good with the succinct phrasing, occasional Lou Reedy dreams sliding by---think he mostly knew he was better with other voices, especially stepping back just a little, so that less experienced Emmylou had to step up, or sound like it.This is a handy overview, with his voice mixed back up on the Byrds tracks, before Sony did that, I think:https://www.discogs.com/Gram-Parsons-Warm-Evenings-Pale-Mornings-Bottled-Blues-1963-1973/release/3275973
― dow, Saturday, 1 February 2020 05:16 (four years ago) link
Chris Hillman is the voice you hear in Hippie Boy
― buzza, Saturday, 1 February 2020 05:52 (four years ago) link
https://coolspod.com/products/shopcoolpod-3d-custom-gram-parsons-nudie-suit-apparel-v2-1
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link
“Yes you loved meAnd you sold my clothes”
― calstars, Sunday, 10 April 2022 00:45 (two years ago) link
that Live 1973 album is such a lovely thing, i listen to it a lot
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 June 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
shit, i don't listen to it enough!
no one has asked for it, and this would convince zero juries of my peers, but i have to give my excuse anyway:
i have his GP and Grievous Angel LPs, along with Notorious Byrd Brothers, and i played the crap out of them. but 1) when i moved i left all my LPs behind except for like 20. GP and Grievous Angel are among the chosen.
But my terrible shame is that I'm not sure I've even heard the Live 1973 album at all. gonna fix that tonight.
*tip of the hat*
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 12 June 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
it has a lot of warmth imoand i love that version of “we’ll sweep out the ashes”
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 June 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
Thanks for the rec! Listening now and Lordy Gram struck some kind of gold getting Emmylou for backing vocals.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 12 June 2022 01:59 (one year ago) link
there’s an alternate reality where the Grateful Dead have Emmylou instead of Donna.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 12 June 2022 02:01 (one year ago) link
it’s stunning to realize emmylou had only recorded her first album just a few years prior, she’s still so new and young but so incredible already… her harmonies with gram are lightyears above what he’d done w hillmani mean, apples and oranges really but still
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 June 2022 03:13 (one year ago) link
His death was an absolute classic.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 13 June 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link