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"There are about 23 different phrases that rotate on the front of the bus: EatUrHeartOut,Room for One More, Party Time, WHEREIN THE HELL R WE, Outlaws, ect.."
― brio, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
I was just coming here to post that. ILX fundraiser!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
omg official ILX Outlaws bus yessssss
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
shared on FB today:
https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1476009_10152081994912445_606308061_n.jpg
― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 December 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link
amazing story in the OUTLAW book that came out this year about Waylon writing a guy a $4,000 check on a paper bag and the bank actually cashing it.
― tylerw, Monday, 23 December 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
other good stories about Waylon's most crippling addiction... pinball.
― tylerw, Monday, 23 December 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 December 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
"That hairy, smelly Outlaw sure plays a mean pinball..."
― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 December 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
i think roughly 80% of the best videos on youtube belong to waylon, this among them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugm0JZhX3CI
"it don't make no sense. i mean, it does, but it don't."
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 00:06 (eight years ago) link
^^^ That's great. I'd love a solo Waylon album.
― Capitalism Is A Death Cult And Science Is A Whore (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 5 December 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link
"we had it all"
fuck
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
this shit is hilarioushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzCz-zA83q8
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 June 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
Make phasers country again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NWi1Kl1_qM
― Neal Cassady, Saturday, 25 April 2020 06:22 (three years ago) link
Thought she was the creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaammmmmmOf the Basin Street queens
love it. wish he had done a cosmic solo guitar record.
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 April 2020 08:15 (three years ago) link
^ Hard agree on that imaginative solo record. What is the stage in life where you give up searching for the next obscure rural rock album and you instead just throw on the Honky Tonk Heroes LP?
I've come to the conclusion that live 70s Waylon is Cosmic American Music and should receive the same hype as anything from the Dead or the New Riders. The only downside is that you just wish he would've expanded on that last 10 sec hard riff in "Honky Tonk Heroes" for an extra 7 or 15min. But I do think it is the shortness of the tunes that allow for amazing replayability… that and the songwriting. The guitarist Tom Carter made a post on social a couple months back that talked about the motorik qualities of “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?”.
― Neal Cassady, Friday, 26 June 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
What's the best 70's Waylon live recording?
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Friday, 26 June 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
In addition to just a few well-recorded official live 70s releases, there is a whole lot of other 70s stuff spread throughout the years in different formats. It looks like some of them are boots and some are unofficially-released live broadcasts from radio stations. I started with the 1975 "Waylon Live" RCA release that was eventually expanded into a 2CD set in the 2000's. He keeps it pretty tight and succinct on that one. And then you do find much more raw and at least partly jammed songs on the boots and radio broadcasts.
There is a keyboard player on the Sugarloaf show which I do really like. "Louisiana Women" is my current favorite song, at some point he took out the lyric about a kilo of marijuana when he went and did those mid-late TV performances that you can find throughout YouTube. There are some real gems in those videos too. Here's some links to the ones I just mentioned. The YouTube thumbnail used for the Sugarloaf show looks like it was used for a series of live releases, so I need to take some time and check out those as well.
(1973-11-04) Abbot, TexasDiscogsYouTube
(1975-08-02) Sugarloaf, MaineDiscogsYouTube
(1975, RCA release) Waylon LiveDiscogsYouTube
― Neal Cassady, Monday, 29 June 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
Sorry, the URL to the expanded 1975 RCA release should have linked you to the whole YouTube playlist. I'll try again:
― Neal Cassady, Monday, 29 June 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
Thanks, will check these out.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
motorik qualities of “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?”
this is otm!
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah! That one plays itself in mah head fairly often. Tyler refers up this thread to Michael Streissguth's Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades, which I carried on about over on Good Books About Music, incl this:We also get the influence of fuckin'-finally affordable and widely available cocaine (esp. after the War on Drugs made it more practical than bulky etc. ol' maryjane). Influence incl. on Waylon, who was already driven and drivin', with much more of the earlier zig-zag career than I'd realized (had the big country version of "MacArthur Park"!) Also quite the appetite for pinball and good cover material, which he could find even or especially on the shittiest-sounding demo tapes. Thought, as the author depicts, that the Outlaw hype was a crock, and of course he did sound more like a big ol' teddy bear, even then.
― dow, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
Still want to check some of those odd-looking pre-Outlaw releases---the earliest recordings I've heard were later compiled on Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line, a '74 cash-in: mainly remember the title track and "Nashville Bum": "You can change a word or two and I'll give half of it to you," also about "eating ketchup soup." Pretty calm, just a leetle hopeful, a way of life. Good track.Also! I liked Waylon Forever, did not know it was part of this eventual release (thanks Wiki):In 1996, (Shooter) Jennings and his father recorded an album together. They called it Fenixon (a play on the words "phoenix" and "sun") but could not find a label to distribute it.[4] Some of the material was remastered and used for the album Waylon Forever. The full Fenixon recording was finally released by Jennings' label Black Country Rock in 2014.
― dow, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
Be sure to check out Singer of Sad Songs, mostly produced by Lee Hazlewood before he moved to Sweden. Includes versions of "Honky Tonk Women", "No Regrets", "If I Were A Carpenter", and a duet w/Lee on "Rock, Salt and Nails".
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
Makes you wish there was a 'Waylon Sings Lee' album.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
Huge fan of 'Singer of Sad Songs', a real gem
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
Still want to check some of those odd-looking pre-Outlaw releases---the earliest recordings I've heard werelater compiled on Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line, a '74 cash-in: mainly remember the title track and "Nashville Bum": "You can change a word or two and I'll give half of it to you," also about "eating ketchup soup." Pretty calm, just a leetle hopeful, a way of life. Good track.
Ketchup soup line ftw. I got this comp a couple months ago and it's good!
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Monday, 29 June 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I think that, while he's trying to share, sell, get a little advance on publishing rights, he's having a power lunch of Ketchup soup---think that's how the soup reference fits into the verse. Right?
― dow, Monday, 29 June 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
I think the song is one of his many cynically complaining about the Nashville/Opry game. He's dressing the way they want him to, singing the way they want him to, and writing the songs they want, but he still isn't making it and he's so poor he's got to eat ketchup soup and crackers. When he does write a hit, they make him give half the songwriting credit to someone else.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Monday, 29 June 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
yeah. I should just listen to the damn thing again, prob on YouTube, but seemed like it worked because of concise lyrics, Waylon-trademark catchy beat, and not too much self-pity, kind a "King of the Road" effect.
― dow, Monday, 29 June 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
It's on the Nashville Rebel soundtrack album (alongside a cover of "Norwegian Wood"!), which is on Spotify.
Unlike a lot of other vintage Country stars, Waylon's actually pretty well covered on Spotify.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 June 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
Man, can you all tell me where moments like the last 55 seconds come from on Honky Tonk Heros at the Sugarload, Maine show? Not the usual change up riff that he always ends that song with, but the thing they throw in at the end. Especially when the keyboard and fuzz guitar go back and forth like two times before they end it abruptly. You can find little outro moments like that in the live the shows, but this one is defiantly a particular sound from that decade in time. Were Waylon and his band just fans of what harder rock acts were doing at the time? Why don't you see stuff like that on his records when you hear about how he was specific about using his road band in the studio?
hxxps://youtu.be/5MktqJyC_ZE?t=198
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
Honky Tonk Heroes is the Vinyl Me, Please Country title for August.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
All I want in life is to be able to sing “dreaming my dreams” as tenderly as this man does
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Sunday, 17 March 2024 16:51 (one month ago) link
otm! one of my favorite waylon songs.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2024 18:53 (one month ago) link