you know, trees that will try to sleep with your children and butterflies that will steal your drugs, but still...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
I don't have the exact quote handy, but Miller said of the Who's performance at Monterey (retrospectively, in 1987), "They came into the middle of this peace-and-love thing and did their tear-it-up bad-boy act. Totally unmusical. I thought that then, and I think that now."
And yeah, Miles pretty much hated everyone, but there was something delightfully hilarious about how he singled Miller out. He seemed to like other acts he opened for; he had nice things to say about the Dead, the Band, Laura Nyro, and CSNY (and while he never shared the bill with them, he loved the Who).
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
i dunno, miles said lots of mean stuff about lots of musicians. tons of mean stuff.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
Oh, I agree. I think his comments about Dolphy and Cecil were supremely fucked, and he was goaded into talking shit about the new music by anti-new-thing critics in a divide-and-conquer kind of way.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
Did Miles have any opinion about the Eagles?
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
big fan iirc
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
He appreciated the fact that their third album was a track-by-track response to On the Corner.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
this phenomenon was not at all restricted to rural redneck towns.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, August 21, 2013 5:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I totally believe you. For whatever reason, SMB was most popular among the most rural farmer kids so I always associate them with that demographic.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
Good to know (and not really a surprise): "Witchy Woman", along with all other Leadon and Meisner compositions, was left out of the Hell Freezes Over project so those guys wouldn't earn any money directly off the reunion.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
heartwarming
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
bless their cotton socks, those loveable scamps
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
sooooo, i guess there isn't much to say about witchy other than its witchy and slow and it reminds us of seinfeld. and our childhood. and i like the guitars. its so simple really. that song. but what a formula for earworm immortality they had. plus, i think any band that has people singing the guitar parts to their songs is destined for a cash reward. i just made that up. but i think its true. that intro is so singable.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
just a part of the air for as long as i can remember.
So, to a lesser extent is SMB
I guess I'm too old to care about the fight now. They're everywhere, though fading, and I can't see fighting about it any more than I can about arbitrating the Dorsey/Miller beef
― Fais ce que voudra, occiderai de même (Michael White), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
i think i would like witchy woman more if it was don's only turn as lead vocalist in their catalog.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
hmmm. i was gonna say this was one of my fav eagles songs but it's kinda sucking right now. :/
the intro writes a check the song can't cash
― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
The title writes a check the song can't catch.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
Cash.
This song is a steaming pile of poo. When I hear the a-ha's I think there's a bunch of 14 year old tricks squeezing their nads so they can hit the high notes.
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
this thread is, at this point, two for two on that score.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
Given the drums on this, doesn't "rocking you in the night til your skin turns red" imply that the witchy woman turns you into a Native American?
― cookin' with bad (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
i thought you actually meant A-Ha for a second there. they could hit those high notes real good too.
x-post
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Supposedly, when recording, they sucked lemons to stay on pitch. I don't know how or why that would work.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
cocaine thoughts
― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
Eagles Lemon Party
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
noooooooooooooooooooooooooo
― usic for 18 magicians (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
i like their harmonies on this. I mean, I like most of their harmonies on most of their songs, but this one in particular stands out for me
I like how henley's voice sounds kinda ragged like he's been up all night with the Witchay Woman... and when you listen with headphones all the Glyn Johns echo that they hated on their voices sounds really good SO SUCK IT douchebags
This is one of the laid-back Eagles songs that actually feels *naturally* laid back, instead of later forced laidbackness that sounds like they just came out of a meeting where Frey screamed YOU GUYS BETTER BE MORE GODDAMMED LAID BACK OR WE'LL NEVER SELL A BAJILLION RECORDS over and over.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
haha
― cookin' with bad (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
Feel like I need to buy a topaz bolo tie just to read this thread. Bless you all.
― touch. zing touch. you've almost convinced me I'm real (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
Oh, interesting. I always thought of this as the Eagles' heaviest song. Maybe it's just that distorted guitar riff. I loved it when I was a kid. Has a cool spooky atmosphere.
Didn't realize these were tracks 1-2 on their first album. I only really know Hotel California as far as the albums go. Maybe that one is worth picking up.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
First album is p good imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
It starts off so good and then we start chuggin
― touch. zing touch. you've almost convinced me I'm real (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
must be obvious but "Witchy Woman" is such a Stills rip off, or maybe better a Buffalo Springfield rip off since the lead guitar sounds like a Neil rip off
I hate Stills btw
― Euler, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 23:03 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I thought of Neil Young right now too. Never really occurred to me before, somehow.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
Ralph Molina loves his tomtoms.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link
that live clip really brought the neil-isms home for me.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
Wonder if Stevie Nicks heard "Witchy Woman" and thought, huh, these are my people. I wonder if Don thought dating her later was anti-climatic.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6TXHpFIqcvk/Tq60CAFnd2I/AAAAAAAADrA/XAWQsFTFONI/s320/SNicksWitchyWoman.jpeg
I like how Henley switches onto the on-beat under 'woman' in the chorus
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 22 August 2013 08:50 (ten years ago) link
"Chug All Night"
http://www.eaglesfans.com/picture/chug%20all%20night%20-%20dutch.jpg?pictureId=10650896&asGalleryImage=true
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRtCL2HeoEg
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:26 (ten years ago) link
oops:
http://images.45cat.com/eagles-chug-all-night-asylum.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:27 (ten years ago) link
damn!
anyway, it was a single in Holland. god bless the Dutch.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:28 (ten years ago) link
hey, great intro...
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:29 (ten years ago) link
On the day that I die, well I just might scream If I'm alive in the morning Ill be alive in a dream You better listen to me baby Cause you know that I'm hung on you till I'm blind and black and blue
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:32 (ten years ago) link
No woman ever do what you do High on a pleasure wheel No devil ever cast a voodoo so long and dark and real We're gonna do a little chugging We're gonna do a little hugging The band is loose and the groove is right I'm wired for sound Are you wired for light? And you're so much woman, I believe we could chug all night
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:33 (ten years ago) link
the Dutch were apparently very big fans:
http://youtu.be/hF4aJwiFMC0
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:41 (ten years ago) link
okay, i remembered how to do youtube links like that. i should probably do youtubes like that from now on? yes? no? so that this thread doesn't become impossible.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:42 (ten years ago) link
so you guys keep talking about "In The City," so when I went to Spotify to see what the fuss was I realized I've heard this thing on AOR radio for years.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:44 (ten years ago) link
This is a terrible song.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link
Opening chord sequence reminds me of We're Going Wrong by Cream. Otherwise this sounds pretty generic really.
― 29 facepalms, Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link