― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
Need I say more?
― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
Campbell is a nut, he has been busted on drugs and booze before and started dating Tanya Tucker when she was of legal age.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:16 (twenty years ago) link
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39522000/jpg/_39522324_campbell_ap_203.jpg
I like the camera trainee taking a picture of the nape of Campbell's neck there.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:38 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:40 (twenty years ago) link
For the record I'm a huge fan of his, have his Capitol double CD collection, and am very partial to his duet with Bobbie Gentry, "Morning Glory" as well as the Webb stuff and other odds and ends like "Hey Little One."
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:42 (twenty years ago) link
extreme drunken driving
― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 20:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 20:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Lurlene (Dave225), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 20:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 23 July 2005 05:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 24 July 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 24 July 2005 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
New album album of covers, Meet Glen Campbell. Hmmmn. Tracklisting:
1. 'Jesus' (Velvet Underground) 2. 'All I Want Is You' (U2) 3. 'Times Like These' (Foo Fighters) 4. 'Grow Old With Me' (John Lennon) 5. 'Angel Dream' (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) 6. 'Sadly Beautiful' (The Replacements) 7. 'Sing' (Travis) 8. 'These Days' (Jackson Browne) 9. 'Walls (Circus)' (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) 10. 'Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)' (Green Day)
― etc, Thursday, 1 May 2008 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the idea of him doing 'Walls'. The tracklist doesn't make me cringe...but what's his voice like these days?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 1 May 2008 04:44 (fifteen years ago) link
VU+Lennon+Replacements songs = thumbs up "Times Like These"+"Sing"+Green Day song = who the hell suggested these?
― Z S, Thursday, 1 May 2008 04:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm v.curious about the Green Day cover - attempts to picture it in my head end up with more of a Johnny Cash vibe - is this his answer to all those latterday Cash records, or has he/other country veterans already done that?
― etc, Thursday, 1 May 2008 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Really looking forward to hearing "These Days".
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 1 May 2008 06:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh my God. This is going to be incredible! I am so down with this. Sadly Beautiful is the one I want to hear first.
I always knew he should get the Johnny Cash treatment. When does this come out?
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 1 May 2008 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
this sounds like it could be really good but I hate that fuckin Green Day song so so bad
― J0hn D., Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
this sounds pretty awful, but then again i'm totally sick of these kinds of albums.
― omar little, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Glen Campbell was in True Grit???
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 1 May 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
3 songs are streaming at the glencampbellshow.com
Without doubt, the single most anticipated record of the summer, perhaps the decade. It's got the potential to bring the music industry to its knees, people! Kneel before Glen campbell.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 1 August 2008 05:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Glen is back, baby. Yes.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 1 August 2008 05:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Listening to it now! He´s giving it the Johnny Cash treatment, with all these covers. Except it doesn´t sound sparse like Cash, it´s rocky and jingle-jangly. Had much rather seen him do new songs of his own, but hey, it's really nice to hear his voice again.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 1 August 2008 10:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Thankfully, based on the streaming tracks this is nothing at all like the "Johnny Cash treatment." There's nothing ironic about it, he's not imposing himself on these songs, they're more just like straight-up covers which is kinda nice.
Except these three songs are lame to begin with.
― Hadrian VIII, Friday, 1 August 2008 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link
There are some more interesting songs on the new record that aren't streaming. Sadly Beautiful by the Replacements and Velvet Underground Jesus are two.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
His version of Jackson Browne's (& Nico's) "These Days" is easily the best thing I've heard all year. "Jesus" is perhaps the 2nd best thing I've heard all year. The rest of the LP is less giant-killing, but still pretty impressive. His voice is still a thing of great power & beauty.
― harveyw, Friday, 1 August 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
he actually does U2 pretty well, too. a return to the Al DeLoryisms of yore, right down to cinematic sweep of strings and some terse Glen guitar solos where all he does is play the melody. Not so hot on the Westerberg tune and of course that fucking Green Day song is the "Send in the Clowns" of, yeecchh. Pretty good record.
― whisperineddhurt, Friday, 1 August 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
this album is too Middle of the Road too be really good,( but it could be worse, too)
― Zeno, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
wow
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Ghost On The Canvas sees Campbell capping his brilliant career with one of his most moving and energized works to date, a powerfully emotional song cycle that sees him accompanied by a truly dazzling line-up of songwriters and musicians. Among the tunesmiths contributing original songs to the collection are such modern luminaries as Paul Westerberg, Jakob Dylan, Robert Pollard, and Teddy Thompson, backed by a roster of players that includes Chris Isaak, Dick Dale, Billy Corgan, Brian Setzer, Rick Nielsen, Roger Manning, and The Dandy Warhols. The album is produced by Julian Raymond, who also co-wrote a number of new songs with Campbell.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 August 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
Jakob Dylan is a modern luminary? I always look forward to new Glen Campbell though.
― ¯\(°_o)/¯ (Nicole), Monday, 22 August 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
That's from an e-mailed publicist's press sheet
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 August 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
I figured as much, Jakob Dylan really sticks out like a sore thumb here.
― ¯\(°_o)/¯ (Nicole), Monday, 22 August 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMjWJawuLig
― buzza, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
I never knew he was in the Beach Boys, but I've never claimed to know much about Glen Campbell or the Beach Boys.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 06:01 (twelve years ago) link
Guys, this album is pretty fucking good.
― thank got forks showed up (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 September 2011 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
It's a goodbye album and it's real emotionally charged.
really? i'd kind of written it off along with everything GC has done since he sobered up.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 2 September 2011 04:33 (twelve years ago) link
maybe i'm an old softie but i just gave it a quick spotify listen and i thought it was lovely and am looking forward to listening again.
― thank got forks showed up (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 September 2011 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
Meet Glen Campbell was also really great. especially his version of These Days
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 2 September 2011 09:24 (twelve years ago) link
i think his voice sounds not-good lately.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
that "ghost on the canvas" track has been playlisted pretty heavily over the last few weeks on R2, and you know, it never fails to make me have one of those 'ooooh this is good .. moments
― mark e, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 07:55 (twelve years ago) link
that's one of my favorite songs bu I prefer the Judy Collins version
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 12:25 (six years ago) link
Moon's absence from the comp is a fact I have dwelled on over the years.
― Freedom, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 12:43 (six years ago) link
That live Galveston guitar solo is jaw-dropping.
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
As far as stripped-down versions of the hits go... This?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_You_There
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
I have six hours of Glen Campbell music on my iPod, and this is in my not-so-humble opinion his finest song, his definitive cover of Both Sides Now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97C7swvyUYI
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
listening to the southern nights album this morning was struck by how much the "god only knows" intro is pretty much everything mercury rev was going for on Deserter's Songshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zvwSUh3Cl8really great version.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
he had one of the best ominous mug shots EVER. he also had one of the best country music childhoods. dire poverty. 11 siblings. sharecropper daddy. they ate a lot of squirrel.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
"Police said Campbell's mood swung from combative to congenial and back to combative, including a kicking assault on a sergeant and a short jailhouse concert."
That's his Scottish genes in operation right there.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
NYT obit mentions that the network asked him to stop booking so many country acts on the variety show (after one when he had Merle, Johnny and Buck on).
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
The one where Merle does all the imitations which is posted in the obit thread?
― Barkis Garvey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6q2hsdXenQ
― Barkis Garvey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2017 05:54 (six years ago) link
Jimmy Webb: https://www.facebook.com/JimmyWebbMusic/posts/1812201325474480
― Freedom, Friday, 11 August 2017 08:31 (six years ago) link
re the AC interview, Glen Campbell's Goodtime Seder woulda been a nice special.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 August 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
re his bio, someone was just telling me how he was apparently older than a lot of the other wrecking crew guys. He had been part of his family band for so many years and was just playing in other pick up bands in Phoenix before somebody invited him out LA, or convinced him to go west.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 August 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
Wait, switch that around. He was one of the younger members of The Wrecking Crew, but even then he had still spent all these years as a child guitar prodigy just playing in bands in Arizona and wherever before going session. Maybe it's in the Blaine book, but I guess Tommy would get all the technical stuff, because he was a legendary reader, but Glen would get the more rock and roll guitar stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 August 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
He didn't make it till he was over 30.
― Tonight I Cut My Temple Teeth (Tom D.), Friday, 11 August 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
Maybe it's in the Blaine book, but I guess Tommy would get all the technical stuff, because he was a legendary reader, but Glen would get the more rock and roll guitar stuff.
― Barkis Garvey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
Same with Jimmy Page. I forget the name of the other, older guitarist, but between the two of them they handled tons of London sessions. The older guy would often get the jazzier technical stuff, Jimmy Page would get the rockier stuff, and whichever one wasn't handling electric would play acoustic. Though sometimes they would swap electric/acoustic duties, just for kicks.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 August 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
Big Jim Sullivan? Jimmy P was known as Little Jim.
― Tonight I Cut My Temple Teeth (Tom D.), Friday, 11 August 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
As featured in the Horrible Album Titles Like... thread
https://img.discogs.com/u54gEyAqxuz-o1rNZclshxAWdus=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5139349-1385562371-2680.jpeg.jpg
― Tonight I Cut My Temple Teeth (Tom D.), Friday, 11 August 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
Keep hearing about the great Roger Miller stories he had, but as far as I know not one actual story has surfaced.
Weird Jimmy Webb comparing him to Paul McCartney.
― Barkis Garvey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
Scott on WFMU is doing an all-guess-what show
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/74323
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 August 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
(actually just the first 40 mins i think)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 August 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
Finally saw the documentary... some of the editing annoyed me, cutting into songs for the talking heads, but obviously it's an honest tearjerker.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
So this newly unearthed album Sings For The King
― Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
Live with Leon Russell in 1983. Amazing stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNtxlKmNUFk
― that's not my post, Monday, 13 June 2022 04:39 (one year ago) link
Well it’s worth clicking thru. Just incredible music paired with early 80s local access TV production from Hamilton Ontario.
― that's not my post, Monday, 13 June 2022 05:00 (one year ago) link
Big fan of his voice and guitar playing of course, but some hits just never gelled with me. Now I am giving them another chance.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 17:50 (two months ago) link
Such as “Dreams of the Everyday Housewife”
Or “True Grit”
The latter is pretty good and was a number one country hit in Canada.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 17:53 (two months ago) link
Even“Gentle on My Mind”
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 17:54 (two months ago) link
This last being the theme of the Goodtime Hour, I must have heard it dozens of times if not hundreds but usually kind of tuned it out.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 17:55 (two months ago) link
Even something like “Rhinestone Cowboy”
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 18:00 (two months ago) link
Which I previously dismissed as some kind of novelty song.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 18:01 (two months ago) link
Or “Southern Nights”despite Allen Toussaint
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 18:02 (two months ago) link
I will probably get dinged for not liking these songs all along.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 18:03 (two months ago) link
And I am still working on “Honey, Come Back”
Which was a pretty big hit and written by Jimmy Webb! Who knew?
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 18:15 (two months ago) link
Quite right too.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 February 2024 00:10 (two months ago) link
(xp) Everyone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Yj9oHikgY
― BrianB, Saturday, 3 February 2024 00:28 (two months ago) link
But I don't care.
― BrianB, Saturday, 3 February 2024 00:29 (two months ago) link