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Post by howard lee on May 12, 2020 7:49:21 GMT -5
Thanks for the reminder, Marshall.
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Post by AlanC on May 12, 2020 8:13:44 GMT -5
How much of his success is due to David Lindley?
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Post by theevan on May 12, 2020 8:20:37 GMT -5
How much of his success is due to David Lindley? One time I saw Jackson and David in a 3-hour concert just the two of them. David played everything from Hawaiian to violin and cello,electric guitar, etc. He was just outstanding, amusing,witty, pithy.
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Post by howard lee on May 12, 2020 8:27:24 GMT -5
How much of his success is due to David Lindley?
I think Jackson would have been successful, regardless. I saw him open for Laura Nyro at the Fillmore East, on Christmas Day, 1969. Solo. I became an immediate fan.
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Post by AlanC on May 12, 2020 9:08:46 GMT -5
How much of his success is due to David Lindley? I think Jackson would have been successful, regardless. I saw him open for Laura Nyro at the Fillmore East, on Christmas Day, 1969. Solo. I became an immediate fan.
I don't disagree. I'm just wondering if he would have been AS successful. I don't know if I would have listened to him as much without that soaring, screaming, crying, steel guitar.
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Post by howard lee on May 12, 2020 9:41:32 GMT -5
I think Jackson would have been successful, regardless. I saw him open for Laura Nyro at the Fillmore East, on Christmas Day, 1969. Solo. I became an immediate fan.
I don't disagree. I'm just wondering if he would have been AS successful. I don't know if I would have listened to him as much without that soaring, screaming, crying, steel guitar. Aha! Maybe David Lindley was a key factor in Jackson's success in your purview. I would likely have listened to him anyway because I always found his songs to be so moving, poignant, and relevant. À chacun son goût...
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Post by aquaduct on May 12, 2020 9:50:41 GMT -5
I never would have heard of Jackson Browne if it weren't for that goofy falsetto "oh, won't you stay-ay-ay" that became a radio staple in the '70s.
Lindley was da man!
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on May 12, 2020 10:28:04 GMT -5
I agree, Jackson is a major talent without David, but David is the cherry on the cake.
Mike
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Post by TKennedy on May 12, 2020 22:06:31 GMT -5
When I was in college in the early 60's and learning to play the five string I had a record called "Five String Banjo Greats" Interestingly Earl wasn't on it but David Lindley was and was playing a breakdown called The Johnson Boys at breakneck speed and clean as could be. Mostly double thumbing. I couldn't believe anyone could play that fast. I couldn't duplicate his speed but I did have a pretty good version of Mason William's "Whistle While You Work". www.discogs.com/Various-5-String-Banjo-Greats/release/3280990
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Post by howard lee on May 13, 2020 7:34:46 GMT -5
I agree, Jackson is a major talent without David, but David is the cherry on the cake. Mike Plus, he's always had great sideburns.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on May 13, 2020 7:50:45 GMT -5
And, El Rayo X.
Mike
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Post by RickW on May 13, 2020 12:31:55 GMT -5
We listened to a ton of Jackson Browne, starting with Saturate Before Using. Didn’t really know much about Lindley, it was the songs. Lindley didn’t even play on Saturate Before Using, and I think it’s Browne’s best album, brilliant and poignant.
So,I like Lindley, I appreciate him more now that I’m working away at lap steel. But as far as myself and my other music loving buds are concerned, he wasn’t anywhere near as important.
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Post by theevan on May 13, 2020 15:25:16 GMT -5
I don't disagree. I'm just wondering if he would have been AS successful. I don't know if I would have listened to him as much without that soaring, screaming, crying, steel guitar. Aha! Maybe David Lindley was a key factor in Jackson's success in your purview. I would likely have listened to him anyway because I always found his songs to be so moving, poignant, and relevant. À chacun son goût... Saturate Before Using is genius, in my book. Still my favorite, overall. No Lindley to be found. Despite that gout stuff.
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Post by billhammond on May 13, 2020 15:55:17 GMT -5
Aha! Maybe David Lindley was a key factor in Jackson's success in your purview. I would likely have listened to him anyway because I always found his songs to be so moving, poignant, and relevant. À chacun son goût... Saturate Before Using is genius, in my book. Still my favorite, overall. No Lindley to be found. Despite that gout stuff. This album didn't suck, either:
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Post by billhammond on May 13, 2020 16:03:20 GMT -5
Some interesting background info from Wiki:
Browne was still living in his childhood home, The Abbey San Encino, where he began writing the songs for his third album. Because of the high costs of recording his previous album, Asylum Records founder David Geffen required him to complete this next album quicker and at less cost. Browne decided to use his touring band of David Lindley, Doug Haywood, Jai Winding, and Larry Zack. It was also decided that Al Schmitt, an engineer on For Everyman, would co-produce to aid in the album being completed on time. The album was completed in six weeks and at half the cost ($50,000) of For Everyman. Numerous friends of Browne's, including Dan Fogelberg, Don Henley, and J. D. Souther contributed harmony vocals. There were only eight songs on the album, five of them longer than five minutes.[1]
The title track was used in the 1976 Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver.[2] "Before the Deluge" was later covered by Joan Baez on her 1979 album Honest Lullaby; Baez and Browne performed the song together on her 1989 PBS concert special. "Walking Slow" and "Fountain of Sorrow" were released as singles but both failed to chart.[1]
In his speech inducting Browne into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Bruce Springsteen called Late for the Sky Browne's "masterpiece" and referred to the car doors slamming at the end of "The Late Show".[3]
Browne has publicly acknowledged that the cover art for Late for the Sky was inspired by the 1954 painting L'Empire des Lumieres ("Empire of Light"), by Belgian surrealist René Magritte. The album itself contains the credit, "cover concept Jackson Browne if it's all reet with Magritte".
The original photograph was shot on a South Pasadena residential street, several miles from Browne's childhood Highland Park, California, home. Designer and front cover photographer Bob Seidemann said, "I spoke to Jackson in 1980 and he told me he thought it was his favorite cover. Lest the jacket appear too funereal, a mood-defusing photo of a relaxed Jackson, almost smiling and looking as though he has a surprise to share, occupies a small square of the back cover."[7]
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Post by millring on May 13, 2020 16:13:28 GMT -5
Funny thing with Browne is the strange diagram drawn around the fact that I like his cover of a Danny O'Keefe song, while I prefer a Michael Johnson cover of one of Browne's songs.
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Post by billhammond on May 13, 2020 17:42:22 GMT -5
Love this performance in England from 10 years ago. I continue to be amazed at how commercially successful so many of his albums were despite their containing long, slow, mid-tempo songs, for the most part.
Why was that? I would say the lyrics and the thoughtfulness behind them, first. Then the melodies and the chords and the musicianship of JB and his bands, and of course his plaintive voice. And finally, he's cute and in good Calif-bod shape. In summary, I hate him.
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