A Special Release For The Serious Mudcrutch Collector From Danny Roberts

[Danny Roberts]

Hey Guise and Grrllzz,
Hope all is swell wit you and yerz. I haven't been around these parts in a while, as I been busy chording and recording here at the Pizarro Road headquarters of "WeeDoggy Productions", which is nothin' more than my 'puter, hooked up to all kinda gizmos and doo-dads, as well as to the rest o' da world. But I got sumpin' some of ya'll might be interested in.
When I left "Mudcrutch", the teen-combo that I was mysteriously erased from the hystery there-of, I stayed up all night the night before I flew back to the Sunshine State, as I had 2-track mixes of everything that we had done up to that point, and I made a reel-to-reel copy, from a TEAC 3340s to some Sony 2-track that I'd borrowed offa my big brother Jack. I was the guy who would get rough-mixes of everything we'd done when we were in any one of about seven studios. I took that reel-to-reel with me in 1974 and have kept it under my mattress for the last 33 years, always careful to remove my ass-magnets before I climbed into my bed. (Lotsa Chuckles and Chortles).
Anyway, my better-half, my Private Angel, Barbarella, or Babs to friends and family, recently bought me an AKAI 2-Track reel-to-reel analog tape machine from it's original owner, original box (not bad, for a 30 year-old machine) and I set it up tonight and dumped the whole shebang into my home-made computer, I call it the DanBob 7000.3.5(Rev3).
I have a studio here in my home, so I threw up a couple cool plug-ins I have in my UAD card, and Lo and Behold.......THIS STUFF SOUNDS JUST ABOUT THE WAY IT DID WHEN I LEFT L.A. 33 YEARS-AGO!!!
Didin't mean to holler, but after hearing the stuff that's been circulating amongst ya'll for the last few months, I thought someone might be interested in gettin' ahold of this stuff. I've made one pass of the tape in the last 33 years, with only a couple passes before that, so the tape's in relatively good shape, considering the fact that it's been under every mattress I slept or .....you know what I'm implying here................and it sounded so good, it ALMOST brought a tear to my eye, but I had my tear-ducts surgically removed several months-ago, so as not to appear to others as a wimpering simp....or is that a simpering wimp?!?...WHA? You know what I mean! But I'm thinking of releasing a special "Ghost of Danny Roberts Edition" of the recordings, dedicated to the photo that I was air-brushed out of in the Peter Bogdanosonovabich-directed, 4-hour long epic Beta release, "Runnin' Down A Dream"(that was too poorly done to have been done with PhotoShop!) which will also include a heretofore never heard anywhere-else recording of legendary producer Denny Cordell doing the radio-spot for the first and only gig that the ORIGINAL version of "Mudcrutch" did at the famed "Whiskey A-Go-Go" in Hollywood, California in 1974. We shared the bill for 5 nights with the famed "King of the Surf Guitar, Dick Dale and The Dell-Tones". Anyway, the advertizement tape we cut for the gig is HILARIOUS!!! NOBODY'S got this! Plus, there are cuts of us when we were working on several of Benmont's tunes, as well as several of my tunes, alternate takes of stuff you may have heard before, some that you've NEVER heard before, as well as some funny between-song banter. And, as I already said, it sounds WAY better than anything anybody's got. How do I know? I've got the ORIGINAL!!!
Dedicated collectors won't want to miss this up-coming release!
Sincereously yerz, Danny Roberts (I was Tom's driver, tee-hee!)

[Wingspan91089]

That all sounds awesome! :D

[CcB]

DanBob, That's what I's been talken bout! TREASURES, I wansumofem!
I got an Akai Old style r to r player too!

cb

[Danny Mac]

Is it the Mudcrutch Radio ad for Sept 4 - Sept 8th?
at the Wiskey?

[Danny Roberts]

Yeah. That's the one. You must have it. Cool, eh? How's the audio-quality of the stuff you've got? We did that spot one day, Denny Cordell, his lovely lady-friend, Evelyn (I think, that was a long time ago), myself, Randall and either Tom or Benmont. It was such a spur of the moment thing, and we did about 10 takes, getting crazier with each successive take. It's the only cool stuff I have to remember Denny Cordell's personality and wit by. He was such a great cat!
Really, the difference in the audio-quality, compared to everything I've heard, is a gazillion times better, especially considering that that tape has traveled many miles all over the world with me. I've got a full suite of mastering software, as well as an Alesis Master Link 9600 Master CD mix-down machine with it's mastering software too. So I can tweak quite a bit, when needed. I knew the night that I made the copy before leaving L.A. that I'd be dragging it out somewhere WAY down
the line. Y'know, after everything that's transpired over these last few months, it's kinda like, if I was simply TP's driver out West, as my role has been re-written, what am I doing with all these tapes, with all the songs I'm playing and singing on, all these photos and stories, the original contracts, Leon Russell's contract, which they let us use as a sort of template when we went attorney-shopping, etc, if I wasn't in that damned band? (LOFL!) It's all kinda laughable to me now, as I can't imagine that somebody in their organization thought this was a good idea. When you hear certain people in the RDAD moovie tell the story about the trip me, Tom and Keith took out West with our demo, they don't know what the phuque they're talking about. THEY WEREN'T THERE! I WAS! Even Tom seems to have forgotten a bunch of details. There was no phone-booth. It was one of those little pay-phones that were bolted to the wall with a phone-book on a metal chain hangin' off it. It's all a HOOT! Thank God I moved away from Hollywood. People pay to get their star in the Walk of Fame, start gettin' real serious about the number of awards they can collect, and get WAY too cosumed with their self-importance. Who'd have ever imagined Ozzie Osbourne would turn into the E channel's Rock 'n' Roll version of Ozzie Nelson. That's Hollyweird 4 ya!
Anyway, I'll leave it there. I wish I could just put it in a little box and put that inside a drawer somewhere and lose it for awhile. Sounds like a good idea.

Mo Later, Danny Roberts

[knebworth_1978]

Wow! Count me in! Looking forward Danny!

There was no phone-booth. It was one of those little pay-phones that were bolted to the wall with a phone-book on a metal chain hangin' off it. It's all a HOOT! Thank God I moved away from Hollywood. People pay to get their star in the Walk of Fame...

Really?! So was the sheet of record labels Tom mentioned non-existant as well?

I knew the Stars were paid for. Really irritated me though when I heard. Makes sense then why some new no-talent (Britney immediately comes to mind) gets one very early in their "career". Sometimes people who truly deserve it receive one posthumously. Disappointing.

[Danny Roberts]

Knebworth,
No, I found the sheet blowing across the sidewalk about twenty feet away, walked over and grabs it, said "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!
Then we started dialing THOSE numbers.
DR

[Danny Mac]

The Radio ad Quality I have is pretty clear. It comes in well.
I guess it's been floating around some how. Looking forward
to hearing some of the songs you got on that tape. Let us know
how it turns out. Also Remind us when that gig in Lakeland is.
May have to make a trip down there.

[Mudcrutch]

thanks to marion.. heres a sample..

www.mudcrutch.com/marion/mudcrutchradioad.mp3 (http://www.mudcrutch.com/forum/../marion/mudcrutchradioad.mp3)

[Refugee]

HAHAHHAHAAH! Love it.

[Danny Mac]

Yep Thats It, ---- Danny? is the Announcer on that Denny Cordell?
BTW: Just got home from a late evening at the Mungins (after Work)
wich is formally the "Cypress Lounge". Told the bartenders about the song
"spike" live with the Intro and they all want to hear it. They think its cool.
But the band they had there only played one Petty Song, but they did do
"they call me the Breeze"! Fun evening!
I like the place now a days! Cool.

[surfnburn]

LOL....that's hysterical. "Don't bring Mama"...LOL That's one wacky ad.... I love it!

[Lucy_Bandersnatch]

Danny, it sounds like you're putting a lot of high quality, conscientious work into saving and archiving these recordings. Although I enjoyed hearing a sampling using mp3, is there anyway you'd consider releasing your work using flac or shn flies- bit torrent- so there it's not in a lossy format like mp3? What about doing a tree here using CDR and keeping it in a wav format? After all the effort- after all the years- it would be a shame at the end to bastardize the work by using a medium that removes and lowers the quality like mp3. I understand the attraction with mp3 being speed and using less memory, but for the audiophiles and collectors in the group, would you please consider sending out or uploading a higher quality version?

[nurktwin]

sounds like chris at the viper room!!!!!!!!!!

[Refugee]

Casper, Nurk, Casper!

[nurktwin]

damn it, i'll get it right someday.....lol.

[Danny Roberts]

Hey Ya'll,
Here's one of those 6 degrees of separation kinda things. After dumping all the stuff I have from my alleged stint with 'that Damn Band' (LOFL), I went on a binge of sorts, digging out all sorts of stuff I've been draggin' 'round with me for eons. Right now I'm in the process of dumping a cassette of two shows at the "Hong Kong Cafe" from when I played with the late-great Phil Seymour, who alot of you might recall from his days with 'Power-Pop Meister' Dwight Twilley. They sang backing vocals on TP&THB's "Breakdown" and "American Girl". Denny Cordell moved me back out to Hollywould around '77 or '78, I have to do some detective work to figure that one out, so I'll have the date figured out in a few days. Anyway, this is some pretty hot power-pop! At this particular gig were TP and most of the HBs, most of the Knack, Dwight Twilley, Phil Spector and actor Robin Williams. I even have an old funky pic of Phil and Robin meeting. So, I have about an hour & 1/2 to go through and do a little tweaking. Like I said, this is on a cassette that I've had since shortly after the gig, so it's not exactly audiophile quality, but it should clean-up real nice! It's a rather spirited coupla shows, I was playing lead-guitar and singing harmonies, and the band is really caught-up in the spirit of the moment. Phil was actually asked to be the drummer with TP at one point when things got a little rocky between Tom and Stan. Phil and I did some studio stuff and he was the first guy I ever worked with that could go in and play a perfect drum-track, singing the song in his head, then I'd go in and lay down bass and guitars. I cut all the demos for his first solo album at a sleazy demo-studio I had in a former one-stop porn factory at the corner of Hollywood and Vine. Ah, those was the days!
Mo Later, Danny Roberts

[Gonzo Gator]

, I call it the DanBob 7000.3.5(Rev3).
I have a studio here in my home, so I threw up a couple cool plug-ins I have in my UAD card, and Lo and Behold.......THIS STUFF SOUNDS JUST ABOUT THE WAY IT DID WHEN I LEFT L.A. 33 YEARS-AGO!!!
Didin't mean to holler, but after hearing the stuff that's been circulating amongst ya'll for the last few months, I thought someone might be interested in gettin' ahold of this stuff. I've made one pass of the tape in the last 33 years, with only a couple passes before that, so the tape's in relatively good shape, considering the fact that it's been under every mattress I slept or .....you know what I'm implying here................and it sounded so good, it ALMOST brought a tear to my eye, but I had my tear-ducts surgically removed several months-ago, so as not to appear to others as a wimpering simp....or is that a simpering wimp?!?...WHA? You know what I mean! But I'm thinking of releasing a special "Ghost of Danny Roberts Edition" of the recordings,


My email addy is CarlMcG@aol.com

[Miami Steve]

Danny,

Did some checking, Phil Seymour & the Feel played the Troubadour on June 20, 1979 and the Hong Kong Cafe on June 28, 1979 (with Moon Martin). Does that sound about right?

[Miami Steve]

The Mudcrutch radio ad mp3 came from another member. It was included on a Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers bootleg titled Don't Bring Me Down.

You know I've never known a musician that could make a living giving away their music. I think anyone who's waiting for a free homemade CD-R to show up in their mailbox might be disappointed.


http://www.mudcrutch.com/photos/data/517/dickdale1.jpg

[nurktwin]

i think you're wrong steve, i have a stack of cd's that would go from ohio to LA that came in my mailbox.

[Danny Roberts]

Miami Steve,
Yer GOOD! Could you please tell me what I've been doin' for the rest of my life?!? Are you a forkin' detective or somethin'? (LMFAO) No, but seriously, thanks a million! That was a very chaotic time in my life. I had just moved back to Florida from L.A., got married, went through reverse-culture shock, and then Denny calls, AGAIN. So I made the pilgrimage to LaLaWood, AGAIN, jumped right back into the thick of it, AGAIN, and was having a ball, AGAIN. But then my older brother Freddie, who was about to move out to L.A. to stay with me and my wife, was killed in an auto accident back in Lakeland. So, I went back to Florida for 3 weeks, and when we came back to L.A., we started falling apart and had no-one to hold onto, so we packed-up and moved back to the Sunshine State. So, as you might imagine, that whole period of time is kinda like one big blur. Add to that the fact that I hooked-up with Robert Nix, a writer/drummer, producer for the Atlanta Rhythm Section on the day of my brother's funeral and then moved into Ronnie Van Zant's house, which Nix had just purchased from RVZ's widow, and you might understand that things got REALLY crazy for a coupla years immediately there-after! Whew! That's a hard one to get through. WAY too many memories! Sometimes I wish I didn't have quite so many of 'em!
But THANKS to Miami Steve. Are you originally from Miami? I was born there.
Mo Later, Danny Roberts