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Taylor Swift: haters gonna hate
Ricky Nelson: can't please everyone, so you just gotta please yourself.😥
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Tack (ie "Thanks" in Swedish, at least according to basic dictionary - similar to English language slang word "Ta" possibly all the way down the line from Vikings)
for your thinking on possible factors in Down The Line.
Lyrics are funny... Cuban boyfriend & then - oh - there's also a husband! Wonder how it'd sound with guitars (rather than horns).
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Hope it's as good as it looks!
- "I've got two men here who claim that the songs are theirs." Cut to 2 sets of feet, one bare, one booted. "Let's see how this plays out shall we?"
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57 minutes ago, Shelter said:And again.. what's the real origin of Down The Line*? At least the enigma is narrowed down some, for me. But the essential, serious, initial attempts to cut a TPATH album still alludes me in terms of vibe and where they were about to go.
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*This one is interesting. Again, the released version is produced by Jeff. But to me it cries every bit as much Dave Stewart as it does Jeff Lynne. Always thought the whole thing, recording and production et al, carried that certain Southern Accents left-over vibe. And then there is those 88 TPATH sessions, discussed... Could the basic tracks for DTL really have been cut as part of that? Is it really right in character? On the other hand, is it really right in character (or sound!) for the FMF project? Is the song even good enough? Some odd feelings about that song, here.
Read what you wrote. Listening to it. Lotta horns ----> could they have dug out a demo from SA and started playing around with it, with Jeff Lynne? Maybe JL used some parts (especially the horns) to build the sound into what became "Down The Line"? Too good to waste, let's see if we can do this, add that, bring in this here... You have another interesting concept there, Shelter.
I'm going with "I don't see why not!" Partly because of the logistics of bringing in horn-playing musicians. Not so much the time & hassle. More the psychology of it - if Heartbreakers were trialling / seeing how well they could work well with Lynne, would they also bring in extra musicians?
Though, against that, wouldn't Dave Stewart have asked for part of the credit / mention in liner notes? No, scratch that comment I just wrote - he might've if he'd written the lyrics or definitely contributed some specific aspect, but otherwise maybe not?
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Acclaimed writer/director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) will debut his new feature film, Yesterday, on 6/28. Set in contemporary England, the film follows a struggling singer-songwriter named Jack Malik (played by Himesh Patel) who, after a global blackout and freak bus accident, becomes the only person on Earth to remember the Beatles. Jack launches himself to stardom by playing songs we all know like “Yesterday,” “Hey Jude,” and “Something.” Lily James and Kate McKinnon also star, plus Boyle cast Ed Sheeran as himself. Watch the trailer below.
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5 hours ago, martin03345 said:Nashville Skyline is a country masterpiece though and was even well received now and in its own time. It's Self-Portrait that got lambasted for being terrible. And remember, the time to make his classics Bringing it All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited was truncated as well. It was a different time in the 60s. If you didn't have 2 LPs a year, you were slacking.
Also, after having labored over Southern Accents for years, the rushed production and making of Let Me Up was a welcomed difference. It may be disjointed yes, but it's the bands most underrated album by far.
^^^^^ True! Nodding enthusiastically.
Nashville Skyline is album they made fast & is sensational. (...is what I meant to say). Plus its cover is my fave image of The Man.
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OK, good point. I'll stop kicking sand in his face.
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1 minute ago, Shelter said:No joke.. they start with cigarettes, then coffee cups.. then what? Hats? Cousins?
Hats? hahahahaha
Noooo! I love caffeine, never tried nicotine, but understand & empathise with people who feel annoyed when cigarettes are airbrushed out of vintage images. Coffee cups airbrushed because of Californian health warning? Oh, and what about coca cola bottles (sugar & caffeine)? Sun in background? LA smog? ☹️
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On 2/10/2019 at 7:18 AM, MaryJanes2ndLastDance said:He was still looking directly at me, as if to make sure I was getting all of this.
I felt as though he didn’t just want to tell me something, he wanted to leave a mark.
The Tom Petty who had watched thousands of cowboys move across the TV screen, well, just then he looked like one of them*.
I couldn’t think of a whole lot else to do** but take a sip of that coffee and say, “It’s good. This really is good coffee.”***
To which Petty said, “You got that right.”
On another thread, I was sounding off about Zanes' writing style. So thank you universe for providing this wonderful example.
* TP looked like a cinema cowboy? What does that even mean? Could WZ be saying TP's intense expression reminded him of John Wayne, or Clint Eastwood?
** "I couldn't think of a whole lot else to do". Please. Maybe next interview, if in doubt, ask a question. What about lobbing back an open question ... to clarify whatever it is that TP's trying to communicate? The coffee? The machine? The process?
*** I have no words left. ☕
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On 10 February 2019 at 7:27 AM, nurktwin said:Article I read this morning from Tom's daughters said Tom NEVER drank Maxwell House Coffee in his life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh no! The curse of the unreliable narrator!
On 10 February 2019 at 7:38 AM, TomFest said:Yes, and that story says it was the "instant" kind of Maxwell House coffee. You just add hot water to that, and there's no Bunn Coffee Machine involved. The mystery deepens!!!
We know we can't say he never drank Maxwell House in his life, because he obviously drank it every time he went to the "Paradise Cove Beach Cafe" in Malibu, as Dana stated. This story is good to the last drop.
Oh no! The family memories are not all consistent! Next they'll be air-brushing people out of photos...
1 hour ago, RedfordCowboy said:Dang it, I hope Amazon lets me return these 400 cans of Maxwell House now...
Uh, how painful is having a tattoo removed? Asking for a friend.
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... it's still definitely thumbs up for Elvis, vintage hollow-body guitars and Coca Cola, isn't it???
"Old dogs and children and watermelon wine...", now there's a song they maybe could have covered.
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While recording Let Me Up, Heartbreakers had their own recent experience of recording something fast with Bob Dylan. What's the story (someone will know)?
Flying across Tasman Sea from NZ to Sydney, Dylan says to Petty "I need to record a song - will you organise & produce it?" So they land in Sydney, and hitting that ground running, Petty books time in a studio that happens to have a Neve soundboard. Meanwhile, Dylan packs in: fielding questions in an interview session at an artist's studio by Sydney Harbour; recording single "Band In The Hand"; presumably running sound checks; & giving a concert. Allegedly, never was a minute late.
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Okay so ...first side plus one or two more, re-released as live album. In that case, add song All Mixed Up and you have name for e.p./album!
Also, rearrange sequence to satisfy issues raised above ... so it flows more.
Bobology paragraphs
haha yes yes Shelter, ain't that the truth. Some of his albums seem hastily made & don't seem to work even after the first 1000 listens. So, listeners may be tempted to join critics in dismissing his work. Commonly used phrase: "Oh, Dylan's lost it this time for sure." But just as often, maybe years later, people hear an album -or song- and (maybe against their will) realise there's something compelling about it. It's connecting with them this time. Then, kaboom, resistance is useless, they're loving it.
- Album "Slow Train Coming" is classic example.
- Album "Nashville Skyline" really was made fast: reportedly, writing tunes on the train to Nashville, recording with couple of Nashville musicians & guest Johnny Cash.
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6 minutes ago, MaryJanes2ndLastDance said:Empty nest, it learned to fly!
Into the the light of the dark black night!
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Other songs from that time - oh, sure you have, you might not realise it off the top of your head - King Of The Hill is just one, even though it was officially released later.
Here's link to an funny / interesting blog called xist.blogspot.com "Albums that Should Exist." They suggest a TPATH album called "Waiting For Tonight - Various Songs", they feel should have been released in 1988. You can even download it, if you want.
- Got My Mind Made Up
- Can't Get Her Out
- Ways To Be Wicked
- You Came Through
- Tonight Might Be My Night
- There Ain't Enough Money
- Make That Connection
- King Of The Hill (with Roger McGuinn)
- Don't Treat Me Like A Stranger
- Goodbye Little Rich Girl
- Travelin'
- Down The Line
- Waiting For Tonight (with The Bangles)
- Last Night with Tom singing lead (as a bonus track by Wilburys)
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"Disappointing listen" for you maybe. I like listening to Let Me Up as a whole. Also, I appreciate that, even though there were other demands on their time, they stayed with it and carried their album all the way through from earliest stages to seeing vinyls /CDs on record shop shelves. So, it is what it is... take it or leave it... a selection from whatever music they were creating at that time. (An approach to albums that's characteristic of Bob Dylan, according to many Bobologists). Also, no hands were damaged in the making of the album, so that's an improvement from Southern Accents right there.
- I'm wondering if some of this discontent people feel about the album is due to the difference between a) what's included in Let Me Up and b) both the rich diversity of their live shows 1986/87 AND all the other music they were creating / recording In 1986/87. I'm guessing there are bootlegs of concerts 1986/87 that some people enjoy much more than Let Me Up. True?
- Do some people react to Let Me Up album with a feeling of frustration: "Of all their music available, why'd they choose those songs... and why'd they sequence (create a set list for the album) & mix the sound like that?"
How true would that be?
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Dolly Parton Grammy Musicares Person of the Year 2019
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Plus also, there's a moment in Temple In Flames tour documentary by MTV which gives an interesting insight into issues like this. For me anyway.
You know the one, where TP and Roger McGuinn are walking in Jerusalem. One of their Israeli guides is explaining why many people regard the area around the Dome of the Rock as one of the holiest places. He does something museum guides try to do - exploring the significance of cultural heritage in terms of something that visitors are already passionate about. Here he (wisely) uses music to talk about the process of holiness.
- Anyway, as Tom and Roger walk on they are talking about this experience with each other. The mike picks up Tom saying something like: "This is amazing. Pretty wild. Oh it's very simple. Ten years in Sunday School and this guy told me more in five minutes than I ever grasped in all that."
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Hah - synchronicity - snap both posted at same time. Well, they did get rid of this "Marrow's New Car" of which you speak. Doctor's orders?
Oh in a completely different universe & I would normally never mention this trash on Tom Petty Heartbreakers site, but what about Metallica bringning in a therapist for a documentary about creating an album??? That's all I know about Metallica, honestly.
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On 7 February 2019 at 2:53 AM, Hoodoo Man said:Not really sure where to post this but Paul Zollo is releasing some of the audio from the actual Conversations with Tom that were the interviews with Tom for his book...
Pauls Post on FB below:
Paul Zollo is with Keith Eveland.
Very happy that my Louise Goffin co-hosted songwriting podcast is now on YouTube. And for all my friends at Tom Petty Nation and everywhere, I am posting this - an archival interview with Tom I did in 1999 - this is mostly about the creation of Echo.
This interview - and all my interviews with Tom - including a year's worth working on "Conversations with Tom Petty" - were done for print - for magazines and for the book. I recorded them on cassette tapes - always had two machines going just in case. Just the little tiny ones.
Never did I consider the audio of these would be worth hearing. But now we can clean up the sound a lot (i don't miss this hiss) - and it sounds pretty good.
But what it has that print doesn't is Tom's voice. And in that gentle voice with its warm accents of the south - his spirit is so present. That voice is so distinctive - as so many of you know well - and so friendly, that it could be no one else. Gives me chills every time I hear it.
You can hear all 19 of our episodes so far. It has been a great adventure - in that we've been steadily compiling a great collection of new interviews, including the most open intimate interview ever with the great Carole King, who asked us if she could be on the show after hearing our Chrissie Hynde interview. Yes! We had such a warm and expansive talk - that it stretched into five episodes, which will premiere on the eve of her 77th birthday, this Friday, February 8.
Many more archival shows with Tom will be coming - as well as with Zappa, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Harry Nilsson, Dave Brubeck, Laura Nyro, James Taylor, Patti Smith, Randy Newman, Yoko Ono, Mose Allison, Townes Van Zandt and more.
Tom loved to talk about songwriting and record-making - and loved that I would learn how to play his songs - so I knew what went into them. Because of it, it's a talk between two musicians -and he opens up about all aspects of his art and craft.
Here is Episode 6 with Tom. For you! All of you
Link to a podcast with some of the older audio for Echo.
http://www.thegreatsongadventure.com/e/episode-five-tom-petty-a-1999-archival-interview/
🎩 here's good! If you don't mind posting it twice, how would you feel about adding it into the Old & New Interviews thread?
On 23 May 2017 at 6:31 PM, TwoGunslingers said:That would be another interesting thread: Favorite rock bios!
Levon Helm's "This Wheel's on Fire" would be on my list, for example.
❤️Levon❤️
I have picked up some nice recommendations on Mudcrutch Farm Forum, including one from TomFest about Gram Parsons. (I ordered a second hand copy via Abe Books).
I persevered & completed "Life". It's by Keith Richards (some chapters reading like a word for word dictation from Keef's stream of consciousness) AND a ghostwriter (other chapters are written in such a coherent style that it's surely someone else).
My favourite book about Bob Dylan is his book "Lyrics 1962-2001", rather than any of all the other options, to be honest. Album after album, song after song. Some images from albums & handwritten lyrics. Index at the back.
Songwriters & musicians - they express themselves through their music. Anything else is a bonus.
So Mike is in Fleetwood Mac ?
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Did you all see this about Lindsey Buckingham? (Feb 9th)