As a product of my time as a young 1970s punk rocker I was very suspect of the hippies and CSNY in particular. Now, a million years later I can hear that their harmony singing was top notch. David is right that they could have done all of these songs solo but the group singing is the reason to hear them.
My pick for who might have heard the most music might be John and Alan Lomax. Famous father and son music collectors, archivists and documentarians who worked for the Library of Congress. Their story is fascinating.
Here's a possible future topic perhaps. Salford Lads Club is looking for people to bail it out of financial problems after over a 100 years. I have slight connections to the place myself, having lived next to their Summer camp for a number of years. Anyway they have to stump up 250,000 quid to stay alive. Graham Nash stumped up 10,000 pounds already. But the place is steeped in associations with famous sportspeople, tv personalities, politicians and musicians. Many of whom have been photoed outside and inside the building. Morrissey and John Cooper Clark to name just two. And the place is in a fairly picturesque old building, which is like a museum inside. My guess is they will make that sum because of their old associates. I remember John Cooper Clark in a documentary stood outside the building, telling his funny old tale of Salford street commentary, '"Get back on the smack, Clarkie! You were better when you were on it." I got to know loads of Salford people, and that is exactly how they think about celebrity, in their refreshingly blunt way. I believe there was a Guardian photo article last week that you might want to take a look at for background.
The Elvis section of this episode was embarrassing. I haven't heard such silly, ridiculous caricatures about Elvis, outside of people who admittedly despise him, or who simply don't know much about him and his life, for quite a long time. Elvis didn't grow, as a human being, beyond his origins, as a supposed "hillbilly"? I was born and raised in the deep American South (Alabama), and Elvis never was a "hillbilly." From his early years, he was a virtual young musicologist, showing love and appreciation for "non-hillbilly" musical genres, such as African-American blues, and even opera. As a mature, thoughtful, adult man, from the mid-1960s, and until his death, he read voraciously, and researched widely, on the subjects of philosophy, various world religions, and other subjects. Your summation of Elvis, and his personal growth, or lack thereof, in his life, is a sadly ill-informed one. Just because he was not always the best parent (an attribute to be found in many parents and cultures, the world over), does not mean that he was a perpetual "hillbilly." He liked to let off fireworks, and shoot guns with his friends, on his own, very self-enclosed, property, as an adult. This, also, does not mean that he was a perpetual "hillbilly" who never grew, as a person, or never grew up, at all. He grew much throughout his life. For that matter, so-called "hillbillies" (which, again, Elvis was not) can, and do, grow, as people, too.
Love your Instagram LP pieces, Dave, and your explanation reminds me of a favourite saying that sums up a modern malaise, and that's "lost in the options forest".
Elvis also had the hottest woman and the best drugs money could buy, he knew how to party, on another matter I got to see The Queen twice(in a crowd in public) and Phil Collins, Top That (Mic Drop).
Not sure about your definition of supergroups.. Cream? Nobody had heard of Jack or Ginger before Cream... Unlike the Wilburys. Oh Dave, you don't like CSNY? I'm in the middle of reading your book about rock stars not being like the rest of us ...I'm going to have this podcast playing in my head when I read it now 😂😮😅😂😂
As a product of my time as a young 1970s punk rocker I was very suspect of the hippies and CSNY in particular. Now, a million years later I can hear that their harmony singing was top notch. David is right that they could have done all of these songs solo but the group singing is the reason to hear them.
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My pick for who might have heard the most music might be John and Alan Lomax. Famous father and son music collectors, archivists and documentarians who worked for the Library of Congress. Their story is fascinating.
Here's a possible future topic perhaps. Salford Lads Club is looking for people to bail it out of financial problems after over a 100 years. I have slight connections to the place myself, having lived next to their Summer camp for a number of years. Anyway they have to stump up 250,000 quid to stay alive. Graham Nash stumped up 10,000 pounds already. But the place is steeped in associations with famous sportspeople, tv personalities, politicians and musicians. Many of whom have been photoed outside and inside the building. Morrissey and John Cooper Clark to name just two. And the place is in a fairly picturesque old building, which is like a museum inside. My guess is they will make that sum because of their old associates. I remember John Cooper Clark in a documentary stood outside the building, telling his funny old tale of Salford street commentary, '"Get back on the smack, Clarkie! You were better when you were on it." I got to know loads of Salford people, and that is exactly how they think about celebrity, in their refreshingly blunt way. I believe there was a Guardian photo article last week that you might want to take a look at for background.
The Elvis section of this episode was embarrassing. I haven't heard such silly, ridiculous caricatures about Elvis, outside of people who admittedly despise him, or who simply don't know much about him and his life, for quite a long time. Elvis didn't grow, as a human being, beyond his origins, as a supposed "hillbilly"? I was born and raised in the deep American South (Alabama), and Elvis never was a "hillbilly." From his early years, he was a virtual young musicologist, showing love and appreciation for "non-hillbilly" musical genres, such as African-American blues, and even opera. As a mature, thoughtful, adult man, from the mid-1960s, and until his death, he read voraciously, and researched widely, on the subjects of philosophy, various world religions, and other subjects. Your summation of Elvis, and his personal growth, or lack thereof, in his life, is a sadly ill-informed one. Just because he was not always the best parent (an attribute to be found in many parents and cultures, the world over), does not mean that he was a perpetual "hillbilly." He liked to let off fireworks, and shoot guns with his friends, on his own, very self-enclosed, property, as an adult. This, also, does not mean that he was a perpetual "hillbilly" who never grew, as a person, or never grew up, at all. He grew much throughout his life. For that matter, so-called "hillbillies" (which, again, Elvis was not) can, and do, grow, as people, too.
Love your Instagram LP pieces, Dave, and your explanation reminds me of a favourite saying that sums up a modern malaise, and that's "lost in the options forest".
Elvis also had the hottest woman and the best drugs money could buy, he knew how to party, on another matter I got to see The Queen twice(in a crowd in public) and Phil Collins, Top That (Mic Drop).
Not sure about your definition of supergroups.. Cream? Nobody had heard of Jack or Ginger before Cream... Unlike the Wilburys. Oh Dave, you don't like CSNY? I'm in the middle of reading your book about rock stars not being like the rest of us ...I'm going to have this podcast playing in my head when I read it now 😂😮😅😂😂