Just got back from Academy Records in Brooklyn didn't score much, they just got a stack of The Flying Burrito bros lp in so i grabbed one. Dude behind the counter said this record is amazing, i'm not feeling it at all.Has anyone else heard this lp?
The Flying Burrito Bros lp
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i love the gilded palace of sin. i think it's one of those rare lp's that i know the words to from beginning to end. it's fun to sing the different harmonies when no one is home
i didn't enjoy the gram documentary too much though
i didn't enjoy the gram documentary too much though
The LA country rock seen had some great songwriters a few great moments, but I'm with you. I like country rock ok, but the Flying Burrito's are mad overrated in my opinion. Likewise Sweetheart Of The Rodeo. I think the 2 LA country rock lps I really like are Buffalo Springfield Retrospective (I know it's not cool to list a greatest hits record, but that's how I first heard them) and Emmy Lou Harris first major release with Boulder To Birmingham which is about Gram Parsons.
This is absoulutly the greatest hippie country rock lp ever made.
Honorable mention go to a slew of Doug Sham releated lps. More Commander Cody records. Last Mile Ramblers out of New Mexico for those who like raer(heard them play a bunch of times when I was a teen. Jr Brown their guitar player is now an Austin guitar god.) Those are the only great ones I can think of right now. Pickwick will be here soon to school us on more.
After that we can start on the country guys who became hippie country rockers like Freddy Fender and Willie Nelson.
and after lies oblivion...
The self-titled post-Gram album has an absolutely
beautiful version of Dylan's "To Ramona" - worth
owning just for that track alone, although it is
a decent album overall, just no "Gilded Palace .."
hmm ... I was thinking it was later, but I guess the LP
I'm talking about IS the third album, this one:
Also, dissing the Burritos and then pushing Commander Cody should be punishable by law.
anyone see that fucking GOD AWFUL moving about after Gram's death..the whole stealing the coffin shit with Johnny Knoxville and Christinia Applegate? Saw some of it the other day on IFC..talk about TOTAL SHIT..yuck.
It really should be, though Commander Cody has his moments.
I used that version of "To Ramona" on my last Waxidermy swap mix. The third lp has really grown on me over the years. I think it holds up better than Burrito Deluxe as an album... though the version of "Wild Horses" on the 2nd lp is on par with their best stuff. If only that could have replaced the last song on Gilded Palace you'd have an 11 star album.
Yeah, that shit was lame.
yeah i was bummed when i missed my window to see it at the local rep theater and then i rented it on dvd. what a waste of time. i think they focused too much on his family and they couldn't have approached his naturally interesting biography in a more mundane and unmemorable manner. it also made him seem really unlikeable which maybe i wasn't ready for. the video quality and editing was a lot shoddier than i expected it to be, it was almost below TV. even the a&e biography on brian wilson was 10x better than this
i tried to eat a whole hollenbeck burrito by myself the other day and i dont want to see burritos for another year.
i mean month.
i mean month.
lazy days? i like that one
hot burrito #1 is tops for sure, but i think as far as fbb slow jams are concerned i've played "juanita" and "sin city" the most out of any other songs on that record. actually i remember when i first moved into my current place and my roommates didn't know me very well i played the hell out of "sin city" back to back with the byrds version of "the christian life" with gram on lead vocals not to mention a lot of louvin bros. one of the roommates told me many months later that he was scared i was a fundamentalist christian because i guess he thought that was the only music i listened to.
Yeah, I thought so too. I mean, I knew he was a fiend and a womanizer, but I don't see the point of doing a documentary and focusing so completely the negative aspects of someone's personality to that extent.
Did you ever see the made for TV Beach Boys movie that was made about 6-8 years ago? It is awesome in a totally horrible cheese-fest kinda way.
Yeah, I thought so too. I mean, I knew he was a fiend and a womanizer, but I don't see the point of doing a documentary and focusing so completely the negative aspects of someone's personality to that extent.
totally! it was completely one sided and made him seem really shallow and almost soulless focusing on the gossip and blueblood shit which knew about, but i think was an unfair and imbalanced. seems like they didn't talk too much about the songs which is where the bulk of that emotional depth & complexity seemed to be. it was on par with vh-1 behind the music
no, i haven't even heard about it. what's it called? the a&e bio was pretty good and heartwrenching because of all the murray wilson stuff, but then they would interview billy corgan giving his 2 cents and it's like wtf i don't care about his take on the beach boys.
