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Does anybody remember John Denver?

Posted on 01/13/2018 9:46:22 AM PST by SamAdams76

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To: 3ZZZ

‘He touted the natural beauty of Aspen in his songs, but in reality, his fame and fortune brought “more sorrows upon the land.”’

The actual lyric is a little worse than that:

‘Why they try to tear the mountains down to bring in a couple more
More people, more scars upon the land’


101 posted on 01/13/2018 11:00:09 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: SamAdams76

Colorado Rocky Mountain hiiiiigh

And Country Roads...

Great songs. American classics. A bunch of country artists just did a medley with Country Roads and a Dolly Parton song, can’t remember. It’s very well done.

I wish the gullible cnn believers had any love for the natural countryside in this great land.


102 posted on 01/13/2018 11:00:50 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: DownInFlames

“That’s a glider”

The word you want is sailplane. Gliders show up in WWII pictures and probably had an l/d of about 8. The one in the picture is likely 40+.


103 posted on 01/13/2018 11:00:57 AM PST by Western Phil
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To: SamAdams76

He did make quite a splash...


104 posted on 01/13/2018 11:02:54 AM PST by null and void ( The Martians fought global warming, all the plants died and the surface water froze solid....)
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To: SamAdams76

I wish he could have stayed with Annie. They were so cute together. He could not resist all the women throwing themselves at him on tour. Sad. I have his autobiography called “Take Me Home”. I am sorry he did not stick to taking himself home to Annie. Great book. Recommend for any fan.


105 posted on 01/13/2018 11:03:00 AM PST by TheConservativeParty (Battlecry "COVFEFE !" "LOCK HER UP! AND HIM and HIM and HIM too!")
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To: exDemMom

I love “Today” and play it on my baby grand often.


106 posted on 01/13/2018 11:03:57 AM PST by TheConservativeParty (Battlecry "COVFEFE !" "LOCK HER UP! AND HIM and HIM and HIM too!")
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To: SamAdams76

In June 1996 I golfed in a group right behind him at Spyglass Hill (https://www.pebblebeach.com/golf/spyglass-hill-golf-course/) on the Monterey Peninsula. Myself and 3 buddies drove down from San Francisco to play at Spyglass. When we arrived inside the clubhouse Denver was meandering around and we were signing in. Then over the PA came the announcement for the Denver party to tee off. One of my buddies goes up to him and says, “Denver, like John Denver”. And he smiled and said yes.” He was easily recognizable.

If you have ever played golf at Spyglass or Pebble Beach you know how crazy it is with the overcapacity due to the tourists. The pace of play can be sooo long.

So they were always waiting to play and we arrived to the next tee box on almost every hole. We had the opportunity to constantly chat with him and his much younger girlfriend, an Aussie or Brit I can’t seem to recall which. But she was a very good golfer, having played collegiately at the University of Texas. And we learned that he had just arrived back from a concert tour in Japan and South Korea where he was still very popular.

The last 3 holes we all played together as one big group since it was getting dark. I think I have a group photo somewhere. In any event he was a down to earth kind of guy just enjoying himself and life.

John Denver: ‘My dark night of the soul’

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4707943/John-Denver-My-dark-night-of-the-soul.html


107 posted on 01/13/2018 11:04:37 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: SamAdams76

How refreshing!


108 posted on 01/13/2018 11:05:06 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: dfwgator

I thought he went down over Macho Grande.


109 posted on 01/13/2018 11:05:47 AM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Fantasywriter

I noticed that too. In that song he laments building in the mountains, yet did it himself. I still forgive him, for all the music I’ve enjoyed that he made.


110 posted on 01/13/2018 11:07:39 AM PST by TheConservativeParty (Battlecry "COVFEFE !" "LOCK HER UP! AND HIM and HIM and HIM too!")
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To: Zathras
Went scuba diving where he crashed many times.

How many times did he crash?

111 posted on 01/13/2018 11:08:09 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Hotlanta Mike

The aussie he was with was most likely his second wife, with whom he had a daughter, about 10 years old when he died.


112 posted on 01/13/2018 11:09:35 AM PST by TheConservativeParty (Battlecry "COVFEFE !" "LOCK HER UP! AND HIM and HIM and HIM too!")
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To: pabianice; SamAdams76
Another celebrity killed himself flat-hatting in his A-5.

Thanks to you, I learned something new today.

http://aboutww2.com/flat-hatting/flat-hatting.html

113 posted on 01/13/2018 11:10:10 AM PST by thecodont
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To: SamAdams76
There's been a long running feud within the Country Music community about what constitutes "real" country music.

Some say that today's country music really is more like hip hop or pop. There are a lot of people who think that George Strait may be the last true country musician.

But others go back even further, even suggesting that it was Patsy Cline who was the first that sent country music off the rails and into pop territory.

We had a record at our home in the 60's called "Countrypolitan Hits" which suggests that even back then some country musicians were trying to be more "relevant".

True believers seem to think that anything that came after blue grass ain't country.

Denver was one of those crossover musicians that some people welcomed into the country fold and others rejected.

To my mind Charlie Rich was no more country than anyone else at the time. A lot of the music from his era could be described as pop music with southern accents and steel guitars.

114 posted on 01/13/2018 11:10:57 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: TheConservativeParty

Until I looked it up, I thought Denver was saying, ‘More people, more stars upon the land.’ I really loved that; it seemed so unique and amazing for a star to view fellow humans not as a blight but as fellow stars.

Then I saw the actual lyric. It was a big letdown.

Oh well.


115 posted on 01/13/2018 11:11:23 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: SamAdams76

After he crashed onto the ocean he had a sky burial. The seagulls were there picking up pieces of him.


116 posted on 01/13/2018 11:12:12 AM PST by 4yearlurker (Stay warm out there!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Some say that today's country music really is more like hip hop or pop.

I liked Tom Petty's definition, "Bad rock with a fiddle."

117 posted on 01/13/2018 11:13:02 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Fantasywriter

I guess I didn’t recall exactly correctly. I knew there was a fuel issue. I had forgotten about the tank switching.


118 posted on 01/13/2018 11:15:49 AM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Keyhopper
Did you know, if you build your own plane, you don’t have to have a license to fly it?

Only if it weighs less than 254 pounds, which puts it in the ultralight category. Otherwise you need at least a sport pilot license (less than 1320 lbs gross) or private pilot license. At the time Denver crashed there was no sport pilot category so he would have needed a current private pilot license.

119 posted on 01/13/2018 11:16:57 AM PST by HerrBlucher (For the sake of His sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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To: SamAdams76
They loved John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.) in Germany.

Nowadays they probably confuse him with David Hasselhoff.

120 posted on 01/13/2018 11:18:49 AM PST by x
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