Glen Campbell featuring Stone Temple Pilots at recording studioWichita Lineman | Tac0L0c0
Posted on 06/26/2022 4:00:07 PM PDT by FLNittany
> Purple People Eaters don’t just eat purple people. They also eat little blue men. But their parents don’t like them to travel to earth, where they might themselves be eaten by gorillas.
Well, *that* was a fun rabbit hole to go down. How did you happen to know about all those connections?
Jimmy Webb... to me that version really brings out the lonliness and longing of home the troops in Vietnam where going through.
Webb said he wrote a lot of material based on Campbell’s vocal qualities, which he deeply admired.
Hard to say what Glen was better at, guitar or vocals.
Nice tune, doesn’t stack up against “Seven Spanish Angels” tho.
“...and yet it is hard to think of a more perfect metaphor for the vanishing working-class masses the world over,”
The working “class” masses aren’t vanishing. That’s a preposterous statement. There will always be labor involved, hence the working class is never going away.
Yep, his version is great and I like Emmylou Harris’s too.
By the Time You Get to Phoenix--Wanda Jackson (1967)
A lot of these records are in my collection, although I rarely purchase records anymore now that everything I want is on Youtube.
So far, no one has brought up the story of the Witch Doctor, who is also a friend of the Purple People Eater.
Glen Campbell featuring Stone Temple Pilots at recording studioWichita Lineman | Tac0L0c0
I like that one, particularly the Steve Goodman versions. :^)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E2%80%9CYou+Never+Even+Called+Me+By+My+Name%E2%80%9D
Naw, it’s We’re a Happy Family!
I’m glad I’m not the only one expecting fiber optic splices had replaced all that.
John Prine is someone Dylan recognized early on as a great songwriter. I don’t know that he has anything anyone would consider in the running for greatest song ever, but he has a heckuva lot of really good songs. It is amazing to me he wrote Hello In There as a very young man. It shows incredible insight into the human condition.
Some guitarists are great pickers and some are great fretmen; but Glen Campbell was both. I love his voice; but he was a masterful guitarist. The following tour de force, however, is just for show off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUBhE00h9U0
LOL. Dead birds.
Really? Where did you hear that? I don’t know, I assume you are right. I always thought it was about Vietnam as well.
I posted something about Galveston years ago, after Glenn passed away, and another poster corrected me. I researched it at the time and they were right, Galveston was about the Spanish American War in Cuba with Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders and all that. I don’t remember now where I found it, but it surprised me that it was not about Vietnam.
Rd later.
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