Posted on 10/14/2014 12:23:56 PM PDT by PROCON
CNN) -- Even if you've never been a fan of Glen Campbell, this one's certain to tug at your heartstrings.
The Country Music Hall of Fame member, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2011, is out with the video for the final song he'll ever record -- "I'm Not Gonna Miss You." It was recorded in 2013 with producer Julian Raymond.
"I'm still here but yet I'm gone/ I don't play guitar or sing my songs," the tune begins as it details his struggles with the disease.
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Ma, would you Ping the Canteen to this.
Ah yes! The Rhinestone Cowboy! Awesome.
I remember his Wichita Lineman album and a song he wrote called “Fate of man”. Lot’s on insight in it also.
It’s the irony of it: Soon he will be beyond the pain of realizing the people he loves the most he will not be able to recognize, nor remember anything about.
And even more unfair, it just makes leaving that much harder for the people he loves the most.
F*ck climate change - if we EVER needed a Manhattan Project to deal with a disease, it’s Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Biden and Hagel are idiots.
She raised four children by herself.
And helped in raising her grandchildren too.
She was with us for the better part of 85 years.
Then she started leaving us, and finally left us at the age of 89.
Those last few years before she left, she wondered if we would still be okay after she left. We all assured her we would be.
The last few years were not great for her, not for us. But, we wanted her with us forever, no matter what condition she was in. She had other ideas, and left us in April of this year.
I still can’t believe she’s gone, but I believe that she’s still looking after us. Her mind is whole again.
Prayers for you. My mother suffered through her last years with dementia. It was not a pleasant time for me and my siblings.
Amen, bro! I can’t hear any of those songs the same way now, knowing that the genius of Brian Wilson’s music was brought to life by performers like Hal Blaine, Glen Campbell, Carol Kaye, and the rest. It’s not just that Glen was a great guitar player, but based on the open market he was truly the best of the best.
Damned monitor...why does it fog up so much when I watch these types of things. <sniffle>
It's hard to listen to a song from the 60s without wondering if Glen Campbell is playing guitar, bass, or banjo. Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Petula Clark, Nat King Cole, the Beach Boys, Kingston Trio (banjo on "The Reverend Mr. Black," for one), Merle Haggard, Lou Rawls, Rose Maddox, Tex Ritter, Gene Vincent, Bobby Edwards, Fifth Dimension, the Monkees, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley ("Viva Las Vegas," for one), the Righteous Brothers (including "You've Lost That Loving Feeling"), Roger Miller ("Dang Me"), Hondells, Jimmy Webb's jingles, the First Edition . . . and that's not remotely close to 1/100th of the popular artists whose hits from the 60s feature Glen Campbell.
I helped care for my Great Grandmother and Grandmother as they were ravaged by the disease and eventually died. There are no words to describe the pain. If u have never experienced it you would never understand. Yet, more is spent on AIDS, a preventable disease. I agree with your post.
Really, the only Glen Campbell tune that was just within my range so I could hit all the notes. When it comes on the radio, I put up the windows and turn up the volume and sing my arse off. God blessed you Glen.
Wow. Thanks for sharing. Hauntingly beautiful song.
Glen replaced Brian Wilson on tour for four months in 1964-1965, while Brian was composing.
That is a brutally beautiful supremely sad thing. My respect for Glen Campbell has never been so strong.
Wow, I knew Glen was prolific, but what a lineup of stars he played with, just Wow!
Same here. But I don’t roll the windows up. I get a few looks in traffic but I don’t care.
I’m happy with myself.
A friend of mine is a LA-based mastering engineer of great acclaim. He used to have a weekly breakfast at a restaurant with Hal and some other Crew members. The stories that were told at that table had to be amazing!
Very powerful and sad at the same time. Alzheimer’s is hell on not only the sufferer, but the caretaking family members.
Wow incredible. I don’t know what to say, on one hand it’s beautiful but strange at the same time. “I’m not going to miss you” I assume because he has Alzheimer’s, but isn’t that sort of making fun of himself?
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I see it as a stone cold and factual assessment of where he’ll soon be or already is, no joke at all.
A comforting thought, though, is his perception that the partner himself/herself will be spared some of the "missing" that goes along with that sad and loving goodbye.
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