…And They Ended Up Falling Apart Like So Many Others... Part of the problem with Gram Parsons is that he generally lacked direction. Unlike so many of his contemporaries, he didn't need money. As the grandson of a citrus baron; he was able to collect quite handsome sums twice a year. And he did lose direction after the train tour, his cloudy judgment ultimately getting him kicked out. He stu.
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…They Were A Group Who Naturally Toured By Train… After getting an advance from A&M, Parsons led the group to Nudie's Rodeo Tailors on Lankershim Boulevard to get decked out in psychedelic Western wear from the man who had dressed Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Hank Snow, George Jones and Porter Wagoner. Nudie's assistant, Manuel, didn't disappoint, creating four iconic suits that would be f
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…The First Five Slices Of Cosmic American Pie… "Christine's Tune" is a vicious number, supposedly a portrait of one of the members of the Frank Zappa brainchild GTOs, Christine Frka, who had allegedly caused trouble among one of the Byrds and their spouse. Appropriately, Hillman sings a sizable chunk of the track, presumably the Byrd wasn't Parsons or Sweetheart era drummer Kevin Kelley, so
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Gram Parsons' new Nudie threads in the vid are grrreat, and Sneaky Pete bought a hat, like Princess Marina's!Originally called "Christine's Tune", until the hammering and the pressuring forced a parenthetical name change...Don't worry, it's all explained by Gram for the benefit of WMMR listeners out there in radio land (circa June/July '71).
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"Sneeky" Pete Kleinow, pedal steel guitarist and member of The Flying Burrito Brothers, died from complications of Alzheimer's desease on Saturday.You can read the story "here":http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070109/music_nm/kleinow_dc_1.Let's all put on our favorite Burrito Brothers song and remember this wonderful musician.
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Yesterday, our MOG pal August (screen name: Augusts1) posted a "Sunday Under the Covers" nod to a mellow version of "Wild Horses," as illuminated by the British folk-pop group The Sundays. A beautifully bittersweet, countrified ballad written by Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, "Wild Horses" was first released on Sticky Fingers - the monumental 1971 album by the S...
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The Flying Burrito Brothers were never exactly famed for their stability - some phenomenal drug taking and some hubristically excessive ideas (sending invitations to a promotional barn dance through the mail attached to budles of hay, for example) ensured that success was going to be harder for them to achieve than for most. By 1974 they had lost frontman Gram Parsons, and were onto their fourt...
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When I went to the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville for the first time, I got to see, encased in glass, the Nudie cowboy suit that Gram Parsons wore on the cover of the first album by the Flying Burrito Brothers. I get a kick out of that sort of thing.Even though I spent quite a sizable chunk of my younger years at rock concerts, I never got to see the Burritos live. On Wolfgang's Vault,...
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I think you deserve a hard-earned break. You've been working your tail off all week, and it's Friday. The day's winding down, and what better way to help you decompress, than a big, old heaping helping of Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers....!http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=23155&rendTypeId=4!----------------------------*Dark End Of The Street*----------------------------At the dark...
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LISA LEFFAssociated PressSAN FRANCISCO - "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow, a steel guitar prodigy who rose to fame as one of the original members of the Flying Burrito Brothers, has died. He was 72.Kleinow, who also worked in film as an award-winning animator and special effects artist, died Saturday at a Petaluma convalescent home near the skilled nursing facility where he had been living with Alzheimer'...
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