I am so on a Gram Parsons kick...

gmku · 07.28.2007, 09:57 PM

I've been playing my new Grievous Angel and Safe at Home LPs nonstop. I'm also returning now and then to Sweetheart of the Rodeo and Gilded Palace of Sin. I like this stuff almost as much as my Stones LPs.

Who likes Gram?

Danny Himself · 07.28.2007, 10:34 PM

*tumbleweed*

demonrail666 · 07.28.2007, 10:54 PM

Coming from you GMKU, that doesn't surprise me at all. What with the Stones connection and all.

Grievous Angel is my favourite. $1000 Wedding. Say no more.

I love his stuff with Emmylou Harris more than with the FBB, although Gilded Palace of Sin has some incredible stuff on it.

Went through a major Gram thing about 15 years ago - largely out of a similar obsession with the Stones at the time. He's got one of those voices that you can easily become obsessed with.

Did he ever actually record anything with keef?

Norma J · 07.29.2007, 01:22 AM

The film was cool.

I don't know much about him but apparently he influenced and taught Keith richards a great deal. So therefore I guess I'm a fan. Would really like to check out some of his stuff.

Torn Curtain · 07.29.2007, 08:12 AM

Is it true he wrote the basis of Wild horses ? Some people deny it.

MellySingsDoom · 07.29.2007, 09:50 AM

^^^I read in a guitar-porn mag aeons ago an article wiht Keef where he readily admitted "copping the licks" of Ry Cooder and GP. However, he didn't go on to state anything about co-writing with these gents.

gmku · 07.29.2007, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666

Coming from you GMKU, that doesn't surprise me at all. What with the Stones connection and all.

Grievous Angel is my favourite. $1000 Wedding. Say no more.

I love his stuff with Emmylou Harris more than with the FBB, although Gilded Palace of Sin has some incredible stuff on it.

Went through a major Gram thing about 15 years ago - largely out of a similar obsession with the Stones at the time. He's got one of those voices that you can easily become obsessed with.

Did he ever actually record anything with keef?

I don't think they recorded together, which is a shame. Could have been great.

I read the things too where Keith readily admits to cribbing things from Parsons and Cooder. I don't know how much of it is true, but it wouldn't surprise me. Keith is notoriously lazy, and Keith and Mick are notorious about not giving others their due credit (see Mick Taylor!).

You definitely hear the Parsons influence in Stones country rock songs from that period though.

The "Safe at Home" album by Parsons' band, the International Submarine Band, is probably my favorite of all his stuff.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 07.29.2007, 05:17 PM

I've known of Gram for along time because of the Mekons covering "Sin City," but I haven't got around into giving a lot of his stuff a good listen.

val-holla-ing · 07.29.2007, 07:12 PM

you gotta check out "grand theft parsons," then.

Everyneurotic · 07.29.2007, 11:16 PM

i love gram, man.

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gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	I've been playing my new Grievous Angel and Safe at Home LPs nonstop. I'm also returning now and then to Sweetheart of the Rodeo and Gilded Palace of Sin. I like this stuff almost as much as my Stones LPs. Who likes Gram? __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,509	Coming from you GMKU, that doesn't surprise me at all. What with the Stones connection and all. Grievous Angel is my favourite. $1000 Wedding. Say no more. I love his stuff with Emmylou Harris more than with the FBB, although Gilded Palace of Sin has some incredible stuff on it. Went through a major Gram thing about 15 years ago - largely out of a similar obsession with the Stones at the time. He's got one of those voices that you can easily become obsessed with. Did he ever actually record anything with keef?
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Norma J invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Orstralia Posts: 4,917	The film was cool. I don't know much about him but apparently he influenced and taught Keith richards a great deal. So therefore I guess I'm a fan. Would really like to check out some of his stuff. __________________ I want girls with new-wave hair-doos
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Torn Curtain invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: France Posts: 7,997	Is it true he wrote the basis of Wild horses ? Some people deny it.
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MellySingsDoom invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,662	^^^I read in a guitar-porn mag aeons ago an article wiht Keef where he readily admitted "copping the licks" of Ry Cooder and GP. However, he didn't go on to state anything about co-writing with these gents. __________________ Snow on Easter Sunday - Jesus Christ in reverse.
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SpectralJulianIsNotDead invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 7,409	I've known of Gram for along time because of the Mekons covering "Sin City," but I haven't got around into giving a lot of his stuff a good listen.
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val-holla-ing invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: baton rouge. the 225, big raggedy. Posts: 2,731	you gotta check out "grand theft parsons," then. __________________ please do not misconstrue the previous statement as an invitation for same sex relations or as negative towards anyone of another sexuality. -cam'ron (formerly "no homo")
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Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	i love gram, man. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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