Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: voyager
Date: 05 Feb 23 - 11:19 AM

Good advice - be kind to The Strangers (Wikipedia)

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 04 Feb 23 - 05:14 PM

One-off, all-star style wrecking crews were a thing at Capitol from its beginning. Leon Jerry “Jack” Guthrie's 1940s version were The Oklahomans; all better known than their front man who didn't actually have a band to call his own. Producer/bassist Cliffie Stone was the former music director at KFVD when & where the Jack & Woody act caught their first big break.

Haggard's lot were billed as The Strangers. The roll call hangs down to your shins.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: gillymor
Date: 04 Feb 23 - 12:55 PM

On Mama Tried Campbell played rhythm guitar and sang tenor harmony, James Burton played Dobro, that's him either finger picking or hybrid picking during the intro, and Roy Nichols played electric lead, all according to an interview given by Merle.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: voyager
Date: 04 Feb 23 - 10:29 AM

The pointer to Mama Tried lights me up. Check out Merle singing 'Little Ole Wine Drinker Me' (Dean Martin). Hilarious. Little Ol Wine Drinker Me (Dean Martin)

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,The Og
Date: 04 Feb 23 - 10:06 AM

We (The Frontiersmen) opened for The Beach Boys back in 1965 (in Buffalo, NY). Glen came to our dressing room and jammed with us for about half an hour. Still have a guitar and a banjo he played at that session. Great picker/singer/guy!

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 03 Feb 23 - 07:57 PM

The Wrecking Crew (audio only)
#90 & 110 –– Bassist Carol Kane soundbites on G.C.
#91 –– Gentle on my Mind
#111 –– Wichita Lineman
The documentary is “Free with Ads” on ytube with all the usual bootleg uploads on the side.

Glen Campbell & Wrecking Crew du jour. Keeping pretty good company for a country boy:
Mama Tried (Haggard)
Strangers in the Night (Sinatra)

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,Nick Dow
Date: 03 Feb 23 - 07:14 PM

I loved his voice. The range on Rhinestone Cowboy proves just how good a singer he was. His guitar playing could be magnificent when he wanted to and his repertoire was broad and included some well-known Folk songs. i.e. Bradley Kincaid's version of Barbara Allen. He had stage charisma and professionalism that made him a joy to watch. I do not think we saw all he was capable of performing. He had a great ear for good songs and certainly helped to put Jimmy Webb's songs out to a wider public.
I would love to have heard him in concert on his own with an acoustic guitar. I am a great believer that performance skills transcend musical mediums, and a good singer and performer will always inspire others, what so ever the song.

Subject: Tune Add: Amazing Grace (Glen Campbell)
From: voyager
Date: 03 Feb 23 - 03:26 PM

Feeling some Amazing Grace today .... thank you Glen Campbell (caught this perfornance in a concert late '90s in England)

Amazing Grace (Glen Campbell)

blessings
voyager

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 13 Aug 17 - 03:48 PM

BBC "Last Word" talking to Jimmy Webb
about GC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090w8px

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Aug 17 - 06:08 PM

Adding Glen Campbell on Johnny Carson show (19850 performing Highwaymen and Love Alway
for the ages.....

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,Allan Conn
Date: 11 Aug 17 - 02:43 AM

Some more bagpipe playing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q89RraCMyWc

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,pauperback
Date: 10 Aug 17 - 01:12 PM

best thing about Glen Campbell is he wasn't a douch

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: gillymor
Date: 10 Aug 17 - 08:49 AM

Wow, Glen on the bagpipes.
"Is there no beginning to this man's talent?" LOL

Thanks for the link.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: voyager
Date: 10 Aug 17 - 08:02 AM

When I worked and traveled in the UK in the '90s I' went to his show in Ipswich (Suffolk). He performed with 2 two of his daughters singing backup. At show's end, he paid tribute to his Scottish roots and performed Amazing Grace on the bagpipes . Loved it. Thank you for the life in music you have shared with us.

RIP

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,pauperback
Date: 10 Aug 17 - 03:12 AM

Mull of Kintyre 

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: JMB
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 11:26 PM

Witchita Lineman is my favourite of his.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: BanjoRay
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 08:28 PM

He was an unbelievable guitar player. Here's a link to a five minute clip of a varied selection of astonishing solos he played over the years.
Ray

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 07:02 PM

Top grade session musicians who become star artists in their own right are a special breed...!!!

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,DTM
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 06:29 PM

To the best of my knowledge, Glen played the intro to the Frank & Nancy Sinatra hit "Something Stupid"

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: Peter the Squeezer
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 02:15 PM

In his own words

LESS OF ME

Let me be a little kinder
Let me be a little blinder
To the faults of those about me
Let me praise a little more
Let me be when I am weary
Just a little bit more cheery
Think a little more of others
And a little less of me

Let me be a little braver
When temptation bids me waver
Let me strive a little harder
To be all that I should be
Let me be a little meeker
With the brother that is weaker
Let me think more of my neighbour
And a little less of me

Let me be when I am weary
Just a little bit more cheery
Let me serve a little better
Those that I am striving for
Let me be a little meeker
With the brother that is weaker
Think a little more of others
And a little less of me

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: Rex
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 11:59 AM

I've learned that Glen Campbell is at last free of the curse of Alzheimer's. Here is a man that truly a musician in every sense of the word. A great singer, entertainer and instrumentalist. Apart from his own work he also backed many greats as part of The Wrecking Crew, a crack group of studio musicians in Los Angeles. The scores of his own recordings will speak for themselves. A fitting legacy.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 08:29 AM

I always admired his musicianship. He could sing anything and was a great guitar player. Sorry to see him go.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 08:17 AM

He gained a lot of credibility (for me, at least) by being part of the Smothers Brothers enterprise back in the day. If you look in IMDb in the "Self" category there are tons of his performances. He was with them in 1968-69.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 05:45 AM

He once said he believed "anyone who burned their draft card should be hung".

When he recorded the song Galveston, the words were apparently changed from;

Wonder if she could forget me
I'd go home if they would let me
Put down this gun
And go to Galveston

to;

I still hear your sea waves crashing
While I watch the cannons flashing
I clean my gun
And dream of Galveston

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 05:13 AM

Loved Glen Campbell's guitar playing...admired his expressive voice...a significant influence during my early, guitar playing years. Very sad news.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,Roger Knowles
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 03:48 AM

A fine picker & singer.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 03:17 AM

Sad loss. I still have an LP made in 1959 ( The 12 string folk swingers. Fontana) with him playing guitar. Didn't always appreciate the country music but his guitar playing was excellent and what a smooth voice. Still, he had a good, long, prosperous life reaching higher than many of us could never even dream of.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,Lin
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 12:36 AM

I knew Glen Campbell had been ill for a long time - but it is just the finality of it now that he has succumbed to the horrible progressive Alzheimer's disease. I remember his TV program, "The Glen Campbell Hour" and so many great country songs. My favorite, "Wichita Line Man" and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix." I remember him playing for short time with The Beach Boys too.
So many of your fans world wide will miss you and the tremendous talented artist you were.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Aug 17 - 08:10 PM

Great guitar player, great interpreter of Jim Webb and singer of Gentle on My Mind. Quite a guy.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 08 Aug 17 - 08:03 PM

RIP

Stone Temple Pilots - Witchitalineman

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 08 Aug 17 - 08:02 PM

It really is the end of an era.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: GUEST,DTM
Date: 08 Aug 17 - 07:58 PM

"I hear you singin' in the wire, I can hear you through the whine...."
RIP, Glen. Another legend gone.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: olddude
Date: 08 Aug 17 - 05:39 PM

I liked his music when I was young.. Rip

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Aug 17 - 05:36 PM

Here's his final album, Adios (click). It was recorded during his final studio sessions in 1012-13, and released in June, 2017. His final stage performance was November 30, 2012, in Napa, California - not a particularly auspicious venue.
I can't say I always liked his music, but I think he put his heart into what he did. May he rest in peace.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend (1936-2017)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 08 Aug 17 - 05:35 PM

RIP Mr. Campbell

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 Aug 17 - 05:31 PM

Just saw the news on BBC 10 o'clock news.
BBC Obit here

R.I.P.

Subject: RE: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend
From: GUEST,Alan Ross
Date: 08 Aug 17 - 05:26 PM

Man of a thousand sessions with the wrecking crew, ex-Beach Boy as well as having his own many pop/country hits. So glad he has been released. A fabulous legacy of recordings left behind.

Subject: Obit: Glen Campbell - legend
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Aug 17 - 05:00 PM

I had no idea he'd still been alive. What a voice.