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Subject: Today's great quote
From: Midchuck
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 11:01 AM

Yesterday on NPR there was a live interview with Emmylou Harris. At one point she was talking about the crisis she went through at the time of Gram Parsons' death, and her struggle to decide where to go and what to do, and why she became a country singer in her own right. She said:

"I knew that I couldn't go back to being a folksinger. I had become, you know, completely entranced with the drummer. Before that, as a folksinger, I thought the drummer was the Antichrist."

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 11:23 AM

Good one, Peter! Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: paddymac
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 11:36 AM

It seems that there are lots of folks who would be only too willing to include bodhran players, and maybe the bodhran itself, in that "antichrist" category. Ah, but well played and sensitively played, it can be saintly as well. (spoken as one who would never be so rude as to play it in public):>)

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: sophocleese
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 11:47 AM

If you call drummers Antichrist what have you got left to call drum machines?

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: Kim C
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 03:12 PM

I think Wal-Mart is the Antichrist.

I like something Emmylou said on the Dirt Band Circle II album ---- she said that "we've taken the living room out of the music."

All y'all who have ever played in living rooms know what she's talking about.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 05:07 PM

Gram couldn't have found a more loyal friend than Emmy Lou. Going on thirty years since his death at Joshua Tree, she still manages to include one of his songs on every album she does,to produce compilations of his music by inheritors of the "Cosmic American Music" tradition,and in every way to bring his vision and his tunes to new listeners.

Now calling Jon Corneal a "drummer" maay be going a bit too far.

PS...anyone seen Allison Moorer's video featuring a Gram lookalike in the original pot n' pills nudie suit?

LEJ Out with the Truckers and the Kickers and the Cowboy Angels

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: dwditty
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 05:23 PM

Hey LEJ, I sang Grevious Angel on hearme just the other night. A friend turned me on to Gram & Emmylou somewhere around 1970. I'm not sure if Gram had already died or not. About a year ago I was leafing through some old Rolling Stones (the newspaper-before it was a magazine)in a store and found one honoring Gram on the cover at the time of his death. Just an amazing talent. I scooped it up and immediately sent it off to my friend.

Not that this has anything to do with the theme of this thread.

dw

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 05:29 PM

see...even EmmyLou missed the point..*grin*....folksingers didn't HAVE drummers...whatever she WAS it was not a folksinger

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 05:50 PM

And there are many of us who would prefer to keep the "living room" in folk music and let the show-biz folk have their fancy stages (and their drummers).

Sandy (folk fogey)

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 09:36 PM

fogeyhood RULES!....

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: JedMarum
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 10:05 PM

great comment from a great lady, but I agree with Sandy - I always thought the living room was the best place for good music (even Bodhran players)!

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: gillymor
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 11:01 PM

I seem to remember the second part of that quote by Emmy Lou on WTCBU II CD going something like this "...but today we got it back".

F

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From: Kim C
Date: 17 Aug 00 - 10:05 AM

Frankee, you're right. It's been awhile since I listened to that album. Think I'll go treat myself.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 00 - 01:57 PM

Yeah, I was just getting ready to say she'd done her fans a disservice if she took the living room, or the kitchen table, or the front/back porch out of the music....

It's rumored that some of the best playing Duane Allman ever did was on a friend's back porch with Delaney Bramlett...

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Aug 00 - 04:43 PM

We had a great headline on the front of one of the (regretably) best selling dailys yesterday, a picture of Posh Spice kissing a badly balded David Beckham with DESPERATE written across the top - well I'd have to be!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: Night Owl
Date: 17 Aug 00 - 11:55 PM

from Kate Wolfe's "The Trumpet Vine"

"Now as we come and go
In sunshine and in rain
Some years are seen more clearly than the rest
And if it weren't for kitchen songs
And mornings spent with friends
We all might lose the things we love the best."

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: ol'troll
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 12:02 AM

BillD. It's "geezer-hood" and don't you fergit it.

What were we talking about?

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 04:03 PM

I don't know, do I come here often? and are you perchance a TOG?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: GUEST,lamarca
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 05:24 PM

Well, BillD, looks like YOU missed Emmylou's point:

Emmylou: "I knew that I couldn't go back to being a folksinger. I had become, you know, completely entranced with the drummer. Before that, as a folksinger, I thought the drummer was the Antichrist."

BillD:"see...even EmmyLou missed the point..*grin*....folksingers didn't HAVE drummers...whatever she WAS it was not a folksinger"

To belabor the obvious, my reading of Emmylou's quote was that she felt that once she started working with a full band, including a drum kit, she wasn't doing what she thought of as folk music anymore - when she thought of herself as a folksinger, she thought drummers were awful, too.

But then, BillD and I have had this argument many times - I just wish he'd listen to what's really being said instead of arguing against what he wished was said...It's always easier to score points against an opponent's argument if you make up his/her statements yourself; just look at the selective memories of the Democrats and Republicans!

Oh, well, getting riled up is one reason why I haven't been here in a couple months. Guess I'd better quit...

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: Bert
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 05:39 PM

Lamarca, You can quit getting riled up, but don't quit coming here.

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: Bernard
Date: 18 Aug 00 - 05:46 PM

Just accept that some days you are the pigeon, and other days, the statue...

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 06:36 PM

I can't imagine Emmy Lou making that statement about taking the living room out without a sense of deep regret.

There is a huge difference between adding a drummer and adding a bohdran player - you usually add a drummer when you want to be commercial. You add a bohdran player to guarantee you won't be. That's why a drummer is a musician's best friend. . .Tee-hee

Subject: RE: BS: Today's great quote
From: Mbo
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 06:39 PM

Is it so wrong to have a strong beat? We have a drum set in our church's music ensemble. Somehow I don't think them playing the hymns from the book is going to be a big commercial success.