I figured Mr Campbell's passing was eminent and yet when i heard the news i still shed a tear, definitely one of the good guys.
I figured Mr Campbell's passing was eminent and yet when i heard the news i still shed a tear, definitely one of the good guys.
A very great man, it's wonderful how much light true stars shed in our lives.
This song wasn't written by him but I've been enjoying it for a long time.
Glen Campbell ~ "Wichita Lineman" (1968) with Full Intro *BEST QUALITY on YouTube!
and finally the Almost Prog version:
Nashville Gold Switched On Moog - Wichita Lineman
Rest in peace!.
Back in 82' & 83' we played
"Rhinestone Cowboy" so many times in our college!
Guess who sang and played the guitar!!??.
https://youtu.be/kHQGTLIDrIw
RIP!!
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The Ice Cream Lady Wet her drawers........To see you in the Passion Playyyy eeee - I. Anderson
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(Zamran) "that fucking thing man . . . it sits there on my wall like a broken clock " - Helix
Social Media is the "Toilet" of the Internet - Lady Gaga
A true legend. He will be sorely missed.
RIP
One thing that surprised me - and you can hear it in his solos: His first big musical influence was not C&W, but the jazz of Django Reinhardt. He was also one of the rare sessionmen who couldn't read a note, but his ear was so good that he could pick up a part after hearing it once.
Just a note to those who never liked country music. Glen never considered his music country but said he was a country boy who sang
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Here is Glen, performing the song that might be the closest he ever got to prog:
I've always found the way he restructures the first section interesting: He sings all four verse lines one after another, then goes to the chorus, rather than two verse lines, chorus, two verse lines, chorus. Also, he skips the 9/8 interludes between the first and second lines, and the third and fourth. The result sounds more like country, and less like the elaborate orchestral proto-prog of the original version. As does Glen's vocal approach. Oh, and when he finally plays that guitar hanging around his neck, he tears it up.
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I'd say that he what he did could be called country music. But it wasn't corny, lowest-common-denominator country, and therein lies the difference. The same is true of Jimmy Webb, and he did a lot of Webb's songs. Look at "Wichita Lineman", for example: What could be more country than a blue-collar guy suffering from an unrequited love, who loses himself in his job and its responsibilities to escape his own turmoil? Yet the song is perfect - a great melody, which halfway through modulates out of the original key then back in, simple but interesting chords to support it, and very few lyrics. But what lyrics - plain-spoken, not a lot of words, yet laying out the situation brilliantly and fitting their man-of-few-words protagonist to a T.
I never knew what a great player he was, but those clips above clearly demonstrate his virtuosity.
One other surprising fact about Glen is that he played with the Beach Boys for a while before his solo stardom, I guess when Brian wanted to stop touring. Not a lot the guy couldn't do...
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