Found this on YouTube - never seen it before:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giTJKqkFQMs[/ame]
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Found this on YouTube - never seen it before:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giTJKqkFQMs[/ame]
That's interesting! Have I shown anyone the Flying Burrito Brothers' "Older Guys" video that I found about a year ago? It's actually really funny. Bernie is so adorable in it!!
Here it is: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maD93kbvsxg"]www.youtube.com/watch?v=maD93kbvsxg[/ame]
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"The world is made by the singer for the dreamer."
Oscar Wilde
LOL! That is great!
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I found some footage of Bernie doing a solo show!
Baby Please Don't Go
Where's My Lover
I Like to Breathe Free
Walk Don't Run
Bitter Creek
Cool Soda! Thanks for those. I liked the slight changes Bernie made with his voice on Bitter Creek. (Of course, I kept waiting for the harmonies to kick in. lol)
lol! Me too PLS!
This is very rare - Bernie doing "God Loves His Children" (it's the second song after "Runnin' the Roadblocks"). Finding Bernie stuff is always a treat!
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfD6D0QfU0M[/ame]
Another rarity - Bernie playing with his spoof band Run C&W (in addition to original material with a humorous bent, the band took songs from other genres and played them hillbilly bluegrass style. The name spoofs Run DMC. The year: 1993.)
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBRFTqe7o9c[/ame]
I thought this was clever. It was created by our member mcphert1 and in our board's own way, we contributed to it (see comments on original)
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw453yfyOIM[/ame]
Thanks. I've updated the video info to source the photo information to this Board. Thanks again for the info and I hope you like the video. I've always thought that it would have been good to put songs off Desperado to those images of them as gunslingers, maybe a movie. This is my modest attempt at a slideshow version.
Thanks for the link! We appreciate it.
Your slideshow was well-done, much better than the usual amateurish efforts you see on YouTube when it comes to placing photos with music. I can tell the images were chosen with care and you went beyond simple photos of the Eagles. Good job!
:applause: Very good!
Very good indeed!
Here's Bernie with the Flying Burrito Brothers doing "Lazy Day" in 1970 with Chris Hillman and Sneaky Pete on pedal steel:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdW8xQfC7JQ[/ame]
Ah, they're so young and fresh there! I wonder why Glenn sang lead when the Eagles covered it? Bernie sounds great. I have this for download on the site, but thanks for posting the link to it on YouTube - brings it to everyone's attention who might otherwise miss it.
Bernie with the Nitty Gritty Dirt band in '87 performing "Fishin' in the Dark". Unfortunatly, the camera does not focus on him a lot but he looks like he's having fun:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh3ml8gzrd4[/ame]
More classic Bernie with the Flying Burrito Brothers doing "Six Days on the Road" at the infamous Altamont concert in 1969 from the film Gimme Shelter. You only get to see couple of glimpses of Bernie, I'm sure he couldn't wait to get out of there:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIgMN7Kd7u8[/ame]
Holy crap, that looks freaking awful. The festival from hell, with Hell's Angels to boot! And thank goodness that camera didn't dip any lower on the naked guy.
Thanks for posting it, though. It's an interesting historical glimpse. I didn't know the Flying Burrito Bros. played Altamont.
BTW, the captions erroneously put one line of the song as "killed my baby goodbye" instead of "kissed my baby goodbye" - Freudian?
I noticed that. I also noticed that they are using the studio version of "Six Days" (although they edited out Bernie's guitar solo dammit!). Gram Parsons was good buddies with Keith Richards and got the Burritos a spot on the bill (along with Santana, Jefferson Airplane, CSN&Y, the Grateful Dead [who refused to play because of the violence] and of course the Stones. It's a must see movie, but very harrowing.
Here's a recent article from Chris Hillman about the show:
http://www.spinner.com/2009/12/04/ch...ete-nightmare/
Bernie seems like the type of guy who is tough enough to take care of himself even in a crowd like that, but how selfish of Gram (sorry Gram lovers).Quote:
I've got a book by Hillman that says that Gram Parsons got on the helicopter with the Stones and got out of there and Bernie and another guy were left behind to fend for themselves, which they did, finally. I'll see if I can find the article as it goes into detail.
GTLO - I read that article and wow, "nightmare" indeed. Ironic that it happened only months after Woodstock, but when people go too far and decide they no longer need to restrain themselves, it's going to get ugly.
Wow, thank goodness Bernie was good with the ladies, lol. Seriously, how scary, though.Quote:
The book is Hot Burritos - The True Story of the Flying Burrito Brothers by John Einarson with Chris Hillman.
Page 208, the Burritos were at the Altamont concert and when their set was done, Sneaky Pete, Chris and Jim Dickson left as the security force, the Hell's Angels, was beating up people in the crowd, and had actually come up on the stage when the Jefferson Airplane played and beat up Marty Balin. So the mood was ugly, it was now dark and the Rolling Stones delayed their performance by 2 hours. Gram Parsons(who worshipped the Stones blindly), Michael Clarke and Bernie Leadon stayed behind. Gram kept telling them that they would get to fly out of there in the helicopter with the Stones. When the Stones finally came out the lights came up but they only played a few songs. Bernie recalled being backstage facing the audience and fights breaking out and people would push away from it and then he would see pool cues coming down and somewhere in all this, that guy got killed, on camera and there was such a press of people that he got passed up and laid on the edge of the stage like a sacrifice. It was such an ugly vibe, the Angels were turning meaner, you could see it in their faces. Jagger stopped singing and tried to calm the Angels down but no deal. Gram left the stage with the Stones and ran to the helicopter and got on with them so Michael Clarke and Bernie Leadon were left behind. They started walking and met a couple of girls Bernie knew from L.A. and got in their car and wound up getting back to Sausalito.
That's a sort of summary of the article with a few quotes, not my own. But Gram by then was pretty far gone into drugs and alcohol and hero worship of the Stones to the exclusion of everyone else. I've got the movie Fallen Angel about him plus several books and Bernie is in the movie being interviewed along with Chris Hillman. Totally fascinating.
Wow.Quote:
Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music by David Meyer
Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards by Al Kooper
The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited: The Sequel by Johnny Rogan
For What It's Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield by John Einarson and Richie Furay
Midnight Riders - Story of the Allman Brothers Band by Scott Freeman
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock by Gene Odom with Frank Dorman
Conversations With Tom Petty by Paul Zollo
Canyon of Dreams - by Harvey Kubernik
Roadwork by Tom Wright
Legend: the Story of Poco by Jerry Fuentes
This Wheel's On Fire by Lavon Helm
The Eagles by Laura Jackson
Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker
Hotel California by Barney Hoskyns
Desparados by John Einarson
Heaven and Hell by Don Felder
To The Limit by Mark Eliot
The Long Run by Marc Shapiro
Pickin' Up The Pieces by Richie Furay
Backstage Pass by Joe Vitale
Rock Wives by Victoria Balfour
Crosby, Stills, and Nash by Dave Zimmer/Henry Diltz, photos
Mansion On The Hill by Fred Goodman
The Operator by Tom King
Gilded Palace of Sin by Bob Proehl
The Notorious Byrd Brothers by Rick Menck
Join Together by Marley Bryant
So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star by Christopher Hjort
In Other Words by Anthony DeCurtis
Tales From The Rock n Roll Highway by Marley Bryant
Eight Miles High by Richie Unterberger
Rock n Roll's Strangest Moments by Mike Evans
Like a Rolling Stone: Tribute Bands by Stephen Kurutz
Take a Walk on the Dark Side by Gary Patterson
Hot Burritos: The True Story of the Flying Burrito Brothers by John Einarson with Chris Hillman
This is all I have at hand right now, other books are stored in the shed. Some have very little connection with the Eagles, others have paragraphs and chapters about them, but Bernie, surprisingly, is mentioned in a lot of these books about the early years.
The movie about Gram Parsons is Fallen Angel. It was interesting but reinforced my conviction that Parsons is given way too much credit for fusing country music with rock. He was never a favorite of mine either so my apologies to his fans.
Nice homework!! Some outstanding reading on that list!
I'm just reading Twenty Thousand Roads right now, always enjoying reading about Bernie's pre-Eagles rock 'n' roll escapades
He's like the Waldo of California country rock...everywhere
Ok, here's another Bernie treat of him backing Linda Ronstadt from Playboy After Dark in 1970:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ALDTJVP8Tw[/ame]
Wow, Bernie sure looks young without the moustache!
This is from a few months ago. Unfortunately, Bernie does not sing lead, but he's on the left playing guitar and looking fit (you can see him when the camera zooms out).
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEehHBCn07E[/ame]
Bernie looks great. He's always had that rugged charm! He looks fantastic in the 'Hotel California: LA from The Byrds to the Eagles' documentary, too.
It's a BBC documentary. A friend was kind enough to record it from the TV and send it to me... I don't think you can buy it, although you may be able to find clips online. It features interviews with Linda Ronstadt, Graham Nash, JD Souther, Bernie, David Crosby, as well as some performance footage. Bernie looks great. He's wearing a black t-shirt and looks very rugged and handsome! I'll try to do some screen caps for you tomorrow, unless someone else can in the meantime. :)
Well, I just had a quick look and I've found a site where you can watch it. (It says you need to download the Veoh player to watch all of it - not sure if you have to pay or not.) But this clip shows you the beginning. Bernie comes on a couple of minutes in!
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/ca...179147tPxpBbT6
I downloaded the app from the site and it is free and was able to watch the whole thing. Well worth it as Bernie is interviewed extensively and offers some great insight into the band from it's inception through his departure which he admits was his need to break from the drugs and the partying. Pretty much the last half hour covers the Eagles with interviews with Bernie, JD Souther and David Geffen. There is some great footage of one of the Eagles very first gigs at an art gallery in Venice. Bernie's got that cool surfer drawl and you can't help but admire his integrity, wit and charm.
Oh cool - thanks for investigating further!
Happy to do it. You gals are cracking me up with the Leadon love. But I guess I can't blame you, the guy still surfs to this day which is why I think he's still in great shape with the broad shoulders and big guns. dude's a stud.
the trailer for Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel. Short clip of Bernie at 1 minute mark:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cmUWNO_YSs[/ame]
Thanks for finding that, GLO - very touching!
Bernie with Chris Hillman and Herb Pederson performing "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" from the Adams Avenue Street Fair 2009:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJTKjhlk30Y&feature=related[/ame]
Here's Bernie from the same performance with the reunited (and legendary) Scottsville Squirrel Barkers performing "Sophronie (Love 'Em and Leave 'Em)":
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsfBcup6BQY&feature=related[/ame]
Behind Bernie in the green hats is Ed Douglas and Larry Murray (who was also in Hearts and Flowers with Bernie), Chris Hillman and Kenny Wertz (who replaced Bernie in the Flying Burrito Brothers). Good to see these guys still get together to jam some classic bluegrass.
http://thedoubleeaglestore.com/squirrel.html
Thanks for posting this. I really hope that one day I'll get to see Bernie perform live, even if it's in a backing capacity.
Here's an early live recording of Hearts and Flowers from 1968 at the Hollywood Bowl featuring our man Bernie on guitar and harmonies:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhSYluInlXQ&feature=related[/ame]
What a great find! Thanks!