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That doc, I'll Be Me, had me teary eyed as it reminded me so much of my own dad's sufferings.
Can't think of Glen being 81 - he always looked so youthful. An amazing guitarist, loads of stuff on youtube, but particularly loved his version of Classical Gas.
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Yeah, he was considered part of the informal collective of LA session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew who played on ridiculous numbers of hits in the 1960s and '70s. But he found stardom fairly early in the rise of the Wrecking Crew. If he hadn't, we might have heard his guitar on the Partridge Family's songs.
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Glen Campbell was popular with my parents, and my elder sister growing up, so while I wasn't a fan, I heard a lot of his stuff.
Wichita Lineman, Galveston and his version of Every ones talking - are as glued in my head as my Dad's Johnny Cash and Rat Pack favourites, and my brother Marty Robins' songs.
As G-Man said he was a member of the Wrecking Crew session players in LA - read he had been the guitarist on the Beach Boy's I get Around., so pretty damn fine legacy.
I hated Rhinestone Cowboy though.
Stetson
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Loved his Interpretations of Jimmy Webb songs. I was astonished to learn recently that "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" never made the charts in the UK. It's perfection.
Once read an interview with Webb in which he said that although they got on pretty well, he always had to bite his tongue a lot in Campbell's presence if politics came up as he (Campbell) was a Conservative.
Webb didn't want to fall out as they produced such good work together. In particular He never let on that "Galveston" was written with Vietnam in mind as he knew Campbell wouldn't have recorded it if he'd realised.
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Very sad. I have the album of remakes that he did with his children about three or four years ago, and it's superb.
Special hats off, by the way, to Jimmy Webb, who wrote Galveston and Wichita Lineman (amongst others) by the time he was 21 years old.
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I recently read Jimmy Webb's bio (see books). He writes about the day he heard Glen Campbell for the first time on the radio. IIRC he was about fifteen, working on his grandfather's farm. he had his transistor on and suddenly there was this voice... He drove the tractor he was on into a ditch, and swore to himself that if he ever got make a record Glen Campbell would sing on it. The story sounds a bit embroidered, but I'm sure it's close enough to the truth to be valid.
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- Mar 2008
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Someone dies, like Glen Campbell, and you hitherto think fondly of him. You know "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "Rhinestone Cowboy" etc. Then they have a tribute to him on TV which you turn on only to see him absolutely slaughtering "God Only Knows". Ignorance really can be bliss on occasion.
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Campbell (and/or Webb) must have done more for a series of nondescript American towns than any mayor ever could. I've never been to Wichita, Phoenix or Galveston but they all seem about as enticing as Swindon. Until you start humming ...
Mind you, I never liked compromisin' / horizon.
(shame-faced edit: it wasn't Jimmy's fault. That explains it).
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I can't speak for others but I find Galveston fascinating, both historically and aesthetically. I've been a couple of times now and long to spend a few days there with a camera.Last edited by Amor de Cosmos; 12-08-2017, 01:54.
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Yeah. Same here. I spent about 4 days there in the winter in about 2012. It's a fascinating mix of trashy, of deserted wintertime seaside resort, of a port town, of Texas, and of history. It's not somewhere I'd choose to live (Texas gulf coast humidity is murderous), but it's a really interesting place to visit.
Phoenix. Now that's somewhere I struggle to find charm. Its setting of desert mountains is very pretty, and I love Tucson to the south. Even Scottsdale in the Phoenix 'burbs has some charm. But Phoenix itself? It's not got a whole lot of anything (except racist retirees from the Northeast).
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- Mar 2008
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Campbell was a big fan of amateur soccer and would often visit a drizzly Hackney Marsh while in London. To be seen in his jacket gamely signalling throw ins and offsides. The Windcheater Linesman.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostPhoenix. Now that's somewhere I struggle to find charm. Its setting of desert mountains is very pretty, and I love Tucson to the south. Even Scottsdale in the Phoenix 'burbs has some charm. But Phoenix itself? It's not got a whole lot of anything (except racist retirees from the Northeast).
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