It's a really well done collection. One of my all-time favorite album covers, especially Beatles related.
Went to five Dead and Co. shows in the last couple of years and they finally played US Blues at the last one. One of my favorite songs ever.
My appreciation of Gram Parsons really essentially began through Evan Dando covering him. Perhaps the best is when Dando and Juliana Hatfield perform my favorite track of Grievous Angel.
I've always wondered if it was the same vehicle for Henneman that inspired Stuck in Indianapolis.
Can't wait! Got a Saturday show!
Looks like the tune is still pretty solidly in The Dead & Co's setlist rotation. I wonder if it's a given that it's played on Saturday gigs?!?
It was at both of the Sat. shows I went to last summer.
Frampton Comes Alive? Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of "Tide".
My co-worker just saw him recently at the State. Said he was very, very good.
It's autobiographical. The characters are based on real people he encountered when he was working a piano bar in L.A. in the early 70s. He had signed one or more bad contracts around the time of his first LP, Cold Spring Harbor, and he was essentially on the lam from the record company, writing new songs but not recording them and working in the piano bar under the pseudonym Bill Martin. The line, "Man, what are you doing here?" In a sense, the piano man IS a loser of sorts in that he's underemployed.
