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Post by rigby2222 on Jan 4, 2020 12:11:33 GMT -5
Could anyone post a link to the linda ronstadt sessions bootleg? I think they are sessions from the Get closer album or Cry like a rainstorm? Thanks in advance I appreciate it. Her documentary has made me rediscover her. She 's phenomenal. Are there any live recordings from her Stone Pony days available?
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Post by Greg on Jan 5, 2020 0:59:18 GMT -5
Anyone know of a mp3 of the " Lost " album ?
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Post by fabtastique on Jan 5, 2020 1:23:55 GMT -5
Here is a link to download the unreleased album in mp3, along with some graphics of the front and back cover: Fats Waller project
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Post by ausfan2 on Mar 10, 2020 7:20:19 GMT -5
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Post by fabtastique on Mar 10, 2020 15:44:56 GMT -5
Very interesting,thanks for posting
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Post by alyn on Nov 20, 2020 10:42:33 GMT -5
I like Big O, I've downloaded some amazing stuff over the years from there, most of my favourite bands or artistes have cropped up at some point or other. I really like the Keeping Out Of Mischief set, to be honest the only reason I don't play it as much as What's New or whatever is that the sound quality is so much lower, understandably so, but it's still a fine nugget to have. I gave up on audience recordings a long time ago once I'd covered most of the Linda Ronstadt eras that I enjoy most with high quality live recordings. I was finding I couldn't even listen to audience recordings to the end as I craved something more pleasing to the ears. But, as I say, full credit to Big O... it's a fabulous website.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Nov 23, 2020 6:52:12 GMT -5
I have said this before but it is weird to me that the song "Keeping Out of Mischief" sounds great to me but there isn't anything else to compare it to. I think we found a live version on one or two occasions, no? Anyway, I like the recorded version. It has the sass like "Blue Prelude". It just weird, I think that is the best of the Wexler sessions. eddiejinnj
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2020 8:37:12 GMT -5
I loved the album when I heard it...
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Post by alyn on Nov 24, 2020 11:05:07 GMT -5
absofolutely... the track Keeping Out Of Mischief suits Linda perfectly and it sounded great when performed live, a great highlight amongst many in the Riddle shows, Don Grolnick obviously relished the Fats Waller style...and in fact at the Sands show she announces it as being on the forthcoming second album... apologies if anyone else has mentioned this in previous posts :-)
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Post by eddiejinnj on Nov 25, 2020 7:41:28 GMT -5
I went to the Sands show. I was a young bloke of 20 or 21 as I forget the exact date of the show. Loved it. eddiejinnj
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Post by alyn on Nov 25, 2020 10:30:07 GMT -5
Funnily enough on re-acquainting myself with the Sands live set yesterday afternoon I swear I could hear a strangled voice yelling 'Whipping Post!!' in between songs... I could tell you were there Eduardo :-) :-)
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Post by eddiejinnj on Nov 25, 2020 14:24:42 GMT -5
You funny as hell, mate. You did your good deed for the day making me crack up. Yes, that was me in the background (they did have table service and I was just legal age and not driving) in my best Foster Brooks does Cary Grant saying to Linda "I love you now do 'Whipping Post'; I mean 'Heat Wave'". You are quite discerning in your listening, my friend!!! eddiejinnj
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Post by fabtastique on Apr 11, 2021 7:39:28 GMT -5
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Post by Partridge on Apr 11, 2021 12:33:21 GMT -5
Even though I have a recording of this album, I still would like to have a cleaner copy of it.
I agree with Linda's friends who advised against releasing this turkey of an album; I think it could have derailed her career and ruined the rest of the decade for her; it is that bad.
Still, I would like to see a vinyl release, maybe as a Record Store Day limited edition. They could add a sticker acknowledging that it's a t*rd of an album that is only for Ronstadt superfans. It should not be so expensive to do as the graphics are already designed and any loss due to the recording expense and not releasing it has already been paid by Miss Ronstadt.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2021 7:49:13 GMT -5
Its on the Lush LIVE CD LFMCD 615 broadcast at The Arlington Theater, Santa Barbara 9 March1984.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2021 10:26:21 GMT -5
11:46 Linda's POV on performing in then-apartheid South Africa. But enjoy all of Linda being Linda.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2021 9:46:04 GMT -5
Anyone have an insight into why Linda left “Keeping Out Of Mischief” off Lush Life? It’s a great tune .... I wonder if they actually recorded a studio version ? www.ronstadt-linda.com/artdb85.htmSB: Do you consider yourself a jazz singer at this point? LR: I'm not a jazz singer by any stretch of the imagination. I'm a ballad singer, you know? I've always done ballads on my albums. I loooved singing those slow, ponderous rock ballads. I really don't like to sing uptempo material very much. It doesn't give me enough long stretches. I like to take a bath in the note. SB: I guess this explains What's New. For a Nelson Riddle record it was almost mysteriously low-key. LR: We did that on purpose. I wanted the first one to have a mood- a very introspective, concentrating mood. Only The Lonely was like that too. The second one [Lush Life]- even though it had songs which are basically about sad things on it, like It Never Entered My Mind- had a perkier approach. SB: At first, I thought you were afraid- perhaps even intimidated- of doing uptempo songs with Riddle. Then I heard the three numbers on Lush Life, which clearly proved that wasn't the case. LR: I had recorded uptempo songs for What's New, and I thought we did them well, but they just didn't fit. I did a Fats Waller tune and Falling In Love Again and that Frank Loesser tune, Oh Never Will I Marry, which we actually have had trouble with. We've never been able to get an arrangement for it. It's a great song; Ijust love it. But when I played them all together they broke the mood, so I didn't use them. We had so many songs for Lush Life that we still didn't use Keeping Out Of Mischief Now. That's in the can ... waiting. One of these days it will come out.
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Post by alyn on Jun 7, 2021 10:05:09 GMT -5
Even though I have a recording of this album, I still would like to have a cleaner copy of it. I agree with Linda's friends who advised against releasing this turkey of an album; I think it could have derailed her career and ruined the rest of the decade for her; it is that bad. Still, I would like to see a vinyl release, maybe as a Record Store Day limited edition. They could add a sticker acknowledging that it's a t*rd of an album that is only for Ronstadt superfans. It should not be so expensive to do as the graphics are already designed and any loss due to the recording expense and not releasing it has already been paid by Miss Ronstadt. Strange... I find it far more listenable than her very early albums and her later period albums, but beauty is in the ear of the beholder, as we all know.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jun 9, 2021 7:21:04 GMT -5
The last note is GREAT!!!! I have said this before re: the album KOOM. The title track was the one I liked the best and that was the song that has not been released. There is nothing to compare it to so I think it very good. Might be coincidental that this song came out great and the others needed more work on and a different arrangement in some cases. eddiejinnj
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Post by alyn on Jun 10, 2021 10:05:52 GMT -5
The last note is GREAT!!!! I have said this before re: the album KOOM. The title track was the one I liked the best and that was the song that has not been released. There is nothing to compare it to so I think it very good. Might be coincidental that this song came out great and the others needed more work on and a different arrangement in some cases. eddiejinnj Well said Eduardo, I listened to KOOM several times the other day after seeing it being torn apart here and I actually really enjoyed it. I know it's not a patch on the albums that were cut in that period, but it's still very enjoyable. The sound is thin and the vocals are not the strongest but... I'd rather have it than not, that's for sure. I can't see it getting an official release. Sometimes I think if an artiste says they were really not happy with such and such and pans their own work, fans who are blinkered to every word they say and will blindly agree without actually lstening with their own ears and considering it as a whole. There would be no Steely Dan albums to listen to if we took heed of Doanld Fagen's criticism after the event.
I'm not a fan of extra tracks to be honest, if they weren't good enough to be on the album then no reason to add on a re-issue. I have so many CDs in my collection with extra tracks, sometimes a whole extra CD and I've really yet to find any that are worthwhile, and some are just terrible. For me a great re-issue is the original album re-mastered, a nice re-package with extensive notes and extra photos and artwork from the time of release.
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Post by Mr. Kaplansky on Jul 13, 2021 11:43:43 GMT -5
In 1983 Jerry Wexler wrote an autobiography titled: "Rhythm and the Blues". I skimmed through his book at the public library as I am not a fan of most of the artists he produced. It turns out he was nicknamed "Miss Quick" for always producing albums. I looked up Linda in the index. There are 2 photos of Linda. Jerry was devastated when Linda shelved the recordings. He said he hopes she will change her mind and realize she made a great 40's jazz album.
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Post by Mr. Kaplansky on Jul 13, 2021 11:45:07 GMT -5
Correction: Wexler's book released in 1993.
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Post by Holly on Jul 13, 2021 14:13:29 GMT -5
In 1983 Jerry Wexler wrote an autobiography titled: "Rhythm and the Blues". I skimmed through his book at the public library as I am not a fan of most of the artists he produced. It turns out he was nicknamed "Miss Quick" for always producing albums. I looked up Linda in the index. There are 2 photos of Linda. Jerry was devastated when Linda shelved the recordings. He said he hopes she will change her mind and realize she made a great 40's jazz album. People still go to libraries?
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Post by MokyWI on Dec 8, 2021 19:41:06 GMT -5
I think she made a wise choice to shelve it and call Nelson. It really is not possible to judge what the finished product would have sounded like. I am not convinced this is it, my guess is there was still work to be done with these recordings that we are hearing. I hope so anyway. To my ears, Linda still had some woodshedding yet to do with the songs and that was going to take time. Jerry's process and Linda's I heard were very different. Recording an album in four days was not her style. Linda trusted her gut and she came to the album What's New which is by far better than this IMO. I always wanted her to rerecord the song "Keeping Out of Mischief" and released it on one of her Nelson Riddle albums. However, I don't care for the version recorded with Jerry Wexler.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Dec 8, 2021 20:37:31 GMT -5
I do agree and people do need to acknowledge that the songs could be worked on more. The copy above (thanks Hb) KOMN sounds a little sped up. I can see how in a rerecord she might be in a better tone but I like the power in her voice and how she did let go. Plus this is one song where it can be a little less polished but more than the 81 version. eddiejinnj
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Post by rick on Aug 8, 2022 14:35:14 GMT -5
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Post by eddiejinnj on Aug 8, 2022 16:34:51 GMT -5
Linda's overall tone seems so different on this album. Almost like it was very slightly fast. The recording also seems very "tinny".
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