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Post by RobGNYC on Nov 30, 2019 1:54:58 GMT -5
From carmelmagazine.com/archive/13ho/rock-art:“I love Linda. She is a fabulous person,” Russell says. “So low key. We were shooting on the beach outside some music producer’s house in Malibu Colony. Shooting away and nothing was happening. The light was fading and the horse just appeared. I shot two frames: in the first one she is saying, ‘Don’t shoot! You’ll scare the horse,’ and looked like you couldn’t sell her to a circus…but in this one [the cover shot] she’s a goddess.” The only place that I've seen the first frame is in Russell's book "Dear Mr. Fantasy" page 236, below: "Linda telling me not to take the picture that became the cover. (The horse was not arranged.)" Attachments:
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Post by Richard W on Nov 30, 2019 17:16:05 GMT -5
The album cover shot is so gorgeous and evocative, it's amazing that it was spontaneous.
Great story.
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Post by Dianna on Nov 30, 2019 17:55:53 GMT -5
Yes, great story and Great Photo... By the looks of the photo above, it does look like she is saying, "don't shoot."
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Post by sliderocker on Dec 1, 2019 13:38:37 GMT -5
Yes, great story and Great Photo... By the looks of the photo above, it does look like she is saying, "don't shoot." I wish they would do a deluxe edition of Hasten Down the Wind and include a booklet featuring all the photo outtakes. Of course, there's probably not enough unreleased songs to make up a two-disc set but unused takes and different mixes might be another story. |
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 1, 2019 14:45:29 GMT -5
 Yes, there was an interesting back story to this album cover including nipplegate. I forget which article Linda talked about it. |
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Post by RobGNYC on Dec 1, 2019 15:33:42 GMT -5
I first read it in the "Linda Ronstadt Scrapbook": "I didn’t have a concept for this album cover, and neither did anyone else. I wanted a picture of me in mid-air, falling. I wanted to look like I was floating. We tried to shoot it in a swimming pool; I tried jumping off a ladder. But it didn’t work--I looked like I was jumping off a ladder. So we were out on the beach, and the photographer wanted to use this day-for-night technique with the strobe light. I didn’t even know my tits were showing through; I didn’t want any nipples in the picture. And that wasn’t really intentional. We didn’t notice it was happening until we saw it in the picture. We wondered whether we should retouch it, and I said, "Aw, fuck it.” I never looked that good a day in my life anyway.“  |
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Post by Partridge on Dec 1, 2019 15:58:17 GMT -5
I always thought that was shot outside her own house in Malibu Colony.
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Post by Dianna on Dec 1, 2019 16:21:59 GMT -5
Yes, this photo reminds me of the song "Wildfire," which was out around the time of Linda's Hasten... |
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Post by RobGNYC on Dec 1, 2019 17:02:21 GMT -5
Malibu Colony is only about a mile long so it's possible that they started out in front of Linda's house and wound up in front of the producer's place. Here's what Ethan Russell says in "The Inside Story," the stories that accompany his new book "Ethan Russell Photographs":
"John Kosh...can take some direct credit both for this shot [the inside gatefold photo] and to some degree for "Hasten Down the Wind." This session--another 'photo-shoot'--was at Linda's home in The Colony in Malibu. She had finished makeup, and I began to take pictures, which were listless. John, frustrated, suggested everybody get up and move. And so we started running up and down the beach. I was waiting for later in the day when the sun would start to set, and I could introduce the hand-held portable strobes and mix the light sources during 'magic hour.' This could produce unexpected but sometimes magical results. I loved [the inside gatefold photo] for the elements: the seashell in her hair, her raised finger, and the ocean."
"The horse and rider were there of their own accord, racing along the beach. I had nothing to do with them and had no idea they were there. Right before I took the photograph, Linda yelled at me not to take the picture because it would scare the horse. (I knew it wouldn't. My father owned a horse ranch.) It was a happy accident, or, thinking about it differently, it was a captured moment, which we didn't know was coming but were prepared to get. Camera: Nikon. Film: Ektachrome."
I can't find the source now but I definitely recall Russell saying somewhere that one of the hands on the cover is not Linda's because the position of her hand in the photo made it look like a claw. Someone else's hand was airbrushed in--the wife of Russell or Kosh I think?
I always wondered if the guy on the horse recognized himself in the photo.
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Post by sliderocker on Dec 1, 2019 19:33:58 GMT -5
I always wondered if the guy on the horse recognized himself in the photo. I kind of got my doubts that the rider recognized himself. He probably would've been demanding a small royalty off of every copy sold of Hasten Down the Wind. That or he didn't recognize Linda or if he did, kept his distance. |
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 1, 2019 20:53:37 GMT -5
Most likely stole the horse and not about to complain.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Dec 2, 2019 8:37:17 GMT -5
That is so weird that I always have thought that her rt hand didn't quite look as natural as the rest of her, especially the parts previously discussed. eddiejinnj
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Post by alyn on Dec 5, 2019 12:26:52 GMT -5
I wish they would do a deluxe edition of Hasten Down the Wind and include a booklet featuring all the photo outtakes. Of course, there's probably not enough unreleased songs to make up a two-disc set but unused takes and different mixes might be another story. I agree totally, the idea of the photo out-takes is nice but aside from that in my opinion the album is her best work and so would be worthy of a special release. Ultimately any extra tracks or demos would be nice to hear but as ever in this situation they would just be curiosities and good for one listen or two, the album as it is stands alone is just a perfectly balanced masterpiece. As I've mentioned before, to me it is her 'Rumours' or 'Hotel California' but I appreciate not everyone has that opinion :-) |
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Post by linda2006nicci on Dec 5, 2019 13:07:38 GMT -5
Thank you for the share.
I didn't notice that her right hand wasn't Linda's.
But her hand doesn't quite look as natural as the rest of her, as eddiejinnj mentioned.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 5, 2019 13:19:55 GMT -5
Thank you for the share. I didn't notice that her right hand wasn't Linda's. But her hand doesn't quite look as natural as the rest of her, as eddiejinnj mentioned.
The out take photo does have her right hand looking like a lobster claw but then so does the finished cover.  |
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 5, 2019 13:24:55 GMT -5
and Linda looks like a whole different person in this photo. The hands are totally cut out and I think they tried for an entire body replacement....When does this nonsense stop? Even the horse has been replaced...or at least the two right legs. And they expected no one to notice?
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 5, 2019 13:34:14 GMT -5
I do recall a big dust up in the 90's when Oprah Winfrey's head was put onto Ann Margaret's body on the cover of a TV Guide. That showed the world this is done all the time. The thing with this photo however makes the replacement hand look even more like a claw than the original.
And going further back this may have been another influence:
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 5, 2019 14:52:00 GMT -5
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Post by RobGNYC on Dec 5, 2019 18:23:14 GMT -5
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Post by Partridge on Dec 10, 2019 3:37:49 GMT -5
I wish they would do a deluxe edition of Hasten Down the Wind and include a booklet featuring all the photo outtakes. . . . As I've mentioned before, to me it is her 'Rumours' or 'Hotel California' but I appreciate not everyone has that opinion :-) I gave another listen to this album, as I loved it when it was first released, but my appreciation has waned over the years. I listened to a high-def version that I have on my hard drive, and I heard sounds on the title song that never registered with me before. The album does stand the test of time. My problem was that the album is so downbeat and morose, like What's New. Here's a review from Stereo Review, November 1976 issue. I have the article and review on the website but I am updating them because I prefer the look of the actual magazine pages.  |
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 10, 2019 3:52:45 GMT -5
I was wondering how long it would take Alyn to show up after that post lol.
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Post by alyn on Dec 10, 2019 3:58:50 GMT -5
It's funny but I never really considered Hasten Down The Wind as downbeat or morose, but it clearly is, I just considered it a beautiful work standing alone. The raw emotion of it is never far from the surface but it's never desperate, it's more like a sad resignation to a heart broken so many times. It has appealed to me continually over the years, finding new things in it, relating to it, sadly smiling with it, crying with it. Lose Again hits me like a thunderbolt every time, still. The video of Linda recording the track in the studio has added to it's weight for me in recent years, when I first saw it about 3 or 4 years ago. Having spoken of the heavy emotion of the album, That'll Be The Day has enough bounce and power to keep the ship afloat, and the air guitar is whipped out and plugged in....and Give One Heart is so lovely and lilting it cruises along before another blow comes in.... I can lose myself in Lo Siento... dream like, and then the English verse comes in and I hang on every word and feel the intense sadness.
Yes, afterwards I might play the 'Mad Love' album to get me up again, but I love the wallow in Hasten Down The Wind, and always will :-)
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Post by alyn on Dec 10, 2019 3:59:18 GMT -5
I was wondering how long it would take Alyn to show up after that post lol. I'm so predictable :-) :-) |
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Post by eddiejinnj on Dec 10, 2019 7:00:33 GMT -5
Cool hat bro. Love it!!! You provided a nice personal analysis of the album. Linda said that she was depressed throughout much of the making of this album. Seems to coincide with the video of her being interviewed walking on the beach. The one shown in the movie, too. Alyn, HDTW, would be maybe Top 5 def Top 10 in my personal ranking system of all her albums. It is a gorgeous album. It is a wonder that it didn't win "Best Album Package" too at the Grammys. I know Kosh won for Simple Dreams, Get Closer and Lush Life!!! Will have to check it out!! eddiejinnj
In the words of the late great singer Phoebe Snow, whom I miss and am sure Linda does so much, "she sounds like she is crying when she sings".
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Post by alyn on Dec 10, 2019 11:34:52 GMT -5
Cool hat bro. Love it!!! You provided a nice personal analysis of the album. Linda said that she was depressed throughout much of the making of this album. Seems to coincide with the video of her being interviewed walking on the beach. The one shown in the movie, too. Alyn, HDTW, would be maybe Top 5 def Top 10 in my personal ranking system of all her albums. It is a gorgeous album. It is a wonder that it didn't win "Best Album Package" too at the Grammys. I know Kosh won for Simple Dreams, Get Closer and Lush Life!!! Will have to check it out!! eddiejinnj In the words of the late great singer Phoebe Snow, whom I miss and am sure Linda does so much, "she sounds like she is crying when she sings". Thanks Eddie :-) I was 18, it was a seaside photograph studio, dress up as a wild west star, so with two mates we pulled off a 'Wild Bunch' look :-) The photo was kept by one of the mates, got wrecked over the years so now has the authentic look of being from the time....!
I love the quote from Linda's book : "...if one is singing a sad song, it is better to tell the story as clearly and simply - even as journalistically - as one can. It will have a stronger effect on the listener and seem more emotional than a teary, overwrought delivery". It says it all really, and Hasten Down The Wind has that indelible stamp all over it.... of course the philosophy to let rip with all her 5' 2" for That'll Be The Day also rings true :-)
Great day for me, I received my copy of the Linda & Andrew Gold European Tour Programme from 1976 which I won at Ebay for £20.....pretty good price I think and it's a lovely thing, great photographs and like touching the past :-)
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Post by eddiejinnj on Dec 10, 2019 13:57:50 GMT -5
Wow, that must be a nice tour book. I have a few of them in somewheredom. I know I don't have HDTW. Seems like a good catch on ebay!!!! eddiejinnj
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Post by Partridge on Dec 10, 2019 15:41:06 GMT -5
I don't recall seeing a Hasten Down the Wind tour book being for sale. I don't recall any merchandise at all. I usually bought merchandise at concerts. (I especially do that now because with the business the way it is today, merchandise is what keeps many of these musicians going.)
Linda Ronstadt had some butt-ugly T-shirts in her day. I remember not buying What's New T-shirt and Dedicated to the One I Love Tour shirt because I just hated abhorred them. And the Canciones T-shirt I did not like.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 10, 2019 16:05:53 GMT -5
I bought the Don't Cry Now t-shirt and the coach of the LA Lakers gave me a Living In The USA T-Shirt as I believe she performed in his arena. Best not to wear them though as they lose their value. Just keep the moths away.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Dec 10, 2019 16:34:00 GMT -5
It is a little ballad heavy but what ballads they are. Power ballads at that. Like the review says she took on Patsy and she did nail it and make it her own. Like the way he says he will remember Linda's version. It almost in and of itself, imo, was the inspiration for Time's "Torchy Rock" title. It is also cool it is from 1976 the Bicentennial. Just thinking; maybe That'll Be The Day" wouldn't stand out in the way the reviewer discussed if the song order was altered. Have to think on it. Thanks for posting review, Tony!!!! eddiejinnj
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Post by RobGNYC on Dec 10, 2019 18:53:57 GMT -5
For me, "That'll Be the Day" on "Hasten Down the Wind" was like "Heat Wave" on "Prisoner in Disguise"--both would have made great non-album singles but disrupted the overall mood of the albums. "Tumbling Dice" on "Simple Dreams" fit perfectly.
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