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Post by the Scribe on Oct 12, 2012 23:43:59 GMT -5
Lola Beltran who in a lot of ways is Linda's idol. Lola Beltran at one concert stops the concert and says "I would like to know if Mr Ronstadt (Linda's dad) is here?" She had this beautiful rebozo,silk shawl that she had (been wearing). She took it off and she said "Mr. Ronstadt, on behalf of all the Mexicanos please give this to your daughter. It is because of her that mariachi music is alive."
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 13, 2012 0:03:57 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 8:25:57 GMT -5
a beautiful quote from Lola.. thanks..
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Post by erik on Oct 13, 2012 11:28:44 GMT -5
A quote about Linda from this here "young'un" Caitlin Rose: " To be a singer is a really important thing. Take Linda Ronstadt. The thing about her is that she was a phenomenal singer from the beginning. She was untrained and she didn't really know how to take care of her voice, but the thing she did as a singer was develop an entire artistry around it. She chose songs. She made J.D. Souther famous. She made a lot of people famous by having a sensibility of what songs were good. She had a feeling for these songs. I read her interviews all the time, and she has more music knowledge in her head than any VH1 special ever. There's something to be said for someone who takes singing as a craft."
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Post by Dianna on Oct 13, 2012 15:18:42 GMT -5
Caitlin Rose on Linda: " I read her interviews all the time, and she has more music knowledge in her head than any VH1 special ever. There's something to be said for someone who takes singing as a craft." Yes, like many here she really understands/gets Linda the artist. If you study/follow or read anything on Linda regarding music, you know that lady really knows her stuff and she never took her craft for granted, which sadly many have.
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Post by Dianna on Oct 13, 2012 15:19:13 GMT -5
Nice about Lola giving Linda's dad her shawl.
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 15, 2012 9:16:20 GMT -5
"She was untrained and she didn't really know how to take care of her voice"
What does this mean?
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Post by erik on Oct 15, 2012 9:51:13 GMT -5
I think what Caitlin means goes back to something Linda herself once said, that she was a seat-of-the-pants singer who didn't really do any actual training on her voice until she decided to do The Pirates Of Penzance. It's not a slap against Linda by any means, however.
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Post by Richard W on Oct 15, 2012 12:21:34 GMT -5
All you have to do is listen to the vocal chord shredding performance of Mad Love Live to understand that some of the music she sang was like dragging Brillo pads across her instrument.
That she was able to then summon up the gorgeous, honeyed vocals on the Riddle albums and Frenesi is some kind of miracle.
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 15, 2012 14:25:00 GMT -5
Nice about Lola giving Linda's dad her shawl. I found a photo of the beautiful rebozo:
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Post by Dianna on Oct 15, 2012 14:57:04 GMT -5
when I was young I took voice lessons and I would bring sheet music to my voice teacher, many were of Linda's stuff.. so we got to talking.. she said, you know Dianna, Linda is a very "throaty" singer, and I wouldn't recommend that material for your voice. I was kind of taken back by that comment, sure some of her songs she did scream some.. but she also controlled her voice very nicely in a lot of other songs (even before Nelson Riddle ect)
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Post by erik on Oct 15, 2012 18:12:06 GMT -5
Trisha Yearwood (from 1993): " I am a big Linda Ronstadt fan. Most people who know me, or know anything about me, know that Linda Ronstadt was and is a major musical influence. I'm a fan of the voice, I'm a fan of a real singer; and I think that Linda Ronstadt is one of the finest singers, ever."
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Post by philly on Oct 26, 2012 15:57:52 GMT -5
Trisha Yearwood posted a couple tweets Sept. 23, with links to some pinterest pages on Linda: linda ronstadt. my biggest inspiration... t.co/xzZXVvLDLinda - the best. t.co/Gc7gTYga
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Post by erik on Oct 26, 2012 21:15:53 GMT -5
Sheryl Crow on Linda in Rolling Stone: " The first person I can remember wanting to be was Linda Ronstadt. I think it was all about that picture of her in cutoffs and roller skates. That's what I wanted to look like, and who I wanted to be. And I still want to be her. I'm still a massive fan. She's really underrated – when everybody is talking about women in rock, they forget her. She was like a white hippie version of Billie Holiday, just strength and sexuality."
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Post by erik on Oct 31, 2012 21:51:44 GMT -5
Don Henley, on Linda and about forming the Eagles (Rolling Stone magazine, September 1975):
“John (Boylan) and Linda gave us our blessing. I really respect Linda Ronstadt. She’s got a good heart. She’s never been selfish enough to hold anybody back.”
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 8, 2012 15:06:42 GMT -5
About the time the Bracero program was ending, Cesar Chavez was commencing his struggle to improve the lives of farm workers. I was a new lawyer in Soledad, California. One night, playing pool, a farm worker Sebastian Carmona told me he had a disabling back injury from stooping all day in the field with the cortito, a hoe with an eight-inch handle. At the urging of former farm worked Hector De La Rosa, I joined him in a field near Greenfield thinning sugar beets with the cortito. I left the field in such pain that I swore to abolish the short-handled hoe. De La Rosa reminded me that the short hoe was the symbol of growers' power and had replaced the masters' whip as the means of keeping workers stooped. A year later, the day after Cesar Chavez was released from jail in Salinas for struggling to nonviolently improve the lives of farm workers, he asked me to stop stoop labor. Over the years that followed, attorney Marty Glick and California Rural Legal Assistance with whom I was employed, obtained evidence describing the suffering stoop labor caused farm workers, doctors' statements explaining how stoop labor leads to permanent back disability, and evidence that the normal hoe is used in other parts of the country to do the same work done with the short hoe in California.
After five years of hearings across the state and argument before the California Supreme Court, Governor Jerry Brown outlawed the short handled hoe in California. When the Supreme Court ruled for the farm workers in Carmona's lawsuit, Carmona handed me his short-handled hoe and said "Gracias, Abogado. No necesito este, mas" (Thanks, lawyer. I don't need this anymore), I nearly cried.
On March 31, 2012, Cesar Chavez birthday, I fought back tears when Stockton Braceros unveiled the statue Spanos erected and Linda Ronstadt placed a dedication in Stockton rain that reads,
" In honor of the Braceros, soldiers of the field, who toiled in San Joaquin County. With profound gratitude for their indelible contribution to the living of our community. (Bracero Program 1942 - 1964.
With deepest appreciation to Maurice Jourdane who, as an attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance led a relentless and ultimately victorious legal battle to abolish the short-handled hoe. Carmona v. Division of Industrial Safety, 13 Cal2d 303 (California Supreme Court 1975)."
On this nineteenth anniversary of the death of Cesar Chavez, thank you Alex Spanos, thanks you Linda Ronstadt, thanks you Cesar, and thank you millions of farm workers who suffered stooped in the torrid fields to bring food to our table.
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Post by erik on Nov 9, 2012 10:51:14 GMT -5
Phoebe Snow on Linda, from the 1999 VH-1 Special "Women Of Rock" (where Linda ranked #21 out of 100):
"She's got that little special thing in her voice, that unique thing where, kind of like Patsy Cline had it, you know where you cry...she's crying when she's singing, and you hear that little break in her voice. I just think she is very gifted."
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Post by philly on Nov 24, 2012 2:27:00 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 30, 2012 12:27:35 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Nov 30, 2012 18:48:35 GMT -5
Country singer Joy Lynn White on Linda: " But see, I just freaked out over Linda Ronstadt. I heard Silver Threads and Golden Needles" on the country radio station that my mom was listening to, and I said, "Now, that's the only one who got on there that's cool." And I asked, "Who is that?" And so then I went to K-Mart at the time--because I was a record store loiterer. I was always hanging out in a record store. My mom would drop me off, give me twenty bucks, leave me for two hours, and I would just stay down there. I was a geek.""
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Post by philly on Dec 14, 2012 17:56:00 GMT -5
From an interview published this month with Blondie's Chris Stein:
The song itself is a little closer to the type of music the band was rebelling against at the time – Mr Stein says that the airwaves were dominated by boring, bland pop. “Everything was so middle of the road. It was a little bland, that stuff. Everything was dominated by Linda Ronstadt and The Eagles. “All the aggressiveness of the punk and new wave scene was kind of a backlash against what was going on.
“There was some good stuff going on in the seventies, of course, but the stuff at the top was bad.”
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Post by erik on Dec 14, 2012 19:03:43 GMT -5
Linda's good pal Emmylou Harris on Linda (VH-1's 100 Best Women In Rock special from 1999):
"Obviously she's got maybe one of the most gorgeous voices that has ever existed. But besides that, she really understands a lot about music."
Pat Benatar (also from the VH-1 special):
"One of the most gorgeous voices...on Earth."
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Post by Dianna on Dec 14, 2012 19:44:57 GMT -5
From an interview published this month with Blondie's Chris Stein: The song itself is a little closer to the type of music the band was rebelling against at the time – Mr Stein says that the airwaves were dominated by boring, bland pop. “Everything was so middle of the road. It was a little bland, that stuff. Everything was dominated by Linda Ronstadt and The Eagles. “All the aggressiveness of the punk and new wave scene was kind of a backlash against what was going on.
“There was some good stuff going on in the seventies, of course, but the stuff at the top was bad.”That's funny. I recently saw an interview with blondie band members, where stein praised Justin Beiber. lol
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Post by erik on Dec 14, 2012 19:55:55 GMT -5
Quote by dianna: Shows you just how much Mr. Stein knows about anything. If he had said that Taylor Swift was the greatest singer who ever lived, I would have considered him ripe for a straightjacket and a one-way trip to the Funny Farm.
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Post by Dianna on Dec 14, 2012 20:23:45 GMT -5
Here is the clip, band members including debbie discuss being a consultant on singing competition shows and justin beiber.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 16, 2012 1:37:48 GMT -5
And Blondie wasn't bland? or boring? or inconsequential? This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
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Post by Richard W on Dec 16, 2012 11:37:35 GMT -5
Blondie got its name -- creds -- as a punk band, but grasped for the brass ring of crossover/pop success just as fast as they could.
See the album "Autoamerican" with such "punk" outings as The Tide is High.
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Post by erik on Dec 16, 2012 14:32:24 GMT -5
Quote by ronstadtfanaz re. Blondie:
I would not call Blondie bland, boring, or inconsequential, although I don't think they are nearly the groundbreaking group of their genre that people make them out to be. But I do think their attitude towards anything emanating from the West Coast in general, and early 70s-era Los Angeles in particular, is typical of a lot of New York bands and rock music critics (especially post-1977 Rolling Stone), part of what I think is an idiotic cross-country culture war.
But back to the subject of this thread....
Chris Darrow on Linda, as mentioned in Barney Hoskyns' book Hotel California:
"Linda was the most underrated of all the country rock people because she was female. I think she was one of the most naturally gifted singers I've ever met in my life, and she had impeccable taste."
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Post by Partridge on Dec 16, 2012 14:47:46 GMT -5
I loved Blondies first three albums, the final one being Parallel Lines, but it was downhill after that.
They may have been a punk band but most of their fans were due to their mainstream music, their disco Heart of Glass, their cover version of The Tide is High, the big movie song Call Me. And I almost forgot the atrocious Rapture.
I did not know until recently that Hanging on the Telephone was also a remake. Even though I do like it better than the original.
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Post by Dianna on Dec 16, 2012 15:45:22 GMT -5
I don't think blondie was bland or boring either.Myfavorite blondie or debbie song is dreaming. But you all remember that song, "french kissing in the USA? lol
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