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Post by Dianna on Dec 16, 2012 15:55:08 GMT -5
If I recall Tavis Smiley had some great things to say about Linda too.
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Post by philly on Dec 26, 2012 3:10:48 GMT -5
I wonder how many roller skates Linda helped sell back in the day ;D
from the larrivee.com guitar forum:
Linda Ronstadt
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I met Linda Ronstadt about 23 years ago when she played at my college. She was warming up for the show by roller skating in the halls with her friend, singer Kiki Dee (sp?). It was amazing.
My wife and I just saw her in concert with a full orchestra. She is touring with a playlist that includes some show tunes, but she still is a class act. She still has her voice. We enjoyed it.
--Fred
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Post by eddiejinnj on Dec 26, 2012 10:12:24 GMT -5
"I'm a gonna love you too" was also a remake blondie did. i had that song on a terry jacks (yes of seasons in the sun fame) album when i was like 11. eddiejinnj
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Post by erik on Dec 26, 2012 10:18:59 GMT -5
Patty Loveless on almost meeting Linda back in the late 80s:
"When I saw Linda coming down the hall, I told the friend who was going to introduce me to her, `Just forget it - you'd better not.' I was just too scared to meet her."
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Post by philly on Jan 10, 2013 2:16:03 GMT -5
Hugh Jackman’s Wife Says He Doesn’t Yet Grasp How Big “Les Miz” Will Be12/11/12 1:28am Roger Friedman Monday night brought the very lavish, wild premiere for “Les Miserables” to New York’s Ziegfeld Theater. By the time we got a very crowded corner of the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art for the swanky after party, Hugh Jackman’s wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, surveyed the room. We saw Hugh about 20 feet away, swarmed by adoring fans. “Hugh doesn’t even realize how big this is going to be,” Furness said in her lilting Australian accent. “It’s only just dawned on me.” Indeed, Universal Pictures is pulling out all the stops for “Les Miz,” directed by Oscar winner Tom Hooper. There was a London premiere, and there will be one in Hollywood. Today, there’s a massive, elegant lunch for the cast and crew. Tonight, Jackman is honored by the Museum of the Moving Image. Anyone vaguely connected to the film will be there, too. Last night, I sat with the audience through my second screening. Jon Bon Jovi and wife Dorothea were there–she’s a huge fan of the musical. “Raging Bull” star Cathy Moriarty couldn’t get enough of it. Richard Kind was over the top, as were Zach Brafman and a dozen or more celebs who braved the annoying rain. By the time the night was over I’d had long talks with ecstatic execs like Ron Meyer, Donna Langley, Adam Fogelson, and Eric Fellner. Plus, there was Hugh and Debora, Anne Hathaway, her family and husband Adam Schulman; Sacha Baron Cohen, who nearly steals the movie with Helena Bonham Carter; and the amazing Samantha Barks who’s only 22 and is poised to become a huge Broadway star. Next year, Cameron McKintosh told me, he’d like to bring Barks here in “Oliver!” She’s about to open it under his banner in Dublin. About three quarters of the way through the movie, I ran out to take a bathroom break. Coming from the opposite end of the theater was Barks, who was wearing a long gown. I’d never met her before. “I’m barefoot,” she cried and pulled up her satin dress. “What a way to meet someone!” She is absolutely a star in waiting. I told her she should play Linda Ronstadt in the famed singer’s story. “Who’s that?” she asked. She’s a Brit, remember, and she’s 22. By now she’s memorizing “Heart Like a Wheel.” “Les Miz” is the kind of Hollywood production audiences are hungry for–it’s massive, it’s romantic, it’s deep, and it’s never boring. You leave the theatre singing all the songs. Anne Hathaway takes your breath away when she sings “I Dreamed a Dream.” The audience started cheering almost before it was over. For Hugh Jackman, forget Wolverine or the Boy from Oz. This is performance of a lifetime. I asked him how he got the hollow cheeks in the beginning of the film. “It’s a horrible diet,” he admitted. “Don’t try it.” Deborra-Lee added: “It’s a lot of liquids.” And just in case you wondered: Jackman plays Jean Valjean, who sounds like he already got an Oscar this year. That was Jean Dujardin. Very similar, but not the same. Hugh Jackman is heading to the Oscar finalist list, with Daniel Day Lewis, Bradley Cooper, Denzel Washington and, I think, either Christoph Waltz or Joaquin Phoenix.  
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2013 8:27:51 GMT -5
Maybe this will plant a seed to create a biography of Linda... although nothing will compare to the upcoming audio book, of course..
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 17, 2013 19:43:11 GMT -5
FOUND THIS OPEN THREAD IN A SEARCH ENGINE!! LET SEE IF IT WORKS. 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 the Scribe on Jan 25, 2013 11:19:22 GMT -5
"Getting to sit just a couple of feet away when Linda is singing and hearing her acoustic voice without a PA or on a record, it's majestic," Bush said. "It's absolutely stunning. It's the voice many of us fell in love with years ago. It is a compliment when you get to play with one of your heroes. It's a treat to harmonize with her."
Sam Bush
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Post by erik on Jan 25, 2013 12:55:05 GMT -5
Susanna Hoffs (she of the Bangles) interviewd in Gay.net magazine (August 8, 2009) re. her album with Matthew Sweet. The interview got around to Linda, and the fact that Susanna had recorded "Different Drum" and "Willing" for this album. Susanna's quotes are in bold.
Were there other songs by Linda Ronstadt you considered?
Well, to be honest, I would do a whole record of Linda Ronstadt songs! [Laughs]. If someone allowed me to do it, or if I had the chutzpah, to do it, I would. And maybe I should. I just loved her so much growing up. I just….I revered her. I actually met Linda a couple of times back in the 80's and she's so nice. She's just…I don't think it's possible for me to give her enough praise.
I completely agree with you and I find it baffling that she's not more celebrated now in 2009. Her body of work is amazing -- I hope she starts getting the kind of acknowledgment she deserves.
I'm with you on that and I don’t get it either. But I have to tell you that I've been hearing things and reading stuff from more and more people about her, which is great. Like, I know my niece told me about a local singer in Nashville who's totally obsessed with Linda Ronstadt, and also, I know Sheryl Crow just came out and said Linda was one her biggest influences.
I think it's one of those cyclical things where sometimes – and I don’t know why – but for some people it takes time for a slightly different generation to sort of remember how great someone is and was. She continues to sing beautifully and make great records but, I mean, I think she will gain more and more respect, and I think it's going to happen soon.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 31, 2013 10:28:33 GMT -5
from revin2go: Cher credits Linda ...and least in part for sparking her interest in an acting career. This is from Cher's biography, "Cher: If You Believe" by Mark Bego: "The night before the show closed, I saw Linda Ronstadt do Pirates of Penzance. She did it in Los Angeles for one night only. Watching her I thought, 'If Linda can do this, what am I doing wasting my time?' If the movie studio people won't take me seriously, then I'll go to New York and try my luck...and when I saw Linda Ronstadt, I made up my mind. I'd go to New York, and even if I failed there I wouldn't care." I think it's great that Cher saw something in Linda that fueled her desire to go above and beyond what was expected of her. 2 girls that did well for themselves. I'm proud of them both! Read more: www.ronstadt.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1007#ixzz2JZEdeDbq |
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Post by erik on Jan 31, 2013 20:09:22 GMT -5
Another quote from Caitlin Rose, in The Independent (January 14, 2010):
"With Linda you get to hear her voice mature from that barefoot-arizona-to-california-late-to-the-party hippie girl to one of the finest and most well trained voices of modern time (and hands down one of the best rock voices ever). I recently got into Amalia Rodrigues, a female Fado artist from Portugal, whose career is strikingly similar. Poets from all over would write pieces for her to sing, much like Linda becoming the song interpreter for many unknown singer songwriters in the mid-to-late ’70s. The two have some unique quality in their voice that moves people in some way."
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Post by erik on Mar 21, 2013 9:17:53 GMT -5
Excerpt from an interview with Caitlin Rose in the Nashville Scene (March 7, 2013) (her quotes are in bold): Speaking of Ronstadt, she's by far Rose's most frequently invoked influence. " Every time I start feeling a certain way," Rose says, " I can usually find a Linda Ronstadt article that says exactly the same thing, and I don't have to feel so alone." As Rose has pondered what roles feel right for her, it could be that she's learned from the discomfort Ronstadt expressed with the trappings of being a sex symbol and superstar. What's clear is that Rose is enjoying the hell out of embracing the Ronstadt model of song-driven pop eclecticism. " I was joking with someone the other day," says Rose. "It's like, ' Do you wanna be like the next Chrissie Hynde, or do you wanna f**k off and do crazy s**t like Linda Ronstadt, and do orchestral albums?' You can do whatever you want. Nobody has to limit themselves to one thing. It's just about doing what you love doing, no matter what." www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/hometown-heroine-caitlin-rose-is-funny-and-fun-about-how-she-chooses-to-put-herself-out-there/Content?oid=3308957 |
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Post by musicaamator on Mar 22, 2013 14:00:25 GMT -5
From wikipedia, a quote from Pat Benatar after her Crimes of Passion album beat Linda's Mad Love for Best Rock Vocal Performance/Female: "There are a lot of good female singers around. How could I be the best? Ronstadt is still alive!" I love that quote! Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt#From_rock_to_opera |
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Post by erik on Apr 4, 2013 20:12:26 GMT -5
J.D. Souther on his one-time flame: " Linda Ronstadt could never stand to hear her own vocals. Can you imagine having a voice that fantastic that you can’t stand to listen to? I can understand that, though, because there’s that little critic that sits on your shoulder and points out the parts that could be better." blog.al.com/birmingham-box-set/2011/06/jd_souther_returns_to_birmingh.html |
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Post by erik on Apr 15, 2013 9:39:16 GMT -5
Another quote from Caitlin Rose (Leoweekly, April 10, 2013): www.leoweekly.com/music/caitlin-rose-method-singer“ Linda Ronstadt always made a record that was better and better and better,” Rose says. “ Her first cycle of records — like the first six or seven — they just got better every time. (They) all have this really amazing build. It’s like once you get up to (fifth album) Heart Like a Wheel, there’s a culmination of everything.” |
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Post by philly on May 19, 2013 1:42:13 GMT -5
Found this old tweet from Jeremy Helligar  The video in the link was deleted, whatever it was He otherwise is her biggest fan and has only nice things to say about her, that I can find. In a 2011 article he thinks she's one of the most egregious ommissions of the RRHOF. He might have interviewed her for this article in People in 1995 he coauthored. www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20105411,00.html |
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Post by philly on May 19, 2013 3:18:38 GMT -5
From an article last year, just the mentions of Linda...the whole article is here: rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinion/carroll-beauty-not-what-you-see/article_5328c386-be7c-5d2f-bd34-a85e27bf5570.htmlCARROLL: Beauty not what you seeOctober 02, 2012 6:30 am • Frank Carroll Journal columnist I remember meeting Linda Ronstadt and her band at the Haagen-Dazs ice cream shop in Santa Fe, N.M., following her concert there in 1975. She stood alone in the spotlight that night singing her heart out. She looked larger than life. She was not. Standing there eating ice cream she was 5 feet plus a few inches, quiet and thoughtful. She had a wonderful smile and endearing shyness that I could not imagine at the time masked a low self-image. Linda Ronstadt was our rock star, and I suppose her personal issues never crossed my mind. How could the angel of my world have issues? It was difficult for me to understand her revelation in a recent interview that she no longer looks in the mirror. Of course she is not the same young woman at the height of her early success. She is so much more. I hope one day to find Linda again, standing in a small shop somewhere, perhaps eating frozen yogurt with old friends. If I do ,I will hug her and gaze into her eyes and tell her the things of my heart, that she is as beautiful now as ever in her life, that she has weathered all things, will endure all things, and that her life and her beauty are inspiring to me and mine. No, her gray hair matters not at all. |
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Post by sliderocker on May 19, 2013 14:30:35 GMT -5
From an article last year, just the mentions of Linda...the whole article is here: rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinion/carroll-beauty-not-what-you-see/article_5328c386-be7c-5d2f-bd34-a85e27bf5570.htmlCARROLL: Beauty not what you seeOctober 02, 2012 6:30 am • Frank Carroll Journal columnist I remember meeting Linda Ronstadt and her band at the Haagen-Dazs ice cream shop in Santa Fe, N.M., following her concert there in 1975. She stood alone in the spotlight that night singing her heart out. She looked larger than life. She was not. Standing there eating ice cream she was 5 feet plus a few inches, quiet and thoughtful. She had a wonderful smile and endearing shyness that I could not imagine at the time masked a low self-image. Linda Ronstadt was our rock star, and I suppose her personal issues never crossed my mind. How could the angel of my world have issues? It was difficult for me to understand her revelation in a recent interview that she no longer looks in the mirror. Of course she is not the same young woman at the height of her early success. She is so much more. I hope one day to find Linda again, standing in a small shop somewhere, perhaps eating frozen yogurt with old friends. If I do ,I will hug her and gaze into her eyes and tell her the things of my heart, that she is as beautiful now as ever in her life, that she has weathered all things, will endure all things, and that her life and her beauty are inspiring to me and mine. No, her gray hair matters not at all. One of the nicest and loveliest essays ever written about Linda. Thanks for sharing that one!  |
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 29, 2013 17:04:18 GMT -5
From Anne Gust Brown (Current 1st Lady of California) On another career she'd like to have: "I wish I could be a singer, and I am completely tone deaf. This whole Linda Ronstadt thing maybe has gotten under my skin. I wish I could stand up and sing like she does, but I can't."Read more here: www.sacbee.com/2013/06/06/5475119/the-buzz-anne-gust-brown-discusses.html?storylink=lingospot#storylink=cpy"The news that Linda Ronstadt has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease - and that her glorious voice has been silenced forever - hit me unexpectedly hard. Maybe it's that she was a beacon for all of us adolescent 'girls with guitars' in the late seventies, or that she showed us how cool country music was (previously unthinkable to a hippie kid from Boulder, Colorado), or schooled us in great songwriting by bringing the work of JD Souther, Jackson Browne, Karla Bonoff, Randy Newman and Jimmy Webb to the world; but probably because the sheer beauty of her gift is something that, in a just world, would never be taken away.
For years I've been mystified by her exclusion from the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. The woman is a treasure. She has broken commercial records, artistic boundaries, and countless hearts. I'm so sad that we won't hear her sing again, but so glad we have her body of work to love, listen to and learn from. I must have played this song, "Adios", twenty times in the past few days - written by the great Jimmy Webb, with an assist from Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys on background vocals. And Jann Wenner, if you're listening - she may not care, but lots of us do. It's time to put her in the Rock Hall, now."Read more: ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/1494/screw-wenner-cohorts-greater-writer#ixzz2e2OFUvny |
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Post by jhar26 on Aug 29, 2013 20:52:17 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. I never considered them punk. They were far too melodic to be punk. The only reason why they are even associated with the genre is that at the start they often played CBGB's where the Ramones, Richard Hell, Television and other such artists used to play. Patti Smith didn't like them at all and just considered them a mediocre pop group. Not that I agree with Patti about that. They were a GREAT pop group with a rock edge. At least for a couple of years. And in my region of the world there was a moment before they became big in the US as well when Deborah Harry had a Marilyn Monroe-like status as a sex symbol. |
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Post by erik on Sept 6, 2013 9:44:00 GMT -5
Another quote from "Walk On" singer/songwriter Matraca Berg re. Linda, following the revelation about Linda having Parkinson's (from M.B.'s Facebook page):
"I love Linda so much and have never met her. Jeff (Hanna, Matraca's hubby) is her friend,but she has meant so much to me... she and EmmyLou.and Joni Mitchell...and Karla and Nicolette..jeez..I am so sad."
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 21, 2016 3:19:28 GMT -5
J. D. SOUTHER: Linda had a huge effect on me. She really gave me and Warren Zevon our careers because she cut so many of our songs. We were always grateful. She had good ears to spot the songs, and then she knew which ones she could sing.
J. D. SOUTHER: When Glenn and Don [Henley] had those poker nights and football nights, Linda and I moved to Beachwood Canyon, [so as] not to be living in that boys' club over there in Laurel Canyon.
PETER ASHER, singer-guitarist, Peter and Gordon; producer-manager for James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt: Linda had been working on tracks with producers John Boylan, John David Souther, and somebody else—all of whom were her boyfriends—and it wasn't working out very well. I came in initially as a producer and then she asked me to be her manager. Linda and I were never boyfriend and girlfriend, which is probably a good thing—incredibly hot though she was.
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Post by erik on Nov 23, 2016 22:52:49 GMT -5
"I think that showing Linda Ronstadt at the height of her powers as a singer and in the company of these wonderful collaborators will remind people what a force she was" - Laura Cantrell, at the end of the BBC-4 special on The Trio.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 9, 2017 17:55:06 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Apr 10, 2017 8:50:43 GMT -5
"She's totally fearless. Maybe that's the source of her power because she's so powerful, as well. I've sung along with those records … I had a break up and I ended up putting on those records to comfort myself and I was right back there. I've been singing along to those records for such a long time, and her voice is an unbelievable instrument. Unbelievable. It's silken and velvet, and also as powerful as steel. And it's fierce. The effortlessness with which she can belt at the top of her range, then go low … any melody is so lucky to end up in her hands. - Tift Merritt
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Post by the Scribe on May 22, 2017 4:16:37 GMT -5
"Linda is now outside the pop music world, doing her thing. I don’t know if there will ever be another singer who impacts me like she does. She is truly at the top of the class, along with Emmylou Harris and Nicolette [Larson]. Some artists just have it. Like a painter who is great, you can’t say why. I have been so fortunate to have these friends.
I find it unbelievable that Linda is not in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. There is something wrong with that. She should have been inducted a long time ago. I would be honored to induct her."
— Neil Young on Linda Ronstadt in Waging Heavy Peace (via foreverneilyoung)
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Post by philly on Aug 17, 2017 22:59:16 GMT -5
I guess this would be the thread to share these comments I saw in the video Linda Ronstadt In Concert 1980 on youtube:
TulsaGirlForever2 years ago
I'm feeling like this might a good thread to tell this short story to; in 1980 Linda took the Mad Love tour to Starkville, MS. When she arrived, a friend of my brother's was back stage & heard her ask for not much special, just a size LG MSU football jersey, clean, & lots of water. She wore the jersey that night with a belt around her waist with brown cowboy boots on.
Now that's Linda Ronstadt....that same guy went out front & snapped some pics, one of which my brother gave me for Christmas that year. It's been a mission to get it signed, but I now know in my heart that's not going to happen. But I adore her voice today & always will.
city zen9 months ago
I saw her in Starkville in 1976, (I think). She caught me looking up her dress, smiled, and swished her skirts at me. What a woman and a beautiful Lady.
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Post by erik on Oct 13, 2017 22:40:07 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Nov 3, 2017 9:08:47 GMT -5
Kelsey Waldon, a modern traditionalist country singer from the western part of Kentucky, whose album I've Got A Way was released earlier this year to great acclaim, had this to say about Linda in an interview she did back in October 2013: " Although Linda didn’t write many of her songs, she had the amazing ability to know what a GREAT song was, record it, and make a hit out of it. I love her arrangements, and I love Dan Dugmore’s pedal steel playing. Linda knows what’s good, and she’s got the outstanding pipes to show it off. She’s a babe and a queen in her own right.
Songs to listen to: “Old Paint”, “Roll Um Easy”, “Willin’”, “Hey Mister, That’s Me Up On the Jukebox”.lockelandspringsteen.com/2013/10/20/nashville-five-kelsey-waldon/ |
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Post by erik on Dec 2, 2017 23:21:36 GMT -5
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