|
Post by Dianna on Jul 27, 2016 23:58:02 GMT -5
Erik, that is an adorable photo of Linda I've never seen before.
|
|
|
Post by erik on Jul 28, 2016 8:36:03 GMT -5
Like everyone else, I make an effort to try and find pics of Linda that few if any have ever seen before, let alone posted. The last two I found were here: twitter.com/hashtag/lindaronstadt
|
|
|
Post by eddiejinnj on Jul 28, 2016 9:21:31 GMT -5
What would be great from an organizational perspective would be to delete the duplicates or not per se quote them. Great find, Erik. Love it!!!!! eddiejinnj
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Jul 29, 2016 6:14:17 GMT -5
Hey. Those are MY shorts!!! The same shorts Linda wore the night I met her. I am touched to see that she saved them as I too saved all the clothing I wore that night AND the pen she used to autograph my albums and photos. I wonder if she has a ronstadtfanaz trunk like I have a Linda Ronstadt trunk (cedar chest) to avoid any BIG moth problems?
Notice the shorts? From that April night in 1972: The Only Mama That'll Walk The Line Meanwhile, some more photos:
|
|
|
Post by eddiejinnj on Jul 29, 2016 8:56:58 GMT -5
ronstadtfanaz, I think she has one of your beard hairs encased in glass like a paperweight. eddiejinnj
|
|
|
Post by Guest Guest on Jul 29, 2016 19:22:04 GMT -5
Ronstadtfanaz! Thank you soooo much for posting such great candids of Linda!!
|
|
|
Post by kgreen on Jul 30, 2016 6:37:07 GMT -5
Where did you get these Opening Night photos? I was there. This show is still the Holy Grail for getting a recording or good pictures. *Also the show she did with Phillip Glass at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Aug 3, 2016 1:31:12 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by MokyWI on Aug 3, 2016 11:50:27 GMT -5
ronstadtfanaz do you know when/where that photo you posted on July 29th at 6:14AM of Linda with shoulder length hair, white shirt and sunglasses was taken? I have never seen that photo. My guess is around 1988. Maybe the Jazz Festival in New Orleans?
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Aug 3, 2016 14:55:39 GMT -5
ronstadtfanaz do you know when/where that photo you posted on July 29th at 6:14AM of Linda with shoulder length hair, white shirt and sunglasses was taken? I have never seen that photo. My guess is around 1988. Maybe the Jazz Festival in New Orleans? Mike, I am not certain but in looking back at her hairstyle at the time it sure seems to fit that time period. See my latest post on The Linda Ronstadt Scrapbook. The cnn interview appears to be a similar cut. It may have been from the benefit Aaron does each year for hunger in the New Orleans area. After he and Linda met he invited her down to be part of that benefit show and I believe they sang Ave Maria together.
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Aug 3, 2016 22:50:34 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Aug 18, 2016 1:17:13 GMT -5
I was going through my files when I found some photos I think I may have posted on the old forum. Either way it is nice to see them again.
|
|
|
Post by eddiejinnj on Aug 18, 2016 8:19:43 GMT -5
I hadn't seen the betsy clark dress photo on the curb where she is in the corner of the fence. I like this one the best of all the photos taken there. I really want to pick the weeds in the sidewalk lol. "Wildflowers don't care where they grow." eddiejinnj
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Aug 24, 2016 3:42:17 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Sept 18, 2016 1:46:43 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by fabtastique on Sept 18, 2016 5:38:26 GMT -5
who is that with Linda and what event is this from??
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Sept 18, 2016 5:52:49 GMT -5
It was the premier opening of the movie Zoot Suit and his name is Danny de la Paz I believe. The movie was written and directed by her friend Luis Valdez, brother of Danny who sang on her Mexican albums. I think he also directed La Pastorela. He resembles Kevin Kline a lot, at least to me.
|
|
|
Post by Eden on Sept 18, 2016 22:56:15 GMT -5
Who is that adorable baby with Linda. They seem to be having lots of fun. You can tell Linda loves children!!!
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Oct 1, 2016 15:35:32 GMT -5
SOME VARIATIONS ON FAMILIAR PHOTOS AND SOME NEW
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Oct 1, 2016 22:41:21 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by Guest on Oct 4, 2016 21:53:50 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Oct 7, 2016 21:27:43 GMT -5
I joined the pin website just to get at their photos of Linda. Most are small sized but nice. Some look familiar or part of a series and a couple new to me at least. I really like the one with the Mexican hat/sombrero. That would be a great avatar.
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Oct 20, 2016 9:43:31 GMT -5
I thought it would be fun to put a bunch from the same photo shoot together from Stone Poneys Evergreen Vol 2. Some cute photos taken in the bushes with Linda. You gotta love nature.
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Oct 22, 2016 0:34:03 GMT -5
AND THE WINNING PHOTO IS STONE PONEYS FEATURING LINDA RONSTADT
Different Drum
Teenager Bobby Kimmel's playground was a record store owned by his father, Jack Kimmel, a bass player for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. By the time Bobby hit high school in the mid-'50s he began playing guitar with an eye towards a career in jazz, blues, country, folk, or some combination thereof. While performing in coffee houses in the early '60s he met Linda Ronstadt, a young girl barely in high school at the time, living on Tucson's outskirts near the Davis-Monthan Air Force base where B-29s flew overhead, the deafening sounds an odd sort of music to her ears. They became friends and did some singing together, then he left town while she stuck around and finished school.
Linda's talented family had an obvious influence on her eventual career. Her great-grandfather, Frederick Ronstadt, emigrated from Germany to the state of Sonora, Mexico, in the 1830s. Grandfather Federico Ronstadt had a passion for opera and became an orchestra leader after moving to Tucson in the 1880s, some 30 years before Arizona became a U.S. state. Aunt Luisa Espinel was successful during the '30s and '40s performing Spanish folk songs. Her father, Gilbert Ronstadt, once had a chance to sing with top-tier bandleader Paul Whiteman but turned down the offer. He often performed at the Fox Tucson Theater as Gil Ronstadt and his Star-Spangled Megaphone, his act sorely dated by the time Linda was born in 1946; later he ran a hardware store. As a teenager she performed with older siblings Peter and Suzy as The Three Ronstadts; they joined Bobby Kimmel and banjo player Richard Saltus, playing around town at one point as The New Union Ramblers.
Kenneth Edwards, a guitarist, mandolin player and summer '64 Venice High School graduate, met Bobby Kimmel when the two were empolyees at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California. Bobby suggested they form a trio with Linda, who had planned to move to folk music's epicenter, Greenwich Village. But with L.A. so much closer than N.Y., she arrived in early '65 ready to do whatever it took to avoid having to take a "regular" job. Blues great Charley Patton's "Pony Blues," his first recording for Paramount Records in 1929, inspired the group's name, The Stone Poneys (an edgier moniker than most folk acts of the era). They split the rent three ways on a beach house in Santa Monica and found enough work (at the Insomniac in Hermosa Beach and other night spots) to manage to keep from being evicted.
Mike Curb, who had produced instrumental band The Arrows for his Sidewalk label ("Apache '65" was the first release), recorded with the Poneys and Arrows guitarist Davie Allan, but the results didn't make it to vinyl. Still, word was getting out about the group, with their barefoot, miniskirted teenage lead singer, and they began appearing at the higher-profile Troubador in Hollywood. Their manager, Herb Cohen, had little faith in the trio but was sure he could get a recording contract for Ronstadt; when Nick Venet of Capitol Records showed interest, she insisted on all three or no deal. Venet signed the Stone Poneys and got them into the studio in late 1966. "All the Beautiful Things," written by Kimmel and Edwards, a straightforward folk song in a Peter, Paul and Mary mold, was promoted to radio in January 1967; the single and self-titled debut album attracted virtually no interest from radio or record buyers.
"One For One" (written by Al Silverman and later country-rocker Austin DeLone), the first single from the group's second album, Evergreen Vol. 2, had a mellow folk-rock vibe more suited to summer 1967 goings-on; it too was ignored. The next single, "Different Drum," was recorded under what Linda felt were dubious circumstances. Mike Nesmith had written the breakup-themed folk song in 1965 prior to joining The Monkees; a year later, bluegrass band The Greenbriar Boys did a version for Vanguard Records. The Stone Poneys had planned to do an acoustic remake but on the day of the session Bobby and Kenny were banned from the studio; Linda recorded the song with a full complement of studio players including a string section and harpsichordist. The change was abrupt, the experience stressful; disappointed by what she considered a "horrible" performance, she had mixed feelings of excitement and embarrassment when hearing the song on the radio for the first time.
Stone Poneys
Credited to Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt, "Different Drum" took local radio by storm that fall, hitting number one in Los Angeles in mid-November just as it was starting to take off nationally, where it took longer to develop, hitting the top 20 at the end of December and spending several weeks there until February '68. Millions of music fans heard something in Linda's voice that she couldn't yet appreciate, but she was happy, at least, to finally be getting some notice outside the coffee houses of Southern Cal. The downside was that the Stone Poneys were on their last legs, regardless of what Kimmel and Edwards had to say about it.
Shortly afterwards Mike Curb released a 45 on Sidewalk containing the songs from the '65 session he'd produced. "So Fine," a rockish remake of The Fiestas' 1959 hit written by Johnny Otis, had a folkier flip composed by Kimmel, "Everybody Has Their Own Ideas." Nothing happened with this record or, for that matter, anything Linda recorded for Capitol, with or without Bobby and Kenny, for the next few years. "Up to My Neck in High Muddy Water," written by Frank Wakefield, John Herald and Bob Yellin of the Greenbriar Boys, was billed as Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys and slipped onto the charts for just a couple of weeks in the spring of '68. The third Stone Poneys album was primarily a Ronstadt solo project per Capitol's preference; Stone Poneys and Friends Vol. III utilized a varied lineup of musicians (the back cover showed a large group shot: Linda with 25 people, two dogs and a cat) with songs written by Tim Buckley, Steve Gillette, Laura Lyro and Nesmith, whose "Some of Shelley's Blues" was the next single. Kenny Edwards left the group and extra musicians were hired for a tour with The Doors; then Bobby Kimmel called it quits and Linda was on her own, a somewhat hesitant solo act.
Her first album sans Stone Poneys was released in early 1969 with Chip Douglas replacing Venet as producer. Hand Sown...Home Grown struggled as earlier albums had, but Capitol stayed the course and in 1970 she scored her first solo hit with L.A. songwriter Gary White's ballad "Long Long Time." The next few years were nonetheless difficult and she left Capitol in 1972, signed with Asylum in '73 and made one more album for Capitol in '74 to satisfy the terms of her contract. That album, Heart Like a Wheel, featured a game-changing production of Clint Ballard's "You're No Good," first recorded by Dee Dee Warwick in 1963 and a hit for Betty Everett in early '64; Ronstadt's remake unexpectedly hit number one in February 1975. Over the next five years she racked up hit after hit with remakes of rock and roll classics by the likes of The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Martha and the Vandellas, The Miracles, Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry, Doris Troy and Little Anthony and the Imperials. Over the next three decades, Linda Ronstadt excelled in a variety of genres including pop, country, folk and Spanish music, even taking to the Broadway stage in 1981 in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, a hundred and one years after the show's initial run.
- Michael Jack Kirby www.waybackattack.com/stoneponeys.htmlwww.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTJURihRIkSqFF_uhisaLu2VLn8pMVghB www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpVVF4FUhXJGLsli-tg03AJP06_iVchi2
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Oct 25, 2016 23:58:16 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by eddiejinnj on Oct 26, 2016 8:34:09 GMT -5
The second to last photo is Linda with Carrie Fisher correct? Just saw her on a rerun of "The Big Bang Theory." eddiejinnj
|
|
|
Post by erik on Oct 26, 2016 9:19:48 GMT -5
Quote by eddieinnj:
Yes--Princess Leia meets La Reina Linda.
|
|
|
Post by eddiejinnj on Oct 26, 2016 9:29:45 GMT -5
Can you do a page break, erik? Even if you could make this page 2 pages and then start a new one that would be great. I have never had that admin experience yet lol!!!! thanks much!!!!! eddiejinnj
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Oct 26, 2016 22:20:46 GMT -5
Can you do a page break, erik? Even if you could make this page 2 pages and then start a new one that would be great. I have never had that admin experience yet lol!!!! thanks much!!!!! eddiejinnj
Just curious as to why you would want a page break?
My usually slow computer opens this thread pretty fast. I was trying to create a wall of photos like can be found on my photobucket account but rather than post any photos here I can stop and just put a link to my photobucket account. (if I can figure out how to do that) It would be easier for me as it takes a lot of time to search for photos, store them, upload and then download here.
I would rather not start another thread as they seem to get lost in time and it is difficult to keep going back to search for photos to see if they have already been posted. Many that look the same aren't but are part of a series.
Let me know if that is what people want and I can do that instead or it might be no one really cares as most have probably seen these photos anyway. I am all about record keeping to help Linda's legacy along. I think this site is a great, living time capsule but I suppose it could all disappear at the flip of a switch like the old forum.
I am thinking there are an allotted number of posts per thread page until it goes to the next.
If someone could let me know if this link works and they are able to access it ok that would be nice:
s28.photobucket.com/
Even though my photobucket account is far from full it always seems slow to me. I still have lots of other photos I uploaded there that I have yet to post here.
|
|
|
Post by eddiejinnj on Oct 27, 2016 9:00:42 GMT -5
my computer is full of stuff so that maybe slowing it down and it is 4 yrs old (amazing that is old for a product) but it takes a long time to get to the newest entry for me. there have been page breaks before since we on what page 15. I just figured it would be easier especially for newbies to navigate. I definitely think it a great thread and pictoral (with comments) history of Linda. Definitely keep it. why would you need to start a new thread? we have 15 pages on this one. I truly am asking innocently. I wonder how much space either on computer or disc it would take to save the whole forum? That does scare me that it could be gone with a flick of a switch like our buddy says. eddiejinnj
|
|