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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2019 8:45:03 GMT -5
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Post by eddiejinnj on Sept 5, 2019 9:54:19 GMT -5
Thanks, Rob for link. Seems we'd have to go to Philly but we have to get up like 5 am on Sat AM. When we saw Linda in the Poconos, we stayed up all the night after the concert. We went to a club and they had Linda karaoke in the cool basement room where they hold that. Then we headed home to NJ (first and last time I tried Red Bull- nasty) and did Saturday am yard saleing. That was a decade ago. All nighters are very drying to the skin :-) eddiejinnj
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Post by RobGNYC on Sept 5, 2019 12:24:18 GMT -5
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Post by Audiophile Guest on Sept 5, 2019 13:24:26 GMT -5
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Post by rick on Sept 6, 2019 4:46:07 GMT -5
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Post by RobGNYC on Sept 6, 2019 5:41:04 GMT -5
"What she did with a song like “Hurt So Bad” or “How Do I Make You” could blast you backwards into a reverse somersault, like a Peanuts character. " Attachments:
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Post by eddiejinnj on Sept 6, 2019 7:22:21 GMT -5
Why wouldn't they like it? Good art is good art!!!!! RobG, been meaning to ask you if you were at the 92 y Book Tour show? eddiejinnj PS: I like that the writer of the article looks pretty young!!!!!! I am concerned re: her artistic legacy and like that the documentary is about the MUSIC!!!!!!!!
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Post by RobbyFlorida on Sept 6, 2019 9:50:39 GMT -5
Thanks, Rob for link. Seems we'd have to go to Philly but we have to get up like 5 am on Sat AM. When we saw Linda in the Poconos, we stayed up all the night after the concert. We went to a club and they had Linda karaoke in the cool basement room where they hold that. Then we headed home to NJ (first and last time I tried Red Bull- nasty) and did Saturday am yard saleing. That was a decade ago. All nighters are very drying to the skin :-) eddiejinnj I guess you’re closer to Philly than NYC. Oh btw.. Try the Coconut Berry Red Bull I loved it!
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Post by RobGNYC on Sept 6, 2019 10:00:39 GMT -5
Why wouldn't they like it? Good art is good art!!!!! RobG, been meaning to ask you if you were at the 92 y Book Tour show? eddiejinnj PS: I like that the writer of the article looks pretty young!!!!!! I am concerned re: her artistic legacy and like that the documentary is about the MUSIC!!!!!!!! Hi Eddie--yes I was at the 92nd St. Y. During the Q&A, I wanted to ask Linda if she knew that Philip K. Dick was a huge fan of hers and that in his VALIS trilogy, she was the inspiration for the character (singer) Linda Fox. But they ran out of time before I could get to the mic.
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Post by PoP80 on Sept 6, 2019 10:24:26 GMT -5
That's a great question--my guess is that she wasn't aware of that character in his books. I was at 92nd Street Y also and Linda invited me backstage before the event to personally sign a book for me. What a memorable evening and it's obviously one of my most treasured possessions!!
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Post by RobGNYC on Sept 6, 2019 13:53:59 GMT -5
A.O. Scott--"...someone uses the word 'auteur' to describe Ronstadt's relationship to her material, and it doesn't seem exaggerated." Someone? It was Jackson Browne. I expect more from the NY Times. Next time, bring a notepad Mr. Scott.
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Post by germancanadian on Sept 6, 2019 14:19:22 GMT -5
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Post by RobGNYC on Sept 6, 2019 15:25:42 GMT -5
That's a great question--my guess is that she wasn't aware of that character in his books. I was at 92nd Street Y also and Linda invited me backstage before the event to personally sign a book for me. What a memorable evening and it's obviously one of my most treasured possessions!! Fantastic--how were you able to arrange the backstage meeting?
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Post by RobGNYC on Sept 6, 2019 15:47:39 GMT -5
Another good new review from Rolling Stone - www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/linda-ronstadt-doc-movie-review-879987/ It's getting hard to keep track. Rolling Stone is still trotting out that tired idea that Linda was not convincing singing harder rock. Her "Tumbling Dice" is a lot of things--"wooden" is not one of them (especially the live "FM" version). Even Christgau said about her Tumbling Dice," "...she's also a pop eclectic for our time, as comfortable with Mick Jagger as with Dolly Parton..." On the deleted "Heart Like a Wheel" verse, here are the lyrics and Kate and Anna singing that verse in a performance with Linda and Maria Muldaur. They say that death is a tragedy It comes once, and it's over But my only wish is for that deep dark abyss For what's the use of living with no true lover
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Post by eddiejinnj on Sept 6, 2019 16:10:01 GMT -5
Yeah, I was going to ask Pop that!!! Dam, must say am a little green over that but I am so grateful that I got her to sign my book and I was last in the line to get an autograph. I can admit I am green and it is different than when Kermit says it, lol!!! I don't recall you mentioning that before? RobG were you in front of me in line? eddiejinnj
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Post by eddiejinnj on Sept 6, 2019 16:22:36 GMT -5
You know where I live here, Roberto, being only 2 miles from me before you moved to Fl. NYC is about the same or a little farther but the ride down rt 70 to Philly so much easier than trekking into NYC at that time. I'm ok with seeing it next week. We got some of the effects of Dorian today and it slowed down raining so we finishing packing for an early am!!! I pray for everybody effected by Dorian. Another nail biter storm!!! eddiejinnj
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Post by RobGNYC on Sept 6, 2019 16:29:26 GMT -5
Yeah, I was going to ask Pop that!!! Dam, must say am a little green over that but I am so grateful that I got her to sign my book and I was last in the line to get an autograph. I can admit I am green and it is different than when Kermit says it, lol!!! I don't recall you mentioning that before? RobG were you in front of me in line? eddiejinnj No, sorry to say that I had to leave after the interview and couldn't make the signing. I know--what?? Looking back, what could possibly have been more important?
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Post by eddiejinnj on Sept 6, 2019 16:41:00 GMT -5
I feel that RobG. I still kick myself that I did not bid higher on her LITUSA jacket on ebay. Bugs me, I didn't get it but we can't take back 2 seconds ago so we go forward. One cool thing my partner got me off ebay was a very rare huge photo of Linda from a photographer who passed away - studio/gallery in L.A. I forget name; it is on the back of it. The photo is 2.75 ft by 2 feet on photographic paper. It is a real photo. eddiejinnj
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Post by erik on Sept 6, 2019 18:41:46 GMT -5
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Post by musedeva on Sept 6, 2019 19:48:31 GMT -5
don't know what thread I saw it in here, but LieboWits is calling LInda a LIAR??? re: the sex red silkie push on??? UNREAL!!! I believe Linda waaayy before AL...what an insult/defamation
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Post by germancanadian on Sept 6, 2019 20:39:33 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Sept 6, 2019 23:16:39 GMT -5
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Post by PoP80 on Sept 7, 2019 7:40:36 GMT -5
It was all huge surprise to me!! I met Linda during Pirates of Penzance and when she spotted me waiting on line at 92Y, she gave me a big hug. I couldn't believe that she remembered me from so many eons ago. A little while later, she had her assistant, Janet take me backstage where she was signing a bunch of books. She wrote me a lovely personal message and it really touched my heart. I was blown away by the whole thing and actually kind of speechless...
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Post by Another guest on Sept 7, 2019 10:59:01 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Sept 7, 2019 12:25:05 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Sept 7, 2019 14:10:48 GMT -5
Add on: The links to all the reviews, past, present, and future, can be posted her now.
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Post by Another guest on Sept 7, 2019 14:46:16 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 7, 2019 18:06:50 GMT -5
REVIEWS: FILMS/DVDS Linda Ronstadt Documentary Review: ‘I Have to Sing’ by Jeff Tamarkin
bestclassicbands.com/linda-ronstadt-documentary-review-9-5-19/
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Linda Ronstadt doesn’t think she was a very good singer. That is one of several revelations in Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, the new documentary co-directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. For all of the eye-openers the film presents—and we are treated to many of them during its 95 minutes—the most startling may be Ronstadt’s lack of confidence and her reticence. Throughout all of those years that she ruled the charts and won our hearts, as so many of us were marveling at this singer’s way with seemingly any song that came her way, she was never convinced.
Watch the trailer for The Sound of My Voice
Watching Ronstadt perform, it’s impossible to agree with that self-assessment: During one stretch in the chronology, after she’d grown bored of singing pop and decided she needed to expand her musical range, Ronstadt slides effortlessly from singing opera off-Broadway (you’ve got to hear that to believe it—she was a natural) to teaming with the renowned arranger Nelson Riddle for a series of orchestral recordings of Great American Songbook standards, then to a country trio with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris, and on to exploring her Mexican heritage with the traditional songs of the country bordering on her native Arizona. If she hears a song she likes, Ronstadt says during one of the film’s interview clips, “I have to sing it.”
Related: Read the first part of our interview with Linda Ronstadt bestclassicbands.com/linda-ronstadt-interview-4-19-17777/ Second part of our interview with Linda Ronstadt bestclassicbands.com/linda-ronstadt-eagles-interview-5-29-17/
And that’s how it began for her. She came from musically inclined family on her father’s side, influenced by a panoply of styles, and from childhood she displayed an innate facility. Moving to L.A. she had her first brush with success in 1967 with a Michael Nesmith-written folk-rock number, “Different Drum.” An early manager saw her potential as a solo artist and ripped her away from the Stone Poneys trio, and although it took a while for the general audience to discover what charter fans like Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder and a couple of guys named Don Henley and Glenn Frey (they would form a band of their own that enjoyed a bit of success) knew from the beginning, Ronstadt was never not going to be a sensation—that much is made clear.
Ronstadt (center) with Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton
Once she took off, she really took off: hit after hit interpreting songs from all manner of sources, whether her friend and lover J.D. Souther, a vintage rocker by the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly or the Stones, a Motown favorite or a Roy Orbison ballad. The media adored her and the camera did too—and who wouldn’t? (You’ve seen her in that Cub Scout uniform, right?) Rolling Stone may actually have considered it risky putting her on its cover initially, but the mag’s editors came back time and again as superstardom embraced her. Ronstadt seemed to have it all—playing arenas and stadiums, dating the governor of California—even as she continued to doubt her own abilities.
Watch a clip from the film featuring an interview with Ronstadt’s one-time bandmate, Don Henley
The Sound of My Voice chronicles all of this in a relatively linear, straightforward manner, relying on the standard elements of the documentary form: flashbacks, vintage and contemporary footage, talking heads galore (record label boss David Geffen, manager/producer Peter Asher, journalist/filmmaker Cameron Crowe and fellow artists Bonnie Raitt and Harris among them). There are some downs to offset the ups, but they are relatively minor compared to those of most rock stars—a brief mention of problems with diet pills is quickly dismissed, as is a controversial appearance in South Africa while apartheid was still going strong.
Watch Harris and Parton reminisce about their Trio recordings
Nor does Ronstadt’s greatest challenge—the onset of Parkinson’s disease, which has caused her to cease singing—grab much screen time. The ravaging illness is mentioned at the beginning, brought up here and there and finally dealt with near the end, but it’s clear the filmmakers didn’t want to dwell on it. It’s apparent Ronstadt is struggling when she does sing, in a trio setting with a cousin and nephew, toward the end of the film, but the heartbreak is minimal because, truly, she sounds just fine.
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice is, mainly, a charming, jubilant portrait of a remarkable vocalist and a humble woman. That’s all it purports to be and all it needs to be. Ronstadt was not one to do herself in or cause outrage or end up in rehab. It was, finally, only the natural course of life that got in the way of that voice.
Listen to the track after which the film is titled
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Post by erik on Sept 7, 2019 18:30:58 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 7, 2019 18:58:25 GMT -5
As of last week, Ronstadt had only seen the rough cut of the film. She said watching it was “bizarre, like watching my whole life flash before my face.”
“I got to talk with my feelings, my emotions, to tell my story and see what I felt about while I was telling it,” she said, saying the process in some ways was cathartic. “Sometimes I didn’t realize I felt this way. Sometimes it’s a shock of recognition of a feeling or emotion that you had that you didn’t realize you had.”
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