The Flying Burritto Brothers -- The Gilded Palace of Sin C/D

it's kind of a three way tie for king asshole in that book: stills/crosby/frey

if i take anything away from that book its probably this: ladies loved them some JD Souther!

Speaking of which: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=342

oh and craziest thing in that book: stills doing so much coke that he thought he had fought in vietnam. he didn't think this for a night or a weekend, he actually would hallucinate this for years!

The jukebox is playin'
A honky-tonk song
"One more," I keep sayin'
"And then I'll go home"

I played in a band that covered this, and for simplicity/in-jokiness we always wrote it on the setlist as JUICEBOX.

you know, i mistook this thread for a byrds-sweetheart of the rodeo thread. i do prefer gilded palace to gram solo (by some distance), but prefer both to sweetheart.

i prefer notorious byrd brothers to just about everything on earth.

when i'm playing it anyway.

Anyone know who the brunette woman on the front and back cover is? The internet's not turning up anything.

from Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Graham Parsons

To get photographs for the cover of their first album. Gilded Palace of Sin, A&M art director Tom Wilkes took the Burritos to Pearblossom. To back up Mother Nature, Tom and photographer Barry Feinstein also hired two models, dressed and made up to look like hookers. The models, a miniskirted brunette and a blonde in a knit cap and wine-colored pantsuit, posed like the mannequins they were hired to be; they allowed themselves to be embraced and held aloft by various Burritos.

from Hot Burritos: the true story of the Flying Burrito Brothers

Two female models, Suzanne and Bridget, pose provocatively in the shed's open doorway.

I can't find anything more specific than that.

Thanks--can't find last names. She's stunning in the film footage from that shoot.

this is such a great record. on one level it's a pretty exhaustive travestying of country music cliches. on the other hand it sustains such a provocative ambivalence about the country-music zeitgeist in sound and meaning. it's also just really musically inventive and full of hooks. i never fail to be astonished by how /young/ parsons and hillman were when they made this really sophisticated and subtle record: 22 and 44, respectively.

btw what is currently considered the best-sounding issue of this album? i have a beat-up original copy i play for kicks sometimes, and i also have this two-fer: http://www.amazon.com/Gilded-Palace-Sin-Burrito-Deluxe/dp/B000024R2P/

but i see that there are a few more recently CD and vinyl issues, including a 2010 japanese CD and a 2007 Four Men with Beards LP (which given 4MwB's track record I'm assuming is trash)

this is like a six-star album for me

in other news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MchWI3sLUQo

i know, it's not on this album, but i wasn't about to start a thread for their 2nd album