Gene Clark S/D, C/D

let's not drag tom petty's name through the mud here, people! i mean, it was a cool thing for him to do, he didn't know it'd be the nail in gene's coffin!

let's not drag tom petty's name through the mud here, people!
new board decrip?

yeah there's some serious misplaced judgment there in blaming Tom for covering a guy's song, which ended up getting him a bunch of money, which he decided to use to kill himself with drink. It's not like Tom Petty tied him up and forced him to down endless bottles of gin at the barrel of a gun.

Nobody's actually blaming Tom Petty.

no, we might be on to something -- "feel a whole lot better when you're gonnnne -- after i kill you," petty sings on his cover.

lol

if that's not a confession, i don't know what is.

Tom was going to cover one McGuinn and Crosby's classics, like Don't Make Waves, but they were like "c'mon Tom, why don't you do this shitty Gene Clark song, it'll make him tons of money and he'll spend it on cocaine and heroin, which he'll pile up on the backside of this glove compartment and snort from, one, then the other, and back again (true story) then he'll die and we can take all the credit for The Byrds"

and tom was like "I'm in. Let's do this."

i also heard tom cut a version of "time between" but chris hillman begged him not to release it, for fear of his life.

I knew I shouldn't have turned that tom petty documentary off after watching 11 hours of it

Crosby dissuaded Tom from covering "Triad", noting "I don't need the money, I'm making plenty with this lesbian-sperm gig I got goin"

i heard that tom was in joshua tree the same time gram parsons kicked it, too. coincidence?

Tom covered "Artificial Energy" once trying to get Roger, but only got Michael.

i like this ... there was a thread that talked about a horror movie with david crosby murdering people. maybe this can be the sequel, like where crosby is hunted by petty.

'stop draggin' my corpse around'

'Listen To Her Heart, Beating In My Hand'

everybody's been burned to death

'You Wreck Me--I Kill You'

Love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrI4vSJOuFg

I always thought that Gram Parsons had produced by far the best post-Byrds output, by a fair margin even. Turns out it was this guy all along.

Totally.

It was made official awhile back. Gram Parsons v Gene Clark in an Ex-Byrd Roots Rock Smackdown!!!

Turns out it was this guy all along.

yes

Bit unfair that we've got GP books, films, box sets up the yin, and only a Teenage Fanclub song for Gene innit?

Also, Gene Clark died 20 years ago last Tuesday...

a career spanning gene clark box set would be ace. it doesn't exist does it?

i think of it in terms of Nick Drake vs. John Martyn (or even Jeff vs. Tim Buckley), in that the romantic young death and "What If?"ness of it resonates so much more with record buyers than the "put out a slew of great albums before slightly tapering off in quality" and died a bit on. how romantic is Gene's "slow death from alcoholism" vs. Parsons, nevermind that Gene made 4x the great records that he did? that all said, i'd love to hear a Gene boxset, but i'm just glad that ten years ago, all his albums were basically unavailable and at least now they are in print to varying degrees.

Some of the later ones aren't.

which one does gene parsons prefer?

also curious how Michael Clarke feels

Roadmaster is out of print AFAIK.

Also the version of 'One in a Hundred' on RMaster in the youtube above is far superior to the one on White Light. A little 12-string electric does wonders.

I've been listening to Roadmaster a bit this week--"She Don't Care About Time" and "Full Circle Song" are just fuckin... i dunno, perfect, i guess.

Oh yeah -- had that for years.

Roadmaster is out of print AFAIK.

Also the version of 'One in a Hundred' on RMaster in the youtube above is far superior to the one on White Light. A little 12-string electric does wonders.
--calstars

Well, 12-string and the Byrds singing ensemble vocals...

there's at least one, pretty good gene clark biog (by john einarson) out there

as mentioned on the reissues thread:

http://highmoonrecords.com/n-arthur-lee-love-the-byrds-gene-clark-reissues-label.php

From the guy behind Midnight Records.

After all these years I'm glad I got to see it come out," said Whittington, who was in contact with Lee up to his death in 2006. "Arthur does some great vocals on that album. I like playing this music so if it happens to (lead to) more gigs, I'd like to have more opportunities to say 'thank you, Arthur.'"

yeesh

http://clarkophile.blogspot.com/2011/06/interview-with-kai-clark-may-22-2011.html

Sundazed to reissue Dillard & Clark debut, White Light, and Roadmaster.

Fidelity aside, I'm actually not super-excited about this. I've got the D & C twofer and A & M UK has had White Light out in a budget edition w/bonus tracks for a few years now. Roadmaster will be a day one purchase though (never owned it).

oooh! I don't have any of his stuff on vinyl, this is good news.

Everybody said that he was the sweetest, nicest most wonderful person ever, unless he got drunk, which was often, in which case he was the most terrible person ever.

Pretty much describes every alcoholic I've ever been friends with, that should be

I have all 3 on CD and 2 on vinyl and I'm still excited about this. Having Roadmaster and The Fantastic Expedition be readily available is a good thing no matter what. Now whatever happend to that Two Sides to Every Story reissue that was supposedly happening?

^Good Question.
I will definitely Roadmaster and the Dillard and Clark.
Hey, here I am paying Gene a visit earlier this summer
https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/203413_663169422_7471081_q.jpg

lol

http://thumbp9-bf1.thumb.mail.yahoo.com/tn?sid=2325518375&mid=ALLTi2IAATWJTkcrJgv63WHQpi0&midoffset=1_26459&partid=6&f=1612&fid=Inbox&w=361&h=480&httperr=1

how did they fit him into that tiny grave

christ ,the 1st dillard/clark album is good. how did i overlook this so long?

Oh man - Gene Clark. I'm putting No Other right now.