Stu-khag Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013nf55"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013nf55[/url] Very nice doc made by the team at BBC Wales. here's a clip with Carol Kaye playing. The lady still has amazing timing, no music was played to her during the interview. They were able to overlay the music in the edit a few weeks later! Quote
seashell Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 Very interesting clip. I shall look out for the programme. I rather like Glen Campbell - and Jim Webb. And Carol Kaye, naturally! Quote
xilddx Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 Wichita Lineman is one of my all time favourite songs and lyrics. Should be a good doc this. Thanks for the nod. Quote
jezzaboy Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 Good shout. Will be watching that. Is that an Ibby SRX she is playing with some foam dampening at the bridge? Just shows ya what you can do with a "metal" bass Quote
wombatboter Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 I'm in a Campbell mood for over a year since I bought his last cd.. thanks for the tip. Quote
apa Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1358165527' post='1933965'] Wichita Lineman is one of my all time favourite songs and lyrics. Should be a good doc this. Thanks for the nod. [/quote] abolutely! "and I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time." One off the best lines ever. String arrangment is beautifull to. Amazing song. Ill be watching. A Quote
KevB Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 He's had a long and intresting career. Shame his condition will cut his career a bit short. An old mate of mine saw him in concert a couple of years ago and said he did get a little 'lost' in one or two song introductions but got through it like a trooper. I think some of his children were in his backing band. Quote
xilddx Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 [quote name='apa' timestamp='1358169782' post='1934074'] abolutely! "and I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time." One off the best lines ever. String arrangment is beautifull to. Amazing song. Ill be watching. A [/quote] It's an amazing line (ignore pun), but my favourite is 'I know I need a small vacation, but it don't look like rain'. It's just overloaded (ignore pun) with pathos and resigned acceptance, that line speaks (ignore pun) so deeply to me for some reason. Quote
RhysP Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1358165527' post='1933965'] Wichita Lineman is one of my all time favourite songs and lyrics. Should be a good doc this. Thanks for the nod. [/quote] Definitely one of the greatest songs ever written. I was very drunk & singing Wichita Lineman in the early hours of last Saturday morning in a remote farmhouse in the Scottish highlands with (amongst many other wonderful & talented people) Boo Hewerdine & (Del Amitri/Manics/Breeders/etc. producer) Mark Freegard. One of the most wonderful moments of my life. Quote
51m0n Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 Corr, cheers for this, will enjoy it a lot! I know there's been a bunch of contention regarding some of CK's claims, but hot damn can she play bass! Quote
risingson Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1358165527' post='1933965'] Wichita Lineman is one of my all time favourite songs and lyrics. Should be a good doc this. Thanks for the nod. [/quote] +1, incredible songwriting and production! Quote
Dingus Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 (edited) [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1358170318' post='1934105'] It's an amazing line (ignore pun), but my favourite is 'I know I need a small vacation, but it don't look like rain'. It's just overloaded (ignore pun) with pathos and resigned acceptance, that line speaks (ignore pun) so deeply to me for some reason. [/quote] Witchita Lineman - probably my favourite record of all time . A slice of perfection . So beautiful and so brilliant it makes me want to cry . That trio of Jimmy Webb songs that Glenn sang - Witchita Lineman , By The Time I Get To Phoenix and Gaveston - form a kind of suite that tell a story about hitherto hidden parts of American life in a particular era . I am genuinely awed by these records . Edited January 14, 2013 by Dingus Quote
apa Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1358170318' post='1934105'] It's an amazing line (ignore pun), but my favourite is 'I know I need a small vacation, but it don't look like rain'. It's just overloaded (ignore pun) with pathos and resigned acceptance, that line speaks (ignore pun) so deeply to me for some reason. [/quote] Yep Every word and line has so much weight. Makes you think so much of the man in question. Being able to write a song on that subject about such an ordinary thing is both inspired and brave. Its about everyone yet only him. Your mind is taken there. Guy up a pole, on his own, in the middle of nowere yet hes with so many people living thier lives past him. I have an image of Glen resting his head on the tour bus window and watching the telegraph lines and poles waving and flicking past. Then the idea coming to him. Genious. A Quote
Cat Burrito Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 Just booked a dinner and movie for Friday - thank god for the iplayer! Quote
rubis Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 (edited) I'll be recording it, love his voice. He had everything Edited January 14, 2013 by rubis Quote
xilddx Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 (edited) [quote name='apa' timestamp='1358191140' post='1934619'] Yep Every word and line has so much weight. Makes you think so much of the man in question. Being able to write a song on that subject about such an ordinary thing is both inspired and brave. Its about everyone yet only him. Your mind is taken there. Guy up a pole, on his own, in the middle of nowere yet hes with so many people living thier lives past him. [b]I have an image of Glen resting his head on the tour bus window and watching the telegraph lines and poles waving and flicking past. Then the idea coming to him.[/b] Genious. A [/quote] That's pretty much what I get, I have a completely vivid impression of the subject, like a film but with smell too. On your last point, it was Jimmy Webb who wrote it, under similar circumstances. There is a wonderful BBC R4 documentary from last year about this song with an interview with Jimmy Webb. I wonder if it's findable in the internetz. EDIT: Here! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013f96w Edited January 14, 2013 by silddx Quote
Donnyboy Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 Agree with all that's been said above, I didn't realise he was such a character, I thought he was mr clean cut spangly suit.... Quote
Clarky Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1358171056' post='1934141'] Witchita Lineman - probably my favourite record of all time [/quote] Ditto. Never tire of it, just perfection. Wasn't it Joe Osborne, rather than CK, on the Jimmy Webb classics though with his famous Jazz bass Quote
DaveFry Posted January 15, 2013 Posted January 15, 2013 I used to work with a guitarist/arranger who saw the Beach Boys tour early '65 . Glen Campbell was filling in for Brian Wilson playing bass and singing the falsetto harmonies at the same time . Respect ! Quote
KK Jale Posted January 15, 2013 Posted January 15, 2013 (edited) So looking forward to this doc... I found this Campbell clip just the other day. Classic song, the full drama treatment with strings and the key shifts, and WHAT an incredible vocal. The timing and the control is uncanny and the top notes... argh... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utrkirpbk_o[/media] Edited January 15, 2013 by KK Jale Quote
apa Posted January 15, 2013 Posted January 15, 2013 [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1358195973' post='1934745'] That's pretty much what I get, I have a completely vivid impression of the subject, like a film but with smell too. [b]On your last point, it was Jimmy Webb who wrote it, under similar circumstances.[/b] There is a wonderful BBC R4 documentary from last year about this song with an interview with Jimmy Webb. I wonder if it's findable in the internetz. EDIT: Here! [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013f96w"]http://www.bbc.co.uk...rammes/b013f96w[/url] [/quote] Ha! I knew that. Got a bit carried away in the romance of the moment A Quote
wombatboter Posted January 15, 2013 Posted January 15, 2013 It makes me feel really good that so many people around here share the same feeling for "Wichita Lineman". I'm from Belgium so I'm not that good with words in English but I completely understand the feelings and thoughts that are shared here. If you read those few lines it's practically nothing but there is such an immense world behind these words.. I'm moved everytime I hear the song and the weight of those sentences is just incredible...genius songwriting especially since it's not clear what it's about but everybody "understands" Quote
franzbassist Posted January 16, 2013 Posted January 16, 2013 It's too quick (drummer's fault!), but here's my band doing Wichita Lineman. Sounds best in headphones. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=row3eyKWms8 Quote
Truckstop Posted January 16, 2013 Posted January 16, 2013 I can't really add to what's been said but Wichita Lineman is one of my favourites too. I've never known a song be so pretty but so dark at the same time. Has 211 plays on my iTunes! Truckstop Quote
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