Conference mr1pst::music

re: .0

Personally, I think he peaked on his second album (For Everyman) and has
gone slowly downhill since.  Of course, I'm an old coot and I'm supposed
to think things like that. :-)

Seriously, I do think that For Everyman is one of the finer albums I've
ever heard.  I'd love to know who produced it, but no credit was given.
Wonderful guitar playing by David Lindley and pedal steel by Sneaky Pete
Kleinow.  Guest vocals from Bonnie Raitt and David Crosby. All in all,
a fine piece of work.

-Hal

    Good news for JB fans, he is playing Boston (Nov 13?) (tix 
    on sale Sat?) (as seen in today's Glob)

    Re: .1
    
    I'd give Jackson the benefit of the doubt and say his third LP, "Late
    For The Sky" was still pretty good.  I think the overall songwriting
    might have been better on "For Everyman" but I like the ensemble sound
    on LFTS more.  I saw him live between the two LPs and really liked the
    show.  I remember feeling "The Pretender" was a big letdown. 
    
    Of course, for me the big downfall for JB was letting go of David
    Lindley.  After the third LP, the only one I like is "Running On
    Empty", and that's the only other one prominently featuring D.L.
    
    							Brian

    
    	The only time I saw him was when Orleans was warming him up.
    	Orleans should not be judged by "Dance With Me".  They are
    	one cranking band - great dual guitars too!!  So they close
    	with "Let There be Music", running around the stage, great
    	harmonies, etc...
    
    	Then JB comes out on a stool with an acoustic!!
    
    	While I like his music, he was blown off the stage that time.
    
    	This isn't a slagging note, btw - he just picked the wrong
    	band to open for him.  Orleans his very UP and he's, er...
    	not UP.
    
    	Tom
    

    I used to listen to his music a lot, but after Running on Empty, (and
    the subsequent radio jam-the-music-down-your-throat-approach) I didn't
    listen as much as before...I like his early stuff too, "Saturate Before
    Using", "Late for The Sky" "For Everyman" and "The Pretender" I think 
    were his best albums. 
    
    I always liked the line "I'm gonna find myself a girl who can show me
    what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing colors in each others 
    paint by number dreams"   at a time when I was just getting into
    songwriting, I thought that was a great line...still do actually.
    
    I met Jackson at the Marriot in Worcester, July 1983, he was very cool,
    hung out with a bunch of folks for a while, got his autograph, asked
    him a few questions, he was very giving of his time.
    
    I've seen him twice in concert, the 1st time was at Tanglewood, August
    of 1978, and the folks sitting on the lawn decided to storm the shed.
    well, JB didn't particularly like that move, and asked folks to sit
    down, played a song, and when the insanity continued, he basically read
    the riot act "I'm not gonna play anymore, until everybody F#$*&N sits
    DOWN !!!"  well, as folks sat down, he waited, then continued....I always
    liked that about him
    
    plus, he co-authored Take It Easy, ok, overplayed, but a classic anyway

    
    Another hit of his is "Tender is the night".
    
    I can't recall the name of the album where this track is from 
    but the other songs from the same album are good as well.
    But I can recall the album cover was a man on a boat facing
    a full moon.
    
    I always think "Running on empty" album was his prime, don't
    know his early stuff were that good (am I missing something ?)
    
    qa
    
    

    
    
    		Where in Boston and where are the tickets going to
    		be available?  Oh yes, and when?
    
    		Thanks!
    
    		/Andy

    Tickets available Saturday morning.  I think the show is at
    the Orpheum.

    
     Jackson Browne's new I'm Alive is due from Elektra on October 26,
    and insiders are saying it's his best effort in years. Old mate David
    Lindley appears on a couple of tracks, and other special guests include
    Don Henley, David Crosby, drummer Jim Keltner, Mike Campbell and
    Benmont tench of the Heartbreakers, Valerie Carter, X-pensive Wino
    Waddy Wachtel and Jennifer Warnes. Scott Thurston, who co-produced
    Browne's last album, World in Motion, co-produced this disc as well.
    Said to be a return to Browne's sensitive singer/songwriter roots - as
    opposed to his political leanings of recent years - I'm Alive consists
    of "I'm Alive," "My Problem Is You," "Everywhere I Go," "I'll Do
    Anything," "Miles Away," "Too Many Angles," "Take This Rain," "Two Of Me,
    Two Of You," "Sky Blue and Black," and "All Good Things." Those who have
    heard the album are raving about "Sky Blue and Black," a six-minute opus
    that some feel will become a signiture tune like "The Pretender" or
    "Fountain Of Sorrow".
    
                                                      -ICE Newsletter 10/93
                                                       (used w/o permission)

    
    For Everyman is still one of my favorites, even after all these years.
    I really liked the "now-you-see-him, now-you-don't" album cover.
    After playing hard rock all night, I often pop in this tape for the
    ride home from the gig (I can't stand listening to R'n'R after playing
    it all night... need something completely different). Every song on
    this album hits home in some way (I couldn't possibly pick a favorite).
    Saturate Before Using, Late for the Sky, The Pretender and Running
    on Empty are also "EXCELLENT". After ROE, he got too "politically
    aware" for my tastes. I have heard that this new album is very
    reminiscent of his early stuff (although, I'm sure it'll cost a bit 
    more than the $4.50 I spent on Saturate in 1974??... still has the
    price sticker on the shrink wrap...)
    
    RE: .5
    
    I was there at that Tanglewood concert in '78, great show, terrible 
    security. I also saw him around the same time at the Boston Garden.
    Excellent concert, terrible venue.
    
    /Billy_K
    

    re .9
    I've heard he faced some setbacks in his personal life.
    Another prove that when your unhappy you are the most creative?
    
    My wife wants to have 'For a dancer' played at her funeral (although
    she' not planning to go yet...).
    It's a great song from a great album.
    
    - Minne

    RE: .10
    
    >>>I've heard he faced some setbacks in his personal life
    
    Yeah, his wife committed suicide shortly after the birth of 
    their son. He had previoulsy written a song about her called
    "Ready or Not" ("...my baby's feeling funny in the morning, she's
    having trouble getting into her jeans"). After her death, I saw 
    him do a show where someone was screaming for that song. He stopped
    between songs, singled the "screamer" out and made it very clear that
    he would never again perform that particular song.

    
    The death of his wife occured almost twenty years ago. The Pretender
    album was his response (more or less) He had been living with actress
    Daryl Hannah up until a couple of years ago.
    					Jim

     
    Until he beat her up.
    
    I think JB is a jerk.
    
    -Ed
    

    -.1
    
     I hadn't heard he beat her up.
    
     Did you read this in a tabloid?
    
     -John
    

    re -2
    
    i heard it alleged that he beat her up but it
    was never proven.  i don't think he was charged
    with anything.  it was noted in the legitimate press
    that she accused him but i never saw anything about it
    after that.
    
    do you hate him because of his music or because
    of his 'alleged' wife-beating?
    
    willie
    

    i just re read the note.
    jb is alleged to have beat up darryl hannah.
    i never heard anything about his wife.
    i read the beat up note and assumed it
    was the darryl hannah incident.
    
    willie

    
    
    I disliked JB back when he did  "Take all your atomic, poison power
    away".  the DH incedent just fueled my dislike.
    
    -Ed
    

    I still like Jackson Browne.  The Darryl Hanna incident didn't change
    my mind about him.  The way I see it I have no idea what really
    happened anyway.  First, she claimed he beat her up, but she never
    actually pressed charges, so who knows what went on.  The last album I
    liked was Lives In The Balance, though.  
    
    Also, from what I read, she didn't leave him *because* he beat her up. 
    She left him because she wanted to date John F. Kennedy, Jr., and when
    she went back to get her stuff out of Jackson Browne's house, she
    claimed they got into a fight and he beat her up.  
    
    Lorna
    

    
    I seem to recall pictures of Darryl with bruises, but I may have seen
    those in a check-out line...  Lots of women fail to press charges when
    they're more than entitled to, though, so I don't think that proves
    anything one way or the other.
    
    I like a lot of his early songs - they really expanded the variety of
    music I was experiencing at that time.  I haven't got as much out of
    his later efforts.
    
    

I liked Lives in the Balance too, but like so many albums that have topical songs 
on them, it doesn't hold up as well as some of his ither work. It is certainly an 
angry album. I think that might account for the fact that many people didn't like 
it as well. The songs are, as you might expect, very well crafted, and the 
arrangments quite good. I also like Running on Empty, and other of the earlier 
albums a lot.

The little item reported earlier about his new album sounds good. I'll look 
forware to picking it up.

Paul

    Per 22-MAY New York Times:
    
     22-JUL    Mann Music Center, Philadelphia PA
     23-JUL    Great Woods Center, Mansfield MA
     25-JUL    Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel NJ
     27-JUL    Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs NY
     28_JUL    Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh NY
     31-JUL    Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center, Canandaigua NY
     05-AUG    Pine Knob Music Theater, Clarkston Michigan
     09-AUG    Louisville Gardens, KY
     23-AUG    Park West Amphitheater, Park City Utah
     26-AUG    Concord Pavilion, Concord CA
     29-AUG    Desert Sky Pavilion, Phoenix AZ
     30-AUG    Summer Pops Bowl, San Diego CA
     31-AUG    Universal Amphitheater, Universal City CA

    JB played the first of 3 dates at the Royal Albert Hall in London last
    night and was brilliant. Best of the 3 times we've seen him. The band
    played without a support act doing an hour, followed by a 15 min
    intermission, then another hour and about 20 minutes of encores. If
    they hadn't put the lights up after the second encore we'd still be
    there.
    
    Very eclectic choice of songs. We checked the CD collection when we got
    home and reckon he has about 90 songs to choose from plus odds and
    ends, and he played 27 of them. From memory:
    
    I'm Alive		 All but Everywhere I Go & All Good Things
    World in Motion	 World in Motion (a la Pop Staples, very gospelly)
    			 I am a Patriot
    Lives in the Balance In the Shape of a Heart
    Lawyers in Love	 Nothing
    Hold Out		 Boulevard
    			 That Girl Could Sing
    Runnin on Empty	 Runnin on Empty (brilliant)
    			 Rosie
    			 Load Out/Stay
    The Pretender	 The Pretender
    			 Linda Paloma
    Late for the Sky	 Late for the Sky
    			 For a Dancer     (both marvellous)
    For Everyman	 For Everyman (stand out of the night)
    			 Take it Easy/Lady of the Well
    Jackson Browne	 Doctor my Eyes
    
    Others:		 Somebody's Baby (at the request of a call from the
    					  audience)
    			 One I can't remember the title but it starts:
    			 "I was sittin' by the highway..."
    
    He said he would do Song for Adam on the third night after persistent
    calls from the audience. 
    
    Brilliant - catch him in the US if you can, he's back on form.
    
    Paul

    
     Check out "Jackson Browne : Going Home" 90 min. special on the Disney
    Channel this month (featuring David Lindley, Crosby and Nash) for some
    current concert footage. 

    
    Saw that one.....reminds me of the good ol' days hangin' out
    at a shack on a lake and listening to good music with good
    friends....:-)
    
    DAP