Fwd: Gravity's Rainbow

[Joe Allonby]

Got time for a little expansion now.

The only credit that Gram ever got on a Stones album was for "Country Honk"
on Let It Bleed. But "You Got the Silver", "Wild Horses", "Dead Flowers",and
"Tumbling Dice" were all clearly influenced by if not actually cowritten by
Parsons. His version of "Wild Horses" was recorded and released a year
before the Stones and in my opinion is superior. He was a better singer by
far than Mick Jagger. One of the finest singers of his generation. Just
listen to his duet with Emmylou Harris on "Love Hurts". Absolutely
heartbreaking.

He was in the control room for almost all of Exile on Main Street. He made a
bigger imprint on the Rolling Stones than he did on the Byrds who listed him
as a member.

Many of these songs contain humor, that's a staple of country music right up
there with lost love, economic and natural disaster, and murder. They are by
no means parodies. Well...mayhbe "Drug Store Truck Driving Man".


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: Gravity's Rainbow
To: Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>
Cc: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>


Actually, that "country parody" was no parody at all. It was directly
influenced and in fact often overseen if not out and out written by Keith
Richards' friend and occasional roommate, Gram Parsons.


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> I love'em, but the Rolling Stones have never really done anything but R&R
> and R&B, with a little country parody thrown in.  If I had to live with
> just
> the Beatles or the Stones catalogue and no other recorded music on the ever
> popular desert island, it would have to be the Beatles, who started and
> ended with R&R, and defined  the "concept album," and touched on
> Stockhausen
> and chamber music in between.
>
> http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/henrymu
>
> HENRY M
> Information, Media, and Technology Management Consultant
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Mark Kohut
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:23 PM
> To: pynchon -l
> Subject: Gravity's Rainbow
>
> ain't matched by the Beatles at all.
>
> It is all early Rolling Stones.
>
> MK
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