Just Curios Michael, when you mentioned you couldn't get into some of the stuff Campbell recorded, what were your feelings on Jimmy Webb? My own thoughts on Both, were Campbell made the best of his career launch off of the Smothers Brothers, with Webb's tunes to launch that career at his prime, (an oxymoron, Glen's Prime was his first and early works IMO.............(Steve Martin also got his start on the Smother's Brothers, not as a Musician of course but as a writer, part time actor)...... The few years I was in Wichita KS as a Kid, Campbell had just released Webb's you guessed it, "Wichita Lineman".....by the time Campbell married Tanya Tucker, and came out singing/acting like the Rhinestone Cowboy Himself, I lost all interests in Glen tho'. His early works, I enjoyed as a youth.....his latter, was often drugstore cowboy trash.... Is that what your basically saying?
The Quiet Man was a color film, 1951 with John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Victor Mc Laughlin. Wayne plays a boxer who killed a man in the ring and returns to his native Ireland to live and finds trouble from Mc Laughlin after he and O' Hara marry. Not a bad flick though typical John Wayne fare.
I viewed Cambell as a fine guitar player, many don't know this but Campbell was a much in demand session player. It was Campbell, Leon Russell, who accompanied Roger Mc Guinns 12 string on Mr. Tambourine Man. The other Byrds were not happy but that is how it went down in addition Campbell assisted on Beach Boys Recordings. I liked Campbell as a vocalist and the Jimmy Webb Tunes were well done but those records never mad it into my collection. Campbell pretty much put Ovation Guitars on the map and I'll agree that stuff like Galveston & Rhinestone Cowboy weren't my cup of tea either. Tell you another guy whom I respect in somewhat the same manner and that would be Vince Gill. He play well, sings well, dresses to the nines and respects his art, but I never bought and of his records.
Wore a kilt on my wedding day & would have had the pipes played at our outdoor wedding, but the indoor alternate site for the ceremony was a small old mill in which they would have been far too loud for many of the guests.... The rain did hold off, but hard to know so far in advance...
Honestly sounds rather good.....one of a few Wayne Movies, I still haven't seen......but will have too....... I enjoy John Wayne, not as Big a Fan of John's Rick is, yet I respect all he did for Western and G.I. Movies....(tho' I do on occassion, wear a "Old Guys Rule" JW T-Shirt)....... We were talking about Glen Campbell too, thought he did a good job in True Grit, ok as an Actor, yet I thought Glen's Soundtrack was pretty decent.... Not that I don't like Wayne, he's made so many great films, how can one not be a Duke fan. Loved the Longest Day, Green Berets, Liberty Valance, Rio Bravo, The Sons of Katie Elder, and the Cowboys was a Classic, or still is: one of Kim's favorite all time flicks....so many Good Wayne Movies to choose from...... Wayne actually went to a few years of School here in Lancaster, CA, when Judy Garland also lived here, then a true one horse town. Same with Zappa, then also a unknown town. Both Garland and Wayne inscribed their names in then, wet concrete, of a sidewalk, (Marion Robert Morrison, and Frances Ethel Gumm)..... which withstood the test of time, until 25 years ago, when the City had to expand the road, tear out the sidewalk, yet preserved that section of the Cement,and put it in the local Museum, which is about the only thing worth seeing in that POS Museum....LMAO....
[QUOTE="totus44, post: 3580729, member: 28042"]Erin go braless![/QUOTE] So does my girlfriend sometimes but she's got the figure for it.
