Our most careful listener noted that Rob and I did not discuss "The Weight" in the interview I shared earlier. However, we have a new conversation covering that and much else.
This discussion was much more enlightening than reading the Wikipedia entry. :-) It doesn't at all mention Dennis Danko's role. It does mention Robbie's fascination with the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel, very surrealist films, he's a master. And mentions the Biblical allusions, attributing them to Levon Helm's US South (Arkansas) background. Robbie composed the tune on a Martin acoustic guitar, made in ... Nazareth, Pa. All the characters are said to be people Levon knew in real life.
Very poignant discussion on how today's young people seem to be very fascinated by the music of the '60s and '70s (or at least '80s), so little in music since then in terms of songs which persist, just like with your mom's 45s which you grew up with, Eric. It was a special era. But even it featured a lot of garbage. So much time with absolute garbage topping the music charts even back then.
And some of the stuff which seems special today, well..... The Beatles have persisted, but most of their stuff wasn't that heavy, aside from the work of John starting in '65, and George, at times. Paul did come up with Eleanor Rigby, Fixing a Hole, She's Leaving Home, but also a lot of Paul Pop. Stones did, for a while, before largely getting self-indulgent. Kinks. Who, for a while, before the Meir Baba takeover. The Dead were lucky to have lyricists like Hunter and Barlow, masters. Quicksilver, the Airplane,... yes. Jim Morrison, Jimi, Arthur Lee, David Crosby yes, Young at times too, less so Stills (mostly obsessed with Judy Collins) and Nash. Joni Mitchell. Ellen McIlwaine, Patti Smith, Bonnie Dobson. Mark Knopfler. Joe Strummer and Mick Jones. Gil Scott Heron. Profound music in the jazz tradition. We had a short burst of creativity, before the onset of the digital world killed it with uniformity and packaging.
I think I figured out who Fannie is. The key is to not be distracted by the name.
Catch a Cannon Ball
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabash_Cannon_Ball_(train)
This discussion was much more enlightening than reading the Wikipedia entry. :-) It doesn't at all mention Dennis Danko's role. It does mention Robbie's fascination with the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel, very surrealist films, he's a master. And mentions the Biblical allusions, attributing them to Levon Helm's US South (Arkansas) background. Robbie composed the tune on a Martin acoustic guitar, made in ... Nazareth, Pa. All the characters are said to be people Levon knew in real life.
Very poignant discussion on how today's young people seem to be very fascinated by the music of the '60s and '70s (or at least '80s), so little in music since then in terms of songs which persist, just like with your mom's 45s which you grew up with, Eric. It was a special era. But even it featured a lot of garbage. So much time with absolute garbage topping the music charts even back then.
And some of the stuff which seems special today, well..... The Beatles have persisted, but most of their stuff wasn't that heavy, aside from the work of John starting in '65, and George, at times. Paul did come up with Eleanor Rigby, Fixing a Hole, She's Leaving Home, but also a lot of Paul Pop. Stones did, for a while, before largely getting self-indulgent. Kinks. Who, for a while, before the Meir Baba takeover. The Dead were lucky to have lyricists like Hunter and Barlow, masters. Quicksilver, the Airplane,... yes. Jim Morrison, Jimi, Arthur Lee, David Crosby yes, Young at times too, less so Stills (mostly obsessed with Judy Collins) and Nash. Joni Mitchell. Ellen McIlwaine, Patti Smith, Bonnie Dobson. Mark Knopfler. Joe Strummer and Mick Jones. Gil Scott Heron. Profound music in the jazz tradition. We had a short burst of creativity, before the onset of the digital world killed it with uniformity and packaging.
Thanks again for this conversation.
INTER-VIEW{s}: Soul2Soul
"Nothing b/w The Universe"
In the Keys of E, F#, & C.
{9th of December 2022}
WOW ! This is really Fantastic.
EFC---Legendary, More-than-Music Producer, Rob Fraboni.
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"This is The World !"
"This is The Wizard of Oz."
"The shared-verses."
"The Body, puts itself back together."
"It's elliptical."
"Art [has] such a bigger door to come through..."
~ Eric F. Coppolino
"It's Just The Way It Is."
"This relates all back to that."
"The whole thing's Wild."
"The delicacy of the whole thing."
"It's listenable, over 'n over."
"It's meant to be A Mystery."
~ Rob Fraboni
{Producer, of-Soul}
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For You-Two:
https://youtu.be/gDbAtWpoA6k
Graci !
Like The Wind...