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RJB
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Canada
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 Posted - 08/14/2004 : 18:03:25
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Anyone here like Townes Van Zandt?
 He's amazing
I'm thinking(just thinking) that Frank probably does.
“Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.”
- Werner Herzog
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Edited by - RJB on 08/14/2004 18:04:40 |
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Otherfellers
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Ireland
87 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2004 : 20:05:23
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Didn't he write The Shrimp Song?
They pile, they pile, they pile the salad bar |
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Ten Percenter
- FB Enquirer -
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/17/2004 : 02:41:50
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I love the late, lamented Townes. Townes didn't write the Shrimp Song, but it was his version that Frank first heard.
"Fried food, cigarettes, no exercise, chest pain..." (Excerpt from the Angina Monologues) |
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Ten Percenter
- FB Enquirer -
United Kingdom
1733 Posts |
Posted - 08/17/2004 : 03:29:49
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PS - I'm sure that Frank mentions Townes in the following interview
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/presenters/steve_lamacq/
Go to listen again: Frank Black interview (duh)
"Fried food, cigarettes, no exercise, chest pain..." (Excerpt from the Angina Monologues) |
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Mongoloid Fandango
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Posted - 08/30/2004 : 02:34:40
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| Cover tunes are rarely as good as the original, and never better. One of the handfull of exceptions has to be Townes' cover of the Rolling Stones song "Dead Flowers". Magnificent. |
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tobafett
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 08/30/2004 : 06:08:25
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| TVZ's Dead Flowers was on the Big Lebowski...great tune... |
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FranknWeezer
= Cult of Ray =
USA
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Posted - 08/30/2004 : 09:27:14
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TVZ was a great songwriter. Inspired the likes of Steve Earle. Check out "Return of the Grevious Angel" a TVZ tribute album and listen to Sin City by Beck and Emmylou Harris. Great stuff.
There's got to be a FB connection in there somewhere.
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Townes Van Zandt inspire
