out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
If you need an introduction
Go get Sweethearts of the Rodeo
Go get Hickory Wind
Go get hammered in the Mojave
The notes on this Flying Burrito Brothers gig at the Palomino Club in North Hollywood (06.08.69) say:
Almost 15 years ago, a friend of mine told me that a co-worker of his had recorded the Flying Burrito Brothers in the late ’60s. As the story goes, the guy was something of an audiophile and had recorded this show on reel to reel in stereo, of sorts, with one mic on the stage and another spread far apart.
While the recording had circulated before, the guy went back to his original reels and did what was described as a “meticulous transfer.” I don’t know if it was done on a computer or on a standalone, but what was sent to me were two CD-Rs. I’m pretty sure they were straight off his DAT or the CD-R set he had made for himself direct from the reels. The quality of his transfer was superior to anything I had heard before.
The credits below are from the notes he sent to me with the discs. Some titles and spellings differ slightly from what’s listed on some websites as are the order of the sets. You make the call.
The Band: Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Michael Clarke and Chris Ethridge, joined by Clarence White
Jimmy Morris takes lead vocals on “Life in Prison” and “Hungry Eyes,” and sings on “High on a Hilltop”.
Part One (Now with more Zip)
1. Sing Me Back Home
2. Train Song
3. Dream Baby (with reprise)
4. She Once Lived Here
5. Get Ourselves Together
6. Long Black Limousine
7. Dark End of The Street
8. She Thinks I Still Care
9. Undo the Right/Somebody’s Back In Town
10. Lucille
11. I Threw Away The Rose
12. You Win Again
Part Two (Now with even more Zip)
1. Buckaroo
2. Sweet Mental Revenge
3. Another Place Another Time
4. Life In Prison
5. Hungry Eyes/High On A Hill Top
6. Sing Me Back Home
7. Hot Burrito #1
8. Hot Burrito #2
9. Train Song
10. Everybody Loves A Winner
Everybody Loves a Winner cuts off. No notes as to why or how.
9 Comments
Holy mother of god, that’s a damn fine recording. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the share. That’s some good stuff.
if you havent heard sweetheart, then you havent lived and are truly dead to me…
A friend and an ex-employee of the Palomino hipped me to this blog, very interesting.
The fellow who made the bandstand tape back in ‘69 has taken it to Ameoba, who recently issued a rather good double CD set mostly taken from a ‘69 Burritos show supporting the Greatful Dead.
I’m hopeful that it will get a legit release, but nice to have the files here, I have an older copy, taken I suspect, from Gram’s stolen copy and bootlegged widely over the years.
The Burritos had a semi-regular slot at the Pal in ‘69, taking the Monday slot (that same year Johnny Meeks, Garland Frady and The LeGarde Twins had a Mon. slot) from the main band for a couple of months. Leon Russell, Delaney & Bonnie, The GTOs and a whole bunch of similarly minded long-hairs began to pepper the crowd.
Gram’s buddy Delaney Bramlett and Leon had played in the Pal’ band in the early 60s, so it seems fitting.
Jimmy Morris (aka Jimmy Lee Morris) was the Monday guy for some time prior to this, but back in ‘69 he’d graduated to fronting a band at a rival club, still he liked to pop in and catch up with the regulars. Jimmy still performs and he, like Gram, recorded for Lee Hazelwood’s LHI label in the late 60s.
Gram tried to get Clarence in the Burritos, a shame he didn’t take the chance, but he got a chance to record and tour with the Byrds, so fair enough.
This is a very good gig, very laid back, totally different in attitude and approach to their usual rock shows, a lot of fun.
this. totally. rules. Thanks!!1
im only getting the first few tracks here.. sup?
thanks cap!
gilly, thats the way we role now. lots of lazy ass ungrateful bastards were bitchin that it was too difficult to click a few buttons. so now we offer a glimpse of the show, via a few provided tracks, and a zip of the entire thing. if you see something that says something like “zippity do da” or “now with more zip” than thats where to find said zip or rar file.
thanks a million for this one.
My dad gave me a call a few years back and asked me who this Gram Parsons fellow was.Mind you dad is now 71 and he was all interested because he wore out Emmylou Harris records back in the early to mid seventies.I think he caught the Grievous Angel video on some channel
and was really impressed.It takes a lot to impress my dad when it comes to music,it has to be heartfelt and real.I grabbed up all of Gram and the Burritos I could find and sent it to my folks which caused them to finally listen to music again,they had simply stopped because this newer radio music is pretty darn crappy to them.Dad had a band of his own the Country Roques way back when and they did pretty well but life got in the way and they came off the road. The live recording here sounds so much like the old band that I’m just stunned,only daddy sounded a bit more like Brooke Benton/Charlie Pride.I love this recording. As karma would have it the old drummer
for the band showed up out of the clear blue today,and I played Sing
Me Back Home, he thought it was the old band. Talk about cosmic country.I just love Gram. He keeps pulling people together after all this time. Love to all, Bonnie