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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: DiabloTX on January 28, 2009, 01:05:42 AM
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With all of these musical artist threads I felt it was time to go 'old school' and feature an artist that is probably the single most influential artist ever. Greater than John Lennon? You bet! Greater than the Jonas Bros.? Pffffft, please. I'm talking about none other than the man that could take a guitar, a plaintive voice, and make all of the milquetoast people cry; Henry John "John Denver" Deutschendorf!
Think of all the hit songs he's had; Rocky Mountain High, Country Roads, Annie's Song, etc..., and his sensitive, heart-felt lyrics and you get a combo that can't be touched by anyone! Plus, the guy was an aviation NUT! Too bad he decided to take a ride on the Otis Redding Express though, kind of sad :cry. But there's no denying the man had TALENT! Writer, singer, musician, environmentalist, animal lover, he had it ALL!
Rocky Mountain High: John Denver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwARpaKHx_w
Sunshine On My Shoulder John Denver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eivZd4j5MBs
Annie´s Song John Denver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkGS263lGsQ
Perhaps Love John Denver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMcZI8pOjjA
Leaving on a Jet Plane John Denver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4hsC0nRvZM
So go and get your granny glasses, don that down vest, and dust off all of your old LP's and sit back, listen, and get 'high' with John Denver...Rocky Mountain High, that is!
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"Sunshine.... on my shoulders.... means my planes gone."
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Mr sunshine on my G## D### shoulders john denver
(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q107/stevemck_2006/farva11.jpg)
anyone got a lighter?
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"Country Roads" or whatever it was called. Still ealry and brain isn't warmed up yet.
Another great song from him. So sad to see a talent like that go.
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you forgot "take me home, country roads"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN86d0CdgHQ
and "thank god I'm a country boy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzldLJcorbo&feature=related
and "Calypso"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a8_e-B11uM&feature=related
:noid
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I got a chance to see John Denver at the Minnesota State Fair about 2 weeks before he released his new "Rocky Mountain High" album. He sat down and played his old stuff. Stood up, loosened up, told some jokes, then sat down and played the whole Rocky Mountain High Album, both sides.
Needless to say I bought that record when it came out, wore it out playing myself to sleep at night.
Yes he was one of the greats.
As to his best, thats hard to pick.
He had at least a dozen ballads that I love, Darcy Farrow is one of my favorites.
He had an instrumental medley in Rocky Mountain Suite (Late winter early spring when everyone goes to Mexico)
And then there was "Up in a meadow in Jasper Alberta, two men and four ponys on a long lonesome ride"
He's been there when I was up, when I was down, he helped me though some hard times.
What more can you ask from a friend than that.
Thanks Diablo
And Thanks John!
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"Take Me Home, Country Roads" is one of my all-time favorite songs. He was a unique original. There will never be another like him.
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Soda, I didn't so much forget, how could ANYONE forgot those songs?, as much as I wanted to edit for brevity.
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I liked that he stood up to the censorship mommies with the singer from Twisted Sister. Speaks a good deal about him.
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Apart from having an absolutely wonderful way with arranging words to music, having a stunning set of pipes, being able to play classic acoustic guitar perfectly, and being a fine human being, the guy was a tremendously gifted entertainer. Seeing John Denver perform was a hilight in the life of anyone fortunate enough to attend.
The day he lost his life was a heartbreaking day for my entire family. Still brings a mournful sorrow to my heart just thinking about it.
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no "thank god i'm a country boy?"
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John Denver was awesome! R.I.P. John
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One of my all time favorites- This Old Guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKWqunutoes
I learned to play listening to his stuff, and still love to hear it
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And, of course we can't leave out Poems, Prayers, and Promises
Here's a great version done with the muppets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdWX3WQR-eg
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John wasn't awesome, he IS awesome! I've watched literally hundreds of hours of him playing live and I have yet to find any concert where he wasn't spot-on perfect the whole gig. The man is a musical machine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0nDhFIJSLk
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I remember listening to this one when I was young. Really good traveling song with the whole family singing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDmbinPMMS8
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Wild Montana Skies.
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John wasn't awesome, he IS awesome! I've watched literally hundreds of hours of him playing live and I have yet to find any concert where he wasn't spot-on perfect the whole gig. The man is a musical machine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0nDhFIJSLk
Crikey, fine he IS awesome!
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Grandma's Feather Bed was pretty funny.
For all the disrespect the "Singer/Songwriters" of the past got....
They sure sold a boatload of albums.
Don't forget when his stuff was playing on Top 40 stations he was labeled a "crossover" artist from country. Only a handful have done that.
ROX
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2. amusing; humorous.
3. lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous.
To you maybe.
He's made more dead than all of us combined. Not to mention he was an accomplished pilot. He also had single-engine land and sea, multi-engine land, glider, and instrument ratings, not to mention ratings for a Learjet.
IIRC, he testified with Frank Zappa and Dee Snider on the issue of "Censorship".
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John Denver is one of my favorite singers of all time. Truly one of the greats. :rock
:salute
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I sing his stuff all the time.
(http://www.cmt.com/sitewide/assets/img/artists/denver_john/johndenver01-280x336.jpg)
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I think His last Hit was Monte ray BAY :O :O :aok
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I think His last Hit was Monte ray BAY :O :O :aok
:furious
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IIRC, he testified with Frank Zappa and Dee Snider on the issue of "Censorship".
Mentioned that earlier. I like his music, listened to so much of it as a kid I guess I burnt out on some of his stuff. But standing up against those a-holes (wasn't it al gore or dan quayle's wives?) against censoring music is an inspiration.
The VH1 movie they made about it was funny too.
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Nice to remember Denver, thanks for the thread.
But Lennon being less....naa. JUst different.