I’ve been using YouTube a lot in the last 2 years while writing my rock memoir.
In the early Seventies, when I was working for Radio Times,Stanley Dorfmann’s In Concert was brilliant.
I was there to see The Faces, to interview Don McLean, and to see The Eagles.
The group were staying in a service apartment in the Kings Road, to be near Olympic, where they were recording Desperado.
I remember being there with them, and their wives, listening to a playback of rough mixes, and of one of them asking if I was following the concept, the story. I wasn’t and couldn’t but I thought Tequila Sunrise would be a huge hit because of the melody and the sound.
A couple of the wives agreed with me. But it wasn’t a hit.
A year or two later, when I met the group again, one of the wives told me that they (the wives) had discussed why Tequila Sunrise hadn’t happened and decided it was the sentiment, the lyric, that hadn’t caught on.
This link isn’t YouTube and it’s courtesy of Bob Lefsetz, as usual.
Thanks, Bob.
Is it me, or does this set still sound fantastic?