nealcassady
12-09-2002, 04:15 PM
For all you Alt. Country fans out there, I thought you might enjoy a wonderful article in Sunday's (Dec. 8) Arts & Leisure Section (pg. 1 and pg. 34) about country legend Gram Parsons. Parsons was a member of the Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, influencing the Stones, Dead and countless others. Keith Richards bought the movie rights to a Parsons biography. Plus Johnny Knoxville is starring in "Grand Theft Parsons", a film currently in production. Parsons was an incredibly interesting musician. For starters after he died of a heroin overdose in a motel in California, his body was brought to the desert where it was burned.
To quote the article:
"Around then, the iconic hippie-country image of Parsons took shape: standing tall with sun-streaked brown hair and a bare chest beneath a white suite made for him by the country-music fashion king Nudie the Rodeo Tailor, who embroidered marijuana leaves, pills and naked women onto the outfit."
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO COUNTRY!!!
"Don't try"
-On Gravestone of Charles Bukowski
"Withdrawing in disgust is not the same thing as apathy"
-Slacker
To quote the article:
"Around then, the iconic hippie-country image of Parsons took shape: standing tall with sun-streaked brown hair and a bare chest beneath a white suite made for him by the country-music fashion king Nudie the Rodeo Tailor, who embroidered marijuana leaves, pills and naked women onto the outfit."
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO COUNTRY!!!
"Don't try"
-On Gravestone of Charles Bukowski
"Withdrawing in disgust is not the same thing as apathy"
-Slacker